A blind squirrel finds a nut, Part I: “[Trump] has done good stuff for the black community. Opportunity Zone stuff. Black college stuff. I worked with him on criminal stuff. I saw Donald Trump have African American people, formally incarcerated, in the White House, [where he] embraced them, treated them well. There is a side to Donald Trump that I think he does not get enough credit for.” —Van Jones

A blind squirrel finds a nut, Part II: “When it comes to the black people you see who maybe, you know, [are] showing support for Trump, I just think, you know, it’s because Trump is actually talking to young black male voters. He is directing ads toward them. They are a group that never get courted.” —Charlamagne tha God (Lenard Larry McKelvey)

The party of authoritarianism: “If we have an opportunity … to have the White House, the Senate, and the House … then I believe we have an obligation to the American people to show what a Democratic administration can actually accomplish, and that we can govern, and that we can truly have leaps in policy that people can feel in their everyday lives that makes voting Democratic worth — not just worthwhile, but a memorable shift from just a flatline of this idea of bipartisanship, which often just becomes Republican manipulation.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Dezinformatsiya: “We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren’t.” —Thomas Rid in The Washington Post

Grand delusions: “Most Republicans are going to want to close the page. They want to see [Trump] gone as much as we do, but they can’t say it publicly.” —Hillary Clinton, who forgets how much people wanted (and still want) her gone from politics

Lack of self-awareness: “It makes me literally sick to my stomach to think that we’d have four more years of this abuse and destruction of our institutions.” —Hillary Clinton

Plantation admonition: “[50 Cent] doesn’t want to pay 62 percent in taxes because he doesn’t want to go from ‘50 Cent’ to ‘20 Cent’ and I had to remind him that he was a black person, so he can’t vote for Donald Trump and that he shouldn’t be influencing an entire swath of people who may listen to him because he’s worried about his own personal pocketbook.” —Chelsea Handler

Braying jackass: “There is a lizard brain in this country. Donald Trump is a product of … the anguished, nervous white guy’s lizard brain.” —Jon Meacham

Alpha jackass: “Yes, I do.” —Kamala Harris when asked, “Do you think the president is racist?”

The BIG Lie: “You can look at a pattern that goes back to [Trump] questioning the identity of the first black president of the United States. You can look at Charlottesville, when there were peaceful protesters, and on the other side, neo-Nazis, and he talks about fine people on either side.” —Kamala Harris, whom the media let get away with perpetuating the Charlottesville lie

Non compos mentis, Part I: “The character of the country, in my view, is literally on the ballot. What kind of country we’re going to be. Four more years of George, uh, George, uh, he, uh — gonna find ourselves in a position where if Trump gets elected we’re gonna be, we’re gonna be in a different world.” —Joe Biden conflating George W. Bush with Donald Trump

Non compos mentis, Part II: “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” —Joe Biden in a colossal “political gaffe” — when a politician unintentionally tells the truth

And last… “The NBA and the NFL are struggling with lower ratings as fans clearly do not want political messaging mixed with their sports.” —Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Brett Favre