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That’s right, gas prices were already on the rise, and with the decision to ban Russian oil, they’re higher than ever before. Gas prices are so high, the Indy 500 was just changed to the Indy 5.
— Jimmy Fallon
But on the bright side, this is the perfect excuse to pretend you’re going to get back on the bike you bought mid-pandemic and rode twice.
— James Corden
McDonald’s…is cutting ties with Russia. Yeah, we don’t want their oil and they can’t have our grease.
— Jimmy Fallon
Within months, the planet’s average temperature would fall by more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit; some amount of this cooling would persist for more than a decade.
– From an article in The Atlantic titled, “On Top of Everything Else, Nuclear War Would Be a Climate Problem”
As we told you yesterday, McDonald’s, Starbucks and now CocaCola have announced that they are suspending business in Russia. Yes, which means the Russian people are going to be forced to develop diabetes on their own now. We are opposed to the idea — and this, I think, is an existential part of the debate — that Israel should be preserved as a state for the Jewish people.
- Amnesty International U.S. Director Paul O’Brien at the Women’s National Democratic Club conference this week
If we say we are not going to send our hospitals [to help the Ukrainians], because their great-grandfathers [did horrible things to our great-grandparents], then we will have to stop our diplomatic relations with most of the world and think about how to build our past, not how to build our futures.
– Natan Sharansky in an interview with the Jerusalem Post
We go to Europe, to France and Spain, and love to visit all those places for medieval history, and they [the locals] are proud to show various Crusader castles, and you understand that every square meter there is full of Jewish blood from the most horrible pogroms. But you don’t say, “OK, they deserve what happened to them under the Nazis.” If that would be our approach, then we would simply be obsessed with how to destroy the world, because we were victims practically everywhere.
- Ibid
The irony is that Putin said the Ukrainians are not a nation, but now probably has done more than anyone in history to give them a sense of being a nation.
– Ibid.
It’s in my bio and has been for years. A couple 14 hour work days later, and I flipped NATO and UN. You will live.
– Tweet by a Hollywood actress after she was mocked for tweeting “Kick Russia out of NATO”
I can’t even imagine how strange these [Russia and Ukraine] meetings must be. It’d be like trying to have a conversation with someone who’s actively setting your house on fire.
— James Corden
Do they get there and there’s small talk before they get into it: “Ah, yeah, that Russell Wilson trade is crazy. Anyway, we would love it if we could, you know, pump the brakes on the whole invasion thing.”
— James Corden
When we’re having this discussion, it’s important to dispel some of those who say, well, it’s the government spending. No, it isn’t. The government spending is doing the exact reverse, reducing the national debt. It is not inflationary.
- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at a press conference
In this year of my Platinum Jubilee, it has given me pleasure to renew the promise I made in 1947, that my life will always be devoted in service.
- Britain’s Queen Elizabeth in a message this week to mark Commonwealth Day
If Joe Biden is so confident that the rest of us don’t think he holds any blame here [for rising gas prices], then how about this one – why don’t we start putting ballot drop boxes at gas stations and start the early voting now? You want early voting? You want convenience? Let’s start voting at gas stations right now, Joe Biden. Let’s have the midterms start right now. Put drop boxes next to the pump and see who gets elected.
- SiriusXM talk show host Andrew Wilkow
Well, no. These are Feb #’s and only include small Russia effect. This is Biden’s inflation, and he needs to own it.
- Tweet by former Obama economic adviser Steven Rattner in response to President Biden blaming Putin for February’s record inflation numbers As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as “death to the Russian invaders.” We still won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians.
- Statement by Meta (Facebook)
These past two months I’ve realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands. That time will come. But it’s not now. I love my teammates, and I love my supportive family. They make it all possible. I’m coming back for my 23rd season in Tampa. Unfinished business…
- Tweet by Tom Brady
Inflation is hitting everyone.… We took just a little bit out of the bag so we can give you the same price and you can keep enjoying your chips.
- A Frito-Lay representative telling Quartz that they are cutting the amount of chips per Doritos bag because of inflation
If that’s the hill they’re going to die on, then how do they possibly explain lining their pockets with their relationship from the Communist Party of China? Because that’s what they do, and they make a fortune, and they don’t say a word about the really brutal practices that you see over there at the hands of the CCP. And so in Florida, our policies got to be based on the best interest of Florida citizens, not on the musing of woke corporations.
- Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) after signing a bill that prohibits teaching children in kindergarten through third grade about highly inappropriate things, responding to Disney’s condemnation of the new law which has drawn the ire of the radical left
Our task is to show people that, in many ways, they got what they ordered. Right? They said this is what they wanted. They stood in line. They took time from work. It was difficult. And a lot of what they demanded, they got. So let’s get out there, as we do, and remind them of that. Because we know that they will show up again. They will say, “Yes, we must fight climate change.” They will say, “Yes, I wanted and got and want more diversity on the Court.”
- Vice President Kamala Harris at the Democrats’ winter meeting
There is an impediment to production in the United States, and it’s called the bankers on the Wall Street. This crisis in another indication of why we need to get off dependency on fossil fuels.
- President Joe Biden at the Democrats’ winter meeting
We did so much people don’t even know what we did.
- Ibid. For The past 5 years, I’ve been working out and staying ready in case an opportunity to play presented itself. I’m really grateful to my trainer, who I’ve been throwing to all this time. But man, do I miss throwing to professional route runners. Who’s working?? I will pull up
– Tweet by Colin Kaepernick who, in a recent Netflix documentary, compared the NFL to a slave-trading organization
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