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and it only gets better [?!]

Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 21, 2024 by xi'an

“Those cities are gone, they’re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man [President Zelensky] who refused to make a deal” – DT, 25 Sept

“What do we do to protect our kids? I unfortunately think that we have to increase security in our schools. We have to make the doors lock better. We have to make the door stronger. We’ve got to make the windows stronger,” – JD Vance, 01 Oct

“One of the things that I’ve noticed some of our Democratic friends talking a lot about is a concern about carbon emissions, this idea that carbon emissions drives all the climate change … let’s just say that’s true, just for the sake of argument.” – JD Vance, 01 Oct

“I’m the father of IVF (…) I got a call from Katie Britt, a young, just a fantastically attractive person from Alabama (…) I said, explain IVF, very IVF, very quickly. And within about two minutes, I understood it” – DT, 17 Oct

And, then, most unexpectedly…

“It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government. Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes. Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.” – Melanija Knavs, 03 Oct

“I am sympathetic to all who wish to find a better life in this country. As an immigrant myself, I intimately understand the necessary if arduous process of legally becoming an American. As a mother myself, I stressed: ‘The government should not be taking children away from their parents.’” – Melanija Knavs, 03 Oct

and it only gets worse [the return?!]

Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 30, 2024 by xi'an

“I say it all the time, I’m dying to get back to do this. We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department of Education (…) Across the country, we need to implement strict prohibitions on teaching inappropriate racial, sexual and political material to America’s schoolchildren in any form whatsoever.”- DT, Aug

“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again.” –DT, 07 Sept

“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” – JD Vance, 15 Sept

“God has now spared my life. It must have been God, not once, but twice.” – DT, 18 Sept

“ If I don’t win this election – and the Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that if that happens because if 40%, I mean, 60% of the people are voting for the enemy – Israel, in my opinion, will cease to exist within two years.” – DT, 19 Sept

“So I think six weeks, you need more time than six weeks. I’ve disagreed with that. Right from the early primaries when I heard about it, I disagreed with it. At the same time, the Democrats are radical because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation where you can do an abortion in the ninth month. And you know, some of the states like Minnesota and other states have it where you can actually execute the baby after birth and all of that stuff is unacceptable. So I’ll be voting no, for that reason.” – DT, 20 Sept

“Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free. You will be protected, and I will be your protector,You will no longer be thinking about abortion.” – DT, 23 Sept

and it only gets worse [the return?!]

Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 30, 2024 by xi'an

“If you’re Jewish, if you vote for a Democrat, you’re a fool, an absolute fool.” – DT, 30 July

“I didn’t know [Kamala Harris] was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black.” – DT, 31 July

“I’m explaining that to [Christians]: You never vote. This time, vote. I’ll straighten out the country, you won’t have to vote anymore. I won’t need your vote.” – DT, 30 July

“They go on strike, I won’t mention the name of the company, but they go on strike and you say: ‘That’s OK, you’re all gone. You’re all gone. So, every one of you is gone.’” – DT, 12 Aug

“In her speech yesterday, Kamala went full communist. Comrade Kamala announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls.” – DT, 17 Aug

“Have you heard her laugh? That is the laugh of a crazy person. That is the laugh of a crazy, the laugh of a lunatic.” – DT, 17 Aug

 

and it only gets worse [the return?!]

Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 1, 2024 by xi'an

“We have to win in November, or we’re not going to have Pennsylvania. They’ll change the name. They’re going to change the name of Pennsylvania,” – DT, 09 Feb

“One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, ‘Well, sir, if we don’t pay, and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?’ “I said, ‘You didn’t pay, you’re delinquent?’ No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You got to pay. You got to pay your bills.” – DT, 10 Feb

“The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our Country, CROOKED, Radical Left Politicians, Prosecutors, and Judges leading us down a path to destruction (…) I stand before you today not only as your past and hopefully future president but as a proud political dissident. I am a dissident.” – DT, 18 & 24 Feb

“A vote for Trump is your ticket back to freedom, it’s your passport out of tyranny and it’s your only escape from Joe Biden and his gang’s fast track to hell. And in many ways, we’re living in hell right now because the fact is, Joe Biden is a threat to democracy – really is a threat to democracy. The Stalinist show trials being carried out at Joe Biden’s orders set fire not only to our system of government but to hundreds of years of western legal tradition” – DT, 24 Feb

“…send Joe Biden’s illegal aliens back home. They’re coming from Asia, they’re coming from the Middle East, coming from all over the world, coming from Africa, and we’re not going to stand for it … They’re killing our people. They’re killing our country. We have no choice. We have languages coming into our country … they have languages that nobody in this country has ever heard of. It’s a horrible thing.” – DT, 24 Feb

 

will it ever get better?! [verbatim]

Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 14, 2020 by xi'an

“…after his defeat in the 1800 election, Adams wrote bitterly that “we have no Americans in America,” and that “a group of foreign liars, encouraged by a few ambitious native gentlemen, have discomfited the education, the talents, the virtues, and the property of the country.” Adams was so disgusted that he refused to attend the inauguration of his successor, Thomas Jefferson.” Sean Willenz, 11 November

“This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth. And in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology textbook, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying.” Ted Cruz, 03 May 2016

“No sitting president — no presidential candidate, with the partial exception of Jackson in 1824 — has refused to accept the results of an election. I’m not surprised that Trump is threatening to do so, but refusing to accept the results of an election may be a bridge too far.” James T. Campbell, 11 November

“There is no enchanted village in Pennsylvania full of 50,000 Trump voters that we haven’t heard from already. It doesn’t exist.” John Fetterman, Pennsylvania lieutenant governor, 13 November