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• 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.

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• The FBI released its report on [Hillary] Clinton's emails. It exonerated her almost completely, but a few days later Matt Lauer obliviously spent a full third of his interview with Clinton on the emails anyway. Lauer was widely pilloried for this.

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  Email, Interviews, Clinton

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• I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.

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  Thinking, Past, Years

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• I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

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  Long, Language, Multiple

  "It’s Not the Economy, Stupid. The Spanish Language Is the Ur-Motive of Anti-Immigration Sentiment" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. August 31, 2015.

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• Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

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  Giving, Answers, Speech

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• The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn’t rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.

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  Cancer, Smoking, Risk

  "Media Takes Usual Sober Approach to Latest Cancer Warning" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 27, 2015.

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• We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.

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  People, Effort, Benefits

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• On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.

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  Cutting, Sides, Medicare

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• Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide.

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  Years, Losing, Sensitive

  "In Politics, Hate > Love" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.

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  Impact, Voters, Bills

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• If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way.

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  Party, Voting, Would Be

  "In Politics, Hate > Love" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 27, 2015.

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• You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.

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  Hate, Vices, Vote

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• Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out.

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  War, Answers

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• They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.

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  Crazy, Military, Weakness

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• Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.

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  Apples, Long, Benefits

  "Apple Hates Me. I Hate Them Right Back" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. August 31, 2015.

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• Apple has never allowed ad-blocking software on the iPhone or iPad. This is one among many reasons that I ditched both. Not because I hate ads all that passionately, but because it's an example of the obsessive corporate control Apple maintains over its environment.

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  Hate, Block, Iphone

  "Apple Hates Me. I Hate Them Right Back" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. August 31, 2015.

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• Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.

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  Balls, Firsts, Republican

  "In Politics, Hate > Love" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 27, 2015.

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• We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?

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  Cutting, Needs, Littles

  The GOP Presidential Debate in Colorado, www.motherjones.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

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  Media, Missing, Vote

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• Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.

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  Ben Carson, Details, Killing

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• Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard?

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  Government, Way, Socialism

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• [Donald trump] was steamed about [Hillary] Clinton's suggestion that he might not be as rich as he says. So he ditched the email stuff and instead spend a couple of minutes defending the greatness of his income, his company, his debts, his bankers, his buildings - and then sort of forgot what he was talking about and wandered off into a riff about how terrible our infrastructure is.

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  Couple, Greatness, Talking

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• [Donald] Trump had the opportunity to go after [Hillary] Clinton's emails at length if he wanted to, but he didn't.

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  Opportunity, Email, Clinton

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• I read quite a few complaints last night about Lester Holt’s choice of debate topics. Liberals wanted to know why climate change didn’t come up. Conservatives thought there should have been a question about abortion.

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  Night, Should Have, Choices

  "Here’s Why Hillary Clinton Emails Didn’t Get Much Attention Last Night" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

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  Fall, America, Long

  "We’ve Reached #cut50 For Young Black Men" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 16, 2017.

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