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April 9, 2026

Thursday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Al Green, Ed Markey, Seth Moulton, Candace Owens, Pete Hegseth, Karoline Leavitt, JD Vance, and more.

The BIG Lie

“People are trying to prevent us from getting to the polls and voting.” —Rep. Al Green (D-TX)

Can’t Fix Stupid

“We must proceed towards the goal of removing Donald Trump from office, and we must do this now. And that has to be the Democratic agenda.” —Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)

Anti-Americanism

“This is in no way a win. It’s almost comical that [Pete] Hegseth can get up there — the guy is such a joke to begin with — but the fact that he can say with a straight face that we’re winning this war [in Iran] is pretty absurd.” —Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA)

Off the Reservation

“There will never be peace in the world while Israel exists.” —Candace Owens

Observations

“Iran would be wise to find a way to get the carrier pigeon to their troops out in remote locations to know not to shoot any longer.” —Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

“The Iranians originally put forward a 10-point plan that was fundamentally unserious, unacceptable, and completely discarded. It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Trump and his negotiating team. … With the president’s deadline fast approaching … they put forward a more reasonable and entirely different and condensed plan to the president.” —White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

“The expectation isn’t just that wars should end quickly, but that they must end quickly, or else something has gone wrong. Let’s be clear: The duration of a war says nothing in isolation about whether it is justified. A war can be both necessary and prolonged, and/or reckless and brief. Time is not a moral metric, but merely a logistical one.” —Ian Haworth

“It’s weird how ‘anti-war’ people never criticize the Iranian regime.” —David Harsanyi

A Necessary Rebuke

“America should only wage just wars, and waging a just war means being subject to certain restraints. Just war precludes immoral means — like the mass killing of civilians — to achieve victory. Even threatening such means, as Trump has done, damages the moral conscience of a people as much as it degrades the moral standing of a nation. Simply put, threatening to do something intrinsically immoral, even if you don’t actually do it, is wrong.” —John Daniel Davidson

Upright

“If we do something you don’t like, the response should be to get more involved, to make your voice heard, and to try to push things in the direction that you want them to be pushed. Our civilization was not built overnight; it’s not going to be saved overnight. And so what I would encourage you to do is stay involved, be patient, and don’t let disappointment turn to checking out of the system entirely.” —Vice President JD Vance

For the Record

“Democrats keep attacking President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 as a tax cut for the rich. But the data show that the average family gained roughly $2,000 on their lower tax bill for this year.” —Stephen Moore

Belly Laugh of the Day

“BE NICE to your kids because when you get old, and there’s no one left to take care of you, YOUR KIDS decide which ‘NO KINGS’ Protest to send you to.” —Jimmy Failla

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