Demagogues

“People on a boat in the middle of the Caribbean carrying cocaine are not a direct threat to the lives of our service members or Americans.” —Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA)

“I think, in many ways, the uniformed military may help save us from this president.” —Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)

Lawfare, Continued

“The one thing that should be clear to all of these Republican extremists … is that the statute of limitations for any crimes being committed now [is] five years. It will extend well beyond the end of the Trump administration.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)

Braying Jennies

“It’s a catastrophe. I think Pete Hegseth — it’s impossible to imagine that he survives this as secretary of defense. I think he must resign, and I think Republicans will ask for that ultimately once they investigate this. But this is a disaster for this generation of people serving in the United States military.” —MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow

“The Department of Homeland Security … is the single biggest threat to public safety right now.” —Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL)

“[Donald Trump’s] always been a racist, a bigot, xenophobic, and Islamophobic.” —Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

Fact-Check: True

“The WaPo narrative on Hegseth was blown up faster than a narco boat.” —Jack Posobiec

“Leftists are shedding tears and expressing more emotion over two foreign drug dealers than they are for a young American woman who died defending our nation’s capital.” —Gary Bauer

Editorial Exegesis

“The unpleasant reality is that we imported an element of Somalia’s culture of criminality, and for no good reason, while bogus charges of racism were used to keep suspicious authorities from following up on the blatant signs that something was amiss.” —National Review

Observations

“Every Republican scandal is like ‘the administration didn’t dot every i and cross every t when dealing with literal scum’ while every Democrat scandal is like ‘oops we decided not to enforce an entire body of law and now Americans are getting killed.’” —Will Chamberlain

A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day

“Be nice? Yes, let’s be nice. What is NOT nice is hormonally or surgically mutilating children, cheating your way to stealing women’s athletic medals, lying your way into women’s spaces, debauching language etc.” —evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins

For the Record

“Rewarding Putin’s aggression does not enhance American strength, it corrodes it. A forced Ukrainian capitulation would not yield ‘peace,’ it would yield a triumphant Russia, a demoralized Europe, and a crippled NATO alliance.” —Jeff Jacoby

“For centuries, Great Britain stood as one of the West’s crown jewels, a bastion of Judeo-Christian civilization, free speech and rule of law. … This week, we witnessed perhaps the gravest blow to the dwindling legacy of Great Britain: the scrapping of jury trials.” —Ian Haworth

Touché

“If Eric Swalwell wants to come online and talk about what jacket size I wear, I’m happy to send him a women’s medium so him and Fang Fang can go out again.” —FBI Director Kash Patel