Since 1934, leadership elections have occurred about 40 days after an election. Since 2006, that timeline has shortened to just nine days. There’s no reason to rush a leadership election — especially after a defeat. https://t.co/ZIB0vnup5q
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) November 7, 2026
John Thune has been disaster.Our supporters expected us to drain the swamp, but it seems like the swamp won. https://t.co/vnhujxBMKf
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) November 7, 2026
The Democrats are behaving like thugs.Yep. They’re trying to prevent the GOP from preparing for 2028 through intimidation https://t.co/lXQq6f9Qvf
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) November 7, 2026
HOLY SH*T 🚨 The post below goes over the Midterms election results and shows it was algorithmically rigged, I put it into artificial intelligence AND AI CONFIRMS IT’S CORRECT. THE FRAUD ALGO AND ELECTION RESULTS PERFECTLY MATCH “We cracked their cheating algorithm. 85/15 algorithm....for every 1000 Trump votes (most likely during early voting when Dems front loaded everything) 150 switched to Dems. It's the same pattern in every state that went blue” Check the AI screenshot. It confirms the math is correct to the results that came in
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 6, 2026
🚨 President Trump just shared something every American needs to understand. Here it is in plain English. An analyst looked at 59 Senate and governor races this year and compared them to Trump's 2024 numbers. What they found is wild. In almost every state, Republicans got about 85% of Trump's 2024 vote. The other 15% showed up on the Democrat side. Here's the strange part. It didn't matter if the state was deep red like Wyoming or deep blue like Massachusetts. The same 15% shift showed up almost everywhere. Different candidates, different campaigns, same number. That 15% is exactly what flipped Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, South Carolina and North Carolina. Any state where Trump won with under about 58.5% fell below 50% once you take that 15% away. Real elections are messy. Numbers this neat raise real questions. The fix is simple: hand count the paper ballots, check the poll books against the votes counted, and release the voter files. If there's nothing to hide, let's see the ballots. 🇺🇸
— Mila Joy (@Milajoy) November 7, 2026
@BennyJohnson says Liberals are RIPPING THEIR HAIR OUT over Stephen Miller’s PROMOTION. “Libs thought they’d have a Friday night where they could CURL UP WITH THEIR CATS in their studio apartments with a box of wine and actually celebrate.” 🐱🤣 “Instead, they have to go right back to the comment section, RAGING, SEETHING, and CRYING.” 😭
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) November 7, 2026
Evil.Evil. Jennifer Welch can’t control her laughter after reading a tweet that says, “We’re digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again.” https://t.co/Co6riq0bla
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 5, 2026
Rachel Welch has made millions by injecting rage into the body politic. In this podcast, she and her co-host break into uncontrollable laughter at a post that says, “We’re digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again." https://t.co/WimFTkKQxn What is notable is that, after her cohost denounces conservatives for spreading false news, they claim falsely that Kirk was killed by a MAGA supporter -- a claim long debunked but repeated by many on the left.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) November 6, 2026
There is a boycott movement building against Jennifer Welch's podcast over her hate-filled, vulgarity-spewing content. Various sponsors have already declared that they have had it with "I've had it" after she laughed over "digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again." https://t.co/WRHSj2sVAg https://t.co/MqmTISGNAy
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) November 7, 2026
Hey @Chewy! As a customer, I would like to know why you chose to sponsor, for at least two years, a podcaster who has mocked + denigrated an assassinated man, his grieving traumatized widow, families who homeschool their children, Christians — etc. If I don’t get a statement here, I will be calling your comms team every day until I get one.
— Dagen McDowell (@dagenmcdowell) November 7, 2026
Actions have consequences. There is no way this is a sincere apology.I’ve Had It podcast issues smug “apology” as show sponsors flee after hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan couldn’t stop giggling at the thought of digging up Charlie Kirk’s corpse and killing him a 2nd time. Cash App, Chewy, and others have stopped sponsoring the show. Pathetic “apology” and it’s a shame companies are still supporting this show.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 7, 2026
Senator John Fetterman responds to El-Sayed attacking his appearance, calling him an "ogre on a pike." "I never worked out in male modeling. Call me Senator Shrek. Whatever! This guy is really the Pontiac Platner!" "And now he's running to be the head of our emerging pro-Hamas wing here in the party!" "Some of the things that he's done or said are unacceptable to me." "I'm not really sure what I've really done or voted for that has offended the little guy so much." "These same people like Bernie Sanders...created that Platner disaster!" "He has no regrets...? Supporting an accused racist...a guy with a Nazi tattoo on his chest...roughed up his ex girlfriends." "There's a level of arrogance and they believe they feel like they have some weird mandate!"
— Leak Wire (@LeakWireQ) November 7, 2026
Did you see it? Beautiful.Sky Today: November 7 Venus and the Moon meet in the early-morning sky, sharing the scene with the bright luminary Spica in Virgo. Image Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly Read more: https://t.co/Me7hx5BGAc https://t.co/LESZHXylNH
— Astronomy Magazine (@AstronomyMag) November 7, 2026
Democrats are filled with hate.They’re calling it the shortest-lived celebration of all time. Democrats were so happy a few hours ago. I wonder what changed. https://t.co/mN9bbyBQ53
— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) November 6, 2026
https://t.co/5VCqv1qISG
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 6, 2026
President Trump is the most transformative political leader in American History — and he has single-handedly saved America from those who would destroy it. It has been the privilege of my lifetime to have served on his team from Day One, and I am honored beyond words to serve as his White House Chief of Staff. I want to thank the incomparable Susie Wiles for her years of devoted service to the President and the Country, and for her friendship. The mission now is more clear than ever: Fight with all of our soul to support our President and defend this magnificent Republic.
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) November 6, 2026
How is that possible?What are the chances of nearly every single county going more democrat in a state trump won by 14 points? https://t.co/7n3bdhx4N3
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 5, 2026
Republican votes stayed the same. Democrats materialized 20 million new votes. https://t.co/tfPjqmh6uf
— Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) November 5, 2026
Unbelievable.He is such a colossal douche bag
— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) November 5, 2026
https://t.co/ROyeWCoYVM
— Christopher G. Adamo (@CGAdamo) November 5, 2026
These are some of the most brutal jokes Gutfeld has ever told and I’m loving every second! 😂 pic.twitter.com/vB6fItKyCG
— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) November 7, 2024
Wall Street’s post-midterm election rally comes to an abrupt halt as stocks plunge just one day after surging. The Dow tumbles more than 1,800 points, dropping 3.44%, as the market quickly shifts from election-day gains to a steep sell-off. Fox News’ @LucasFoxNews breaks down the market turmoil and the latest stories.
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 5, 2026
Elections have consequences.“The Stock Market suffered one of the Worst Days in History based on the results of the Election. Such a sad thing to watch! It took so much work to get us to a level that no one has ever seen before, and then this. Your 401(k)s have, therefore, dropped. Remember, it wasn’t Republicans, it was Dumocrats...”
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 5, 2026
BREAKING: DOJ assistant AG for civil rights Harmeet Dhillon has resigned following Democrats' midterm sweep, according to Fox News. The announcement comes as Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also considering resigning, according to The Independent. "Former officials said the [DOJ] is bracing for multiple other top political appointees to exit in the lame duck period before the New Year," Bloomberg reports. Up to five cabinet members are reportedly considering leaving the Trump administration.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 5, 2026
Serving my country as AAG for Civil Rights has been the honor of a lifetime. We ushered in the downfall of illegal DEI, we fought to protect women and girls’ sports, and so much more. I want to thank President Trump for giving me this opportunity. I look forward to what’s next!
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) November 5, 2026
Dear @JDVance, You warned on Wednesday that the next few months would bring a lot of gaslighting. Then you wrote the first draft. Your post says any honest conversation must start with the war. Great. Since April you have been the administration’s lead negotiator, which makes you the owner of the track that turned a seven-week bombing campaign into an eight-month stalemate. Every week of ceasefire that was not a peace kept the Strait a question mark and kept diesel where eighty-seven percent of voters said they could feel it. Had you spent the spring arguing for the one hour the President says it would take instead of extending the stalemate, the war would have been over by summer, the pump would have said so, and you would be writing a different post. You promised no forever war. You then built a ceasefire with no exit, and sat on it for seven months. Tell voters what settlement you believed was achievable, what deadlines mattered, and what the administration planned to do if negotiations failed. You say you know a great many of the smartest people in politics, but not one of them has a name. (Tucker?) At least one of them cannot count (also Tucker?), because on your list of four things, items one and two are the same item, and item three is a bumper sticker. Item four is the only entry that names a country, and it is not the country we are at war with. (BTW I can guess where item four came from. Days ago @TuckerCarlson wrote that the administration was considering striking Pickaxe Mountain under pressure from Netanyahu, on the strength of Israeli intelligence. That is your fourth item, written out in full. No one had to poll for it. It was posted.) The poll itself. “Change our relationship to Israel” is broad enough to mean several incompatible things. What did those voters actually say? Did they spontaneously mention Israel? Were they offered a list? What percentage selected that answer? Were they objecting to this war, particular Israeli policies, American assistance, or the alliance itself? Why not publish the questionnaire, the sample, the percentages, and the crosstabs. By contrast, the networks published their exit polls. The issues voters were asked about were the economy, democracy, immigration, corruption, the Iran war and artificial intelligence. Israel did not need a column, because voters were not voting about Israel. The sole evidence that the American electorate rendered a verdict on Israel is a phone call between you and a man you will not identify. Contrast your response with @realDonaldTrump’s. Asked about your post, he acknowledged the war’s electoral cost and said he would make the decision again because long term it's the only answer. Agree or disagree, he defended his decision. In July, you yourself said America would have fought this war without Israeli influence. You explained that the president independently opposed an Iranian nuclear weapon—and that you agreed. Now your post finds room for an unnamed pollster’s undefined grievance against Israel, but none for an accounting of your own decisions as the administration’s lead negotiator. Name the pollster. Publish the questions and the results. Tell voters which decisions you supported, which you opposed, and which you would reverse. The President answered for his decision. That is leadership. If you want to be a leader, you need to be able to answer for yours.
— Mark Goldfeder (@MarkGoldfeder) November 4, 2026
.@FLOTUS on the lifesaving ceasefire she brokered between Russia and Ukraine in Oleshky: "The lives of innocent people must transcend the division of war." ❤️ https://t.co/r5WVOhaHj7
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 5, 2026
.@FLOTUS on the results of the Oleshky ceasefire: Food, clean water, and medicine entered the area, and nearly 800 people were able to leave their homes in search of safety, loved ones, and a renewed sense of being. https://t.co/9xmYHRI7Yy
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 5, 2026
.@FLOTUS: "Let Oleshky be the modest spark that grows into a lasting flame of peace." https://t.co/lNDuY8jScP
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 5, 2026
Thank you, First Lady Melania Trump.🚨 NOW: In a TRULY incredible moment, First Lady Melania Trump was just gifted a painting from an 11-year-old girl in Oleshky — where Melania scored the ceasefire — after the child was reunited with her family The little girl's message: "I LOVE MELANIA." ❤️❤️❤️ "We'd like to give you a small gift, which is a painting by 11-year-old girl from Oleshky, who chose to be living with her family in Russia." "And this beautiful drawing says just three words. I love Melania." "And this message from children, frankly, overshadows any diplomatic statement anybody can make. So thank you so much, First Lady."
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 5, 2026
Democratic socialist Nithya Raman will defeat incumbent Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayor's race, CNN projects. Follow live updates. https://t.co/niDL9rZN9l https://t.co/9zVuTyRZcU
— CNN (@CNN) November 5, 2026
Los Angeles, I am deeply honored to be your next mayor. I just spoke with Mayor Bass and expressed my deepest gratitude for her leadership and decades of service. Los Angeles would not be the city it is today without her. I love this city. I believe in its people. The work ahead will be hard, and change will take time. And together, we are going to build a future as extraordinary as the city we call home. Thank you, LA. Let’s get to work.
— Nithya Raman (@nithyavraman) November 5, 2026
California was once a Red state. In 1988, George H. W. Bush won California. Amazing that 38 years ago feels like ancient history.Holy shit...this clip is unreal. Nithya Raman has absolutely NO clue about how housing works in LA. Oppenheim explains to her that landlords are losing money over the last decade and she's got ZERO idea what he's saying. This lady was chair of the Homelessness and Housing Committee for years and she's genuinely hearing this for the first time in her life. Unreal that this low IQ buffoon is about to be the Mayor. WTF are we doing. https://t.co/oCLL7Vl9nJ
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) October 26, 2026
NBC just finally called Wisconsin for Donald Trump and has named him President-elect of the United States.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 6, 2024
Wisconsin puts @realDonaldTrump over the top!
— Ron Johnson (@RonJohnsonWI) November 6, 2024
We’ve got a mess to clean up.
But we’re up to the task.
Let’s get to work! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/4kxB5uMOiD
The red "Veto" hat on the Resolute desk is a nice touch..@POTUS signs a Proclamation establishing the Oval Office as a National Monument under the Antiquities Act. https://t.co/Ut9tl4ytJQ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 5, 2026
The funniest jokes reflect reality. Can the NFL take a joke?Jordan Love and wife dress as blind refs for Halloween https://t.co/USsb7ixsH5 https://t.co/uQa1Bm26FN
— New York Post (@nypost) November 4, 2026
🫵JD Vance didn't defend his own party from accusations before the elections. He weakened his own group. - Victor David Hanson @VDHanson https://t.co/SzRF0bU89m
— Dan The Zionist! (@DanTheZionist) November 5, 2026
Sen. Ron Johnson is right. The Republican Establishment squashed the enormous energy of the Tea Party movement. The trajectory of the country was changed because Establishment Republicans were threatened and blocked the will of the people. So much could have been accomplished if not for Establishment Republicans standing in the way. Their War on Trump has done catastrophic damage to the country. We have a Socialist takeover of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and D.C. We have a Democrat/Socialist takeover of TEXAS. Congrats, Establishment Republicans. You wrecked the country.I sprang out of the Tea Party in 2010 — a movement dedicated to limited government, fiscal responsibility, free markets, and individual liberty. The Republican establishment neutered that movement. It's time to revive its spirit, reclaim our founding principles, and put freedom back at the center of American politics.
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) November 4, 2026
Looking forward to four years of David Crowley "errors" and cover-ups and assorted sleaze, Wisconsin?Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley and his staff discovered a whopping $4.56 million "error" in the county budget and covered it up until the day after the Governor election. https://t.co/hJTHaGtHyU
— Mark Belling (@MarkBellingShow) November 5, 2026
As mentioned, Act 10 is not about how much money goes into education. It is about how school districts spend it and who makes the decisions. When the liberals who will control the state government in Wisconsin in January move to repeal our reforms, we should all watch to see the negative impact on property taxpayers and students in the classroom. Neither will be good, but the liberals will have to do it to pay off the big government union bosses who helped them get elected this fall. We had 16 years of moving forward with these positive reforms. It was good while it lasted in Wisconsin.
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) November 5, 2026
Talked to hundreds in recent months who shared this sentiment. A wry Vietnam vet came up to me in the airport in Colorado last week and said the Senate GOP was a bunch of “Grand Old Procrastinators, the type I would have thrown out of my foxhole because they were more likely to surrender than fight the enemy.”
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) November 5, 2026
Vance deftly uses polling data and Trump's own words last night on war to acknowledge the reality of what happened. Many steps to go from here, but the administration acknowledging that the message has been received is a solid start.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 4, 2026
This is what concerns me about Texas. Democrats want an open border. The security we've enjoyed for the last two years will be obliterated.Understand the implications of what happened in Texas last night. Gina Hinojosa has called on Gov. Abbott to end state & local cooperation with ICE & she can order that on day one. Hinojosa voted against the 2017 SB 4 as a TX state rep. The bill was essentially a sanctuary cities ban and required TX law enforcement to cooperate with ICE detainers. She then voted against another SB 4 in 2023, which made it a state crime to cross illegally into Texas. Should there be another border crisis in coming years, there will likely be no resistance from Texas at the border. No Texas DPS, no TX National Guard, no razor wire or water buoys, and no Operation Lone Star, which Hinojosa called a “dog and pony show” and “political theater”. Remember when 15,000 Haitians surged illegally into Del Rio, TX in 2021 under the international bridge? That was only stopped because Texas DPS responded on Abbott’s orders and physically blocked further crossings by lining up their cruisers to form a wall. The Biden Border Patrol was caught off guard and offered almost no resistance, except for some horseback agents who were falsely slandered for “whipping”. Additionally, because Republicans failed to pass any legislation codifying President Trump’s border security measures, if Dems take the White House in 2028, that Dem president could, if he/she wants to, reverse every single Trump border security policy immediately upon taking office because they were all done at the executive level, and they can order Border Patrol to go back to a passive catch & release policy like we saw under Biden.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 4, 2026
STFU you washed up political loser. You’re angry because you’ll actually have to now work for a living. You’re one of the most mentally unhinged POS to ever be in Congress. We lost last night for many reasons, including because of useless, self-promoting, do-nothings like you. Good riddance, crackpot.
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) November 4, 2026
Is this the way to address "affordability"? Yeah, no.LAWYER UP.
— Congressman Robert Garcia (@RepRobertGarcia) November 4, 2026
Smoke Heaters to hit heaters https://t.co/vUnNJvcMNI
— Pardon My Take (@PardonMyTake) November 4, 2026
Because every Republican of every type lost, every faction will blame everyone else. The knives are out, sharpened, and thirsty for blood. And because you can obviously make the case against every faction and their precious priorities — the Iran War, the AWOL Senate, the overconfident MAGA bro political team, zombie neocons, the overreliance on Elon, AI confusion, the total lack of an affordability agenda beyond telling people to eat chicken and screwing over farmers to import Argentinian beef, Vivek Ramaswamy’s existence as a person — everyone will argue with the assured superiority complex that tells them they’re right.
— Benjamin Domenech (@bdomenech) November 4, 2026
Bob Dylan wearing his hood when he meets Pope Leo is a wild look.Pope Leo XIV met with American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in a private audience on Wednesday, November 4. https://t.co/7OAJcluj0n
— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) November 4, 2026
Here’s why we lost: -Iran war -Diesel prices -Gas prices -Housing prices -Food prices Here’s why America is not over: -We control the White House -6-3 Supreme Court -We control the Executive branch (DOJ, FBI, DHS, ICE, HHS, State etc) -We control the military -We have the biggest right wing, independent media machine in history that now has a true enemy to fight -We have free speech on the internet If we fix most of the reasons why we lost, we’ll do a lot better in 2028. Let the new fight begin.
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) November 4, 2026
Well, shit. But hey, I love my country and every decent, law-abiding citizen I share it with. There are many policy fights to be had, but I refuse to do it with outward anger and fermenting hate both just masking genuine disappointment and irrational embarrassment. Read, Reflect, Regroup, and Respond. Democracy can be a mess, control of the Republic a moving target, but Freedom… beautiful maddening Freedom, well it’s worth all of it!
— Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) November 4, 2026
I miss Rush.Remember: It's NEVER time to panic. https://t.co/Sor5VPXDjJ
— The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show (@clayandbuck) November 4, 2026
NOW: Gov. Ron DeSantis warns Republicans could be shut out of unified control in Washington for years, with the consequences potentially stretching well beyond the 2028 presidential election. "You are not, as Republicans, going to be able to retake the Senate under this current map just two years from now." DeSantis also points to the House, arguing that Republicans face major obstacles to reclaiming both chambers and restoring unified control in Washington.
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 4, 2026
🚨 WOW. Gov. Ron DeSantis is GOING OFF right now post-blue tsunami: "I see the ad, 'so and so voted against releasing the Epstein Files.' I'm like, that's a bad vote. We ran as Republicans saying we need to do that. And you have people in Congress voting against release when the Attorney General said she had all the all this horrific stuff on her desk and that people are gonna be held accountable?!" "It's untenable when you have people going in trading stocks! I've never traded stocks since I've been in elected office. How do you have no investment acumen, and then all of a sudden get elected to Congress, and then you're outperforming Warren Buffett?" "I saw how they were running and it was a rejection of what was going on in DC." I am SO thankful Florida held the line. We avoided some of the MOST horrendous US House wipeouts (still losing some) and our statewide remained red. The legislature is still red 2028 is our only next chance to make a dent in this.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 4, 2026
The 2026 Shellacking must be analyzed honestly.You almost have to admire the chutzpah here. Trump did exactly what Shapiro and Thiessen and Graham all wanted. He did the war they demanded. Republicans got destroyed because of it. But when it comes time to apportion blame, Shapiro doesn’t say it was a referendum on the Iran war. Nope. It’s a referendum on TRUMP. Trump did exactly what they wanted and the thanks he gets is they blame HIM for what they demanded.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 4, 2026
Unassimilated immigration and indoctrination in our schools. Yup.The fact is nobody forced a majority in Michigan to vote for El-Sayed. Nobody forced a majority in Texas to vote for Talarico or Hinojosa. They knew what was on the line. And obviously many agreed with the Marxist-Islamist agenda. Decades of unassimilated immigration from the third world, indoctrination in our schools , and Democrat Party policies are some of the core reasons for this.
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) November 4, 2026
I can't relive this enough.Mind if we get emotional on a Wednesday? #WonOurWay https://t.co/ILHWQa3Vfl
— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) November 4, 2026
Sean Duffy's son-in-law Michael Alfonso wins Wisconsin house seat to become youngest House member https://t.co/j0afgd5a41 https://t.co/XoRq3qktPu
— New York Post (@nypost) November 4, 2026
This was a shellacking. Possible silver lining: This may be helpful when it comes to 2028. Let the Democrats/Socialists remind people that they have nothing to offer other than lunacy, incompetence, lawlessness, open borders, anti-Semitism, and "Hate America" garbage. Let the Republicans get their act together, listen to the people they represent, and act accordingly.Congratulations to all the Democrat victors tonight, and to all the lazy, worthless Republicans who let it happen. https://t.co/fRtF4gK3yw
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) November 4, 2026
Ramones released Rocket to Russia 49 years ago today.
"The only thing [Trump's] mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's c--k holster."
"[Ivanka Trump] Your father is a racist birther. Steve Bannon an anti-Semitic opportunist. You and your husband are enabling hatred. F--- your shoes."
"Melania [Trump] is a hooker."
"And my job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt."
"We have to, at the DNC, provide training. We have to teach them how to communicate, how to be sensitive, and how to shut their mouths if they're white."
"And to our detractors that insist that this march will never add up to anything: F--- you! F---you!
"Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House."--MADONNA
"Barron Trump looks like a very handsome date-rapist-to-be."
"Barron [Trump] will be this country's first homeschool shooter."
"Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if we kick 'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts."
"There's a billion to one chance we're living in base reality."
[That means we're almost positively living in a simulation, like a video game.]
"When I would deny that there was a significant racist component in some of the politics on our side, it was because the people I hung out with were certainly not. When suddenly, this rock is turned over, there is this—'Oh shit, did I not see that?'"
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"In any other scenario, Hillary Clinton's lying about her emails, and her pay-for-play relationship with the Clinton Foundation would be disqualifying issues. The only reason they're not disqualifying is because Donald Trump is a fundamentally more repellent, dishonest figure."
"I made a mistake in recalling the events of twelve years ago... I said I was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by RPG fire. I was instead in a following aircraft."
"I'm here to tell you if you elect me governor of this state, I will end the civil war."
"I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary. It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done."
"Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now, do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?"
"The death of Andrew Breitbart disproves the adage that only the good die young."
--JULIAN BOND
"The National Institute of Health has said that it is a danger to women's health and safety of their families that for 30 years to be exposed to the prospects of pregnancy."
"[Tea Party Republicans] have acted like terrorists."
"Why did- Couldn't the President have said at that moment, way back in December of last year, 'no game playing. No hostage-taking. No terrorizing this country with the debt ceiling. I'm not going to negotiate with you guys. You can't play it that way.' Could he have done that?"
"[T]he tea-party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor."
--WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL
"I remember distinctly an image of--we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at [Obama's] pant leg and his perfectly creased pant, and I'm thinking, a) he's going to be president and b) he'll be a very good president."
--DAVID BROOKS
"I feel like calling her back and smackin' her around."
--FRED CLARK, DEMOCRAT
"The picture was of me, and I sent it."
"[I]f you go back to the year 2000, when we had an obvious disaster and - and saw that our voting process needed refinement, and we did that in the America Votes Act and made sure that we could iron out those kinks, now you have the Republicans, who want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and literally - and very transparently - block access to the polls to voters who are more likely to vote Democratic candidates than Republican candidates. And it's nothing short of that blatant."
--DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ
"This is probably one of the worst times we've seen because the numbers of people elected to Congress. I went through this as co-chair of the arts caucus. In '94 people were elected simply to come here to kill the National Endowment for the Arts. Now they’re here to kill women."
"The protesters have proven today that they‘re not going away. It was a pretty rough night last night. You can imagine if people said, well, we just can‘t fight the power. Instead, this morning, they came by tens, by hundreds, by thousands. By midday today, it was easily more than 10,000, perhaps as many as 15,000 people on the square here in Madison. Not organized by anyone, just grassroots citizens who came out just like the Minutemen in 1776."
--JOHN NICHOLS
"They're sitting on the money, they're using it for their own -- they're putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with your life, with that money. We've allowed them to take that. That's not theirs, that's a national resource, that's ours. We all have this -- we all benefit from this or we all suffer as a result of not having it. I think we need to go back to taxing these people at the proper rates."
"Why don't we just raise the taxes and let these folks have their collective bargaining, have their union representation and go back to their jobs? Raise the taxes on the wealthy."
"In 1933, [Hitler] abolished unions and that's what our Governor [Scott Walker] is doing today."
--LENA TAYLOR, Democrat State Senator
"So I would urge my Republican colleagues, no matter how strongly they feel -- you know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a president. And all three of us are going to have to come together and give some, but it is playing with fire to risk the shutting down of the government."
"Well, when you start off with the Preamble of the Constitution, you talk about the pursuit of happiness."
"I'm Rebecca Kleefisch. I performed fellatio on all the talk show hosts in Milwaukee. And they endorsed me and that's how I became lieutenant governor."
"Do you think this Constitution-loving is getting out of hand? I mean, is it a nod to the Tea Party?"
"We can’t just leave it up to the parents."
"[Military leaders] tell us that childhood obesity isn’t just a public health issue; they tell us that it is not just an economic threat -- it is a national security threat as well."
"Actually, I did not take part in [the assassination of Sarah Palin]. I led it."
"[The repeal of ObamaCare is] a kind of creeping genocide."
"[Obama] has to realize that Mitch McConnell has virtually said so that politically he wants to cut out his heart and throw his liver to the dogs."
--DAN RATHER
"And the instructions are not to improvise a comedy sketch, but to elect a group of unqualified, unstable individuals who will do what they are told, in exchange for money and power, and march this nation as far backward as they can get, backward to Jim Crow, or backward to the breadlines of the '30s, or backward to hanging union organizers, or backward to the trusts and the robber barons.
"Result: the Tea Party. Vote backward, vote Tea Party. And if you are somehow indifferent to what is planned for next Tuesday, it is nothing short of an attempted use of democracy to end this democracy."--KEITH "Reagan's dead and he was a lousy President" OLBERMANN
"I gotta wonder when people are gonna start wearing uniforms. I mean they've got an army out there in Alaska of militia people. You've got these guys going around acting like street thugs. I mean it isn't far from what we saw in the thirties, where all of a sudden, political parties started showing up in uniform."
"[Sharron Angle] is a moron on top of being evil... I'd like to see her do this ad in the South Bronx. Come here, bitch. Come to New York and do it. I'm not praying for her. She's going to hell. She's going to hell, this bitch."
"So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we'd be in a worldwide depression."
"And to play Dick Cheney, all I had to do was find my Dick Cheney. And you can find all the villainy in the world in your own heart, and that's what an actor's job is. I always say to kids, inside you is Hitler and Jesus. And you got to find the appropriate person and bring them out."
"Because I live in the District of Columbia which is so predominantly Democratic, I am a registered Democrat. But I am an avowed neutral. And to put that into practice, I take my young daughter into the voting booth and she votes for me. She's now 14. We've been doing this since she was about age 4. She's now quite informed."
"Sarah Palin's an idiot. Come on. This is a remarkably, stunningly, jaw-droppingly incompetent and mean woman."
"The Democrats may have moved into the center, but the Republicans have moved into a mental institution."
--AARON SORKIN
"Perhaps the greatest threat of all is the undermining of our Constitution and the systematic attack against the inalienable rights of the citizens of this nation, rights that are guaranteed by our Constitution. At the vanguard of this insidious attack is the Tea Party. This band of misguided citizens is moving perilously close to achieving villainous ends."
"[Christine O'Donnell is] a witch who doesn't masturbate."
"Ah, the Tea Party, the nativist bed-wetters who somehow control our national dialogue. Yes, I call them the Pee Party, Jay, because they're always peeing in their pants about something. They're just, they're afraid of a mosque being built in New York. They're afraid of guns. You know, they think Obama, who like every other pussy Democrat has never said a single word about gun control, but they are very sure that he and his Negro army are coming after their guns. You know what? If you think that he's coming after your guns, you need to get out of your chat room and have your house tested for lead. He's not coming after your guns or your Bible or your fishing pole or your chewing tobacco."
"That's a trade-off society is making because of very, very high medical costs, and a lack of willingness to say, you know, is spending a million dollars on that last three months of life for that patient, would it be better not to lay off those ten teachers and to make that trade-off in medical costs. But that;s called the 'Death Panel' and you're not supposed to have that discussion."
"NOT the 'whiteman's bitch'"
--IESHUH GRIFFIN
"[If Rush Limbaugh suffered a heart attack in my presence, I would] laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out. I never knew I had this much hate in me. But he deserves it."
--SARAH SPITZ
"You want freedom, you going to have to kill some crackers. You going to have to kill some of their babies."
"If this was Texas, which is the state that, that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this, saying that they had a major issue with, you know, with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would say I would have to look twice at this. "But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border. And, um, it just, it doesn't make sense to me that when you google this subject, if you put in 'Arizona S.B. 1070,' that you see a picture of the governor of Arizona meeting with President Obama in May of 2010. If you have direct linkage to the president, there are already National Guard troops on the border in Arizona."
"Tell [the Jews] to get the hell out of Palestine. Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land. It's not German. It's not Poland. [The Jews] can go home. Poland. Germany."
--HELEN THOMAS
"After the last eight years, it's good to have a president that knows what a library is."
--PAUL McCARTNEY
"By the way, I just want to point out I'm wearing my splash shield because I was told I was going to be in the splash zone (during Harry Smith's colonoscopy on live TV)."
--KATIE COURIC
"And that Word is, we have to give voice to what that means in terms of public policy that would be in keeping with the values of the Word."
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"Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk, but not job loss because of a child with asthma or someone in the family is bipolar—you name it, any condition — is job-locking."
--NANCY PELOSI
"Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?"
--TOM HANKS
"The 'White Right' is trying to set Barack up to be assassinated.... Here are Christians praying for God to kill Barack Obama."
--LOUIS FARRAKHAN
"I refuse to accept the notion that the United States of America is not going to lead the world economically throughout the 20th Century."
--JOE BIDEN
"Obama's critics keep blasting him for Chicago-style politics. So, fine. Channel your inner Al Capone and go gangsta against your foes. Let 'em know that if they aren't with you, they are against you, and will pay the price."
--ROLAND MARTIN
"Martha Coakley is running to fill the rest of Ted Kennedy's term, and her opponent is a far-right tea-bagger Republican."
--CHUCK SCHUMER
"I tell you what, if I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times. I don't know if they'd let me or not, but I'd try to. Yeah, that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. 'Cause that's exactly what they are."
--ED SCHULTZ
"We also see how revved up the tea baggers are at the thought of hijacking health care reform and every chance we have at making progress in Washington."
--JOHN KERRY
"A few years ago, this guy (Obama) would have been getting us coffee."
--BILL CLINTON
"I didn't realize I had written a column defending Roman Polanski and minimized his crime - are you sure it was me? I mean, I? There is, apparently, more to this crime than it would seem, and it may sound like a hollow defense, but in Hollywood I am not sure a 13-year-old is really a 13-year-old."
--TOM SHALES
"Joe Wilson yelled 'You lie!' at a president who didn't. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!"
--MAUREEN DOWD
"One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game... During the 7th inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez."
--DAVID LETTERMAN
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life."
--SONIA SOTOMAYOR
"We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature."
--REMBERT WEAKLAND, Archbishop of Milwaukee 1977- 2002
"You know, you might want to look into this, [President Obama], because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight."
"Rush Limbaugh -- 'I hope the country fails.' I hope his kidneys fail."
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"[Obama] told me I did a great job. The first lady said the same thing. I got a 'well done' from the president, I'm on cloud nine."
--WANDA SYKES
"Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."
--COLIN POWELL
"[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country."
--PAUL BEGALA
"I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court."
--BARNEY FRANK
"Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution -- except one. We should not -- we must not -- and I will not -- raise taxes."
--JIM DOYLE, Liar
"He's a terrorist. Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist."
--JOY BEHAR
"You know, I just want to say to her (Sarah Palin), just very quickly...F--- you."
--JON STEWART
"Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery?"
--WHOOPI GOLDBERG
"I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God."
--FR. MICHAEL PFLEGER
"Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken. Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation."
--MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD
"We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals."
--TED TURNER
"Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'"
--LAWRENCE O'DONNELL
"Mexico does not end at its borders... Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."
--FELIPE CALDERON
"The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant."
--AL GORE
"Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers."
--ROSIE O'DONNELL
"Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?"
--CHRIS ROCK
"Shut the f--- up! Shut up if you can't take a joke [about President Bush]!"
--BARBRA STREISAND
"Right, oh, yeah, Happy 9/11! Celebrate the day, right?"
--JAMES BROLIN, Mr. Barbra Streisand
"I think President Bush very well may have signed an authorization for the 9/11 attacks."
--KEVIN BARRETT, UW-MADISON Lecturer
"I said what I said. I am not guilty."
--SADDAM HUSSEIN
"Terri will not be starved to death. Her nutrition and hydration will be taken away."
--MICHAEL SCHIAVO
"On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths -- half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. "
--BILL MOYERS
"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for."
--HOWARD DEAN
"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win."
--MICHAEL MOORE
"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs."
--JOHN KERRY
"F---ing retarded."
"[Republicans] can go f--- themselves!"
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
--HILLARY CLINTON
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
--BILL CLINTON
"And let me tell you something -- for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment."
--MICHELLE OBAMA
"If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew, uh, as a janitor, makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor."
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"If you love me, you got to help me pass this bill."
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"[F]or most of my lifetime, the United States was such a dominant economic power, we were such a large market, our industry, our technology, our manufacturing was so significant that we always met the rest of the world economically on our terms. And now, because of the incredible rise of India and China and Brazil and other countries, the United States remains the largest economic and the largest market but there’s real competition out there. And that's potentially healthy. It makes -- Michelle was saying earlier I like tough questions because it keeps me on my toes. Well, this will keep America on its toes."
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"If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna PUNISH OUR ENEMIES and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,' if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2."
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"We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but THEY GOTTA SIT IN BACK."
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"We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever... we absorbed it and we are stronger."
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"We are the ones we've been waiting for."
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"We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers so I know whose ass to kick."
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"We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or you're providing good service. We don't want people to stop fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow the economy."
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"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
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"It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them. And that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure."
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"But I -- I think that the most important thing for the public to understand is, we're not handling any of these cases any different than the Bush administration handled them all through 9/11."
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"One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world -- Navy CORPSE-MAN Christian [sic] Brossard. And lying on a gurney aboard the USNS Comfort, a woman asked Christopher: 'Where do you come from? What country? After my operation,' she said, 'I will pray for that country.' And in Creole, CORPSE-MAN Brossard responded, 'Etazini.' The United States of America."
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"I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow was around, and so I want to give a shout-out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see you."
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"We are God's partners in matters of life and death."
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"[T]he Cambridge police acted stupidly."
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"I am going to teach [my daughters] first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
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"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings, and INEFFICIENCIES to our health care system."
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"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
--BARACK OBAMA
"In a word, freedom is ever new. It is a challenge held out to each generation, and it must constantly be won over for the cause of good.... [A] democracy without values can lose its very soul."
--POPE BENEDICT XVI
"When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society."
--POPE JOHN PAUL II
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
--MOTHER TERESA
"To promote choice for its own sake is more akin to self-indulgence than self-determination. It is the philosophy of a pre-schooler in a candy shop."
--BRIAN POLLARD, M.D.
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
--MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
"The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology."
--RONALD REAGAN
"Liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid."
--MARK LEVIN
"We are Warriors forever."
--BO ELLIS
"I know how much you're supposed to enjoy every sandwich, you know."
--WARREN ZEVON
