International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
GENE WEINGARTENI 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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I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
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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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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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Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.
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I think politics is everything.
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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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Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.
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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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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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So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.
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I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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