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[Nordic]

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

[Morty]

Donald J. Trump Verified account
‏@realDonaldTrump

All I can say is that if I were President, Snowden would have already been returned to the U.S. (by their fastest jet) and with an apology!

7:30 AM - 18 Jun 2013

[Morty]

WikiLeaks ‏@wikileaks 4h4 hours ago

Remember how you legalized
✔Assassinating anyone
✔NSA mass spying
✔Prosecuting publishers
✔CIA drones everywhere

It's all Trumps in 71 days

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[slomo]

Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media. People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids - all while the very rich become much richer.

To the degree that Mr. Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him. To the degree that he pursues racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies, we will vigorously oppose him.

https://www.bustle.com/articles/194255- ... p-fighting

[Morty]

I watched during the last eight years as you sought refuge in the evanescent qualities of skin color and smooth speechmaking so as to not to confront the fact that your “liberal” president was almost totally lacking in actionable convictions regarding the values you claim to be about.

Thomas S. Harrington

[Cordelia]

"It ain’t over till it’s over."

~ Yogi Berra ~

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"While children are being eroticized into adults, adults are being exoticized into eternal juvenilia"

~ Toni Morrison ~

[Freitag]

I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

- Gen James "Mad Dog" Mattis

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“I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.”

Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love' (New Age memoir)

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"The Internet hates women."

~ Adam Savage ~
https://themoth.org/stories/talking-to- ... ternet-age

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https://www.facebook.com/MarinaxAbramov ... JpZ29yb3Vz

Marina Abramovic
April 16, 2015 ·
Congratulations to Björk for being selected TIME's World's 100 Most Influential People! Marina Abramovic writes on Bjork:
"If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk—she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.”




Bjork: The World’s 100 Most Influential People
Art’s High Priestess
Time

[stefano]

I think where I got frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it. And that sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Usually I’d just smile.
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Because you feel like saying to these folks, ‘[Don’t] you think if I could do it, I [would] have just done it? Do you think that the only problem is that I don’t care enough about the plight of poor people, or gay people?’ 

It's from a really outstanding Ta-Nehisi Coates piece about Obama and about race in America: My President was Black

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"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

~ Mark Twain ~

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