“Perhaps the last person at Fox News with a shred of integrity, and he has far more than that, Shep Smith simply seems to have become fed up with the whorehouse in which he was the only competent and honest piano player. Those of us of a conspiratorial bent might note that Smith’s departure coincides roughly with Attorney General Bill Barr’s having had a chat with Rupert Murdoch. What is certain is that Chris Wallace is the only one left in that shop with enough of a conscience to cover honestly the gotterdammerung that seems to be descending on Camp Runamuck. The whorehouse is going to be using recorded music now, and we’ve all heard too much of it before.”
— Charles Pierce, The Latest Hero Exposing Trump’s Corruption Has a Name, and She Is Not F*cking Around.
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“As a reminder, there’s one person in particular who made a significant contribution to Turkey’s destabilizing actions and his name rhymes with Ronald Grump. According to Axios, the president basically told Erdoğan that the U.S. was fine with him invading Syria, thinking Turkey wouldn’t do it. “
— Bess Levin, TRUMP: MEXICANS ARE A BIGGER THREAT THAN THE ISIS PRISONERS I LET ESCAPE IN NORTHERN SYRIA
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“I don’t want to hear Democrats – members of the party that ostensibly stands for more equality and purer democracy – pretending that the fact that the VP’s son got a do-nothing $600k per year corporate handout is unremarkable. I want Democrats to demonstrate that we live our values. I want Democrats to send their kids to public school, unionize their workplaces and give money to the poor.”
— Hamilton Nolan, Hunter Biden is a reminder: Democrats are morally corrupt, too.
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“Corporate capitalism and imperialism, which created the ecological debacle, will be destroyed or these forces will kill us in an unprecedented global genocide.”
— Chris Hedges, The Messiahs of Hope Assure Us Everything Will Be OK in the End. But It Won’t.
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“Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.”
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