The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

For the Record

“The potential Alvin Bragg prosecution offers a taste of what our national politics will be like post-November 2024 if Donald Trump wins the presidency again. … Of course, the wilder a Trump administration gets, the crazier the opposition becomes, and vice versa. Energy that in a different Republican administration could be devoted to moving the ball forward will be dissipated in an endless cycle of chaos and drama.” —Rich Lowry

“Yes, in fact, sometimes it is better not to prosecute if it risks the nation itself. There is discretion with justice. But this is a Soros-backed progressive prosecutor. He’d rather prosecute Trump than a cop killer. The Left has weaponized prosecutions. Of course, Trump did not have to make it so easy. Had he just not had a fling with the porn star, they’d still be struggling to get him. Impulse control is always what trips up Trump. Impulse control cost him 2020 and so much else.” —Erick Erickson

Observations

“The American people have lost trust in their leaders and their institutions. Many are at the point where they don’t believe anything they are told through official channels. For years now, trust in America’s leaders and top institutions has been in freefall. Nobody denies this, yet based on their actions, those leaders and institutions don’t seem to care. They make no effort to address the issue; in fact, they continue to make it worse. … Once trust is broken, leaders can’t govern effectively. Force is the only solution. This is what’s being tried in America today, and it’s not working. Speech codes and health mandates are not going to work. They just make people angry.” —Neil Patel

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

“TikTok has already been banned on government officials’ devices in many states and by the Biden administration. Why would they do that if there weren’t significant evidence of foreign spyware?” —Emmy Griffin

Re: The Left

“There was a time not too long ago when we didn’t have to keep telling the world about American preeminence. They saw it with their own eyes. These days, while our nation wrestles with inflation, bank failures, a mind-boggling national debt, and a military more focused on sex and skin color than missiles and ships, China is setting its sights on global dominance.” —Brian Mark Weber

“Under Biden’s ‘leadership’ we’ve abdicated our position as the world’s only superpower and we’re allowing a partnership of two tyrannical countries to begin replacing us. Our so-called Democrat leaders in the White House and Congress are still too obsessed with destroying the future of Donald Trump to care about or challenge the geopolitical threat posed by a Russia-China alliance. Our military is not just depleted and poorly led under our inept commander-in-chief, it is more concerned with being woke than being strong and prepared. While Putin and Xi make their evil plans to out-muscle us militarily and economically, Biden’s goal is to make sure there are enough transgenders in the Marines.” —Michael Reagan

“We don’t see Joe Biden sharing any lists of his potential judicial nominees. And for good reason: Many of them aren’t qualified to sit on a park bench, much less a judicial one. So it goes with an administration more disposed to promotion based on identity rather than merit; an administration that too often looks not to the content of one’s character but the color of one’s skin or the claim of one’s gender.” —Douglas Andrews

“Nothing says ‘we respect women’ like elbowing them out of their own awards to laud a man who makes a mockery of womanhood.” —Elle Purnell on all the men earning “woman of the year” awards

Upright

“God’s blessings come through obedience and servanthood. There is no other way. Jesus said, ‘These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full’ (John 15:11). It may be good to put the welcome mat at the church’s front door, but maybe we need to put the pirate mat at the entrance of the sanctuary: ‘Beware all who enter here!’” —Ron Helle

The BIG Lie

“I commend the ATF for … identifying a problem and providing guidance to prevent the harm created by the misuse of stabilizing braces, which convert everyday firearms into killing machines.” —Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)