The 20 Best Quotes of 2024
20) "A lot of men think Democrats care more about dudes who want to become women than dudes who just want to be dudes." -- Scott Jennings
19) "I'm glad you got to make the elegant point… Telling working-class voters who are men in particular, but white working-class male voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin… 'Sorry bro. The progress means no one can speak for you and no one can be in favor of your interests.’" -- Buck Sexton
18) "The secret to understanding not merely modern feminism or whiny-rich-black-guy CRT but... pretty much all contemporary left-wing thought is recognizing that many/most young activists see human nature itself as ‘oppression.’ Being 'forced into adulting' is literally just having to stay alive as a non-slave older than 17. 'Objectification' is people being sexually attracted to you. 'Emotional labor' is friendship. 'Microaggressions' are human awkwardness. 'Cultural appropriation' is trade. 'Gender roles,' short of abuse, are how mammals respond to sexual dimorphism, and the fact that only females have the ~magical ability to produce life. Etc etc. People are literally embarking on ten-year courses of therapy and drugs to avoid being a normal human." -- Wilfred Reily
17) "Rationality doesn't revel in skepticism. It accepts what is reasonable and rejects what is not. The man who questions everything is just as foolish as the man who questions nothing." -- Seth Dillon
16) "If you're in an echo chamber that's mad about everything all the time, it's a horrible echo chamber that is ruining your life. Your people should not validate your worst traits, they should make you feel empowered to make your life and the lives of those around you better." -- Shibetoshi Nakamoto
15) "Vast swaths of Western culture-elite culture, political culture, online culture, academic culture, and most especially pop culture — are obsessed with being part of a resistance. Everyone wants to play the rebel, fighting the system from the outside. Nobody wants to be cast as the responsible grown-up striving to make the system work. The system is supposed to be all-powerful, and yet no one wants to claim they're part of it." -- Jonah Goldberg
14) "Why is it that we only have consequences for actions not in the US? If you harm Americans there will be payback. Well, there are Americans being harmed in the US every damn day. We don't do s*** about the border. We don't do anything about crime. When will we send a message to the illegal immigrants or the fentanyl suppliers? Or the smash and grabbers? Or hell, why don't we send a message to the people who assault cops?" -- Greg Gutfeld
13) "Elvis recorded 710 songs. Only 40 became hits. Thomas Edison patented 1,093 inventions, and only one is globally famous. Success rates? All under 1%. If these guys quit trying or cared about what people said, they wouldn’t be the legends they are today." -- Gia MaCool
12) "You know what would really lower healthcare costs? Getting rid of the 20 million illegals whose health bills we pay." -- Peachy Keenan
11) "The weird thing about diversity hires as they get so pissy when you point out they were diversity hires. I thought hiring on the basis of diversity was good, but apparently, you’re not supposed to point out that they were not hired on because of merit. It’s almost like it’s all a bunch of nonsense." -- Kurt Schlichter
10) "We are all descended from slaves. It is just a question of when. Was it more recent or less recent? That's it." -- Elon Musk
9) "Europe colonized the world by bringing civilization to uncivilized places. What’s happening now is like a reverse colonization. The third world is bringing chaos and disorder to previously civilized places. It’s colonization minus all of the benefits." -- Matt Walsh
8) "Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility." -- Jeff Bezos explaining why the Washington Post will no longer do presidential endorsements.
7) "I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world." -- Kansas City Chiefs football player Harrison Butker
6) "What is our stand on the sexual exploitation of minors? We have authorized the death penalty for pedophiles and that is something that is absolutely appropriate." -- Ron DeSantis
5) "If progressives have a politics that says all white people are racist, all men are toxic, and all billionaires are evil it’s kinda hard to keep them on your side. If you're chasing people out of the party, you can't be mad when they leave." -- Van Jones
4) "The test of power is, ‘Who can get whom fired and/or jailed?’" -- Marc Andreessen
3) "Why wouldn’t they paint a rainbow mural on the road? When you conquer a nation, you build symbols on it to remind the people they’ve been conquered." -- Jesse Kelly
2) "To all the liberals saying they're going to kill Trump supporters — y'all do realize we have guns, right?” -- Kyle Rittenhouse
1) "Fight! Fight! Fight!" -- Donald Trump
Ironically, one of the quotes I thought most interesting was from Van Jones, who ought to be correct. Of course some of those people who ought to leave the Democrat party stay and continue to pay "protection" money. Gia McCool's quote is wildly inaccurate, as she apparently counts having only Billboard "#1 on the Pop chart" songs as success. Bruce Springstein has never had a #1 charting song, the highest he ever got was #2. Is he then not a legend? Or Credence Clearwater Revival? Jonah Goldberg suffers massively from TDS, which destroys his powers of reason, at least as far as pitching in to help America. Have you ever asked him, since there was a binary solution set in this past election, would he rather then have had Kamala elected to be POTUS? In other words, what good does his rebellion do? Thanks for posting this list, John.