The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Dumb & Dumber

“It’s just the right darn thing to do for people that raise their hand and agree to serve … in the military.” —National Security Council spokesman John Kirby regarding military abortions (“Kirby: Ending the lives of unborn children is ‘the right thing to do’ and key to the military’s objectives. The war on unborn children might be the only war they have a strategy to decisively win.” —Mollie Hemingway)

“[Abortion is] not dangerous. But what’s actually dangerous, what’s really dangerous, is forcing people — especially black women — to give birth.” —Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO)

Braying Jenny

“As somebody who’s been in the streets and participated in a lot of demonstrations, I want you to know that we have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state.” —Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who later elucidated: “It is important that I clarify my statement. I do not believe the idea of Israel as a nation is racist. I do, however, believe that Netanyahu’s extreme right-wing government has engaged in discriminator and outright racist policies and that there are extreme racists driving that policy within the leadership of the current government.”

Junk Science

“The earth just broke the record for the hottest day in 120,000 years. In fact, we broke in on three separate days. National climate emergency now.” —Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

The BIG Lies

“Everything that you are seeing with our economy being stronger, wages going up, unemployment going down … is because of Bidenomics. … We’ve seen a positive … movement with the economy because of what this president has done, because of Bidenomics. … Bidenomics has been really helpful in getting to make sure that we build an economy that leaves the one behind. … The first two years, the deficit has gone down by more than $1 trillion. And that is … because of Bidenomics and because of the work that he’s been doing.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

“Since I’ve been in office, we’ve created more jobs than any president has created in their first two years.” —Joe Biden (Fact-check: Those were COVID-restored jobs. Two million more jobs were created in the same number of months Donald Trump was in office.)

“Wage growth is moderating and inflation is subsiding, so I think we’re in a good path.” —Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (“REALITY: Prices are up 16.6% and real wages are down 3% since Biden took office.” —RNC)

Village Idiot

“I want y'all to drink this f***ing beer. I got three cases of Bud Light. Hey, and I want to say this — if you’re gay, bless you. If you’re transgender, bless you. And if you have a problem with that, f*** you.” —former NBA star Charles Barkley

Re: Cocainegate

“The Secret Service here looks like they can’t find a dead cow in a closet. … You know what you don’t do before you interview people? Publicly say that there’s no DNA evidence and no fingerprints. Like, why would you let the whole world know that if you’re then going to interview people?” —Andrew Weissmann, who was the top investigator for Special Counsel Robert Mueller

Leftmedia Lobs

“More people actually moved out of Florida than New York or California in 2021” —Business Insider headline (Fact-check: The headline and story were corrected to note more people actually moved into Florida than any other state; more moved out of New York and California than Florida.)

“Maybe [censored social media] opinions are just not something that people want to listen to. And it’s not censorship. It’s just, you know, the way it is.” —NBC’s Ben Collins

Insight

“Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships.” —Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989)

And Last…

“So Bidenomics is where the rate of increase in inflation drops but every product is 15% more expensive than when Joe Biden took office.” —Ben Shapiro