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June 13, 2025

Friday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Zoe Saldaña, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bob Costas, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, Stephen Miller, Ann Coulter, Mike Pompeo, and more.

Village Idiot

“My Oscar is gender fluid.” —"Emilia Pérez“ —actress Zoe Saldaña

Theater of the Absurd

"There are no longer any checks and balances. Congress is nowhere to be found. Speaker Johnson has completely abdicated that responsibility. The rule of law has increasingly been given way to the rule of Don.” —California Gov. Gavin Newsom

“Everyone is seeing all of this chaos unfold in Los Angeles, and we really need to have accountability for the administration that has decided to intentionally uncork this chaos. The Trump administration owns this.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“Responsible journalists have to pretend that there’s always two sides to this. There really isn’t two sides to much of what Donald Trump represents. … Something that’s true in America right now is that the president of the United States has absolutely no regard, and in fact has contempt, for basic American principles and basic common decency.” —sportscaster Bob Costas

Non Compos Mentis

“I would argue that this is not immigration policy that we’re seeing unfold. This is domestic terrorism.” —Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove

“[My dad] fought the Nazis in Northern Africa. He fought the Nazis on the Italian peninsula. And I think he’s looking down right now and he’s happy that I’m fighting today’s Nazis.” —Rep. Stephen Lynch

For the Record

“If your stance is that we can only deport illegals after they violently attack a citizen, then you’re saying we have no border at all. Zero rules. Zero restrictions. No limits. Anyone can come. Anyone can overstay a visa. Anyone can stay forever. Total anarchy. Nation dissolved.” —White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller

“In retrospect, it would have been so easy for illegal aliens to checkmate Trump by simply not throwing rocks and bricks at ICE agents, setting cars on fire or trying to seize ICE facilities. Oh well, live and learn.” —Ann Coulter

“Gavin Newsom, who lives in a $10 MILLION mansion in an exclusive resort area far from LA, complains that Trump is interfering with the ‘peaceful protests.’” —Mark Alexander

“It is important to understand what’s really happening here: California has positioned itself in ideological opposition to national sovereignty and law enforcement.” —Armstrong Williams

“Democrats: if 40 Migrants show up in Martha’s Vineyard the National Guard needs to ship them to a Military Base ASAP. But if thousands of migrants loot stores and attack the cops the Guard needs to mind its business.” —Jimmy Failla

Upright

“Enforcing immigration law shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It’s common sense. And it’s necessary to have a sovereign country.” —former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

“The right level of illegal immigration is zero.” —Sen. Tom Cotton

“Make immigration safe, legal, and rare.” —Ryan Girdusky

And Last…

“[Society] is reliant on those who actually believe that they are called to act in accordance with moral duty, that they are responsible for creating and innovating and building up the societies in which they live. These are the Lions. And then there are the Scavengers, those who seek to tear down, who believe that their own failures are the fault of the society in which they live and that the only cure for inequality of outcome is evisceration of that society.” —Ben Shapiro

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