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9/11
Monday 22nd of July 2024
9/11
After the terrorist attacks
on the World Trade Center,
Mr. Trump lined up a $150,000 grant
for one of his buildings near ground zero
[a 71-story skyscraper 8 blocks away],
taking advantage of a program to help
small businesses in the area recover,
even though he had acknowledged
on the day of the attacks that
his building was undamaged.
New York Times, Sepatember 17, 2016
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9/11
How could anyone with a sense of history
find it unbelievable?
Siri Hustvedt,
Fnancial Times, September 10, 2021
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9/11
Nobody’s gotten to the bottom of 9/11,
unfortunately.
They should have, as to the maniacs
that did that horrible thing, to our city,
to our country, to the world.
So nobody's really been there.
But I can tell you that there are a lot of
really great people that are out here today.
And we’re going to have a lot of fun
and we’re going to celebrate.
Donald Trump, July 28, 2022,
defending hosting the Saudi-backed
LIV Golf Tournament at his golf club
in Bedminster, New Jersey
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9/11
They say
there is a lot of people watching.
I can’t imagine why.
Donald Trump,
on memorializing the 20th anniversary of 9/11
by watching him and Junior gigging for an
undisclosed sum as ringside commentators
for a pay-per-view boxing match in Florida
between washed up fighters whose
combined ages exceeded 100
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9/11
The US now has 13m citizens with
permits to carry concealed firearms,
which is more than 12 times
the number of police officers.
As one lobbyist for the National Rifle
Association tells [Evan] Osnos [author of
a book being reviewed], the al-Qaeda
attacks were a giant windfall for
the US gun lobby.
The fall of the Twin Towers followed a
decade of sharply declining crime rates
and lower gun sales. Suddenly there was
a new paranoia of terrorists to exploit.
Edward Luce,
Financial Times, September 11, 2021
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9/11
You didn't bring us together,
our pain brought us together
and our decency brought us together.
We would have come together
if Bozo was the mayor.
Al Sharpton
on Rudy Giuliani's role following the attack
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Democracy
The combination
of a would-be authoritarian
and a major crisis can, therefore,
be deadly to democracy.
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt,
How Democracies Die
[because of “rally ’round the flag” effects]
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Foreign relations
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Biden supposedly values allies.
Europe’s chagrin is that Biden could have
fulfilled both vows [ending forever wars
and rebuilding alliances] if he had closely
consulted with them on his Afghan exit.
He chose not to.
The fact that Nato was there at America’s
behest rubbed salt into the wound.
The 9/11 attacks marked the only time
Nato has invoked its Article V mutual
defence clause — following an assault
on America, not Europe.
Edward Luce,
Financial Times, August 24, 2021
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Hypocrites say
My heart goes out to them.
Jay Monahan,
PGA Tour commissioner,
on families that lost loved ones on 9/11,
before selling the PGA to Saudi Arabia for
an arm and a leg, perhaps Adnan Khashoggi's
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Liars say
Many of those affected
were firefighters, police officers
and other first responders.
And I was down there also,
but I'm not considering myself
a first responder.
But I was down there.
Donald Trump,
when signing a law extending
healthcare for real first responders
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Presidency
Imagine just for a moment,
if 9-11 had happened with
Donald Trump behind the desk.
The first thing he would’ve done was
run to the bunker to protect himself.
He would’ve put himself first,
before the country.
And anyone who is unwilling to say
that he is unfit to be President of
the United States is unfit themselves
to be President of the United States.
Chris Christie,
Windham, NH, January 10, 2024
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Selfie
My music taste
changed on 9/11 …
I didn't like how rock music
responded. And country music,
collectively, it resonated with me.
And I have to say, it just is gut-level.
I had an emotional reaction that says,
“These are my people.”
And so, ever since 2001,
I listen to country music.
Ted Cruz,
whose political career is funded
mostly by large individual donors
and billionaire-backed organizations
pandering to country boys
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Sleepers at the wheel say
New Jersey was threatened
like no other region
in this country.
Chris Christie,
New Jersey governor,
on post-9/11 threats of terrorism
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Snapshot
There's only three things
he mentions in a sentence:
a noun, a verb, and 9/11.
Rudy Giuliani
portrayed by Joe Biden
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