The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts
The BIG Lies
“Real wages are higher than they were just nine months ago.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (“Real average hourly earnings decreased 0.7 percent, seasonally adjusted, from March 2022 to March 2023.” —Bureau of Labor Statistics)
“The economy is looking very good in terms of us addressing the concern that people rightly have about the cost of food, the cost of gas, and we’ve been able to address that in a variety of ways.” —Vice President Kamala Harris
“We’re not gonna increase the debt that every president has done for the last six million years here.” —President Joe Biden
“This is an administration that has taken the challenges that we see at the border very seriously since day one.” —Karine Jean-Pierre
“MAGA Republicans are trying to distract from real issues Americans want solved — like the debt ceiling — by cooking up a silly, shameless, and desperate narrative that Democrats are coming for your gas stove.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (“New York passes ban on gas stoves for new residential buildings.” —The Hill)
Yellow Journalism
“With nearly 470 anti-gay and anti-trans bills in 16 states, LGBTQ+ lawmakers find themselves fighting just ‘to exist.’” —ABC News (No bills ban any LGBTQ+ lawmakers from serving, let alone “existing.”)
Demagogues
“An assailant in tactical gear armed with an AR-15 style assault weapon gunned down innocent people in a shopping mall, and not for the first time. … Republican Members of Congress cannot continue to meet this epidemic with a shrug. Tweeted thoughts and prayers are not enough.” —Joe Biden
“I don’t think there’s a state in the country where people do not believe we should raise the minimum wage. I would hope that every member of Congress understands and there will be political consequences … if they don’t.” —Senator Bernie Sanders (VT), whose proposal is now $17 an hour
Re: The Left
“Every single [House] Democrat voted in opposition of protecting women and girls in sports … and I think of those dads who did that. Those dads, do they want their daughters sharing locker rooms with men? Do they want their daughters losing out on opportunities, being asked to kindly step aside and smile and give away their trophy to a man? Is that what they want? And I truthfully believe in my heart the answer’s ‘No.’ Yet they’re willing to throw that out of the window and say ‘Yes,’ that is what they want. And it’s because they’re spineless. They have no backbone, no morals, and they’re cowards.” —former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines
“While some states pass laws banning puberty blockers & genital mutilation of kids, other states are passing laws stripping parents’ custody if they refuse to switch their child’s gender. America is splitting between child protectors and child predators.” —Allie Beth Stuckey
“Americans, not just conservatives, are worn out by and upset over the constant in-your-face narcissism and bullying of the trans community. … The nation is not divided on trans issues, but rather fairly united against the agenda.” —Erick Erickson
“Our government has shown through its public schools what it is willing to do to ideologically and morally kidnap your students. It’s time to stop letting them get away with it. Our kids are too important.” —Emmy Griffin
For the Record
“After years of slandering members of the court for the purpose of delegitimizing them, Democrats will bring up the fact that the polls show a diminishing trust in the Supreme Court as if it happened in a vacuum or as if they did not intend for this to happen. This is their doing. They are the ones creating the perception of corruption where there is none. And why? Because the Constitution is a hindrance to their agenda. It’s that simple.” —David Harsanyi
“As a purely practical question, it’s not clear that trying to keep people from hearing disfavored opinions really works. In our age of suspicion and of wildly diverse sources of information, it may only lend a kind of credibility to those views.” —Rich Lowry
“Biden is trying to become the oldest president credibly accused of sexual assault to win reelection.” —Andrew Stiles