Dumb & Dumber

“I don’t know anyone who justified his death.” —Don Lemon on Charlie Kirk

“The person that I heard that justified his death was him.” —podcaster Jennifer Welch on Charlie Kirk

Shot/Chaser

“I’ve never been for a shutdown in terms of just getting our way.” —Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA)

“Let’s be clear: You voted to keep the government shut down.” —Fox News host Maria Bartiromo

Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste

“Donald Trump has been engaged in a deliberate and dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.” —Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) blaming Trump for the Brown University shooting

Tone-Deaf

“Of course, I’m going to say a few words about the terrible shooting in Sydney, Australia. Okay? So — and first, of course, as I always say, no matter what, go Bills! They beat the Patriots today. It’s a big deal.” —Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

“The director general of [Home Affairs] has warned about a range of threats, be it … the rise of right-wing extremist groups…” —Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after innocent Jewish civilians were attacked by Islamists

Never Forget?

“The [Bondi Beach] victims include … a Holocaust survivor who died protecting his wife. He survived the German fascists of the last century but not the Islamofascists of this one.” —Nate Jackson

Credit Where It’s Due

“Absolute horror. … It’s beyond belief what happened to him, and that should never happen to anybody. I don’t care what your political beliefs are. That’s not acceptable. That’s not a solution to solving problems. And I felt like what his wife [Erika] said at the service at the memorial they had was exactly right. … I’m Jewish, but I believe in the teachings of Jesus, and I believe in ‘do unto others,’ and I believe in forgiveness, and what she said, to me, was beautiful. … She forgave his assassin. And I think that is admirable.” —filmmaker Rob Reiner in a final interview responding to a question by Piers Morgan about the murder of Charlie Kirk

If You Can’t Say Something Nice…

“A Trump-supporting relative last night told me he was getting tired of the President and wished he’d just disappear a bit. This is the sort of stuff that exhausts people who like the man.” —Erick Erickson after Trump suggested that Rob and Michele Reiner were killed due to their Trump Derangement Syndrome

For the Record

“The uglier our public vocabulary becomes, the more normal the ugliness seems; the more normal it seems, the more it crowds out non-ugly alternatives. What once felt like a wrenching breach of decorum now reads simply as the price of admission to modern discourse.” —Jeff Jacoby

“Conservatives have uniformly condemned Candace Owens for her delusional conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk, but Owens’s psychological disconnect with reality started long before Charlie’s murder. It seems Owens is manifesting organic mental illness, decompensation pathology.” —Mark Alexander

And Last…

“Let it be known, if you target Americans — anywhere in the world — you will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you.” —War Secretary Pete Hegseth after the murder of three Americans in Syria