This agency is in the process of giving up on protecting people. It’s much more interested, at least the leadership is, in protecting the regulated community.”
—Christopher Sellers, professor of environmental history at Stonybrook University, on the Trump administration’s dismantling of environmental protections.
I feel like I’m living in a reality TV show. Trump, he’s a clown.”
—Trisha Amato, an Ohio laid-off General Motors worker and 2016 Trump supporter who has lost both her job and health insurance, on her disappointment at Trump’s failure to keep her GM plant open despite the plant’s receiving $50 million in subsidies (talk about welfare cheats) for its promise to remain open until 2027.
Why isn’t (sic) the media covering Biden’s corruption? It’s the biggest and most credible story anywhere in the world.”
—Donald Trump, in one of dozens of email pitches received daily from him, his family, and other Republicans by yours truly [Perhaps it’s because the media are (and media is plural, you bonehead) too damned busy covering the most corrupt president in history.]
That’s the whole point of Q. It puts concepts out there, but it’s also about ‘do your own research ’cause I’m too lazy to tell you what to think.’ Though they pretend to care about children, in reality, QAnon doesn’t. They just care about portraying a specific group as part of this child-trafficking ring.”
—Marc-André Argentino, who has studied QAnon extensively, speaking of QAnon’s vase unfounded conspiracy theories, including one that says Democrats eat babies.
Actual quote from Trump in Wisconsin: ‘If Joe Biden gets in the radical left will shut down Wisconsin timber production forever. You know, they don’t want to let you touch a tree. If you happen to touch a tree, they want to put you in jail for the rest of your life.’”
—Tweet by Daniel Dale. [Anyone know what Trump was talking about? Anyone?]
NOT A TRUMP QUOTE, but it should be (with apologies to Cavin & Hobbes):
“They say winning isn’t everything, and I’ve decided to take their word for it.”
Louisiana Voice 
From CNN’s Fareed Zakari – October 29, 2020
If Trump Wins
As analysts wonder about the global ramifications of a second term for President Trump, Eliot A. Cohen lays them out in stark terms, in a brief Foreign Affairs essay predicting unstoppable American decline.
A Trump win in Tuesday’s election “would likely force a shift in the way everyone thinks about the United States,” Cohen writes. “Since its inception, the country has been the land of the future, a work in progress, a place of promise no matter its flaws and tribulations, an unfinished city on a hill still under construction. With a second Trump term, the United States might as well be understood as a monument to the past. Not a failed state, but a failed vision, a vast power in decline whose time has come and gone.” Trump’s win in 2016, on thin margins in three key states against an unpopular opponent in Hillary Clinton, might be dismissed as a “fluke,” Cohen writes, but a second one would either indicate a flaw in America’s electoral system or validate a trend. Destabilized internally (and with foreign adversaries finding ways to “fan the flames”), the US would come unmoored from global politics and “would enter a multifaceted crisis, potentially one as deep as that of the 1850s and the 1930s.”
A real possibility among many others. Global Public Square should be required viewing for all Americans and the rest of the world. If one doesn’t have time to watch the whole show, his “My Take” segment is well worth watching and opens his show. He has good columns and has written several books, as well.