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• We had Hillary Clinton try and do a reset. We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, like lots of things, are done with uranium, including some bad things.

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  Country, Russia, Giving

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.

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  Cnn, Hatred, Watches

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• The reporting is fake. Look, look...You know what it is? Here's the thing. The public isn't - you know, they read newspapers, they see television, they watch. They don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.But I'm involved. So I know when you're telling the truth or when you're not. I just see many, many untruthful things.

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  Fake, True Or False, Watches

• Note to conservatives: sometimes you just have to give up. Do you really care that much about killing lots of bad guys as opposed to letting them rot in prison for the rest of their lives? It might be time to let go and save your energy for other battles. This one is getting absurd.

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  Letting Go, Giving Up, Guy

  "Arizona Suggests Forced Suicide For Death Row Inmates" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. February 18, 2017.

• I can't fault [Donald] Trump for firing [Craig] Deare. Then again, I also can't fault Deare for going berserk. Sometimes a marriage just doesn't work.

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  Faults, Sometimes, Trump

• During the [Barack] Obama presidency, the Dow doubled in real terms. What's more, its growth has been remarkably steady.

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  Real, Growth, Term

• Betsy DeVos, for example, has shown that she’s flatly ignorant of an astounding amount of basic education policy. It might be possible to persuade two or three Republicans to oppose her on these grounds - but only if the entire confirmation process isn’t a pure partisan battle.

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  Two, Ignorant, Battle

  "There’s a Good Reason Democrats Aren’t Opposing Every Trump Nominee Unanimously" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2017.

• If Democrats vote against everyone sight unseen, then Republicans will vote for everyone sight unseen. However, if Democrats demonstrate that they’re considering each candidate on the merits, they have at least a fighting chance of defeating one or two of Trump’s nominees.

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  Fighting, Two, Sight

  "There’s a Good Reason Democrats Aren’t Opposing Every Trump Nominee Unanimously" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2017.

• Why aren't Democrats voting against President [Donald] Trump's cabinet nominees en masse? Is it because they're just a bunch soft-headed Beltway lifers who don't understand that the base is pissed and wants them to fight fight fight?

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  Fighting, Voting, President

• I’m just some white guy in California, and nobody in Flint is going to pay any attention to what I’m saying. I don’t blame them. Nor do doctors want to publicly agree with me, because nobody wants to downplay the effects of lead poisoning. I get that too. I can already imagine the number of tweets and emails I’m going to get demanding to know why I think Flint is no big deal.

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  Thinking, Doctors, California

  "In Flint, We Are Laying Tragedy on Top of Tragedy on Top of Tragedy" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

• [David] Muir tried four or five times to get a straight answer about [Donald] Trump's idiotic claim that 3-5 million noncitizens voted, and Trump just flatly wouldn't engage.

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  Answers, Four, Claims

• Despite more than a year of spittle-flecked fury at Hillary Clinton for using a private email server, most Trump voters probably don’t even know what a private server is. Nor do they care. It was just a buzzword that somehow meant Hillary was a crook.

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  Years, Email, Crooks

  "Trump Team Still Doesn’t Seem to Understand They’re in the White House Now" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

• In any case, to the extent that the media is dedicated to exposing lies and reporting the truth, it is indeed the opposition party to people like Bannon.

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  Lying, Party, Media

  "Trump Team Still Doesn’t Seem to Understand They’re in the White House Now" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

• Actually, I think we all understand just fine why Donald Trump is president: because he ran a racist, boorish, epically mendacious campaign and Republicans all decided to go along with it. And even that wouldn’t have been enough if Trump hadn’t gotten some additional help from his pals James Comey and Vladimir Putin.

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  Thinking, President, Campaigns

  "Trump Team Still Doesn’t Seem to Understand They’re in the White House Now" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

• The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

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  Country, Party, Media

• The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.

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  Media, Mouths, Should

• There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

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  Trump

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, April 30, 2016.

• I hate the idea that we might lose even a few talented future leaders because they fell for Bernie Sanders's spiel and then got discouraged when it didn't pan out.

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  Hate, Ideas, Leader

  "Here’s Why I Never Warmed Up to Bernie Sanders" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 29, 2016.

• If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

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  Giving Up, Inspiration, Goal

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

• If you want to make a difference in America, you need to be prepared for a very long, very frustrating slog.

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  Differences, America, Long

• Our system is a mess, but 90 percent of America has insurance coverage.

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  America, Mess, Coverage

• Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesn’t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.

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  Fighting, Phones, Cells

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

• Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

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  Smart, Long, Tasks

  "Three Cheers for Monotasking!" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 29, 2016.

• The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but they’re still mocked as drones or beavers or trolls. That’s bad enough, but now technology is helping the extroverts in their long twilight campaign against actually concentrating on anything.

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  Twilight, Technology, Long

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

• If Trump really opposed the war in Iraq, all he has to do is show us the evidence. It would take five minutes. He hasn’t done it. He’s lying.

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  War, Lying, Iraq

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.