The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The BIG Lies

“Some Americans don’t quite know all the full impact of the president’s economic policies.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

“Whatever documents a president decides to take with him, he has the absolute right to take them. He has the absolute right to keep them or he can give them back to NARA if he wants.” —Donald Trump

“Some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department … by claiming that we do not treat like cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people. Nothing could be further from the truth. You’ve all heard me say many times that we make our cases based on the facts and the law. These are not just words; these are what we live by. They’re the foundation of the way we make these decisions.” —Attorney General Merrick Garland

Leftmedia Lobs

“The prosecutor has gone out of his way to charge [Hunter Biden with] everything that could have been charged.” —MSNBC’s Frank Figliuzzi (After the persecution of Trump for things he did NOT do as president, suggesting Hunter is being prosecuted to the full extent of the law is laughable. Still waiting on any prosecuting of Joe.)

“The premise that Hunter Biden is getting favorable treatment from [the] DOJ just isn’t true. … Hunter Biden actually has a plausible case that he’s being treated worse because of the scrutiny that he’s received as the president’s son.” —NBC News legal analyst Paul Butler

Village Idiots

“[Trump] needs to be shot — stopped.” —Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D)

“Supremacy is at the root of why people think it’s okay to eat other animals.” —PETA (At least they didn’t claim it was “white supremacy.”)

Observations

“One explanation for Democratic voters’ stubborn and arguably irrational allegiance to Joe Biden is that they’re reacting to Republican voters’ stubborn and arguably irrational allegiance to Donald Trump. One explanation for Republican voters’ stubborn and arguably irrational allegiance to Donald Trump is that they’re reacting to the Democrats’ and most of the press’s grossly unfair treatment of him, from the Russia collusion hoax to the ‘Democracy Dies In Darkness’ suppression of the Biden laptop story. One solution would be a constitutional amendment setting an age limit on presidents. A more feasible solution is for one or both parties’ voters to start assessing candidates by their capacity to govern and achieve positive policy results. Republicans at least have alternatives running who can make that case against Trump.” —Michael Barone

“Maybe Americans who elected a scatterbrained and tired 80-year-old deserve to be governed by him — good and hard, as H.L. Mencken might say. But please stop pretending Biden is OK. He’s not.” —David Harsanyi

For the Record

“The reason we have women’s sports is because women could never compete with men because of the biological differences that make men superior at sports. It’s kind of insulting to say out loud, but we never had to say it out loud until people pretended to not understand this.” —Frank J. Fleming

“First transgender elected official: Arrested for child pornography. First transgender Army officer: Arrested for selling military secrets to the Russians. First non-binary government official: Arrested for stealing luggage from airports.” —Greg Price

Insight

“Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.” —Robert Lindner (1914-1956)