The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Odds & Ends

“East Germany’s government gave drugs to biological women to make their bodies more like men’s so they could unfairly dominate women’s sporting events and win lots of medals. In America today, we are giving drugs to biological men that make their bodies more like women’s bodies — and then we let the biological men who identify as women unfairly dominate women’s sporting events and win lots of medals. … When it comes to transgenders competing in women’s sports, it’s not a woke country we are living in, it’s an insane one. Things are so nuts it makes East Germany’s use of drugs and hormones seem almost ahead of its time.” —Michael Reagan

“Just as strong men need not tell you they are strong, accomplished men need not tell you they are accomplished. Biden insists America is great because of all the wonderful things he has done these past two years of the 50 years he has been in Washington. Unfortunately for the president, few people not named Biden feel their lives are improved because of Biden’s accomplishments. He is the comedian delighted by the genius of his own joke no one else laughs at.” —Erick Erickson

“The drawdown of weapons has created shortages in U.S. stocks, but this is more exposing a vulnerability than creating one. If we are strained merely arming Ukraine, we’d quickly reach a breaking point in a direct conflict with China. The answer is to build up our defense industrial base in a way that’d be necessary one way or the other.” —Rich Lowry

Fact-Check on Tax Cuts

“The Congressional Budget Office’s estimate for overall corporate tax revenues in fiscal 2022 fell from $389 billion to $353 billion after the 2017 [tax cut] law was enacted. Yet when fiscal 2022 closed out, the CBO indicated that revenue totaled $425 billion — approximately 20% above what the CBO expected after the reforms became law.” —Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID)

Lack of Self-Awareness

“[Republicans] really have no message beyond grievance, beyond anger, beyond conspiracies. There’s no message. There’s no ‘there’ there.” —Al Sharpton

Dezinformatsiya

“Montana bill would let students misgender classmates.” —AP headline (“Alternative headline: Montana bill would not force students to lie about reality.” —Ben Shapiro)