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“Say What?!”

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Political correctness has killed comedy, has killed it. Every joke now, it hurts somebody’s feelings. What people don’t understand about comedians is that a joke has to be about something. - Actor and comedian Steve Harvey

I don’t believe that a child should be in a cage on our border, and I don’t believe a child should be in a cage in the West Bank - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Dem/Socialist-NY) while campaigning for progressives in Texas, making up a completely false allegation about Israel

W W W.T H E B J H . C O M

We’ve already taught these poor 18-year-olds that when you’re told to go to class and you don’t like it, you can leave. We’ve already told these kids if you’re not happy, you can do something else. We’ve already told these kids that it’s hard to hold them accountable. And now, we’re going to tell them to not man up and walk down a line on someone who’s [beat you] and have enough class to shake their hand is utterly ridiculous… Not shaking hands is typical of our country right now. Instead of solving the problem, let’s make an excuse and let’s see if we can just, instead of confronting and demanding that it changes, let’s eliminate it so that we don’t have those problems.

I’m a black man that’s the mayor but my story is being interpreted by people that don’t look like me. How many blacks are on editorial boards? How many blacks determine how these stories are being written? - New York City Mayor Eric Adams, claiming that the media is unfair to him because of racism

Diversify your newsrooms so I can look out and see people who look like me. - Ibid.

- Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo addressing the possibility that the traditional postgame handshake will be eliminated after a brawl broke out on one last week

Speak! Speak! Speak plainly!

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– Russian President Vladimir Putin to his Director of Foreign Intelligence Sergey Naryshkin when Naryshkin seemed nervous and was hemming-and-hawing during a televised meeting

- What Rams player Van Jefferson named his son who was born moments after the Rams won the Super Bowl

Sadly, the virus itself, particularly the variant called omicron, is a type of vaccine, that is, it creates both B-cell and T-cell immunity, and it’s done a better job getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines. - Billionaire Bill Gates speaking at the Munich Security Conference

Will visit IRS next time I’m in DC just to say hi, since I paid the most taxes ever in history for an individual last year. Maybe I can have a cookie or something. - Tweet by Elon Musk


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