The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts
Insight
“Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.” —Isabel Paterson (1886-1961)
Re: Hunter Biden
“I was very disturbed during the debate when candidate Biden lied to the American people about [his son’s] laptop. He’s squarely confronted with the laptop, and he suggested that it was Russian disinformation and pointed to the letter written by some intelligence people that was baseless — which he knew was a lie. … Fortunately the DNI came out and said, ‘No, it’s not disinformation.’ The FBI said the same thing. Media ignored it.” —former Attorney General Bill Barr
“Joe lied about having knowledge of Hunter’s business deals. He lied about meeting Hunter’s business partners. He lied about the laptop being Russian disinformation. And the media covered up ALL OF IT. In a better America this is the scandal of the century.” —Jimmy Failla
“Jen Psaki says she won’t answer Hunter questions because he doesn’t work for the Government. But he DIDN’T work for the Government when she tweeted that the Laptop was Russian Disinformation. What. A. [Clown].” —Jimmy Failla
Re: Inflation
“The inflation outlook had deteriorated significantly this year even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The rise in inflation has been much greater and more persistent than forecasters generally expected. … I believe that [our] policy actions and those to come will help bring inflation down near 2 percent over the next 3 years.” —Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (“Three years. That would be until early 2025. In between, we will have the 2022 midterm elections and the 2024 presidential election. And that is the political consequence of Powell’s speech. Inflation is the biggest single concern of the nation’s voters at the moment.” —Byron York)
For the Record
“Richard Levine spent 54 years of his life as man. He had a wife and a family. He ‘transitioned’ to being a woman in 2011, Joe Biden appointed Levine to be a 4-Star Admiral and now USA Today has named ‘Rachel’ Levine as a ‘Woman of the Year.’ Where are the feminists??” —Charlie Kirk, whose tweet got him locked out of Twitter
“Maybe they’ll let us back into our … Twitter account if we throw a few thousand Uighurs into a concentration camp.” —Babylon Bee editor-in-chief Kyle Mann, whose tweet likewise got him locked out of Twitter
“The Babylon Bee can’t tweet. But the Kremlin can.” —Congressman Jim Jordan
Non Compos Mentis Awards
“I can’t. … I’m not a biologist.” —Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson when asked, “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?” (“Ridiculous. I’m not a brain surgeon but I know what a brain is. This is where ‘progressive’ thinking leads — to a terror of stating basic unarguable facts lest it offend the woke brigade.” —Piers Morgan | “Questioning the efficacy of a vaccine is anti-science, but refusing to define the word woman is normal?” —David Harsanyi | “Only took a few years for SCOTUS hearings to go from ‘Believe All Women!’ to ‘What’s a Woman?’” —Julie Kelly)
“I don’t know. I have personal — religious and otherwise — beliefs that have nothing to do with the law.” —Ketanji Brown Jackson when asked, “When does life begin, in your opinion?”
Demagogue
“There is exactly one living senator who has effectively changed the size of the Supreme Court. That was the Republican leader, Senator [Mitch] McConnell, who shrank the Court to eight seats for nearly a year in 2016.” —Senator Dick Durbin
Race Bait
“Tipping is a legacy of slavery and if it’s not optional then it shouldn’t be a tip but simply included in the bill. Have you ever stopped to think … why tipping is a practice in the US and almost nowhere else?” —1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones
The BIG Lie
“Does anyone else find it ironic that the so-called ‘party of free speech’ is trying to ban students and teachers from discussing sexual orientation, gender identity, or America’s history of racism?” —former Labor Secretary Robert Reich