The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Insight: “Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Good question: “As soon as [Biden] entered the Oval Office, he promptly signed more than a dozen executive orders and every one was a finger in the eye of conservatives. … Where is the comfort in telling people that he is going to be the president of those who didn’t vote for him when he has devoted his presidency to relentlessly attacking their values?” —Gary Bauer

Upright: “I don’t see how we can reduce racial tension in this country when the left is constantly pointing fingers and agitating. Everything is race, race, race. This exploitation might not be as toxic if Democrats, including Biden, hadn’t been trying to cast all conservatives as bigots, but sadly, they have. It also might not be as toxic if Democrats weren’t using race to villainize conservatives and as a Trojan horse to usher in their socialist agenda.” —David Limbaugh

For the record: “Memo to Joe and Kamala: Waiting on your unequivocal condemnation of inaugural day riots in Seattle and Portland, where leftist cadres attacked police, ransacked private and public buildings, and burned flags. Still waiting…” —Mark Alexander

Unity! “If Biden really wanted unity, he’d lynch Mike Pence.” —NY Times opinion writer Will Wilkinson, who subsequently tweeted, “I made an error of judgment and tweeted this. It was sharp sarcasm, but looked like a call for violence. That’s always wrong, even as a joke. It was especially wrong at a moment when unity and peace are so critical. I’m deeply sorry and vow not to repeat the mistake.”

D'oh! “Senators will have to decide if they believe Donald John Trump incited the erection [sic] against the United States.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

Flip-flop: “There’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.” —Joe Biden, who said this on October 15, 2020: “We’re eight months into this pandemic, and Donald Trump still doesn’t have a plan to get this virus under control. I do.”

And last… “Are Americans who express their political views on the internet really abusing a ‘loophole,’ or are Big Tech companies who censor them at the behest of the powerful abusing a ‘loophole’ in the First Amendment?” —David Harsanyi