“Go after your enemies. I mean, they’re after you. Go after your enemies. I think that Clinton probably is too nice a guy in a certain respect. I don’t think he’s going after people the way he should and I really believe his thing is to be liked and I don’t think that’s a very good position to be in right now.”
— Donald Trump on Impeachment of Pres. Bill Clinton in 1998, Trump revealed his impeachment strategy 21 years ago — when he defended Bill Clinton.
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“I’m not against the impeachment. Donald Trump should have been impeached the first week of his presidency under the emoluments clause. But again, the Democrats have failed for several years now to stand up for the rule of law, never mind the Republican Party’s complicity with Trump. But now the only time the Democrats respond to Trump’s lawlessness and innumerable impeachable offenses is when Trump goes after Joe Biden.”
— Chris Hedges, Author Chris Hedges on Trump, the Democrats and the dying American empire.
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“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”
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“The former vice president has powerful backers in corporate media, wealthy circles, and the Democratic Party establishment. Deceitful and hidebound as he is, Joe Biden stands a good chance of becoming the party’s nominee — unless his actual record, including support for the Iraq war, catches up with him.”
— Norman Soloman, Kerry’s Endorsement of Biden Fits: Two Deceptive Supporters of the Iraq War
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“If you are younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on Earth — massive cop failures, imploding economies, epic flooding, hundreds of millions of refugees fleeing regions made uninhabitable by extreme drought. If you are under thirty, you’re all but guaranteed to witness it.”
— Jonathan Franzen
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“There is no greater failure in the rich world than American healthcare. None. Nothing else causes so much death and despair and waste and ruin — while enriching so many terrible people.”
— Umair Haque, American Healthcare’s Coming to Britain to Make a Killing. Brits Don’t Know What’s About to Hit Them.
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“There is a spiritual void in America, a loss of meaning and metaphysical horizon. The problem is cultural, spiritual, holistic.”
— Marianne Williamson
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“Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.”
— Martin Luther King