"Effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency."
-- Trump tweet, days after CISA issued statement saying "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history... There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."

"306. Landslide. Blowout. Historic."
-- Kellyanne Conway, November 28th, 2016, on Trump's electoral victory

"The only way this stops is if people rise up!"
-- Dr. Scott Atlas, White House coronavirus task force member, urging Michigan citizens to ignore the state's new COVID-19 restrictions

10 1/2
-- pages of obituaries in yesterday's Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"How beautiful leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
-- John Burroughs

200
-- number of new COVID-19 cases in South Korea yesterday, leading it to impose fines for violations of national mask mandate

170,000
-- number of new cases in the U.S. yesterday, which has six times as many people

From Inauguration Day note left by Bill Clinton for George W. Bush:

"I salute you and wish you success and much happiness. My prayers are with you and your family."

From Inauguration Day note left by Dubya for Barack Obama:

"Very few know the excitement of the moment and the challenges you will face...You will have an Almighty God to comfort you, a family who loves you, and a country that is pulling for you, including me....God bless you."

"This f***ing virus. What does it have to do with me getting re-elected?"
-- Trump to staff, last February, when told the pandemic could bring down his presidency

2018 commentary on mid-term election:

"Democrats...lost the election. So what do they do? They cry malfeasance, wrongdoing, criminality, fraud."
-- then RNC spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany

"Democrats, more so than Republicans, seem to have a problem conceding defeat."
-- Laura Ingraham

"Ramping up election conspiracy theories...Ya know what? Sounds sore loser-ish."
-- Sean Hannity

"Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified...Cruz didn't win Iowa, he stole it."
-- Trump in 2016, on results of Iowa caucuses

"I think it's terrible that we can't know the results of an election the night of the election."
-- Trump, Sunday 11-1

"Since when does the Lamestream Media call who our next president will be?"
-- Trump, Sunday 11-8