The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Insight: “Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” —Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

Upright: “We are falling further away from God and becoming more reliant on ourselves than we ever have in the history of this country. We observe the decay of our social institutions; it’s not hard to see why. Man is not all-knowing: God is. While man can manipulate life’s creation, it is God who creates life, and it would behoove us never to forget it. Men who have ambition and power have one ultimate goal in mind, whether they or we want to admit it or not, and that is to replace God and forget His existence.” —Armstrong Williams

Credit where it’s due: “Vice President Pence was a profile in courage [Wednesday]. He understood that his oath was to the Constitution not to a party, policy, or person. He did what he believed was right and he did so under enormous pressure.” —Newt Gingrich

For the record: “Rioting is fundamentally nihilistic. Carnage for the sake of carnage. That’s why I oppose it all in circumstances, without exception, no matter who is doing it.” —Matt Walsh

Political futures I: “The Capitol riot will hurt the people who were already hurting most, the decent rally goers continually ignored and smeared, now saddled with the baggage of violence they did not commit.” —Emily Jashinsky

Political futures II: “The Senate candidates in Georgia focused on what would happen if Democrats won. They gave the voters little to no reason to come out to vote FOR them — just against the opponent. They were probably told over and over that this was the way to get their base to vote for them, but the base on the Democratic side was given reasons to vote for their candidate. The Democrats were consistently more positive, had a better ground game and were constantly cheering one another on. … While blaming others might make people feel better, it will not lead to future wins. For that to occur, we need to get to work, lay out a positive message and organize to drive voter margins.” —Jackie Gingrich Cushman

Race bait: “No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that’s true, and it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable.” —Joe “Restoring the Soul of the Nation” Biden 

Never let a crisis go to waste: “We witnessed two systems of justice when we saw one that let extremists storm the United States Capitol, and another that released tear gas on peaceful protesters last summer… We know this is unacceptable. We know we should be better than this.” —Kamala Harris (“They really just know how to make everything so much worse. This is untrue, divisive race-baiting, and absolutely no one in the media will call her out for this lie. This is the same woman who tweeted out a BAIL FUND for rioters who burned down Minneapolis.” —Allie Beth Stuckey)

And last… “The gospel of Jesus Christ is the only hope of the world.” —Darrell B. Harrison