International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
GENE WEINGARTENAmerica is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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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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I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.
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Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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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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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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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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The odd thing is that Trump’s hand movements don’t seem to coordinate with the topic at hand. Most pols manage to make their hand movements correspond with the message, so a slash will accompany emphasis, etc.
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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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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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I think politics is everything.
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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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