“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis” — DT, 30 Oct. 2025
“The Green New Scam would have killed America if President Trump had not been elected to implement his commonsense energy agenda – which is focused on utilizing the liquid gold under our feet to strengthen our grid stability and drive down costs for American families and businesses” — Taylor Rogers, White House spokeswoman, 31 Oct
“It’s not that I want [Chinese national students], but I view it as a business. [Draconian cuts to hiring international students could] destroy our entire university and college system.” — DT, 17 Nov. 2025
“The president being frank and open and honest to your faces [by cutting off Catherine Lucey by `Quiet, piggy!´], rather than hiding behind your backs, is, frankly, a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration.” — Karoline Leavitt, press secretary, 18 Nov 2025
“You’re mentioning someone [Jamal Khashoggi] that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen. But [Mohammed bin Salman] knew nothing about it. You don’t have to embarrass our guests.” — DT, 19 Nov. 2025
“Do you think the French [students in the US] are better [wrt spying and stealing intellectual property], really?… I’m not so sure” — DT, 10 Nov. 2025
“The writer of the [New York Time] story, Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out,”— DT, 26 Nov. 2025
Archive for humanism
and it is getting worse… [verbatim]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags Agent Orange, America, autoritarian, baby Trump, Brazil, Chinese universities, cliffs, climate change, Cop30, Donald Trump, foreign students, French students, House of Representatives, humanism, intellectual property, Jamal Khashoggi, liberty of press, nationalism, Nobel Peace Prize, populism, quotes, Saudi Arabia, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New York Times, theocracy, unilateral nuclear disarmament, US elections 2024, US politics, xenophobia on December 11, 2025 by xi'anand it got worse & worse & … [verbatim]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags Agent Orange, America, autoritarian, baby Trump, Canada, Charlie Kirk, cliffs, conspiracy theories, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, English nationalism, far-right ideology, gun control, gun lobby, House of Representatives, humanism, ice, international day against homophobia transphobia & biphobia, nationalism, Nuremberg trials, political violence, populism, quotes, racism, secularism, separation between church and state, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New York Times, theocracy, United Kingdom, US Constitution, US elections 2024, US politics, USAid, Utah, Utah State University, Utah Valley University on September 23, 2025 by xi'an
“For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now (…) From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a health-care executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three others, radical-left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives.” – DT, 10 Sept 2024
“I really think that there’s got to be a change of government in Britain. You can’t – we don’t have another four years, or whenever the next election is, it’s too long.” – Elon Musk, 12 Sept 2025
“There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the Constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.” – The Charlie Kirk Show, 6 July 2022
“If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.” – The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 Jan 2024
“If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?” – The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 Jan 2024
“We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.” – The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 April 2024
“The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.” – The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 March 2024
“[The UK is] a totalitarian third world hellhole. It’s tragic. I don’t say that with glib, I don’t say that with delight. It is sad. It’s chilling and it’s depressing.” – The Charlie Kirk Show, 22 May 2025
“The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem and they’re vicious and they’re horrible and they’re politically savvy. They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender people, they want open borders. The worst thing that happened to this country.” – DT, 12 Sept 2025
“There’s so much violence on the left, with our friend Charlie Kirk getting murdered in cold blood this week and people on the left celebrating it openly. The left is the party of murder and celebrating murder.” – Elon Musk, 12 Sept 2025
“I really think that there’s got to be a change of government in Britain. You can’t – we don’t have another four years, or whenever the next election is, it’s too long.” – Elon Musk, 12 Sept 2025
“If some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail [Paul Pelosi’s attacker] out.” – Charlie Kirk, 31 October 2022
Jorge’s questionable lecture on secularism [reposted]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags abortion, Catholic Church, Corsica, France, humanism, Jorge Bergoglio, laïcité, pope, rationalism, reproductive rights, secularism, tolerance on January 10, 2025 by xi'an
Samuel Paty [in memoriam]
Posted in Books, Kids with tags Catrooning for Peace, Charlie Hebdo, collège, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, fanaticism, France, freedom of religion or belief, freedom of speech, French education ministry, history education, humanism, laïcité, political cartoon, rationalism, Samuel Paty, secularism on October 17, 2022 by xi'an
the Galaxy and the ground within [book review]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags Becky Chambers, humanism, pub, science fiction, space opera, universalism, Wayfarer trilogy, Yorkshire on February 5, 2022 by xi'an
This book is a standalone sequel to Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer trilogy. Where strangers find themselves stranded in the same spot for days and start sharing and relativising their differences. If on a useless rock in the middle of the Universe rather than in a snowed-in Yorkshire pub! But the science-fiction aspects become quickly irrelevant, except for enlarging the initial specific (as in species) differences between the five (non-human) antagonists. On the one hand, this book is a rather conventional, caricaturesque, care-bear, feel-good, rosy, cocoonesque story… On the other, it is a more profound and humanist fable on the fact that we are more alike than we are unalike. Actually, the book reads better as a fable than as a novel as the story is almost inexistent and the characters too perfect to be anything but shells (and literally so for some of them) for their awakening to the others. Perfect mind-candy for a bleak day!
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