Non Compos Mentis

“Yesterday in a segment about transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who was featured in Bud Light’s recent campaign, she was mistakenly referred to by the wrong pronouns and CNN aims to honor individuals’ ways of identifying themselves and we apologize for that error.” —CNN’s Kate Bolduan

Keen Sense of the Obvious

“AI is kind of a fancy thing. First of all, it’s two letters. It means ‘Artificial Intelligence.’” —Kamala Harris

Stranger Than Fiction

“The majority of domestic flights do not have accessible restrooms. This is absolutely unacceptable. Our Administration will soon announce a solution to help end this inequity.” —Kamala Harris (“Most airplanes don’t have accessible bathrooms because they’re narrow aluminum tubes that need as many seats as possible on board to generate revenue to keep flying. You either accept that or you price the middle class out of flying, which might be the point.” —Erick Erickson

Hot Air

“We all must summon the common will to actually address the existential threat of accelerating climate change. It’s real. It’s serious. We don’t have a lot of time. It is the — the — single greatest threat to humanity.” —Joe Biden

The BIG Lie

“[Republicans] were wrong when they said that this infrastructure bill was a bad idea. And they were wrong to call it socialism … or at least wrong to denounce it as socialism and wasteful spending.” —Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

Moving the Goalposts

“Today we learned that annual inflation has fallen each of the last twelve months and is now down to 3%. We’ve made this progress while unemployment remains near record lows. That’s Bidenomics in action.” —Joe Biden (“There wasn’t a single month of inflation over 3% under President Trump.” —Cabot Phillips)

For the Record

“Biden and his staff are out there claiming credit for creating the jobs that all existed during Trump’s administration. They’re not putting it that way, of course, instead dishonestly framing it as Biden’s doing. … Even if presidents created jobs, people going back to jobs they lost isn’t ‘creating’ jobs. Biden and his lackeys are doing the same thing with inflation. … It’s easier to cut something in half if you exponentially increase its size first.” —Nate Jackson

Observations

“Christopher Wray says the FBI is not a politicized agency. This is the same FBI that allegedly knew in 2019 that Hunter Biden’s laptop was legitimate, and yet did not dispel the myth the laptop was Russian disinformation. Doesn’t sound like a very impartial agency, does it?” —Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

“Abortion is fundamentally a dehumanizing act. It reduces the child in the womb to a clump of cells and a woman to dollars and cents. Regardless of the euphemisms used to hide the truth, women know that they have destroyed a life created within them. That is very difficult to reconcile and the data lines up with that.” —Emmy Griffin

“A nation of rotted people cannot be a good, prosperous nation. We fix the people or the best government in the world cannot save this place. Our leaders are an accurate reflection of us.” —Jesse Kelly

Insight

“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” —Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954)