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“They are Americans—Americans that would have voted against you and, in all likelihood, would have opposed you once you won. I’m not saying it’s good that they were killed. I’m just saying these attacks are going to seriously depress the
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“The speaker held a finger up. “I know what some of you are thinking—because it was once my opinion: what does population matter? So what if we have fewer people?” He shrugged theatrically. “Well, consider your own experiences. Consider the towns and cities in your life that have seen gradual population declines. Consider the loss of tax base. The aging population and the lack of resources to deal with those people. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.”
― Antarctica Station
― Antarctica Station
“Trying to get Congress to pull in one direction is worse than herding cats. It’s herding self-interested, narcissistic, opportunistic cats. Who only care about getting reelected, no matter how much they pretend to care about their constituencies.”
― Time Frame
― Time Frame
“Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, a fellow progressive, explained that the state had the ability to restrict reproduction of those with Down syndrome, since “It would be strange if [the public welfare] could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence.”7 Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, called for the sterilization or quarantining of some “fifteen or twenty millions of our populations” in order to prevent the supposed poisoning of the gene pool.8”
― The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
― The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
“You know what they say: a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting its pants on.”
― Blowback
― Blowback
“because it is an industry that’s about ideas, and if you treat disagreement as a source of harm or personal safety, then it’s very challenging to do good work.”14 The threat to core American values is only increasing.”
― The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
― The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
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