The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Insight: “We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.” —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“China’s youth are burning with patriotic fervor for Mao the mass murderer. At the same time America’s elites are demonizing our founders as evil men who provide no positive examples of anything. If we can’t get America’s youth to love our founders as much as Chinese youth love their mass murderer, Mao, then our $700 billion defense budget will mean nothing. We will lose.” —Gary Bauer

“In the end, the ‘tax the rich to be fair’ notion rests on a simple lie: the lie that income distribution is purely a matter of privilege or luck. It isn’t. In the main, in a free market system, income distribution is the result of successful decision-making that must be incentivized rather than punished if we wish to see a more prosperous society. Some people game the system; some are indeed beneficiaries of insider deal-making. But most success in capitalism is due to innovation, entrepreneurialism and creativity. Biden’s ‘fairness’ cuts directly against these core elements of progress on behalf of political pandering. … Lack of distributive equality does not equal unfairness, and anyone who argues differently abandons the real world — and the possibility of a better life for everyone — in favor of the flattering lie that all roads ought to end in the same basic material outcome.” —Ben Shapiro

“The U.S. holds tremendous sway over the Mexican economy. With a single phone call, Joe Biden could make sure that the Mexican government sent these migrants back where they came from. But Biden hasn’t called to do that. And he hasn’t because he wants them here, in the United States. So they’re coming. He did this on purpose. … None of these people, you should know, will undergo any kind of background check, like the background check you endure when you try to buy a .12 gauge, according to your Constitutional rights. None of them will be forced to abide by vaccine mandates. You need the shot to work as a nurse or for the sanitation department, or anywhere, but you don’t need a shot to come to our country illegally at the request of the Biden administration.” —Tucker Carlson

Friendly fire: “The humanitarian and national security crisis on the southern border is the direct result of [Biden and Harris’s] open-border policy. As I said in my 2020 presidential campaign, we can’t have a secure nation if we don’t secure our borders.” —Tulsi Gabbard

The BIG Lie I: “The border is secure." —Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

The BIG Lie II: "It is no less secure than it was previously.” —Alejandro Mayorkas

The BIG Lie III: “I’m unhappy … with the cowboys who were running down Haitians and using their reins to whip them. … What we witnessed takes us back hundreds of years. What we witnessed was worse than what we witnessed in slavery.” —Congresswoman Maxine Waters

The BIG Lie IV: “When it comes to our immigration policy, for so many years, cruelty has been very much embedded in it. There is obviously systematic racism at play here. We have seen many people come to our — our border and the fact that we are dealing with mainly black migrants and black immigrants and asylum seekers at our border in this kind of way really speaks to the kind of racism — systematic racism that is embedded in that department and all of the departments that deal with our immigration policy.” —Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

The BIG Lie V: “It doesn’t matter if a Democrat or Republican is President, our immigration system is designed for cruelty towards and dehumanization of immigrants. Immigration should not be a crime, and its criminalization is a relatively recent invention. This is a stain on our country.” —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Non compos mentis: “It’s time we reward work in this country — not just wealth.” —Joe Biden

Gaslighting: “This debt that we are asking to be spent is all Trump debt. Which we supported the spending, but it is Trump debt, not Democratic debt. But Republicans seem intent on driving our country down a dangerous road that leads off a fiscal cliff.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

Rabble-rouser: “What’s going to determine the size of the [2022 midterm] battlefield is how far down these dark paths of racism and denying a woman’s reproductive freedom the Republican Party goes.” —Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney

Grand delusions: “I would submit here that the real victim [of Bill Clinton’s sexual impropriety] was the United States of America … and Hillary Clinton. … The country lost a great person. Hillary Clinton could have been the president instead of that criminal that we had there for four years.” —"The View’s" Joy Behar

Race bait I: “The [Gabby] Petito family certainly deserve answers and justice. But the way this story has captivated the nation has many wondering: Why not the same media attention when people of color go missing? Well, the answer actually has a name: Missing white woman syndrome.” —MSNBC’s Joy Reid

Race bait II: “It’s OK to want justice for Petito while acknowledging that ‘missing white woman syndrome’ … is a real travesty.” —USA Today’s Suzette Hackney

Race bait III: “A majority of Americans believe that something has to be done to change our system of policing. With its origins in white supremacy and slave patrols, American policing is violent, racist, ineffective, and punitive — it wasn’t built to ensure, and cannot guarantee, the health, safety, and well-being of all Americans. Together with a criminal legal system that criminalizes poverty and Black and Brown people, policing is tearing communities and families apart.” —Ben & Jerry’s

And last… “Joe Biden was elected on the promise that he was going to return normalcy [and] competency to the American government … and what you see now is a cascade of calamities and disasters and they were all created by him and by actions he took.” —Senator Marco Rubio