Things They Say

[57Brave]

McConnell: "It's time to move on."

[57Brave]

Roberto Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania. -Vin Scully

[Runnin]

“The president’s primary problem as a leader is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive. It’s not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider. It is that he is weak and sniveling. It is that he undermines himself almost daily by ignoring traditional norms and forms of American masculinity.”

“He’s not strong and self-controlled, not cool and tough, not low-key and determined; he’s whiny, weepy and self-pitying. He throws himself, sobbing, on the body politic. He’s a drama queen. It was once said, sarcastically, of George H.W. Bush that he reminded everyone of her first husband. Trump must remind people of their first wife.”

Peggy Noonan

[Runnin]

"Inside the mad king’s court, the internecine battles are becoming ever more brutal. Members of Trump’s inner circle seek his favor by leaking negative information about their rivals. This administration is more hostile to the media than any in recent memory but is also more eager to whisper juicy dirt about the ambitious courtier down the hall."

Eugene Robinson

[Runnin]

“Why should we be deported? This is very, very hard for a family. What will our fellow citizens think if honest subjects are faced with such a decree—not to mention the great material losses it would incur.”

Friedrich Trump (45's grandfather)

[Runnin]

"Meanwhile the whole world is watching, a world that contains predators. How could they not be seeing this weakness, confusion and chaos and thinking it’s a good time to cause some trouble? "

Peggy Noonan

[Runnin]

‘God’s judgement will punish those who turn their backs on Trump.

“God is doing something, God is speaking, God is taking over” (by way of the Trump presidency).

Jim Bakker

[Runnin]

It was we conservatives who, upon Obama’s election, stated that our No. 1 priority was not advancing a conservative policy agenda but making Obama a one-term president—the corollary to this binary thinking being that his failure would be our success and the fortunes of the citizenry would presumably be sorted out in the meantime.
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If by 2017 the conservative bargain was to go along for the very bumpy ride because with congressional hegemony and the White House we had the numbers to achieve some long-held policy goals—even as we put at risk our institutions and our values—then it was a very real question whether any such policy victories wouldn’t be Pyrrhic ones. If this was our Faustian bargain, then it was not worth it. If ultimately our principles were so malleable as to no longer be principles, then what was the point of political victories in the first place?

Jeff Flake, GOP Senator of Arizona

[cajunrevenge]

"A free people claim their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."

Thomas Jefferson 1774.


"The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants"


Thomas Jefferson 1787

[Runnin]

"If it’s a woman’s natural inclination to (breastfeed a child in public), then you should have no problem with a man's inclination to stare at it and grab it. After all… It’s ALL relative and natural, right?”

New Hampshire State Representative Josh Moore

[Runnin]

"Even the President of Mexico called me."

"(I) received a call from the head of the Boy Scouts (saying my speech) was the greatest speech ever made (to their organization)"

Donald Drumph

[sturg33]

"You get no moral credit for forcing others to what you think is right."

Penn Jillete

[Runnin]

"We lost a lot of factories in Ohio and Michigan and I won these states – some of these states have not been won in 38 years by a Republican and I won them very easily. So they are dancing in the streets. You (in Mexico) probably have the same thing where they are dancing in your streets also, but in reverse. "

[57Brave]

"We lost a lot of factories in Ohio and Michigan and I won these states – some of these states have not been won in 38 years by a Republican and I won them very easily. So they are dancing in the streets. You (in Mexico) probably have the same thing where they are dancing in your streets also, but in reverse. "

I read one comment referring to this comment as "Trump's Ginger Rogers moment"

[Runnin]

“I’m expecting some chaos in the White House team for the duration of Trump’s administration, and I am saying this is because he is such an extraordinary leader. It’s not a lack of leadership. It’s a different kind of leadership than we’re used to being in any place in our government because our whole system has evolved in a way of – you know – elevating people to leadership positions in our present government system that are not real leaders. They’re politicians. Trump is a leader!"

Pastor Rick Joyner

[Runnin]

I read one comment referring to this comment as "Trump's Ginger Rogers moment"

"Sure (Fred Astaire) was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, ...backwards and in high heels."

Bob Thaves

[57Brave]

"Ten 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

[goldfly]

"I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country."

[57Brave]

A Trump flack says re 2020:

“The president is as strong as he’s ever been in Iowa." He lost the caucuses.

[goldfly]