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“Satire has become reality.”
— Trey Parker, 'South Park' to Back Off Mocking Trump
Tagged: Trump Presidency
“Name a bigger act of hubris than turning down $3 billion when you’re a 23-year-old college dropout.”
— Kaitlin Menza, Everything You Need to Know About Snapchat’s Impending IPO
Tagged: Snapchat, IPO, Business, Quote of the Moment
“But remember, these countries were named by the Obama Administration. These countries were named in legislation that we talked about last year. These countries were named by the Obama Administration and there is an issue with respect to terrorists trying to infiltrate a refugee population. We are not here to debate. We are here to answer your questions. There is nothing wrong with taking a pause and making sure we have the proper vetting standards in place so that we do not have a problem like France had with Paris.”
— Paul Ryan, Ryan: 'Confusion' of Rollout 'Regrettable,' But 'Nothing Wrong' with Trump's Immigration Pause- Breitbart
Tagged: Immigration
“In giving Mr. Bannon an official role in national security policy making, Mr. Trump has not simply broken with tradition but has embraced the risk of politicizing national security, or giving the impression of doing so.”
— The Editorial Board, President Bannon?
Tagged: National Security, Donald Trump, Stephen K Bannon, US Politics, Appointments and Executive Changes, US Military, US National Security Council, Dan Coats, Joseph F Dunford Jr
“Alternate facts? There’s no such thing as an alternate fact! These people are insane.”
— James Cameron, James Cameron on the Trump Administration
Tagged: Alternate Facts, Facts, Trump Administration
“The misinformed are ballistically knee-jerking because they aren’t used to candidates fulfilling campaign promises. Perhaps it’s shocking because we’re used to swamp dwellers murkying up the waters once typical politicians get elected, but that’s exactly why a typical politician wasn’t elected. The status quo has got to go.”
— Sarah Palin, Exclusive -- Sarah Palin: Media Hysteria over Trump's ‘Immigration Ban’ Is Fake News on Steroids
Tagged: World of Trump, Media Reactions
“If you hated what Clinton did with the Clinton Foundation, but had no problem with Trump’s business conflicts and refusal to release tax returns, you’re in a strange ethical valley.”
— David Firestone, Do Voters Care About Ethics?
Tagged: Election 2016, Donad Trump, Ethics, Hillary Clinton
“Reaching out to evangelicals doesn’t mean you have to become pro-life. It just means you have to not be so in love with how pro-choice you are, and so opposed to how pro-life we are.

The second thing is that there’s a religious illiteracy problem in the Democratic Party. It’s tied to the demographics of the country: More 20- and 30-year-olds are taking positions of power in the Democratic Party. They grew up in parts of the country where navigating religion was not important socially and not important to their political careers. This is very different from, like, James Carville in Louisiana in the ’80s. James Carville is not the most religious guy, but he gets religious people—if you didn’t get religious people running Democratic campaigns in the South in the ’80s, you wouldn’t win.

Another reason why they haven’t reached out to evangelicals in 2016 is that, no matter Clinton’s slogan of ‘Stronger Together,’ we have a politics right now that is based on making enemies, and making people afraid. I think we’re seeing this with the Betsy DeVos nomination: It’s much easier to make people scared of evangelicals, and to make evangelicals the enemy, than trying to make an appeal to them.”
— Michael Wear, Democrats Have a Religion Problem
Tagged: The Atlantic, The Atlantic Magazine, TheAtlantic.com, Atlantic, News, Opinion, breaking news, analysis, commentary, Business, Politics, Culture, international, Science, Technology, national and life
“Lately I’ve been reading a lot about the ancient world. Initially, I have to admit, I was doing it for entertainment and as a refuge from news that gets worse with each passing day. But I couldn’t help noticing the contemporary resonances of some Roman history — specifically, the tale of how the Roman Republic fell.

Here’s what I learned: Republican institutions don’t protect against tyranny when powerful people start defying political norms. And tyranny, when it comes, can flourish even while maintaining a republican facade.

On the first point: Roman politics involved fierce competition among ambitious men. But for centuries that competition was constrained by some seemingly unbreakable rules. Here’s what Adrian Goldsworthy’s ‘In the Name of Rome’ says: ‘However important it was for an individual to win fame and add to his and his family’s reputation, this should always be subordinated to the good of the Republic … no disappointed Roman politician sought the aid of a foreign power.’

America used to be like that.”
— Paul Krugman, How Republics End
Tagged: The Divided States Of America, 2016 Election, Trump Administration
“Insofar as the definition of ‘white supremacist’ includes Bernie Sanders, the term is not going to retain significant stigma, or even be understood by most of America. Insofar as attempts to point that out are met, by academics on social media or opinion journalists at left-of-center outlets, with the most uncharitable, dubiously accurate construals possible, followed by disparaging insults and performative stigmatization––well, if you’re a progressive who is incapable of constructively engaging with a Mother Jones staffer, what possible hope do you have of reaching the swing voters who will decide the outcome of the 2018 midterms?

On social media, there are often greater incentives for stigmatizing others as insufficiently enlightened than for earnest efforts at constructive, nuanced engagement.

Those incentives threaten the liberal project.

The coalition that opposes Trump needs to get better at persuading its fellow citizens and winning converts, rather than leaning so heavily on stigmatizing those who disagree with them. Among other problems with wielding stigma, it doesn’t work.”
— Conor Friedersdorf, 'The Scourge of the Left': Too Much Stigma, Not Enough Persuasion
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, The Media, Social Justice Warriors, Liberalism