The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Upright: “We have got to stand up as a people and remind this generation and the next generation of the greatness of this country, unapologetically, unflinchingly.” —Rep. Chip Roy

For the record: “When you have the leaders of the black lives movement who are now talking about, ‘If we don’t get our demands, we’re going to burn it down,’ other black people who are talking about working with other whites and other races being viewed as sellouts or called ‘Uncle Toms,’ you start to understand that you are now being controlled.” —actor Terry Crews

Perpetually moving the goal posts: “Even if we start to fix climate change, the proof may not show up for 30 years.” —The Washington Post (“What an incredible racket the climate brigade has created. Not only have their models been wildly wrong for DECADES, but now they say they won’t even be able to prove their ideas work for 3 more decades! No accountability and no dissent allowed.” —Dinesh D'Souza)

Non compos mentis, Part I: “The Black Lives Matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality. If you want an ‘All Black Lives Matter’ movement that talks about gun violence in communities including black communities, then start that movement with that name. But that’s not what Black Lives Matter is about. … So the Black Lives Matter movement is about police brutality and injustice in that matter. Not about what’s happening in black neighborhoods.” —CNN’s Don Lemon

Non compos mentis, Part II: “If they are going to put someone on Mount Rushmore, considering the history of the country, the first black president should be front and center.” —Don Lemon

Dezinformatsiya: “President Donald Trump is wielding America’s racial tensions as a reelection weapon, fiercely denouncing the racial justice movement on a near-daily basis with language stoking white resentment and aiming to drive his supporters to the polls. The incendiary discourse is alarming many in his own party and running contrary to the advice of some in his inner circle, who believe it risks alienating independent and suburban voters.” —Associated Press

Braying jenny: “As long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality. So we cannot stop at [the] criminal-justice system. We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it.” —Rep. Ilhan Omar

And last… “Chicago is now the largest outdoor shooting range in America. And other cities are following. It’s not caused by the coronavirus. It’s not caused by racism. It’s caused by nihilism. To kill a child, you have to be a nihilist goon with no values whatsoever. But that is what happens when we defund our police, when we refuse to fix our schools, and we undermine the family unit.” —Senator John Kennedy