The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

The BIG Lies

“Freedom is more than a value. It’s who we are. That’s been the work of my first term: To protect your rights. To put more money in your pocket. To bring down costs. But MAGA Republicans are lining up to roll this progress back. We can stop them if we do it together.” —Joe Biden

“My grandpop, who I never met — he died in the same hospital I was born in two weeks before I was born.” —Joe Biden (“Biden was born in Pennsylvania. His grandfather died in Maryland almost an entire year earlier.” —Townhall)

World’s Smallest Violin

“The Biden administration is breaking its word to the American public by ignoring the text of the #InflationReductionAct to pursue its radical climate agenda. Let me be clear: if this continues, I’ll do everything in my power to stop them — including voting to repeal the IRA.” —Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV)

Non Compos Mentis I

“Hey @Disney, my home state will happily accept your 70,000+ jobs if you want to leave Florida. We’ve got great weather, great people, and it’s always a great day in South Carolina! SC’s not woke, but we’re not sanctimonious about it either.” —GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley

There’s Nothing Climate Change Can’t Do

“Adults are getting allergies for the first time. Thanks, climate change.” —NBC News

Upright

“The way to expand homeownership is not to undermine credit scores. It is to get lower-income earners to do what you did — pay their bills faithfully, live within their means, and save for the future. You shouldn’t be punished for having done the right thing, and no one who didn’t should be getting a reward.” —Jeff Jacoby

Insight

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.” —abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

For the Record

“Anthony Fauci left his perch atop the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as the highest-paid federal bureaucrat at the end of 2022, taking his golden parachute and bidding adieu ‘after more than 50 years of government service.’ That ‘service’ included being the point man for wrecking the American economy, undermining the successful presidency of Donald Trump (and thus saddling us with Joe Biden), and ultimately destroying trust in government and medical professionals. Fauci wasn’t the only one responsible, of course, and we’d even concede that much of his do-goodism genuinely stems from being a physician who doesn’t ‘want to see people die.’ Yet as C.S. Lewis once said, ‘Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.’” —Nate Jackson

“Biden released his 2024 reelection campaign video [Tuesday] with the campaign slogan, ‘Let’s finish the job.’ With this president and his administration at the helm, the slogan reads more like a threat. Biden might finish more than ‘the job’ if his track record on foreign policy is any indication.” —Emmy Griffin

Non Compos Mentis II

“Just the other day I was testifying in the appropriations subcommittee explaining how our budget was going to help with things like railroad safety, air traffic control, and other transportation needs, and we had to take a break so they could all go and vote on a bill to kick transgender teenagers off of sports teams. That was the priority for the House GOP that day. So these things really are getting in the way of our ability to get work done. We’re literally building bridges, and they are literally banning books.” —Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

“At the end of the day, everybody’s trying … to come together to sort of break down these patriarchal ideals of what a woman is and who can be a woman and sort of open that up to the very broad range of possibilities that there are.” —gender dysphoric swimmer Lia Thomas

And Last…

“I think we should ask ourselves why so many young people desperately want to be someone else instead of themselves.” —Tim Pool