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talkpoliticsGreetings again! It's now time to initiate the 2nd installment of our DailyQuotes list™ for 2016! As we've all become aware, this list is updated regularly (I'd like to say daily), and will include lines that might or might not inspire bursts of giggles and/or deep thinking within the next 4 months or so. A link to the DQ list will stay put on the comm sidebar.
The Dailyquote list for May-August follows here...
"If the president-elect decides to quit, who becomes president? His VP?"
(airiefairie)
"Sarah Palin."
(mahnmut)
"Oh no!!! If that happens, I am moving to Canada! I may not be living in the US but I'm moving to Canada anyway!"
(airiefairie)
"Excusing one wrong with another wrong is wrong to the power of wrong."
(ddstory)
"Ideology, be it political, national and/or religious, is the bane of humanity."
(mahnmut)
"But what is left there without ideas and ideals?"
(airiefairie)
"Reason."
(mahnmut)
"This election is fast becoming a farce of epic proportions. As unelectable as Hillary might have looked before the primaries, now with Trump as her opponent, she suddenly and magically starts looking like America's reasonable choice. What a joke."
(luvdovz)
"Poor oppressed Muslim men. They just cannot control their urges whenever they see a square inch of female flesh. But they are not to blame - Allah made them this way! So how about punishing women for the failures of a pervert god."
(luzribeiro)
"It appears the Trump topic is fast becoming the new abortion topic of online political debate. Any move you make is a no-no."
(luvdovz)
"China serves as the big distractor. It's the big hidden boogeyman lurking under your bed, ready to yell, "boo!" And never actually doing it. But you know it's there. That's China."
(abomvubuso)
"In democracies, majority verdicts often have to suffice for, or in some cases even supplant, empirical evidence."
(johnny9fingers)
30
"Are you suggesting Trump could have won the Democratic primary??"
(garote)
"Nah, they'd never go for a charismatic motivational speaker with little experience and even less substance."
(oportet)
"You're getting sooo totally imprisoned for this comment! We're going to detain you inside our space saucer where all your bodily orifices are going to be probed relentlessly until you start enjoying it. Expect the black helicopters at your doorstep in 4, 3, 2... Signed, Illuminatus Shapeshiftinson."
(mahnmut)
"I'm seeing a "Did it for the LOLs!" tombstone, attractively perched over a post-nuclear hellscape."
(chron_job)
"Of course policy is not just some numbers. People are not mere numbers, there are entire stories and fates behind the stats. We should tread carefully when presuming that science alone would solve all problems of society. It won't."
(nairiporter)
""This thing is less-worse than some other things" is the weakest and worst excuse I've ever heard. Problem is, I've been hearing it way too often lately. Is accepting "less terrible" things the new norm now? Where did all that hopey-change thing go?"
(mahnmut)
"I don't know if an entire state can be an asshole, but almost an entire party definitely can."
(mahnmut)
"Uncle Vlad is maybe the most impressive Soviet leader without a Soviet Union. And he has done it through the ballot box via the media. Really, he is the most successful politician of modern times. Shame about everything else, of course."
(johnny9fingers)
"So, both parties had a major rogue candidate in their ranks, and both conspired to stop those rogue candidates in their tracks - and it worked. Politics turns out to be a dirty job done by villainous scoundrels? What a surprise. But now we know. Thanks, Internet!"
(dreamville_bg)
"If past experience is any guide, you don't change a villain by bringing him into a sophisticated group - it is more likely that he would make the group a villainous one."
(nairiporter)
"It is curious that everyone is so worked up about the threat from the Islamic State, while a genuine Islamic state is being shaped up right in front of our eyes by the wannabe-sultan of the Neo-Ottoman Empire."
(nairiporter)
20
"Pfeh! Even Turkish military coups aren't what they used to be. There's almost no rogue military left to enforce Ataturk's view of how a good self-respecting Middle Eastern banana republic is supposed to function."
(mahnmut)
"There's two things: "kingdom of God" aka "Heaven" and "kingdom of Devil" aka "Hell". If somebody can't reach "kingdom of God" where [will he] be instead?"
(kikzan)
"Mississippi."
(kylinrouge)
"Cabinet positions require senate confirmation, but I think as long as the goat is deeply concerned about which bathroom people use, the Republican Senate would have no problems with the nomination."
(fieryphoenix)
"Is this Erdogan guy sure he's not related to the Kims of North Korea? He sure does seem like one of them."
(luzribeiro)
"I don't pray. I summon the celestial host of the Valar."
(mahnmut)
"To a holy Crusade, no doubt."
(ddstory)
"With stealth bombers and smart missiles, no less."
(mahnmut)
"The only thing that can stand up to/bring down a billion dollar campaign with powerful connections is another one."
(oportet)
"I don't see a reason why Scotland shouldn't call another referendum, but this time under the slogan, Make Scotland Great Again."
(luvdovz)
"Weird, the people from the biggest empire in modern times are worried that people speaking funny languages are going to move there and destroy their culture."
(mikeyxw)
"More guns makes people safer. There's a lot of sense in that, when you (don't) think about it (too much)."
(ddstory)
"The shift to protectionism is when you know an empire's in decline and knows it."
(underlankers)
10
"What Orlando would do is nudge America yet one inch further into the same direction that it's been going for decades: deeper into the divided society that it has become, ruled by a corporate-dominated police state that has reached a point where it can't be overhauled without major upheaval."
(mahnmut)
"What a brilliant idea! When you see a terrorist pulling a gun and shooting randomly in a bar crowded with people, pull your own gun and start shooting too. That'll surely teach them terrorist how wrong they've been to hope that this would all end in a bloodbath."
(mahnmut)
"Denial of science is human nature, that is to say, denial of anything strange, new and different, unfamiliar or not understood. There is considerable lag between a scientific discovery, professional adoption, and broad cultural adoption. Happens with paradigm shift."
(liveonearth)
"That is called "democracy". 90% of [the] population are idiots. That`s what you get when you ask them about serious things: you get idiotic decisions."
(cypukambl)
"I doubt you could completely get rid of media bias. Best case - maybe they could be pushed to be more subtle about it."
(oportet)
"After all, our great-great-grand parents would think it's strange that we choose to cook outside and go to the bathroom inside."
(mikeyxw)
"All new things are well-forgotten old things."
(luvdovz)
"What are these... poll-eh-sees that you speak of? You mean the election in Oz is not about the candidates' haircut and weener size!?"
(luzribeiro)
"Ah, those elitist kids. Guess campuses would need extra deliveries of Che Guevara t-shirts now. Can you feel the Bern, eh? You should be able to - it's on Twitter, after all."
(mahnmut)
"[Cruz] chose to use his remaining big-podium time to prove that he's the weasel everyone thought he was."
(luzribeiro)
The Dailyquote list for May-August follows here...
"If the president-elect decides to quit, who becomes president? His VP?"
(airiefairie)
"Sarah Palin."
(mahnmut)
"Oh no!!! If that happens, I am moving to Canada! I may not be living in the US but I'm moving to Canada anyway!"
(airiefairie)
"Excusing one wrong with another wrong is wrong to the power of wrong."
(ddstory)
"Ideology, be it political, national and/or religious, is the bane of humanity."
(mahnmut)
"But what is left there without ideas and ideals?"
(airiefairie)
"Reason."
(mahnmut)
"This election is fast becoming a farce of epic proportions. As unelectable as Hillary might have looked before the primaries, now with Trump as her opponent, she suddenly and magically starts looking like America's reasonable choice. What a joke."
(luvdovz)
"Poor oppressed Muslim men. They just cannot control their urges whenever they see a square inch of female flesh. But they are not to blame - Allah made them this way! So how about punishing women for the failures of a pervert god."
(luzribeiro)
"It appears the Trump topic is fast becoming the new abortion topic of online political debate. Any move you make is a no-no."
(luvdovz)
"China serves as the big distractor. It's the big hidden boogeyman lurking under your bed, ready to yell, "boo!" And never actually doing it. But you know it's there. That's China."
(abomvubuso)
"In democracies, majority verdicts often have to suffice for, or in some cases even supplant, empirical evidence."
(johnny9fingers)
30
"Are you suggesting Trump could have won the Democratic primary??"
(garote)
"Nah, they'd never go for a charismatic motivational speaker with little experience and even less substance."
(oportet)
"You're getting sooo totally imprisoned for this comment! We're going to detain you inside our space saucer where all your bodily orifices are going to be probed relentlessly until you start enjoying it. Expect the black helicopters at your doorstep in 4, 3, 2... Signed, Illuminatus Shapeshiftinson."
(mahnmut)
"I'm seeing a "Did it for the LOLs!" tombstone, attractively perched over a post-nuclear hellscape."
(chron_job)
"Of course policy is not just some numbers. People are not mere numbers, there are entire stories and fates behind the stats. We should tread carefully when presuming that science alone would solve all problems of society. It won't."
(nairiporter)
""This thing is less-worse than some other things" is the weakest and worst excuse I've ever heard. Problem is, I've been hearing it way too often lately. Is accepting "less terrible" things the new norm now? Where did all that hopey-change thing go?"
(mahnmut)
"I don't know if an entire state can be an asshole, but almost an entire party definitely can."
(mahnmut)
"Uncle Vlad is maybe the most impressive Soviet leader without a Soviet Union. And he has done it through the ballot box via the media. Really, he is the most successful politician of modern times. Shame about everything else, of course."
(johnny9fingers)
"So, both parties had a major rogue candidate in their ranks, and both conspired to stop those rogue candidates in their tracks - and it worked. Politics turns out to be a dirty job done by villainous scoundrels? What a surprise. But now we know. Thanks, Internet!"
(dreamville_bg)
"If past experience is any guide, you don't change a villain by bringing him into a sophisticated group - it is more likely that he would make the group a villainous one."
(nairiporter)
"It is curious that everyone is so worked up about the threat from the Islamic State, while a genuine Islamic state is being shaped up right in front of our eyes by the wannabe-sultan of the Neo-Ottoman Empire."
(nairiporter)
20
"Pfeh! Even Turkish military coups aren't what they used to be. There's almost no rogue military left to enforce Ataturk's view of how a good self-respecting Middle Eastern banana republic is supposed to function."
(mahnmut)
"There's two things: "kingdom of God" aka "Heaven" and "kingdom of Devil" aka "Hell". If somebody can't reach "kingdom of God" where [will he] be instead?"
(kikzan)
"Mississippi."
(kylinrouge)
"Cabinet positions require senate confirmation, but I think as long as the goat is deeply concerned about which bathroom people use, the Republican Senate would have no problems with the nomination."
(fieryphoenix)
"Is this Erdogan guy sure he's not related to the Kims of North Korea? He sure does seem like one of them."
(luzribeiro)
"I don't pray. I summon the celestial host of the Valar."
(mahnmut)
"To a holy Crusade, no doubt."
(ddstory)
"With stealth bombers and smart missiles, no less."
(mahnmut)
"The only thing that can stand up to/bring down a billion dollar campaign with powerful connections is another one."
(oportet)
"I don't see a reason why Scotland shouldn't call another referendum, but this time under the slogan, Make Scotland Great Again."
(luvdovz)
"Weird, the people from the biggest empire in modern times are worried that people speaking funny languages are going to move there and destroy their culture."
(mikeyxw)
"More guns makes people safer. There's a lot of sense in that, when you (don't) think about it (too much)."
(ddstory)
"The shift to protectionism is when you know an empire's in decline and knows it."
(underlankers)
10
"What Orlando would do is nudge America yet one inch further into the same direction that it's been going for decades: deeper into the divided society that it has become, ruled by a corporate-dominated police state that has reached a point where it can't be overhauled without major upheaval."
(mahnmut)
"What a brilliant idea! When you see a terrorist pulling a gun and shooting randomly in a bar crowded with people, pull your own gun and start shooting too. That'll surely teach them terrorist how wrong they've been to hope that this would all end in a bloodbath."
(mahnmut)
"Denial of science is human nature, that is to say, denial of anything strange, new and different, unfamiliar or not understood. There is considerable lag between a scientific discovery, professional adoption, and broad cultural adoption. Happens with paradigm shift."
(liveonearth)
"That is called "democracy". 90% of [the] population are idiots. That`s what you get when you ask them about serious things: you get idiotic decisions."
(cypukambl)
"I doubt you could completely get rid of media bias. Best case - maybe they could be pushed to be more subtle about it."
(oportet)
"After all, our great-great-grand parents would think it's strange that we choose to cook outside and go to the bathroom inside."
(mikeyxw)
"All new things are well-forgotten old things."
(luvdovz)
"What are these... poll-eh-sees that you speak of? You mean the election in Oz is not about the candidates' haircut and weener size!?"
(luzribeiro)
"Ah, those elitist kids. Guess campuses would need extra deliveries of Che Guevara t-shirts now. Can you feel the Bern, eh? You should be able to - it's on Twitter, after all."
(mahnmut)
"[Cruz] chose to use his remaining big-podium time to prove that he's the weasel everyone thought he was."
(luzribeiro)
