Theater of the Absurd

“The United States is not exactly a beacon of human rights for gay people.” —"The View" co-host Joy Reid

Non Compos Mentis

“As mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. [O]ur values are in line with international law. It’s time that our actions are also.” —NYC Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, December 2024

“We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD.” —Zohran Mamdani, June 2020

Political Futures

“Imagine going back in time to September 12, 2001 and telling New Yorkers they’d eventually go on to elect a Muslim socialist for Mayor of the city.” —Isabel Brown

“What western city has gotten better with more Muslim immigration? Is London better? Is Amsterdam better? Is Paris better? Is NYC better?” —Charlie Kirk

“Conservatives are right to be against Islamization and third world migration. But we lose the argument when we don’t operate in reality. Champagne socialism got Zohran elected, not third worlders. The immigrants who primarily voted for him were wealthy Asians/Middle Easterners, not Hispanics or blacks.” —Vince Dao

“Unchecked migration fundamentally remade the NYC electorate. Democrats change politics by changing voters. That’s how you turn a city that defined US dominance into what it is now.” —White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller

Promises Made, Promises Kept

“Every president in this century has promised to prevent Iran from achieving the capacity to break out with a nuclear weapon. Trump followed through on that talk. The strikes can be seen, therefore, as not a departure from U.S. policy but the fulfillment of it.” —National Review

“If you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep. Because Iran’s nuclear program is obliterated.” —Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

For the Record

“Liberals in our country think of ‘globalization’ as a benign economic process involving the free movement of capital, people and ideas across borders. But what happens when the people are terrorists, the capital finances their attacks, and the ideas are anti-Semitic and anti-American? Globalization extends the battlefields of regional wars to our own land and airspace. … Winning the wars of the future calls for stopping them from ever getting started within our borders.” —Daniel McCarthy

“When it comes to relations among nations, a refusal to fight when necessary does not inspire moral admiration. Far from preventing violence, it often emboldens the violent to new and worse brutality.” —Jeff Jacoby

Clown World

“We are surrounded by influencers who don’t care about truth, consistency or consequences. They care about clicks. Attention. Followers. That’s it. That’s the whole ideology. If the wind blows in one direction, they’ll ride it and sell T-shirts on the way.” —Ian Haworth