Pithy, Witty Politics
when people ask why Trump or Vance or the MAGAs say or do something awful that seems counterproductive (like doubling down on the childless cat lady thing) I'm always reminded of the frog and scorpion fable that ends with this line:
"I could not help myself. It is my nature."
A quote for JD Vance.
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll
For true believers everywhere:
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble; it's what you know for certain, but just ain't so." - M. Twain
TomR
“America is a divided nation, between people who love Twain and people who quote him.”
Tom_R said:
For true believers everywhere:
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble; it's what you know for certain, but just ain't so." - M. Twain
TomR
"I never said most of the things I said."
Yogi Berra
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
A thread for quotes and witticisms pertinent to All Politics.