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August 22, 2025

Friday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Dave Collum, Jasmine Crockett, John Kennedy, Clay Travis, Ben Shapiro, Cal Thomas, Ann Coulter, and more.

Non Compos Mentis

“Well, it turns out I think the story we got about World War II is all wrong. … One can make the argument that we should have sided with Hitler and fought Stalin.” —Dave Collum during his appearance on “The Tucker Carlson Show”

Braying Jenny

“I used to watch, like, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and [now] I can’t. I never finished. I can’t watch it because it is too close to reality.” —Rep. Jasmine Crockett reacting to the crime crackdown in DC

Law and Order

“Loon-wing progressives in the D.C. local government passed soft-on-crime laws that allow criminals under 25 years old to get a slap on the wrist. Now, they’re foaming at the mouth because President Trump is cleaning up the mess that they made worse.” —Sen. John Kennedy

“I’m going to be going out tonight, I think, with the police and with the military, of course. We’re going to do a job.” —Donald Trump explaining his plan to go on patrol on the streets of DC

Re: Lawfare

“Another failed skirmish in the discredited lawfare campaign against President Trump, his family, and his business that other Democrat prosecutors are dropping left and right.” —White House spokesman Steven Cheung on the dismissal of the $500 million civil fraud penalty against Donald Trump

“Trump’s Fraud Case was thrown out because as a wise man once said, this was like charging someone for MURDER when nobody died.” —Jimmy Failla

Upright

“All of these companies need a director of common sense, and that is someone that actually consumes the product and says, ‘Hey, is this something that the base — that actually made this company exist — is going to support?’” —Clay Travis on the Cracker Barrel redesign

Re: The Left

“It doesn’t take a political genius to realize that if people are taxed more on what they have earned, many, including businesses, will look for places that tax them less.” —Cal Thomas

“It’s obvious not only that Democrats are wrong about a good many of Trump’s policy initiatives but that they know they’re wrong.” —Laura Hollis

For the Record

“With the rise of an enormous and durable social safety net, the math suddenly changed: People could immigrate to the United States without assimilating in any serious way, and could maintain their pre-American cultures in toto. … That process must now be reversed. And that can only be done by raising the bar to admission.” —Ben Shapiro

Political Futures

“If Trump wants to continue his crusade against mail-in voting, he may do so at the peril of Republicans. Let’s face the facts: Democratic states will continue to permit mail-in voting — and maybe even expand it.” —Armstrong Williams

What Happened?

“A 1996 Lou Harris study found that Scouts placed a higher value on honesty and integrity than boys without Scouting experience. Naturally, therefore, The New York Times went after the Boy Scouts like a scalded cat who got up on the wrong side of the bed. … By 2019, progressives’ victory over the Scouts was complete. Under the leadership of Chief Scout Executive Michael B. Surbaugh — gay in every way, except being homosexual — the Boy Scouts cried ‘uncle’ and abolished themselves. Girls were admitted.” —Ann Coulter

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