The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Insight

“Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.” —Clemens von Metternich (1773-1859)

“People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right — especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.” —Thomas Sowell

Upright

“Everyone agrees that affirmative action in the NBA would ruin basketball, and affirmative action in the NFL would ruin football. Turns out that affirmative action in engineering & medicine has a similar effect: this should surprise no one. Fix the problem by addressing the failures of public schools in K-12. Break up the public teachers’ unions, instead of cosmetically ‘fixing’ their failures through racist college admissions policies.” —Vivek Ramaswamy

“John Roberts said it best: the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. It’s past time to end the discriminatory practice of affirmative action.” —Senator Tom Cotton

For the Record

“We’ve been hearing this claim about cutting Social Security and Medicare for decades, but in recent election cycles there haven’t been any serious proposals from Republicans to touch those programs. Donald Trump ruled it out and nobody is proposing it now. It’s an old saw used by Democrats when they are in trouble.” —Brit Hume on Barack Obama’s campaign trail lies that Republicans want to cut Medicare and Social Security

“Remember when Jen Psaki encouraged people to hold illegal protests outside the homes of SCOTUS justices, a man soon after attempted to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh, and Joe Biden never spoke personally about it but condemned it one time in a statement through his press secretary? Remember when Joe Biden gave a speech condemning all Republicans as threats to America and a few weeks later, an 18-year-old kid named Cayler Ellingson was murdered by a crazed leftist who accused him of being a Republican extremist? Remember when a Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer who said that he was a loyal Rachel Maddow viewer almost murdered Steve Scalise a few months into Trump’s first term and the media never demanded that she tone down her rhetoric?” —Greg Price

“The attempt to twist the Paul Pelosi attack into a broader story about supposed extremism in Republican rhetoric (so vote Dem!) is so transparently opportunistic and pathetic. Everyone can see what you’re doing, Democrats and the media, and it’s disgusting.” —Ben Shapiro

The BIG Lie

“[Republicans] are master manipulators. They have this conspiracy going all across America to try and convince people that in Democratic states, they’re not as safe. Well guess what? They’re also not only election deniers, they’re data deniers.” —New York Governor Kathy Hochul