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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 12, 2013

    "Absolutely 100% all of it is fraud."
    -- Rep. Markwayne Mullin on food stamps

  • August 09, 2013

    "I'm sorta holding my nose for two years. What we're doing here is going to be a big benefit to Rand in '16."
    -- Sen. Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign manager Jesse Benton

  • August 08, 2013

    "It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science."
    -- Rep. Steve King, on climate change

  • 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