After reading through these quotes, I'm even more convinced that we are wholeheartedly being led by idiots and ideologues. And I don't think you can necessarily distinguish between the two. They are not mutually exclusive.
Oh, no. Please read Martin Gurri's article in the NY Post, and sample Wesley Yang's Substack posts. Hope abounds. Thanks, Brad, for all your quotes. I discover wisdom and idiocy weekly through your work.
“O.J. Simpson was an abusive liar who abandoned his community long before he killed two people in cold blood. His acquittal for murder was the correct and necessary result of a racist criminal legal system.” — CUNY Presidential Professor Marc Lamont Hill
I guess only in the woke legal mind is that statement not oxymoronic.
I thought it was deliberately meant to be a giant FU to decent people. An announcement of just how far they are willing to go in defense of their woke narrative.
I read that quote 3 times and still didn't get it. He killed 2 people in cold blood but was acquitted due to racism? But also the acquittal was correct and necessary? Wait, what?
There was no way Quotes and Links would come out this week without that Sheila Jackson Lee quote. I can’t decide who’s worse, her or Kamala. I live in the Houston area, but unfortunately not in the right part of it to vote for, well, anyone else.
One of the oddities of the social media age is how brazenly dishonest it's made everyone with a platform (from politicians to journalists etc).
From Mayor Pete and the rest of the Biden gang and their handlers and enablers in the media ("The border is secure"), from our Soc Justice clerisy (most esp the Race & Gender wings): we know they're lying, a few clicks of the internet can prove they're lying (people like Judith Butler lie so much that they're even comfortable changing quotes and refuse to retract them even when confronted), they know we know they're lying, yet just about all our public figures have become compulsive liars.
Now of course politicians and journalists lying is not exactly breaking news, and someone like Donald Rumsfeld lied almost every time he opened his mouth, yet you would think that now that everyone has the ability to fact-check in real time, this would have made people try to be more accurate and truthful, yet the opposite has happened.
I can only surmise that in the age of the internet and social media, truth is secondary to tribalism, to promoting your agenda, and to raising awareness (of yourself).
Auden called the 1930s "a low dishonest decade"; the 2020s are competing to go even lower.
OMG the Jackson Lee moon thing. You left out the part where not only does she represent Houston, a.k.a. Space City, but she was leader of the House Science Committee's space subcommittee.
I hunted for a non-politicized, complete video to post online, unsuccessfully—the best I could find was Snopes (!). (I like complete videos to make sure something hasn't been taken out of context.) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sheila-jackson-lee-moon/
Sheila Jackson Lee attended Yale University for undergrad and University of Virginia law school (currently the No. 4 ranked laws school in the country). How dare anyone question her qualificiations?
And perhaps Christina Amira Khalil could take a few science classes where they explain basic geology to her. Maybe also explain that no gas insulates. Another Sheila Jackson graduate of Scienz.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee & Kamala Harris are walking examples of why mandatory drug testing should be required of all Congress, Oval Office & the Higher courts. This drug addled idiocy is in control of how an important part of our governance functions. She is horrifying in her blatant ignorance. Hopefully the people that are being represented by her will initiate a recall & it will succeed.
CUNY Presidential Professor Marc Lamont Hill comes across as another Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A loud mouth stringing together various socialist sound bites with the intent to enrage a dwindling following. The logic of his statement is so arbitrary that it might as well have been written by an AI, as it may well have been. People who aspire only to control & continually express so much rage at the existing system of governance would be better exported to a country where their values are put in practice such as North Korea or Cuba or a gulag. At any rate, we would not be plagued with their screaming.
After reading through these quotes, I'm even more convinced that we are wholeheartedly being led by idiots and ideologues. And I don't think you can necessarily distinguish between the two. They are not mutually exclusive.
Oh, no. Please read Martin Gurri's article in the NY Post, and sample Wesley Yang's Substack posts. Hope abounds. Thanks, Brad, for all your quotes. I discover wisdom and idiocy weekly through your work.
“O.J. Simpson was an abusive liar who abandoned his community long before he killed two people in cold blood. His acquittal for murder was the correct and necessary result of a racist criminal legal system.” — CUNY Presidential Professor Marc Lamont Hill
I guess only in the woke legal mind is that statement not oxymoronic.
I thought it was deliberately meant to be a giant FU to decent people. An announcement of just how far they are willing to go in defense of their woke narrative.
"See, our Woke trumps your justice!"
Given certain twisted foundational suppositions, there is a sort of pretzel logic to it I suppose.....
I read that quote 3 times and still didn't get it. He killed 2 people in cold blood but was acquitted due to racism? But also the acquittal was correct and necessary? Wait, what?
Lamont!! You big dummy!!!
There was no way Quotes and Links would come out this week without that Sheila Jackson Lee quote. I can’t decide who’s worse, her or Kamala. I live in the Houston area, but unfortunately not in the right part of it to vote for, well, anyone else.
Someone needs to throw a saddle on Jackson-Lee and ride that jackass out of here
One of the oddities of the social media age is how brazenly dishonest it's made everyone with a platform (from politicians to journalists etc).
From Mayor Pete and the rest of the Biden gang and their handlers and enablers in the media ("The border is secure"), from our Soc Justice clerisy (most esp the Race & Gender wings): we know they're lying, a few clicks of the internet can prove they're lying (people like Judith Butler lie so much that they're even comfortable changing quotes and refuse to retract them even when confronted), they know we know they're lying, yet just about all our public figures have become compulsive liars.
Now of course politicians and journalists lying is not exactly breaking news, and someone like Donald Rumsfeld lied almost every time he opened his mouth, yet you would think that now that everyone has the ability to fact-check in real time, this would have made people try to be more accurate and truthful, yet the opposite has happened.
I can only surmise that in the age of the internet and social media, truth is secondary to tribalism, to promoting your agenda, and to raising awareness (of yourself).
Auden called the 1930s "a low dishonest decade"; the 2020s are competing to go even lower.
Another perfect collection of verbal excretions from the perpetually disturbed and angry.....
OMG the Jackson Lee moon thing. You left out the part where not only does she represent Houston, a.k.a. Space City, but she was leader of the House Science Committee's space subcommittee.
I hunted for a non-politicized, complete video to post online, unsuccessfully—the best I could find was Snopes (!). (I like complete videos to make sure something hasn't been taken out of context.) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sheila-jackson-lee-moon/
There are also video clips of her trying to put on her eclipse glasses. She looks either drunk or medicated. https://twitter.com/Shunyaa00/status/1777760909584367870
Sheila Jackson Lee attended Yale University for undergrad and University of Virginia law school (currently the No. 4 ranked laws school in the country). How dare anyone question her qualificiations?
And perhaps Christina Amira Khalil could take a few science classes where they explain basic geology to her. Maybe also explain that no gas insulates. Another Sheila Jackson graduate of Scienz.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee & Kamala Harris are walking examples of why mandatory drug testing should be required of all Congress, Oval Office & the Higher courts. This drug addled idiocy is in control of how an important part of our governance functions. She is horrifying in her blatant ignorance. Hopefully the people that are being represented by her will initiate a recall & it will succeed.
CUNY Presidential Professor Marc Lamont Hill comes across as another Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A loud mouth stringing together various socialist sound bites with the intent to enrage a dwindling following. The logic of his statement is so arbitrary that it might as well have been written by an AI, as it may well have been. People who aspire only to control & continually express so much rage at the existing system of governance would be better exported to a country where their values are put in practice such as North Korea or Cuba or a gulag. At any rate, we would not be plagued with their screaming.
Yikes.
One more: https://youtu.be/XflM-LKXOW4