Quotable Quotes

"The US cannot force us to 'sit and listen' at the negotiating table. We are an independent country." ~ Ukraine's President Zelensky

"He sense of humor is amazing." ~ Elon Musk, tweeting in response
 
"If your Social Security number ends in an odd number, you're out. If it ends in an even number, you're in. There's a 50% cut right there. Of those who remain, if your Social Security number starts in an even number, you're in, and if it starts with an odd number, you're out. Boom! That's a 75% reduction, done. Literally, sarcastically...Most people who've run a company know this -- it's 25% of the people who do 80-90% of the useful work. These government agencies are no different." ~ Vivek Ramaswamy "thought experiment" on how easy it could be to downsize the US government
 
"An unprincipled douchebag." ~ Elon Musk on Attorney General Merrick Garland

"He is the Judge Dredd America needs to clean up a corrupt system and put powerful bad actors in prison." ~ Musk on Gaetz as AG
 
From Wiki:
President of Ukraine since 2019
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who is serving as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019, most notably during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, ongoing since 2022.
Born to a Ukrainian Jewish family, Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. He obtained a degree in law from the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics, but never practised law and pursued a career in comedy and entertainment. More from Wikipedia

Shiftless2 said:
"He sense of humor is amazing." ~ Elon Musk, tweeting in response #1,121
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Yes. That's not uncommon among comedians Elon.

Shiftless2 said:
"He is the Judge Dredd America needs to clean up a corrupt system and put powerful bad actors in prison." ~ Musk on Gaetz as AG #1,123
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House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries says while Gaetz has already resigned from congress, a successor has not yet been chosen,
and Gaetz may be able to un-resign. BUT !!
In that case, the congressional report on Gaetz' alleged criminal missconduct would then be subject to publication again.

You done got yourself a sticky wicket here Gaetz.
 
"America will decline and die. A national divorce will ensue. Outnumbered freedom lovers will fight back. The military and the police, both bastions of freedom-loving patriots, will be forced to make a choice. It will not be good. Yes, there will be some sort of civil war." ~ DefSec nominee Pete Hegseth in 2020, predicting the consequences of Biden being elected
 
"Matt Gaetz is a private citizen. Congress should not investigate a private citizen." ~ Mike Johnson

"It doesn't matter that Hunter Biden is a private citizen. The American people deserve to know. Congress needs to investigate to the fullest extent possible." ~ Mike Johnson
 
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Thank gosh Speaker Mike Schwanson is the only hypocrite in politics.

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history... this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republican vice-presidential candidate during a news conference in which he was asked his opinion of the Holocaust.

"The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe." -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia
 
Cards on table:
Those that dislike the messenger may be more willing to disregard the message, to their own detriment.

Shiftless2 said:
"X is the mainstream media now...That's where most people are getting their news." ~ Joe Rogan
"Yes." ~ Elon Musk #1,128
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As Marshall McLuhan warned, those that control the medium control the message.

Shiftless2 said:
"Yes." ~ Elon Musk #1,128
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"Yes." Characteristic in structure of a boast thus potentially dismissed as a boast. BUT:

Even if so, it's more than that. *

Twitter​

American social networking service
Twitter
Twitter, officially known as X since July 2023, is a social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media websites and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in short posts commonly known as "tweets" or "retweets" (officially "post" or "repost") and like other users' content. The platform also includes direct messaging, video and audio calling, bookmarks, lists, communities, a chatbot (Grok), job search and Spaces, a social audio feature. Users can vote on context added by approved users using the Community Notes feature. ...

The service is owned by the American company X Corp., which was established to succeed the prior owner Twitter, Inc. in March 2023 following the October 2022 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk for US$44 billion. Musk stated that his goal with the acquisition was to promote free speech on the platform. Since his acquisition, the platform has been criticized for enabling the increased spread of disinformation and hate speech. More from Wikipedia

We have been warned, by Elon Musk.

ref:

* Mainstream media
Mass news media that influence many people
In journalism, mainstream media (MSM) is a term and abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence many people and both reflect and shape prevailing currents of thought. The term is used to contrast with alternative media.
The term is often used for large news conglomerates, including newspapers and broadcast media, that underwent successive mergers in many countries. The concentration of media ownership has raised concerns of a homogenization of viewpoints presented to news consumers. Consequently, the term mainstream media has been used in conversation and the blogosphere, sometimes in oppositional, pejorative or dismissive senses, in discussion of the mass media and media bias. More from Wikipedia
 
And just in case you had any doubts, the grift is still on!!

"The ONLY guitars endorsed by President Donald J. Trump." ~ claimed on Truth Social by Trump Guitars, which has received a cease-and-desist order alleging infringement on the design of Gibson's Les Paul
 
The competition was rigor mortis, that means it was stiff competition.
The final result, a tie. They're both Donald's dumbest. That leaves Donald's third son barron the load.

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- oh no -
Not again !
 
You really do have to wonder if in his current mental state he actually believes this or if it's just intended as red meat for his followers .....

"Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country..." ~ Trump holiday post
 
"A landslide like the world has never seen before." ~ Stephen Miller, on the election

And like any other landslide, it's a disaster ....

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Shiftless2 said:
"A landslide ..." ~ Stephen Miller, on the election #1,136
"landslide" S2
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Shiftless2 said:
"And like any other landslide, it's a disaster ...." S2 #1,136
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Trump reportedly won the swing-States. Is that a "landslide"?
The difference is, while the graphic in #1,136 vividly illustrates a "disaster" affecting 6 lanes of highway,
the November 5th disaster affects more than 50 States, the entire planet, and those in orbit as well.

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difficult for me to imagine the pre-landslide topology
 
sear said:
Trump reportedly won the swing-States. Is that a "landslide"?
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Trump Has Lost His Popular-Vote Majority
Ed Kilgore

On Election Night, with characteristic modesty, Donald Trump claimed an “unprecedented and powerful mandate.” He certainly won the contest legitimately, if more narrowly than many observers initially thought. His popular-vote margin over Kamala Harris has dropped from around 3 percent on the evening of November 5 (or about two-thirds of Joe Biden’s margin in 2020) to 1.55 percent today. That’s about a half-percent smaller than Hillary Clinton’s national popular-vote margin over Trump in 2016. To make some other comparisons: Barack Obama won the popular vote by 3.9 percent in 2012 and 7.2 percent in 2008, and George W. Bush won the popular vote by 2.4 percent in the very close 2004 election.

Unlike Obama and Bush, moreover, Trump did not win a majority of the national popular vote. Though it looked like he was over 50 percent on Election Night, the steady drip of late ballots has eroded his percentage to (currently) 49.83 percent, with further slippage very likely before all the votes are in.

Trump’s win in the Electoral College was more impressive, though his 316 electoral votes were less than Obama’s in either of his elections and just above Biden’s in 2020. In Pennsylvania, the “tipping point” state that clinched a second term for Trump, his margin over Harris was 1.8 percent, not exactly a landslide.

So by any measure, the claim of an “unprecedented” mandate simply isn’t true. Trump won a very close election and will govern a country where a near majority of people have voted against him three times. Yes, his party won control of ....

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Shiftless2 said:
"“unprecedented” mandate simply isn’t true." Ed Kilgore
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Since when has that mattered to Trump? He'll tell whatever lie pleases him at the moment.
“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there” [in Springfield, Ohio] presidential candidate Trump debating VP Harris 24/09/10
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