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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.

  • August 07, 2013

    "He doesn't have a chin. Well he used to...but he suffers from what I like to call the-rump-of-corporate-elites-kiss-me-eitis...After years of kissing the corporate elites you just rub your chin right off."
    -- primary candidate Ed Marksberry on Sen. Mitch McConnell

  • August 06, 2013

    "There's something awesome about being held down and watching your family get raped on a beach."
    -- "Community" creator and reinstated showrunner Dan Harmon, on the sitcom's previous season

  • August 04, 2013

    "One small step for me, a giant leap for robots."
    -- Kirobo, thirteen-inch-tall talking humanoid robot launched by Japan, bound for the International Space Station

  • August 02, 2013

    "I'm going to be a successful mayor because of it, because it's going to give me a level of independence."
    -- Anthony Weiner on sexting scandal

  • August 01, 2013

    "For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another hundred out there who weigh a hundred and thirty pounds -- and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling seventy-five pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act."
    -- Rep. Steve King, on illegal immigrants and the DREAM Act

  • July 31, 2013

    "You can quibble about beginnings, middles, and ends, but what we're talking about is over a year ago."
    -- Anthony Weiner, asked if he is still sexting

  • July 30, 2013

    "Who am I to judge?"
    -- Pope Francis, on gay priests

  • July 28, 2013

    "You're a Muslim, so why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity?"
    -- Fox News' Lauren Green to religious scholar Reza Aslan

    "Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament, and fluency in biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also just happens to be a Muslim. It's not that I'm just some Muslim writing about Jesus. I am an expert with a Ph.D. in the history of religions."
    -- Aslan

    "It still begs the question. Why would you be interested in the founder of Christianity?"
    -- Green

  • July 10, 2013

    "Cheap student loans keep people out of the labor market. This is a dangerous spiral."
    -- Tucker Carlson

  • July 04, 2013

    "If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong."
    -- Dennis Rodman