August 20, 2026

Thursday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Angie Nixon, David Jolly, Jon Ossoff, Abdul El-Sayed, Ro Khanna, Allen West, Scott Jennings, Boris Yeltsin, and more.

From the Loony Left
“We have nothing to lose but our chains. Our chains are attacks on the Voting Rights Act. Our chains are them closing down our neighborhood schools. Our chains are them spending a billion dollars on a ballroom you will never get to dance in.” —Florida Senate candidate Angie Nixon

“There’s no sexualization at a drag show. … I’ve taken my children to drag shows. … It’s wholesome entertainment.” —Angie Nixon

“We got so much wrong at the beginning. People of color were 3/5ths of a person. Women did not have economic or legal rights. But that arc of history bent towards progress. That arc has bent backwards in the last eight years.” —Florida gubernatorial candidate David Jolly

“It’s tragic that here in Georgia in the year 2026, in some ways, one of the central questions of the U.S. Senate race is whether white nationalism belongs in the United States Senate.” —Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff

“Jesus … was considered radical in his time too, and there is a radical nature to being willing to stand forthright in a time of corruption.” —Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed

“I have no problem if you make a billion dollars. I’m not one of these people who says billionaires shouldn’t exist. I just think you should be an economic patriot about it.” —California Congressman Ro Khanna

“You brought me back, just like you did with fascism and the measles.” —comedian Rosie O'Donnell to Donald Trump

From the Reasonable Right
“AOC refuses to pay back her student loans, despite earning $173,000 a year as a member of Congress. That’s a red flag that she’s fiscally irresponsible and holds taxpayers in utter disdain. … AOC currently owes between $15,000 and $19,000 in student loans. She owed $19,000 in 2019, and her latest financial filing shows that seven years later, at least $15,000 of that remains unpaid. … AOC’s a moocher, and she sides with the moochers.” —Betsy McCaughey

“Massachusetts, which already allowed the dismemberment of babies in the womb up to 24 weeks, now has made this horrific procedure law up to birth. This law puts Massachusetts right in line with China and North Korea. Then again, this is what Marxists desire. … I, for one, am tired of these Marxist leftists and their incessant commercials about saving dogs, cats, and animals, while they celebrate the murder of unborn babies.” —Allen West

“Democrats are going to regret putting people who want to destroy Western civilization in the tent. … They want to destroy the economy and the United States of America as we know it, they want to raise your taxes, and they want to do a lot of things that a lot of Americans aren’t going to like. And Republicans can have that debate, even in an environment where people think things are too expensive.” —Scott Jennings

“Wait. How did Florida count all their votes already? I was reliably informed democracy takes 5 weeks.” —former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt

Insight
“When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people. That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.” —former Russian President Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) in his autobiography after visiting a Houston grocery store

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