The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Re: The Left

“In today’s society, the progressive Left is trying to make America into grievance culture when in fact we’ve always stood on the foundation of greatness. Our original sin should never define us because the story of redemption is what we’ve been living through more than 50-plus years. The greatest story of progress in the world is American progress in the last 50 years. I wish we’d spend more time talking about the goodness of this nation and stop the cancel culture.” —Senator Tim Scott

“We have to be able to contrast between why we are a great country and why the Left wants us to talk about the grievance. The fact is that the Left is trying to sell a drug of victimhood and a narcotic of despair.” —Tim Scott

“Social contagion, spurred on by its acolytes both in the culture and at school, has fostered an epidemic of kids using this self-diagnosis of ‘transgenderism’ as a way to explain the identity crisis all kids deal with as they enter puberty. Children, under the influence of adults, TikTok, or simply trying to fit in at school, have decided that they are ‘transgender’ (a boy in a girl’s body or vice versa). These children, instead of having their delusions dispelled by proper healthy counseling, have suffered under the faddish new treatment method medical professionals have been adopting called ‘gender-affirming care.’ ‘Gender-denying care’ is a more proper description of what is actually happening.” —Emmy Griffin

Observations

“What Scott Adams said was racist. And here’s the thing: if you substituted the word ‘white’ for ‘black’ in his rant, you would immediately be given a top editorial post at the New York Times.” —Ben Shapiro

“All Americans need to be taught to distinguish between behavior and identity games. Being a certain race is not a problem at all. Condemning others simply because they’re a certain race is a problem. It seems so simple, and yet…"—Nate Jackson

For the Record

"Any journalist who has been in the business for more than two weeks should know that people you dislike and distrust are sometimes correct, but the intensity of the contempt for Trump was a permission slip to forget that.” —Rich Lowry

“Prediction: as it becomes clear Joe Biden is struggling to bring inflation back down to the 2% target in time for 2024 race, the Biden administration will start arguing 2% inflation is an arbitrary target and 3, 3.5 or 4% inflation are not a problem.” —Clay Travis

Race Bait

“I am a black woman — let’s not forget. Certain folks, frankly, don’t support us in leadership roles.” —Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot

Non Compos Mentis

“I may be a white boy, but I’m not stupid.” —Joe Biden

The BIG Lie

“The Trump administration repealed requirements for an electronic braking system because, according to them, the safety benefits were simply not worth the cost. … I think the people of East Palestine now know that that analysis was wrong and that they’re suffering the consequences of rail companies putting profits over people.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer