The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Insight: “The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” —Patrick Henry (1736-1799)

Upright I: “People see Biden as unifying and Trump as divisive because they wrongly believe mean words have more power than evil ideologies.” —Allie Beth Stuckey

Upright II: “Those who think Biden can unify us simply don’t understand the nature of the radical leftism the new Dem party represents. Deconstruction and division, tearing down and tearing apart, are its only capabilities. It has no capacity to unite or build.” —Allie Beth Stuckey

Upright III: “Most people simply didn’t notice (and still won’t admit) that the identity politics of the Obama era wreaked havoc on us as a nation. They think we became divided when Trump became president. Not so.” —Allie Beth Stuckey

Prescient: “The problem Democrats are facing in this race is that, if Joe Biden is the nominee, Hunter Biden becomes ‘Hillary Clinton’s emails’.” —former Democrat Senator Robert Torricelli in October of 2019, with a political threat assessment that is now proving true

For the record: “Hillary Clinton paid for Russian disinformation, Russia and China bought off the Biden family, Iran used the Lincoln Project to peddle disinformation to hurt Trump, while Twitter is censoring GOP fundraising links, the New York Post, and the President of the United States.” —Sean Davis

Belly laugh of the week: “With Joe and Kamala at the helm, you’re not going to have to think about the crazy things they said every day.” —Barack Obama (Has he even met Joe Biden?)

The BIG Lie: “We literally left this White House a pandemic playbook. They probably used it to, I don’t know, prop up a wobbly table somewhere.” —Barack Obama

Non compos mentis: “The economic damage he inflicted by botching the pandemic response means he will be the first president since Herbert Hoover to lose jobs.” —Barack Obama

And last… “Final debate drinking rules: Each time Trump refers to Biden as ‘Big Guy,’ take a shot. I hope to be pickled a half hour in!” —Mark Alexander