The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
GENE WEINGARTENWhen Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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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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I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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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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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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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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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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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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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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Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage – deciding what’s important to cover and what isn’t – and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.
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