The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts
Demagogues
“The president is a president for people living in red states and blue states, for all Americans. … He knows what he is supposed to do and how he is supposed to lead this country. And that’s what he’s been doing.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
“Our entire administration is continuing the charge forward to literally redeem the soul of America.” —Joe Biden
“America, you are so lucky to have [Joe Biden] as your president. I don’t know anybody who really, truly works harder for you, for the American people.” —Ashley Biden
Non Compos Mentis
“We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean.” —Joe Biden
Junk Science
“When we have a pandemic like [the] COVID-19 pandemic that we had, two-year-olds should have been required to wear masks. It would be child abuse for parents not to do that because there was no vaccination available for two-year-olds.” —Congressman Jerry Nadler (D-NY)
Re: The Left
“Leftists are virtually always the aggressors in the culture war. Conservatives are merely trying to conserve what nearly everyone agreed was desirable just a few short years ago. For that, we’re labeled ‘extremists,’ ‘bigots,’ and ‘haters,’ even when the Rainbow Mafia is literally issuing bomb threats.” —Nate Jackson
“Millions of Americans don’t hate anyone. We just don’t want our beer, baseball, and bathing suits to have to reflect the sexual decisions of a tiny minority. We hate to be crass, but we just can’t understand why literally everything has to be about affirming someone’s choice of genitals or what they do with those body parts. We don’t get why ‘inclusivity’ means being forced by even conservative news outlets to see pictures of a man flaunting his feminine breasts on the White House lawn. Forget pride, which is hardly a virtue in any case. Whatever happened to basic decency?” —Nate Jackson
“According to the White House, it is absolutely inappropriate and insulting for a trans woman to jiggle his bare fake breasts on the White House lawn. It is courage and dignity for a drag queen to jiggle his penis at your child.” —Ben Shapiro
“Next to Liz Cheney, few Republican ‘leaders’ have been more of a disappointment than Paul Ryan. He proved it yet again [Tuesday] when he surrendered to the left in the culture war. Speaking on ‘CBS Mornings,’ Ryan was asked about conservative efforts to resist the left’s woke agenda and its war on normalcy. Ryan said, ‘I’m not a cultural war guy. I think it’s polarizing… There are big policy problems we need to tackle if we want to have a great 21st century for this country.’ I’m sorry, Mr. Ryan, but there won’t be a ‘great 21st century’ if we can’t say what a woman is! There won’t be a ‘great 21st century’ if we fail to protect our kids from the left’s insanity! These issues matter more than trade policy and marginal tax rates!” —Gary Bauer
Observations
“It is axiomatic that if you have a strong sense of propriety, decorum, and shame, you are not likely to become a big-time social-media influencer. No one says, ‘Wow, that circus clown is strikingly modest and thoughtful.’” —Jim Geraghty
“Absent a dramatic change, the primary voters within both of America’s major political parties look on course to renominate a pair of figures whom a supermajority of their compatriots disdain.” —Charles C.W. Cooke
Insight
“Limiting the freedom of news ‘just a little bit’ is in the same category within the classic example ‘a little bit pregnant.’” —Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)