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STICKS, STONES, BROKEN BONES
During the 2000 Bush-Gore presidential race, we began collecting negative soundbites and posting them weekly on a MUDLINE ticker, as a temporary election feature. But in the aftermath of that tumultuous contest we realized that the tone of public discourse was unlikely to improve, and elected to continue the feature. Unfortunately, we were right; two decades later, incivility is hotter than ever. If you just can’t get enough snark on social media, this mud’s for you.
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May 5, 2024
....Trump on special counsel Jack Smith: "A f***ing asshole."....Trump on Fulton County DA Fani Willis: "Mrs. Wade...A real beauty."....Michael Cohen nickname for Trump: "Von SchitzinPants."....Rachel Maddow: "I did not think [the wheels of justice] would grind so slowly that they would rock the defendant apparently to sleep...We are dealing with someone who is fundamentally buffoonish."....Andy Borowitz on Trump's trial-dozing: "Could it be that he's finally as bored with himself as we've been for decades?"....Trump on Biden presidency: "A Gestapo administration...Joe Biden and the fascists that control him are really the true threat to democracy."....Rep. MTG: "It's antisemitic to make Israeli aid contingent on funding Ukraine Nazis."....former GOP Rep. Ken Buck: "Moscow Marjorie is focused on this Ukraine issue, and getting her talking points from the Kremlin."....Michelle Cottle on MTG: "When Russian propagandists start praising your politics and beauty, it's time to rethink your life choices."....Rep. Jared Moskowitz to MTG: "There are no concentration camps in Ukraine...No gas chambers. No ovens...Stop bringing up Nazis and Hitler...Get yourself over to the Holocaust Museum. You go see what the Nazis did."....Trump: "Crooked Joe Biden HATES Israel and Hates the Jewish people. The problem is that he HATES the Palestinians even more."....Maureen Dowd: "What could be more absurd and hypocritical than the putative Republican nominee selling Bibles and promoting an America with draconian abortion laws during his trial over a $130,000 payment to keep a porn star from telling voters about their dalliance?"....Jennifer Rubin on election fraud trial: "Unable to mask his emotions in the midst of a narcissist's worst nightmare, Trump has never looked so small, so weary, and so feeble."....Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt: "This is a communist show trial in the media capital of the world. It is cruel, it is unjust."....Vivek Ramaswami: "The whole point of Donald Trump's trials is not that they were supposed to be fair. They were designed to be unfair from the get-go."....Trump on Biden: "He will surely be Indicted and Tried for many of his Dishonest, Illegal, or Incompetent Actions."....Mary Trump on her uncle: "He's truly the worst person in any room...He gazes into a mirror, sees a god, and expects us all to bow down. His ego is like a black hole."....Jordan Klepper on Trump: "The king of pettiness."....Trump: "Biden has destroyed our country."....Rep. Jamie Raskin: "They should move the Supreme Court over to the RNC headquarters, because they're acting like a bunch of partisan operatives."....Jimmy Kimmel on Trump: "He should be on the cover of Doing Time magazine."....Trump on RFK Jr.: "A Democrat 'plant.'"....RFK Jr. on Trump: "Unhinged."....former Trump AG Bill Barr: "A continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide, in my opinion."....Nick Offerman on Trump v. Biden: "Would you rather have a pile of dogshit or a loaf of bread?"....
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April 15, 2024
Trump on Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels: "Two sleazebags who have, with their lies and misrepresentations, cost our Country dearly."....Lev Parnas to Trump: "Stop whining, Donny. It's time to pay the piper!"....Trump on Biden: "He is a criminal. He is a horrible president."....Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt: "Joe Biden can hardly speak."....Trump on Biden SOTU: "He was high as a kite."....Barry Diller on Trump's Truth Social stock: "It's a scam! Just like everything he's ever been involved in is some sort of con."....Sen. Bernie Sanders on Trump: "He's a pathological liar...He will lie about virtually everything."....Michelle Cottle on Trump: "An Olympic-caliber demagogue."....Rep. Sean Casten on House Republicans: "Cowards, led by morons."....Stephen Beschloss on the House Speaker's Mar-a-Lago visit: "Johnson standing beside Donald Trump makes clear he is immune to shame."....Trump mega-donor Tom Klingenstein on Sen. Chuck Schumer, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley, and others: "Trump hates his enemies as much as they hate him. His enemies are America's enemies."....Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Tucker Carlson: "Will eventually fade into nothingness, because his veneer of faux intellectualism is quickly falling apart and revealing who he truly is: a cowardly, know-nothing elitist full of s***."....Today News Africa's Simon Ateba: "Any crazy person out there attempting to attack my friend Tucker Carlson over his latest interview should have bombs dropped on themselves and their family members. Then we can talk from the grave."....biographer Tim O'Brien on Trump: "He's lazy, he plays golf most of the time, and he's not particularly bright."....Trump on retirement of Rep. Mike Gallagher: "Never forget our cowards and weaklings! Such a disgrace."....Maureen Dowd on Trump: "He's inflaming his base with language straight out of Macbeth's trip to hell."....Larry David on Trump: "You can't go a day without thinking about what he's done to this country because he's such a little baby that he's thrown 250 years of democracy out the window by not accepting the results...He just couldn't admit losing...He knows he lost. And look how...he's convinced all these people that he didn't lose. He's such a sick man."....Trump on immigrants: "I don't know if you call them 'people,' in some cases. They're not people, in my opinion."....Trump: "If you want to help Joe Biden wheel Granny off the cliff to fund government benefits for illegals, then vote for Crooked Joe Biden."....Eugene Robinson on Trump: "Could be making a big mistake hawking the 'God Bless the USA Bible' to his MAGA supporters. Some of them might actually read it."....David Axelrod on Trump: "A guy who has violated eleven of the Ten Commandments."....evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats: "The number one hurdle for Donald Trump is I've never met a dad or a mom or a grandpa or grandma who have told me they want their son or daughter or grandchild to grow up to be like him."....House Oversight Committee chair James Comer to Rep. Jared Moskowitz: "You look like a Smurf."....
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March 27, 2024
Trump on judge and court staff: "These COUNTRY-DESTROYING SCOUNDRELS & THUGS HAVE NO CASE AGAINST ME. WITCH HUNT!"....Daily Show's Jordan Klepper on Trump: "America's defendant-in-chief."....former Rep. George Santos: "The Republican Party continues to lie and swindle its voter base."....Rep. MTG: "Our Republican majority is a complete failure."....Trump on Biden: "He can't talk. He's a very dumb person."....Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer on Trump: "He spent the weekend golfing, the morning comparing himself to Jesus, and the afternoon lying about having money he definitely doesn't have."....Trump: "Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion."....House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Dems: "Beclowning themselves."....Rep. Jamie Raskin on Biden impeachment hearings: "The whole thing is just an embarrassment and a disgrace, and it has a very strong whiff of Russian propaganda now."....Trump lawyer Alina Habba on Trump's multimillion-dollar fraud penalty: "Manifest injustice."....Trump: "They're breaking every law to persecute us."....Robert DeNiro on Trump: "He's so f***ing stupid."....Geraldo Rivera on Rachel Maddow: "Guilty of malignant wokeism."....Trump: "The top people at NBC ARE WEAK. They were BROKEN and EMBARRASSED by LOW RATINGS, HIGHLY OVERPAID "TALENT."....James Carville on Biden's poll numbers: "When you look at 'em it's like walking in on your grandmother nekkid. You can't unsee it."....Trump on Bragg case: "This is a witch hunt. This is a hoax."....Trump on his fraud conviction: "This is communism in America!"....Trump: "Jimmy Kimmel's ratings are terrible. He's not a talented guy...A lousy host...Dumber than I thought."....Kimmel on Trump: "Isn't it past your jail time?"....
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March 12, 2024
....Elon Musk: "Winning an Oscar now just means you won the woke contest."....Trump on November election: "The only way it can end where they win is a rigged election."....Steve Bannon on Biden: "An illegitimate regime head. A usurper at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."....CNN's Bob Costa on Trump: "He is by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history...A bubbling cauldron of loathsome traits. You have to be in the throes of some sort of toxic delusion and in a toxic cult to believe that Donald Trump has ever been in any sense -- emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, or ethically -- fit to be President of the United States."....Trump on Biden: "The guy can't talk, the guy can't walk."....Sean Hannity on SOTU: "Sounded like a hyper-caffeinated, angry old man."....Newt Gingrich: "The most destructive, hateful, and divisive State of the Union in our history...Biden never ceases to amaze with his pettiness, nastiness, and dishonesty."....Trump on Biden's delivery: "Angry, and obviously very Disturbed."....House Speaker Mike Johnson: "Hyper-partisan."....Trump adviser Jason Miller: "Partisan, bitter, unhinged, yelling."....Matt Taibbi: "Could state media in the GDR, Soviet Union, Maoist China, or Pinochet's Chile have reviewed a leader's speech as breathlessly as Joe Biden's State of the Union?"....NYT's Bret Stephens: "I marveled at the many ways Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, managed to approximate the expressions of a constipated turtle."....Sen. Katie Britt in GOP rebuttal: "Our commander in chief is not in command. The free world deserves better than a dithering and diminished leader."....George Conway on Britt: "She came off as the aunt who's going to tell you about sex dungeons beneath the pizza parlor."....GOP talking points on Biden and Britt, distributed before SOTU: "His speech was tone deaf. Hers was the perfect pitch."....Tucker Carlson: "The Democrat Party is the party of weak men and unhappy women."....Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC's George Stephanopoulos: "A complete and total POS."....Trump on Facebook: "A true enemy of the people."....Trump on the CEO of Meta: "Zuckerschmuck."....Mark Cuban: "X is such a cesspool now, right? It's a s***hole, right?"....Sen. Ted Cruz: "The cases against Donald Trump are complete garbage."....Trump: "If I fly over a blue state, the next day I get a federal grand jury notice. And they indicted me on bullshit. It's all bullshit. I think they truly hate me more than anybody that's ever lived."....Sean Hannity on CNN anchor Jake Tapper: "Fake Jake, are you really that dumb?"....Trump on immigrants crossing southern border: "They're rough people, in many cases from jail, prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums -- that's 'Silence of the Lambs' stuff. Anybody know Hannibal Lecter?"....MA congressional candidate Lori Kauffman: "Long term goals are to ban same-sex marriage (never should have been legalized) and trans will be illegal. Yes illegal. I will also exile all Jews."....Trump: "Biden's conduct on our border is by any definition a conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America."....Ann Coulter: "Obama was the most articulate president we've probably ever had. Trump has a vocabulary of 50 words."....George Conway on Trump: "A deeply disturbed, a deeply morally bereft human being who has no conscience, has no morality, has no empathy, has no remorse. This is a sick man. He's a bad man."....Michigan voter Susan Titus on Trump: "I think he's pretty much an a**hole, to coin a phrase."....Trump on 2024 election: "We will liberate our country from these tyrants and villains once and for all."....Kari Lake: "Reports: Nimrata Haley will suspend her campaign today after more humiliating, landslide loses [sic] on Super Tuesday."....radio host Mark Levin: "Media are so thoroughly corrupt. Trying to create the impression that President Trump has a memory issue when Biden's brain is mush...Biden is an imbecile. Trump is sharp as always."....George Clooney on Trump: "This idea that I'm somehow the 'Hollywood elite' and this guy who takes a s*** in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable."....Donald Trump Jr.: "There's literally no amount of Viagra on Earth that's going to give Joe Biden (who can barely walk without falling over) wood...He can't walk, talk, or think."....Trump: "Wi-ri-bi-gyu...ahhh."....
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February 27, 2024
Trump on the U.S.: "WE ARE A NATION IN DECLINE, A FAILING NATION!"....Trump: "A Crooked New York State Judge, working with a totally Corrupt Attorney General...has just fined me $355 Million based on nothing other than having built a GREAT COMPANY."....Trump on Dems: "They've replaced law, precedent, and due process with a rabid mob of radical left Democrat partisans masquerading as judges and juries and prosecutors."....Trump on his indictments: "Stalinist show trials...We are turning into a communist country in many ways."....Rep. Lee Zeldin on Dems: "Are actively doing Biden's bidding as they also try to imprison his chief political opponent, Donald Trump, remove him from the ballot, and ensure he dies in prison."....Dinesh D'Souza: "Navalny = Trump. The plan of the Biden regime and the Democrats is to ensure their leading political opponent dies in prison. There's no real difference between the two cases."....Nikki Haley: "Donald Trump is siding with a dictator who kills his political opponents...with a man who's made no bones about the fact he wants to destroy America."....Bill Kristol: "The likely nominee of one of our two major political parties is pro-Vladimir Putin."....Liz Cheney: "The issue of this election cycle is making sure the Putin wing of the Republican Party does not take over the West Wing of the White House."....House Minority Whip Jim Clyburn: "That's what G-O-P stands for now, 'Groupies of Putin.'"....Zelensky on Tucker Carlson's Putin interview: "I don't have time to hear more than two hours of bullsh*t about us, about the war, about the United States, about our relations -- and this interview with a killer."....Andrew Sullivan: "Putin just got publicly fellated for two whole hours by Tucker Carlson, who never mentioned Navalny once."....Maureen Dowd on Trump: "Is trying to replace our democracy with a me-ocracy."....Mary L. Trump on her uncle: "Delusion wrapped in treason parading as grievance."....Trump adviser Chris LaCivita on Gov. Ron DeSantis: "Chicken fingers and pudding cups is what you will be remembered for, you sad little man."....Trump on Biden: "The crookedest, most incompetent president in the history of our country."....Trump on Jimmy Kimmel: "They could get a far more talented person, who would also get better Ratings, for 5% of what they are paying this Loser!"....Trump on the U.S.: "We're like a Third World nation. Look at our airports. I mean, how bad are the airports?"....Trump on the U.S.: "Sadly, in our country, Fake News is all you get."....Rachel Maddow on Trump: "Uncle Ramblestanding."....Biden spokesperson Jasmine Harris on Trump: "A poster boy for modern racism."....Kari Lake on Sen. John McCain in 2022: "Loser."....Meghan McCain on Kari Lake reaching out: "No peace, bitch. We see you for who you are -- and are repulsed by it."....Rep. Max Miller on NYC: "Liberal cesspool."....Eric Trump: "New York is a hopeless place at this point. It's so sad."....CNN chyron: "Is Biden's Age Now A Bigger Problem Than Trump's Indictments?"....Rick Wilson on Trump: "You are weak, you are desperate, you are pathetic...You never deliver, because you can't."....Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung: "Nikki 'Braindead Birdbrain' Haley reeks of desperation as it's clear she knows she has no shot, and is now auditioning for a cable news contract."....Desi Lydic: "That is the big split in the Republican Party today. Do you think Joe Biden won the election, or did you take a sh*t on Nancy Pelosi's desk?"....Stephen Colbert: "Voters are just going to have to choose between a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory or a contemptible, malicious, elderly rapist with a poor memory."....