The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

The BIG Lies

“We spent every day from February on trying to get schools open. We knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools.” —AFT President Randi Weingarten

“Let me be clear: Our border is not open.” —Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

Political Futures

“‘My home state will happily accept your 70,000+ jobs if you want to leave Florida,’ [Nikki] Haley tweeted at Disney Wednesday. South Carolina is ‘not woke, but we’re not sanctimonious about it either,’ she added. That was about as obvious a reference as possible to Donald Trump’s sophomoric nickname for the governor: ‘Ron DeSanctimonious.’ So let’s get this straight: Instead of standing with parents and kids, Haley is taking the side of woke Disney and pandering to Trump, all to get a shot in at DeSantis. It may be a lame attempt to appear to be pro-business, but it’s not a good look in the present cultural moment.” —Nate Jackson

“Watching some people on the Right back off of a child-grooming operation like Disney because of who they favor in the 2024 primary is exactly why you don’t EVER worship a politician. It turns you into trash overnight. Don’t turn into trash for a politician.” —Jesse Kelly

“For all the raw talent, energy, and tenacity that many admire, [Donald Trump] has demonstrated a chronic instability that is incompatible with the job of president. His rage over the rigged 2020 election (yes, rigged, even if not fraudulent) was justifiable, but his actions in response were not — and his total unwillingness to let it go, two years after the fact, is the stuff of a spoiled child’s temper tantrum. Over the past two years, Trump has shown time and again that he cares more about personal retribution than about the country’s future. He is personally responsible for the disastrous Georgia runoff elections in both 2020 and 2022 that gave the Democrats the U.S. Senate majority twice in a row. He’s split the GOP in half and seems willing, if spurned by his party, to let that wedge sink the GOP prospects in 2024.” —Jack DeVine

“Biden’s record is one of the worst for any first-term president. His ‘Finish the Job’ slogan sounds more like a threat by a movie villain than a guarantee of future prosperity. Joe Biden has nothing to run on. Nothing except former President Donald Trump.” —Ben Shapiro

Re: The Left

“How did we get to a point where concern for children and a desire to assist women who want to bring healthy children into the world has been replaced by a desire to appease the anger of those who have a proprietary sense of their reproductive organs? … The easy fix of getting rid of the baby is an example that in this society, we have simply abandoned the most compassionate and common-sense solutions for the easiest ones.” —Christine Flowers

And Last…

“When honest people say what’s true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. At the same time, the liars who have been trying to silence them shrink and they become weaker.” —Tucker Carlson