“The future is inside us. It’s not somewhere else… We call upon the people. Only people have this power. The numbers don’t decide. Your system is a lie. A river running dry. The wings of a butterfly. And you may pour us away like soup. Like we’re pretty broken flowers. We’ll take back what is ours. One day at a time.”
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“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be… defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”
— Ronald Reagan
“Do not try and bend the spoon, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth… There is no spoon. Then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.”
— The Matrix
To all the guys out there, here’s my life hack. Surround yourself with smart women and listen to them and you’ll do just fine.
— Tim Walz
Co-signed. This has worked for me my entire life.
Let me tell you something. I love this guy… You can tell those flannel shirts he wears don’t come from some political consultant, they come from his closet, and they have been through some stuff.
— Barrak Obama on Tim Walz
Like I’ve said, Tim Walz is Folksy.
“Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values. One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
— Tim Walz
Like I said, “Folksy”.
Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today. Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.
Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.
— Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing in dissent of today’s Supreme Court ruling on Presidential Immunity
You have a specific responsibility to existence, to God if you like, to taste, touch and smell what there is to experience. You have to do everything. If given the option between doing something and not doing it, you have to do it, because you’ve already done the “not do it” part.
— Sam Sheridan – A Fighter’s Heart
The work of making this world resemble one that you would prefer to live in is a lunch pail f-king job, day in and day out, where thousands of committed, anonymous, smart, and dedicated people bang on closed doors and pick up those that are fallen and grind away on issues until they get a positive result. And, even then, have to stay on to make sure that result holds.
— John Stewart, The Daily Show, Feb. 12, 2024
“I have a friend who says the first rule of fishing is to fish where the fish are. The second rule of fishing is to never forget the first rule. We’ve gotten good at fishing where the fish are,”