The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Non Sequitur

“The same fear that an Instagram post and a beer label is a personal threat to your way of life is the fear that drives someone to shoot a stranger at their door or driveway. It’s a culture of fearfulness in which anything you don’t know or understand is a threat.” —Lincoln Project senior adviser Stuart Stevens

Creepy Joe

“There’s no such thing as someone else’s child. … Our nation’s children are all our children.” —Joe Biden

Upright

“I’m the governor of one of the safest states in the country, where we also have some of the most flexible, pro-Second Amendment rules and laws in the country because we take those things very responsibly. We harden schools, we deal with mental health, especially in kids. We go after the core of the issue instead of saying, ‘Well, we should just pass more laws.’ If it were that easy, people would do it. But it’s not. If it were that easy, even Democrats would do it. They didn’t. So stop trying to take these tragedies, these human tragedies, and … trying to make political fodder out of them. It’s a real losing effort, I think, on the Democrats’ part.” —New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu

Political Futures

“Asking the country to elect a man who is 80 years old and whose second term would end when he is 86 is a risky act that borders on selfish. It’s impossible to know Mr. Biden’s real physical and mental state because the White House goes to great lengths to hide it. But his decline is clear to anyone who isn’t willfully blind.” —The Wall Street Journal

For the Record

“Putting an adjective before the word ‘justice’ usually means you’re no longer getting justice. Such is the case with Joe Biden’s Earth Day Eve executive order that will further weaponize every federal agency, this time to save the planet by making it their ‘mission’ to ensure ‘environmental justice for all.’ Never underestimate what the climate cultist will do to worship Gaia. … A lot of folks might feel good about saving the planet, but others of us know just how economic damaging and constitutionally contemptuous the resulting bid for ‘environmental justice’ really is.” —Nate Jackson

Re: The Left

“‘Body positivity’ has come to mean loving your body but not taking care of it. It is the same fallacious thinking as transgenderism. Transgenderism and its equally unjustifiable sister, trans-slenderism (or, in their lingo, ‘body positivity’), view the body as something they can claim to love but also feel entitled to trash. That destruction is especially justifiable if what they’re trashing it with makes them happy. … As an aspect of the woke agenda, trans-slenderism is the soft anarchy of self-gratification. They are happy talking and eating/drinking themselves into early graves, but in the end, the only ones they have to blame are themselves.” —Emmy Griffin