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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.

  • January 30, 2021

    "We broke into the Capitol...We got inside, we did our part. We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin' brain, but we didn't find her."
    -- Dawn Bancroft, Pennsylvanian charged by DOJ yesterday, in selfie-video made on January 6th

    "Stupid."
    -- Sen. Marco Rubio on Trump impeachment

  • January 29, 2021

    "[Twitter and Facebook] are banning you because you suck...Because you support a revolution against the government of this country and a free and fair election."
    -- Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson on Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep Jim Jordan, and others

    "I have twice as many followers as Rick Wilson, so if I suck, I wonder what that means about him. Yeah."
    -- Gaetz in response

  • January 28, 2021

    "Just understand this: All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. It's gonna be moving. It's gonna be quick."
    -- Steve Bannon, on air the day before the attack on the Capitol

    "We're coming in right over the target, okay? Exactly...It's them against us. Who can impose their will on the other side?"
    -- Bannon, the day of the attack

  • January 27, 2021

    "For 6-8 weeks everybody on the right has been saying...if Congress [certifies the electoral votes] it will mean a revolution! So Congress moves forward, Patriots storm the Capitol...I missed the part where it was agreed this would be a revolution of ice cream cones and hair-braiding parties..."
    -- "Stop the Steal" organizer Brandon Straka, arrested on Monday

  • January 20, 2021

    "With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot come to each of you, but shall be obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand."
    -- George Washington bidding farewell to his general officers at the end of the American Revolution, December 4, 1783

  • January 19, 2021

    "Ted Cruz would want us to do this, so I think we're good."
    -- Senate intruder, after photographing pages from binder left on Sen. Ted Cruz's desk when members fled the chamber

  • January 18, 2021

    "He can't say anything [about the storming of the Capitol] because the platforms have removed him."
    -- Hogan Gidley, Trump's reelection press secretary, forgetting there is a briefing room in the White House

  • January 17, 2021

    "President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings."
    -- official presidential schedule for today

  • January 16, 2021

    "If you can impeach a president after they are out of office, why don't we impeach George Washington? He owned slaves."
    -- Sen. Lindsey Graham

  • January 15, 2021

    "He loved Trump. Every word, he listens to him."
    -- attorney Albert Watkins, asking that Trump pardon his client, Jacob "Q Shaman" Chansley

    "They say we lost. We didn't lose...We will stop the steal...We're going to have someone in there that should not be in there, and our country will be destroyed. And we're not going to stand for that...You have to get your people to fight....Democrats attempted the most brazen and outrageous election theft. Everybody knows it."
    -- Trump at Jan 6 "Save America" rally