July 22, 2026

Wednesday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Jasmine Crockett, Gustavo Gordillo, Jennifer Welch, Don Lemon, Van Jones, Cal Thomas, Marco Rubio, and more.

World Cup Race Bait
“The vast majority of the world was rooting … against Argentina, right? And why was that? … A racist history … exists as it relates to Argentina.” —Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett

The Warmth of Collectivism
“We don’t think that anyone should have a constitutional right to double-digit returns on their investment.” —NYC DSA Co-Chair Gustavo Gordillo

Pot Calling the Kettle Black
“This is the Republican Party. … They’re all pathological liars. … They want a system that’s rigged for white people. … They want the money rigged for them. They want all of the jobs rigged for them. [T]hey feel superior and, underneath all of that, are morally inferior and morally depraved human beings.” —podcaster Jennifer Welch

“Republicans are a personality type that are incapable of critical thinking, that cling to money and racism as their driving ethos. And to shield from their greed and to shield from their just abject immorality, they Christian-signal. … These people are the softest people imaginable.” —Jennifer Welch

Godwin’s Law
“MAGA is the closest thing to the modern version of the Nazi Party.” —former CNN host Don Lemon

“This is a scary time with the president who is … wanting to execute a fascist takeover of our country and starting international wars.” —Washington Congressman Adam Smith

The BIG Lie
“There are also a lot of immigrants who are getting killed and we don’t even know about it.” —Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton

Midterm Omens
“ICE needs to be held accountable like any other federal law enforcement agency. And ultimately it’s because what they are doing is making us less safe and less secure.” —New Jersey congressional candidate Rebecca Bennett

“I support ripping ICE apart and holding them accountable.” —Minnesota Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan

“We must overhaul the Supreme Court because we’ve seen corruption in the highest court in our land.” —Texas Senate candidate James Talarico

Friendly Fire
“I am tired, tired, tired of a set of people on the very far left in the Democratic Party, my party, telling us that in order for us to be progressives, we now have to believe ideas and support ideas that are completely nuts. … Ideas that are literally insane, nutty, moronic, dangerous, [and] bigoted are not progressive; they’re regressive and they should not be in our party.” —Democrat commentator Van Jones

“There are a lot of people who feel that the Democrat Party is out of touch. We can’t be honest about what’s going on with immigration. … All we are is opposition to Trump. Under Biden, we said, ‘Inflation is not really a big deal.’… We have this history of kind of just like washing over problems and not addressing real concerns that voters have.” —Seth Moulton

Credit Where It’s Due
“The fact is that we have a secure border. President Trump was right; Democrats were wrong on that.” —Vermont Senator Peter Welch

Re: The Left
“Now that the Democratic Socialists of America have published their platform, it appears they would qualify as a domestic enemy of the Constitution. … When someone tells you their intentions in advance about how they would restructure what the Founders gave us in 1776 and 1789, we had better take them seriously and respond accordingly.” —Cal Thomas

Upright
“The most resentful people in the US are those who believe they are owed everything and fail; the least resentful are those who were given nothing and achieve.” —Ben Shapiro

And Last…
“One of the reason why Iran is in shambles is because every penny that this regime ever gets — be it through sanctions relief or through the oil they’re able to get out — they invest it in Hezbollah. They invest it in Hamas. … They should be spending billions of dollars supporting the people of Iran.” —Secretary of State Marco Rubio

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