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#politics #alt #trump #parade #paradeattentence #paulrand #northkorea #russia #pettiness #whitehousepicnic #kentucky

Heather Cox Richardson 5/11/25
Senator Paul Rand Thinks 40 Million for a Soviet Union Style Parade Too Much Snubbed over Picnic

Let’s not get it twisted … the law is the law #Trump #Marines #NationalGaurd #Pettiness #Clueless youtu.be/0wsm6YwHcdM?...

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A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 3 (1963)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/61…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #character #danger #moralcharacter #opportunity #politeness #selfpreservation #pettiness

A quotation from Chamfort

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones

[L’intérêt d’argent est la grande épreuve des petits caractères, mais ce n’est encore que la plus petite pour les caractères distingués.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 164 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/757…

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #character #greatness #greed #money #personality #pettiness #wealth

mmpadellan: "Do you guys remember when Pres. Biden revoked Secret Service protection from Don, Eric, and Ivanka? NO? It's because he didn't. Trump, on the other hand, has removed it from Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden, because being President was never about helping the American people. It was just about vengeance." #security #politics #pettiness

A quotation from Judith Martin

Grief often inspires other odd emotions, and pettiness — the jealous assertion of one’s own claims as a mourner — is one of the commonest.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1981-03-29)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/75695/

#quote #quotes #quotation #grief #jealousy #loss #mourning #pettiness

@w7voa
#pettiness and #retribution

@monicarooney

We have infinite #spite and #pettiness, and infinite memories

#cdnpoli #tarifftuesday

I left out, of course, #pettiness, #racism, and #nationalism

The #doublestandard is #laughable.

In former #President #DonaldTrump’s #RepublicanParty (and it is his party now) #childishness, #cruelty, and #pettiness #reign supreme, the primary focus long ago shifted from #policy to #adhominem attacks where and #women’s #accomplishments are relegated to #irrelevance.

https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/08/06/the-double-standard-is-laughable/

cartoon in today's https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350367950/cartoon-august-6

The ACT Party and their 'Pin Gate' with all the pettiness you can imagine. Where's the adults when you need them?

#ACTparty #NzPol #EditorialCartoon #DirtyMac #BadgesOfDishonour #PinGate #Pettiness

Cartoon title: Is the coalition tail waggin' the dog? David Seymour is wearing an old mac - holding the lapels like some 19th century land owner - proudly displaying his ACT pin, and two other badges 'We're sticking to our guns' and 'it's MY way or the highway!'

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld, Francois:

«
People who are too much concerned with little things usually become incapable of big ones.

[Ceux qui s’appliquent trop aux petites choses deviennent ordinairement incapables des grandes.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-francois/68388/

#quote #quotes #quotation #capability #deeds #details #distraction #focus #greatworks #greatness #littlethings #matters #pettiness #strategy #tactics #trifle #trivia #trivial

I watched an argument at the bus station yesterday where a security guard set down his walkie-talkie and began to square up against two normal people, and watching it escalate made me so sad. I hate what society has become.

#mastodon #faith #in #humanity #gone #acab #authority #figures #are #bad #society #argument #pettiness #dystopia #despair #tyranny

<< #pettiness alert >>

As soon as the article referenced #twitter as #x I stopped reading. My response was like 80% pettiness, 10% elon #musk exhaustion, and 10% 'this is the dumbest social media rebrand ever ever ever and in no way will I buy in'

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-diy-race-to-replicate-lk-99/

A quotation from Confucius:

«««««
The man of honor thinks of his character, the inferior man of his position. The man of honor desires justice, the inferior man favor.
[君子懷德、小人懷土、君子懷刑、小人懷惠。]
»»»»»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/confucius/4820/

#quote #quotes #quotation #character #gentleman #greed #morality #pettiness #profit #virtue

Played #TrivialPursuit against my two surgeon #siblings today. I, not a #surgeon, beat them at a #medical question. I had to commemorate this moment with a picture I will soon be turning into a calendar for them both with a #picture of the question as well.

#SiblingRivalry and #Pettiness wins again and never dies … our ages: 44,46 &48 🎉🙌🏽🤣