Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

China can be a little tone-deaf with optics. Did you see the ceremony? It was beautiful, but to symbolize peace, they released hundreds of bats. That’s not good. But it was beautiful, come on. The pageantry, did you see, the flowers, children, so many children. Somewhere on an iPhone assembly line they were going, “Where is everybody?”

- Bill Maher, HBO

It’s funny…. [China is ] putting Uyghurs into camps. It’s a 1984 surveillance state. It’s — there’s just so much wrong with China, and yet, it’s an issue that really confuses the woke. Because Chinese are Asians, and Asians are not white. So, if you criticize them, it’s racism. That’s — I mean, that’s really where we are with the level of thinking with a lot of people in the country.

- Ibid. Encouraging people to shoot police officers apparently earns you a spot as a headliner at the Superbowl. If you choose to watch the game at all (we won’t be), halftime is a great moment to shut your TV off in honor of those men and women in blue who gave their lives for us.

- From an Instagram post by the Suffolk County PBA, which included the lyrics of a song by one of the rappers that performed at the Super Bowl that refers to black people in a derogatory way and calls on them to shoot police officers

For Instagram to censor a post that condemns Snoop Dogg for encouraging the killing of police officers is evidence that Instagram is complicit and condones such violence. This is a slap in the face to everyone who has ever worn the uniform and put their lives on the line for the safety of others and is an example that Instagram enables, if not encourages, harm against police officers. They should be ashamed.

- Lou Civello, vice president of the Suffolk County PBA, after Instagram removed the above post because they “don’t allow content that may lead to a genuine risk to physical harm or direct threat to public safety”

Yesterday, as I hope you know, was Super Bowl Sunday, also known as — a.k.a. “Cryptocurrency Awareness Day.”

— Jimmy Kimmel

It’s all crypto now. Even the halftime show, bloods versus the cryptos.

— Ibid.

I mean, in the Iraq War, I was on the side of what you would think – on the mainstream – is misinformation. I was promoting what they would call misinformation, but it turned out to be right years later. And the establishment media was wrong, and not only were they wrong in some respects, you could make the case that they enabled a war that killed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people and never paid a price for it and never had accountability.

- Jon Stewart, defending Joe Rogan who has come under attack for supposedly spreading false information about Covid by interviewing some medical professionals who don’t think that it is imperative for young and healthy people to get vaccinated

The New York Times, right, was a giant purveyor of misinformation, and disinformation. And that’s as vaunted a media organization as you can find, but there was no accountability for them.

– Ibid.

The podcaster Joe Rogan did not join a mob that forced lawmakers to flee for their lives. He never carried a Confederate flag inside the U.S. Capitol rotunda. No one died trying to stop him from using the n-word. But what Rogan and those that defend him have done since video clips of him using the n-word surfaced on social media is arguably just as dangerous as what a mob did when they stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 last year.

– From a CNN article equating Joe Rogan’s use of a derogatory term in the context of a race discussion to the January 6th riot

What triggered the violence in part were the messages that came from people in positions of power in Rwanda. Many, like Rogan, had a public megaphone and an audience.

– Ibid., suggesting that Joe Rogan’s discussion on race can lead to what happened in Rwanda in 1994, when almost a million people were killed in a civil war We stand with you, your guests, and your legion of fans in desire for real conversation. So we’d like to offer you 100 million reasons to make the world a better place. How about you bring all your shows to Rumble, both old and new, with no censorship, for 100 million bucks over four years?

- Streaming platform Rumble making a public offer to Joe Rogan after the left made a push to get Spotify to drop his podcast

It’s been very odd, to tell you the truth, this idea of “identifying as something.” I think people identify me as something, but I identity as a human being.

- Miami Dolphins new head coach Mike McDaniel at his introductory press conference when asked about the fact that he is mixed race, with a white mother and a black father

I just try to be a good person.

– Ibid.

The fact that people have jobs always contributes to an increase in inflation, and that’s a good thing.

- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos extolling the virtues of inflation

We don’t want to say some of the things that are obvious, like, gee, the child-tax credit just ran out on December 31, and now people are stealing baby formula.

- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Dem/Socialist-NY) in a recent interview with the New Yorker talking about the recent spike in all types of crimes, including homicides, and blaming it on children not having formula

Well, you’re being a wise guy with me a little bit. And I understand. That’s your job.

- Pres. Joe Biden responding to Lester Holt who asked him: “I think it was back in July, you said inflation was going to be temporary. I think a lot of Americans are wondering what your definition of temporary is.”

Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks.

- CNN’s Juliette Kayyem’s “really brilliant idea” to remove Freedom Convoy trucks from a bridge between Canada and the U.S. that they are blocking in protest of vaccine mandates

It’s my favorite bourbon.

– Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in an interview with the Washington Examiner responding to former President Donald Trump calling him an “old crow” and criticizing his performance as Senate minority leader To be clear, LeBron is a well-meaning person, and I don’t think LeBron means to do bad. I just don’t think he’s that smart… I think LeBron James is low IQ.

- Candace Owens on the Full Send Podcast

That is the price that I’m willing to pay…. Because the principles of decision making on my body are more important than any title or anything else. I’m trying to be in tune with my body as much as I possibly can.

- Tennis star Novak Djokovic on possibly skipping Wimbledon and the French Open because of his vaccination status