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“If you abuse the public trust, we’re going to find you, and we’re going to prosecute you.”

—Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri), as Missouri attorney general but who subsequently voted against conviction in Trump’s impeachment trial and who voted to reject Pennsylvania’s electoral votes just hours after giving that fist bump to insurrectionists who swarmed the Capitol.

[Tell your congressman],”’If you don’t start supporting election integrity, I’m coming after you, Madison Cawthorn is coming after you. Everybody’s coming after you.’”

—US Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), addressing a conservative rally in Florida in December 2020.

“I believe that this was agitators strategically placed inside of this group—you can call them antifa, you can call them people paid by the Democratic machine.”

—Madison Cawthorn, on the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, but sans any proof of his claim.

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“Happy Father’s Day to all, including the Radical Left, RINOs, and other Losers of the world.”

—The former guy, in his Father’s Day message.

“Every major social problem in America can be linked to fatherlessness. Wherever involved fathers are rare, crisis is certain to follow and billions in government spending is no substitute for fatherhood.”

—Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), in his Father’s Day message, apparently oblivious that the Jan. 6 insurrection, white supremacy legislation such as voter suppression laws, crumbling infrastructure, climate change Russian computer hacking and a pandemic that was ignored by the previous guy constitute bona fide “crises” that had nothing to do with “fatherlessness.”

“The vacation house of the Führer. Seeing the Eagles Nest has been on my bucket list for awhile (sic), it did not disappoint.”

—US Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), Instagram posting on his visit to Adolf Hitler’s Eagle’s Net compound.

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“Come January 20, when I am sworn in as Vice President, you guys had better knock it off. Otherwise, we’ll have to get NBC’s broadcast license revoked.”

—Sarah Palin, during 2008 presidential campaign

“Palin’s nomination was troubling on a deeper level. I noticed from the start that her incoherence didn’t matter to the vast majority of Republicans; in fact, anytime she crumbled under questioning by a journalist, they seemed to view it as proof of a liberal conspiracy.

—Barack Obama, in is book A Promised Land

“Never, in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that at least 30 percent of our population would become absolutely batshit crazy, inventing their own reality.”

—LouisianaVoice reader and occasional contributor Stephen Winham, on his reaction to the unexplainable mentality that produced “leaders” like Sarah Palin and the former guy, to name only a few who now dominate the Repugnantcan Party.

“I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that’s the way it is, period.”

—Pat Robertson

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“We had no domestic attacks under Bush – we’ve had one under Obama.”

—Rudy Giuliani, who was mayor of New York City on 9/11

“[Singer] Ethel Waters, for example, was the result of forcible rape.”

—Former Republican Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, on the upside of pregnancy after rape

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

—Winston Churchill

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“I tell people my dad fought 76 years ago in Europe to free Europe of socialism.”

—US Sen. And erstwhile football coach Tommy Tuberville (Uh…that would be the Nazis, Tommy)

“Literally, if we took away the minimum wage – if conceivably it was gone – we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.”

—Former presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann (definitely positively probably possibly)

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

—Plato

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