August 7, 2026

Friday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Mehdi Hasan, Francesca Hong, Krystal Ball, Mike Rogers, Clay Fuller, JD Vance, Arynne Wexler, Rand Paul, Brittany Hughes, and more.

Godwin’s Law
“The levels of evil are off the charts. … [Benjamin] Netanyahu, Donald Trump, this entire regime — you’re all the new Nazis. … That’s not remotely hyperbolic.” —political pundit Kyle Kulinski

Dezinformatsiya
“Israel has carried out a genocide in plain sight; killed more than 70,000 people, including 20,000 children; left Gaza with more amputated children per capita than any other place on Earth.” —"journalist" Mehdi Hasan

The BIG Lies
“I’ve long believed and supported funding for order at the border.” —Minnesota Senator/gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar

“At least people can count on me for actually speaking the truth.” —Texas Senate candidate James Talarico

Flip-Flopper
“Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621.” —Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong, November 16, 2020

“Thanksgiving is … a time that’s incredibly painful for many people.” —Francesca Hong, August 3, 2026

“My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. … I don’t want to cancel it. I actually love it.” —Francesca Hong, August 5, 2026

Fact-Check: False
“They can’t dig up any dirt on [Abdul El-Sayed] at all. They’ve tried. They say, ‘Oh, he campaigned with Hasan Piker.’ Who gives a sh*t? … All of you are campaigning with JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, etc. … Look at the monsters running this country into the ground.” —political pundit Jennifer Welch

Belly Laugh of the Day
“The left is the most pro-American faction in American politics and it’s not close.” —political pundit Krystal Ball

Re: The Left
“I spent my life hunting terrorists. I never in a million years thought I’d hear the words, ‘America deserved 9/11,’ but here we are.” —Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers

“The Islamic Communist invasion of the United States isn’t on its way, it’s here and on full display. We must defend the West.” —Georgia Congressman Clay Fuller

“You cannot want to eliminate the Senate and make the executive and judiciary subordinate to Congress and simultaneously be willing to take the oath to which every elected member of Congress swears at the start of his or her term: ‘I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.’” —Jim Geraghty

“I propose we call them Democratic Socialist Agents because the DSA agenda only pertains to America in terms of destroying it.” —Nate Jackson

“A lot of Americans look at this rising tide of socialism and say, ‘How did we get here?’ We got here by 40 years of bipartisan leaders selling our industrial base to foreign countries, allowing low-wage immigrants to come in and compete with Americans for jobs by destroying the foundation of the middle class.” —Vice President JD Vance

“If the socialists cared about working-class Americans, they would help us in [our] fraud efforts — but they don’t. What they actually care about is illegal aliens and allowing illegal aliens to enrich themselves.” —JD Vance

“The feminists who walked around in Handmaid’s Tales costumes for years are the same ones defending women in burqas.” —Arynne Wexler

“The closest thing to fascism the United States has seen was the COVID-19 pandemic response, instituted and vigorously mobilized by Left-wing groupthink.” —Kentucky Senator Rand Paul

Upright
“The solution to the affordability crisis is not for the government to ‘do something.’ It’s actually for the government to STOP doing a lot of things it’s been doing for decades.” —Brittany Hughes

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