For the Record

“A state court has found Trump guilty of a federal crime with which he’s never even been charged, based on informal allegations of unlawful conduct that took place 2,000 miles from the court’s jurisdiction. This is patently absurd.” —Ed Morrissey

“The U.S. has put sanctions on other countries for doing exactly what the Colorado Supreme Court has done.” —Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)

The BIG Lies

“We didn’t just leave a bunch of weapons in Afghanistan. This is a fallacy. This is a farce.” —National Security Council spokesman John Kirby

“When the president walked into this administration, the economy was in a tailspin. It was. … The president signed [the Inflation Reduction Act], and only Democrats voted for it — no Republicans did — and it’s going to help the American people. And so there are historical actions that this president has taken that has shown, the data shows, that the economy is in a better place.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

“The entire economy … recovered swiftly during the Biden economic recovery.” —Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

Baghdad Bob

“I take offense — and I think the president does too — in saying that we haven’t taken [the border] seriously.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“Many Republicans like to … demonize immigrants and also dehumanize immigrants.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

Dumb & Dumber

“We have a governor … that is placing families on buses without shoes, cold, wet, tired, hungry, afraid, traumatized. And then they come to the city of Chicago. … The governor of Texas needs to take a look in the mirror of the chaos that he is causing for this country. This is not just a Chicago dynamic. He is attacking our country.” —Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

“New York. This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our Trade Center to a person who’s celebrating a new business that’s open. This is a very, very complicated city, and that’s why it’s the greatest city on the globe.” —New York City Mayor Eric Adams

“If you have social media that is dominated by algorithms that pull people down these rabbit holes … they are the digital equivalent of AR-15s. They outta be banned.” —Al Gore

“One of the persistent debates in American life centers on how strictly we should judge the sins of our national past. Were those people who owned slaves or broke faith with Native Americans or passed the Chinese Exclusion Act merely products of their time? MAGA Men and MAGA Women will not have that excuse. They know there is a different way.” —New York Times columnist David French

Race Bait

“Enough is enough. Harvard President Claudine Gay is a distinguished scholar and professor with decades of service in higher education. The recent attacks on her leadership are nothing more than political theatrics advancing a white supremacist agenda.” —NAACP President Derrick Johnson

“I’m sick of average white guys commenting on football. Y'all not even good at football. Can we please replace the Pro Bowl with an All-Black vs. All-White bowl so these cats can stop trying to teach me who’s good at football. I’m better than ur goat.” —former NFL running back Rashard Mendenhall

Breaking Ranks With the “Trans” Orthodoxy

“I live my life as a woman. But I’m not.” —Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner

And Last…

“We have gone from homosexuality being ‘in the closet’ to Pride celebrations at the White House … to now LGBTQ sex in Senate hearing rooms. What’s next — gay couplings in the House chamber during the State of the Union address? … After the 2020 election, we were told that the ‘adults’ were back in charge and that Joe Biden would bring us all together and restore normalcy to America. It’s been anything but normal!” —Gary Bauer

“Our high schools and colleges would make Adolf Hitler proud. We won World War II, but the National Socialists (Nazis) have won America’s classrooms.” —Gary Bauer