The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

A Trip Down Memory Lane

“Shame on President Trump for tearing apart hardworking immigrant families. We should be focused on MS-13, not scholarship winners.” —Senator Chris Van Hollen (2017), who has ingratiated himself with suspected MS-13 gangster Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Theater of the Absurd

“I’m announcing a series of measures against El Salvador for aiding [Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s] unconstitutional deportation scheme.” —Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

Non Compos Mentis

“I’m struggling to see how it burdens a parent’s religious exercise if the school teaches something that the parent disagrees with. You have a choice. You don’t have to send your kid to that school.” —Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Race Bait

“Republicans subscribe to white supremacy.” —former Biden adviser Alencia Johnson

Belly Laugh of the Day

“People can trust that I’m going to tell them the truth.” —former CNN anchor Don Lemon

Village Idiot

“All of us who are here — we are all the product of rape.” —screenwriter Tony Gilroy

For the Record

“President Trump has eliminated 74 named terrorist leaders that the Biden administration wasn’t going after. … You add to that 45 Americans who [were] being held hostage by various regimes and groups around the world that he’s brought home — that is just an incredible achievement in just a couple of months.” —National Security Advisor Michael Waltz

Re: The Left

“Democrats and the media have disappeared the names of the American victims of illegal alien criminals, while they elevate illegal alien gang members.” —Gary Bauer

“The constitutional crisis is the Left’s assault on the First Amendment — our right to free speech and religious liberty. It’s the Left’s assault on the Second Amendment — our right to defend ourselves and our families. It’s the Left's assault on the integrity of our elections — our right as citizens to vote in free and fair elections. It’s leftist district court judges usurping the authority of the president.” —Gary Bauer

And Last…

“The universities decided that they were going to abandon the ivory tower and start playing politics. Bad decision. In politics, the other side fights back.” —Christopher F. Rufo