Race Bait

“They have decided to go after immigrants … and they’ve said, ‘Oh, they’ve taken your black job. They’ve taken your black jobs.’ … Clearly, [Trump] is trying to make us go back to the fields.” —Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett

Re: The Left

“They insisted Joe Biden was fine. They insisted Kamala Harris was sharp. They insisted the economy was great. They insisted the border was secure. They insisted indicting Trump could stop him and that convicting him would turn Americans against him. They insisted a massive COVID-19 relief package would not provoke inflation. They insisted that they could call their Green New Deal the Inflation Reduction Act and Americans would believe it. Now they cannot clap for a kid with cancer or show compassion to the family of Laken Riley, murdered by an illegal alien.” —Erick Erickson

“Democrats have built an echo chamber that is poisoning them. Their preferred news network, newspapers, and voices, intoxicated by power and control, lack the humility to relate to people outside of their bubble.” —Erick Erickson

“In a way, the public has lost its trust in legacy media because legacy media lost its trust in the American people.” —Thomas Gallatin

Friendly Fire

“Gavin Newsom has overseen endless drug overdose deaths on our streets, completely mishandled devastating wildfires in CA, provided cover for his scum donors… Yet all these ‘progressives’ didn’t get remotely as riled up as they are now that he agrees with 80% of the country on banning trans women in sports.” —Ana Kasparian

For the Record

“There was no federal Department of Education until 1979. The Republic not only survived without it for more than 200 years, it thrived without it. Educational standards and outcomes were far superior then compared to what we have now after 46 years of bureaucratic bloat and radical neo-Marxist teachers’ unions. … There is no standard by which the Department of Education can be considered a ‘success’ other than wasting money.” —Gary Bauer

Worth Consideration

“I want you to stop and think about this for a moment: All of your children are being educated by academics, 95-99% of whom think that Kamala Harris would have been a far superior president to Donald Trump. These academics have used their minds to conclude that Harris better encapsulates the values of the United States. Choose your universities wisely.” —Professor Gad Saad

Canary in a Coal Mine

“Economists point out that the tariffs will likely raise the U.S. prices of many products, not just eggs. Voters won’t welcome something that looks like the Biden inflation, which could overshadow the Trump administration’s genuine successes.” —Michael Barone

Death and Taxes

“There’s never a downside to letting people keep more of their own money, especially since we have had a prodigal Congress for far too long. Our tax money is never enough to satiate their addiction.” —Brian Mark Weber

Bold Claim

“Starlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa, because I’m not black.” —Elon Musk, a citizen of the U.S., Canada, and South Africa

And Last

“It’s the first time in my lifetime the press has been critical of someone for wanting to forge a negotiated end to a major war.” —Rich Lowry on the blowback Donald Trump has received for trying to end the Ukraine war