January 22, 2026

Thursday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Jasmine Crockett, Jennifer Welch, Jim Acosta, Joy Behar, Kaohly Her, Andy Ngo, Donald Trump, Jonathan Turley, and more.

Race Bait

“They about to outlaw the idea of white supremacy and white hate. Like, they are about to be like, ‘Oh, that’s not a thing.’ … We have seen these random black bodies be strung up down south. … You embolden everybody to take off their hoods. That is what [Trump] has done.” —Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)

Lawfare Tsunami 2.0

“The blue tsunami means that Congress is going to haul Elon Musk, ‘Big Balls,’ and a bunch of other people’s [rear ends] in front and say, ‘What crimes did you commit?’ And it’s going to get really serious. And the same with Trump. … We are serious about this. We are prosecuting. We’re going to uncover every document, every phone call, everything you did. We will be relentless about it.” —podcaster Jennifer Welch

“That means adding seats to the Supreme Court so that [its] immunity decision can be overturned and so Donald Trump can be held accountable for his crimes.” —former CNN correspondent Jim Acosta

Braying Jenny

“It’s time to do something about [Donald Trump], because he’s leading us into World War III.” —"The View" co-host Joy Behar

Justifying Terrorism

“ICE has led the way in their charge of going onto school properties and detaining people from places that should be just as well kept sacred. … They cannot expect residents who are feeling terrorized and sieged to be operating under any different circumstances or any different rules than they are operating in.” —St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her

Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“ICE should not be able to storm houses of worship.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)

For the Record

“No one has a ‘right’ to disrupt church services. The civil rights of the members of Cities Church were violated Sunday at a time when their rights and the church should have been sacrosanct.” —Gary Bauer

“The Times just published an article titled ‘Protest at Minnesota Church Service Adds to Tensions Over ICE Tactics.’ It was eye-opening for the congregants who did not realize that their worship service was an ICE tactic… It is akin to saying ‘Bank Robbery Adds to Tensions Over Fiscal Policies.’ It appears that the congregants of Cities Church were a triggering gathering for traumatized anti-ICE protesters.” —law professor Jonathan Turley

“Seeing the mobs of far-left extremists roaming the streets to hunt down targets, storming a church service, stopping drivers and making them open their cars, robbing videographers of their equipment and stopping random people to demand their political loyalty — easy now to see how revolutionary, left-wing violence happened historically.” —independent journalist Andy Ngo

Well That’s a Relief

“I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force.” —President Donald Trump regarding Greenland

Davos Mic Drops

“I think it’s very, very ironic that Governor Newsom … may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris. He’s here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros.” —Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

“Globalization has failed the West and the United States of America.” —Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick

Cognitive Dissonance

“We have simultaneously been told that tariffs are great, and that they will reduce our national debt, replace income taxes and/or make us all rich; that tariffs are bad because other countries force them upon us so they deserve it, and/or tariffs are bad so threatening tariffs is part of a really effective bargaining tactic; that other countries will pay for tariffs so what are you even worrying about; that tariffs will make everything cheaper; or that tariffs will find their way back to us in the form of Biden-style stimulus checks.” —Ian Haworth

Belly Laugh of the Day

“Crazy to think JD VANCE and his lovely wife USHA are expecting their FOURTH child! If you don’t think four kids is A LOT then you’ve never run a Somali Daycare.” —satirist Jimmy Failla

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