Quotable Quotes

Meanwhile, in Trumpland (aka the USA)

"All FBI employees will be protected against political retribution." ~ Kash Patel, at confirmation hearing on Thursday

"On Friday...the acting attorney general, Emil Bove... instructed the acting leadership of the F.B.I. to compile a list of all agents and F.B.I. staff 'assigned at any time to investigations and/or prosecutions' relating to the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.'" ~ NY Times
 
Shiftless2 said:
"All FBI employees will be protected against political retribution." ~ Kash Patel, at confirmation hearing on Thursday
"On Friday...the acting attorney general, Emil Bove... instructed the acting leadership of the F.B.I. to compile a list of all agents and F.B.I. staff 'assigned at any time to investigations and/or prosecutions' relating to the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.'" ~ NY Times #1,261
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"I'm not gunna have time for retribution. We're gunna make this country so successful again, I'm not gunna have time for retribution. And, and remember this. Our ultimate retribution is success." Trump on FOX News Democracy '24 Iowa Town Hall television

“I'm gunna be workin' for you. I'm not gunna have time to go play golf.” GOP pres. cand. Trump “8/2/16”
 
"One of the most successful cities in the world." ~ Trump on Doral, Florida

"I think he has tremendous condo capabilities. He's got a lot of shoreline." ~ Trump, on North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un
 
Shiftless2 said:
"One of the most successful cities in the world." ~ Trump on Doral, Florida
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Perhaps if there are 5,000 cities on Earth including Doral, and Doral is not the least successful, then it's one of the most?

Shiftless2 said:
"I think he has tremendous condo capabilities. He's got a lot of shoreline." ~ Trump, on North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un
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Antarctica has a lot of shoreline, hardly a tourist mecca.
I checked South Korean beach resorts, several listed. Few if any images mirroring Miami Beach. BUT
I like the idea of transitioning NK from totalitarianism to tourism. Money works in cold climates too.
 
"A viper's nest of radical left Marxists who hate America...It's gotta go...A criminal organization. Time for it to die...We're shutting it down." ~ DOGE head Elon Musk on U.S. Agency for International Development
 
Shiftless2 said:
"A viper's nest of radical left Marxists who hate America...It's gotta go...A criminal organization. Time for it to die...We're shutting it down." ~ DOGE head Elon Musk on U.S. Agency for International Development
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U.S. Agency for International Development - U.S. A.I.D.
DOGE - Stephen Colbert called them DOGE bags.
"A viper's nest of radical left Marxists who hate America..." Excellent. Please cite 3 examples.

"The only crime that I've committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it." Trump 23/04/09 on FOX Easter Sunday
 
"We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead." ~ Elon Musk, posting at 1:54 a.m. Monday

"We have to have pristine, perfect, beautiful law enforcement. And Kash is the one to do it...Who would have thought that the FBI could have been corrupted the way they were?... The FBI was a very corrupt institution. And I was a victim of it." ~ Trump
 
Is Musk a saboteur? Deliberately trying to harm or destroy that nation that made him one of the wealthiest in the solar system?
That would explain it.
It's not the only possible explanation.
Though perhaps seemingly less plausible, Musk may think somewhat as Trump seems to:
if a government entity has not benefited me directly, is is of no benefit.

Would they prefer to live in a nation of illiterates, without public school education?

Shiftless2 said:
"We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead." ~ Elon Musk, posting at 1:54 a.m. Monday
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"Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience." French scientist,philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-62)

Shiftless2 said:
"We have to have pristine, perfect, beautiful law enforcement. And Kash is the one to do it...Who would have thought that the FBI could have been corrupted the way they were?... The FBI was a very corrupt institution. And I was a victim of it." ~ Trump
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"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." Justice Louis Brandeis

Oh Brandy ...
 
"Very few in the bureaucracy actually work the weekend, so it's like the opposing team just leaves the field for two days!" ~ Elon Musk, on the federal workforce

"You go on a driving range in golf and hit hundreds of balls, thousands of hours. I've never seen a ball hit another ball... Balls going up all over the place, you never see them hit. It was amazing this could happen." ~ Trump, on DC plane-chopper crash

Don't know about two golf balls colliding but how about two bullets? Or two aircraft (as was the case in the DC plane/chopper crash)?

 
"CFPB RIP" ~ tombstone emoji posted by Elon Musk

"The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has saved American consumers over $20B. No wonder the billionaires running the Trump White House want to eliminate it." ~ Rep. Brendan Boyle
 
"One word, groceries. Very simple word. Groceries. Like, almost, you know, who uses the word? I started using the word groceries." ~ Trump
 
"There is no dictatorship here other than Donald Trump saying, 'This is not gonna happen.'" ~ Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Trump's ban of trans athletes

"CBS should lose its license, and the cheaters at '60 Minutes' should all be thrown out, and this disreputable 'NEWS' show should be immediately terminated." ~ Trump
 
Did anybody else notice Trump's wording with regards to taking over Gaza?

He did not say that the U.S.A. would own it:

“We’ll build safe communities a little bit away from where they are where all of this danger is,” he said. “In the meantime, I would own this. Think of it as a real estate development for the future. It would be a beautiful piece of land.”

"We'll build..." as in the U.S.A will build and pay for, but ... (just like the U.S. paid for the wall NOT Mexico.)

NOT "we would own this." He said "I would own this."

Slip of the tongue or his true intent?
 
"Have you ever looked at a map and thought, 'You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates.' Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make that dream a reality. Let's buy California from Donald Trump! MAKE CALIFORNIA GREAT AGAIN!" ~ petition in Denmark
 
"No, I didn't go. I got reports. They were so bad, I didn't want to go. There was nothing that I wanted to see." ~ Trump, asked if he has seen any shows at The Kennedy Center, of which he has now made himself president

A few of the over 200 Kennedy Center performances in 2024:

Macbeth
Renée Fleming sings Strauss
Mamma Mia!
National Bunraku Theater of Japan
Patty LuPone: A Life in Notes
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
Sara Bareilles: National Symphony Orchestra
Korean National Ballet
New York City Ballet: Jewels
Patty LuPone: A Life in Notes
Nora Jones: Visions Tour 2024
Cyrus Chestnut: Duke Ellington Sacred Concert
Here It Is: A Tribute to Leohard Cohen
Audra McDonald: National Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven's Fifth
 
Shiftless2 said:
#1,276, #1,277, #1,278, #1,279
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I have an uneasy feeling about the next four years.

Please let the record show the most destructive adversity confronting the United States, and the Constitution that has protected us for centuries, is not:
- Middle East terrorism
- global pandemic
- Russia's military adventurism.

It's the Republican political party, the "GOP", which now has a stranglehold on both houses of our legislature, our supreme court, and our exec., the U.S. presidency.

Has there been a more perilous adversity confronting U.S. since the U.S. Civil War?
The "checks-&-balances" our Founders integrated into our democratic republic have been thwarted, circumvented, neutralized.
 
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