The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts
Insight
“Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.” —Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
“The [John] Durham investigation has shown that the biggest threat to our democracy is not some foreign country, but rather the Power Elite led by the likes of Hillary Clinton and her co-conspirators in the mainstream media & security state who work to undermine our democracy from within.” —Tulsi Gabbard
“The media moronically calls [Joe] Rogan ‘right-wing’ because this is their only strategy for combatting the explosive growth of independent media taking their audience. If they can convince people that everyone independent of them is ‘far-right,’ at least liberals will be captive. … That became the strategy of failing corporate media when Trump came along. They branded themselves liberal #Resistance and became captive to the DNC. Now, they have independent and heterodox platforms thriving and taking their audience, and all they can do is yell: ‘far-right!’” —Glenn Greenwald
For the Record
“Biden has been in his home state of Delaware for over 100 days as president, but even there his approval rating is only 36%.” —RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel
“Enes Kanter [Freedom] has now been run out of the NBA for the sin of saying out loud that the league is doing China’s propaganda work. All those who wept salty tears over Colin Kaepernick — who has spent the last several years raking it in while avoiding all opportunities to actually play in the NFL — are silent.” —Ben Shapiro
Re: China
“For too long, Americans thought that if we were nice to China, they’d want to be like us. But they don’t want to be like us. They want to be communist.” —Nikki Haley
“It is okay to have manufacturing and trade relationships with our allies. It is absolutely ludicrous to have a trade policy with an adversary because you can’t turn around and have them hold you hostage, whether it’s for medication, whether it’s for testing, whether it’s for chips, whether it’s for anything that Americans need.” —Nikki Haley
“You’ve got Coke criticizing a Georgia voting law, but then you see them falling over themselves to help a communist country. … [Corporations] are making money on the backs of abuses that are happening and that are unthinkable. If it was happening to their families, they’d be screaming at the rooftops saying this is a total injustice.” —Nikki Haley
“My hope and prayer is that Americans realize that China is the one that gave us COVID. China is the one stealing intellectual property. China is the one committing human rights abuses. And China is the one that has become a surveillance state that is now going to start dictating to our American companies, which is why they’ve started to leave. At some point, we need to understand it is time to move on from China.” —Nikki Haley
Yellow Journalism
“A terrifying incident in Louisville, Ky., this week revealed the dangers of the talk coming from the right about civil war and political violence. Early Monday, mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg and his staff were busy at work in Greenberg’s campaign office when a man walked in and started firing a 9-mm handgun in what police described as an attempted assassination. … The alleged shooter, a 21-year-old political activist, was arrested near the scene and later charged with attempted murder along with four counts of wanton endangerment. While there’s been no indication yet that the activist had ties to any right-wing organizations, the shooting comes amid a rise in threats against politicians fueled by increasingly violent rhetoric coming from extremist Republicans.” —Las Vegas Sun editorial (“This editorial was written after the alleged shooter, Quintez Brown, was identified as a left-wing BLM activist.” —Tom Bevan)
Projection
“Trump & Fox are desperately spinning up a fake scandal to distract from his real ones. So it’s a day that ends in Y. The more his misdeeds are exposed, the more they lie.” —Hillary Clinton
Non Compos Mentis Award
“We’ve seen this rise, unfortunately, because of hate-filled rhetoric and language around the origins of the pandemic. And that is something that Asian Americans across the country have been feeling.” —White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki after being asked to explain why anti-Asian hate crimes were up more than 300% in Joe Biden’s first year in office. (Next, she should be asked why most of the assailants are black…)
Village Idiot
“Trump’s terrible kids are making the rounds, desperately trying to protect the golden goose. Last night, Eric took time out of his busy schedule to promote this made-up Hillary Clinton spying case they’re now pumping into the Fox News viewers’ soft, oatmeal-like brains.” —Jimmy Kimmel (“The same people who were convinced the dossier was real are now trying desperately to tell you the Durham investigation is made up.” —Mark Hemingway)
“A Manhattan judge and jury today rejected Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against the New York Times. They said there wasn’t enough evidence to prove the Times defamed her in an editorial they published in 2017. So I guess she traveled all that way on her dogsled for nothing. I have to say, between the elections and the lawsuits and ‘The Masked Singer,’ Sarah Palin is one of the most versatile losers in history. She’s got range.” —Jimmy Kimmel