“I thank God every day that Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
– Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, at the Dallas County Republican Party’s Reagan Day Dinner
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Best Quote of the Week – February 21, 2020
“I am in a faithful, loving, committed marriage. I’m proud of my marriage. And I’m proud of my husband. And I’m not going to be lectured on family values from the likes of Rush Limbaugh or anybody who supports Donald J. Trump as the moral, as well as political leader of the United States. America has moved on, and we should have a politics of belonging that welcomes everybody.”
– Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, IN, in response to conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh commenting on Buttigieg’s sexuality.
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Worst Quote of the Week – February 14, 2020
“Generally speaking, the heat kills this kind of virus.”
– Donald Trump, referring to the coronavirus, which has been rampaging across China and has been renamed COVID-19.
Trump was speaking at a rally at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Unfortunately hot weather doesn’t necessarily annihilate some viruses and – even more sadly – it doesn’t kill stupidity either.
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Best Quote of the Week – February 14, 2020
“I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me.”
– William Barr, U.S. Attorney General, in an interview with ABC News’ Pierre Thomas.
I feel it’s odd that Barr, a known Trump loyalist, suddenly seems to have turned on his boss – the borderline psychotic with a mob mentality who has been masquerading as president of the United States for 3 years. I also don’t understand why Trump is allowed to maintain his Twitter account. After Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 – without any question, I have to add – the Secret Service confiscated his Blackberry, as a matter of national cybersecurity. And, in the current state of affairs, one of the biggest threats to our national security is Trump.
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Tweet of the Week – February 7, 2020
“Suddenly, in the span of ten minutes on Sunday, they became concerned about the welfare of women and girls. I wonder if they were thinking of women and girls three years ago when they voted for the guy who said, ‘I did try and fuck her. She was married. I moved on her very heavily. I moved on her like a bitch.’”
– John Pavlovitz, author and Christian pastor, regarding conservative uproar over the Superbowl half-time show by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira.
The right-wing hypocrisy over the performance is glaring. Many of the people who condemned former President Bill Clinton for his sexual indiscretions have amazingly ignored the even more egregious actions of Donald Trump. I follow Pavlovitz’s site, “Stuff That Needs to Be Said,” which has a definite liberal take on modern American life.
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Worst Quote of the Week – February 7, 2020
“So actually in the Constitution of the United States (if) they are found guilty of being a socialist member you either go to prison or are shot.”
– Rodney Garcia, a Republican legislator from the state of Montana.
Garcia made the comment after a speech by former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, who was Montana’s representative in the U.S. House for two years. Garcia said he was concerned about socialists “entering our government” and socialists “everywhere” in Billings, before saying the Constitution says to either shoot socialists or put them in jail. The Montana Republican Party has condemned Garcia’s remarks.
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Best Quote of the Week – February 7, 2020
“I left the [State of the Union address] after Trump – a draft dodger who has mocked Sen. John McCain, Gold Star families, and soldiers with traumatic brain injury – started talking about the good he has done for our military.”
– Seth Moulton, Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts.
A former Marine, Moulton led one of the first infantry platoons into Baghdad at the start of the Iraq War in 2003 – a conflict initiated by another well-known draft dodger and indiscriminate liar: George W. Bush. He left Trump’s Congressional address this past Tuesday when Trump began talking about his “record-breaking” investments and support of the U.S. military.
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Tweet of the Week – January 31, 2020
“You consistently make fun of half the country and then complain that it is divided. The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation’s ‘Real Elites’ is disgusting.”
– Ivanka Trump Kushner, Donald Trump’s eldest daughter, in response to the aforementioned Rick Wilson statement on CNN.
To refresh the gilded princess’ selective memory, here’s this bit from the 2016 campaign.
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Worst Quote of the Week – January 31, 2020
“It looks like a Jew coup.”
– Rick Wiles, founder of TruNews, a website aimed at conservative Christians, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
Wiles later said the statement just “came out of my mouth,” adding, “All I pointed out was many of the people involved were Jewish.” When asked if the term could be interpreted as anti-Semitic, Wiles declared, “It’s hard to say. I don’t know. I can tell you from my heart there is no ill will toward the Jewish people, with all sincerity.”
The next “coup” – Jewish-led or not – needs to come when Trump’s fat ass is voted out of office and sent back to his Manhattan penthouse, along with the rest of his corrupt family.
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Best Quote of the Week – January 31, 2020
“He [Secretary of State Mike Pompeo] also knows, deep within his heart, that Donald Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it.”
– Rick Wilson, former strategist for the Republican Party, on “CNN Tonight.”
The comment caused host Don Lemmon to burst into a fit of uncontrolled laughter. Wilson then said, “Donald Trump’s the smart one — and y’all elitists are dumb!’ ”
Lemmon’s other guest, Wajahat Ali, a New York Times columnist and CNN contributor added, “You elitists with your geography and your maps — and your spelling!’”
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