“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
Monthly Archives: December 2020
Retro Quote – Voltaire
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Word of the Week – December 5, 2020
Emulous
Adjective
Latin, mid-16th century
Seeking to emulate someone or something.
Motivated by a spirit of rivalry.
Example: My rationale is emulous of the great thinkers of the ancient world because I don’t spend much time on social media.
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Tweets of the Week – December 5, 2020
Blow was responding to this tweet by Lauren Witzke, a former Republican U.S. Senate candidate:
In response, Sen. Rand Paul said this:
They were both referring to a previous declaration by Dr. Anthony Fauci that schools should remain closed.
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Most Ominous Quote of the Week – December 5, 2020
“By this time next week, we are going to be talking about 3,000 deaths a day – that’s 9/11 every single day.”
– Dr. Jonathan Reiner, cardiologist and professor of medicine at George Washington University, to CNN
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Worst Quotes of the Week – December 5, 2020
“Anybody who thinks the election went well, like that idiot Krebs who used to be the head of cybersecurity, that guy is a class A moron. He should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot.”
– Joe di Genova, a Trump campaign lawyer, in an interview with “The Howie Carr Show,” which was broadcast on the radio, Newsmax and online streams.
Di Genova was referring to Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, whom Trump fired on November 17.
“I assume that the power of the pardon is absolute and that he should be able to pardon anybody that he wants to.”
– Sean Hannity, in his radio interview with fringe lawyer Sidney Powell, about Trump’s ability to pardon himself and “his whole family” as he walks “out the door” of the White House
“If you want to steal an election of the United States, what do you do? You go into the swing states, your Democrats, you target the urban areas where you have the largest vote count. They need to produce a massive, significant, large number of votes – therefore they have to go to large Democratic cities.”
– Gary Berntsen, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) career officer who worked on various counterterrorism deployments, to Epoch Times.
Berntsen claims that the irregularities during the November election may be part of a larger scheme. He didn’t provide supporting evidence or name any specific person or party for wrongdoing.
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Best Quotes of the Week – December 5, 2020
“Just 100 days to mask, not forever – 100 days. And I think we’ll see a significant reduction.”
– President Elect Joe Biden, urging Americans to wear masks to help stop spread of COVID-19
“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.”
– U.S. Attorney General William Barr, confirming that various complaints by the Trump Administration of voter fraud in the recent elections are unfounded.
“Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language. Senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions. This has to stop. We need you to step up, and if you’re going to take a position of leadership, show some.”
– Gabriel Sterling, the Voting Systems Manager for the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, during a press conference Tuesday afternoon after weeks of harassment, threats, and division
Sterling called out President Trump and Georgia Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler for not condemning ongoing threats made against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, his wife, and numerous elections officials and contractors.
Sterling said the “straw that broke the camel’s back” occurred when a 20-something contractor discovered a noose in front of his home with his name on it after an online video claiming to show him “manipulate data.”
“He just took a job,” Sterling said, adding he chose to have a high-profile job, but the young man who was threatened was just doing his job. “People started accusing him of treason.”
“I am not going to be intimidated by these threats from telling the truth to the American people.”
– Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in an essay for the Washington Post
Donald Trump had terminated Krebs via Twitter on November 17 after CISA rebuked the President’s claims of rampant voter fraud in the November 3 elections. Trump campaign lawyer Joe di Genova had suggested Krebs should be shot.
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December 2020 Countdown – December 5!
“The tiny seed that, in order to grow, it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, struggle to reach the light.”
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December 2020 Countdown – December 4!
“Don’t lose the trail of wisdom’s scent.
While on this hunt, don’t go astray, worrying if every little thing is good or bad.
You are the traveler, you are the path, and you are the destination.
Be careful never to lose the way to yourself.”
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December 2020 Countdown – December 3!
“Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered. Those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus, the wise win before the fight, while the ignorant fight to win.”
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