I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
GENE WEINGARTENI think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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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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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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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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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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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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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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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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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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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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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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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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