The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Insight: “Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.” —John Osborne (1929-1994)

Troll master: “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.” —Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Friendly fire: “Some of these woke people need to take a nap. … We’ve got some good candidates out there. We lost some close races and we’ve got to get back up and win those two races in Georgia.” —James Carville

Non compos mentis: “The reason there’s a thing called @FiveThirtyEight is because 538 was the margin in FL when the Republican SCOTUS reversed the 2000 election during a recount, making Dubya the president.” —Joy Reid (This isn’t accurate. The margin in Florida was 537 votes (538 is the number of electoral college voters); the SCOTUS didn’t reverse the 2000 election (Bush led in every count).“ —Jake Tapper)

Dezinformatsiya, Part I: ”[Republican] leaders are acting like babies. You lost the election. Congratulate the president-elect.“ —CNN’s Jake Tapper

Dezinformatsiya, Part II: "That is the president of the United States, That is the most powerful person in the world and we see him like an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over, but he just hasn’t accepted it and he wants to take everybody down with him, including this country.” —CNN’s Anderson Cooper

Braying jackass: “If Vice President Pence and the Cabinet had an ounce of fortitude and spine and patriotism, I think they would seriously consider invoking the 25th Amendment and pushing Donald Trump out because he is just very unpredictable now.” —John Brennan

Alpha jackass: “The good news is the Pfizer tests look good and we’ll have a vaccine shortly. The bad news is it’s about two months before Joe Biden takes over, and that means this administration is going to be implementing a vaccine plan.” —Governor Andrew Cuomo

The “party of unity”: “[It’s time to] take our gloves off with Republicans.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The BIG Lie: “We are not interested in unity that asks people to sacrifice their freedom and their rights any longer. And if we truly want to unify our country, we have to really respect every single voice. We say that so willingly when we talk about Trump supporters, but we don’t say that willingly for my black and brown neighbors and from LGBTQ neighbors or marginalized people.” —Rep. Rashida Tlaib

And last… “The culture of corruption was so ingrained at the FBI that [Andrew] McCabe thought he did nothing wrong. Makes you wonder what else they were up to.” —Senator Marsha Blackburn