The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Insight: “Religious liberty is the chief cornerstone of the American system of government, and provisions for its security are embedded in the written charter and interwoven in the moral fabric of its laws. Anything that tends to invade a right so essential and sacred must be carefully guarded against.” —Thomas F. Bayard (1828-1898)

“The more Americans get to know Biden, the less they like him. And the less they like him, the more he’s compelled to talk about Trump.” —David Harsanyi

“Any politician who interferes with a mother’s ability to raise her children with the values she sees fit is playing with fire. The Democrats are holding the matches. Of all the radical ideas they’ve been trying to foist on America, messing with parents on K-12 education may be the one that does them in. … Democrats may have made mistakes on the border and with policing, but there’s a good chance that the school issues dwarf even those within the electorate. Parents have the right to teach their children their own values. That’s a concept almost everyone agrees with. Yet, to date, the Biden administration’s only response to parents’ growing concerns was a Justice Department memorandum that equated concerned parents with domestic terrorists. That’s a decision they are very likely going to regret.” —Neil Patel

“We think we have far more in common now with Trevor the meme generator who hates the politicians we hate than the Smith family who lives next door and waves each time we come down the street. Therein lies the problem for major American media outlets. They dislike that we might spread false information on Facebook because we trust Trevor more than them. In 2016, the Russians spent $20,000 targeting Americans with lies about Hillary Clinton on Facebook. Republicans and Democrats spent 100 times as much on advertisements to tell lies about each other. But the media metastasized that small Russian ad buy into a global conspiracy to steal the election for Trump.” —Erick Erickson

“[Biden and company’s] whole policy at the southern border has been a disaster from day one and it’s remarkable to think that under our administration, we built 400 miles of border wall and literally by implementing what was known as the Remain in Mexico policy, we reduced illegal immigration by 90%. … They’re unleashed the worst border crisis in more than 30 years, and it’s all been because of dismantling policies that were working, but also sending a message south of the border that America’s borders are open to people coming north… [Payouts to illegals] is just one more message that is going to continue to be a magnet on people that are coming north.” —former Vice President Mike Pence

“First, you break the law, you get amnesty with Democrats. Now they’re going to pay you for breaking the law. I mean, you think we have a problem in the caravan coming towards the border now and what we’ve seen over the last several months, wait until the word gets out that you actually get paid for breaking the law to come into our country. One of the many stupid policies from this administration.” —Congressman Jim Jordan

Friendly fire: “Americans have lost their confidence in President Joe Biden and their optimism for the country.” —MSNBC’s Chuck Todd

Spin doctor: “The polls are going to up and down and up and down. They were high early, then they got medium, then they went back up, and now they’re low. … But that’s not why I ran. I didn’t run to determine how well I’m going to do in the polls. … I’m not running because of the polls.” —Joe Biden

Hot air I: “[Oil industry CEOs] have continued to promote fossil fuels despite knowing that promoting them means promoting environmental racism and violence in black and brown communities. … This is a striking example of white supremacy.” —Congresswoman Cori Bush

Hot air II: “Some of us have to actually live the future that you all are setting on fire for us. … By 2038, current U.S. drought, fire, and extreme heat trends could potentially make whole regions of the United States unlivable.” —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Projection: “Glenn Youngkin is using our kids and our schools as pawns in his political game. We won’t stand for it.” —Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe

Race bait: “We got to work hard to diversify our teacher base. Fifty percent of our students are students of color. Eighty percent of the teachers are white.” —Terry McAuliffe

Missing the forest for the trees: “The core problem is that millions of people are being told every day that they are living under an illegitimate government — and that the gun is the tool to resist that. And at a certain point, some people will listen.” —MSNBC’s Chris Hayes

D'oh! “More than a third of White students lied about their race on college applications, and about half these applicants lied about being Native American. More than three-fourths of these students who lied about their race were accepted.” —a now-deleted tweet from Ibram X. Kendi (“This does prove that affirmative action has created unfair and systemically-oppressive policies throughout our academic institutions… for white students.” —Joel Abbott)

Non compos mentis I: “[Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ will] spur economic growth in our ability to supply goods and services. It will make it much easier for people to participate in the workforce by providing child care and support for people who work, and more supply also is something that tends to push down prices throughout the economy.” —Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

Non compos mentis II: “It will boost the economy’s potential to grow, the economy’s supply potential, which tends to push inflation down, not up. For many American families experiencing inflation, seeing the prices of gas and other things that they buy rise, what this package will do is lower some of the most important costs, what they pay for health care, for child care. It’s anti-inflationary in that sense as well.” —Janet Yellen

And last… “In March, Janet Yellen said inflation is ‘not a significant risk.’ In May, she said it would only last for ‘several more months.’ Now, she says Biden’s spending will somehow REDUCE inflation. Once again, Yellen is wrong. And her credibility is shot.” —Senator Tom Cotton