Insight

“All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.” —H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Re: The Rainbow Mafia

“For the last 20 years, and really starting with the purchase of ESPN in 1996, Disney has gone about the business of feminizing and wokefying sports. This isn’t some overnight thing that just happened in the last two or three years. This isn’t some Colin Kaepernick coincidence that they took advantage of. This has been a plot and a strategy for nearly 30 years.” —Jason Whitlock

For the Record

“The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan passed in the early days of the Biden administration will go down in history as an extraordinary policy mistake.” —former Obama Treasury counselor Steven Rattner

“Had we passed the Build Back Better bill that Biden wanted, my guess is that we would be Weimar Germany right now. We’d have 25% inflation rather than 9% or 10%.” —FedEx founder Fred Smith

Race/Sexism Bait

“As tragic as Ukraine is, you think of it as a white European country. I think of the people in Haiti and in all the countries of color where terrible things happened and not as many people responded, and it was not as widely spread in the press. There was just an embrace of the Ukrainian people and a dismissal of people of color in other countries.” —actress Lily Tomlin

“For an alarming number of Americans, COVID isn’t a problem so long as it’s not a white-people problem.” —MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan

“Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for over $40 billion so he can loosen its free speech restrictions. That’s how badly white guys want to use the N-word.” —"Saturday Night Live’s" Michael Che

“[Nancy] Pelosi makes a remarkably rich target for the right wing, a right wing that of course has all kinds of ideological, political, economic commitments to a very certain kind of power structure, and that power structure is a capitalist white patriarchy.” —New York magazine’s Rebecca Traister

Non Compos Mentis Award

“Since Mayor Adams assumed office, police have maintained a bloated presence in our subways — including at the 36th Street Station where [last week’s] shooting took place: and now, he is cynically doubling down on this policy. That police presence neither prevented nor deterred the attack, and failed to prevent the perpetrator from fleeing the scene.” —Democratic Socialists of America’s NYC chapter (“The NYPD isn’t bloated; it was defunded in 2020, at the urging of critics like … the DSA. No cops were on the train car Tuesday to ‘prevent’ or ‘deter’ the attack by a madman that left 29 injured and all of Gotham feeling terrorized. Yet if the city had boosted police, instead of defunding them, perhaps one of them might’ve been.” —New York Post)

And Last…

“3 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since Biden took office, including 600,000 who escaped into the country without being caught. That is larger than the population of Chicago.” —Tommy Pigott