The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Non Compos Mentis

“I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared.” —Joe Biden

The BIG Lies

“When you think about how Americans feel better about their personal finances, that is important.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

“I just talked about what the Inflation Reduction Act is going to do. All of those things is building an economy, transforming the way we see the economy in a different way — in a way, again, that … has … equity at the center of it and leaves no one behind.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“People are just starting to really feel the effects of these programs that got put in place the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency. He had a truly historic rate of success when it comes to major economic programs.” —White House senior advisor Anita Dunn

Theater of the Absurd

“The Hunter Biden story … it’s also the story of a father’s love. And Joe Biden has never and will never give up on his son Hunter and will never treat him lesser than. And so he is a father first.” —"The View" co-host Ana Navarro

“I know how important it is to protect [classified] documents. … This is about protecting our national security.” —Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (“Nancy Pelosi tells Jen Psaki ‘how important it is to protect [classified] documents’ as a Member of Congress. REMINDER: Joe Biden has admitted to hiding classified documents from when he was a senator — dating back to at least 1974.” —RNC)

Braying Jenny

“I had one justice tell me he thought the other justices were people of integrity, like a Clarence Thomas. I’m like, ‘Get out of here.’” —Nancy Pelosi

Demagogue

“One year ago … the United States Supreme Court … took a constitutional right, that had been recognized, from the people of America, from the women of America. A fundamental right. A basic freedom. … How dare they attack basic healthcare. How dare they attack our fundamental rights. How dare they attack our freedom.” —Kamala Harris

“Right now, in our country, 23 million women of reproductive age live in a state with an extreme abortion ban in effect — 23 million women — which means right now, in our country, one in three women of reproductive age live in a state with a ban. … The very people who claim to care about the health of women and babies are the same people who do not treat the maternal mortality crisis as the crisis it is. The hypocrisy.” —Kamala Harris

“These extremists plan to take their agenda national — an agenda that, by the way, goes beyond reproductive rights. It’s a lot of these same folks that attack the right to vote, that prevent the teaching of America’s full history with book bans. … They tried to condemn Americans for being who they are, for loving who they are, and loving who they love openly and with pride.” —Kamala Harris

Yellow Journalism

“One year after Roe v Wade was overturned, a third of women have to drive more than an hour to get an abortion.” —The Economist

For the Record

“5% of American adults under 30 ‘identify’ as trans. 5 years ago, 0.6% of 18-29 year olds said they were trans. That’s not ‘visibility.’ This is a social contagion of a mental health epidemic.” —Vivek Ramaswamy

Insight

“But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you — the social reformers — see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.” —Russian-British historian Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)