Notably Quotable: “Vice President Pence is the Ivanka Trump of the vice presidency…”

“Vice President Pence is the Ivanka Trump of the vice presidency. He expects us to be appreciative of the fact that he’s working within this administration on behalf of the people, but in moments of consequence he disappears. In moments of scandal, he suggests he knows nothing about it. He and Ivanka are complicit. She hides behind her $5,000 dresses and $10,000 bags,  Vice President Mike Pence has mastered hiding behind this professed evangelical humility. Neither one are credible.”

— Former Florida Republican Rep. Dave Jolly, Ex-GOP lawmaker calls for impeachment hearings on Pence and Barr in scorching attack on Trump administration.

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“This Is A Transnational Criminal Syndicate Masquerading As A Government.”

— Protest banner

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“Even a few years ago, Bill Barr, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Pompeo would have described themselves as mainstream conservatives, committed to “national security” and the rule of law; now they are agents of anarcho-fascism, chasing moonbat conspiracy theories around the globe and eagerly working to overthrow the “Deep State.””

— Andrew O’Hehir, Trump impeachment isn’t about Democrats vs. Republicans — it’s about whether our democratic institutions have any mojo left.

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“You’re a rogue sentient Gummy Bear, Mr. Giuliani. I think the history books will place you somewhere ahead of Pol Pot and behind Hitler’s mustache-waxer, in the rankings.”

— Rob Anderson, Louisiana democratic congressional candidate.

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“It would be false to claim that both parties are equally to blame for the institutional crisis that now has democracy teetering above the abyss. But each has contributed in its own way. Republicans have waged a ferocious, mendacious and profoundly hypocritical assault on American institutions, while pretending to be more patriotic than everyone else, while Democrats have triangulated and compromised their way into a pattern of partial accommodation and half-hearted resistance.”

— Andrew O’Hehir, Trump impeachment isn’t about Democrats vs. Republicans — it’s about whether our democratic institutions have any mojo left.

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“Truth is whatever the powerful want it to be, which is one of the fundamentals of authoritarianism. Might is right.”

— Rebecca Solnit, In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine

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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

— Anne Frank