Dumb & Dumber

“This is First Amendment activity.” —Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison regarding the storming of a church

“None of us are immune to the voice of the public. … It’s just something you’ve got to live with in a society like this.” —Keith Ellison

Fact-Check: True

“PRO TIP: if you’re screaming about ICE inside a church you’re not a protester you’re an a**hole.” —Jimmy Failla

Demagogue

“I am in support of abolishing ICE. … What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We’re seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it’s doing is terrorizing people no matter their immigration status.” —New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Village Idiot

“We’re seeing our neighbors being kidnapped, peaceful protesters being assaulted and murdered, our civil rights being stripped, resources to fight the climate crisis being cut for fossil fuels and animal agriculture destroying our planet, and people’s access to food and healthcare becoming a privilege for the wealthy instead of a new basic human right for all Americans.” —singer-songwriter Billie Eilish

For the Record

“When people are convinced they are facing an existential threat, they behave accordingly. Fear and resistance feed fight-or-flight responses, and, like a nuclear reaction, the process becomes self-sustaining, with each increasingly powerful action met with an increasingly powerful reaction. This dynamic simply did not exist a decade ago. Under Barack Obama, the federal government removed millions of illegal immigrants — earning him the moniker ‘deporter-in-chief’ from activists. Yet America did not see widespread attacks on federal agents or mass street interference with removals. The difference was not the absence of enforcement; it was the presence of cooperation.” —Michael Smith

“Don’t buy into Mamdani’s false dichotomy between individualism and collectivism. The voluntary associations formed by free individuals are far preferable to the coercion of communists.” —Victor Joecks

1 Timothy 6:10

“It wasn’t that long ago when sports betting was illegal. Then suddenly it was as though profit, rather than controlling this vice, became paramount.” —Cal Thomas

Upright

“Freedom is never guaranteed. The future depends upon our generation having the will and determination to defend and preserve it.” —Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA)

Belly Laugh of the Day

“Democrats are proposing a new billionaires tax. I thought they opposed discrimination against Somalis.” —Larry Elder