The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Observations

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” —Will Durant (1885-1981)

“True national debt, including unfunded entitlements, is at least $60 trillion — roughly three times the size of the entire US economy. Something has got to give.” —Elon Musk

“The important thing about the Clinton [2024] speculation is not whether it reflects her intentions. The important thing is that the speculation illustrates the current state of uncertainty in the Democratic Party.” —Byron York

“The Chinese Olympics that nobody is watching feature athletes getting served by people in hazmat suits. Meanwhile, SoFi stadium gathered over 70,000 fans for the [Super Bowl], and the cameras panning the vast crowd showed the spectators to be almost entirely maskless. This was the end of the pandemic in the United States — or at least the primary signal that, as a culture, we are ready for the end.” —Michael Brendan Dougherty

Credit Where It’s Due

“I don’t doubt President Biden cares, but I do not understand why he would not manifest that care into taking this [Afghanistan] investigation more seriously, absorbing the tragic details, contemplating the obvious failures of his administration. Failures that cost lives. Biden always bristles at this because he feels confident that ending the war in Afghanistan was the right decision, but that’s not the question at hand. It’s not whether, but how the war ended. And what that means to the people who were there when it did finally end.” —CNN’s Jake Tapper

Hillary’s Dirty Collusion

“Durham has finally put together the case against Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, alleging a full-blown conspiracy against Trump. The Russian hoax was set up with illegal ‘taps’ at Trump Tower and the White House. Biggest political conspiracy ever.” —David Asman

“They didn’t just spy on Donald Trump’s campaign. They spied on Donald Trump as sitting President of the United States. It was all even worse than we thought.” —former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows

“I think we’re understating the HRC corruption against the Trump campaign. It keeps being reported as ‘spying’ when it was more than that. They literally tried to frame Trump. Does it get any more sinister than that?” —David Limbaugh

“Time for someone to go to jail.” —Senator Josh Hawley

The BIG Lies

“[Police defunding] is not the position of the Democratic Party.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

“With all the respect in the world for my friend, Joe Manchin, it’s not right to say what we’re doing is contributing to the inflation because it is exactly the opposite.” —Nancy Pelosi

Non Compos Mentis Awards

“The podcaster Joe Rogan did not join a mob that forced lawmakers to flee for their lives. He never carried a Confederate flag inside the US Capitol rotunda. No one died trying to stop him from using the n-word. But what Rogan and those that defend him have done since video clips of him using the n-word surfaced on social media is arguably just as dangerous as what a mob did when they stormed the US Capitol on January 6 last year.” —CNN’s John Blake (“A prime example of how media makes it easy & understandable for people to completely dismiss January 6. I was sad for our nation for a variety of reasons that day; the left’s inability to put anything in perspective leads me to not care at all.” —Anna James Zeigler)

“This [Freedom Convoy] started off as an anti-vaccine protest, then it was anti-mandate, now it’s sort of generically anti-government — all wrapped in this sort of notion of the guise of freedom, you know, whatever that means to these individuals.” —CNN’s Miguel Marquez