Pre-Quiz Test Question: Who said?: “There is no rose without a Thorn” A) Shakespeare (in Romeo & Juliet, Act 2, scene 11) B) Donald J Trump, speaking about a wound he got while pruning his garden in Mar el Lago (sic), C) Proverbs (523)….to check your answer read on to bottom of posting.
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Every Four or Five years we give a quiz to our readers – to see if our readership is up to snuff. If you were to fail this quiz, (meaning missing even one question) you should stop watching: FOX, and Tucker (wherever he can be found) and get off X (Formerly Twitter), and then you should lie and not tell anyone you failed the test.
Question #1) Who said the following?:
“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want.”
A) Trump’s Campaign people B) Joseph Goebbels C) Hannah Arendt
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Question #2. Who said?:
“Anything is better than lies and deceit!
A) Trump’s Campaign people B) Alex Jones C) Leo Tolst0y
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Question #3. Who said?:
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, and if you get the right ‘electors’ it does not matter how many fools you fool.”
A) Trump’s Campaign people B) Steve Bannon C) No one actually said it out loud – that we know of…but if you selected A or B you will get only 1/2 wrong on your score and you could still pass the test.
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Question #4. Who?
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.”
A) Donald Trump, himself, in his forthcoming memoire. B) The Washington Post (…did not actually say this; but you could tell they meant it by claiming Trump made over 32,000 ‘falsehoods’ during his Presidency and has recently picked up his daily pace) C) Thomas Jefferson
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Question #5
“Liars are the cause of all sins and crimes of the world”
A) The Spiritual Advisor to Trump’s campaign people B) Roy Cohn, who sometimes suggested some sins and crimes could be a good thing) C) Epectitus (50-135 A.D.)
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Question #6)
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”A) Trump’s Campaign people B) J.D. Vance C) Dalai Lama
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Question #7) (Trick question…. Who said it first?))
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
A) Trump’s campaign people B) Hannity C) Adolph Hitler
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TEST RESULTS: All correct answers are # C…No lie. …As for the rose quote at the top of this article: We note the statement, itself, is a falsehood, but not an outright lie. Over time the truth can change; is it not true?
That’s it for the week and a fond “Hello” to whoever it was who wrote ” Thou Shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” – wherever you are.
