The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Observations

“Monday, President Biden tweeted, ‘Kyiv has captured a part of my heart. I knew I would be back.’ If only hundreds of thousands of innocent babies could capture the president’s heart, he might not be so callous in promoting abortion on demand. If only the families of gunned down police officers could capture the president’s heart, he might be less inclined to accuse law enforcement of ‘systemic racism.’ If only the parents of children poisoned by fentanyl could capture the president’s heart, perhaps he might do more to secure the border. If only the beleaguered citizens of East Palestine, Ohio, could capture the president’s heart, perhaps he’d visit them and pledge $500 million to rebuild their shattered community.” —Gary Bauer

“It seems obvious now that [John] Fetterman was in no condition to begin a six-year term as a United States senator. Of course, that was obvious, at least to some people, before the election, too. But in 2022, one man’s health was so caught up in politics that reasonable concerns were overwhelmed by the partisan fray. The result is a new senator, in the hospital, facing an uncertain future.” —Byron York

“Where blacks have long used the term [‘woke’] as a rallying cry against racial injustice and discrimination, the Left latched onto it more recently and began using it culturally appropriating it to denote progressive activism in the fight against supposed systemic injustices more broadly. So while we suspect Rosa Parks was ‘woke’ when she refused to get to the back of the bus, and John Lewis was woke when he got his head split open on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, we now have to make room for woke ‘transgender’ activists. Because, you know, a man’s right to relieve himself in a girl’s bathroom is the civil rights struggle of our time.” —Douglas Andrews

For the Record

“Unfortunately, Democrats want more censorship via a tougher Big Tech crackdown on the supposed ‘misinformation’ and ‘hate speech’ of their political opponents. … Also unfortunately, Republicans don’t seem to really understand the problem. The real threat is not that a few select high-profile individuals have lost access to their social media accounts. It’s that nearly anyone who speaks certain verboten opinions will suffer reduced reach and, in some cases, profit thanks to the protection racket the Left has established.” —Nate Jackson

“[Chinese President Xi Jinping] has not been shy about supporting Putin economically. China has been helping feed the Russian war machine by buying Russian gas and providing for many of the goods that Western countries have sanctioned in an attempt to bring Russia into line and end the war. The proxy war in Ukraine may turn into an earnest war of superpowers if China does provide weapons to Russia, and that would be a disaster for all three countries.” —Emmy Griffin

“Former CIA Director Mike Hayden once got a classified email saying ‘Merry Christmas.’ For years, government classified how much peanut butter the Army bought. They classified a description of wedding rituals in Dagestan. They even classify newspaper articles. They are especially eager to classify dumb things they do, like the Army’s reported experiments testing whether ‘psychics’ could kill people with their eyes. … With so much unimportant but ‘classified’ paper around, it’s no surprise that some ends up in officials’ homes.” —John Stossel

The BIG Lie

“We have reduced heating and electricity bills so folks have more money in their pocket to buy things like school supplies, replace the dishwasher, or take a family vacation.” —Kamala Harris

Dezinformatsiya

“Governor DeSantis is not opposed to teaching the fact of slavery in schools, but he has opposed the teaching of an African-American studies curriculum as well as the use of some authors and source materials that historians and teachers say makes it all but impossible for students to understand the broader historic and political context behind slavery and its aftermath in the years since.” —MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell

“People are now faced with the reality that in places like Florida, books that discuss Black history or even mention Black people are now illegal.” —journalist David A. Love

Village Idiot

“I can relate to Thanos. I  thought he had a pretty viable answer. The problem is nobody is going to put up their hand to volunteer to be the half that has to go.” —filmmaker James Cameron, arguing that half of humanity should die