The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts
Two-Tiered Justice
“If you are the president’s leading political opponent, the DOJ tries to literally put you in jail… If you are the president’s son, you get a sweetheart deal.” —House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)
“Biden’s son got a sweetheart deal for laundering money, accepting millions in bribes, committing gun crimes, and evading taxes & child support. Yet DOJ targeted a pro-life pastor w/ a 25-person SWAT team and serious charges. AG Garland is a disgrace.” —Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)
“Lying on a federal firearm background check form carries up to 10 years in prison and is a felony. Not for Hunter Biden.” —Katie Pavlich
“If you didn’t pay your taxes to the tune of $1.2 million and also signed a federal gun form stating you weren’t a drug addict while, you know, being a crack addict, you also would probably get a sweet sweet plea bargain. If you were the president’s son.” —Ben Shapiro
“Remember folks, you — a law abiding citizen owning a gun — are a danger to the republic. Hunter Biden, a crack addict who lied on gun forms, and whose then-girlfriend threw his gun in a dumpster across from a high school, barely did anything wrong.” —Ben Shapiro
Non Sequitur
“On this issue [abortion] one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree that the government should not be telling her what to do with her body.” —Kamala Harris
Say That Again … Slowly
“The majority of women who receive abortion care are mothers.” —Kamala Harris
Tempest in a Teapot
“We have to be much more aggressive in regard to fossil fuel expansions. If we don’t get the policies we need, if our legislative process is failing us, then direct action gets the goods.” —Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
For the Record
“All the razzle-dazzle about Trump’s supposed rights under the Presidential Records Act is a sideshow. At its core, this is an obstruction case. Trump would not have been indicted just for taking the documents in the first place. Nor would he have been indicted even if he delayed returning them for a period while arguing about it. What got Trump criminally charged was his deceit and obstruction in responding to the grand jury subpoena served in May 2022 after he had stymied the government for a year.” —former Attorney General Bill Barr
The ChiCom Chronicles
“If a rival like China wants to divert America’s attention from Asia, even a modest nuisance in the Caribbean might suffice. Right now, China’s capacity to stir up such a commotion is limited. But the more sway Beijing gains over the economically vulnerable and politically fragile states of the Caribbean, the more the potential for mischief grows — mischief that could shake the world order.” —Daniel McCarthy
Re: The Right
“Republicans must be the party of the 80 million small-business men and women who employ more than 60% of our workers. … If big business wants to bolt and make peace with the party that hates enterprise, entrepreneurship and profit, that’s a sad commentary on the state of affairs in corporate America, not the GOP.” —Stephen Moore
Re: The Left
“Leftism is the attempt to destroy the past — every value and every institution, the good as well as what it regards as the bad. That is why leftists, by definition, hate conservatism. Conservatism seeks to conserve the best from the past. The Left seeks to destroy the past, including the best. … Days before the 2008 presidential election, then-candidate Barack Obama told a wildly cheering crowd, ‘We are five days away form fundamentally transforming the United States of America.’ That’s all the Left does: fundamentally transform. Destroying everything it touches is not a byproduct of leftism. It is its aim.” —Dennis Prager
And Last…
“What is ‘proper’ and who decides? Is our standard a weather vane that points in whatever direction the wind is blowing? … There are several reasons for the decline of nations. A major contributing factor is the rejection of a unifying moral code.” —Cal Thomas