“And, over the last decade, this process — finding some idiot who said something ridiculous and aggregating whatever they said into a form that fits a trending algorithm — is now, hilariously, how all of American culture works.”
“Pennsylvania Republicans will nominate a 2020 election conspiracist for governor in the May 17 primary. How can I be sure of that? Because they’re all election conspiracists.”
“Organized by QAnon conspiracy theorists Alan and Francine Fosdick, the two-day conference featured appearances by several Republican candidates for office, including Pennsylvania GOP state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who is currently running for governor, Teddy Daniels, who is running for lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania; Rick Bowers, who is running for state Senate in Maryland; and Dan Cox, who is running for governor in Maryland.”
“Teddy Daniels, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania, was ordered to temporarily leave his home and stay away from his wife and child after his wife acquired a court order against him this week.”
“More than a month later, Perry texted Meadows a YouTube link detailing another conspiracy theory: that votes were changed by Italian satellites.”
“With this vigilante scheme, Florida has copied from Texas’ playbook, empowering private citizens to enforce oppressive laws through direct legal action.”
“What they’re doing is really telling the students straight up, ‘We discriminate. We don’t accept you. You’re not welcome here.’”
“A North Carolina schools superintendent has apologized for a mock ‘slave auction’ in which white middle-schoolers pretended to sell their Black classmates.”
“If a book is not found on the list, it will not be located within a library operated by a public school or public charter school.”
“The flaws in the Insular Cases are as fundamental as they are shameful.”
“The map is the election, and the election is an afterthought.”
“Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”
“This isn’t Republican Sen. Ron Johnson’s first ride on the ‘COVID did AIDS ‘ carousel, either.”
“(Male) libido enhancers are tax-exempt, but medically necessary products for women are not.”
“We’re essentially working in a post-Roe era here.”
“It’s very dangerous stuff. You can get killed with those things … I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit. And some fruit is a lot worse than — tomatoes are bad by the way. But it’s very dangerous… they were going to hit — they were going to hit very hard.”
“This is the inevitable result of American individualism: a louder, meaner, fuck-you Americanism that isn’t just about bootstrapping yourself, but about burning your neighbors’ boots.”
“If that is true, why are there still apes?”
“It’s likely that the best move for someone who messed up as badly as I did is simply to go away and be quiet.”
“Having a nationally televised ‘debate’ about whether in fact the Democratic party is part of a child sex slave trafficking ring controlled by a (((globalist))) elite is … how to put this? Not a great idea, maybe?”
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