Notable Quotes

The Jewish Home | DECEMBER 29, 2022 Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

Mommy blog culture normalizes oversharing intimate personal details of your kids — and they aren’t old enough to agree or disagree with it.

- Meredith Steele, 35, of Maine who has over 157,000 Instagram followers and over 922,000 followers on her TikTok account, announcing that she will no longer put up any pictures of her kids after she found out that they were “digitally kidnapped,” meaning her children’s pictures were used by fake nefarious accounts

The attitudes, I mean, it’s just like, “We’re tech bros. We’re tech bros. Of course, we’re smarter. You know, we went to Harvard, we went to MIT, we’re in tech. You just can’t hang. You don’t know what… is going on,. I do all I can not to let any of my investments work out of Silicon Valley.

- Mogul Mark Cuban on Bill Maher, talking about how pretentious people in San Francisco are

I know there’s a war, but Zelenskyy isn’t under fire. He flew to the U.S. aboard a U.S. government private jet, arrived at the White House in a chauffeur-driven SUV, yet showed up wearing a sweatshirt. It’s better than a t-shirt, but I still maintain the proper attire is a suit.

- Commentator Peter Schiff responding to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy showing up at the White House and Congress in his classic green sweatshirt and army pants

He couldn’t at least wear a suit for the people who gave him over $100 billion?

- Tim Young, in a tweet

Civil war will break out in the U.S., California and Texas becoming independent states as a result. Texas and Mexico will form an allied state. Elon Musk’ll win the presidential election in a number of states which, after the new Civil War’s end, will have been given to the GOP.

I never claimed to be Jewish. I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background, I said I was “Jew-ish.”

- GOP Rep.-elect George Santos of New York explaining to the New York Post that he wasn’t lying when he claimed during his campaign that he was Jewish; he just meant that he was Jew-ish, meaning a little like a Jew

I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my resume. We do stupid things in life.

- Ibid., on WABC, apologizing for lying about working for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and lying about graduating from New York’s Baruch College

He has begun his tenure in Congress on a very wrong note. He will not be welcome at any future RJC event.

- From a statement by the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC)

Where, exactly, does lying about your wife being killed by a drunk driver and lying about your son dying while serving in Iraq fall on the “normal politician bs-ing” scale? None of this is a defense of Santos, who’s obviously a degenerate liar. Just trying to figure out the rules.

– Conservative T. Becket Adams, responding to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes pointing out that there is a difference between normal political lies, such as the ones that Pres. Biden says, and the lies of GOP Rep.-elect Santos

People involved in the auto industry are largely a silent majority. That silent majority is wondering whether EVs are really OK to have as a single option. But they think it’s the trend so they can’t speak out loudly.

- Toyota Motor CEO Akio Toyoda disclosing to reporters that the complete transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is not as realistic as people think

The uninformed vitriol, especially from the left, has been stunning, which proves my point: So much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths, and desperation. When I was doxed, someone from Ron DeSantis’s team called me, and she said, “The governor wanted me to give you a message. He said that if you and your family don’t feel safe, you can come stay at the governor’s mansion. We have a guesthouse for you, and you can come and stay as long as you need.”

- Chaya Raichik, who created the Libs of TikTok Twitter account, disclosing to Tucker Carlson that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reached out to her to offer her a place to stay, even though she lives in California, when liberals doxed her because she exposes their lunacy

- The definition given for the term “Jew” on Google last week, which has been removed by Google which claims that its definitions are supplied by third parties and this somehow slipped in for a day

It’s called a coup, it’s called treason, and everyone can look at the State of Israel’s laws and see what the punishment is for treason — and it is not prison.

- Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a radio interview insinuating that the prosecutors and witnesses who are trying to bring down his father should get the death penalty

I love my son Yair, who is an independent person with his own views. Although everyone has the right to express criticism, I did not agree with the things he said that were published yesterday.

- Tweet by Prime Minister Netanyahu in response

No, I’m homeless. I’m a homeless person.

- Response of a patron of a soup kitchen to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who asked him if he is in business My best friend said, “Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race.”

- The View’s Whoopi Goldberg, doubling down on recent comments that the Holocaust was not racist against the Jews