Quotable Quotes

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the history of the word ‘woke’ ​

The phrase originated from African American Vernacular English but has been gradually co-opted by right wing players to be used as an insult #1,660​

It's a long-tenured pseudo-con technique.
When they can't logically, persuasively refute a political position they oppose, the dismiss it with contemptuous label. For years "liberal" was such a label.

note:
"Woke" in this slang usage seems to approximate a synonym for "enlightened", aware of the pros & cons of both party's positions.
Therefore when a MAGA insults by accusing "woke", they're confessing that they are not.

Ignorance: a badge of pride for the Trump cohort.

 

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"Here we go!" ~ Trump, on Poland shooting down Russian drones crossing its airspace to attack Ukraine

 

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"Question. Which one do you prefer,,, lewd and lascivious conduct ,, or procuring minors for prostituion." ~ email from Jeffrey Epstein, seeking plea agreement advice, May 23, 2008

"I suppose Lewd and lecivious conduct. I would prefer lewd and lescivious conduct w/ a prositute if possible." ~ Ghilaine Maxwell

(punctuation and spelling theirs)

 

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"My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?" ~ reporter

"I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure." ~ Trump

And below we see an artist's rendition of the final product

 

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Fox co-host Lawrence Jones: "They have given billions of dollars to mental health and the homeless population. A lot of them don't want to take the program...You can't give them a choice. Either you take the resources that we are going to give you, or you decide that you're going to be locked up in jail."

co-host Brian Kilmeade: "Or involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

 

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Fox co-host Lawrence Jones: "They have given billions of dollars to mental health and the homeless population. A lot of them don't want to take the program...You can't give them a choice. Either you take the resources that we are going to give you, or you decide that you're going to be locked up in jail." #1,665

Didn't warehousing mental incompetents in a "mental institution" reduce the per capita cost of warehousing them in prisons?

co-host Brian Kilmeade: "Or involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them." #1,665

Don't the anti-choicers argue we already do this (on the margins), by aborting pregnancies with severe abnormalities such as spina bifida?
We're obviously not comfortable straddling the fence on it, Dr. Kevorkian etc.

 

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BREAKING: MAGA Fox “News” Host Brian Kilmade goes FULL fascist and calls for “just killing” homeless people with “involuntary lethal injection” LIVE ON AIR. And it gets worse…

I can’t believe we even have to report this, but here we are: Brian Kilmade of Fox & Friends recently went full dystopian. During a segment about the tragic murder in Charlotte, NC (a horrifying crime — no excuse), Kilmade dropped this gem: when talking about homeless people with mental illness — he proposed “involuntary lethal injection … or something.

Just kill ’em.”

Yes, those SICK words actually came out of a Fox News studio, LIVE on air.

The "pro-life" Kilmade argued that society has “given billions of dollars to mental health and the homeless population,” but that “a lot of them don’t want to take the programs… you can’t give them a choice.” His co-hosts then deplorably nodded along. When Kilmade said “just kill ’em,” the others didn’t exactly object. Ainsley Earhardt even asked, “Why did it have to get to this point?” as if we’re the ones crazier for not wanting state-sanctioned killing of people in poverty or crisis.

Kilemade used the murder of Iryna Zarutska by a homeless man with schizophrenia as a springboard to argue, not for solutions, but in favor of ....

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"How do we fix this country?" ~ Fox host Ainsley Earhardt

"I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble, but I couldn't care less." ~ Trump

 

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"I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble, but I couldn't care less." ~ Trump

"... but I couldn't care less"
President Trump has well earned his reputation for duplicity.
This quotation offers candor that is rare for being honest, true.

It's a primary reason not to re-hire such a maniac as a lame duck (with substantial impunity from the electorate).

Note:
In the same statement as quoted above President Trump proceeded to say: "The radicals on the left are the problem."

 

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"We haven't felt like ourselves since Obama. He was such a slick snake... They say 'Trump is divisive.' He's the antidote, the answer to the divisiveness of Obama." ~ Megyn Kelly

 

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"We haven't felt like ourselves since Obama. He was such a slick snake... They say 'Trump is divisive.' He's the antidote, the answer to the divisiveness of Obama." ~ Megyn Kelly

Is Megyn a heavy drinker?
She seems to have hit the nail squarely on her thumb here.

Obama may not often have been characterized as decisive. Obama's virtue as CEO of the USA was less about haste, more in deliberation.

The president that preceded Obama was President GWB [R-"TX"], whose wartime Defense Secretary was Robert Gates.
Though Senator Obama campaigned for president promising "change you can believe in", President Obama [D-IL] opted to retain the Republican's defense secretary,
not as an endorsement of Republican politics, but instead for continuity of our nation, President Obama's nation, at War.
This rare, multi-party defense secretary commented on being part of the Obama administration:

"He's very analytical. He's very deliberate about the way he goes through things. He wants to understand everything. He delves very deeply into these issues. I'm not going to get into comparing the different presidents. I very much enjoy working for this one."
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, in an interview on CNN, on what it's like working with President Obama. http://politicalwire.com/

Megyn,
It seems you know as little about the presidential process as you do about reptiles.

 

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"Either we surrender to the demonic forces abolishing and demolishing our country, or we defeat them." ~ Trump, Nov. 5, 2024

"Violence and murder are the tragic consequences of demonizing those with whom you disagree." ~ Trump, last Wednesday

 

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"Virtually 100% of the net job creation in the last year has gone to migrants. Did you know that? Most of the job creation has gone to migrants. In fact I've heard that substantially more than -- actually beyond that number of 100%, it's a much higher number than that." ~ Trump

 

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"Virtually 100% of the net job creation in the last year has gone to migrants. Did you know that? Most of the job creation has gone to migrants. In fact I've heard that substantially more than -- actually beyond that number of 100%, it's a much higher number than that." ~ Trump #1,673

"innumerate" S2

“Everyday we make good in our motto: 'Promises made, promises kept.'
We've kept more promises than we've even made.” U.S. President Trump 19/05/20 per CBS LATE SHOW Stephen Colbert

“A promise that you didn't make, but kept, is just a thing that happened.” CBS Late Night host Stephen Colbert 19/05/21

note:
Trump critics may scoff. BUT !
He's president.
Second term.
Scoff away, but which of the two is more deficient? The president? Or his critics? They're not president.

 

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"What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's going to go after hate speech? I mean, a lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech." ~ ABC reporter Jonathan Karl to Trump

" should probably go after people like you, because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your heart. Maybe they'll come after ABC... Maybe they'll have to go after you." ~ Trump

 

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We've seen this one before:

"What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's going to go after hate speech? I mean, a lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech." ~ ABC reporter Jonathan Karl to Trump

" should probably go after people like you, because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your heart. Maybe they'll come after ABC... Maybe they'll have to go after you." ~ Trump

"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out- because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me." pastor Martin Niemöller

Has public attention been adequately drawn to this Constitutional crisis? Couldn't the Supreme Court of the United States of America put a stop to this?
And if so, is that not an additional cause for extreme Constitutional alarm?

 

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Couldn't the Supreme Court of the United States of America put a stop to this?

This Supreme Court? You've got to be kidding.

As for you're comment re "we've seen this before":

 

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"This Supreme Court? You've got to be kidding." S2 #1,677

My #1,676 comment wasn't intended as a prediction of probability (contrary to their own ideological devotion to the MAGA agenda), but instead an inquiry about authority. It's a separation of powers question.

"As for you're comment re "we've seen this before": #1,677

Ah.
So not merely a red flag, but a red flag with a black swastika in the middle of it?

 

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‘I don’t know him, actually… Maybe the Prime Minister would be better speaking of that, that was a choice that he made.’

– Donald Trump responds to a question about Peter Mandelson’s sacking as UK ambassador to the US over his links with Jeffrey Epstein.

 

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"Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five 'Aryan' actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that 'in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.'" ~ New York Times, Feb. 3, 1939