July 24, 2026

Friday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Anthea Hartig, Jasmine Crockett, Nancy Armour, Sophie Cunningham, Mark Alexander, Jim Jordan, Victor Davis Hanson, and more.

The BIG Lies
“The museum does not take sides in America’s political debates.” —National Museum of American History Director Anthea Hartig

“Antifa is nothing. … It’s so ridiculous, yet they’re trying to say everything is somehow Antifa- or Left-related, and it’s a way to actually stop free speech in the United States.” —Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan

“The whole premise is a lie, which is that lots of foreigners are voting in our elections. No. No foreigners — I mean, effectively no foreigners.” —Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes

For the Record
“DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says there may be 35,152 noncitizens registered to vote in New Jersey, not just 6,600. Governor Mikie Sherrill claims it was a ‘software error,’ not a feature! Mullin is demanding states cooperate with DHS to cross-check voter rolls.” —Mark Alexander

Paper Tiger
“We will hold the crooks accountable. If you’re a crook in the United States of America and you’ve been stealing from the American people, we’re coming after you.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

Braying Jenny
“The perfect metaphor for [Trump’s] administration: the diarrhea outbreak.” —"The View" cohost Joy Behar

Projection
“Since the Republicans claim to be Christian, they should open their Bibles and read Ephesians chapter 5 verse 11 that states, ‘Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.’” —Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett

Race Bait
“Welcome to the Republicans’ white pride rally disguised as a congressional hearing.” —Jasmine Crockett

“We’re back again for another edition of the Republican Party’s Great Replacement Theory Therapy Session, where all the white men of the House Judiciary Committee lecture Americans on the importance of mass deportations so that they preserve their so-called American values.‘” —Jasmine Crockett

“It seems there is a white nationalist element to [Caitlin] Clark’s fandom that is deeply, deeply problematic, made even more so because the WNBA is made up predominantly of Black women, many of them queer. When Clark claims fouls that don’t exist, when she goes on profanity-laced tirades at referees, those racists see her as a white woman in need of saving and take matters into their own hands.” —USA Today columnist Nancy Armour

Upright
“I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.” —WNBA player Sophie Cunningham

“I think it’s kind of common sense. … I think it’s really important to protect children … and so I stand on what I said and I’ll always believe that. … I’m not a very political person, but I do have beliefs, I have morals, and I’ll always stand on those and be true to who I am.” —Sophie Cunningham

Non Compos Mentis
“Homeschooling is inherently patriarchal, and it is a huge push of the fascist project because it keeps women at home. … You know they don’t want women to be out in the workforce to make their own money and have independence… No, they want the women at home, dead-a** broke, homeschooling the kids. This is a patriarchal step of the fascist project.” —podcaster Jennifer Welch

Observations
“[Democrats] want to take the message away from what they’ve done. … Step one: Let in 10 million illegal migrants in the Biden administration. Have no border. Step two: Create sanctuary jurisdictions, which makes it difficult to remove those illegal migrants when they commit another crime. And then step three: Don’t pay the guys, don’t fund the guys who do the removing.” —Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan

“What the new hard-left redistributionists Ro Khanna, [Zohran] Mamdani, Hasan Piker, and Graham Platner share are privileged upbringings, subsidized lifestyles, and prolonged adolescence sustained by parental support — all of which make their supposedly populist appeals to 'fairness’ ring hollow.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“Leftists know they’re making an asinine argument when they condemn the Declaration of Independence because of the existence of slavery at the time. … But that’s not what they’re really upset about. Like all tyrants, they’re upset about the idea that our rights come from God. They won’t accept that. It’s a huge roadblock that stops everything they want to do. So, they have to destroy it.” —Gary Bauer

“The greatest threat to conservatism is not simply the rise of the DSA or the spread of third-worldist ideology. It is the willingness of some on the Right to abandon their own standards in the belief that defeating the Left requires embracing anyone who opposes it.” —Ben Shapiro

And Last…
“Communism is a loser. The concept, the policy — it’s a loser, and it always has been, and it always will be. With communism, everything turns to [crap].” —President Donald Trump

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