Fearmongering

“We may not have a fair and free election in this country — I mean that — if we’re not successful in 2026 getting back the House of Representatives.” —California Gov. Gavin Newsom

Clown World

“I, for one, am a firm supporter in any legislation that increases tribal sovereignty for the indigenous population here in Maine. I also am a firm supporter of any legislation on the federal level that begins to give more, frankly, land back to the indigenous peoples that was taken from them.” —Senate candidate Graham Platner (D-ME)

Fact-Check: False

“I don’t want to hear, ‘How do you define assault weapon?’ I d**n sure can assign what it is and describe what it is and tell you what it does.” —Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz

Spin Doctor

“These boats carry not fentanyl. I mean, they carry cocaine … and these routes mostly take drugs to Europe and western Africa. These operations are not making us more safe.” —Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ)

For the Record

“Underneath Obama, he had 500 strikes. 3,700 individuals were killed. There wasn’t a big show about this. What you guys are all upset about is the hemisphere that it’s working in.” —Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)

“I don’t like the term ‘they can get radicalized.’ It’s as though [radicalization] is outside their religion. … Islam is a codified set of ideas. If I choose to ignore much of it, I will be peaceful. If I choose to take it seriously, I won’t be peaceful. So it’s not radicalization; it’s simply whether I adhere to the tenets of the faith or I don’t.” —professor Gad Saad

Re: Gender Madness

“Bear with me here, but it’s almost as though girls and women who want female-only spaces aren’t scaremongering, hysterical, lying bigots after all.” —author J.K. Rowling in response to a Telegraph article titled, “Sexual predators target girls in mixed changing rooms.”

Upright

“[Charlie] never once said, ‘Go after them because they’re saying X, Y, Z and they deserve to die.’ My husband never once said that. And he never would. What did he say? ‘Come to the front of the line. I’ll put my mic down.’” —TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk

“A wise man once said nothing. Why? Because he’s a wise man. I think President Trump should have said nothing.” —Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) regarding Trump’s tirade against Rob Reiner

And Last…

“Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true. … A conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it. ” —Vice President JD Vance