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March 11, 2022

Friday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Michael Shellenberger, Victor Davis Hanson, Ben Shapiro, and more.

For the Record

“History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.” —President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

“Some can’t imagine how the same party sent both Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump to the White House. They contend that our party must somehow choose between the legacies of these two men. I disagree. For all their differences in temperament and style, there is a deeper continuity in the beliefs of our fortieth and forty-fifth presidents.” —Senator Tom Cotton

“8% inflation is the cost of having incompetent socialists in the White House.” —Tom Cotton

“The Biden Administration has tried to pin the entire increase in gas prices on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. They want to blame 14 months of gas price increases on the last two weeks of turmoil. It’s laugh-out-loud revisionist history.” —Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell

“It would be a tragedy if this woman [Kamala Harris] won the presidency.” —Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky’s former Press Secretary Iuliia Mendel

Re: The Left

“Why did the West fail to deter Russia from invading Ukraine? Because we were lost in soft, renewable energy delusions while Putin was grounded in the hard physical reality of nuclear, oil, & natural gas. Ukrainians are paying for our wishful thinking.” —Michael Shellenberger

“Climate-change moralists love humanity so much in the abstract that they must shut down its life-giving gas, coal, and oil in the concrete. And they value humans so little that they don’t worry in the here and now that ensuing fuel shortages and exorbitant costs cause wars, spike inflation, and threaten people’s ability to travel or keep warm. … Elite ideology divorced from reality impoverishes people and can get them killed.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“The ‘climate change’ movement — and, yes, it is a movement — is, at its most fundamental and essential level, environmental paganism. In other words, it is a religion, a kind of pantheistic soteriology by which humanity is saved by worshiping the creation over and above the Creator.” —Darrell B. Harrison

“It’s beyond galling to see leftist millionaires bragging about how much they stand with the poor people of Ukraine, while they couldn’t care less about what’s happening to struggling American families — you know, the ‘forgotten Americans’ who Donald Trump talked so much about.” —Gary Bauer

“While I think Florida’s bill could go much further, I’m glad it only applies to K-3rd graders, because the left’s hysterical reaction highlights how pedophilic & predatory their ideology is. They are truly outraged they can’t talk to 5 year olds about sex and gender switching.” —Allie Beth Stuckey

“Make no mistake, the goal of the Left is not to protect children. From masking to indoctrination of children into Left-wing social values, their goal is to use children to protect their own priorities.” —Ben Shapiro

Clown World

“With this president, this Joe Biden, this president with justice, environmental justice, economic justice, so much has been accomplished.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

“You may have noticed this week that your gas prices have gone up. … A lot of it has to do with Vladimir Putin.” —White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki (“Lies, lies, lies. Biden cancelled Keystone when he took over which promised 800K barrels of oil a day from Canada…more than we get from Russia.” —Dave Rubin)

And Last…

“Just think about Psaki and other administration flacks insulting our intelligence with the claim that they haven’t suppressed oil and gas production. THEY ANNOUNCED IT WAS THEIR GOAL. So if they haven’t done it, which is laughable in view of the record, they are utter failures.” —David Limbaugh

“I understand that the White House’s talking points are written by an 18-year-old intern who’s taking freshman socialism, but it would be good to have someone who has actually worked in the private sector and has some awareness of how energy is produced.” —Senator Ted Cruz

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