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talkpoliticsThe 3rd third of the year has begun, and of course, again for the purposes of the DailyQuotes list, here's the 3rd installment of funny/silly/thoughtful/whatev's quotes for 2016. Those will be also featured daily on the community sidebar.
The Dailyquote list for the last 4 months of 2016 starts behind the cut (with links)...
"Well done, America! Once again you've retained the trophy in the Junk Bread & Lame Circuses competition."
(mahnmut)
40
"We fought off pollution decades ago, but just sent it overseas. What will we do with climate change? Send it to Mars?"
(pigshitpoet)
"And may a giant orb of hydrogen and helium with a mass of 1.989 * 10^30 kg illuminate your day amidst the vast cold emptiness of -273.15C!"
(mahnmut)
"Why does everyone make this post-/pre-WWII distinguishment... Did presidents suddenly become more decent after the war, or people just can't be bothered to care about time-spans longer than 70 years?"
(htpcl)
"Politics are the realm of who gets what, when, and how."
(dexeron)
"Big franchise monster hungry. Franchise monster must eat. A lot of cash. Give monster cash!"
(htpcl)
"Good for Biz? Only the returns can tell you that. But good for biz even if the movie is crap? Only the big franchises can manage that."
(johnny9fingers)
"Russia seems almost omnipotent."
(cypukambl)
"Not exactly omnipotent. They still cannot turn water into oil. Otherwise they wouldn't be in economic trouble."
(airiefairie)
"The predictions of Russia's demise have been as premature as are now the expectations of cordial relations with Trump's administration."
(luvdovz)
"If I'm a US president-elect, a fallout with the CIA is the last thing I'd want for myself. Jus' sayin'."
(abomvubuso)
"Trump sure is saving jobs - look at all the wonders he's been doing for comedians' and cartoonists' jobs so far."
(luvdovz)
30
"Every nation deserves exactly the rulers that it gets. Or the other way around if you like, it works both ways."
(dreamville_bg)
"When you try to piss off as fewer people as possible, you end up pissing off a surprisingly large amount of people. Conclusion: better not try."
(abomvubuso)
"I'd call it the Twitter style of governance. Executive decrees shall henceforth be dropped upon the populace through 140-character tweets. "Today banning abortion on federal level. Some hippies blocked entrance to my golfcourse in response. SAD""
(htpcl)
"It makes for an interesting standoff - who needs who more between Trump and the media? One just won the highest position in the country without help, and with opposition, from the other - the other just got humiliated and nearly proven obsolete".
(oportet)
"I sure do like the idea of a ministry of truth."
(liveonearth)
"Also, we could have a Morality And Decency Enforcement, while we're at it."
(abomvubuso)
"Oh, [the media] will get in line eventually. Most of them, anyway. You just wait for the next false-flag operation. It'll be convincing and spectacular. And nobody will be able to resist the patriotic flavor that will push to burst out to the surface!"
(mahnmut)
"Nostradamus predicted everything! Even things he didn't predict, we can now interpret to have been predicted by him!"
(ddstory)
"I'm more worried when something happens which Nostradamus didn't predict would end the world. It's always the anti-Christ you don't see coming that gets ya."
(mikeyxw)
"Well, at least pot has been legalised in California..."
(airiefairie)
"Bongs and Circuses."
(chron_job)
"If Hillary is prosecuted and convicted immediately, like, right now, Obama could then pardon her and she'll be untouchable by the time Trump is sworn in. Check-mate!"
(mahnmut)
20
"Yeah. The post-neoliberal NWO is coming. Or so they say. They, being the same ones who predicted a Hillary victory".
(htpcl)
"Usually, the metaphor is supposed to insult the person playing checkers. But it isn't absolute, or at least it shouldn't be. Sometimes a checkers strategy is best."
(oportet)
"[The result of the US election] just goes to show, if you're going to carry a progressive agenda make sure that you have the working class onside."
(tcpip)
"Of course it's a fucking oligarchy. It will always be an oligarchy. I just want it to be the right sort of oligarchy."
(johnny9fingers)
"Well, nobody who is innocent could stand up to that kind of scrutiny, therefore [Hillary] must be guilty to have made it this far."
(mikeyxw)
"Quick! Someone ask whatever that dead animal is that dwells on the Donald's head, what the outcome of this election will be! Looks like it may have some clairvoyant abilities."
(luzribeiro)
"A bunch of US geologists, after having finished their research of a newly found US oil deposit, were bewildered to find out that there was some Arab country sitting on top of it."
(abomvubuso)
"We can't let a good popular vote go to waste, can we. There are personal images to polish, damage control to do, and the public attention has to be diverted from the real problems."
(luzribeiro)
"Maybe one day the spec ops unit who'll be sent to invade Julian [Assange]'s hideout, will unearth his extensive collection of weird porn tapes, just before they throw him to the bottom of the sea exactly like they did with one other bad guy."
(mahnmut)
"The very fact that one-liner zingers are "a thing" in politics, speaks volumes about the current state of politics."
(airiefairie)
10
"How awkward must it be to be on the Supreme Court....to have all Presidential Candidates hint at your imminent death, every four years? Like...I'm right here...pretty healthy...stop talkin shit....?"
(oportet)
"And if everyone jumps off a bridge, you'll go do it too?"
(eyeofthetigress)
"I've jumped off bridges by my own volition. It's called bungee-jumping."
(dreamville_bg)
"[Otto von Bismarck is] what Donald Trump thinks he is, but utterly fails at being".
(garote)
"Beware of my Twitter account, I can be deadly within 140 characters!"
(dreamville_bg)
"He, who has the truth, has the power (or was it the other way around?)"
(abomvubuso)
"Personally, I'm glad the international community is still holding the US to a much higher standard than the likes of Russia. I would be worried if it were the reversed."
(abomvubuso)
"Political humor is nice to have, it's like a soothing balm on an open sore."
(John Oliver)
"I do have a webcam, that's been unplugged pretty much since the first week I got it. If they - whoever 'they' are - can somehow make it wiggle out of the box and over to the computer to plug itself in - I guess they've earned the right to watch."
(oportet)
""These are the choices that we've got" seems like a terrible testament to the current predicament US (and by extension, global) politics has found itself in."
(ddstory)
"I don't know why [Trump is] still talking about the wall though - I think he's gotten all he can get out of that one. It's time to make a new promise - it doesn't have to be rational, or attainable (it'd be a little disappointing if it was either) - just something new"
(oportet)
The Dailyquote list for the last 4 months of 2016 starts behind the cut (with links)...
"Well done, America! Once again you've retained the trophy in the Junk Bread & Lame Circuses competition."
(mahnmut)
40
"We fought off pollution decades ago, but just sent it overseas. What will we do with climate change? Send it to Mars?"
(pigshitpoet)
"And may a giant orb of hydrogen and helium with a mass of 1.989 * 10^30 kg illuminate your day amidst the vast cold emptiness of -273.15C!"
(mahnmut)
"Why does everyone make this post-/pre-WWII distinguishment... Did presidents suddenly become more decent after the war, or people just can't be bothered to care about time-spans longer than 70 years?"
(htpcl)
"Politics are the realm of who gets what, when, and how."
(dexeron)
"Big franchise monster hungry. Franchise monster must eat. A lot of cash. Give monster cash!"
(htpcl)
"Good for Biz? Only the returns can tell you that. But good for biz even if the movie is crap? Only the big franchises can manage that."
(johnny9fingers)
"Russia seems almost omnipotent."
(cypukambl)
"Not exactly omnipotent. They still cannot turn water into oil. Otherwise they wouldn't be in economic trouble."
(airiefairie)
"The predictions of Russia's demise have been as premature as are now the expectations of cordial relations with Trump's administration."
(luvdovz)
"If I'm a US president-elect, a fallout with the CIA is the last thing I'd want for myself. Jus' sayin'."
(abomvubuso)
"Trump sure is saving jobs - look at all the wonders he's been doing for comedians' and cartoonists' jobs so far."
(luvdovz)
30
"Every nation deserves exactly the rulers that it gets. Or the other way around if you like, it works both ways."
(dreamville_bg)
"When you try to piss off as fewer people as possible, you end up pissing off a surprisingly large amount of people. Conclusion: better not try."
(abomvubuso)
"I'd call it the Twitter style of governance. Executive decrees shall henceforth be dropped upon the populace through 140-character tweets. "Today banning abortion on federal level. Some hippies blocked entrance to my golfcourse in response. SAD""
(htpcl)
"It makes for an interesting standoff - who needs who more between Trump and the media? One just won the highest position in the country without help, and with opposition, from the other - the other just got humiliated and nearly proven obsolete".
(oportet)
"I sure do like the idea of a ministry of truth."
(liveonearth)
"Also, we could have a Morality And Decency Enforcement, while we're at it."
(abomvubuso)
"Oh, [the media] will get in line eventually. Most of them, anyway. You just wait for the next false-flag operation. It'll be convincing and spectacular. And nobody will be able to resist the patriotic flavor that will push to burst out to the surface!"
(mahnmut)
"Nostradamus predicted everything! Even things he didn't predict, we can now interpret to have been predicted by him!"
(ddstory)
"I'm more worried when something happens which Nostradamus didn't predict would end the world. It's always the anti-Christ you don't see coming that gets ya."
(mikeyxw)
"Well, at least pot has been legalised in California..."
(airiefairie)
"Bongs and Circuses."
(chron_job)
"If Hillary is prosecuted and convicted immediately, like, right now, Obama could then pardon her and she'll be untouchable by the time Trump is sworn in. Check-mate!"
(mahnmut)
20
"Yeah. The post-neoliberal NWO is coming. Or so they say. They, being the same ones who predicted a Hillary victory".
(htpcl)
"Usually, the metaphor is supposed to insult the person playing checkers. But it isn't absolute, or at least it shouldn't be. Sometimes a checkers strategy is best."
(oportet)
"[The result of the US election] just goes to show, if you're going to carry a progressive agenda make sure that you have the working class onside."
(tcpip)
"Of course it's a fucking oligarchy. It will always be an oligarchy. I just want it to be the right sort of oligarchy."
(johnny9fingers)
"Well, nobody who is innocent could stand up to that kind of scrutiny, therefore [Hillary] must be guilty to have made it this far."
(mikeyxw)
"Quick! Someone ask whatever that dead animal is that dwells on the Donald's head, what the outcome of this election will be! Looks like it may have some clairvoyant abilities."
(luzribeiro)
"A bunch of US geologists, after having finished their research of a newly found US oil deposit, were bewildered to find out that there was some Arab country sitting on top of it."
(abomvubuso)
"We can't let a good popular vote go to waste, can we. There are personal images to polish, damage control to do, and the public attention has to be diverted from the real problems."
(luzribeiro)
"Maybe one day the spec ops unit who'll be sent to invade Julian [Assange]'s hideout, will unearth his extensive collection of weird porn tapes, just before they throw him to the bottom of the sea exactly like they did with one other bad guy."
(mahnmut)
"The very fact that one-liner zingers are "a thing" in politics, speaks volumes about the current state of politics."
(airiefairie)
10
"How awkward must it be to be on the Supreme Court....to have all Presidential Candidates hint at your imminent death, every four years? Like...I'm right here...pretty healthy...stop talkin shit....?"
(oportet)
"And if everyone jumps off a bridge, you'll go do it too?"
(eyeofthetigress)
"I've jumped off bridges by my own volition. It's called bungee-jumping."
(dreamville_bg)
"[Otto von Bismarck is] what Donald Trump thinks he is, but utterly fails at being".
(garote)
"Beware of my Twitter account, I can be deadly within 140 characters!"
(dreamville_bg)
"He, who has the truth, has the power (or was it the other way around?)"
(abomvubuso)
"Personally, I'm glad the international community is still holding the US to a much higher standard than the likes of Russia. I would be worried if it were the reversed."
(abomvubuso)
"Political humor is nice to have, it's like a soothing balm on an open sore."
(John Oliver)
"I do have a webcam, that's been unplugged pretty much since the first week I got it. If they - whoever 'they' are - can somehow make it wiggle out of the box and over to the computer to plug itself in - I guess they've earned the right to watch."
(oportet)
""These are the choices that we've got" seems like a terrible testament to the current predicament US (and by extension, global) politics has found itself in."
(ddstory)
"I don't know why [Trump is] still talking about the wall though - I think he's gotten all he can get out of that one. It's time to make a new promise - it doesn't have to be rational, or attainable (it'd be a little disappointing if it was either) - just something new"
(oportet)
