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TWO DECADES OF WTF

Welcome to the world's largest and most up-to-date collection of insane, tragic, misguided, dishonest, inexplicable, and darkly hilarious comments by public figures. This is where reality comes when it wants its mind blown.

  • June 01, 2021

    "No reason. I mean, it should happen here. No reason. Right? That's right."
    -- former national security adviser Michael Flynn at "For God and Country" rally, asked why a military coup like the one that happened in February in Myanmar can't happen here

  • May 31, 2021

    "The only way I'll believe Joe Biden has a 62% approval rating is if they polled the Chinese Communist Party."
    -- Rep. Lauren Boebert

  • May 30, 2021

    "If you aren't making news, you aren't governing."
    -- Rep. Matt Gaetz

     

  • May 29, 2021

    "You know Nazis were the National Socialist Party. Just like the Democrats are now a national socialist party."
    -- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

  • May 28, 2021

    "If Trump doesn't run, I'm sure I could defeat whatever remains of Joe Biden by 2024."
    -- Rep. Matt Gaetz

  • May 27, 2021

    "Overseer of 1619 Project Receives Support in Tenure Dispute."
    -- headline on New York Times story about Nikole Hannah-Jones, lead author of the 1619 Project and a professor at Chapel Hill

     

  • May 26, 2021

    "But for the words of the then-President, the Defendant would not have gone into the Capitol Building. These aren't bad people. F***, they were subjected to four-plus years of goddamn propaganda the likes of which the world has not seen since f***ing Hitler."
    -- lawyer Albert Watkins, defending "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley

  • May 25, 2021

    "...Some of the loudest of all insects. It is often difficult to pinpoint where the sound is coming from and can sound like a vehicle or home alarm system. Their song can be loud enough to cause hearing loss as they can produce sounds up to 120 decibels."
    -- Union County Georgia officials, urging citizens to stop calling 911 to report cicadas

  • May 24, 2021

    "When I saw Berkeley in your bio, I got it. Just put the hammer and sickle with it. Being a communist professor, you've never done the real hard work that builds the economy, you just teach ideas that will destroy it."
    -- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, now teaching at UC Berkeley and author of "Saving Capitalism"

  • May 23, 2021

    "By and large it was a peaceful protest except for there were a number of people, basically agitators, that whipped the crowd and breached the Capitol. That's really the truth."
    -- Sen. Ron Johnson