The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Belly Laugh of the Week

“I don’t think [Biden’s] capable, I know he’s capable. I see results. I’ve seen a master class of results the last few years.” —California Governor Gavin Newsom

Spin Doctor

“Whole Foods did shut down one business, but it was a bad location to begin with.” —Gavin Newsom

Theater of the Absurd

“There is a reason almost all the top ten market cap companies in the U.S. can be considered ‘woke.’ It’s good business.” —entrepreneur Mark Cuban

Re: The Left

“Looking out at his LGBTQ+ audience Saturday, Biden said, ‘You’re some of the bravest and most inspiring people I’ve ever known.’ … As a senator, as vice president and as president, I know Joe Biden has met plenty of active-duty service members and veterans who lost limbs in Afghanistan. I know he’s met scores of soldiers who have undergone dozens of surgeries from wounds suffered in Iraq. He met the families of the 13 military personnel who died at the Kabul airport because of his incompetence. But the courage of those patriots evidently can’t match that of LGBTQ radicals trying to indoctrinate America’s children into their movement.” —Gary Bauer

“On Thursday, Joe Biden will host a pride month event for families with LGBT kids on the White House South Lawn. It’s during this event that he’ll appoint a ‘banned-book’ czar, whose job it will be to try to compel local communities to stock their libraries with race-obsessed pseudohistories and books depicting oral sex, rape, violence, and gender dysphoria. Now, if that sounds like an unfair description, there’s an easy way for the president to debunk his critics: He can read selected outtakes from some of these innocuous books to the prepubescent kids who show up to the event. Even better, he can do it on TV.” —David Harsanyi

“The perversity is the feature, not the bug, of radical gender ideology. Stop pretending that this sort of behavior is somehow extraneous to the central conceit.” —Ben Shapiro

“The words that we use determine the rules by which we live. If we accept that a person who was born with the biological apparatus of a man is actually a woman, and if we base this on the fact that the man really believes he is a woman, then we are obligated to call that person a ‘woman.’ Frankly, I do not want to live in that sort of world, and I do not intend to. People can lie to themselves because they mistakenly believe that is a form of tolerance, or they can lie to themselves because they know the science and it doesn’t agree with their preconceived notions of right and wrong, real and fictitious. We can call a man a woman to be polite, and we can call a baby a fetus in order to strip it of its humanity. But in the end, the words have their own life, their own value and existence separate and apart from any dishonest purpose, and I refuse to play that game.” —Christine Flowers

And Last…

“The phrase ‘no one is above the law’ has a corollary: no one should be below the law. Equal justice ought to be the goal, not using the Department of Justice as a political weapon to destroy an opponent.” —Cal Thomas