The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

For the record: “Even after Donald Trump overturned the policy, taxpayers were forced to make a huge investment in the Left’s social petri dish, sinking well over $8 million into treatments, hormones, and surgeries for the handful of transgender-identifying troops who were grandfathered in. … Surgeries alone racked up $2 million — an average of $12,422 a servicemember. And that was with the Trump ban in place! Imagine how much Americans will be spending when Biden opens the ranks to this all-expenses-paid gender nonsense for four full years!” —Tony Perkins

Re: The Left: “[Joe Biden] issued an executive order last week, which, if it stands, will potentially destroy women’s sports over the next decade, denying your daughters and granddaughters of the opportunities that Title IX has provided for the past 49 years. So, the president who is in office largely because he won the women’s vote has just created a regime where your 17-year-old daughter may have to compete against a 17-year-old boy in track and other sports. When she loses the competition, she may have to take a shower with him when it’s all over.” —Gary Bauer

Observations: “For those of us in the media, there’s a real challenge to confront: a wave of censorship that seeks to silence conversation, to stifle debate, to ultimately stop individuals and societies from realizing their potential. This rigidly enforced conformity, aided and abetted by so-called social media, is a straitjacket on sensibility. Too many people have fought too hard in too many places for freedom of speech to be suppressed by this awful woke orthodoxy.” —Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp.

Upright: “The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6 to try to stop Congress from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities were behaving like domestic enemies of our country. But let’s be clear: The John Brennans, Adam Schiffs, and the oligarchs in Big Tech who are trying to undermine our constitutionally protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style surveillance are also domestic enemies — and much more powerful, and therefore dangerous, than the mob that stormed the Capitol.” —Tulsi Gabbard

Hard-leftist trash: “In the weeks ahead, I’ll be reaffirming the federal government’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and accessibility, building on the work we started in the Obama-Biden administration. That’s why I rescinded the previous administration’s harmful ban on diversity and sensitivity training, and abolished the offensive, counterfactual 1776 Commission. Unity and healing must begin with understanding and truth, not ignorance and lies.” —Joe Biden deriding the honest and reasoned 1776 Commission while lecturing us about “unity and healing” and “truth”

Race bait: “Many conservatives will find the new [Harriet] Tubman bill distressing, even if they could barely tell you the first thing about [Andrew] Jackson.” —Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman

Hollow pledge: “Do you solemnly swear that in all things appertaining to the trial of Donald John Trump, former president of the United States, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws, so help you God?” —Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), president pro tempore of the Senate, swearing in impeachment jurors

The BIG Lie: “For individuals who don’t know, guns are not allowed in the District of Columbia.” —AOC

Trump Derangement Syndrome: “For years, I waited for my moment to say, ‘You stupid f—s, look at you now!’” —Jonah Goldberg, the Obama’s posh DC mansion district neighbor, to all grassroots Americans who supported the Trump administration’s policies over the last four years

Alpha jackass: “I’m through giving Republicans the benefit of the doubt after 50 years. The term ‘Nazi’ is not even strong enough to convey the opprobrium and disgust human rights activists feel for those who brazenly claim they are simply patriots with different opinions.” —"reproductive justice" author and Smith College professor Loretta J. Ross

And last… “Biden said he ‘doesn’t see red states and blue states, only sees the United States.’ Really? Then why is one of his first proposals a blue-state bailout to the tune of $350 billion — to be paid by the Republicans in red states? That is a financial insurrection against the half of the states that are not run by Democrats.” —Stephen Moore