Thursday, April 25, 2019

Quotation for the Trump Era (Error?)



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"President Trump promptly tweeted his advice to the French authorities [re the Notre Dame fire]: 'Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!' No matter that water from such planes would probably have taken the cathedral’s towers down and endangered lives as well -- 'the equivalent,' according to a French fire chief, 'of dropping three tons of concrete at 250 kilometers per hour [on] the ancient monument.'"

--Tom Engelhardt, "Collusion, Hell, Yeah Suicide Watch on Planet Earth: As the Flames Began to Rise, the Arsonists appeared,"  TomDispatch.com

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