The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

The BIG Lies

“I did not encourage states to adopt student vaccine mandates.” —Education Secretary Miguel Cardona (“Not only do I support it, but I’m encouraging states to come up with a plan to make sure it happens.” —Miguel Cardona, September 2021)

“I’m proud of the progress my administration’s made. We’ve reduced the deficit in the first two years by $1.7 trillion.” —Joe Biden

“President Biden under his administration … reduced the deficit by $1.7 trillion.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)

Non Compos Mentis

“I’ve met a lot of parents of trans kids in the past couple of months … saying how they now have to seriously consider leaving their state to protect their child. And that’s something that we have to call out and continue to be very clear about… These are our kids. They belong to all of us.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

“[Republicans] even want to eliminate classes that teach ‘gender ideology.’ Well, so what are we talking about here? Classes that teach women’s history? Women’s equality? The study of the fact that there are still only 25 women in the United States Senate in a body of 100?” —Vice President Kamala Harris

Lack of Self-Awareness

“This is a predictable, sad ending to an investigation that never should have taken place. Shortly after [John Durham] was announced in 2019, he went on the record, you know, as a prosecutor, making a rare public statement that he disagreed with IG Horowitz’s conclusion that the investigation was appropriately launched, and then he spent the next three to four years with a cognitive bias trying to build a case that somehow it was. And we see the results today, and the results are clearly that he didn’t come up with anything.” —ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok (“Although Strzok accused Durham of being influenced by bias, Strzok himself was previously fired from the FBI after perceived bias against Trump during the ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ investigation.” —Fox News)

For the Record

“The FBI took a Clinton campaign lie — the Russian collusion hoax — and twisted it into the appearance of truth in order to destroy Trump’s presidency. Then, a few years later, the FBI took the truth — Hunter Biden’s laptop stuffed full of evidence of Biden family corruption — and twisted it into a lie in order to protect Joe Biden and the progressive left, thus causing all of the damage America has suffered over the past two years.” —Gary Bauer

Observations

“DEA Administrator Anne Milgram last year called fentanyl ‘the greatest threat to Americans today.’ And here we thought it was ‘white supremacy.’ … Ultimately, however, the only way to truly stop the scourge of fentanyl in America is to close the border. And it may be that the only way to do that is to reinstall a Republican administration willing to do the necessary hard work of real law enforcement.” —Nate Jackson

“Government is always operating from a knowledge deficit compared to the businesspeople, entrepreneurs and investors who are taking risks every day, pushing the envelope of innovation, and subjecting themselves to the discipline of the market, which will harshly punish them if they are wrong and richly reward them if they are right. Few would have predicted in the 1990s, when the internet was coming into its own, that the future of tech would be such companies as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon. The U.S. Commerce Department didn’t create those firms, nor could have done so even if specifically directed to.” —Rich Lowry