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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 13, 2014

    "I don't have a well-crafted response on that one."
    -- Professor of Economics and GOP Congressional candidate David Brat, when asked if he favored raising the minimum wage
  • June 12, 2014

    "It's been doing that for centuries. It gets hot, it gets cold...Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Were there men that were causing -- were there cars running around at that point, that were causing global warming? No."
    -- Rep. Jeff Miller on climate change
  • June 11, 2014

    "Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's wrong."
    -- Indian politician Babulai Gaur, on rape
  • June 10, 2014

    "It's better not to argue with women."
    -- Vladimir Putin
  • June 08, 2014

    "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet."
    -- Twitter post by the CIA
  • June 06, 2014

    "I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me."
    -- Maureen Dowd, after ignoring cautions to not eat too much magic candy
  • June 05, 2014

    "He says he was growing his beard because his son was in captivity. Well, your son's out now. So if you really didn't want to look like a member of the Taliban, you don't have to look like a member of the Taliban. Are you out of razors?"
    -- Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Bob Bergdahl, father of released POW Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
  • June 03, 2014

    "No matter what society does, there will always be mass murder -- always."
    -- Bill O'Reilly
  • June 02, 2014

    "The National Weather Service says a swarm of grasshoppers was detected over Albuquerque's West Mesa for the fourth night in a row on Friday."
    -- from AP story
  • May 30, 2014

    "We kill people based on metadata."
    -- Gen. Michael Hayden, former NSA and CIA director