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David Burse's avatar

Each week, I scroll through these quotes, and I think "We've reached Peak Derp". But I'm always proven wrong by the next week's quotes.

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Valerie's avatar

EVERY week, same for me.

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Skenny's avatar

Some of them are as stupid as they sound. Others are pretending, because their base is that stupid.

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Josh Dean's avatar

Elie Mystal isn't real. That's what ChatGPT spits out after reading too much BluSky.

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ElgeeR's avatar

“The border is just one example of many ways in which this administration doesn’t care about the law anymore.” — Democratic Senator Chris Murphy

Senator Murphy is quickly ascending on my list of the most despicable and ridiculous lefties. He is a supreme dipshit. That said, competition is stiff and every week Quotes of the Week seems to elevate a new leftie on the list.

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Brigattista's avatar

And strangely, the citizens of Connecticut, who consider themselves the most educated, worldly and informed of all our states' inhabitants, apparently find his dishonesty and intellectual rot appealing. Go figure.

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ElgeeR's avatar

It's certainly strange to middle America. But there's plenty of evidence that the costal elites, as educated as they may be, are not bright. Just look at who they elect to represent them. Pocahontas, Schumer, AOC, Van Hollen, Murphy, Nadler, Jamaal Bowman, etc. The short bus isn't big enough to seat all of them.

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Valerie's avatar

Is someone chanting ‘destroy ISIS’?

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ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

Wow, it’s impossible to pick a winner today - so many nuggets of gold.

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Marc DB's avatar

Ellie Mystal should move to a country she believes is good & where men know how to talk to women. Maybe a country with state run non-profit supermarkets. Live Venezuela or Cuba or North Korea.

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DMC's avatar

Happy Independence Day!

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Anne Emerson Hall's avatar

Increasingly I have begun to doubt the possibility that any one public figure can fairly assess this vast, diverse country and provide meaningful commentary. This week’s round up would be really depressing if I weren’t aware that so many of these speakers(Joy Reid, Elie Mystal, Chris Hayes) are speaking into a growing void.

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DD's avatar

"In this authoritarian and suffocating climate where being American feels like a curse" blah blah blah....WTF! What does the flucking British Guardian know about America anyway....what a hellish nightmare it must be inside this Eve Ensler's (now V) head........Happy 4th!

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Marc DB's avatar

Happy Independence Day y’all!!’

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Mary Mc's avatar

Mind boggling. Glad I don't read or watch any of them. 😵‍💫

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My Favorite Color Is Freedom's avatar

Yet every week I’m saddened Brad must watch this trash in order to create his work of art. Grateful, entertained, annoyed -but still a little sad.

Also JK Rowling is a treasure.

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Frank Lee's avatar

Go check out the comments in Heather Cox Richardson's Substack, or Robert Reich.

The breathtaking absurdity of these quotes that Brad provides us is made more absurd by the evidence that so many coastal and big city upper class liberal progressives live in an upside-down world where these quotes are not absurd and worthy of repeat and amplification.

Democrats have pursued a political strategy that has become a giant ideological hole that they are stuck in but cannot stop digging deeper.

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Frank Lee's avatar

“Our country needs to be sanctioned. We are the bad guys on the world stage. We are a menace to not only free people everywhere, but we are a menace to peaceful people everywhere at this point.”

We have the Gallup survey... only 36% of Democrats are proud of their country. Meaning 64% of Democrats dislike their country.

Why in the hell would patriot agree to allow a party filled with people that dislike their own country to run the country?

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Ministry of Truth's avatar

Anyone else notice how many on the left have pivoted from "The constitution is an outdated document based in white supremacy" to now saying what Trump is doing is unconstitutional and against the rule of law? Any time the constitution was violated and law enforcement used to curtail the rights of peaceful citizens (e.g. during covid) there was deafening silence but now that law enforcement is targeting criminals en masse all of the sudden they're all about due process, the rule of law and the constitution.

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WilliamD's avatar

A compilation of Elie Mystal quotes would be something for the ages. Ever since Trump's reelection, he's been in the very outermost perimeter of the most distant lunatic fringe.

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My Favorite Color Is Freedom's avatar

“Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who apparently thinks Islam is a race”

this color commentary made me laugh out loud 🤣

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