Race Bait

“[Republicans] say we should only rely on so-called ‘objective standards’ for medical competence — but objective according to who? … Having all white male doctors is just as bad for the medical profession as having all white male congressmen is to our government.” —Pennsylvania Congresswoman Summer Lee

“Do Republicans want black patients to die? Do we want women to die? Do we want trans kids to die? Because we know that … diversity in our education system, our medical system saves lives.” —Summer Lee

“I am incredibly disappointed that as academic deans you could not immediately answer the question about teaching colonialism in healthcare.” —Connecticut Congresswoman Jahana Hayes

Demagogues

“ICE agents are not real police officers. … They are an out-of-control, rogue agency.” —California Congressman Ted Lieu

“ICE has become under Donald Trump an abusive and rogue agency.” —Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro

“You cannot put a bandage on a system that is fundamentally broken. We must abolish ICE. Period.” —New York Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez

“ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.” —New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Shot/Chaser

“The SAVE Act … would literally allow this administration to rig our democracy so that it would be hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election.” —Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin

“Why would Democrats not be able to win elections if only American citizens are allowed to vote?” —Texas Congressman Brandon Gill

Dumb & Dumber

“There’s been a lot of propaganda since the Cold War and Red Scares in the United States. … Even the label ‘National Socialism’ that the Nazis used at the time was intentionally meant to trick people. … That’s why we have to emphasize the ‘Democratic’ part.” —Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Cochair Ashik Siddique

“In the future, we might need less policing. … We actually would like our justice system to handle a real cause of crime in the country: people in the billionaire class.” —Ashik Siddique

“We just don’t see the point of the Senate. Historically, it was meant to serve very wealthy people.” —Ashik Siddique

Friendly Fire

“They don’t love America. … If we have people in our party who are so far left that they are saying, ‘We don’t want to protect people from crime,’ well, that’s just absurd.” —former Hillary Clinton adviser Al Mottur

Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“Regulation in California … created the conditions that allowed [Elon Musk] to take the risk to become the multi-billionaire, maybe trillionaire, that he’s become. … He’s now turning his back … [on] the state.” —California Governor Gavin Newsom

Non Compos Mentis

“A transgender person can.” —University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Chancellor Dr. Sam Hawgood when asked by Illinois Congresswoman Mary Miller, “Has a nonbiological woman ever had a baby?”

“A lot of the increase in rape also comes from an expanded definition of what counts as rape.” —Zohran Mamdani

Re: The Left

“An ex girlfriend claimed [Graham Platner] raped her. … Democrats were aghast, as they should have been. But the rest of us were aghast at the fact that it took an actual rape allegation to make them abandon Platner, a ship that was even more doomed than the USS Maine, which exploded in Havana Harbor over a century ago.” —Christine Flowers

“I believe Democrats could nominate Hitler himself and be guaranteed at least 47% support in the polls. That’s how desperate Democrats and their left-wing Marxist allies are to dominate our lives.” —Gary Bauer

“Progressives see gaining power over medicine as a shortcut to winning battles over abortion, euthanasia, biological sex and gender, and much else. And the more Americans are made dependent on government — for their health or their jobs — the less free they are to vote against the people running the system.” —Daniel McCarthy