May 22, 2026

Friday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Chris Murphy, Jon Stewart, Sunny Hostin, Chris Cillizza, Larry Elder, Ben Shapiro, Brandon Gill, Jeff Bezos, and more.

Spin Doctor

“So there you have it. If you lead a campaign against powerful pedophiles, you get drummed out of the Republican Party.” —Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) regarding Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie’s ouster

Village Idiots

“The day that the electorate in this great nation we call home repudiates this putrid administration … there will be a joyful noise from the bowels of this great country that will make Hungary’s repudiation of Orban look like an Amish Sabbath.” —"comedian" Jon Stewart

“These college athletes stand to get a free education, they stand to make money because of the NIL now, so I think it is asking a lot. But, I think it’s economic damage and economic harm has longtime been a very effective tool in the civil rights movement.” —"The View" cohost Sunny Hostin green-lighting the idea of boycotting Southern schools because of gerrymandering

Friendly Fire

“The DNC Autopsy report runs 192 pages. There is not ONE mention of Joe Biden’s advanced age or the strategic decision to shield him from a public that thought he was too old to continue as president. Unreal.” —former CNN reporter Chris Cillizza

“An autopsy is a medical procedure you do over a corpse, and now it sounds like we need a malpractice attorney because we couldn’t even do the autopsy correctly.” —Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL)

Re: The Left

“[News] aggregators increasingly prioritize stories that reinforce a user’s preexisting worldview. Their goal is to keep the user glued to the phone. The best way to do this is to tell people what they want to hear and give ‘news’ that confirms what they already believe.” —Larry Elder

“[Luigi] Mangione has loud supporters, and they are not operating in a vacuum. They are the product of a long-running ideological campaign — largely from the political Left — that frames American institutions not as flawed systems in need of reform but as evil systems maintained by evil people.” —Ben Shapiro

Upright

“There are millions of illegal aliens in our country and there are only two options of what to do with them: 1) Deport them all. 2) Let them stay forever. I choose option one.” —Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX)

“A nation can be compassionate without becoming careless. It can welcome newcomers while still expecting assimilation, civic responsibility, and respect for the laws and traditions that hold a society together.” —Armstrong Williams

“Laws, public policies, and government programs should be evaluated by their results, not by the state of mind of their advocates or sponsors.” —Laura Hollis

And Last…

“If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive, we’d have to charge you a $100 delivery fee, and then when the package did finally arrive, it’d have the wrong item in it anyway.” —Jeff Bezos

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