Some Mixed Nuts for Christmas Eve’s Eve

Notable quotes from notable folks.

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Whether you’re busy with last-minute Christmas shopping today, pretending to work as you excessively take the baked goods your co-workers generously set out, or laughing maniacally as you burn a pile of masks after learning about restored mandates, you’ve probably got a lot going on today.

In that spirit, I thought I’d offer you something like a stuffed stocking of notable quotes this week. Unlike Marcy from accounting’s fudge, you can take as much as you want without feeling guilty. Nothing to unwrap, either. 

Enjoy!

Sure it is, buddy. Sure it is.  “[Iowa] may still be f—ed. The real question is whether it’s f—ed in 2024 or 2028.”—An unnamed Democratic National Committee member speaking to Politico at the DNC’s meeting in Charleston, S.C. Despite a lot of loud talk last year about stripping Iowa of its first-in-the-nation presidential nominating contest after the state party’s 2020 debacle, reporters found such sentiments “had all but vanished.”

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    Ben Connelly

    The Palin quotation is so cringe. And yet so very typical for her.

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    Synchronize Your Dogmas (Bill B)

    Just remember that in all this holiday cheer and celebration to remember the immortal words of The Dude;

    “Careful, man, there’s a beverage here.”

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    Victor Clairmont

    Hey you left off the “that whomsoever believe that in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

    For God came not into the world to condemn the world, but through Him it might be saved.”

    John 3:16-17.

    Mwhahaha, Merry Christmas Stirewalt.

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  4. Mike

    Amen

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    Juan J

    Peace my brother. And I wish the whole Dispatch staff a very merry Christmas.

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  6. Chris Waivers

    ‘pretending to work as you excessively take the baked goods your co-workers generously set out’

    Lol - hit the nail on the head here for me. Merry Christmas, Chris!

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  7. Barndog

    What unifies all these sayings is they are said by people who have nourished the anger inside them through their political hatreds and they have all taken the wrong things seriously in life.

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    Pat Riot

    They say Republicans won't change their threatening rhetoric until somebody gets killed, but I'm going to make a bold prediction and say that it won't happen.

    Timothy McVeigh blew up that building because in 1995, the Republican party was not aligned with his values. Today, it is.

    When a political party that represents your values controls roughly half of your political system and is on track to take complete control of your country, then acts of terrorism are a **waste of time and resources**.

    Bin Laden could never hope to have one of his compatriots in the White House. That's not the case with today's right-wing terrorists.

    Today's Timothy McVeigh would be one of those Republican shock-troop "poll watchers" who will go "watch" the polls in the most Democratic-leaning precincts in their state and try to intimidate poll workers into running afoul of newly minted stop-the-steal driven election laws. You know, the ones that promise a lowly poll worker that they can be *imprisoned* for years if they so much as ask a "poll watcher" to please stand a few more feet away from them because they are (intentionally) making them nervous.

    Today's Timothy McVeigh would be sending anonymous death threats to elections officials in order to get them to quit so Republican legislatures can replace them with Trump loyalists.

    Today's Timothy McVeigh would be knocking on doors in his area to get the local Republican elected.

    Today's Timothy McVeigh, in short, can truly believe that random acts of violence is unnecessary.

    So no, I don't expect anybody will carry out the public threats of violence Republicans are launching right now. The threats themselves, of course, will multiply as they give Republican lawmakers and media figures lots of free advertising. And they will no doubt get more outrageous for that reason since there's no downside of doing this if you are a Republican. But actual terrorism, not right now, no.

    If the Republicans actually *lose* a lot of elections nationwide then yeah, the violence will absolutely explode. But not until then.

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      Show Jay Janney the 🚪!

      Today's Timothy McVay lies a 'smolderin' in the ground, jsut like John Brown 150+ years ago.

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      Victor Clairmont

      Merry Christmas to you too.

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      1. Richard Fulmer

        Pat knows how to calm the angry waters.

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  9. Raincheck

    Thanks, Chris. May you receive a large and particularly tasty bag of meat for Christmas.

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    Frank Lee

    "A Fox News statement dismissing the remarks by its host at the Turning Point gathering about how to do an ambush interview of Dr. Anthony Fauci. “Now you go in for the kill shot. The kill shot. With an ambush. Deadly. Because he doesn’t see it coming,”

    The left media and Democrats are breathless in their attempts to exploit this to take down a successful Fox media personality. Meanwhile Democrats like Maxine Waters (one "t" short of a full deck) calls for violence on the streets and it happens... after other incidents where Democrats open fire on Republicans playing baseball and Democrat BLMers open fire killing five Dallas police.

    Watter's followers know exactly what he meant. And even the Jan 6 protesters that broke into their government building were unarmed.

    Sorry... it is the Democrats that are violent and prone to using guns.

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    1. Richard Fulmer

      That people often say and do bad things is no excuse for us to do the same. The worst of our opponents should not be our role models.

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        Frank Lee

        I agree with the "do" part, but not really the "say" part because otherwise it is too easy for people to justify doing bad things over a word.

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        1. Richard Fulmer

          I don’t understand this. If I’m careful about what I do, then I’m also careful about what I do in response to what someone says.

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            Frank Lee

            You are, but there are a lot of people today that justify the most terrible of behavior not only from some word they claim triggers them, but words said in history that trigger them. Frankly, it should matter little what people say because speech is incredibly imperfect and prone to error. Also, there are good actors that can say words to sell something they are never intent on delivering. What should matter more than anything are the consistent behaviors and actions of a person. That should ALWAYS define them more than their words.

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    2. linda

      "even the the Jan 6 protesters that broke into their gov't building were unarmed". Not so. There are countless dozens of people with weapons. I suggest to you that you read the court docs and pleadings instead of some rando website. Many many were carrying weapons. I would also point out to you that these were not protester but rioters who wanted to stop or move back the counting of the Electoral College votes.

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        Frank Lee

        Well, no. None of the people that entered their building were armed. I suggest you read something other than the fake news and lying partisan Democrat reports written by Schiff.

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