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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.

  • March 19, 2014

    "I hope it's not working. Because if you go back to 1933, with different words, this is what Hitler was saying in Germany. You don't survive as a society if you encourage and thrive on envy or jealousy."
    -- billionaire Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone, on populist appeals critical of increasing wealth disparity

  • March 18, 2014

    "We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning to value the culture of work, so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with."
    -- Rep. Paul Ryan

  • March 15, 2014

    "The hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities...should all be taken out and shot."
    -- Austin Ruse of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute

  • March 14, 2014

    "Very much like Nazi Germany...We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe."
    -- Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and Fox News contributor Dr. Ben Carson, on America

  • March 13, 2014

    "I think the thing that is getting a little tiresome -- the gay community, they have so bullied the American people, and they've so intimidated politicians. The politicians fear them, so that they think they get to dictate the agenda everywhere."
    -- Rep. Michele Bachmann

  • March 12, 2014

    "For an adult at a normal body mass index, or BMI, eating [the recommended] 5% [of total daily calories] would be around 25 grams of sugar -- or six teaspoons. That's less than is typically found in a single can of regular soda, which contains about 40 grams of sugar...The average American now consumes about three pounds [1360 grams] of sugar each week."
    -- from CNN story on World Health Organization's draft guidelines on sugar consumption

  • March 11, 2014

    "Treating our Constitution worse than a placemat at Denny's."
    -- Sen. Mitch McConnell on President Obama

  • March 09, 2014

    "Obama has released the homo demons on the black man. Look out black woman. A white homo may take your man."
    -- sign posted by ATLAH Worldwide Missionary Church in Harlem

  • March 07, 2014

    "I made a small investment in Bitcoin and it is actually enough that I could now retire if I wanted to. Overall, I've made about $800 per penny I've invested. It's insane."
    -- Gavin Andresen, Bitcoin's chief scientist

  • March 06, 2014

    "This is the last time I'm going to talk about my personal life in an American publication ever again."
    -- Alec Baldwin in New York Magazine