The BIG Lies

“The last 41 days have exposed the depths of Trump’s cruelty. He shut the government down longer than any president in American history. He took innocent kids, veterans, and federal workers as political hostages — all because he refuses to fix the healthcare crisis.” —Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

“We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people. First of all, Donald Trump and Republicans are the ones who shut the government down.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

Delusions of Grandeur

“I certainly believe that … the overwhelming majority of Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, have waged a valiant fight over the last seven weeks.” —Rep. Hakeem Jeffries

Village Idiot

“You cannot put on the American people that Democrats were the one that were hurting people, making this plight.” —actor Dylan Douglas

For the Record

“One thing that came out of this entire fight is that … ObamaCare has been exposed as a complete and utter failure. We all know it now. Everybody admits it. The other thing that came out is that Democrats are willing to make people suffer.” —Scott Jennings

Helpful Hints

“You don’t act as if ending a shutdown is a cave, a defeat, and a disaster if you believed that the shutdown was causing terrible harm and you wanted it to end. It was all a lie.” —Dan McLaughlin

“PRO TIP: if you’re gonna call it ‘the Republican Shutdown’ you’re not supposed to get mad that it’s ending.” —Jimmy Failla

“Hello, Gavin? It’s the High-Speed Rail Calling”

“There’s not one goal the state of California has ever set that we haven’t achieved and did so early.” —California Gov. Gavin Newsom

Theater of the Absurd

“They killed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Incredibly shortsighted. It’ll hurt mostly rural communities. Maybe that’s their intention. There’ll be news deserts.” —documentary filmmaker Ken Burns

Belly Laugh of the Day

“I was aware of [Donald Trump’s] strategy. … I understood the game that was being played. And I made a decision that I wasn’t gonna get played. … Three-dimensional chess!” —Kamala Harris

Observations

“A CNN exit poll found that Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo among those with a bachelor’s degree or higher by nearly 20 percentage points. They voted for Mamdani for mayor, but what they really want is a miracle worker. They’re desperate for someone to wipe away the money and years they’ve wasted. What they miss is how leftism steered them wrong to begin with.” —Victor Joecks

“Trump loves this country and wants to maintain its foundations. He’s a builder, after all. Mamdani, on the other hand, wants to tear it all down, and rebuild a Workers Utopia, where immigrants are not the victims of ICE but are, at the other extreme, the rulers of the Earth.” —Christine Flowers

“A half-century mortgage would turn homebuyers into something closer to renters, with their banks as their landlords — only maintenance and home repairs won’t be the landlord’s responsibility, they’ll be the mortgagor’s. That’s not the American dream. That’s 21st-century serfdom: laboring for a lifetime without owning property of your own free and clear. … Financial finagling, whether in the form of 50-year mortgages or tariff stimulus checks, isn’t the answer — a rebirth of industry, enabled by American energy, is what the nation needs.” —Daniel McCarthy

“In the modern political imagination, the subsidy is the government’s magic wand — a painless way to make life’s necessities affordable. … From Washington’s perspective, affordability is merely a problem of distribution: if prices are too high, just inject more money.” —Michael Smith

Persona Non Grata

“Give Candace Owens this: It takes considerable talent to take an open-and-shut murder case and turn it into a whodunit and you’ve-got-to-listen-to-every-episode true-crime mystery.” —Rich Lowry

Upright

“The most important war-fighting technology is not a new airplane. The most important war-fighting technology is not artificial intelligence or anything on a computer. The most important war-fighting technology is a well-trained and well-armed United States Marine.” —JD Vance

And Last…

“Gavin Newsom is flying 5,372 miles to Brazil for the #COP30UN climate conference. A 5,372 mile round trip flight emits roughly 3.4 tonnes of CO₂ per passenger. If the climate crisis was real, Newsom would’ve attended the conference via Zoom.” —Power the Future Executive Director Daniel Turner