Theater of the Absurd

“The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“The Zionist enemy has made a big mistake, committed a big crime. It must be punished and it is being punished; it is being punished right now.” —Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, not mentioning the U.S. in a statement after U.S. strikes

For the Record

“This mission was a very precise mission. It had three objectives, three nuclear sites. It was not [an] attack on Iran. It was not an attack on the Iranian people. This wasn’t a regime-change move. This was designed to degrade and/or destroy three nuclear sites related to their nuclear weaponization ambitions, and that was delivered on yesterday. What happens next will now depend on what Iran chooses to do next.” —Secretary of State Marco Rubio

“ANY RETALIATION BY IRAN AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL BE MET WITH FORCE FAR GREATER THAN WHAT WAS WITNESSED TONIGHT. THANK YOU!” —Donald Trump

“As I’ve long maintained, this was the correct move by [Trump]. Iran is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism and cannot have nuclear capabilities. I’m grateful for and salute the finest military in the world.” —Sen. John Fetterman

“Iran is literally the only nation on planet Earth you cannot trust with a nuclear weapon because the presuppositional founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the destruction of Israel to bring about the apocalypse. We are not witnessing nation-building. We are witnessing nation-saving. We are witnessing global saving.” —Erick Erickson

“Death and destruction are central tenets of the ayatollah’s religion. Iran’s Islamic supremacists are trying to please their god by destroying Israel and the United States. That’s why the ayatollah wants nuclear weapons. If you ask your child or grandchild what they want to be when they grow up, they may say they want to be a doctor, a police officer, or a professional athlete. But in radical parts of the Islamic world, a shocking number of children will say they want to be ‘a martyr for Allah.’” —Gary Bauer

“Iran does have enough material for several weapons. But this should not be equated with a nuclear weapon. We do not have at this point … any tangible proof that there is a program, or a plan, to fabricate, to manufacture a nuclear weapon. If there was some activity which was clandestine or hidden or away from our inspectors, we couldn’t know.” —UN IAEA chief Rafael Grossi declaring, in stark contrast to previous assessments, that Iran does have nuclear material to construct bombs

“Israel’s intelligence assessments are that Iran was very close indeed to attaining nuclear weapons — as in, building and delivering a working bomb. Closer, that is, even than Netanyahu’s public estimate. … Critically, too, they have developed the highly complex nuclear detonator — the engineering device that causes the nuclear explosion of the bomb’s uranium core. And they have long had the missile capacity to deliver such a device. Putting all the required components together, should Iran have chosen to do so … was a matter of no more than two months, and possibly as little as a week.” —Times of Israel editor David Horovitz

“The ideological overcorrection due to the failures of Iraq’s rebuild now has non-interventionists accusing anyone who proposes that it’s better if anti-American dictatorships fall of being ‘neocons.’” —David Harsanyi

“Iran’s ‘Islamic Bomb’ program just changed its pronouns to ‘was/were’ after a mostly peaceful airshow featuring American B-2s. It is now unburdened by what has been.” —Mark Alexander

Belly Laugh of the Day

“This is a step too far. The genocide of Iran’s innocent nuclear weapons grade uranium enrichment facilities must stop.” —Konstantin Kisin

A Trip Down Memory Lane

“[In 1980, Reagan] was asked about the hostages all the time by the media, but he kept the country — and, more important, the Iranians — guessing. … Not being specific paid off. On the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, the nervous Iranian mullahs released the hostages — and for the next eight years my father never blew up the world a single time.” —Michael Reagan

What’s Changed?

“I was the hunted [in my first term] and now I’m the hunter. It’s a big difference.” —Donald Trump

The BIG Lie

“We have ICE federal agents pulling up, terrorizing our communities, hopping out of unmarked vans, stealing, and, yes, kidnapping people, not giving them their day in court, and, yes, human trafficking them to other nations, other countries around the entire world.” —Rep. Maxwell Frost

Non Compos Mentis

“I’ve been through all of Africa. I used to be there for a long, long time. Africa. Africa. I’ve been to the origins of where slavery started.” —Joe Biden at a Juneteenth celebration

Race Bait

“I think [Juneteenth] is a day where white people need to do work.” —historian Kellie Carter Jackson

Dezinformatsiya

“Trump’s Base in Uproar Over His Openness to Joining Iran Fight.” —The New York Times

“The No Kings protests appear to be a massive success.” —The Atlantic’s Jonathan Chase

“Your job is not to be objective.” —former ABC News correspondent Terry Moran (If Moran was “objective,” he would still have a job.)

Political Futures

“lhan Omar, the anti-Semitic congresswoman from Minnesota, described America as ‘one of the worst countries,’ and implied that living here in 2025 was even worse than growing up in Somalia under a military dictatorship. This is exactly the sort of uplifting message Democrats should run on in 2026.” —Andrew Stiles

Friendly Fire

“We acted like working-class, particularly working-class non-college whites, were not part of our too-cool-for-school group.” —strategist James Carville on what went wrong for Democrats in 2024

Judicial Activism

“Dozens of cherry-picked, left-wing district judges — the real unchecked ‘kings’ — now routinely block almost every one of Trump’s executive orders.” —Victor Davis Hanson

And Last…

“These riots are ‘mostly peaceful’ in the same way that Harvey Weinstein is ‘mostly feminist.’” —Sen. John Kennedy