The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Endorsements: “My preference for the 2024 presidency is someone sensible and centrist. I had hoped that would [be] the case for the Biden administration, but have been disappointed so far.” —Elon Musk

“I’m all in. Count me in.” —California Governor Gavin Newsom on Joe Biden running in 2024

“I’m hopeful that President Biden will seek reelection, and I look forward to strongly supporting him.” —Hakeem Jeffries, likely the new House Democrat leader

Gun grabbers: “I’m glad that President Biden is gonna be pushing us to take a vote on an assault weapons ban. The House has already passed it. It’s sitting in front of the Senate. Does it have 60 votes in the Senate right now? Probably not, but let’s see if we can try to get that number is close to 60 as possible.” —Senator Chris Murphy

Lab leak? “I have a completely open mind about that, despite people saying that I don’t.” —Anthony Fauci on COVID originating in a lab in Wuhan

However, he still peddles a myth: “If you look at the preponderance of evidence that has been accumulated by international group of highly respected evolutionary virologists, they feel, and they’ve written peer reviewed papers on that, that the evidence strongly points to this being a natural occurrence of a jumping of a virus from a bat to an animal species to human, hasn’t been definitively proven. But the evidence on that is pretty strong.” —Anthony Fauci

Democrat statism: “If democrats had the power to implement China’s ‘Zero Covid’ tyranny on this country, they would have gleefully done so. There would’ve been drones in the sky with Fauci’s voice over loudspeakers proclaiming ‘the constitution is suspended for your own health and safety.’” —Buck Sexton

Estimates: “The learning loss associated with the pandemic, if not remedied, could lead to approximately $900 billion in lower earnings for public school students.” —Christopher Jacobs

“There’s discrimination everywhere you go. … In the U.S., we’re continuing to make progress every single day. … As long as you see progress that’s the most important thing.” —U.S. Men’s Soccer Captain Tyler Adams after being asked by an Iranian state journalist whether he’s “okay to be representing a country that has so much discrimination against black people”

Uh, yeah, that’s the point: “Tucker Carlson, Libs of TikTok, etc create a stream of content blaming trans and queer people for child grooming, but rarely or never feature actual victims of child grooming. If they did, they’d have to reckon with the face that many survivors are queer and trans themselves.” —NBC reporter Kat Tenbarge, who unwittingly just described a lot of the pathology behind gender confusion

Hypocrisy: “While the Iranian and Chinese people rise up in the streets to claim their civil rights, American progressives take to their keyboards and fight alongside their Fortune 500 corporate partners to restore censorship on social media!” —Walter Kirn

And last… “My kids wanted to do Mad Libs in the car, and I was like, ‘Mad Libs? Are there any other kind of libs?’ But when I put up my hand for a high-five, all the kids just stared at me, confused.” —Frank J. Fleming