August 19, 2026

Wednesday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Ben Shapiro, Lisa Boothe, Scott Jennings, Mike Johnson, Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur, John Oliver, Rosie O’Donnell, and more.

From the Reasonable Right
“So, when a racial grifter with obvious mental issues gets appointed to Cambridge University’s faculty, then gets exposed, then resigns, and then kills himself…apparently the fault lies with the people who exposed the grift. Because DEI matters more than the facts to the Left.” —Ben Shapiro regarding Jason Arday

“Immense privilege … really underscores the socialists in America today. … They’re full of elite, well-educated kids who really don’t understand the working class. They just use that as a guise to try to get electoral power, and then the policies that they implement actually hurt the working class.” —Lisa Boothe

“The DNC passed a resolution calling on Congress to abolish ICE, which basically means every 2028 presidential candidate is going to have to take that position. This primary of trying to outdo each other’s crazy positions will be a sight to behold.” —Scott Jennings

“[Abigail Spanberger] ran as a moderate. She governs almost as a Marxist. She did exactly the opposite of what she said on the campaign trail. … The Blue Dog Democrats will no longer exist after November. There is no moderate Democrat Party anymore.” —House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)

“Communism is anti-American. It’s the opposite of our ideals. We’re one nation under God. Communism begins with the premise that there is no God. The state is the god, effectively. … It never works, and it ends in poverty, destruction, political violence, [and] human suffering. That is the story of communism.” —Mike Johnson

“The economic problems we currently have are not a result of the market being ‘too free’ or ‘too capitalist.’ They are a direct result of too much government manipulation.” —Nick Freitas

“There is something deeply backward about entering a country illegally, remaining there for decades, making little effort to assimilate, and then demanding citizenship simply because you managed to avoid removal long enough. … A nation cannot survive indefinitely if citizenship becomes nothing more than paperwork handed out after someone has remained inside its borders long enough.” —Samantha Koch

“Either the righteous will wield civic authority or the wicked. To oppose the righteous wielding civic authority is to promote the wicked wielding civic authority instead. There is no third option.” —Alex Kocman

From the Loony Left
“The Media Lynched Jason Arday.” —article title by Howard University’s Ibram X. Kendi

“A lot of people use the 9/11 comments that I made in 2019 as a way to declare myself to be a radical — an America-hating radical — and it’s really interesting because I misspoke on that.” —Hasan Piker

“I’m going to say, ‘Go ahead and run in the race, and if you beat my daughter and it costs her this much — out of the 13 cases in the country — and it costs her a little bit because she wanted to get into Yale but she got into Dartmouth, I’ll live with it. Because I’m not checking your genitalia, and I’m not traumatizing you when you’re a kid.’ I would rather have my daughter come in second, third, or eighth than traumatize those kids.” —"The Young Turks" cofounder Cenk Uygur regarding gender-confused athletes

“Once the law recognizes a fetus as a separate victim, if you get pregnant, that same logic can quickly be weaponized against you, and in all sorts of ways.” —HBO’s John Oliver

“I’ve been living in Ireland for the past two years because of Mango Mussolini.” —comedian Rosie O'Donnell

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