The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

For the Record

“Is it ethical to keep human embryos frozen to fulfill the desire of adults who want a child? Like surrogacy, IVF [in vitro fertilization] was not created for the benefit of children; it was created to fulfill an adult desire. Adult desire has led to a practice that will leave many human embryos in a state where they may never live a life and will eventually be discarded.” —Scarlen Valderaz

“Missing sports games, going to the gym, getting haircuts, hanging out at restaurants — those were all [COVID] nuisances we all now realize were unnecessary. But that isn’t what is making people angry. … People are furious because they were compelled to stay home while their mom or dad died alone in the hospital.” —Peter Heck

Re: The Left

“In the 1989 classic ‘Batman,’ the Joker kills Bruce Wayne’s parents, shoots Bruce, kidnaps his girlfriend, terrorizes Gotham City, and shoots down the Batwing. Then, as Batman approaches to take him out in the climactic fight, the Joker puts on a pair of spectacles and says, ‘You wouldn’t hit a guy with glasses, huh, would ya?’ Today’s leftist jokers are no less out of touch with reality, turning the whole concept of victims and oppressors on its head. Yet they’ve played their hand so powerfully that conservatives are the ones fighting the uphill battle and looking like the bad guys while doing it.” —Nate Jackson

“Someday wokeism will disappear because it is inherently nihilistic and cannibalistic. But in the meantime, Americans should end it now before it ends America first.” —Victor Davis Hanson

Friendly Fire

“Five years ago, Abraham Lincoln was not a controversial figure among liberals. We liked him. Now they take his name off schools and tear down his statues. Really, Lincoln isn’t good enough for you? You know, five, ten years ago, bedrock liberalism was we are striving to be a colorblind society where we don’t see race. Of course, we see it, but it doesn’t matter. That’s not what woke is. Woke is something very different. It’s identity — we see it all the time. It’s always the most important thing. I don’t think that’s liberalism.” —Bill Maher

“In the business world, if the dominant brand in a category had favorability ratings like the current president does, you would see a number of established brands jump into that category. Believe me, there are literally hundreds in Congress who would say the same thing. But they simply won’t f***ing say a word.” —Democrat Congressman Dean Phillips

A Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut

“When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools. … Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies.” —New York City Mayor Eric Adams

Non Compos Mentis

“My Administration will continue to defend reproductive freedom to ensure that all Americans — regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, or income — have the ability to make the choices that are right for themselves and their families.” —Joe Biden

“Biden overreached on student loans. But the court shouldn’t stop him.” —The Washington Post editorial board

Projection

“When you think about the COPS program, which is something that the president put forward, [Republicans] have wanted to defund that, to take that away. And if you think about that, that leads to defunding the police. … And you think about the border security funding; they want to take that away as well.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

The BIG Lies

“As we talk about … the China surveillance balloon, the president did take that down. And he did it in a way that, as it was on its path, we collected information from it; we protected our national security information on the ground; and we did it in a way that was smart, effective, and also protected the American people.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“[Global warming] is arguably, and hopefully not too arguably, the most significant challenge that humans have ever faced on a global basis, all of us, simultaneously, together.” —climate czar John Kerry

“There’s too much toxicity — masculine toxicity — out there.” —Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff