‘I drive on sunshine, girl’: Quotes of the week

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“That how this happened?!  Hahahaha. Come on, baby, don’t hate — facilitate. You can do better than this petty bs.”

– CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, accompanied with a picture of his bicep, in response to a comment on Twitter. “You’re gonna break your arm jerking yourself off,” the commenter wrote.

“So, look, Republicans are very good at staying on talking points of who says, ‘Defund the police,’ but the truth is, they defunded the police, we funded crime intervention and a whole bunch of other things.”

– White House senior adviser Cedric Richmond making the claim Republicans defunded the police.

“We are seeing these headlines about percentage increases. Now, I want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much, but I also want to make sure that this hysteria, you know, that this doesn’t drive a hysteria and that we look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions about what to allocate in that context.”

– Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, during a Zoom conversation with fellow New York Democrat Jamaal Bowman.

“Do you miss me? They miss me. They miss me. I know. They look at their bad ratings, and they’re saying, ‘We miss this guy.’”

– Former President Donald Trump at his rally in Wellington, Ohio — his first rally since the 2020 election.

“We had great people working for me. We had some real losers too, by the way. But that can happen when I didn’t know too many people. In Washington, I was there 17 times in my life, and all of a sudden, the president of the United States. So we met a couple, but do I know the people? Do I know the good ones? I know the good ones. But we had some really great people.”

– Trump at his Ohio rally.

“They wanted to close a tank plant, and I went to see it, Lima. I went to see it, and I couldn’t believe it, big massive plant. The people that work there were so talented. They have the turrets. I mean, the only thing you know about tanks is Dukakis, right, where he walked with the helmet. He wouldn’t have looked good in this tank either … The talent was incredible. The ballbearings that they made, every single one with love and care, and that turret, you could flip it with your finger practically.”

– Trump lovingly recounting a visit to a tank plant at his rally.

“Let’s hear it for the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump! That’s right. And come 2024, we’re gonna get him elected for the third time.”

– Congressional candidate for Ohio’s 16th district Max Miller at the Trump rally in Ohio.

“The reason he never wears a jacket: ‘cause he’s in great shape. I say, ‘Jim, do you ever wear a jacket?’ No, he feels comfortable this way. Me, I’d rather wear a jacket. Most of you, I think, would rather wear a jacket.”

– Trump detailing how Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, is in good shape and not in need of a jacket to cover himself up.

“Kristi called me two years ago. She said, ‘Sir, do you think we can have fireworks?’ At the magnificent, you know those magnificent faces. I love those faces. Do you think my face will ever be up there? No, let’s leave it the way it is.”

– Trump describing the July 4, 2020, rally he had with South Dakota Gov. Krist Noem at Mt. Rushmore.

“Hillary Clinton can complain about the election. By the way, she is the single most unhappy person in the United States because she said, ‘Why didn’t you do that for me? Why didn’t you create votes for me?’”

– Trump at his rally.

“Boo! Boo!”

– Multiple Democrats in a meeting of the Ohio House of Representatives. Video from the June 24 meeting surfaced Tuesday. The legislature was considering a name, image, and likeness bill when Republican Jena Powell offered an amendment to keep transgender women, biological men who identify as women, out of women’s sport. Democrats shouted her down while pounding on their desks.

“I have a Chevy Bolt. That is my car! I lease a Bolt, and I lease solar panels, so I drive on sunshine, girl.”

– Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to Biden Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy. The two cut a dashboard camera video in a Chevrolet Volt to talk about investments in electric cars. It ended with them singing “On the Road Again.”

“Senator, I hope. You think I’m kidding. I’m not.”

– President Joe Biden to Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat. Biden was caught on a hot mic, seeming to suggest Waters should run for Senate.

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“The cost of a 4th of July cookout in 2021 is down $0.16 from last year.”

– The White House on Twitter announcing some massive savings from last year for Americans’ Independence Day cookouts.