on a daily basis, the quote of Donald Trump saying “Israel has hypnotized the world! May Allah awaken the people and help them to see the evil doings of Israel and the United States” goes through my head. What quote is stuck in yours?
“Nothing will fundamentally change”. By far one of the most infuriating statements I’ve heard.
Ya know what, he was right tho
Things have changed a fair bit tho, just not in a good way.
One time my mail guy was dropping off our mail and I happened to be out there. He was ripping on a huge joint and I asked him “can you do that at work?” He said “you can do whatever you want as long as you don’t get caught” and I think about that at least once a day.
Mail carriers rock.
A cabbie in Singapore said to me: when is retirement in Singapore? Retirement when your picture on the wall (meaning you’re dead). That stuck with me
A few Trump ones:
“California is going to have to ration water. You know why? Because they send millions of gallons of water out to sea, out to the Pacific, because they want to take care of certain little tiny fish that aren’t doing very well without water, to be honest with you”
“I want to thank the White House Historical Association and all of the people that work so hard with Melania, with everybody, to keep this incredible house or building, or whatever you want to call it — because there really is no name for it; it is special — and we keep it in tip-top shape. We call it sometimes tippy-top shape.”
Though frontiers and mountains stand between us, proletarians of the whole world come together as one family.
― Ho Chí Minh
Long ago when I first became homeless, on the mean streets of Santa Monica, California, I was sitting next to an older Black woman as she was giving someone this bit of advice: never say I’m sorry; say “I apologize.” For some reason that’s stuck with me.
Wow, I really like that. I’m sorry is such a copout apology, you’re just making a passive statement that you feel bad. I apologize has real weight, it’s a statement of action; yet I’m sorry is vastly more common and the primary way USians trains kids to apologize. “Say you’re sorry to Timmy”
Also I’m high, so I’m probably just thinking into the statement too much
I’ve always understood it as—saying you’re sorry is a statement of shame/regret/idk; saying I apologize is more an emotionally neutral statement of like, recognizing that you acted transgressively/unfairly/whatever. E.g. I’m not sorry that I slapped you in the face because you called my girlfriend a removed, but I apologize because I understand now that it was an inappropriate way to react. Idk.
“Granddad, you can’t tame the white supremacist power structure with CHEESE!”
That one Grimes TikTok where she says “I have a proposition for the communists!” and “Collective farming is really not a vibe.” I don’t know why, her inflection/tone is just stuck in my head forever and it’s really just the funniest thing in the world to me
“If Israel did not exist, the United States would have to invent an Israel, to protect her interests in the region”
Idk if songs count, but “I’m sneaky as fuck when it comes to crime” is mine.