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Gene Weingarten

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Agony Reality Thinking
It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Order Sides Steak
But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him…vulgar.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Contemptuous Sophisticated Vulgar
I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Dope Lying
It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Gone Names Recognition
You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan – I was 12 when he was murdered – but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Soul Thinking War
On Twitter, people like me regularly get called “sore losers” by Trumpeters. It just makes me roll my eyes. This is not about winning and losing. We all lost, even them, they just don’t know it yet.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Eye Lose People Winning
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
GENE WEINGARTEN

People Reason Way
When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Fake Mean News
The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
GENE WEINGARTEN

Cynical Intelligent People
I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Advertising Men Ridiculous
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Black Local Middle School
We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Monster People
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Matter Thinking
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
GENE WEINGARTEN

People Trump Voting
I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Eye Girl Good Makeup Women

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