The BIG Lies

“Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there’s highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children, of Donald Trump threatening to kill children.” —Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA)

“The SAVE Act is an abomination. It’s Jim Crow 2.0 across the country.” —Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

Non Compos Mentis

“What is really the major problem in this country today is the fascism in our streets. The attacks on American citizens by masked hoodlums. If you were attacked by a masked person, you might think you were being kidnapped. You’d be justified in shooting the person to protect yourself.” —Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY)

Huh?

“You bring a gun in the district, you mark my words, you’re going to jail. I don’t care if you have a license in another district, and I don’t care if you’re a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this district, count on going to jail, and hope you get the gun back.” —U.S. Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro

Reality Check

“Look, I got all this polling on the screen going back since 2018. You’ll notice on all of it, it’s all north of 75% … and then 83% in the last year of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj. They favor photo ID to be able to vote. … We’re talking about seven in 10 Democrats agreeing with Nicki Minaj that you in fact should show a voter photo ID to vote.” —CNN’s Harry Enten

Observations

“To sum up public opinion, the proverbial people want all criminal illegal aliens deported as soon as possible, and they may even support the deportations of all 10-12 million illegal aliens who came en masse, unaudited, and with the de facto blessing of the Biden administration. But that said, they want the act of deportation of the non-criminal to be out of sight, out of mind — as if magically they can simply disappear and thus either self-deport or assemble at ICE stations eager to be sent at no cost home.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“If celebrity clown Billie Eilish believes ‘no one is illegal on stolen land,’ then she should return her $3 million home to the Gabrieleno Tongva tribe on whose ancestral land it sits.” —Mark Alexander

Re: The Left

“The new governor of Virginia, the ‘moderate’ Democrat Abigail Spanberger, has proposed a tax hike on services such as dog walking and grooming. … There is no economic reason for raising taxes in Virginia. When his single term expired last month, Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin left behind numerous successes, including a large budget surplus of $572 million, above the projected forecast.” —Cal Thomas

“The Democrats circa 2026 have almost become tax-and-spend parodies of themselves. They used to pretend that raising taxes was a last resort. Now, the leftwing base regards raising taxes as a badge of honor. … When will Democrats in blue states learn you can’t tax millionaires and billionaires if they live in Palm Beach or Dallas?” —Stephen Moore

Political Futures

“The GOP isn’t just lazy, it’s scared. Keeping social and economic conservatives together in a single coalition is hard enough; why complicate it by trying to squeeze in populists as well? Trump, of course, has answered that: because it’s what’s necessary to win nationwide.” —Daniel McCarthy