Insight: “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” —Michelangelo (1475-1564)

“There have been a record 100,000 overdose deaths in the U.S., primarily from fentanyl, which primarily comes across the southern border. Screw [Alejandro Mayorkas’s] ‘A for effort.’ You should be impeached.” —Congressman Dan Crenshaw

Malarkey: “Right now oil companies are taking American consumers and shaking them upside down at gas pumps all across our country, while simultaneously sending a signal to the Republican Party to kill Build Back Better, to kill a transition to all electric vehicles, to plug-in hybrids, to battery storage technologies that will lead inexorably, inevitably to the demise of those companies controlling the agenda of our nation.” —Senator Ed Markey

Spin doctor: “I am writing to call your attention to mounting evidence of anti-consumer behavior by oil and gas companies. The bottom line is this: gasoline prices at the pump remain high, even though oil and gas companies’ costs are declining. The Federal Trade Commission has authority to consider whether illegal conduct is costing families at the pump. I believe you should do so immediately.” —Joe Biden (“This is a distraction from the fundamental market shift that is taking place and the ill-advised government decisions that are exacerbating this challenging situation. … We should be encouraging the safe and responsible development of American-made oil and natural gas.” —American Petroleum Institute)

Hot air: “In a few years because of climate change each year will be worse than COVID, and each year will be worse than the [last] if we don’t do anything about it.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

Moving the goalposts: “Other countries are … adopting a booster campaign virtually for everybody. I think if we do that, and we do it in earnest, I think by the spring we can have pretty good control of [COVID].” —Dr. Anthony Fauci (“Okay, so, the original game plan was that the pandemic could be throttled once we ‘slowed the spread’ with lockdowns, then it was once enough people had natural immunity and the vulnerable had the vax, then it was once everyone had the vax, and now it’s once everyone has the booster shot.” —Daniel Payne)

Race bait I: “So this Kyle Rittenhouse trial — it reminded a lot of people of … the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, in which Brett Kavanaugh, who had been accused by a high school friend of committing sexual abuse of her, cried his way through the hearings to make him a permanent member and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. And his tears turned out to be more powerful than the tears of Christine Blasey Ford, which were the tears of an alleged victim. But in America, there’s a thing about both white vigilantism and white tears, particularly male white tears.” —MSNBC’s Joy Reid (“This is a woman on a seven-figure salary who went to Harvard and has more elite privilege in her little finger than the 17-year-old son of a single mother who was in Kenosha working as a lifeguard when all hell broke loose in the form of BLM-Antifa riots in August 2020. Yet Reid continually plays the victim and makes her living punching down at white people less fortunate than she is.” —Miranda Devine)

Race bait II: “This feeling of discomfort that we’ve been hearing around, you know, this Critical Race Theory propaganda campaign, that’s been the standard feeling for black children. To feel that the way that history is taught is demeaning to them.” —Nikole Hannah-Jones

And last… “He drove over 40 miles with a gun he possessed illegally. He said he was in Kenosha as a medic but it seems he had an intent to kill. His troubling history is enough to ask: but why was he there? And by he, I mean [Gaige] Grosskreutz.” —Allie Beth Stuckey