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I spend billions of dollars on climate innovation. So, you know, should I stay at home and not come to Kenya and learn about farming and malaria anyway? I mean, I’m comfortable with the idea that not only am I not part of the problem — by paying for the offsets, but also through the billions that my Breakthrough Energy group is spending – that I’m part of the solution.
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- Bill Gates, when asked in a recent interview if he is a hypocrite for flying private even though he is a climate activist
On China, what Joe Biden did tonight by not taking on China more aggressively was politically courageous, if you will, in terms of the domestic support.
- MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, commenting on President Biden’s failure during his State of the Union address to show strength against China, a country that is becoming increasingly hostile to the U.S.
You had to deal, Terry, with another issue when you were playing, and this was the rap that you were, forgive me, dumb. And Hollywood Henderson famously said, you know, “He couldn’t spell cat if he was spotted a C and an A.” Did it get under your skin?
– Chris Wallace in an interview with former NFL great Terry Bradshaw
Yes. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. The dumb image, I have yet to figure out. Um, a lot of interceptions my rookie year but my rookie interception record initially was broken by Peyton Manning, considered one of the smartest quarterbacks. I threw 25, he threw 28. So I am upset. I do get upset by the dumb image. I don’t like it being brought up. And I think probably some of my anger and frustration with it is I didn’t get enough support.
– Bradshaw, in response
At least two dead as driver rams bus stop in east Jerusalem.
- Headline in the New York Times , referring to the Arab terrorist who killed two beautiful little boys and a newly married man as a “driver”
I wish I could go to Target sometimes and walk into Starbucks and have my name on the cup just like regular people.
- LeBron James in an interview with the New York Times
I can’t even…express in words the amount of satisfaction I feel knowing that Twitter’s former chief of censorship @yoyoel is triggered by this account’s existence. And the best part is, there’s absolutely nothing he can do about it!
- Tweet by Libs of Tik Tok – a popular conservative Twitter account (run by an Orthodox woman) which points out the left’s absurdities— in response to Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and former Twitter executive Yoel Roth commiserating at a Congressional hearing about how horrible it is that Libs of Tik Tok is not banned by Twitter
The White House today announced they formed an interagency team to look into what’s going on. After initially refusing to rule it out, today, they said they do not believe these are extraterrestrial visits, which is exactly what they say at the beginning of every movie about extraterrestrial visits.
- Jimmy Kimmel
There’s a hemorrhaging of our Latino community, our AAPI [Asian American and Pacific Islander] communities, that’s leaving the traditional Democratic base because we’ve allowed the loudest and those who consider themselves to be “woke” to set the Democratic agenda.
– New York City Mayor Eric Adams on MSNBC
Well, you know, I told people, I have a Ph.D. in White trashology, and you saw real White trash on display. Let me say something about Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene; she dresses like White trash. She really needs a fashion consultant.
– Democrat strategist James Carville commenting on Republicans after the State of the Union address
I’ve heard what everyone else has heard: that they’re not happy with me. I hear things from people who are maybe more neutral — that they’re taking a lot of heat from their fans. I kind of look at that like, you’re looking at the wrong person. They’re putting it on me. Maybe they need to look more at themselves.
– Mets owner Steve Cohen on ESPN responding to a story that other MLB owners are upset by the amount of money that he is spending on the Mets
I’m not responsible for how other teams run their clubs. I’m really not. That’s not my job. And there are disparities in baseball. We know that to be true. I’m following the rules. They set the rules down; I’m following them.
- Ibid.
What is needed is to move to the next stage, the stage of war, and war is not waged with speeches. War is waged in a face-to-face battle, head-to-head and hand-to-hand, and that is what will happen here.
- Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in an interview with DemocraTV, calling for civil war to stop judicial reform in Israel
It’s good to see 100,000 people, but that’s not what will lead the real fight. The real fight will break through these fences and enter into a real war.
- Ibid.
Really? Does anybody in this country think that someone working at the Chinese embassy here in Washington, D.C., should be voting in the presidential election? Absolutely not. It’s insane what they did.
As always, we appreciate OSHA’s collaborative approach to working with us to conduct the after-action review.
- Statement by Mars Wrigley in response to being fined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration after two workers fell into a vat of chocolate last year at an M&M factory in Pennsylvania
I understand if people [disagree] and everybody can have their opinion, but for me and my family and my house, that’s the way I see it, and I think we should be able to say that.
They were in Manhattan, living in the freest country you can imagine, and they’re saying they’re oppressed? It doesn’t even compute. I was sold for $200 as a … slave in the 21st century under the same sky. And they say they’re oppressed because people can’t follow their pronouns they invent every day?
– North Korean defector Yeonmi Park talking about her fellow “woke” Columbia University students, in an interview with the New York Post
I never understood that not having a problem can be a problem. They need to make injustice out of thin air or a problem out of nowhere, because they haven’t experienced anything like what other people are facing in the world.
- Ibid.
The left has no sense of humor at all, nor do they have any sense of humor about themselves. Somebody in power who can’t even laugh at themself, that’s a dangerous human being.