Quotable Quotes

"This is not the act of a friend." ~ Australian PM Anthony Albanese #1,380
Broad generalization may lead us astray Mr. Prime Minister.
We can agree at the outset this is an exceedingly embarrassing segment of U.S. history, and foreign policy. Please don't take it personally.

A guileless but politically determinative minority of the U.S. electorate has apparently been naïvely duped by a carnival huckster, a con-man.
"We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interest are eternal and perpetual, and these interest it is our duty to follow." Lord Palmerston 1848
Perhaps L.P.
But many if not most U.S. citizens have taken the following pledge, "pledge" and "oath" being quite similar if not indistinguishable.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands,
one nation
under God,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.


This ostensibly binding commitment may be widely disregarded, violated by those that have taken it.
But at very least it outlines the pretense, not perhaps what we are, but what we would wish to be.

An if these few words of principle are not antithetical to you, to your nation, to your People,
then please understand we haven't knowingly forsaken them, or you.

Our CEO is currently undergoing global economic O.J.T.
This may take a while.
Until he graduates, good luck good friend.
 
"There is a constitutional path. You have to amend the Constitution to do it, and that's a high bar." ~ House Speaker Mike Johnson, asked if there is a legal constitutional path for Trump to seek a third term
 
"There is a constitutional path. You have to amend the Constitution to do it, and that's a high bar." ~ House Speaker Mike Johnson, asked if there is a legal constitutional path for Trump to seek a third term #1,382

Pence will get the Profile in Courage Award from JFK Library ...


By JONATHAN J. COOPER / Updated 2:43 PM GMT-5, April 3, 2025
Former Vice President Mike Pence will receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his refusal to go along with President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in office after losing the 2020 election, Kennedy’s family announced Thursday.
The award recognizes Pence “for putting his life and career on the line to ensure the constitutional transfer of presidential power on Jan. 6, 2021,” the JFK Library Foundation said.


"I'm well known but I'm not known well." VP Mike Pence on ABC thisweek 23/08/20
 
"Our country has been looted, raped, and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike." ~ Trump, announcing new tariffs

Okay Donnie - we know you're not a friend so that must make you ....

"In my opinion, they're really corrupt and they're illegal. What they do is illegal." ~
Trump on MSNBC and CNN
 
"THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE!" ~ Trump post

"America will be his seventh bankruptcy." ~ small business owner, on Trump
 
"We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture." ~ VP JD Vance #1,387
You think you can create a swindle even more advantageous to U.S. than that VP JD?
Splendid.

But driving up U.S. consumer costs, and making U.S. produce more expensive abroad is not an improvement.

"THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE!" ~ Trump post
"America will be his seventh bankruptcy." ~ small business owner, on Trump #1,388
It has been a tradition in the U.S. for the next generation to be better off than the gen. that preceded it.
Have we over-succeeded? How else can we explain this dangerous malefactor being re-elected?
 
"These countries are calling us up. Kissing my ass. They are dying to make a deal. 'Please, please, sir, make a deal. I'll do anything. I'll do anything, sir.'" ~ Trump, telling his latest "sir" story

No question - if he actually believes that he's definitely using some primo shit ....
 
"It got very wokey, and some people were not happy with it, and some people refused to go. We're not going to have that...I think we're going to make it hot. We made the presidency hot, so this should be easy." ~ Trump, on taking over the Kennedy Center
 
"Being truthful, in this administration, is seen as being unfaithful to Donald Trump." MSNBC's Rachel Maddow

"Speaking truth is only a crime in countries ruled by tyrants." ~ former Rep. Liz Cheney

"Every citizen...ought be afraid." ~ former AG Eric Holder
 
"President Trump's days include participation in multiple meetings, public appearances, press availability, and frequent victories in golf events." ~ from Trump's latest physical exam report
 
"... and frequent victories in golf events." ~ from Trump's latest physical exam report #1,394
Imagine the platoon of duffers they've had to recruit to make this inferior golfer victorious.
What's their handicap? Cinderblock golf shoes? Jack Daniels I.V. ?

“I'm gunna be workin' for you. I'm not gunna have time to go play golf.” GOP pres. cand. Trump “8/2/16”

"Every citizen...ought be afraid." ~ former AG Eric Holder
Every former AG ought be at court holding Trump's feet to the fire. So how's your golf game Mr. Holder?

"Speaking truth is only a crime in countries ruled by tyrants." ~ former Rep. Liz Cheney
Lizzy !
 
"Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough." ~ Trump to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, referring to his CECOT maximum security prison
 
"Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough." ~ Trump to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, referring to his CECOT maximum security prison #1,396
Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex.
Trump is at the "prison industrial complex". *
"It's a profit deal!" Steve Martin in title role of The Jerk, expressing his revelation as an entry-level new hire at a carnival midway
* If reports are accurate, these former residents were a net benefit, paying taxes, providing labor.
As wards of the State they're costing $Thousands, perhaps $Tens of $thousands.
The arithmetic is simple enough even for Trump to grasp.
Therefore it appears Trump perceives some other benefit, perhaps something as trivial, as irrelevant as a larger tally on his deported list.
 
"Those asylum seekers work and pay taxes but can't claim benefits" #1,398
Thus deporting them is a net detriment.
El Salvador seems eager to receive them. It's likely El Salvador is being paid by the U.S. per prisoner. Not only being paid, but being paid enough to make a profit.

Thus, this Trump illegal deportation binge is $costing $U.S.

It's a disgrace.
 
El Salvador seems eager to receive them. It's likely El Salvador is being paid by the U.S. per prisoner. Not only being paid, but being paid enough to make a profit.
Don't know about El Salvador but I'm pretty sure ICE is being paid for: arrests, imprisonments, deportations (and making a serious profit in the process)
 
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