Cognitive Dissonance

“The reason I think the Democratic Party and Mr. Biden … [are] losing black votes is they only care about black people every four years.” —former NBAer Charles Barkley on Wednesday

“If I see a black person walking around with [a] Trump mugshot, I’m gonna punch him in the face. … Oh, I mean that sincerely.” —Charles Barkley on Saturday

Theater of the Absurd

“If you want to, a year from now, watch Russian tanks rolling through Europe, then, you know, endorse Donald Trump and get on that bandwagon.” —CNN’s Van Jones

Gaslighting

“Folks are going to have to start paying attention and seeing, yes, incredible success of the Biden-Harris administration.” —Biden senior advisor Steve Benjamin

Political Futures

“Donald Trump obviously left office on a sour note in January 2021, written off by many opinion-makers and political professionals. Then, President Biden happened. … Joe Biden has eased his 1967 Corvette Stingray out of his garage in Wilmington, Delaware, and driven it straight into a ditch. His presidency is such a wide-ranging failure that he’d make almost any predecessor look better.” —Rich Lowry

Upright

“There are undoubtedly many noncitizens loyal to this country, but they, like everyone else, must undergo the same process to demonstrate that they have earned the right to vote. It is inequitable to accord equal weight to the votes of transient individuals who enter the country for economic purposes, return their funds to their country of origin, or who are mere public charges, in comparison to those who have sworn allegiance to the United States and who have gone through the process to become a citizen.” —Armstrong Williams

Observations

“[Karl] Marx despised Christians almost as much as Jews, if only because he believed religion to be a delusion, and viewed mankind’s only hope of freedom to be tied to the destruction of all religions. It should therefore come as no surprise that the rise of leftism, secularism and globalism in the United States and elsewhere is accompanied by increased antipathy for Jews and Christians.” —Laura Hollis