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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.

  • November 20, 2014

    "I hope they don't think we're a rock and roll outfit."
    -- Mick Jagger, on the impending first live gig by his new r&b group The Rolling Stones

  • November 19, 2014

    "I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors -- probably harmless."
    -- prominent GOP activist Rusty DePass, on report that a gorilla had escaped from a Columbia, South Carolina zoo

  • November 18, 2014

    "The demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler. Carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world, and so were the Jews."
    -- William Harper, Princeton Professor of Physics, Emeritus, on climate change

  • November 17, 2014

    "Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus."
    -- Recep Tayyip Ertogan, President of Turkey

  • November 14, 2014

    "Ted Cruz Saves America"
    -- title of a new kids' coloring book, whose publisher claims "Millions of citizens believe Obama Care is worse than any war"

  • November 12, 2014

    "I am a United States Army general, and I lost the Global War on Terrorism. It's like Alcoholics Anonymous; step one is admitting you have a problem. Well, I have a problem. So do my peers. And thanks to our problem, now all of America has a problem, to wit: two lost campaigns and a war gone awry."
    -- Daniel P. Bolger in his book Why We Lost

  • November 11, 2014

    "Obamacare for the internet."
    -- Sen. Ted Cruz on net neutrality

  • November 09, 2014

    "The world is on the brink of a new Cold War. Some are even saying that it's already begun... To put it metaphorically, a blister has now turned into a bloody, festering wound."
    -- former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev

  • November 08, 2014

    "We have to have discussions, and we haven't seen that in years now."
    -- GOP Senator-elect Joni Ernst, on what comes next

  • November 07, 2014

    "It would make Obama cry."
    -- robocall to Kansas voters on why they should vote for Pat Roberts