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Notable Quotes
The Jewish Home | DECEMBER 1, 2022 Notable Quotes
So look, I you know, um, there’s some a little bit of uh, interesting, uh, you know, kind of, on brand, uh, thinking here.
– The White House spokeswoman when asked to address whether President Biden was involved in any of his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings
When historians look back on our time, they will not divide us into red and blue and Republican-Democrat. The things that were wrong with us were wrong with both sides in different ways. I do think they manifest in a more dangerous way on the right. But on the left, there is a rot, and it comes from academia, and it filters down. Am I wrong about that? That’s where it’s all coming from.
- Bill Maher, HBO
Gaslighting: the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one’s own advantage.
My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics, or fame.
– Elon Musk explaining why he is allowing most banned people back on to Twitter but won’t unban Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist who claimed that the Sandy Hook mass shooting, in which 20 children were killed, was a hoax
I’m 72, he’s 78 now; we don’t have that many more years to do something dumb and stupid.
- Brenda Delgado explaining to a local Arizona TV station that she and her new husband, who both lost their spouses, decided to get married in the condiments aisle of an Arizona grocery store last week because that is where they first met last year by striking up a random conversation
He came to my house, and he said, “I’m going to go get you an engagement ring,” and I said, “Yes, sure.” So he left, and a couple hours later, I called him and asked, “Have you been drinking?’”
- Ibid., talking about how the couple got engaged
Prices are up because of inflation and supply chain issues, so don’t be surprised if this year, the candied yams are just a potato with a Starburst in it.
- James Corden
In other words, it’s going to cost you an arm and a leg for a wing and a thigh.
- Ibid.
A new record high for Thanksgiving food items. You know how the economists figured this out? Pie chart.
-Ibid.
- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson explaining why he bought out all the Snickers bars at his local 7-Eleven (and left them there for anyone who looks like they are going to steal a Snickers bar), disclosing that when he was a teenager he stole a Snickers bar from that 7-Eleven every day for a year
TikTok should be banned… TikTok is digital fentanyl, addicting our kids. And just like actual fentanyl, it ultimately goes back to the Chinese Communist Party. TikTok is owned by ByteDance. ByteDance is controlled by the CCP.
- Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) on Fox News
I gave back my Tesla. I bought the VW ev. I love it. I’m not sure how advertisers can buy space on Twitter. Publicly traded company’s products being pushed in alignment with hate and white supremacy doesn’t seem to be a winning business model.
- Tweet by an actress and liberal activist
Imagine thinking you’re woke and owning @ elonmusk by trading your American-made car for one literally founded by Nazis.
– One of many tweets in response
A good way not to accidentally dine with a vile racist and anti-Semite you don’t know is not to dine with a vile racist and anti-Semite you do know.
- Tweet by Ben Shapiro in response to Trump’s claim that he only dined with a Nazi-loving white supremacist because Kanye West brought him to the meeting and Trump did not know who he was
You know it’s a bad sign when Kanye West is only the third most controversial person at your dinner table.
- Jimmy Kimmel
This dinner was a multicourse tasting menu of crazy, but we don’t know exactly what happened, because it’s become a real “he said, Ye said.”
I’m not supporting him. I was one of his most loyal supporters in Congress. But loyalty was only a one-way street.
- Lou Barletta, a former Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate and congressman and Pennsylvania co-chairman of Trump’s 2016 campaign, disclosing to Politico that he will not support Trump in 2024
For all of you who are stressed about making Thanksgiving dinner: Consider yourselves lucky. We do it every Friday night…
– Posting by Israel’s official Twitter account
- Pres. Joe Biden
So what are we to make of the enthusiasm for Zelensky the “Jewish hero,” and, moreover, the fact that it’s predominantly on the left? The answer is simple. Zelensky represents not Judaism as it has been known for thousands of years, but the left’s own brand of Judaism. The progressive brand of religion demotes the “outmoded” pillars of authentic faith — custom, tradition, ritual, faith, community, and family.
- Jonathan Bronitsky and Josh Hammer, The Federalist
To be sure, it’s virtually impossible to imagine the left lavishing the same amount of praise upon a Zelensky donning a kippah (head covering) and tzitzit (fringes) and praying three times daily.
- Ibid.
I do one day at a time.
- 100-year-old Mick Roberts of Connecticut after completing a 5K run in under an hour, sharing her secret to longevity
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