Gaslighting

“Fourteen states have now banned gender-affirming healthcare. … Look, this is awful news. Let’s be very clear about that. LGBTQI+ kids are resilient. They are fierce. They fight back [emphases added].” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (“She knows what she’s doing here.” —Stephen L. Miller)

For the Record

“Trans people aren’t asking for rights… they already have ALL THE SAME RIGHTS as everyone else in America. They’re demanding to replace women and be given a free pass for violence and terrorism when people disagree with them.” —Tim Young

Braying Jennies

“Republicans may think they won today in Tennessee, but their fascism is only further radicalizing and awakening an earthquake of young people, both in the South and across the nation. If you thought youth organizing was strong, just wait for what’s coming. Gen Z don’t play.” —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“I believe that the Biden administration should ignore this [abortion pill] ruling.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“This is the beginning of the end of the Republican Party as I see it. I don’t see that they’re going to win in any elections anymore in this country — not national elections. They’re on the wrong side.” —"The View" co-host Joy Behar

“It’s clear that the Republican Party is the party of dinosaurs, right? … It’s clear that they don’t have any proposals. They don’t have a platform right now. It’s just grievance politics. It’s just scaring people. What I worry about is, they still want power. And when you still want power, the only way to get it when you don’t have a platform is by cheating.” —"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin

“I’ve noticed in the last, I don’t know, seven months, there hasn’t been much denying of climate change going on. You haven’t heard [Republicans] — you know, it used to be: ‘I don’t believe it. It’s never happened.’ … And now they’re like, ‘Yeah, I think my house just got blown down for the fourth or fifth time.’” —"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg

Non Compos Mentis

“This idea, this argument, is just ludicrous that we left millions of dollars of stuff in Afghanistan. We didn’t.” —National Security Council spokesman John Kirby

“For all this talk of chaos, I just didn’t see it.” —John Kirby

“The administration identified [the Chinese spy balloon threat] and did something about it." —Karine Jean-Pierre (After it had overflown the entire continental U.S.)

"We may even need to evoke eminent domain — we simply are not getting the adequate investments fast enough for grid, solar, wind and pipeline initiatives.” —JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon 

The BIG Lies

“Extreme MAGA Republicans in Congress … are threatening to wreak havoc on our economy with debt limit brinkmanship.” —Joe Biden

“The president is a president that follows the law.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“Spent a powerful morning at Montgomery’s Legacy Museum talking about real US history and how the deep rooted racism in our country continues to seep into our politics and institutions.” —California Governor Gavin Newsom with some “red state” tour race bait ahead of his 2024 presidential announcement

Political Futures

“Yes, Alvin Bragg vowed to ‘get Trump’ when he ran for office. Yes, from the start, Democrats have been united in their antipathy toward Trump. And yes, the major media have been united in their opposition to Trump, despite Trump’s claims of success on the economy, the border, the Abraham Accords and judges who adhere to the Constitution. The question for many is this: Can Trump’s behavior and legal jeopardy win the independents any presidential candidate needs to win an election? Polls show many independents are turned off by his rhetoric and the current and possible future legal peril in which he finds himself. The ultimate verdict should be up to voters, not Democratic prosecutors and judges appointed by Democrats.” —Cal Thomas

“The endless stream of preposterous charges against Trump only helped him. So why not launch another ridiculous accusation to help him get the nomination? That’s exactly what [liberals] did in last year’s GOP primaries, supporting Trump’s nut-bar candidates, knowing they would go on to lose the general election. By boosting Trump’s candidates, Democrats managed to pull out a historic midterm victory for Biden. And now, they’re doing it again, trying to trick Republicans into choosing the worst possible presidential nominee. Guess what? It’s working!” —Ann Coulter

“As the country collapses under leftist nihilism, the revolution’s last gasp is to destroy Trump — by empowering him. That is, the leftist legal vendetta is designed to win him just enough empathy to be nominated the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, but then to keep on indicting, gagging, and hemorrhaging him legally until Election Day 2024.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“The obvious solution for Democrats is once again to run against Donald Trump. He lost in 2020, and his postelection actions — acting in reckless disregard of, if not actively encouraging, the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, preposterously boasting that he actually won in a landslide, focusing on his own complaints and ignoring those of actual voters — haven’t made him any more popular.” —Michael Barone

And Last…

“President Biden’s approval rating ranks right up there with jock itch.” —Senator John Kennedy (R-LA)