(from Thomas Jefferson; The Art of Power by Jon Meacham)
". . . Both Federalists and Republicans believed the fate of the United States could turn on the confrontation of the hour. In the broad public discourse, driven by partisan editors publishing partisan newspapers, there seemed no middle ground, only extremes of opinion or of outcome . . . "
". . . Then there’s the Trump effect. Normally working for the president of the United States is a career booster, something that looks good on your résumé. Trump’s presidency, however, is so chaotic, corrupt and potentially compromised by his foreign entanglements that anyone associated with him gets tainted — which is why after only two years he has already left a trail of broken men and wrecked reputations in his wake. . . So who is willing to serve him at this point? Only those with no reputation to lose, generally because they’re pretty bad at what they do. There are, no doubt, conservatives smart and self-controlled enough to lie plausibly, or at least preserve some deniability, and defend Trump’s policies without making fools of themselves. But those people have gone into hiding. . . "
. . . that this is not merely a matter of opinion but either TRUE or FALSE!!! SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP US!!!!
(from https://thehill.com/policy/defense/422223-us-ally-in-syria-the-islamic-state-has-not-been-defeated)
". . . The White House also said in a statement that the U.S. "has defeated the territorial caliphate.". . . Trump then doubled down on those claims in a video message Wednesday evening, saying that the U.S. has "won against ISIS.". . . “We’ve beaten them and we’ve beaten them badly. We’ve taken back the land and now it’s time for our troops to come back home," he said. . . "
(from https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/vote-against-the-gop-this-november/2018/06/22/a6378306-7575-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?utm_term=.857ab8aeb4c8 by George Will, conservative, American political commentator who writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC)
". . . Consider the melancholy example of House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.), who wagered his dignity on the patently false proposition that it is possible to have sustained transactions with today’s president, this Vesuvius of mendacities, without being degraded. In Robert Bolt’s play “A Man for All Seasons,” Thomas More, having angered Henry VIII, is on trial for his life. When Richard Rich, whom More had once mentored, commits perjury against More in exchange for the office of attorney general for Wales, More says: “Why, Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world . . . But for Wales!” Ryan traded his political soul for . . . a tax cut. He who formerly spoke truths about the accelerating crisis of the entitlement system lost everything in the service of a president pledged to preserve the unsustainable status quo. . ."
. . . well-considered, strenuously-analyzed, judiciously scrutinized, soul-searchingly agonized-over, intellectually articulated and mellifluously delivered opinion by our barroom-buddy(who doesn't drink)/tough-guy-in-chief:
"GOP doesn't have the guts to repeal Obamacare"
In his place, I would only have added a heartfelt, "Nah Nah Nah Na NAHHHH NAHHHHH!!!!!!" with the true spirit of the inner seven-year-old his demeanor exemplifies.
I do suspect however, that his careful choice of words quite accurately reflects his:
a. comprehension of the many facets involved in such an undertaking AND
b. emotional maturity and vast capacity for humanitarianism.
(from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/bernie-sanders-will-become-president_b_8780730.html)
". . .The American political establishment is trying desperately to shift public opinion towards the belief that voters will elect a person they don't trust and don't like. It's not a conspiracy, however, it's simply the same dynamics that allowed Enron to seduce financial markets before its epic collapse. BusinessWeek wrote a glowing cover story on Enron in February of 2001, stating "Enron's success has not gone unnoticed, but it has a few advantages that competitors would be hard pressed to match." Ten months after this glowing review of Enron's prominence within the energy field, it went bankrupt. . . The same dynamics are at play with Hillary Clinton and poll numbers, as well as Clinton's "inevitability." Conventional logic is often rooted in a herd mentality . . ."
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(from http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/stupidity)
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, Bacchae
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
― George Carlin
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison
“I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
― Joss Whedon
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse
“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
― Jim Butcher, Vignette
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· 6801 - soldiers that God has killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
· 52,335 - pickets conducted by WBC.
· 922 - cities that have been visited by WBC.
· 1186 - weeks that WBC has held daily pickets on the mean streets of doomed america.
· 138 - people whom God has cast into hell since you loaded this page.
· 218,400,000+ - gallons of oil that God poured in the Gulf.
· $17.52 trillion+ - national debt of doomed america.
· 8 - people that God saved in the flood.
· 16,000,000,000 - people that God killed in the flood.
· 144,000 - Jews that will be saved in these last days.
· 0 - nanoseconds of sleep that WBC members lose over your opinions and feeeeellllliiiiiings."
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"I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our
fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a
marriage'" says Chick-Fil-A's Dan Cathy.
First, what God and what judgement are we talking about here? Second, where or in what direction would a fool shake his fist in order to express this silly sentiment? Third, this imaginary being to whom he is expressing this anger actually holds an opinion about what the word 'marriage' represents which holds WHAT relevance?
It's only a matter of time before opinions like Cathy's will be totally irrelevant, part of a tiny minority, no longer newsworthy, and dismissable as those of a mere crank.
“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.”
-H. L. Mencken
“When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are so to be called, will be the same.”
-Alexander Hamilton
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