Notable Quotables (in their own words)

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

January 21, 2020 by tomaswell

“Oh, are you happy you voted for me? You are so lucky that I gave you that privilege.”

—Donald Trump, speech to the American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, Jan. 8, 2018.

Posted in Uncategorized | 7 Comments

7 Responses

on January 21, 2020 at 7:56 am | Reply Edith Herring

Trying to understand the “Trump crowd mentality”, if I was in a Trump crowd and Trump said this, I would think he was trying to be funny, since his claim to fame is a TV reality show person. However, after researching Trump, there is no way he was kidding or trying to be funny….he was deadly serious and therein lies our problem….he lies and it doesn’t matter to his followers.
on January 21, 2020 at 9:06 am | Reply JAMES t SIDBURY

Nancy Pelosi 2006 You don’t need God anymore ; you have us Democrat.
on January 21, 2020 at 9:09 am | Reply STEPHEN R WINHAM

Not specifically mentioned in his speech, apparently, was the $19 billion Trump’s USDA provided in farm subsidies in 2019 to offset the farmer’s losses (at least 80% of their PROJECTED losses) that were a DIRECT result of his trade policies with China. If I was being held harmless from his policies via direct subsidies to keep my farm from failing, I would heartily applaud him, too.
on January 21, 2020 at 9:20 am | Reply zoe10870

Although she says many stupid and unintelligible things, I doubt that she would be so dumb as to actually say that Democrats replace God, even in one of her presumably drunken ramblings..
- on January 21, 2020 at 2:25 pm | Reply Fredster
  
  Sorry, just another fake news line of bullshit zoe.
  
  https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/dec/11/facebook-posts/no-nancy-pelosi-didnt-get-drunk-childrens-benefit-/
  
  The story was shared on Facebook and flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.
on January 21, 2020 at 9:44 am | Reply CJG

In an article in The New Republic dated December 13, 2018 entitled “Escape From the Trump Cult”, Alexander Hurst writes:

“We can understand Donald Trump’s rise as a civil religion giving way to its cultic expression. Con man, cult leader, populist politician: Trump is all of these, rolled into one. He has become all-encompassing, even to nonbelievers. We all feel the fatigue of merely existing in the Trump era, the rapid-fire assault on all of our political and social senses. We want immediate solutions to the Trump problem. We want to beat reason into his followers, until they recognize how wrong they are, or at the very least, submit. We want to blame them—justifiably—for perpetuating his sham.

I want these things. I want them in my gut. But I also know that the cult’s pull is so powerful that it risks destroying its opponents, by eliciting a counterproductive reaction to it. If we want to bring members of the Trump cult back into the mainstream of American life—and there will be plenty of those who say we should move on without them—resistance means not only resisting the lure of the cult and exposing its lies, but also resisting the temptation to punish its followers.

‘When the cultic behavior is on a national scale, [breaking it up] is going to take a national movement,” Lalich says. Such an approach promises no immediate gratification. But it also might be the only way to move forward, rather than continue a dangerous downward spiral. Andrés Miguel Rondón, a Venezuelan economist who fled to Spain, wrote this of his own country’s experience of being caught up in an authoritarian’s fraudulent promises: “[W]hat can really win them over is not to prove that you are right. It is to show that you care. Only then will they believe what you say’.”

Unfortunately, Rondón is no help in telling us how to do that, but he has a point.
on January 22, 2020 at 5:50 pm | Reply watts

“I love when people call Trump Stupid..
You mean the multi-billionaire who kicked every Democrats butt, buried 16 career Republican politicians, and continues to make fools out of once reputable news organizations ..
You mean the guy who won the presidency?
You mean the guy with the super model wife?
You mean the guy whose words alone put a massive slow down on illegal border crossings?
You mean the guy whose mere presence made the stock market smash its previous records?
You mean the guy who created 1 million jobs in his first 7 months in office?
Are you sure you even know what it is you’re resisting?
Are you sure you back a party that enables the decimation of every core principal of Christianity?
Are you sure you back a party that voted 100% against the abolition of slavery?
Are you sure you really take a politician like Maxine Waters seriously?
Are you sure you don’t see anything wrong with someone who has a 40 yr career as a public servant living in a $4.5 million mansion representing a district she doesn’t even live in?
Are you sure you see nothing wrong or peculiar about Hillary Clinton a woman being involved in politics for the last 30 yrs having a net worth of $240 million?
Are you sure you’re not just basing your opinion on hatred spewed by a crooked paid for media platform?
Could you even tell me 5 things the Democratic Party has done to improve you’re day to day prosperity as a hard working American citizen? Probably not..
Do you realize the debacle by continuing to support a political party that has done nothing for the poor except kept them poor, gave them free abortions, and a few hundred a month to keep food in their fridge?
The prosperity and safety of its citizens is job one of your government.
Get with the program.
Stop allowing yourself to be brainwashed by a party that has continuously failed you.
Toughen up, take a stand, and act like a proud American.
See the spirit of Trump supporting freedom loving Americans and just imagine where we could be as a country if everyone had the same priorities

No, I didn’t write it but———-