The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Non Compos Mentis

“I’m not a firearms expert.” —ATF Director Steve Dettelbach

“The vast majority of food that is contributing to our emission crises lies in meat and dairy products. We already know that a plant-powered diet is better for your physical and mental health. … It is better for the planet.” —New York City Mayor Eric Adams

Re: The Gender Cult

“Nobody ever gets canceled for being too woke. So you can say the craziest thing like, ‘Men can have babies,’ and then … even though people are thinking, ‘Well, that’s kind of nuts,’ nobody will say it. They’ll just fall in line.” —Bill Maher

“For [Dylan Mulvaney] who identified as a gay man until last year to be sporting a women’s sports bra, despite having no breasts, as ‘they’ pranced around like a clueless non-athlete, mimicking how a misogynist would scornfully depict a woman doing sport, struck me as a slap in the face to actual women.” —Piers Morgan

“I don’t know who Bud Light executives think is drinking their product, but I seriously doubt it’s a bunch of guys in dresses pretending to be women. One sports bar owner said, ‘In Bud Light’s effort to be inclusive, they excluded almost everybody else, including their traditional audience.’ It seems a lot of Bud Light fans quickly ‘transitioned’ to other beverages as sales of Bud Light dropped significantly.” —Gary Bauer

“‘Womanface’ is the new blackface. It’s time to get outraged.” —Madeleine Kearns

Reality Check

“There was only one thing unique about slavery in the West: It raised the issue of the morality of slavery, ferociously debated it and finally abolished it there, before it was abolished in any other civilization. If you care about moral truth rather than, for example, promoting America-hatred, you must recognize — and you must teach — that America was one of the first slave-holding societies to abolish slavery. This even includes Africa.” —Dennis Prager

“Four million black people have emigrated to the United States since the 1960s — and tens of millions more would if they could. Are they all fools? Why would anyone move to a country that is systemically bigoted against them? Did any Jews emigrate to Germany in the 1930s?” —Dennis Prager

For the Record

“Liberals know that controlling public perception is the way to direct public opinion. That’s why an ideological monopoly on the media is so important — why Fox News has to be smashed and right-ish views of any kind have to be labeled hate or disinformation.” —Daniel McCarthy

“What can be done to trim the tentacles of the regulatory octopus? How about cutting those budgets and their enormous bureaucratic staffs? Over the last 30 years, the budgets of the regulatory agencies have more than tripled after adjusting for inflation from $25 billion to $75 billion. If Biden has his way, next year the regulatory octopus will exceed $100 billion to arm super-regulators.” —Stephen Moore