Village Idiot

“As a kid, I’d say, ‘Hitler, it’s a nightmare, that never would happen.’ But now I see that it’s possible.” —actor Robert De Niro regarding leftist anti-Semite, pro-Hamas, Hitlerian campus goons Donald Trump

Dumb & Dumber

“This may be Biden’s Vietnam. … Biden is putting himself in a position where he has alienated not just young people but a lot of the Democratic base in terms of his views on Israel and this war.” —Senator Bernie Sanders (VT), a “not particularly religious” Hamas-loving Jew and a Vietnam draft-dodger

“It is important to understand why these protesters are out there. And they are out there not because they are ‘pro-Hamas.’” —Sen. Bernie Sanders (In other words, don’t believe your lying eyes.)

“These young people seek a worthy cause: to end what may be the most brutal military operation for civilians in the 21st century.” —New York Times columnist Lydia Polgreen

“All the organizers of all these demonstrations, I’ve talked to a lot of them. … And I have to tell you, they are the salt of the earth. They are kind and generous. They want to work with Jews. They want to live in peace.” —filmmaker Michael Moore

“I also met with so-called pro-Israel students … just to hear about the anti-Semitism that they have experienced. And they told me: ‘It has been minimum. It has been overblown by the media. We have been uncomfortable but we don’t feel unsafe.’” —Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) (This is as believable as you claiming pulling the fire alarm was an accident.)

For the Record

“The Islamic Republic of Iran is offering scholarships to pro-Hamas students who have been expelled from our ‘horrible’ universities. … I’d love to see these young men explain to the university’s Shiite president why they want to be young women and share bathrooms with the girls in burkas. I would really love to capture for posterity what happens when the first American student tries to become a drag queen and insists on wearing a dress when he reads to kids in Tehran. I’d love to see how these students react when they get their draft notice to join one of Iran’s many terrorist proxies and are ordered to go blow themselves up somewhere.” —Gary Bauer

“A degree from Columbia no longer guarantees either maturity or preeminent knowledge but is just as likely a warning to employers of a noisy, poorly educated graduate more eager to complain to Human Resources than to enhance a company’s productivity.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“I assure you no bank in the world would ever lend any young person tens of thousands of dollars — much less hundreds of thousands — to pursue studies in either indigenous, black, critical race, Islamic, gender, sexuality, abolition, or decolonization studies if those loans were not backed by the federal government. The state-guarantee policy has created a massive moral hazard that allows schools not only to ignore the real-world needs of their students but to charge astronomical tuition rates.” —David Harsanyi

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

“Does anyone think Biden would have stayed quiet for so long if white supremacists had rioted on Columbia’s campus and chanted ‘Death to blacks’?” —Michael Reagan

Baghdad Bob

“No, [Biden] is not doing a ‘both sides’ scenario here.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre when asked, “What do you say to those critics who say that he is trying to have it both ways — that he’s essentially, you know, trying to talk about both anti-Semitism and what’s going on with the Palestinians?”

The BIG Lies

“[Trump] and his MAGA allies in Congress were happy to give the very super rich a $2 trillion tax cut in his administration … that benefitted the super wealthy and the biggest corporations.” —Joe Biden

“We cut the federal deficit by fighting to make the very wealthy and big corporations begin to pay their fair share.” —Joe Biden

“The plan we put in place is beginning to work. We’ve created a record 15 million jobs.” —Joe Biden

“Crime rates are down nationally. … We’ve also done much work to make communities safer.” —Joe Biden (“Unmentioned: The fact that a third of police departments, including in the biggest U.S. cities, stopped reporting crime data to the FBI in 2022.” —RNC)

“I was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.” —Joe Biden

Re: The Left

“All one must do to understand why ousting [Mike] Johnson is a bad idea is have the imagination to remember the reality of Democrats actually running the House.” —Erick Erickson

“About half of Americans, 53%, say they are extremely or very concerned that news organizations will report inaccuracies or misinformation during the election. It’s 83% if you count the middle option of ‘somewhat concerned.’ That has to hurt, since the media elites say ‘misinformation’ is what other people offer.” —Tim Graham

And Last…

“At the end of the day, this is the Obama 2.0 Apology Doctrine.” —Congressman Michael Waltz (R-FL) when asked to explain Joe Biden’s Middle East policy

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