The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Insight: “The ideal type of the Communist is a man in whom all individual, emotional, and unconscious elements have been reduced to a minimum and subjected to the control of an iron will, informed by a supple intellect. That intellect is totally at the service of a single and compelling idea, made incarnate in the Communist Party: the concept of History as an inexorable god whose ways are revealed ‘scientifically’ through the doctrine and method of Marxism-Leninism.” —Frank Straus Meyer (1909-1972)

For the record I: “Three weeks ago, House Democrats passed the HEROES Act. It was a $3 trillion bailout for bloated, Democrat-run big cities. They called it the ‘HEROES Act,’ claiming it was intended to prevent police officers, fire fighters and nurses from losing their jobs due to urban budget cuts. Fast forward three weeks and a big part of the Democrat Party is now demanding that we abolish police departments. For many progressives it seems cops went from being heroes to zeroes in three weeks.” —Gary Bauer

For the record II: “You know who else supports defunding the police? Domestic abusers, rapists, pedophiles, and every other grimy criminal who is very much looking forward to hurting people with impunity. Good work, everyone. Justice!” —Allie Beth Stuckey

No kidding: “It must be exhausting for those who believe that anyone who disagrees with them in the slightest is evil and racist. What a horrible way to live.” —Tristan Justice

Upright: “[The claim of ‘systemic racism’ is] a corruption. It’s a corruption because the truth of the matter is, blacks have never been less oppressed than they are today. Opportunity is around every corner.” —civil-rights veteran Shelby Steele

Braying jenny: “Don’t ever, ever let anyone tell you that you’re too angry, or that you should keep your mouth shut.” —Michelle Obama

Grand delusions: “I know that [calling the police for help] comes from a place of privilege.” —Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender (“I remember when I was being gang-raped & beaten by a mob in Egypt, would have been great to have a police force to call then. Would that have been my white privilege talking? I’ve stood against racism all my life, don’t have a racist bone in my body. My heart breaks.” —veteran journalist Lara Logan)

Non compos mentis: “We would not be giving local police departments who are undertrained a tank if we didn’t give the military too much money to have extra damn tanks lying around to begin with.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Dezinformatsiya: “President Trump will hit the campaign trail this month — despite the deadly coronavirus pandemic, which continues to impact the lives and livelihoods of households across the country.” —NPR (“The threat represented by the coronavirus varies depending on which side is engaged in mass gatherings.” —Rich Lowry)

The BIG Lie: “Trump inherited the longest economic expansion in history from the Obama-Biden administration, but like everything else he’s inherited, he has squandered it.” —Joe Biden

Lacking self-awareness: “Senator Cotton certainly has the right to write and say whatever he wants in this country, but we as a news organization should not be running something that is offering misinformation to the public unchecked.” —The New York Times’s Nikole Hannah-Jones, architect of the fraudulent 1619 Project

And last… “Kneeling in African scarves will never make up for the damage Democrats have done to black America for the past 175 years.” —Charlie Kirk