The BIG Lies

“Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital killing 500 Palestinians (doctors, children, patients) just like that.” —Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)

“Bombing a hospital is among the gravest of war crimes. The IDF reportedly blowing up one of the few places the injured and wounded can seek medical treatment and shelter during a war is horrific.” —Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

For the Record

“If the standard is that anything bad that happens in Gaza is Israel’s fault — even if it’s an Islamist rocket — it will be impossible for Israel to fight a proper war. That is the point, though. The point of the left here is to hamstring Israel’s capabilities.” —Erielle Davidson

Dezinformatsiya

“By using the term ‘open border,’ conservatives are suggesting that anyone can get into the U.S. without much hassle. But the reality is the southern border is more fortified than it’s ever been.” —Axios (“This is so bad. You can tell whoever wrote this hasn’t spent much time at the border or hasn’t bothered talking to the agents tasked with patrolling it. Ask the 1.6 million + known gotaways how difficult it was to get in w/ chunks of the border unpatrolled while agents process.” —Bill Melugin)

Snake Oil

“We cannot have a public health system that is a patchwork of good health and bad health. And unfortunately, because the Constitution left the authority for healthcare to the states, we have a patchwork. And COVID was perfect proof of that. There is no way we will deal well with any pandemic in the future and no way we will be able to weave together the infrastructure that we need to deal with climate change if we don’t weave together the 50 states in dealing with healthcare, which means we have to have a universal system of public health.” —HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra

Village Idiot

“The modern GOP would never vote for Jesus. I mean, he was soft on Samaritans and commanded everyone to sell their possessions and give the money to the poor. The guy was clearly a socialist. He was worse than a socialist; he was a Christian.” —"comedian" Stephen Colbert

Grand Delusions

“We have seen no specific indication that another actor or another state is preparing to widen and deepen and escalate this [Israel-Hamas] conflict.” —National Security Council spokesman John Kirby

“I don’t believe that any singular actor wants to see an escalation in violence.” —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Non Compos Mentis

“What has Hamas done? Hamas has shifted the balance of power. Hamas has punctured the illusion of invincibility. … Hamas has challenged the monopoly of violence. … It was exhilarating! It was exhilarating! It was energizing! And if they weren’t exhilarated by this challenge to the monopoly of violence, by this shifting of the balance of power, then they would not be human. I was exhilarated!” —Cornell professor Russell Rickford

Observations

“Love of country demands that one priorities the protection of country over all others. If refugees hate our country, they should not be brought in because all they will do is seek to destroy the U.S., not seek to build up the country.” —Thomas Gallatin

“Moral equivalence has two purposes. One is to enable the morally confused to hide their confusion. The other is to enable the immoral to hide their immorality.” —Dennis Prager

“The moral problem is not the cycle of violence; it is Palestinian violence. Without violence from Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, there would be no ‘cycle of violence.’” —Dennis Prager

“It is actually quite easy to condemn a terror group. When you see someone invade a territory without provocation, kidnap and then decapitate babies, rape their mothers, put bullets through the heads of elderly bus riders and disappear hundreds of young, innocent Israeli concertgoers, you do not have the luxury of nuance. There is no gray area. These people, these savages, have emerged from the gates of a terrestrial Hell.” —Christine Flowers

“By not speaking out in black-and-white terms, demanding justice only for the Israelis whose blood was shed by those who shed their own humanity, we will be next. They will not come for us with knives, and guns and screams. They will have already annihilated our very souls, and that is the most precious possession of all.” —Christine Flowers