Non Compos Mentis

“I wanted to play lacrosse, but you had to choose between lacrosse and football.” —President Joe Biden (“Archmere Academy (Biden’s high school) didn’t have a boy’s lacrosse team until 1993, 32 years after he graduated.” —Zach Parkinson)

Faux Pas

“I know everybody’s frustrated, even though, you know, like I said, we’ve made great progress compared to where we were… But there’s still a lot that’s not being taken care of.” —Joe Biden

The BIG Lies I

“Extreme Republicans are playing chicken with our national security, holding Ukraine’s funding hostage to their extreme partisan border policies.” —Joe Biden

“What a gift this is to Putin to watch what is happening here. And I really hope we can move beyond the politics of the day, be honest that the president has asked for real border security, and let’s get on with it.” —Office of Management & Budget Director Shalanda Young

“Republicans in Congress [are] willing to give Putin a gift. The greatest gift that Putin could hope for. That’s what we’re seeing. And so they are playing chicken with our national security … and history will remember them harshly.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

“Republicans talk about immigration reform. They talk about border security. The president, you know, on day one … put forth an immigration policy. … It’s been three years and they have not been moving forward in good faith. They have not been trying to get to a solution in good faith. … We want to find real solutions.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“We have been taking this very seriously in trying to deal with this border security issue.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“As the president said, he’s all about border security.” —National Security Council spokesman John Kirby

“We share a sense of [border] urgency, so act on that.” —John Kirby

“He’s done everything he can to keep people safe, in stark contract with the Republicans who are calling for a Muslim ban, throwing our allies under the bus, praising terrorists.” —Biden Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Fulks

The BIG Lies II

“We have had some historic progress here, right? When you think about the 14 million jobs that have been created … when you think about what the president walked into — an economy that was in a tailspin and getting that back on its feet. So the president wants to continue to do that — continue to lower costs for Americans, continue to make sure that this economy is working for all.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“We are seeing lowering costs as we’re going into the holiday season.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“It’s extremely important that we help Americans draw that contrast between what is happening in the economy and the president. It’s extremely important that we continue to tout inflation numbers as they continue to drop. … Joe Biden has created 14 million jobs. … It’s really important to remind the American people where they were four years ago before Joe Biden took office.” —Quentin Fulks

“I’m concerned that we need to continue to [be] better about messaging to voters what we have done to help create jobs, to tackle inflation. … We have a lot to be proud of. President Biden has been the leader on getting all this done.” —Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA)

Belly Laughs of the Day

“[Republicans] don’t understand foreign policy, and Joe Biden is the only person running for president of the United States that has the wisdom and experience to bring people to the table to get deals done.” —Quentin Fulks

“When it comes to what’s going on in the Middle East, Joe Biden from day one has approached this not as a politician but as commander-in-chief… But this is also a clinic in leadership.” —Quentin Fulks

Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“Biden is not … going to a podium as president of the United States saying that he’s going to … use the government to go after his political enemies.” —Quentin Fulks

Useful idiot

“From college students to those in the workplace, I’m getting the calls of people being pushed to silence — being bullied, some people weaponizing anti-Semitism in a way to silence voices. … Americans have a right to speak up. … We have to be able to make sure that as we look at all these forms of hate, that it is not being weaponized in a way to silence voices like myself and … many of the voices that are here.” —Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)

Insight

“The difficulty of the two-state solution is shown by the experience of Hamas. Gaza was made quasi-independent by [former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon in order to test the possibility of a two-state solution. … It has become so much worse in the last two years than it [was] in 2005. So, the two-state solution doesn’t guarantee that what we saw in the last weeks won’t happen again.” —former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (1923-2023) with the last word on Hamas

And Last…

“Use the wrong pronoun? Harvard will come after you with everything it has. Join a mob and call for genocide against the Jews? Harvard’s president said she ‘embraces that’ as free expression. What a disgrace.” —Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)