Thursday Short Cuts
Notable quotables from James Talarico, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, James Carville, Tom Steyer, Hasan Piker, Tom Homan, Rich Lowry, and more.
The BIG Lies
“This year, nearly every American will pay more in taxes — except for billionaires.” —Texas Democrat Senate hopeful James Talarico
“The massive tax relief Republicans promised has turned out to be a dud. Refunds on average have changed only by a third.” —Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Defamation
“A judge said that [Donald Trump] has in fact raped a woman. … [The] president of the United States is a rapist.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
Non Compos Mentis
“I want to be clear on this: I do not want [President Trump] to die. I want to watch him suffer. And I can’t watch a dead person suffer.” —Democrat strategist James Carville
Demagogue
“Let’s call Trump’s Iran policy what it is: not Operation Epic Fury. Operation Epic Failure. Operation Epic Failure is a much more appropriate name for Trump’s war of choice.” —Chuck Schumer hoping for an Iranian victory
Double Standards
“ICE is a criminal organization. As governor, I’ll prosecute them like one.” —California Democrat gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer (“How many of Tom’s intellectually disadvantaged voters know that Tom’s hedge fund invested nearly $100 MILLION in a company that runs ICE detention facilities? Now he wants to jail ICE?” —Robby Starbuck)
Delusions of Grandeur
“Eric Swalwell ending his bid for California governor is, among other things, a testament to the power of investigative reporting.” —CNN’s Brian Stelter
Village Idiot
“The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century.” —leftist political pundit Hasan Piker
Hot Air
“Republicans say climate change doesn’t exist. How do you explain the golf ball-sized hail in my front yard?” —Wisconsin Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski
For the Record
“Speaking for myself, a lifelong Catholic, I wish [the Vatican would] stay out of immigration. They don’t know what they’re talking about. Because if they wore my shoes for 40 years and talked to a nine-year-old little girl that got raped multiple times, or stood in the back of a tractor-trailer with 19 dead aliens at my feet, including a five-year-old boy that baked to death — if they understood the atrocities that happened on the open border, I think their opinion would change. … They don’t understand, illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.” —Border Czar Tom Homan
“A pope who doesn’t rebuke a president of the United States for threatening to bring a foreign civilization to an end isn’t doing his job, yet it’s important to understand that the Bible is not an injunction for pacifism and that it doesn’t entail a condemnation of the Iran war.” —Rich Lowry
“Our enemies … are pretty open about what they want. When our enemies scream ‘death to America,’ or ‘globalize the intifada,’ or ‘gas the Jews,’ they really do mean ‘death to America,’ ‘globalize the intifada,’ and ‘gas the Jews.’ And it’s our fault for pretending that up isn’t up, down isn’t down and hate isn’t hate.” —Ian Haworth
Upright
“One of the reasons Charlie Kirk was so effective is because Charlie pointed much higher than politics for the answers.” —former Virginia House Delegate Nick Freitas
And Last…
“I sometimes think that the main difference between ourselves and the other side is we see an America where every day is the Fourth of July, and they see an America where every day is April 15th.” —Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
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