Notably Quotable: “The oddity in all of this is the people Trump despises most, love him the most. The people who are voting for Trump…”

 

“The oddity in all of this is the people Trump despises most, love him the most. The people who are voting for Trump for the most part… he wouldn’t even let them in a f*cking hotel. He’d be disgusted by them.”

— Howard Stern

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“To be fair, Trump has been very clear in press briefings that he’s “not a doctor … [just] a person that has a good you-know-what”. And you know what? If he wants to turn himself into a human guinea pig, I fully support it”

— Arwa Mahdawi, Has Trump been trying out his own dodgy medical advice? It would explain a few things

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“Leave nothing behind. They’ll take the doorknobs too if they can figure out how to unscrew them.”

— Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics, ‘More Naked Corruption’: Inspector General Ousted by Trump Was Investigating Whether Pompeo Used Staffer for Personal Chores

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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.”

–George Orwell

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“If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged, causing unprecedented illness and fatalities. Without clear planning and implementation of the steps that I and other experts have outlined, 2020 will be the darkest winter in modern history.”

— Dr. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) at Health and Human services, Warning US Could Face ‘Darkest Winter in Modern History,’ Ousted Whistleblower Demands Science-Based Pandemic Response

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“Meanwhile, if liberals think that Joe Biden needs DSA’s votes, they should try something new for a change and actually work on convincing us. They’ve put considerable time and effort into thinking about how to win over Republican voters, and it wasn’t by calling them racist lunatics. If liberals want socialists voting for their party, they can start by showing us the same level of courtesy.”

— Paul Heideman, Stop Trying to Shame Socialists Into Voting for Joe Biden. It’s Not Going to Work

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“A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.”

— Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens dissent in Citizens United (1/21/10)

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“I think ‘enough’ is the dirtiest word in capitalism.”

— Michael Moore, Michael Moore, filmmakers respond to criticism of new bombshell environmental film