2020 Déjà Vu
“Demonstrations in defense of our immigrant neighbors have been overwhelmingly peaceful.” —Kamala Harris
“The reality is we see peaceful protests launching in Los Angeles.” —Sen. Cory Booker
The BIG Lies
“Deploying the National Guard is a dangerous escalation meant to provoke chaos. … This Administration’s actions are not about public safety — they’re about stoking fear. Fear of a community demanding dignity and due process.” —Kamala Harris
“A lot of these peaceful protests are being generated because the president of the United States is sowing chaos and confusion by arresting people who are showing up for their immigration hearings, who are trying to abide by the law.” —Cory Booker
“He’s exacerbated the conditions. He’s lit the proverbial match. He’s putting fuel on this fire. … Donald Trump needs to pull back. He needs to stand down. Donald Trump is inflaming these conditions. This is Donald Trump’s problem right now.” —California Gov. Gavin Newsom
“This is a crisis that is being ginned up and generated by Donald Trump for more of his political theater. It’s deeply concerning that he is attempting to rile people up in this way.” —California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis
“What we’re seeing in LA is calculated to provoke & escalate. It’s a made-for TV reality show, produced by Donald J. Trump.” —Democrat strategist David Axelrod
Theater of the Absurd
“Come after me. Arrest me. Let’s just get it over with, tough guy. I don’t give a d*mn.” —Gavin Newsom to border czar Tom Homan
“Why do you have guns? What are you going to do? You going to shoot some kid who’s afraid of you and runs? You going to shoot an elected official? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight. I don’t know why you’re in my city.” —Rep. Maxine Waters to ICE agents
Spin Doctors
“The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. … This is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.” —Gavin Newsom
“Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency.” —The New York Times editorial board
Say That Again … Slowly
“An ICE raid disrupts life on Martha’s Vineyard.” —Washington Post headline
Inquiring Minds Want to Know
“Honest question, would any other country in the world let an illegal immigrant light cars on fire in their cities while waving the flag of another country?” —Clay Travis
Belly Laugh of the day
“In retrospect, I guess we should have been prepared with a better replacement before we canceled the Pride parades.” —Michael Knowles on the LA riots
The Leftmedia: Exhibit A
“The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. … It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred [is] only a means to an end, and that end [is] his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.” —ABC News “journalist” Terry Moran
Dumb & Dumber
“I do not think he won in a free and fair election. … Yeah, I said it. I’m Kathy Griffin and I do not think Trump won in a free and fair election. I believe there was tampering. I don’t know if it was the Elon connection.” —”comedian” Kathy Griffin
“You’re not far off. … I think something was off.” —Don Lemon
Village Idiot
“You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category IN ALL sports!! But instead… You bully them… One things for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around!!!!!” —gymnast Simone Biles to women’s rights advocate Riley Gaines
Upright
“Riley is MAGA and I couldn’t disagree with her more on politics but on keeping sports safe and fair for girls and women I agree with her [100%]. As most people, republicans democrats and everything in between do also.” —tennis legend Martina Navratilova
Stark Reality
“I instructed the IDF to show the flotilla passengers the video of the horrors of the October 7 massacre when they arrive at the port of Ashdod. It is appropriate that the anti-Semitic Greta [Thunberg] and her fellow Hamas supporters see exactly who the Hamas terrorist organization they came to support and for whom they work is, what atrocities they committed against women, the elderly, and children, and against whom Israel is fighting to defend itself.” —Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz
For the Record
“The Democrat party chose to betray America and let 10+ million illegals flood into this country under Biden. The steely indifference to threats, crying, and emotional blackmail that over half the country feels is a necessary reaction to this betrayal.” —Buck Sexton
“The Left got away with mass rioting in 2020. That’s why it’s happening again. The only solution is to treat them like the terrorists they are.” —Matt Walsh
“The West isn’t being asked to shelter the world. It’s being asked to SURRENDER to it. And I am not ready to kneel.” —Glenn Beck
