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"It dawned on her that he was talking about the Muzak."
Hang Jeff Davis from a sour-apple tree.
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That’s why it’s so absurd when people say “we can’t fight Trump, he thrives on conflict.” Bullies like Trump do not thrive on genuine conflict with real stakes. They thrive on fake conflict they can win and control. They fear real conflict immensely. Conflict is how you beat them. They are cowards.
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I often think about Mark Singer's 1997 New Yorker profile that explicitly accuses him of not having a soul...or rather, having worked towards and achieved that.
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Should we be good stewards of the government treasury? Absolutely. But what is "inefficient" in the world of private profit is very often the fundamental duty of public service.
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How do people look at that quote and not understand that he's obviously just trying to frame this as being the Republicans' fault if the government does shut down?
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"Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."
An oldie but a goodie!
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"We shall again be able not to declare, that 'all States as States, are equal,' nor yet that 'all citizens as citizens are equal,' but to renew the broader, better declaration, including both these and much more, that 'all *men* are created equal.'" Lincoln, Chicago, 12/10/56
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"With steady eye on the real issue, let us reinaugurate the good old 'central ideas' of the Republic. We *can* do it. The human heart *is* with us–God is with us..."
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"The President flatters himself that the new central idea is completely inaugurated...To us it is left to know that the majority of the people have not yet declared for it, and to hope that they never will...
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For all their talk of it, *this* is true, pure decadence.
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Hey, where’s the President?
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from the makers of "the heroin faucet for your home" comes an important statement about moderation and mental health
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the constitution is a public and political document as much as a legal one and constitutional meaning is a public and political process. trump can say X but other political institutions, and the nation’s various publics, have to agree for it to mean anything