Quotes and Links
A week in review
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“There is perhaps no better illustration of the Democrats’ transformation into a Brahmin Left party, beloved by the educated but increasingly viewed with suspicion by the working classes of all races.” — The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira, on polling that shows the Democratic Party is purging nonwhite working-class voters while improving with white college graduates.
“We have among the lowest inflation rates of any country in America!” — Joe Biden, during a speech in Milwaukee to announce a $36 million dollar grant for the reconstruction of a bridge.
“I’m not gonna treat any of these people with disrespect. They built this country.” — Also Joe Biden, during an interview with MSNBC in which he apologized for calling Laken Riley’s killer an “illegal,” but not for getting her name wrong.
“He was an illegal alien. He was an illegal immigrant. He was an illegal migrant. And he shouldn’t have been in our country—and he NEVER would have been under the Trump policy!” — Trump, during a campaign rally in Rome, GA.
“Democrats Warn That Migrants Committing Murder Could Result In More People Referring To Them By The Wrong Term” — Babylon Bee headline
“Defying expectations for liberal Hollywood elites, the entire Academy Awards audience just cheered for the jailing of Trump. Trump’s winning margin subsequently goes up at least four percentage points in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.” — Michael Tracey
“Japan only killed 2,400 or so Americans on Dec. 7 at Pearl Harbor. The US really overreacted.” — George Mason University professor David Bernstein
“I’m leaning away from Biden.” — Elon Musk, when asked by former CNN host Don Lemon if he’s leaning toward a candidate for president.
“And you know, when you see ‘Latinos for Trump,’ to me it is like seeing ‘Jews for Hitler,’ almost, you know?” — Texas Democrat Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, in an interview with The New Republic.
“It’s my job to diagnose racism. It’s my job to provide treatments.” — Ibram X. Kendi, equating his job as a woke “anti-racist” author to an actual medical doctor for an auditorium full of middle school students.
“Every trans suicide is a murder.” — Media Matters LGBTQ news reporter Ari Drennen.
“Biden has to get in there very hard and go ‘rapist, racist, fascist’ over and over and over again.” — Famed journalist Kara Swisher, on what Biden needs to do to defeat Trump. This was on CNN’s The Chris Wallace Show.
“I am surprised that, in the year of our Lord, 2024, there is a public relations agent for Hamas sitting in the United States Congress.” — CNN’s Scott Jennings, on Democrat rep. Ilhan Omar.
“I would vote for Trump before I’d vote for Biden. Just cause the thing with Biden, he’s gone, you know he’s gone, you’re going to be relying on his cabinet. And I knew his cabinet would be this fucking sideshow of diversity, which is exactly what it is. You can’t have those kind of people running a Ben and Jerry’s, you certainly can’t have those kind of people running the most powerful government the world’s ever known.” — Joe Rogan
“We made the term endlessly expansive and a marker of political affiliation that is both sword and shield in everyday power dynamics and then invited all alienated, depressed, anxious, personality-disordered, and suicidal youth to identify into it.” — Wesley Yang, on the LGTBQ+ cult.
“Intellectuals (and also economists) keep writing ‘the economy looks great from my tenured desk/mortgage-free villa, but voters are too stupid (and smelly) to appreciate it’ on the basis of one skewed metric descending from ‘APOCALYPTIC’ to ‘CATACLYSMIC’ for about thirteen seconds.” — Edward Snowden
“As my colleagues have pointed out, President Biden fully complied with the investigation conducted by special counsel Hur who did not find evidence sufficient to warrant criminal charges. Despite this outcome, Republicans have used the special counsel’s report to further their long-standing efforts to reelect the former white-supremacist-in-chief Donald Trump.” — Democrat Rep. Cori Bush, while questioning former special counsel Robert Hur during Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing.
“We have no white people on our team. I did that because I wanted to create a safe environment, and I know the best way for an environment to be safe is to be around people who are just like me.” — Dani Lalonders, a “nonbinary” game developer hired by Cliffhanger Games to create a game based on Marvel’s Black Panther movie.
“It is an utter disgrace that in the year 2024, the Democratic Party, who calls itself ‘progressives,’ is begging and relying upon an 82 year old to come and save the day for 2025, 2026, 2027, into 2028. And if you think that an hour speech offsets all of that, you smoking crack.” — ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith
“Those were Republicans in the Supreme Court that has now put him back on the ballot.” — MSNBC’s Kristen Welker, during an interview with Senator Lindsey Graham.
“Unfortunately our government, in Department of Justice, really now resembles a tyrannical government.” — Ukrainian-American Republican rep. Victoria Spartz, who used her questioning time at Robert Hur’s testimony to argue that the “double standard” revealed by the DOJ charging Trump but not Biden resembles the Soviet Union.
“Asking people with Long Covid to support Biden is asking people with AIDS to support Reagan in the 80s. He won’t even name our illness, and he’s done everything he can to make it more widespread and less treatable.” — NPR’s Justine Barron
“If he wins the election, you won’t be on the show anymore. He’ll come looking for me. There’ll be things that happen that none of us can imagine.” — Robert De Niro, during an appearance on Bill Maher’s show. It is remarkable how the obsessive hatred of Trump is so deeply ingrained in the TDS-afflicted among us that they’re incapable of remembering (accepting?) that he was already president for four years and was anything but a lunatic dictator. It’s like they can’t countenance a reality-based version of Trump, so instead must cling to their fictionalized, Hitleresque version.
“Chasing Passive Income, Americans Turn to Vending Machines,” from The Wall Street Journal.
N.S. Lyons interviews Polish philosopher Ryszard Legutko about “Liberal Democracy, Communism, and totalitarian temptations in free societies.”
The Atlantic: “End the Phone-Based Childhood Now”
An Esquire story about how two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves stranded with no ride home after a shuttle explosion.
“Why We Keep Playing the Lottery,” from Nautilus.
An Orion piece on how surprisingly intelligent octopi are.
“After the Fire: Murder, Lies, and a Missing Dear Head,” from The Globe and Mail.
“It’s my job to diagnose racism. It’s my job to provide treatments.” Ibram X Kendi. Could someone diagnose Ibram X Kendi....and then find a treatment for him? Any takers?
"“If he wins the election...... He’ll come looking for me." Robert DeNiro. The operative word here is...."me"....(me me me).
So it comes to this; the Liberals have only the elite white college educated as their voting fodder left now. It reminds me of this quote somehow “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
—Martin Niemöller
There is almost no one Left to vote Democrat.