I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
"I think everyone should go to college and get a degree, and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cab driver. Then they'd really be educated."
—- Al McGuire
“10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.”
― Susan Sontag
“The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em.”
— Moms Mabley
The Duce’s reaction, Bottai complained, was, ‘if things go well, take the credit; and, if they go badly, to blame others’. This, Bottai concluded, had become the real meaning of the formula: ‘Mussolini is always right.’ ”
--Giuseppe Bottai
"But Trump’s latest comment indicates he may have finally figured out that the Constitution stands in the way of his efforts to do something unconstitutional, like overturn the result of a presidential election."
--Chas Danner
"I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that [the 6th], we would have won. Not to mention, we would've been armed."
--MTG
"They're [Republicans] not interested in governing. They want to obstruct. They want to make things as bad as possible for the average American so they stand a better chance in 2024."
Justin King, Beau of the Fifth Column
"The worrying thing is that partisanship can trump patriotism. That's the worrying thing. If we look back to 2016, there are signal moments when the enmity between Republicans and Democrats opened a flank which invited Russian attack."
--Timothy Snyder
"...that democracy is about wanting democracy is essential. Without that, nothing else matters."
Timothy Snyder
You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.
--Daniel Patrick Moynihan
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
--Kurt Vonnegut
I Remember Conservatism”: “To be a conservative today, you have to oppose much of what the Republican Party has come to stand for.”'
--David Brooks
“I’m not insane. My mother had me tested.”
—Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory
@coluber2001,
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
--Joseph Goebbels
Trump Claimed Election 'Rigged' Or 'Stolen' Over 100 Times Ahead Of Capitol Riot
And of course Trump doesn't care at all about democracy. He doesn't care about American democracy, and he doesn't care about anybody's democracy. He's a gift not just to Putin but to dictators all over the world who came out of a quasi-democratic background because he seems to show you can start from democracy and end up in tyranny.
--Timothy Snyder
@coluber2001,
"Fascism is an ideology that is centered on power, loyalty, and fear of the other."
--Jason Stanley
Dominion’s litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damage caused by Fox’s disinformation campaign. Smartmatic will expose the rest. Smartmatic remains committed to clearing its name, recouping the significant damage done to the company, and holding Fox accountable for undermining democracy.
-- J. Erik Connolly. Smartmatic attorney
I'd call Fox honest, true, and faithful, but then I'd be sued for defamation.
-- President Joe Biden, White House Correspondents Dinner
The Russian strategy is to make a mess in countries with democracies, and with the election of trump they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
The goal of the MAGA and Единая Россия, Putin's party, seem to have this in common: complete destabilization in the United States.
