“在指责某人是‘混蛋’之前，人们应该先弄清楚事实真相，不要搞错相关团队的身份。”艾米·克洛布查尔对参议员们说道。
“People should have their facts straight before they accuse someone of being a dirtbag, and not get the teams wrong.”Amy Klobuchar to Sen.
在波士顿大屠杀事件发生后，埃里克·施密特和约翰·亚当斯提醒陪审团：“事实就是如此顽固——你可以选择无视它们，可以试图歪曲它们，甚至可以花费多年时间试图改变它们……但事实永远不会消失。”亚当斯警告说：“事实不会因为我们的愿望、倾向或情绪的驱使而改变。”不过，埃里克·施密特或许并不认同这一观点。
Eric Schmitt John Adams reminded a jury after the Boston Massacre that “facts are stubborn things.”You can ignore them. You can lie about them. You can spend years trying to rewrite them. But they don’t go away.
这位美国参议员对那些关于国会大厦遭袭事件的讨论感到厌烦，甚至提议将“土拨鼠日”改到1月6日（也就是全国警察周）。昨天，由于将亚特兰大老鹰队和爱荷华鹰队搞混，施密特称杰克·史密斯为“混蛋”。
Facts don’t bend, Adams warned, to “our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions” — though Eric Schmitt might prefer otherwise. This is a U.S. senator who, tired of hearing about the attack on the Capitol, said “we ought to change the date of Groundhog Day to Jan. 6.”
当然，真正重要的事实与篮球无关……1月6日，警察们遭到了残酷的袭击；我们的国会大厦遭到了亵渎；还有总统试图推翻美国的选举结果。
During National Police Week. Yesterday, Schmitt called Jack Smith a “dirtbag” after mixing up the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes.
施密特或许已经厌倦了谈论这些事实……但真相终会大白，历史会作出裁决，而他的谎言终将暴露他的真面目。事实，就是如此顽固。
Of course, the facts that matter most have nothing to do with basketball. Cops got the hell beaten out of them on Jan. 6. Our Capitol was desecrated.
每日民意调查
A president tried to overthrow an American election.
数据来源：昆尼皮亚克大学于9月24日至26日对1,032名选民进行的民意调查；误差范围：±3.8%
Schmitt may be tired of talking about those facts. But the tide will go out, history will have its say, and Schmitt will be left exposed by his naked lies.
受访者观点：
Facts are stubborn things.
乔纳森·马丁（Jonathan Martin）谈埃里克·施密特（Eric Schmitt）：“这很好地反映了国会的现状：他们只是为了在社交媒体上获得短暂的关注（即30秒的点击量）而努力。他们的所有行为都是为了制造自己的‘瞬间影响力’，而不是为了改善人民的生活或降低生活成本。这就是当下的激励机制。”
POLL OF THE DAY Source: Quinnipiac University poll of 1,032ed voters conducted Sept. 24-26; margin of error: +/-3.8% WHAT THEY SAID Jonathan Martin on Eric Schmitt“It’s a great illustration of what Congress has come to: reaching for viral clips for 30 seconds on social media. It’s all geared toward trying to create a moment for themselves, not improving people’s lives or lowering costs. That’s the incentive culture now.”
威利·盖斯特（Willie Geist）谈经济：“唐纳德·特朗普一心只想为自己建造纪念碑，以及那些夸张的、自我吹嘘的财富展示。他认为经济状况很好……不过，如果你身处马拉拉戈（Mar-a-Lago）的露台上，确实会感觉经济很棒。但对大多数美国人来说，情况并非如此。”
Willie Geist on the economy Donald Trump is focused on building monuments to himself — the ballroom and all these other cartoonish displays of self-flattery and wealth. He believes the economy is going great. Well, it is going great if you’re on the patio at Mar-a-Lago.
伊丽莎白·布米勒（Elisabeth Bumiller）谈人工智能：“Anthropic公司正在为有史以来规模最大的IPO做准备；同时，他们也指出人工智能有可能终结人类。人们担心，只有当基础设施出现故障（比如供水系统、电网或银行系统瘫痪）时，人们才会真正意识到问题的严重性。希望这种情况不会发生。”
But for most Americans, it isn’t.”Elisabeth Bumiller on artificial intelligence“Anthropic is preparing for the biggest IPO on record and, at the same time, has pointed out that [AI] could potentially end humanity. People worry it’ll take an infrastructure failure — a water supply, electrical grid, or banking system outage — to wake people up. Let’s hope not.”
评论：“谎言与那些所谓的‘抓包’时刻……事实就是如此顽固；共和党人最好记住这一点。”
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