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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 17, 2016

    "I am convinced that if this president could confiscate every gun in America, he would. I am convinced if he could get rid of the 2nd Amendment, he would... About every two weeks he holds a press conference talking about how he can't wait to restrict people's access to guns."
    -- Marco Rubio

  • January 15, 2016

    "Let me tell you, ISIS and terrorists do not get their guns from a gun show."
    -- Sen. Marco Rubio on Obama's executive order, in last night's debate

    "America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms. You can go down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle, without a background check, and most likely without having to show an identification card. So what are you waiting for?"
    -- al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn in a 2011 video

  • January 14, 2016

    "Nikki Haley says 'welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of religion.'
    Translation: let in all the Muslims."

    "Trump should deport Nikki Haley."
    -- Ann Coulter tweets during GOP response to SOTU

  • January 13, 2016

    "I wish that tonight he would announce, 'Hey guys, I've really been a failure as president over the last seven years and I'm gonna take off early cause I want to go play golf.'"
    -- Rand Paul, before the SOTU

    "Really boring, slow, lethargic -- very hard to watch."
    -- Trump on SOTU

    "A president who has failed us."
    -- Chris Christie on SOTU

    "Full of denial and defeatism."
    -- House Speaker Paul Ryan on Obama

  • January 10, 2016

    "I am brilliant. You know that, right?"
    -- Donald Trump

  • January 09, 2016

    20%
    -- percentage of New Hampshire primary voters who think President Obama is going to take all guns away from Americans during his final year in office

  • January 08, 2016

    "I know the traffickers...These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty, these types of guys. They come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, and they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave..."
    -- Maine Gov. Paul LePage on his state's heroin epidemic

  • January 07, 2016

    "I cherish women. I want to help women. I'm going to be able to do things for women that no other candidate would be able to do."
    -- Donald Trump

  • January 06, 2016

    "[Ted Cruz] says 'We're gonna build a wall.'...He's a politician, so he wouldn't know where to start. I know how to build a wall. I know exactly how to build a wall. I know the footings. I know exactly how deep they have to go. I know everything."
    -- Donald Trump

  • January 05, 2016

    "I see step-by-step, and then all of a sudden you have no Second Amendment. I do see that happening...Pretty soon, you won't be able to get any guns."
    -- Donald Trump