Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

“We gotta turn around the guns on this fascist system. These ICE agents gotta get shot and wiped out.” —a Chicago “No Kings” protest speaker

Non Compos Mentis

“He’s the Goebbels of the Cabinet, Stephen Miller. He’s a Nazi. Yes, he is, and he’s Jewish and he should be ashamed of himself.” —actor Robert DeNiro

Race Bait

“We haven’t felt the same since Obama. And something broke in white people … when there was a competent, wonderful, black president … that was eating off the china, sleeping in the bed at the White House.” —podcaster Jennifer Welch

Word Salad

“It’s interesting. I haven’t — it’s, it’s interesting. I haven’t thought about AIPAC in — it’s interesting. You’re, like, the first to bring up AIPAC in years. Which is interesting. Not, not relevant to the, my day-to-day life. Which is just interesting. It’s interesting you say that.” —California Gov. Gavin Newsom with an interesting reply to an anti-Israel comment from his host on the “Higher Learning” podcast

Re: “No Kings”

“The kids who never got picked to play are out on this college football Saturday, evidencing just how idiotic and imbecilic they are. These are the kids of the ‘No Kings’ gathering.” —Allen West

“I’m not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great. That’s all it is.” —Donald Trump

“They called it the ‘No Kings’ rally. But the great irony of course … [is] if President Trump was a king, the government would be open.” —House Speaker Mike Johnson

“Maybe the issue isn’t that Trump is a king but rather that Democrats have an extremely low bar for executive energy.” —David Sacks

Belly Laugh of the Day

“It really sucks having a king. We should come up with some sort of official system where we could vote to replace him every, say, 4 years or so.” —Kyle Mann

Re: The Left

“The Democrats are kamikazes right now. They’re kamikaze pilots right now. They have nothing going. They have no future. They have incompetent candidates.” —Donald Trump

“It is statistically provable that the more Islamic America becomes, the more antisemitic and anti-Christian the population will be. We shouldn’t be importing hate. This is an important public policy discussion the nation ought to be having.” —Gary Bauer

Upright

“As we labor for peace, we must recognize that any peace forged by human hands will be temporary, imperfect, and ever in need of vigilance and renewal. True and lasting peace will come only when the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, reigns over all. Until then, Israel — and the world — must seek a managed peace.” —Tony Perkins