The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Hot Air

“We need to stop drilling for fossil fuels completely … or we will continue to have these severe weather events that we have been having for quite some time because of the warming of the planet.” —Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) (“Humanity runs on oil and gas. You cannot declare war on oil and gas without war on humanity itself.” —Jesse Kelly)

For the Record

“I agree with every single critique of the shortcomings of the debt limit deal. In a rational world, we wouldn’t just be fighting over discretionary spending, we’d be restructuring entitlements. We don’t live in that world.” —Ben Shapiro

“For those who don’t remember what the Constitution says, which is most of our elected representatives, it does not authorize a great deal of what the federal government spends our tax dollars to do.” —Nate Jackson

Re: The Left

“The people protesting Target and Bud Light are having a pivotal effect. Both have lost billions due to their outrageous promotion of transgenderism. Lawmakers in many states are presenting anti-child-mutilation legislation. Transgender activists are loud and oftentimes violent, but they do not represent the vast majority of Americans. God willing, the transgender ideology has hit its threshold and will wane into the preposterous footnotes of American history. That doesn’t mean those of us who see transgenderism for what it is should rest on our laurels.” —Emmy Griffin

“The Bud Light and Target controversies appear to indicate that the public’s level of anger and frustration at having the LGBTQ agenda shoved down our throats and aimed at our children has reached new levels. Boycotts like this are very hard to sustain. New controversies arise and people move on. … But here’s a goal that every Target customer who shares our values can legitimately achieve: Do not shop at Target during June ‘Pride Month.’ Don’t give them a dime. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada.” —Gary Bauer

“It was only a few years ago that the #MeToo movement was in full swing. Democrats seized on a few high-profile cases of abused women, and the movement began. It quickly became a veritable war between the sexes, and at its height, Democrats were demanding that we ‘believe all women.’ Today, they can’t even define what a woman is.” —Peter Lemiska

“If we have lost our will as a nation to define what’s right and to do it, then we have lost our way in a world that is increasingly being dominated by China, whose president, Xi Jinping, may have correctly diagnosed us as a nation in ‘decline.’” —Cal Thomas

Insight

“An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.” —Henry Clay (1777-1852)