Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“The Republican Party is obsessed with culture war issues. It is weird and it is bizarre.” —gender-confused Congressman “Sarah” (Tim) McBride

Upright

“It is never wrong or rude to call a man ‘he,’ ‘sir,’ or ‘Mr.’ It’s never mean to say that a man looks like a man. What’s rude is reducing womanhood to long hair and lipstick and forcing everyone to play along with your delusions.” —Allie Beth Stuckey

Just Deserts

“Look, I own this. We wouldn’t be in this mess if we had won the election, and we didn’t.” —Tim Walz

Projection

“They’re such snowflakes on the Right. If you say anything about them they’re going up to the lawyers in two seconds.” —"The View" co-host Joy Behar

Non Compos Mentis

“There’s something wrong with [Trump]. … We do know that he did have red splotches on his hand, which … could be an indication of syphilis.” —Democrat strategist James Carville

Mental Gymnastics

“In my opinion, if we’re shut down, you can’t be fired. … It does mean that people will not be paid, but it does mean that they will get their back pay. So hopefully we can stop some of the bleeding. … I don’t really understand why anybody would say, ‘Oh, we gotta take the high road.’” —Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett justifying a government shutdown

When You Put It That Way…

“Democrats are fighting back in a way: They’re tiring of all of this firing, furloughing, closing of these government departments, and they say: ‘If you don’t stop shutting down the government, we’re going to shut down the government!’” —Bill Maher

For the Record

“Dick Durbin is taking a break from fighting for a pro-Hamas campus radical to now focus on shutting down the government.” —Senator Tom Cotton

Spin Doctor

“[Trump] said today he would label violence against dealerships domestic terrorism. … So just to be clear: You protest a private company, you are labeled by this administration a domestic terrorist.” —an MSNBC host equating the destruction of private property with the right to protest

Political Futures

“I think [Newsom] wants to be president … more than anything else on the planet. I think you can agree he has more political ambition than almost anybody in the Democratic Party.” —Charlie Kirk debriefing about his appearance on Gavin Newsom’s podcast

Re: The Left

“The same people who are upset that some federal education bureaucracy has been shut down were the most vocal advocates of shutting down your schools during COVID. The results were an educational disaster.” —Gary Bauer

“If Trump’s opponents keep taking the side of people like Mahmoud Khalil, they will keep ending up on the wrong side of the American people.” —Ben Shapiro

“Biden fudged the numbers. The numbers were totally fake… I knew they were fake — everyone knew they were fake — but now it came out.” —Donald Trump regarding DHS and ICE reports confirming the Biden admin fudged illegal immigration numbers

And Last…

“Mass migration is the greatest threat to our country’s sovereignty. President Trump is leveraging the full might of the executive to execute on mass deportations and take our country back from the illegal alien invasion that is tearing our country apart.” —Congressman Brandon Gill reacting to Trump’s plan to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798