The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Letting the Cat Out of the Bag

“When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breath clean air and drink clean water.” —Kamala Harris (The White House corrected the transcript to “pollution.”)

The BIG Lies

“When it comes to the fiscal outlook, I think you really need to look at the deficit reduction that this president has presided over. I mean, $1.7 trillion of deficit reduction in his first two years. He just signed legislation to take that deficit down another trillion.” —Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Jared Bernstein

“Real wages are up. The buying power of the hourly wage of working people — say middle-wage workers — that’s up 1.6% over the past year.” —Jared Bernstein

“One of the core elements of Bidenomics is putting a focus on the middle class and working people.” —Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

Observations

“The left and the liberal media have no desire to find out why the U.S. has become the world’s largest consumer of human trafficking ‘products.’ They don’t want to learn how much of that shameful distinction is a result of our wide-open Southern border or our horrible foster care system, which has become a pipeline to human trafficking of every kind. And it’s been clear for several years that the mainstream media aren’t interested in exposing the rich and powerful men who were frequent flyers to Epstein Island or who go on expensive junkets to foreign countries to have sex with kids.” —Michael Reagan

“We’re still pretending EVs are a new idea rather than an inferior one. But scaremongering about climate and a misplaced romanticizing of ‘manufacturing’ jobs have softened up the public for this kind of waste. … Most EVs are bought by high earners who like the look and feel of a Tesla. And that’s fine. I don’t want to stop anyone from owning the car they prefer. I just don’t want to help pay for it.” —David Harsanyi

“There is some significant chance … that there is a fateful sandbag, wire, or step out there that is going to bring home the fragility of the leader of the free world in a disturbing and undeniable way. Democrats who look past this possibility are running the risk of repeating the Ruth Bader Ginsburg experience of talking themselves into believing everything is fine, until it’s not and they are left dealing with an avoidable catastrophe.” —Rich Lowry

Insight

“Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.” —Paul Valéry (1871-1945)