The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Insight

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” —Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

Observations

“Population declined. Global temperatures rose. Migration of people from destabilized regions increased. Wind and solar energy supplied the planet all its power. On Sept. 4, 476, Romulus Augustus stepped down from the throne of the Western Roman Empire and the world entered the Dark Ages, which lasted until around the year 1000. Now, 1,022 years after the end of the Dark Ages, as populations decline, temperatures rise and people move restlessly about the planet, environmentalists are plunging the world into a new dark age of wind and solar dependence. … Environmental policy is inherently Malthusian. The entire and entirely unspoken premise of this movement is that humanity must suffer so the planet survives. … It is not actually a coincidence that, just as superstitions grew in the original Dark Ages, sophist thinking and superstitions are spreading now. The Americans embracing their inner chakras and healing crystals who think men can get pregnant are the loudest voices of environmental lunacy. They, God’s creation, now envision themselves Creators and will create a hell on earth backed by pseudoscience and loud screams about climate change to cover their sophistry and incompetence. People will die and it will have been entirely preventable. The power going out in America is a choice. It is a choice too many progressives are making and imposing on everyone, to our detriment.” —Erick Erickson

“One of the problems is that California has the power to export its retrograde ideas. Although electric car owners in the Golden State can’t go anywhere these days, the state still plans to ban the sale of gas-powered cars in just 13 years (your used car is going to be worth a fortune). But since 15 states, including New York and Pennsylvania, have adopted California’s vehicle emissions standards — a federal waiver under the Clean Air Act allows it to have stronger fuel economy standards than the federal government — a cult of Luddites in Sacramento now effectively controls the national automotive industry. If there was any real big organic demand for EVs, the federal government wouldn’t have to keep massively subsidizing — bribing — the industry into manufacturing them, and California wouldn’t have to mandate you to buy them. … Democrats are rigging the market to force you to buy a car that has a 200-mile reach and uses erratic and expensive energy when you already have increasingly efficient models in your driveway and tens of billions of easily accessible barrels of offshore fossil fuels here at home — and much more around the world. We have centuries’ worth of the stuff waiting in the ground. Which gives us enough time to come up with some better ideas. Because, sorry, transitioning away from modernity and into windmills, choo-choo trains, folding fans and candles isn’t progress; it’s regression. And California is leading the way.” —David Harsanyi

Non Compos Mentis Awards

“Jesus never once talked about abortion. Never once. And it was happening back in ancient times. It was happening during his time. Never once mentioned it. For people perverting the gospel of Jesus Christ down to one issue, it is heresy.” —MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough

“I think this is an activist Court. It means that we had an established right for almost half a century, which is the right of women to make decisions about their own body as an extension of what we have decided to be, the privacy rights to which all people are entitled, and this Court took that constitutional right away. And we are suffering as a nation because of it. That causes me great concern about the integrity of the Court overall.” —Vice President Kamala Harris (“Again, something that is non-constitutional to begin with (abortion) can never be unconstitutional. For anything to be categorized as ‘unconstitutional’ it must first, by definition, be constitutional, which is to say, actually IN the Constitution.” —Darrell B. Harrison)

“We have an obligation, a duty, a responsibility to defend, preserve, and protect our democracy, the very democracy that guarantees the rights and freedom that those terrorists on 9/11 sought to bury in the burning fire and smoke and ash.” —President Joe Biden making 9/11 about his crusade against MAGA Republicans

The BIG Lies

“My first two years in office spurred the strongest economic recovery in recent history.” —Joe Biden (“The people who actually believe that Biden has created a ‘strong economic recovery’ still wear masks alone in their cars.” —Tim Young)

“We are not in a recession. The labor market is exceptionally strong, the unemployment rate extremely low. … We’ve had an historically fast recovery of the labor market with around 10 million jobs created since President Biden took office.” —Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

Veep Thoughts With Kamala

“Today, the business of our work is for the council to report on the work that has occurred since our last meeting across these areas. We will today also discuss the work yet ahead, the work we must still do to continue to move forward.” —Kamala Harris