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“I don’t feel deserving of this. God is just so good.” —Rams wide receiver and Super Bowl LVI MVP Cooper Kupp

“God is great. It’s a blessing.” —Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald

For the Record

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” —George Orwell (1903-1950)

“The answer is not to silence me, the answer is [for] you to do better. The answer is for you to have better arguments. … If you’re in business and your business is the news, and you want to get more people to pay attention, you should be honest. … Stop this editorial perspective with guys like Brian Stelter and Don Lemon that nobody listens to. Nobody is like chiming in saying, ‘Oh, yeah, finally we get the voice of reason.’ Nobody thinks that. Have people that give out effective news — objective news, rather — and I’ll support you.” —Joe Rogan

“Despite the fact that the U.S. issued a diplomatic boycott of this year’s Olympics, many American companies have maintained their sponsorships. … We don’t remember the 1936 Berlin Olympics as an occasion when the world came together to celebrate national pride and athletic excellence. Instead, 1936 is remembered as the year the West failed to stand up to a mass-murdering Nazi regime. We should be able to learn from that mistake. The CCP is an evil regime, and our country should not be complicit in its propaganda and whitewashing, no matter the cost. Many Americans are taking a stand against evil by not watching the Olympic Games. Instead, our corporate elites have chosen to repeat the mistakes of the past.” —Senator Marco Rubio

Re: The Leftmedia

“Just in my business, when my father was coming up in journalism in the ‘60s and '70s, journalists were not upper-class people; it was more like a trade than a profession. The people who … worked in newspapers, they were more like the sons and daughters of plumbers and electricians. They were never Ivy League-educated rich people. And then a lot of things happened, including the movie 'All the President’s Men,’ and it became like a sexy profession for upper-class people to go into. By the time I went into journalism, it was all people like me. It was upper-class kids who had gone to good schools and whose attraction to the job was being close to figures in power. They wanted to be kind of behind the rope line. They wanted to have a beer with Hillary Clinton’s aide at night. That was sort of their ambition in life was to socially hang out with all these people and they did not have a connection to the ordinary working-class person, which journalists once did because they were those people. That’s where they came from. … [The working class] see us as people who write about them as hicks and losers and idiots and who are not on their side. And why wouldn’t they hate us, right? And this is … the fundamental cultural divide in America. It’s between upper-class, college-educated, mostly cosmopolitan city people and kind of everybody else. And there’s the … media class in particular. It has no idea what people in red states … think like or what they’re like, what they care about, what their lives are like, what [it’s like] working three jobs to support kids without health insurance. They just don’t know.” —former Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi

Race Bait/The BIG Lies

“A lot of what drives the Republican Party is fear, and they feel isolated. They see Biden, who should be with them. He’s a race traitor. He’s a guy who has supported conservatives, he was for [Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas. You were with us once and now you’ve gone over.” —Lincoln Project adviser Stuart Stevens (“Biden was, in fact, one of 48 nay votes on Thomas’s confirmation following a contentious hearing process that included sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill. In that process, Biden, who was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time, presided over the hearings and has faced sharp criticism from the left for his handling of them.” —Fox News)

“The Democrats have a much better record on fighting crime than the Republicans do.” —James Carville

Non Compos Mentis Award

“The convoy protest, applauded by right wing media as a ‘freedom protest,’ is an economic and security issue now. The Ambassador Bridge link constitutes 28% of annual trade movement between US and Canada. Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks.” —former Obama DHS official Juliette Kayyem

And Last…

“The Democrats really are refusing to believe the crack pipe story was real even though even Snopes admitted it was real in its fact check that declared it mostly false. Truth has no room in society anymore.” —Erick Erickson