The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Insight

“The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.” —Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

Re: The Left

“America’s Democratic Party has reasons other than fomenting violence — or even keeping Trump out of the White House — for the recent drumbeat of hysteria. The purpose of their outrageous and fabricated accusations is to persuade half the country that the other half poses an unprecedented threat that will justify the extraordinary power Democrats have every intention of grabbing if given the chance. And in typical fashion, they accuse patriotic Americans of doing things they themselves intend to do — first and foremost, attacking the United States Constitution and the limits on government power that the drafters deliberately placed there. … If one aging real estate developer is such a threat, how much more ‘urgent,’ then, will Democrats’ cries for more power become when the ‘threat’ is (insert hysterical tone here) 75 or 80 million Americans whose beliefs and political opinions pose a threat to our very way of life?” —Laura Hollis

“Today’s class of political leaders are vampires with an insatiable lust for power. They swing from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis, gobbling up more of our lives with each go-around. Fresh on the heels of COVID-19, they’ve moved into climate change panic, pushing to eliminate the use of all fossil fuels, artificial fertilizers and nuclear power. Meanwhile, we watch as California’s electric grid fails in a heat wave, organic farming in Sri Lanka results in economic failure and political collapse and Europe braces for a winter with insufficient heat without Russia’s natural gas. When the policies of the power vampires result in catastrophe, they demand more power to address the crises their policies caused. It is Biden and the far-left Democrats who pose the real threat to the American system and our way of life. It is not enough to criticize Biden for his false and vicious attacks on Americans. He and his political cronies must be punished by removing them from positions of power for good.” —Laura Hollis

“Our enemies abroad, particularly China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia, are watching all this woke, comic madness with absolute glee. They are delighted the United States is diverting trillions of dollars and man hours away from production to ideological witch hunts, woke cannibalism, green virtue-signaling, spendthrift consumption, racial and gender fixations, warped science, suicidal surveillance, and commissariat indoctrination. Woke means that Americans have less money, labor, and time to hone their military readiness. They will produce less competitive energy, but more pseudo-science, non-meritocratic advancement, and unsound investment — all reasons why America will no longer dominate the world. … While we war on our past, our competitors abroad prep for the future. They are more likely to erect than tear down statues. We spend what we borrow; they invest what they earn. How odd America once taught the world what works — only now to mock its own lessons.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“California has become an example of what a state looks like when it is controlled by a single party — in this case Democrats — who are trying to impose a green energy secular religion on their people. … California is ordering its people to abandon choice when it comes to transportation in favor of expensive electric vehicles that are unlikely to provide the freedom they now enjoy with their gasoline-powered cars, all because of a secular faith that claims to know best what is good for us.” —Cal Thomas

“It’s good to be a Democrat. You get to trash political opponents in the public square and support prosecution of your enemies for similar acts you got away with. Talk about a corrupt ‘justice’ system!” —Adriana Cohen

The BIG Lies

“By any traditional metric, we have experienced one of the quickest economic recoveries in our modern history” —Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen after two straight quarters of GDP contraction, which is a traditional metric for recession

“We will rid ourselves from our current dependence on fossil fuels.” —Janet Yellen

“We also were able to make it cheaper to get an electric vehicle if you want to save money on gas.” —Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

Non Compos Mentis Award

“My friends across the aisle like to fixate on the price of gasoline, which undeniably affects family budgets. But climate change imposes costs on American families much worse than gasoline prices.” —Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Village Idiots

“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.” —Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya

“If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star.” —Uju Anya

“That wretched woman and her bloodthirsty throne have f***** generations of my ancestors on both sides of the family, and she supervised a government that sponsored the genocide my parents and siblings survived. May she die in agony.” —Uju Anya

“The queen helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged.” —Harvard University professor Maya Jasanof

“Telling the colonized how they should feel about their colonizer’s health and wellness is like telling my people that we ought to worship the Confederacy.” —University of Michigan professor Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

“Even for those who respect and revere the Queen, the residue of colonialism shadows day to day life in Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean.” —NYU law professor Melissa Murray

“For 96 years, that colonizer has been sucking up the Earth’s resources. … You can’t be a literal oppressor and not expect the people you’ve oppressed not to rejoice on news of your death.” —New York Magazine’s Tirhakah Love

“Journalists are tasked with putting legacies into full context, so it is entirely appropriate to examine the queen and her role in the devastating impact of continued colonialism.” —The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill

“The way I wish newspapers would write: ‘Colonizers lost one of their most beloved foot soldiers as Queen Elizabeth II, 96, mostly known for f*cksh*t and racism, has died.’” —HuffPost’s Stephen Crockett Jr.

“Black and brown people around the world who were subject to horrendous cruelties and economic deprivation under British colonialism are allowed to have feelings about Queen Elizabeth. After all, they were her ‘subjects’ too.” —The Washington Post’s Karen Attiah 

“Remember that you do not have to be ‘respectful’ today for a person running an institution that killed millions of people abroad and which, until recently, banned Black people from working around the Queen.” —Digital Media strategist Heidi Moore

“The death of a person seen as a near deity by the (white) political, ruling and media class, but was also at one point the oppressive ruler of something like 30% of the global population, is going to provide an excellent example of the subjectivity of ‘straight news reporting.’” —GQ’s Wesley Lowery