Quotable Quotes

Shiftless2 said:
"What the president said and VP-elect JD Vance said is that peaceful protesters should be pardoned, but violent criminals should not." ~ Speaker Mike Johnson, Sunday
"We're looking at the future, not the past." ~ Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Monday, after Trump issued sweeping J6 pardons and commutations
"I think the gift is that it's all behind us now and we can stop talking about it." ~ Sen. Kevin Kramer
"Now I am gonna buy some motha f*ckin guns!!!" ~ QAnon Shaman, after being pardoned
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Either this is what Trump voters wanted,
or they were duped. They wanted lower egg prices, but got this instead?
According to this source the price of gasoline has increased since last week. $3.129 vs $3.089 https://gasprices.aaa.com/

It's one thing for a candidate to fail to appreciate the benefits of the rule of law.
But a decisive segment of the electorate ?!
 
"Murderers don't even go to jail in this country." ~ Trump, on why he pardoned and commuted the sentences of J6 rioters convicted of violent acts and sedition

"In this country, our case proves that you could be put in prison for anything. [The J6 committee] needs to be imprisoned. We need to find and put them behind bars for what they did. They need to pay..." ~ pardoned Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio
 
Apparently I don't understand enough about psychology to understand how Trump was able to swindle the electorate into a 2nd Trump term. - but -
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Hanlon's Razor
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The United States of America: a nation of dopes.
 
"Nobody's ever probably seen anything like this, you can almost say, since the Second World War." ~ Trump, on damage from LA fires
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Nobody's ever probably seen anything like this, you can almost say, since the Second World War." ~ Trump, on damage from LA fires #1,246
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Not the first silly utterance from Donald Trump since his early celebrity.

And while some may obtain momentary glee by snickering, the above quotation along with countless other similar absurd Trump declarations imparts breadth and depth to the panorama of Trump's invincible ignorance.

Factual validity is secondary in that context. For this Trump quotation reminds us how very limited Trump's knowledge of history is.
 
"A lot of people say he's crazy. I think he's kind of crazy. But sometimes you need a little crazy." ~ Trump on Kash Patel, his pick to head the FBI

"I was the Main Justice lead prosecutor for Benghazi." ~ Kash Patel, lying in 2023
 
"I have known Bobby my whole life... It's no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator...Siblings and cousins who Bobby encouraged down the path of substance abuse suffered addiction, illness, and death while Bobby has gone on to misrepresent, lie, and cheat his way through life." ~ Caroline Kennedy on her cousin RFK Jr., Trump's nominee to head DHHS
 
Shiftless2 said:
"I have known Bobby my whole life... It's no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator...Siblings and cousins who Bobby encouraged down the path of substance abuse suffered addiction, illness, and death while Bobby has gone on to misrepresent, lie, and cheat his way through life." ~ Caroline Kennedy on her cousin RFK Jr., Trump's nominee to head DHHS #1,249
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I've been struggling with this for several years.

I have vague, perhaps false memory of a C-SPAN-like extended presentation, from RFKj if my fragmentary memory is not incorrect.
The memory is of the sole presenter (RFKj?) explaining that early in his environmental activism he and his associates considered lawlessness, criminality, terrorism for his environmentalist cause.
In that presentation, such methods were explicitly rejected, concluding that their environmental cause was a lawful cause, and that the law was not the enemy, but a potentially powerful ally.

This memory doesn't mesh well with more recent years revealing RFKj as an anti-vax nut.

I cannot explain this disparity.
 
Sounds like Donnie and his posse should actually try reading the Constitution (of course that assumes that they can read)

"This administration believes that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional." ~WH spokesperson Karoline Leavitt

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." ~ 14th Amendment
 
Shiftless2 said:
Sounds like Donnie and his posse should actually try reading the Constitution (of course that assumes that they can read) #1,251
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Direct from: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posse

Recent Examples of posse
Aside from the usual cast of Trump-adjacent celebrities, including Kid Rock and UFC CEO Dana White, the posse at the fight was a who's-who of the figures the once and future president has picked to lead his administration - and which seats are still empty. — Cy Neff, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2024
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posse
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Shiftless2 said:
(... that assumes that they can read)
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Illiteracy would certainly explain it.
However, corruption on violent insurrectionist scale in this Trump administration case is the Ockham's Razor explanation.
"Just remember, what you're seeing & what you're reading is not what's happening." President Trump
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"We identified and stopped $50M being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas. Fifty million. They used them as a method of making bombs. How about that?" ~ Trump, apparently mistaking the Gaza Strip for the province of Gaza in Mozambique, where condoms are part of a program to prevent STDs
 
Shiftless2 said:
"We identified and stopped $50M being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas. Fifty million. They used them as a method of making bombs. How about that?" ~ Trump, apparently mistaking the Gaza Strip for the province of Gaza in Mozambique, where condoms are part of a program to prevent STDs
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This is worse than merely a snicker-worthy anecdote. It's a glaring early warning. If Trump alone was this ignorant, Trump's subordinates would have spared the president this embarrassment. BUT !
In this case, and quite likely in many others, this is the level of nitwittery we should expect until February 2029, from our presidency.
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us." Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626
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Thanks Frank
 
"Because I have common sense." ~ Trump, asked how he could blame diversity hiring for the plane-chopper collision before there had been time to investigate
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Because I have common sense." ~ Trump, asked how he could blame diversity hiring for the plane-chopper collision before there had been time to investigate
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I added a (y) at #1,255 because I don't like it. Trump is a nit-wit.

a) If you do Donald, why have you kept it so well hidden all these years?
b) If you have common sense, please explain how it applies here.

I saw the sound-bite.
It's not actually entirely unuseful. It helps clearly define Trump's bigotry.
Trump claims to have common sense. How much Donald? 20% of normal? 10%? 7.38%?
 
If you watched any part of his ramblings about the crash he was reading it and listening to him it was very clear that he was reading it word by word - like a fourth grader might.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"If you watched any part of his ramblings about the crash he was reading it and listening to him it was very clear that he was reading it word by word - like a fourth grader might." S2 #1,257
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This is an insight to me S2.
I've long known Trump prefers extemporaneous improv, to teleprompting.

That's what, not why.
Why? It seems Trump knows he doesn't read well enough to deliver an entire teleprompted speech persuasively.

At least he knows he has limitations?
 
sear said:
" b) If you have common sense, please explain how it applies here." s #1,256
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Diversity pertains to populations.
How does that apply to one?

note:
Another fatal air crash in Phily, and 6 more dead. Can't extrapolate a single data point. BUT !
Two points define a line.
 
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