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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 23, 2015

    "Eric Holder says that there still is pernicious racism in America. If racism is so pernicious, why would a white person pretend to be black?"
    -- talk radio host Larry Elder on Rachel Dolezal

  • June 22, 2015

    "If you happen to be a young kid in junior high or high school, and you're being force-fed evolution, and part of evolution is teaching that the transition from dark skin to light skin equals more evolved, what are you gonna think of dark-skin people?...I'm hearing from people that this is part of the curriculum. Well, if that's true, for crying out loud, then it makes it a little more understandable why people like this Dylann Roof guy exist."
    -- Rush Limbaugh

  • June 19, 2015

    "When you see her on a stage or when she comes into a room full of people, she's smiling with her mouth but her eyes say, 'Where's my latte?'"
    -- Mitt Romney on Hillary Clinton

  • June 18, 2015

    "Our country needs a truly great leader and we need a truly great leader now. We need a leader who wrote The Art of the Deal."
    -- Donald Trump

  • June 17, 2015

    "When Mexico sends its people, they are not sending their best...They are sending people that have lots of problems, and they are bringing those problems to us. They are bringing drugs and they are bringing crime, and they're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
    -- Donald Trump, announcing his candidacy

  • June 16, 2015

    "He's a bro with no ho."
    -- Mark Kirk on fellow-senator Lindsey Graham

  • June 15, 2015

    "Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed the fetal pain bill. It rained that night. Now God has his hold on California."
    -- CA state Assemblywoman Shannon Grove

  • June 13, 2015

    "Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them, they cry."
    -- Nobel Prize-winning biologist Sir Tim Hunt, speaking at a luncheon for science journalists hosted by Korean women scientists

    "Yes, I made those remarks -- which were inexcusable -- but I made them in a totally jocular, ironic way."
    -- Hunt, who was forced to resign from his position at University College London in the wake of a Twitter storm of outrage

    "I am a feminist, and I would not have put up with him if he were sexist."
    -- Hunt's wife Mary Collins, a professor and one of Britain's senior immunologists

  • June 12, 2015

    "I've got lots of friends. We'll have a rotating first lady."
    -- GOP presidential candidate and lifelong bachelor Lindsey Graham

  • June 11, 2015

    "There's nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement. And yet it's been an accepted concept in our culture today. Nowhere does it say, 'Well, he was a good and faithful servant, so he went to the beach.' It doesn't say that anywhere. The example I think of is Noah. How old was Noah when he built the ark? 600. He wasn't like, cashing Social Security checks, he wasn't hanging out, he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work."
    -- Montana businessman and likely gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte