Due to Coronovirus (COVID19) all TCP applications are being converted to UDP to avoid Handshakes. (seen on Twitter.com, 10 March 2020)
GO INTO THE STREETS FOLKS. Visit bars, restaurants, shopping malls, CHURCHES and demand that your schools re-open. NOW! If government doesn’t stop this foolishness…STAY IN THE STREETS. END GOVERNEMNT CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES. IF NOT NOW, WHEN? THIS IS AN EXPLOITATION OF A CRISIS. (David A. Clarke, Jr. on Twitter, 15 March 2020)
The Wall Street Journal always “forgets” to mention that the ratings for the White House Press Briefings are “through the roof” (Monday Night Football, Bachelor Finale, according to nytimes) & is only way for me to escape the Fake News & get my views across. WSJ is Fake News! (POTUS45 on Twitter regarding COVID-19 Pandemic daily briefings, 9 April 2020)
you can’t drink all day unless you start in the morning…! (seen on Facebook.com, 3 July 2020)
The Republican Party has grown incredibly from where it was and we have a whole different group of people in the Republican Party. People don’t remember… nobody ever heard of it until I came along, nobody remembered it for a long time or they didn’t use it at least, I use it all the time – Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. You say that and people say ‘I didn’t know that’ but he was a Republican. (Donald J. Trump, 10 July 2020)
I know many in business and politics that work out endlessly, in some cases to a point of exhaustion. It is their number one passion in life, but nobody complains. My “exercise” is playing, almost never during the week, a quick round of golf. Obama played more and much longer rounds, no problem. When I play, Fake News CNN, and others, park themselves anywhere they can to get a picture, then scream “President Trump is playing golf.” Actually, I play VERY fast, get a lot of work done on the golf course, and also get a “tiny” bit of exercise. Not bad! (Donald J. Trump, July 12, 2020)
Many of those cases are young people who would heal in a day, they have the sniffles and we put it down as a test. Many of them, don’t forget, I guess it’s like, 99.7%, people are going to get better, and in many cases, they’re going get better very quickly. (Donald J. Trump, 10 July 2020)
We won two World Wars, two World Wars, beautiful World Wars that were vicious and horrible, and we won them out of Fort Bragg, we won out of all of these forts that now they want to throw those names away. (Donald J. Trump, 10 July 2020)
When we’re up here and the rest of the world is down at a level, that’s just a tiny fraction of what we’ve done in terms of testing. So it’s a bit curious, a man works for us, with us, very closely Dr Fauci. Fauci and Dr. Birx also highly thought of. And yet they’re highly thought of but nobody likes me. It can only be my personality. I don’t know… (Donald J. Trump, July 29, 2020)
We’re doing very well. Don’t know if you’ve seen, the polls have been going up like a rocket ship. Hey, I was, George Washington would have had a hard time beating me before the plague came in, before the China plague. (Donald J. Trump, August 10, 2020)
The good thing about science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it. (Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson)
He who establishes his arguments by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. (Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592)
The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it. (Brandolini’s Law)
Money won’t buy happiness – but it’s far more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle.
Forgive your enemy – but remember the person’s name.
If you help someone when they’re in trouble they will remember you when they’re in trouble again.
Alcohol does not solve problems – but neither does milk.
Some people are alive only because it’s illegal to shoot them.
We all came over on different ships but we’re all in the same boat now. (Bishop Curry)
2021
Dunning-Kruger effect — The phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence.
Those who determine our destiny are not really better than ourselves; they are neither more intelligent nor stronger nor more enlightened. (Oriana Fallaci)
The Republican Party can be either the Party of Lincoln or the Party of Trump – but never both. Hopefully enough more rational Republicans will awaken to that fact. (Brian Hope on Quora.com)
Quit being afraid of people because they are not you. America was to be a “great melting pot” not a vat of vanilla ice cream. (MMfromPA comment on article in Washington Post, 10 April 2021).
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. (Christopher Hitchens)
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, 4 BC – 65 AD)
2022
The left is now rationing lifesaving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating, just denigrating, white people to determine who lives and who dies. If you’re white, you don’t get the vaccine, or if you’re white, you don’t get therapeutics. (Donald J. Trump, Arizona Rally, 15 January 2022)
I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to get 1t wrong. (Benjamin Franklin)
I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships. (Ben Rothlisberger)
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. (Mike Tyson)
Book censorship now is about educators, not students. A child w[sic] a cell phone or computer can read pretty much anything. This is about silencing teachers. (Ken Lindblom, Twitter, 05 Feb 2022)
I don’t want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny – Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear. (Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 01 June 1950 regarding Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare)
Great Answer! I am not sure, though, that “words have meaning” still applies in a society in which “my opinion is just as good as your facts.” (Robert L. Lamoreaux on Quora.com, 12 February 2022)
Thought for the day…Follow your heart, but take your brain with you. (On Facebook.com, 26 February 2022)
When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose…. (Bob Dylan in Like A Rolling Stone lyrics)
if you don’t read the newspaper then you’re uninformed. if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. (Mark Twain)
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. (Upton Sinclair)
Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window. (Steve Wozniak)
I only know two tunes, one is Yankee Doodle Dandy and the other one ain’t. (Ulysses S. Grant)
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. (George_Carlin)
I am not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing: that involvement has connected me with good people: people with live hearts, live eyes, live heads. (Pete Seeger)
2023
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
(G. K. Chesterton)
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. (Thomas Paine)
They can’t organise a piss up in a brewery! (from the Land Down Under)
The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than that needed to produce it. (Brandolini’s Law, aka The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle)
This dope could not pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel. (Robert Bruce, Quora.com, 8 May 2023)
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. (William Shakespeare)
Never argue with stupid people. They will bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience. (Mark Twain)
There will come a time when the rich own all media, and it will be impossible
for the public to make an informed opinion. (Albert Einstein – 1949)
Only two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the universe. (Unknown…some say Albert Einstein)
If books corrupt, then the censors would be the most corupt citizens in the land. (John Milton in Areopagitica
Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, I think you are focusing on the wrong sh… (Wanda Sykes)
Trump is the father of the USA. Trump is our supreme leader. Trump is the heir to the great leader who lived 78 years ago. We will not leave Trump alone. Do you understand me? (Seen on Quora.com, 17 December 2023)
2024
When the speech condemns the free press, you are hearing the words of a tyrant. (Thomas Jefferson)
Not everyone present that day was violent, but violence is what let them into the Capital. (Royce Lamberth)
Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake. (N. Bonaparte)
If there is a basketball court in heaven, surely Lefty Driesell is there right now complaining loudly and vociferously that God as referee is giving Dean Smith all the calls. (seen in Washington Post, 2024-02-26)
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. (Dr Maya Angelou)