Notably Quotable: “Rep. Thomas Massie introduced a bill to get rid of all gun-free zones in schools…”

“Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced a bill to get rid of all gun-free zones in schools. If he believes gun-free zones are the problems, he will get rid of the gun-free zone around the U.S. Capitol and House and Senate office buildings. Instead, he too hides behind his gun-free zone.”

— Sarah K. Burris, Here are the top 7 places hypocritical Republicans won’t let you take a gun.

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“Gun control has paralyzed 535 people this year — they’re called the United States Congress.”

— Bill Maher (8/9/19)

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“By 6:01 p.m., after just a little more than two hours, he was safely aboard Air Force One again and it was wheels up into the sky. But he is a shrinking president, stuck in a racist past, flying over a changing America. And I think we — or most of us — are all El Paso now.”

— Richard Parker, Was Trump’s El Paso Visit a Turning Point?

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“For the last 3 years I have fully supported this President. Recently he has said things that divide the country in a way that is unacceptable. So I didn’t pass the 100% litmus test. Eventually he turns on everyone and soon it will be you and then the entire country.”

— Anthony Scaramucci tweet , Scaramucci brutally busts Trump after president spent Saturday night attacking him.

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“Neither the practical impediments to impeachment and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment process, nor the foibles and failings of the candidates running to replace him, efface the fact that this presidency shames and disgraces the office every minute of every hour of every day. And even when it ends, however it ends, the shame will stain it still.”

— David Frum, conservative columnist The Shame and Disgrace Will Linger.

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“Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.”

— Unknown

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“Switch off the electronic images. Ignore the media burlesque. The endless political shows, which turn presidential campaigns into mind-numbing, two-year-long marathons, are entertainment. Do not trust anyone in power. We will save ourselves by building mass movements to overthrow corporate power. I am not certain we will succeed. But I am certain that if we fail, we are doomed.”
— Chris Hedges