Non Compos Mentis

“Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early [election] results because f**k them to the moon and back.” —Scientific American editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth

“I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is full of f**king fascists.” —Laura Helmuth

“For Black Women, ‘America Has Revealed to Us Her True Self.’” —The New York Times

“There’s one promise left that [Joe Biden] could fulfill — being a transitional figure. He could resign the presidency in the next 30 days, make Kamala Harris the president of the United States.” —former Kamala Harris communications director Jamal Simmons

The BIG Lies

“If you’re brown, you may not stick around. I don’t think they care whether you have a green card or not. They’re pulling people out and taking people out of this country whether they like it or not … or whether you voted for them or not.” —MSNBC’s Joy Reid

“Elon Musk … is a disinformation propagandist and now … could potentially have a direct line to the Oval Office.” —MSNBC’s Jen Psaki

Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“In the end, the debate did not matter.” —pollster Frank Luntz, who idiotically said that the debate would cost Trump the election

Dumb & Dumber

“I don’t want to get involved in that.” —Senator Bernie Sanders refusing to answer about the wisdom of his steadfast support for Biden’s candidacy

“We ought to just chill out for a while. … I think we ought to just take stock of who and what we are and not get caught up in pointing fingers and assigning blame.” —Congressman James Clyburn (D-SC), who helped give the Democrats both Biden and Harris

Friendly Fire

“All of the Washington-based Democrats farting around, going to wine and cheese parties, and talking about how misogynistic the race was — get your ass out of Washington, and go work on a 2026 campaign and do penance to make up for your godd*mn arrogance and stupidity. … We told you this identity sh*t was [a] disaster. We told you to get out in front of public safety issues. You didn’t.” —Democrat strategist James Carville

“We have to transform how we message to people. Donald Trump had a relationship with the American people that we could not break.” —former DNC Chair Donna Brazile

“That’s what I hate about the Left: You’re brats. You’re brats and you’re snobs, and people don’t like that.” —liberal political pundit Bill Maher

Hot Air

“This is not the end of our fight for a cleaner, safer planet. Facts are still facts. Science is still science. This fight is bigger than one election, one political cycle, in one country. This fight is bigger still. Because we are all living through a year defined by the climate crisis, in every country of the world.” —Biden senior adviser John Podesta

For the Record

“Having Democrat prosecutors up and down the Eastern Seaboard trying to imprison their political opponent, bankrupt their political opponent, remove him from the ballot — this was viewed as an assault on democracy at the same time they were trying to push that message.” —Mollie Hemingway

“People are hoping that they will have rule of law going forward and no more of these political prosecutions designed to go after not just Donald Trump but people who challenged school boards and pro-life activists.” —Mollie Hemingway

“While the left likes to proclaim that Trump isn’t normal, the reality is that their agenda isn’t normal.” —Ben Shapiro

“The problem, Democrats, is not that Biden stayed in too long. Nor is the problem … rampant sexism or misogyny among the American electorate. The problem is that the Democratic Party is no longer a mainstream political organization.” —Josh Hammer

“Biden believed in the propaganda that said he could be the next FDR. His self-regard cost him the presidency.” —Matthew Continetti

“Trump has many faults, but he is a salesman who must know his audience to make a sale. Harris and her team know only the cloistered bubble of progressive elites, which mostly includes mentally neurotic white women and their husbands, wealthy gay men, and celebrities.” —Erick Erickson

“[Democrats] don’t speak to normal working-class parents that are trying to get their kids to school. They’re knitting together disparate groups of people and different pockets and trying to call it a Democrat Party.” —former RNC Chair and Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus

“If they put billions of dollars into Hispanic outreach right now, [Republicans] are on the cusp of … potentially crippling the Democrat Party for generations to come.” —Reince Priebus

“If the 2024 presidential contest proved anything, it’s that the mass media no longer drive the national conversation.” —David Harsanyi

And Last…

“You are the media now.” —Elon Musk