The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts
Braying Jennies
“@Target's decision to pull some of its pride merchandise because of backlash from anti-LGBTQ+ customers is wrong. Hatred and bigotry can’t win: New York elected officials and I are urging @Target to reverse its decision and stand up for #LGTBQ+ rights.” —New York Attorney General Letitia James
“Since January of this year, more than 400 anti-LGBTQ+ laws have been introduced at the state level. … Those barriers are a threat to our readiness, and they have a direct correlation to the resiliency and well-being of our most important operational advantage: our people. … Diversity and inclusion are both force multipliers and war-fighting imperatives that enable our competitive advantage against adversaries.” —United States Space Force Lt. Gen. DeAnna M. Burt
Re: The Left
“The U.S. flag represents our nation and every citizen under its jurisdiction. Pride flags represent maybe 7% of the population and probably considerably less, all based on behavior or orientation. Even if you agree with the Left’s insistence that it’s about identity, not behavior, this is still a tiny minority, and that justification wouldn’t fly in virtually any other circumstance. The only reason pride flags fly on government buildings is that leftists are religiously devoted to dividing Americans rather than uniting us under our national banner.” —Nate Jackson
“‘Gender-affirming care’ is one of the most devious euphemisms in the common lexicon today. It rightly should be called ‘gender-denying care’ because that’s what is actually happening. ‘Gender-affirming care’ is the pet name used by cultists who are seeking to normalize the sexualization of children and transgenderism and who are taking advantage of the mentally distressed.” —Emmy Griffin
“You do realize that pushing to trans the kids is ‘conversion therapy,’ right?” —Peter Heck
For the Record
“The last thing this country needs is another bottled-piety lecture on the rule of law from Special Counsel [Jack] Smith, Biden, and the array of admitted lying former high government officials. They … should be ashamed.” —Victor Davis Hanson
“There is no ‘moving on’ from corruption. To wave it away is to embolden the corrupt. If we as a people do not care enough about the integrity of our laws and the proper limits of our government to enforce both, those who flagrantly disregard those laws and those limits will not stop until they destroy everything we hold dear.” —Laura Hollis
“Our justice system seems to be following the famous Latin American saying: ‘For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.’” —Ben Shapiro
A Trip Down Memory Lane
“In my administration I’m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law.” —Donald Trump, August 18, 2016
“We can’t have someone in the Oval Office who doesn’t understand the meaning of the word confidential or classified.” —Donald Trump, September 6, 2016
Political Futures
“Any Republican who thought he could get away with doing something illegal because Democrats did it first is too stupid to be our champion, much less the Republican nominee for president. You want to do something about the double standard, right-wingers? Run someone who enrages the left by winning, not by constantly creating legal messes benefiting no one but himself.” —Ann Coulter
“For conservatives, it is crucial to understand that party membership or political ideology should not entail unqualified loyalty. The danger of unwavering partisanship is evident in the ongoing fragmentation we observe on the left, where mainstream positions are veering further and further into the extremes. Conservative values hinge on principles such as integrity, rule of law, and patriotism. This requires us to hold our leaders to account when they compromise the security of our nation, irrespective of shared ideologies.” —Armstrong Williams
Insight
“A university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism — a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.” —Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970)