The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Non Compos Mentis

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona: “So what’s the definition of a woman?”

Cardona: “I think that’s almost secondary to the important role that I have as secretary of education.”

For the Record

“If you choose to believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen, you must believe Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion in a settlement, rather than present any of that evidence. You must believe that Fox News had a quick and easy way to win this lawsuit and simply refused to use it — even though the news distributor had more than 700 million good reasons to point to this evidence, if it existed. But Fox News did not present that evidence.” —Jim Geraghty

“Fox avoided the worst but still came out looking pretty bad. For Trump’s supporters who believe in their bones that he and Powell and Giuliani were telling the truth, Fox lost credibility for backing down. For Americans who think clandestinely changing votes from one candidate to another is a bridge too far, Fox lost credibility for airing it all in the first place. Either way, Fox’s brand suffered some damage. … As we’ve said before, though, Fox’s competitors should stop gloating. They’re the ones who spent years, not a couple of weeks, peddling absurdly false allegations of a stolen election in 2016. They spent four years torpedoing Trump’s presidency at every opportunity, and they did it by propagating mendacious lies. They’ll never pay a dime for it.” —Nate Jackson

In the Know

“If a $1 million stack of $100 bills is 40 inches high, then a $1 billion stack is 40,000 inches high, and a $1 trillion stack is 40,000,000 inches high — which is 631 miles. Now multiply 631 by 32 to calculate the height of the stack of Ben Franklins needed to equal our $32 trillion national debt: 20,192. That’s right. To pay off our national debt, you’d need a stack of $100 bills that reaches more than 20,000 miles into space.” —Douglas Andrews

“We're $32,000,000,000,000 in debt, and Team Biden is pinching pennies on our southern border. For those of you who haven’t yet gotten sick of counting, we’re now at more than 6.3 million illegal crossings.” —Douglas Andrews

Re: The Gender Cult

“The beliefs of the trans activists are a reflection of the secular relativists at large. They believe that there is no God. They believe that morality is a social construct, and because it is a construct, they feel entitled to remake their own morality according to their own whims and desires. They believe that the sexual binary is also a social construct that prevents people from being their ‘authentic selves’ and therefore ‘happy.’ It truly all boils down to self-worship at the expense of everyone and everything else. The misery comes when reality finally hits, and the reality is that men can’t be women and women can’t be men. No hormone, surgery, mutilation, or expression will ever make their delusional desires real, which has led to an actual declaration of cultural war with conservatives and the religious. Their premise is wrong, but to them it makes perfect sense. They reason that if reality is what we make it to be, then those who stand in the way should be silenced or eliminated.” —Emmy Griffin

“Are we going to be a society based on truth or we gonna be a society based on deceit? And if you take a man and they dress up as a woman, and you tell me I have to accept that they’re a woman, then you’re asking me to be complicit in a lie, and I just refuse to do that.” —Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

Aborted Babies Unavailable for Comment

“It is unacceptable that guns are [the] leading killer in our children.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

And Last…

“Law was the segregationist’s weapon. The media is the left’s. Character assassination is a nonviolent way of keeping the defiant in line. That’s what ‘cancel culture’ is about.” —Daniel McCarthy