The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Non Compos Mentis

“We’re working with the G7 to provide for infrastructure work for … having railway to go all the way across the southern two thir- — the — from the Atlantic Ocean to the — to the Indian Ocean, in Africa, to be able to transport and do it cheaper and do it with less — less — how can I say it? — less carbon emissions.” —Joe Biden

“I love these guys who say the Second Amendment is — you know, the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots. Well, if [you] want to do that, you want to work against the government, you need an F-16. You need something else than just an AR-15.” —Joe Biden (“Contending, as the president does, that your weapon is basically useless because the state can simply scramble F-16s and murder you and everyone you love doesn’t really convey the message he thinks it does. What it tells me is that Biden might be a sociopath and we all need tanks.” —David Harsanyi)

Grand Delusions

“I wear this partisan [censure] vote as a badge of honor, knowing that I have lived my oath, knowing that I have done my duty to hold a dangerous and out-of-control president accountable, and knowing that I would do so again in a heartbeat.” —Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA)

Belly Laughs of the Week

“Extreme MAGA Republicans are targeting Adam [Schiff] because he’s everything they wish they could be. He’s tough, he’s principled, and he’s effective.” —Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS)

“What really gnaws on the majority, what really bothers them, is that Mr. Schiff was way better than anybody on their team — at debate, at leadership, at messaging, at legal knowledge. He kicked their a**. He was better, he was more effective, and that still bothers them.” —Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL)

Missing the Forest for the Trees

“Mr. Durham, your report reads like a defense of the Trump campaign and an attack on Hillary Clinton because that’s exactly what it is.” —Congressman Jerry Nadler (D-NY)

Braying Jenny

“If you took five years and this is what you came up with, I’m going to assume you didn’t find very much … that was chargeable. … That d*mn [Hunter Biden] laptop. I’m sick of hearing about this laptop. This laptop — I hope it just crumbles to death, I hate it so much.” —"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg

Yellow Journalism

“OceanGate CEO Missing in Titanic Sub Had History of Donating to GOP Candidates.” —The New Republic headline

Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“I worry about the country a lot because … we are in an arena, an era, of what I call the normalization of untruths. There are so many misrepresentations and distortions of reality and conspiracy theory, that it almost becomes normalized. We should not accept that as the new normal because when facts are no longer accepted as facts, when distortions occur and when reality is distorted, that will undermine the foundations of the social order and of our democracy. And history has shown us that.” —Anthony Fauci

Re: The Left

“Our elite work to ban plentiful natural gas, subsidize transgender activism abroad, and lecture on sexual identities in the military. China’s elite builds dozens of coal and nuclear plants, and doubles the size of its navy, while preparing to absorb Taiwan. Americans are rejecting wokeism because they finally are realizing that if they do not, they will not have a civilization left.” —Victor Davis Hanson

And Last…

“Joe Biden has lost any shred of moral credibility to keep harping to Americans on privilege, guns, and paying their ‘fair share’ of taxes since his own DOJ exempted his privileged felonious son who recklessly broke both gun and tax laws.” —Victor Davis Hanson