Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

I saw last night on the football game, Alicia Keys sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which now I hear is called the black national anthem… I think when you go down a road where you’re having two different national anthems, colleges sometimes now have — many of them have different graduation ceremonies for black and white, separate dorms — this is what I mean! Segregation! You’ve inverted the idea. We’re going back to that under a different name.

- Bill Maher, HBO

Tax the Rich

- What was written on the dress worn by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(Dem/Socialist-NY) to the Met Gala, which cost $30,000 per ticket

AOC Now Selling “Tax The Rich” Caviar For Just $10,000 A Can

- Tweet by The Babylon Bee

Twitter has no problem censoring Americans & giving a platform to the Haqqani network that has killed thousands of Afghan civilians and more than 10,000 Afghan soldiers & policemen — by conservative estimates. Has America surrendered to tyranny in all forms?

- Tweet by famed war-front journalist Lara Logan

A memorial which uses U.S. flags is especially insidious, as it does not recognize those who have fallen, but uses a symbol that was on the shoulders of those who are responsible for the deaths of 900,000 people, and uses the innocent lives lost during 9/11 as a political prop upholding American hegemony. Muslims such as I have faced fear, harassment, and Islamophobia from those who unjustly use the victims of 9/11 as a political cudgel.

- Statement by Fadel Alkilani, a student at Washington University in St. Louis, after he was busted gathering and throwing out 2,977 U.S. flags that were set up for a 9/11 memorial

We have to be more honest about what 9/11 was and what it wasn’t. It was an attack on the heteropatriarchal capitalistic systems that America relies upon to wrangle other countries into passivity. It was an attack on the systems many white Americans fight to protect. We have to be clear that the same motivations that animated America’s hypervigilance and responsiveness to “terror” after 9/11 are now motivating the carceral state and anti-immigration policy.

- Syracuse University assistant professor Jenn M. Jackson

When people are able to make choices without government interference for themselves in terms of their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their family, in consultation with whomever they may choose, we’re a stronger society.

- Vice President Harris bashing a new pro-life law in Texas, on the same day that the Biden administration announced mandatory vaccines for federal employees and others

A woman can’t be a minister. It is like you put something on her neck that she can’t carry. It is not necessary for a woman to be in the cabinet. They should give birth.

- A Taliban spokesman responding to U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s concern that there are no women in the “Taliban government”

The interim government named by the Taliban falls very short of the mark that was set by the international community for inclusivity... It includes many key members who have very challenging track records.

- U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken, during a Congressional hearing

If you’re going to do a pizza review, eat the whole slice!

– Comedian Michael Rapaport in a social media post promoting his own pizza reviews and “dishing” on his former boss, Dave Portnoy’s “one bite everyone knows the rules” pizza reviews

They’re paying us $20-30 million to dribble a basketball. Put on a good show!

- Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal criticizing 76ers star Ben Simmons’ work ethic

President Biden’s Thursday speech to the American people about “the battle against COVID-19” had little to do with public health. Its purpose was to distract us from the unmitigated disaster he created in Afghanistan. What better way to accomplish this goal than to issue an imperial edict that would outrage anyone with a rudimentary understanding of the Constitution? Neither Biden nor any federal agency has the power to impose a vaccine mandate on private sector businesses or workers. If Biden fails to grasp this, the people who actually run his administration get it, but they want nothing more from Thursday’s speech than a change of subject.

– David Catron, The American Spectator Your decision is disappointing, but understandable given the need to distract from a news cycle that has you mired in multiple selfinflicted crises and plummeting poll numbers, including a rise in new COVID cases, a dismal jobs report, inflation, record amount of drugs coming across the southern border, and, of course, the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan that left hundreds of Americans and thousands of Afghan allies stranded under Taliban rule.

- Former Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway’s response letter to President Biden who demanded that she resign from the U.S. Air Force Academy board or be fired

MORE QUOTES

I read that surgeons successfully removed a Nokia cellphone from a man’s body after he swallowed it whole. The kids were so embarrassed. They’re like, “Dad, please swallow an iPhone next time.”

- Jimmy Fallon

He swallowed a Nokia phone. More like Choke-ia phone.

- James Corden

His phone got wet and he needed to put it in rice immediately, but he had eaten all of his rice.

- James Corden

Even worse, after four days, the man still had zero notifications.

- Jimmy Fallon

Well, if one party could do it, I guess another party could do it.

– Liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer warning against packing the Supreme Court, in an interview with Chris Wallace, Fox News

So they’re issuing this mandate for private sector employees but also for all federal employees, but … they’re exempting members of Congress and members of Congress’s staff? So how does that work? Can someone explain the science to me?

– Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) responding to President Biden’s new vaccine mandate and exemption of Congress from that mandate

He has been able to reach the minority of voters in California who embrace his white supremacist worldview.

- Los Angeles Times columnist Jean Guerrero on CNN talking about Larry Elder, an African American conservative who is the Republican candidate for California governor

Larry Elder cuts short Venice homeless encampment tour after hostile reception.

- Tweet by the Los Angeles Times after Larry Elder was egged by a white woman wearing a gorilla mask Let’s address a socialist candidate for New York City Council, Tiffany Caban, who, amid an increase in violent crimes and shootings, wants victims of violent crimes to work with their attackers in the name of restorative justice. By the way, if you see a word in front of “justice” other than “criminal,” you know you’re getting a dose of leftist nonsense. Legit justice requires law and order, something lefties hate more than soap and water

- Greg Gutfeld, Fox News

I’m supposed to “develop an accountability and consequences plan” with the lowlife who flogged me with a car antenna, broke my eye socket, and stole my iPad? What do you want me to do next? Help him with his taxes? Work on his “to do” list?

- Ibid.

Sorry – the only “restorative circle” I want to see is that perp encircled by his victims, and they’re “restoring” a beating on [him]. But here, instead of putting the guy in prison where he belongs, we make the victims his social worker.

– Ibid.

He’s a huge hypocrite – he said he created jobs, and he’s destroying jobs. He’s said he’d love America and protect us, and then he makes friends with the Taliban and compromises our southern border. It’s unbelievable to me what he is doing. I had no idea anyone alive could wreck this country as fast as Joe Biden is.

- South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Fox News