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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.
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December 28, 2020
"Mr. President, it's time to end this dark charade...You had every right to investigate the election. But let's be clear: Those efforts have found nothing... Sidney Powell is a crazy person, Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is shameful...We offer this as a newspaper that endorsed you, that supported you."
-- NY Post editorial, with front page STOP THE INSANITY headline -
December 26, 2020
"If we have corrupt elections, we have no country!"
-- Trump -
December 26, 2020
"Elite liberal media... blamed President Trump for the global pandemic even as he did literally everything top scientists instructed."
-- Newt Gingrich -
December 25, 2020
"Twitter is going wild with their flags...Very dangerous for our Country. Does Congress know that this is how Communism starts?"
-- Trump on his lies being tagged with "This claim about election fraud is disputed." -
December 24, 2020
"I am your law-and-order president."
-- Trump -
December 23, 2020
"I can smell crooks! Smell 'em! And these crooks smell so bad, you can smell 'em from a mile. NOW PROVE ME WRONG! PROVE ME NUTS!"
-- Rudy Giuliani on Dominion, maker of voting machines -
December 22, 2020
"With all his talent and the ability to raise money and grow large crowds, the president still lives in an alternate reality. He really does...He doesn't lie -- to him that's the truth...Things that really aren't true...He is very erratic...It's a mixed bag. And I think it would be well to say, 'You've had your day and it's time to move on.'"
-- Pat Robertson -
December 21, 2020
"It wasn't us who pulled out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. It wasn't us who pulled out of the Open Skies Treaty. What, do you think we're idiots or something?"
-- Putin to BBC journalist asking if Russia is to blame for the world's current level of tension -
December 20, 2020
"Their last dying words are, 'This can't be happening, it's not real.' Even after the positive results come back, they don't believe it. People want it to be influenza, they want it to be pneumonia, we've even had people say, 'I think it could be lung cancer.'...[When she offers to set up FaceTime so patients can have a final conversation with family members, they say:] 'No, because I'm doing fine.'"
-- South Dakota nurse Jodi Doering, on COVID-19 patients -
December 19, 2020
"It is my honor, on behalf of the President of the United States, to announce that henceforth the men and women of the United States Space Force will be known as 'guardians.'"
-- VP Mike Pence