The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts
Upright
“American urbanites with their culinary desires and electric cars couldn’t survive without the rural folks who provide those things for them. Yet leftist city dwellers — a.k.a. Biden voters — continually express contempt for the supposedly backwards bigots in flyover country. It’s no wonder the call for divorce resonates with many on both sides. What hope is there for this marriage? … To answer our own question, it’s federalism.” —Nate Jackson
“We call classics ‘timeless’ because they are imbued with a quality of genius that transcends the fashions of their time and our own. Trying to constantly rewrite them to keep up with the latest trends, which may well seem idiotic in due course (fingers crossed), is a fool’s errand.” —Rich Lowry
“I disagree with Hillary [Clinton] that it takes a village to raise a child if that means we are able to farm out parental duties to the villagers. While neighbors and teachers and friends all play a role in forming a healthy and productive member of society, the first and most important people, the ones who are the alpha and the omega of all that amazing potential, are mom and dad.” —Christine Flowers
Re: The Left
“The Left may pay lip service to the classical liberal educational ideal of an equal playing field wherein ideas are allowed to be freely expressed and challenged with the trust that in so doing the truth will ultimately prevail. Yet conservatives need to wake up to the reality that this principle is far from being practiced, and in fact is being actively suppressed in the name of ‘justice’ and replaced with a woke ideology that rejects objective truth in favor of social justice narratives.” —Thomas Gallatin
“Stories of regret … are a big part of the reason that the Tavistock Center — the UK’s largest gender clinic — shut its doors. Tavistock had been employing the ‘gender affirmation’ method of dealing with gender-confused children for a decade. But instead of taking warning, gender clinics across these United States continue with their ideological and financially beneficial butchery of gender-confused minors.” —Emmy Griffin
Food for Thought
“Why do the trans activists always harass churches and not mosques?” —Tim Young
For the Record
“The developing world is entitled to much the same industrial growth that raised the West to the pinnacle of prosperity. Climate is not the crisis that hunger or political insecurity is. Economic disorder lies at the root of those greater, immediate threats. But Western money insists green ideology take priority. We in the West enjoy so much wealth and security that we can afford to worry about weather projections. The rest of the world does not have that luxury. Yet the liberal international order reflects our anxieties rather than other nations’ needs.” —Daniel McCarthy
“It’s interesting how the lab leak deniers are some of the most rabid climate change activists who spent a lot of their time policing misinformation on social media platforms.” —Ryan Maue
Delusions of Grandeur
“Dealing with climate change is one of the biggest things that people like me … will be remembered for after we’re gone.” —Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
The BIG Lies
“[Republicans] want to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act — which is actually going to hurt the economy, which is actually going to increase … health prices, and it’s going to actually increase energy costs. Because that’s what the Inflation Reduction Act is supposed to do. And it’s going to … raise havoc on the deficit.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
“It is so typical … for people like Donald Trump to do the bidding of special interests, cause harm to the American people — that’s what he did when he loosened railroad regulations — and then point the finger at someone else when something terrible happens.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
“As my buddy from Delaware can tell you, when you’re involved in the civil rights movement as a kid in high school — I used to go down to the black church. I’d go to 7:30 mass; I’m a practicing Catholic. Then I’d go to 10 o'clock. And then we’d sit and plan what we’re going to do, in terms of deseg- — you think I’m joking; I’m not.” —Joe Biden
“In two years, I reduced the debt $1.7 billion [sic]. … The largest deficit reduction in American history.” —Joe Biden
“I want to make it clear I’m going raise some taxes. Many of you are billionaires out there. You’re going to stop paying at 3 percent.” —Joe Biden
Non Compos Mentis
“When I was at Walter Reed all that time, after a couple of craniotomies, I was lying there. And I had a nurse named Pearl Nelson, military. She’d come in and do things that I don’t think you learn … in nursing school. She’d whisper in my ear. I … couldn’t understand her, but she’d whisper, and she’d lean down. She’d actually breathe on me to make sure … there was a connection, a human connection. She even went home and brought back her pillow from her own bed because they … knew the one I had wasn’t comfortable.” —Joe Biden
Dumb & Dumber
“The country needs more workers, especially women, in order to deliver on the president’s bold agenda.” —Karine Jean-Pierre
“It’s not like we’re isolationist like we were becoming in the last administration. We are reaching out and saying, hey, we’re a global society.” —Jill Biden
“As far as folks who say, you know, ‘I’ve already paid my [student loan] debt,’ well, that happened prior to the pandemic.” —Education Secretary Miguel Cardona
And Last…
“The glorification of victimhood has convinced a whole generation of young people that the student debt they chose to incur for their own benefit is not theirs to repay.” —Congressman Dan Crenshaw