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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”
If I had a dollar for every lockdown politician who decided to escape to Florida over the last two years, I’d be a pretty doggone wealthy man, let me tell ya. - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis when asked about Rep. Ocasio Cortez (Dem/Socialist-NY) seen around Miami Beach partying maskless over the past week
I could tell you, I mean, there probably be about half a dozen governors who had restrictions on their people and then were spotted at various points in Florida. Some of it’s been public. Some of it’s not been public. - Ibid.
As we recognize that Covid-19 is not a deadly or even severe disease for the vast majority of responsible Americans, we can stop agonizing over “cases” and focus on those who are hospitalized or at risk of dying. - Tweet by Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post, who in the past excoriated Republicans for taking a measured approach to Covid, including tweeting several months ago: “DeSantis downplays rising Covid-19 numbers ... that’ll work... says no one”
I guess I should’ve been at the beach in Delaware, right, and then they would’a been really happy with that. - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis when asked about the media reporting that he has been MIA in the second half of December, before explaining that he put out a daily schedule of events but since he had no press conferences, the media accused him of being “missing”
Now that Joe Biden is about to have an all-time Covid case high set one year into his administration, his allies are suddenly arguing cases don’t matter and it’s time to get back to normal for most people. Anyone with a functional brain has been arguing this since last summer.
We don’t just want to have, with Mars, flags, and footprints and then not come back for a half century like we did with the moon. In order to pass a very important great filter, we need to be a multi-planet species.
- Clay Travis, tweeting in response
- SpaceX founder Elon Musk on the Lex Fridman Podcast stating that he will land a person on Mars within a decade
Bad ideas will be abandoned eventually, but only after their believers have caused irreversible damages. - Helen Raleigh, tweeting in response
I’ve always been a cockeyed optimist. I got it from my mom. I’m gonna stick with it. - From a statement by actress Betty White – who died this week several weeks before her 100th birthday – shared last week with Fox News Digital via her publicist
I think that’s what life is about. I mean, you need to do what makes you happy. - Sebastián “Ardilla” Álvarez, talking to CNN, after flying at 180 mph into and out of the 656-foot-wide crater of an active volcano in Chile, becoming the first person to do such a stunt
