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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

Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Religiously Stronger Way
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
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?
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Cynical Intelligent People
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.
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Gone Names Recognition
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.
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Eye Lose People Winning
I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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Marcos Revealing Thinking
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
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
Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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Faults Hostile Trump
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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People Trump Voting
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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People Splendid Vulgarian
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
I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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Eye Girl Good Makeup Women
Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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Country People Trump
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
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Agony Reality Thinking

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