August 23, 2023

Wednesday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Olivia Dalton, Michael Mann, Mark Milley, and more.

The BIG Lies

“I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, what it’s like to lose a home.” —Joe Biden in Lahaina, Hawaii

“I think it’s important to remember that the president has been there from day one.” —Principal Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton

Hot Air

“This is climate change. We’re seeing it now in all of its forms, in, you know, the wildfires in Canada, what happened in Maui, the flooding rains that we’re now seeing in California.” —University of Pennsylvania professor Michael Mann

Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“Yes, there’s a right to bear arms. But our kids and educators also have the right to live freely without fearing for their lives in a classroom. It’s time for Congress to pass commonsense gun safety laws.” —Joe Biden (“Imagine if a criminal got ahold of the illegally purchased gun that your son’s sister-in-law-lover dumped in a trash can directly across the street from a school.” —Dana Loesch)

Pot Calling the Kettle Black

“How conservatives use ‘verbal jiu-jitsu’ to turn liberals’ language against them.” —CNN headline (“These are the people who use term like ‘degrowth’ for the economy and ‘chestfeeding birthing parents with bonus holes’ for women. These are the people who rewrite actual dictionary words to make sure the definitions fit leftist ideology.” —Joel Abbott)

Swampthink

“To say that … somehow the entire military went woke because [of] a handful of drag queen shows that shouldn’t happen to begin with I think is an overstatement. Same thing with critical race theory.” —Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley

“‘Wokeness’ … I personally think that it’s overstated.” —Mark Milley

For the Record

“When Biden was running, the narrative … was that Biden was the standard-bearer of empathy because he had lost his first wife and daughter early in his career in a car crash and lost his son Beau to glioblastoma while he was vice president. And yet despite all of the empathy hype, when it comes to the people he serves, in particular the working class, he has failed miserably in conveying he feels their pain.” —Salena Zito

Re: The Left

“My favorite part of Biden’s Hawaii trip was when he talked about the small kitchen fire he had in his home and compared it to people losing everything, including loved ones. And Hawaii will keep voting for Democrat trash like that.” —Tim Young

“A generation of Americans now exist who have forgotten or rather were never taught the inherent value of their Liberty heritage. They’ve been taught to believe that since they are not feeling or experiencing happiness, the America of their forefathers is a failure. As the government has inevitably failed to deliver on the promise of happiness, leftist politicians point the finger of blame at those backward conservatives for standing in the way of ‘progress.’” —Thomas Gallatin

And Last…

“Joe Biden … dared the press to find just one of his policies/objectives that has not worked. Silence followed. Perhaps it was polite to say nothing, given even the media knows almost every enacted Biden policy has failed.” —Victor Davis Hanson

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