August 13, 2026

Thursday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Hasan Piker, Abdul El-Sayed, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Julian Epstein, Jake Altman, Ian Haworth, Betsy McCaughey, Star Parker, and more.

Pot Calling the Kettle Black
“The Republican Party is the greatest enemy of mankind, the greatest enemy of America.” —Hasan Piker

A Trip Down Memory Lane
“Kill those motherf***ers and murder those motherf***ers in the street. Let the streets soak in their f***king red capitalist blood, dude.” —Hasan Piker in 2019

“Left-wingers, liberals, you need to be f***ing showing your opponents’ guts… You need to be gutting them. You need to be shanking these motherf***ers and … letting their intestines just ride on stage. … Slice ‘em up.” —Hasan Piker in 2022

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
“I believe that Medicare for All should cover all healthcare. … That includes gender-affirming care.” —Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed

“I agree that we need public ownership, but I also agree that we need some system of public control.” —Abdul El-Sayed

A Trip Down Memory Lane, Continued
“Ultimately, the question is, when I die and I stand before God and go through everything I did in my life, I don’t want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way. Not because of fear but because of obligation.” —Abdul El-Sayed in 2009 (And women voted for him.)

“You think about all the wars that we fight abroad, all of the sordid history of oppressing other people in the name of this American idea, right? … A lot of these narratives you kind of see echoed in the ethos of football.” —Abdul El-Sayed in 2023

Dumb & Dumber
“When I was in Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein … I had meetings in some of his palaces, and they were quite reminiscent of what we are seeing in our own White House.” —Hillary Clinton

“What Elon Musk did to USAID, with the full complicity and direction of Donald Trump … is akin to genocide.” —Hunter Biden

Belly Laugh of the Day
“Joe Biden is everything that [Donald Trump] wishes that he could be.” —Hunter Biden

Friendly Fire
“Democrats aren’t coddling Scandinavian-style socialists; they’re getting into bed with a nihilistic, deconstructionist brand of third-worldism. It’s an ideology that seeks the elimination of prisons, policing, borders, the Senate, the presidency, the Supreme Court and democratic free markets. A worldview that aligns with genocidal jihadist movements like Hamas.” —former House Judiciary Democrats chief counsel Julian Epstein

“[DSA objectives] would unleash a degree of chaos and violence in our society that we have not experienced for a very, very long time.” —former DSA member Jake Altman

Re: The Left
“Yes, 'Woke One’ was crazy, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is Woke One! She might have gone through a few rounds of media training to appeal to voters outside of the Bronx, but she not only remains an advocate of ‘Woke One’ but also of ‘Woke 2.0’!” —Ian Haworth

“Woke was indeed crazy. So now, it’s entirely reasonable for voters to ask why those candidates believed it so fervently.” —Byron York

“The sin of Francesca Hong in Wisconsin is that she was saying all the quiet parts out loud. … The reality is that if Bernie [Sanders] had endorsed Francesca Hong, she’d be the nominee right now.” —Ben Shapiro

“From the East Coast to the West Coast, ‘tax the rich’ is the battle cry of radical-left Democrats. … Don’t be fooled. Their new forms of taxation … are fueled by jealousy and hatred for our free-market system, working people and everything American. You’re their next target. You may not consider yourself ‘rich,’ but these new forms of taxation will eventually hit you if you live in a blue state.” —Betsy McCaughey

“If you think the fraud is bad now, just imagine how much of your tax dollars would be wasted every year if Democrats achieved their dream of passing socialized medicine and making any warm body within our borders eligible for government healthcare.” —Texas Congressman Brandon Gill

Upright
“In this 250th anniversary of our declaration, it is time to fight like never before for our principles, knowing our problems come from where we have departed from the principles of our founding. … This is the time that Republicans must be shining the light of our free nation under God and drive out the darkness that is creeping across our country.” —Star Parker

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