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A media that taught us to mock authority and culture was unprepared for the day when the audience would mock their authority and their culture.
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We keep looking for the dark night of fascism to emerge from bigotry and it keeps coming out of the entryway labeled tolerance.
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It's really amazing how Communism, even after killing hundreds of millions of people in the last 100 years and ruining every country it ever ruled -- without exception -- can routinely take the moral high ground and unfailingly strike the pose of the movement of tomorrow.
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"Right now the value of Trump to the Trump voter is he is all that stands between them and handing the keys to Washington back over to the people inside Washington. That’s it. He’s their only option. You’ve got to pick the insiders or him."
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Perhaps the West has reached the point whhere it can't afford the luxury of incompetence and stupidity any more. The repo man of history is towing our Woke dreams away. Maybe it's time to get back to the basics. This intelligence failure we might survive, but not the next one.
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Sir Arthur Harris made a famous observation that Western radicals and Islamic militants often forget. Decency is a mutually agreed standard. If you break it, it is gone.
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Perhaps the greatest thing to fear in our new era of political correctness is a repeat of the destruction of the library of Alexandria, a purging of the past, which every progressive movement finds essential to its success.
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Part of me wants to yell "you're all SOBs. You put an impaired old man in the pilot's seat of an airplane with 350 million passengers so you could keep your crummy jobs." How could you?
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Yet it is nevertheless true. The real crisis of American governance isn't that Trump is some evil genius. It is what a bunch of mediocrities the elite have turned out to be. Better to have found out now than in the middle of some existential conflict with a great power.
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I used to be intimidated by "smart" people like Noam Chomsky until I realized they could believe absolutely asinine things; that apart from expertise in a very narrow domain they were no better judges of issues than the random man on the street.
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Why not just effortlessly refute it with magisterial evidence supported by universal public positive experience?
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The Ivy league presidents had reached the point where they couldn't hear how they sounded to those on the outside of the echo chamber. That's what the "glamor of evil" does.
Friends, the appalling Congressional testimony of three Ivy League university presidents served to blow the lid off of an increasingly dysfunctional culture on the campuses of our universities. We must ask ourselves, do we want to be sending our kids to schools whose presidents
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It should not escape notice that while Chinese Interpol officials are being clapped in jail, journalists are being killed in the EU and Saudi journalists are allegedly being cut to pieces in the consulate it remains perfectly safe to insult Donald or Brett in the US.
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No one will fess up and nothing will be learned.
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The reason woke demands are so outrageous is because they are meant to break your will and doubt your sanity. The objective is gaslighting not persuasion.
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It wasn't just all the bizarre Wokery, but the realization, from the pandemic that those we trusted were a pack of scheming bureaucrats. The betrayal was the cruelest cut.
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The Left's historical beef with nuclear power was it worked and would enable wasteful capitalist consumption.
"In fact, giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun." — Paul R. Ehrlich, 1975
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The future is coming so fast that even the past looks like science fiction.
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If anything good comes out of covid19 it will be reorienting Western society toward success once more rather than self-flagellating auto-punishing, guilt-haunted sackcloth and ashes.
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Hillary's defeat was no ordinary loss. It happened at one of those crucial moments when the plan had to go just right, like a reentry burn. But it didn't happen and there really isn't the spare energy to set it up again.
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The elites lost their mojo by becoming absurd. It happened on the road between cultural appropriation and transgender bathrooms.
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The consequences of discovering that the election was rigged are so terrifying that if it was not absolutely staring you in the face you would prefer to avoid it. For "the sake of the country" you would not go there.
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This slow pivot on Covid, the shocked realization there might be practical limits on debt, the sullen admission that nuclear power could be useful after all, are encouraging signs that reality -- remember reality? -- might actually exist after all.
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Another theory is that the Left attempted "a failed coup" aiming to achieve a "permanent majority" through open borders, cultural deconstruction and institution packing. Politics became a zero-sum game and we are now in a cold civil war.
Academia is still searching for an explanation for the "populist" revolution that produced Brexit, Trump and which may soon topple Merkel. The predominant theory is the envy thesis: economic insecurity arising from globalism and a backlash from once-dominant social groups.
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George H.W. Bush flew torpedo bombers in the Pacific and went on 58 combat missions during the war. On September 2, 1944, while flying a mission to bomb an enemy radio site, his plane was shot down by Japanese fire; Bush bailed out over the ocean. He was rescued by submarine.
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Trump has played the incredible trick of making the liberals seem to come out against the 4th of July. The public doesn't hear the nuance only the beat. And he's done this time and again on God, mom and apple pie.
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It cannot be lost on the NYT that every fascist act predicted to happen in America is actually occurring in France.
The roundup of the students, who were seen kneeling as riot police surrounded them, was called “simply intolerable” by one human rights advocate and condemned by some politicians
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Left wing politics needs a slippery slope. You can't stop at 71 genders. You can't stop at the national anthem. It's always "top this".
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Wikipedia had to censor its encyclopedia to make it more free.
EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be."
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It's kinda disturbing that conspiracy theories zealously persecuted by fact checkers, their utterers blackballed, their careers ruined, lives doxxed turn out to be official US govt vetted facts after only a few months.
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So here's to all the Mexicans, Filipinos, Thais, tortured and beheaded African Christians and all the other bit players, unbilled victims in this great war of civilizations that no one in the media remembers. The extras in the movie.
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It's like nobody learned from Zimbabwe. But then again nobody learns from anything. The lesson of history is nothing is learned from history.
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Why does the workman believe the football scores in the newspapers but not the big stories? Because he may have watched the match himself or knows someone who has. Information corruption will blind the educated most, who only know things at second-hand.
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My guess is Israel is not going to fight a proxy war through Hamas, Hezbollah etc. They will aim to inflict great damage in the depths of Iran. In Mossad Director David Barnea's words: “The Iranian regime no longer has no room for denial and, above all, it has no immunity.”
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The first step to fixing the crisis is to elect a Western political leadership that is willing to face the facts. The current crop of politicians whose brains are filled with climate change, intersectionalism and colonial settler cringe guilt cannot be replaced fast enough.
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The issue is no longer Claudine Gay. It's the Harvard board. Prestige is the magic the public grants to reputation. Once scrutiny begins and the mockery starts the magic may not survive.
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The Chinese Communist Party is at least driven by the impulse of self preservation. What's less understable are its Western apologists who are driven by the compulsion to self destruction.
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The Red Sea attacks on international sea lanes, Venezuelan preparations to annex most of Guyana and human shields in Gaza illustrate why "international law" is dead or dying letter. Nobody gives a damn about it any more.
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There are 3 overlapping crises happening right now. A cold US civil war, a breakdown of the international order into a 3, perhaps 4 front global conflict and the revollt against 20th century materialist ideology. Everything is shifting and there is a scramble to come out on top.
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The worst of it is that once again the conspiracy theory proved true.
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People who are upset about Elon's impending acquisition of Twitter are implicitly conceding that whoever controls it can influence elections. In a truly neutral social media environment it shouldn't matter at all who owned it. Ergo something is wrong with the setup itself.
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The reality is that Israel has decided to retaliate, in my view with the goal of creating the maximum destabilization in Iran. Biden has no option but to go along, kicking and screaming. By temporizing and crisis managing, Joe gave up all strategic initiative.
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Then vs now.
1990: experts all agree missile defense will never work.
2024: why doesn't the Fleet defend every country on earth like it did Israel? Seems effortless.
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It's almost as if the antiwestern coalition has ordered all its client states and 5th columnists to overload the defenses of the Pax Americana in a strategic swarm attack.
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That was the whole point of the Space Race.
Neil Armstrong movie 'First Man' omits the American flag being planted on the moon, and star Ryan Gosling defended the decision: 'I don't think that Neil viewed himself as an American hero'
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Why were 'progressives' of all people, so apt to hatred? Because it's a self-righteous movement that imposes itself by force. Those who thought it would not turn on them forgot the fate of the old Bolsheviks.
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It could be that hairdressers feel the same way.
Since the last recession, ~30,000 journalism jobs vanished. Journalists laid off today will likely be unemployed for months and likely, by necessity, have to find employment in other fields. A lay-off now would effectively end a career in journalism. We have to save jobs.
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The reason the political and media elite are full of such raw fury is that they were wrong in their magisterial assurances about the global world, about a whole host of things. Events made monkeys out of them.
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They funded their enemies. Endowed those who would kill them with chairs. Purchased the oil they would not pump to remain carbon neutral. They believed obvious lies and did a hundred things the most uneducated man would mock because they were on "the right side of history".
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Three nearly simultaneous developments 1) the exposure of the senile Joe Biden; 2) the SCOTUS body blow to lawfare and 3) the collapse of the center left lin Europe fueled by a grassroots rejection of unlimited migration are challenging the status quo as never before.
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He was raised in Chicago by Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn before studying law at Yale. He later won a Rhodes Scholarship and worked for Venezuela’s now-deceased socialist President Hugo Chávez before coming to San Francisco.
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"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them." - George Orwell
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One of the reasons no one can sit this out.
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Not enough lithium and cobalt on the planet for 10 yrs of Green batteries: Finnish gov't report.
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One of the purposes of suppressing the Hunter story is to demonstrate the true might and ruthlessness of the progressives. "Young fool only now at the end do you understand the pow-ah." Zzzzt.
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The reason the establishment doesn't care to hide the iron fist anymore is they've bet the farm. They're all in.
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The Woke are effectively demolishing their palace faster than any imagined enemy could do, making new models of education not only possible but imminent.
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Maybe old man Biden is past blame but surely institutional Washington, by this monstrous act of elder abuse, is guilty of foisting a fraud on the voters without parallel since Woodrow Wilson governed from a coma. How the hell was Joe going to make it to 2028?
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To be on the right side of history you need more than good intentions. You need the truth. And the truth is not what you choose to believe; it is what is.
There is an objectivity about the truth that confounds convenience and demands acceptance. Not my will but thine be done.
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Biden giving Iran $6B will rank, along with Putin's decision to invade Ukraine, as among the 21st century's dumbest-ass moves.
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The IDF is on the threshold of the pursuit phase, the rout, when most long term damage to its enemy is historically inflicted. It will try to capture the most files, turn the most agents and kill the most militants during this phase.
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The underlying reason for Hillary's failure was that the globalist model didn't make sense any more, except for the bigs who collected rents. To billions of people, including the middle class in the Western world, it was a trip to nowhere.
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The Covid coverup destroyed my last faith in human institutions. If they'll lie to you about having accidentally creating a pandemic they'll lie to you about anything.
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This is why China, Turkey, the UN and the left wing 'Squad' in Congress are all calling for 'restraint'. They are afraid -- with ample reason -- that the shit will hit the fan.
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The problem with politicians is they don't realize that there are consequences to policy; that sooner or later destroying the borders, defunding the police, dumbing down math, printing money and funding the ayatollahs will come back to bite them. When it does they're shocked.
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"Evil is the force that believes its knowledge is complete." -- Jordan Peterson
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Now everyone is offended by everything because in retrospect the civility we once thoughtlessly enjoyed was based on a shared culture where disagreement was on the margins. Now our disagreements are fundamental.
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Running through the comprehensive failure is the persistent theme of betrayal. Biden was surprised by Iran; Israel was Pearl-Harbored by Hamas; progressive Jewry betrayed by the Left. In each case they thought they had a deal but all they actually had was an empty paper bag.
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Is it possible that the DNC has created a Frankenstein monster that will rampage out control, even striking its masters until it is finally appeased?
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The worst of it for the cultural elite is that their ideology, which they thought would replace God and Western civilization, has turned out to be a big nothing. They are falling as through empty space without footing. Every handhold turns in an instant into an adder.
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In a way the markets are correcting FB in a way that no regulator could. What govt agency could levy a $100 B fine?
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It's more scientific than saying "I saw it on TV".
Some of the smartest people I know actively believe the press … amazing
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A system which is going to ban the man most likely to put America on Mars, disqualify a supreme court nominee on an unsubstantiated high school offense and encourage the abortions of hundreds of thousands of babies has a broken objective function.
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Refugees normally aren't fleeing from places. The land, rivers and vegetation of the old country are just fine. They are actually running from people and by letting everyone in, "compassion" allows the predator to catch up with the prey.
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Maybe the reason one set of politicians was so eager to tar other politicians as Russian lackeys is because they were Chinese running dogs.
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I think the left is really surprised by this disastrous turn of events. They thought the taxes, windmills, DIE agenda were really going to work and still think it would have too if not for -- bad luck.
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Why Elon Musk is the most indispensible man in America today.
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The last 2 yrs have been revealing. Washington is corrupt. China is Communist. Saudi Arabia is incompetent. Europe is an aspiring superstate. Russia is one big conspiracy. Google is watching you. A lot of celebrities are perverts. Most news is a lie.
Otherwise we're fine.
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Missouri vs Biden. Can the gov't tell social media to violate the First Amendment?
The federal government had a hard time convincing a judge last week that it hasn't been working with and coercing social media companies to censor free speech.
Some notable moments from the first hearing in our First Amendment case, Missouri v. Biden:
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An artificial ideological catastrophe.
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The next belated discovery of educators will be that Woke math and science has condemned a whole generation to innumeracy.
Yes, you are not dreaming, this is in the New York Times:
"The evidence is now in, and it is startling. The school closures that took 50 million children out of classrooms at the start of the pandemic may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American
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Unemployment is a small price to pay for your principles, but virtue signaling has been cost free so long that this will come as a shock.
Top US law firm Davis Polk announces in an internal email that it had rescinded letters of employment for three law students at Harvard University and Columbia University who signed on to organizational statements regarding Israel.
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In trying to have it both ways Biden got nothing. Now a wider war is inevitable. Blinken's policy is in shambles. The failure was from the top. We need a new strategy. The old one is dead.
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The secret of Ivy League excellence was its quondam ability to recruit from the right hand tail, to fill its classrooms with the smartest kids on the planet & let magic happen. Recruiting by DEI is a reversion to admission by Old Boy network, now just an Old Pronoun network.
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The open source analysis of the Gaza bombing story could never have happened without a relatively unhampered discussion on social media and other Internet venues. The public figured it out for themselves.
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Most people have been brought up to be civil to a fault, to avoid making a public spectacle at all costs and in extremis to walk away rather than be openly disagreeable. This is a civic virtue in a high trust society.
But in a tribal society the rules are different.
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You are safer under a government of bumbling ordinaries encumbered by a fragile faith than governed by self confident supermen convinced that everything is permitted.
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The attraction of radical ideology is that it provides you with a mission so lofty that it justifies anything you do. You are above bourgeois morality, imbued with total license. This is the drug militants are fed, and once tasted, there's nothing like it.
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Trust in public institutions ain't what it used to be.
If you wouldn't send cash in the mail, why would you send your vote?
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Now prosperity isn't even mentioned; they promise you will own nothing and be happy; eat bugs, get your body parts hacked off for your joy, die early at government expense. They've convinced millions to desire what they can actually deliver. It's salesmanship at its best.
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I have often wondered why the IT surveillance state could not be turned on its head so that it looked up instead of down. The same sensors that monitored people, could in principle be used to measure gov't progress so the public could evaluate the fulfillment of promises.
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The reason Intel agencies never saw the 5th column building up is it happened gradually in universities, in activist groups. Its presence became accepted and normal. Nobody took the march through the institutions seriously, even now.
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Notice that nobody is citing any actual lies that Twitter is alleged to have spread in Brazil. The offense vs Elon is now "obstruction of justice".
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The story of this era is how evil and tyranny arose from relentless, pitiless virtue. It's a remake of a far older story. Some tale about devils arising from angels drunk with the sight of themselves in the mirror.
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You'll have to pry my narwhal tusk from my cold dead hands.
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What was revealed was the extent of rottenness in the system. If Trump had been a godlike Alexander it would have been one thing. But he's not. That they are actually less competent than a casino manager and reality show host is too much for them to take.
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I never realized till now how true it is that the lesson of history is that nobody learns any lesson from history.
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We have been led to this lonely place by people who ostensibly wouldnl't hurt a fly; who weep even for Hamas. By people so virtuous they'd jail you for calling a man in a dress a man. And now in this dark place, let us console ourselves with the knowledge that they meant well.
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