February 17, 2025

Monday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Brian Stelter, James Carville, Nate Jackson, JD Vance, and more.

Dezinformatsiya

“[JD Vance] was standing in a country [Germany] where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.” —CBS News’s Margaret Brennan

The BIG Lie

“Studies have consistently shown that immigrants commit less crimes, that sanctuary jurisdictions have seen no increase or lower crime rates. Now, unfortunately, the Trump administration has spread lies about the suggestion that our cities are harboring criminals.” —San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu

Fact-Check: False

“This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected.” —former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes

Village Idiot

“What does that mean when an unelected billionaire can waltz into our agencies and slash and burn the whole thing to the ground like a Taliban terrorist?” —Congressman Hank Johnson

Non Compos Mentis

“Our rules specify that when we have a nonbinary candidate or officer, the nonbinary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six offices must be gender balanced.” —former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison

Friendly Fire

“I’ve been shocked by how undemocratic the Democratic Party can be.” —comedian Jon Stewart

Hot Air

“Climate change is turning Valentine’s Day bitter for chocolate lovers.” —NBC News headline

“Why Climate Change Sometimes Brings Major Winter Storms.” —TIME headline

For the Record

“‘Without evidence’ has become a favorite rhetorical jab from the Leftmedia for almost everything Donald Trump says. With that haughty insult, however, Leftmedia reporters are often simply confessing that they haven’t bothered to find any evidence for what Trump says.” —Nate Jackson

“Joe Biden not only defied the Supreme Court on student loans, he also defied the court on his COVID eviction ban. Somehow, the left never saw either one of those abuses as a ‘constitutional crisis.’” —Gary Bauer

“The fact the Left is so apoplectic over an audit should raise more concerns than the actual audit itself.” —Brian Mark Weber

“It is hilarious to hear leftists now referring to members of the Trump administration as unelected bureaucrats. It was their unelected bureaucrats who were running this country while a mentally incapacitated drooling idiot sat in the Oval Office.” —Allen West

“The courts may oppose certain moves by Trump and DOGE, but these are decisions of process, not policy. Eventually the president will be able to pare government spending, which is what the Democrats are really upset about — not the invented ‘constitutional crisis.’” —constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

“Where were the sanctimonious DOJ resignations when the Biden DOJ sicced the FBI on parents at school board meetings? Or when Biden pardoned his entire family?” —Senator Tom Cotton

Upright

“The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values — values shared with the United States of America.” —JD Vance

And Last…

“If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg’s scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.” —JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference

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