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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.

Gene Weingarten

We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
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Believe Monster People
One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
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Kitten Murder Preparation
You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don’t care much about Kuwait.
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Care Democracy Support
When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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Fake Mean News
When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.
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Cute Daughter Senior
The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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Albatross Mean Verbs
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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People Splendid Vulgarian
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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People Reason Way
From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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Arduous Choices Inside Involving
I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
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Decision Important Thinking
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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People Trump Voting
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Clinton Evil Two
I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.
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Drug Kids Thinking
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.
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Believe Dope Lying
Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
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Constitution Court House Supreme
I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don’t think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.
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Dictator Popularity Thinking

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