Dezinformatsiya

“Malnourished Gaza woman flown to Italy dies in hospital.” —BBC headline (That “malnourished Gaza woman” had leukemia.)

Non Compos Mentis

“Let’s do a little ethical experiment here. You’re in World War I. The Germans use mustard gas on civilians, and it helps them. Do you then decide, ‘Okay, we’re going to use mustard gas on civilians’? What Trump ordered Abbott to do in Texas is mustard gas on our democracy.” —New York Times columnist David Brooks

Demagogues

“We’re going to take it to the voters, take it to the streets, take it to the people. … It is time to fight fire with fire.” —failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris on the appropriate Democrat response to redistricting

“What’s happening here in Washington, DC, is just a stunt. Donald Trump didn’t like the fact that the walls were closing in on him, that his own base was questioning why he wouldn’t release the Epstein files, why he was protecting very powerful people. … And so, true to form, he just decided to create a new news cycle.” —Sen. Chris Murphy

A Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut

“Many D.C. residents are secretly glad to see more uniforms. No matter what statistics say, they don’t feel safe. … While the district’s homicide rate has fallen, it’s almost as high as New York’s at its most dangerous, in 1990.” —leftist New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd

For the Record

“In the nation’s capital, you are 52 times more likely to be the victim of a crime than you are to win the D.C. Pick 3 lottery’s $500 top prize.” —Tony Perkins

“The Democratic Party has now come out firmly and passionately in favor of crime in Washington, D.C. Why? Because President Trump did something about it.” —John Kennedy

Race Bait

“I’m concerned about the way [President Trump] is rolling [anti-crime policies] out in Washington, DC, which is … essentially going after young black and brown youth.” —Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

“They can’t originally invent anything more than they ever were able to invent good music.” —former MSNBC anchor Joy Reid on white people

Upright

“We may not like it, it may not be pleasant, it may be distasteful, but in order for there to be an end of the war, there are things Russia wants that it cannot get, and there are things Ukraine wants that it’s not going to get. Both sides are going to have to give up something in order to get to the table, in order to make this happen. That’s just the way it is.” —Secretary of State Marco Rubio

“We happen to be in the role of the only country in the world with the only leader in the world that can actually bring Putin to a table to even discuss these things.” —Secretary Marco Rubio

Belly Laugh of the Day

“MSNBC is changing its name to MS NOW. In other news, Hamas is changing its name to The Holy Sisters of Ammunition.” —Larry Elder