Can’t Fix Stupid

“In many parts of the country now, ICE pays state police [to] set up immigration checkpoints in the interior of the United States. The assault on our freedom as Americans is unrelenting.” —Cato Institute Director of Immigration Studies David J. Bier (“An immigration checkpoint in no way impedes the freedoms of Americans.)

Shot/Chaser I

"Minnesotans are so afraid that you’re gonna call us a racist, you’re gonna call us an Islamophobe. … You know what? … I am done being careful, even the least bit careful. I don’t really care where you come from, but if you come to this great country, you have to understand you’re coming here to be an American. … But [Somalis] don’t assimilate. And if they don’t assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from.” —Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer

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“I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.” —Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

“You haven’t assimilated.” —Texas Congressman Brandon Gill replying on social media with a video of Omar speaking in Somali calling the president of Somalia “our president.”

Shot/Chaser II

“An Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah … was killed … by an Israeli strike.” —New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

“[He] was simultaneously a Hamas sniper operative.” —Israel Defense Forces

Spin Doctor

“[I’m] hearing a lot of people talking about the antisemitism in New York City and ‘Last night proved the antisemitism in New York City’ and ‘This is Mamdani’s fault.’ … If you want to blame anybody for what happened … I think you have to blame Benjamin Netanyahu.” —MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough

Friendly Fire

“Some of the candidates that [Zohran Mamdani] has supported are individuals who do not understand the politics of New York City … All of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party. But you don’t blow it up.” —New York Attorney General Letitia James

“[Democrats] should not seat her in the caucus. Her views are totally against anything that any Democrat has. We believe in pluralism. She doesn’t even believe in interracial dating.” —Democrat strategist James Carville on New York congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier

“[Graham] Platner … has so many problems that the far-left just excuses. … They just excuse everything and have this absolutist mentality.” —former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

“There’s certain things that I believe in that are not being reflected in the current environment, especially with some of these races [last] Tuesday. … We’re for capitalism, not socialism. We’re for safety, not lawlessness. We’re proud of America, not ashamed of America — and we need to be promoting those things.” —New York Congressman Tom Suozzi

Drinking the Socialist Kool-Aid

“It’s time for a national billionaires tax and a new social contract.” —California Governor Gavin Newsom

Dezinformatsiya

“She got eight years for plotting to kill Justice Kavanaugh. Prosecutors want more.” —Washington Post headline on Nicholas John Roske, a gender-confused man who now goes by “Sophie”

Word Salad

“It is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that should be a verb.” —Kamala Harris

Make It Make Sense

“So if you’re going to show up for President Obama’s library, you got to present a photo ID to gain access to that event, but to vote in our elections, you don’t have to do that? That makes no sense.” —Florida Congressman Byron Donalds

And Last…

“You simply cannot be a Marxist and take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Marxists have no place in our government and I will fight them tooth-and-nail when I’m in Congress.” —Nevada congressional candidate Marty O'Donnell