In history from the once well-known their memorable last statements:
Oscar Wilde – “This wallpaper is dreadful. One of us will have to go.”
Leonardo da Vinci – “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.”
Nostradamus – “Tomorrow, at sunrise, I shall no longer be here.”
Karl Marx – “Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”
Groucho Marx – “This is no way to live.”
GOP – “How dumb can we be?”
late night last words
Stephen examines an extra-long Canadian zucchini, looks at courtroom sketches of Donald Trump’s children testifying at their father’s civil trial, and thanks Congress for voting not to expel Republican Rep. George Santos.
speaking of breaths, last or otherwise
Attribution: Deep Breaths by Christopher Weyant, The Boston Globe, MA
new book with some chilling old words to worry us all Bannon used Confederate code words to describe Trump speech, book says | Books | The Guardian […] In a forthcoming book, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party, Jonathan Karl, chief Washington correspondent for ABC News, writes: “When I spoke with Bannon a few days later, he wouldn’t stop touting Trump’s performance, referring to it as his ‘Come Retribution’ speech. “What I didn’t realise was that ‘Come Retribution’, according to some civil war historians, served as the code words for the Confederate Secret Service’s plot to take hostage – and eventually assassinate – President Abraham Lincoln.” Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington on 14 April 1865, by John Wilkes Booth, an actor. The president died the following day. Karl is the author of two bestsellers – Front Row at the Trump Show and Betrayal – about Trump’s rise to the presidency, time in the White House and defeat by Joe Biden. In his third Trump book, excerpted in the Atlantic on Thursday, Karl quotes from a 1988 book, Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and Assassination of Lincoln. “The use of the key phrase ‘Come Retribution’ suggests that the Confederate government had made a bitter decision to repay some of the misery that had been inflicted on the south,” the authors write. “Bitterness may well have been directed toward persons held to be particularly responsible for that misery, and Abraham Lincoln certainly headed the list.” Bannon, Karl writes, “actually recommended that I read that book, erasing any doubt that he was intentionally using the Confederate code words to describe Trump’s speech. “Trump’s speech was not an overt call for the assassination of his political opponents, but it did advocate their destruction by other means. Success ‘is within our reach, but only if we have the courage to complete the job, gut the deep state, reclaim our democracy, and banish the tyrants and Marxists into political exile forever,’ Trump said. ‘This is the turning point.’” In Karl’s estimation, the “Come Retribution” speech “was a turning point for Trump’s campaign” for re-election.… Read more »
Ivy, I’m relieved. Glad the Marty that died is yours. (There was an internet hoax about MJF dying recently).
marty, on to greater flights.
There are a number of last words I’m looking forward to hearing about.
I dunno, was Bannon steering Karl away from Hitler/Mussolini influence with the confederacy comparison?
The “I am your retribution” line eerily similar to Mussolini’s slogan “I am your avenger”. And first wife Ivana did once tell Vanity Fair he often read from a book of Hitler’s collected works on his bedside table.
Pogo & Pat, Marty had a decent send off, some of his friends came by for a flyover.
Trumpf himself is a multigenerational fascist. His followers believe they are avenging the confederacy.
Tribute to Marty
Little Fly Upon the Wall,
Ain’t you got no clothes at all?
Ain’t you got a shimmy shirt?
Ain’t you got a petty skirt?
Little fly, d’you want to die?
Squishy squashy – bye bye!
How about the most common last words.
“Hey, look at this.”
“Here, hold my beer”
“Here is how it is done”
Jack
Those OSHA rules are for pussies.
Hey Joey, watch this.
My son’s T-shirt featuring a tombstone
Well That Didn’t Work
Andrew Weissman on MSNBC summed up Eric’s gibberish testimony today:
— I didn’t even know we had financial statements
— Okay maybe I do know we had financials
— Of course we had financials but I don’t know anything about them
— The financial statements are perfect
— The financials actually undervalued properties
A woman killed by an alligator at a South Carolina pond told a friend she wanted to get close to the animal and didn’t scream as it attacked her and dragged her into the water, according to a police report. Cynthia Covert, 58, died in the attack Friday afternoon on Kiawah Island, Charleston County deputies said.
A deputy had to shoot and kill the alligator to get Covert away from the animal, according to the police report released Monday. According to the report, Covert’s friend yelled at her not to get closer, but she continued off the back steps towards where the alligator was located, CBS affiliate WCSC reported.
This true news has some last words. The lady’s documented last words, spoken while thrashing around in the pond in the alligator’s jaws were, “I guess I’ll never do that again.”.
Gator had her by the leg.
Jamie, that’s a very nice tribute to Marty and a new rhyme for my collection. Thank you.
There was wine involved.
The lady was from inland a bit and not used to alligators and was visiting a lady on Kiawah who wanted her hair done during the Covid. Afterward they had some wine out on the deck. Then the lady, seeing the alligator sunning on the bank, got up to go down to the pond to get a selfie. With the alligator.
It’s possible that Vladimir Nabokov’s last thoughts if not last words were about blue butterflies.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/nabokovs-blue-butterflies#
People continue to confirm my belief that there is literally no limit to humans’ capacity for stupidity. At least her last words were right.
Did anyone hear Judge Luttig on Nicolle? I’m trying to get my head around it, it was like sitting in on a a law class. I think I heard him saying the 14th Amendment cases against Trump need to focus on his actual Constitutional violations which bar him from office as opposed to his actions of whipping up the crowds at the Capitol. It was worth another listen.
I’m thinking furthermore if we take the easy way out and leave this to “voters” that even if he loses again, there’s nothing stopping him from running again and again until he drops dead. No guarantee how soon we get to hear his last words or epitaph and in the meantime he keeps the country in turmoil.
indicted guy isn’t stronger, the GOP has just been hijacked by extremists that are less representative of the electorate than they were in 2016, not more
if i were a betting person, and i’m not, i’d want the GOP running the same guy that lost the Presidency, the Senate, and the House (effectively) for them, again
Biden walked the picket line and American auto workers now have the best-negotiated compensation agreement in history
indicted-guy literally told those same workers “i don’t care what you get”
the cases against Trump need to focus on his actual Constitutional violations which bar him from office as opposed to his actions of whipping up the crowds at the Capitol. ivy, you heard him right and yes it was very much worth the listen. here’s an excerpt from an interview the day before Judge Luttig explains why Donald Trump is disqualified from the presidency (msnbc.com) Jordan Rubin: Judge, you’ve been thinking a lot lately about this 14th Amendment issue. Why is it so important to democracy, in your view? J. Michael Luttig: Section 3 of the 14th Amendment … disqualifies any person who, having taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, thereafter engages in an insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution of the United States, disqualifying that person from holding high public office in the future, including the presidency. So it’s more than just a proscription and disqualification for anti-democratic conduct by an individual, but, in this circumstance, it is that and it would apply in this instance to disqualify the former president from holding the presidency again, because of his effort, plan and attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, knowing that he had lost that election to then-candidate Joe Biden. This is very, very important: Section 3 disqualifies one who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution of the United States, not an insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or the authority of the United States. And so that’s the issue in Colorado and in Minnesota, and in the other states that are currently involved in the constitutional process to determine whether the former president is disqualified. JR:What do you think of criticism that suggests it’s wrong to keep Trump off the ballot using this process, as opposed to “letting the voters decide,” as a critic would say? JML: I have seen that criticism, if you will, of applying Section 3 to the former president. And it concerned me because it’s a legitimate question to be asked. But I’ve responded publicly to that concern by explaining that the disqualification that’s provided for under Section… Read more »
Thanks, Pat. The devil’s in the details, as always.
Now, SFB says MAL is worth a billion. BS or fork over commensurate taxes.
Irk and Junior were agents of the company, so they are on the hook for signing those docs.
Jack -Hope you’re feeling better. My doc told me wait two weeks between shots. Messaging doesn’t seem to be consistent.
RIP Marty
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