ChiCom Bootlickers

“China has some legitimate difficulties … unrelated to the United States. And I think one of the things that that balloon caused was not so much that it got shot down, but I don’t think the leadership knew where it was and knew what was in it and knew what was going on. I think it was more embarrassing than it was intentional.” —Joe Biden

“We do not support Taiwan independence.” —Secretary of State Antony Blinken

Non Compos Mentis

“I’ve committed that by 2020, we will have conserved 30% of all the lands and waters the United States has jurisdiction over.” —Joe Biden

Hot Air

“If you look at what the president has done the last two years, it is more than any other president has done ever.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

Dumb & Dumber

“We’re in Pride Month, where the LGBTQ+ community is literally under attack. Literally!” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“One person’s idea of risk is another person’s idea of a great festival or Friday night for that matter, so we have to sort of embrace that with joy.” —Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator Demetre Daskalakis

“The state of Florida never provided medically necessary gender-affirming care to Duane Owen — causing her enormous suffering and violating her right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment for the more than 30 years she was in state custody.” —ACLU (“Owen was sentenced to death in 1986 after he was convicted of murdering a 14-year-old babysitter and a mother of two using a knife and a hammer, respectively. After murdering his victims, Owens raped their corpses.” —The Washington Free Beacon)

“It’s about telling other kids that they shouldn’t understand their own power. It’s castrating them.” —Maryland Governor Wes Moore regarding proscriptions on diabolical books

Race Bait

“Under the newly adopted policy, the AMA recognizes issues with using BMI [Body Mass Index] as a measurement due to its historical harm, its use for racist exclusion, and because BMI is based primarily on data collected from previous generations of non-Hispanic white populations.” —American Medical Association

Village Idiot

“Black liberation simply isn’t possible under capitalism. … White supremacy persists in part because of its relationship with capitalism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and so on.” —former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick

Observations

“Barack Obama set minorities back by singling them out as victims instead of empowering them. In America, hard work and personal responsibility matter.” —former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley

“If anyone should be standing and shouting at the mountaintops that America is not a racist country, it should be the man that Americans supported twice for the nomination and becoming president.” —Senator Tim Scott (R-SC)

“Which is more empowering for blacks? The message that they can make it if they work hard and that America is for people of all colors, or the clear implication that blacks somehow uniquely can’t make it at all without constant handouts from government and maybe even something like reparations? For 200 years, Democrats have been telling blacks they’re nothing without Democrats. We’re ‘rightly skeptical’ of that patronizing and divisive message.” —Nate Jackson

For the Record

“[Trump is] like a nine-year-old, defiant nine-year-old kid, who’s always pushing the glass toward the edge of the table, defying his parents to stop him from doing it. It’s a means of self-assertion and exerting his dominance over other people. And he’s a very petty individual who will always put his interests ahead of the country’s, his personal gratification of his ego, but our country can’t be a therapy session for a troubled man like this.” —former Attorney General Bill Barr