Quotes and Links
A week in review
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“Young men should know that if you vote for Trump you’re basically never going to get laid.” — Matthew Yglesias
“If Trump wins, blame the New York Times” — Salon headline
“This is the future that we’re looking at in the next Trump term, if there is one. But this is what voters know right now: that he is killing us. I’m talking about us women. He’s killing us. He is putting us at risk. He is making us afraid to have babies.” — MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski
“The U.S. was built on racial patriarchy. If you want to describe what the First Amendment is, it’s not about consistent or noble principles, it’s about power. It’s about converging with that idea of racial patriarchy and if you are disturbing it.” — Mary Anne Franks, a law professor at George Washington University
“In politics, you don’t vote for a candidate that you ‘like.’ Politicians are, by design, not likeable: propagandists and partisans not judges, never acting against their self interest, hence never trustworthy. You vote for the candidate who will cause the smallest amount of harm.” — Nassim Taleb
“I’ve never seen a more heroic figure than Liz Cheney.” — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews
“Democrats Explain Trump Was Going To Be Hitler During His First Term, But He Forgot” — Babylon Bee headline
“I laugh when people say, ‘Oh, you’ve got Trump Derangement Syndrome.’ If you’re a reasonable person, you should have Trump Derangement Syndrome.” — Jimmy Kimmel
“Making Vance weird is inseparable from the project of making [Rachel] Levine normal. If Levine is normal then Vance really is weird and vice versa. The Administration worked tirelessly to enact this agenda for all four years.” — Wesley Yang
“Like, if you wouldn’t — if you wouldn’t hire somebody to babysit your kids, like, you shouldn’t make that guy the president of the United States.” — Liz Cheney, speaking at a Kamala Harris campaign event in Wisconsin
“Harris is not a godsend, alright? You people didn’t even like her six months ago. Now, all of a sudden, she’s black female Jesus, the way Obama was black Jesus. And let me tell you something: he had a lot more going for him than Kamala Harris does.” — Chris Cuomo
“Stop using ‘summer’, ‘winter’ and the rest when inviting researchers to events — it’s a small step, but it’s necessary and inclusive” — Nature headline
“History that took place before 2016 doesn’t exist and has no meaning in the discourse. We have the most binary political framework possible: anti-Trump v. pro-Trump. More than converting religions, becoming anti-Trump provides full, instant absolution of all past mortal sins.” — Glenn Greenwald
“DeSantis is a monster who cannot even pretend to be charming. Since moving to Florida I haven’t met one person who likes DeSantis and I have plenty of Trump-supporting neighbors.” — Rachel Vindman
“US writer Anne Applebaum appeals for arms for Ukraine as she accepts German peace prize” — AP headline
“Four hundred thousand people would’ve been alive if Donald Trump had just paid attention and tried to follow the [pandemic] plan that we gave him.” — Barack Obama, speaking at a Harris rally in Las Vegas
“What I think is a mistake is to let white folks escape the accountability that they must face for not showing up to save democracy themselves. Like, they want to get mad at presidential candidates, right, when they don’t wear a flag lapel pin or they don’t see you pledging allegiance to the flag. That’s what they want to get upset about. Now the face of patriotism to them looks like trying to tear down the Capitol in a terrorist attack on January 6, 2021. So, the responsibility of saving democracy should be on the largest demographic in this country, that is white men and white women.” — Podcaster Angela Rye, speaking on CNN
“Truthfully, I have thought about moving out of the country. I’ve also thought about having to marry a friend in order to protect my assets as a single woman. Like a male friend — in order to make sure my life is protected, because I feel like we’ll be going to times where we need male permission to do everything.” — Gabriela Jelinek, a 32-year-old marketer from Grand Rapids, Michigan quoted in POLITICO who is terrified of a Trump victory
“It’s like watching three Beverly Hills hairdressers trying to figure out what straight men like and coming to the conclusion they want musicals about baseball.” — The Blaze’s Auron Macintyre, regarding Mark Cuban, Joe Scarborough, and David Hogg talking with Bill Maher about why Democrats are losing male voters
“I don’t know if I’ve come across a Muslim in the past 3 weeks (besides my parents) who has told me they’re going to vote for Kamala. Something has really shifted. Obviously the reason is obvious. But it’s striking to me that Democrats largely seem indifferent to this reality.” — The Washington Post’s Shadi Hamid
“A second Trump presidency could mark the end of something we certainly don’t want to lose: democracy as we know it.” — Vanity Fair headline
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Buzzfeed News: “Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery Has Brought Chaos And Carnage To America’s Streets — But The World’s Biggest Retailer Has A System To Escape The Blame”
“The Post-Cold War Apotheosis of Liberal Managerialism,” by N.S. Lyons.
A Texas Monthly story about “The Wildest Insurance Fraud Scheme Texas Has Ever Seen.”
“A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending,” from The New Yorker.
Tablet: “Silicon Valley’s Civil War”
“On the Campaign Trail With Elon Musk: Offering Young Men an American Dream,” from The Wall Street Journal.
New York Times Magazine: “The Yellowstone Club Billionaires Buying Montana’s Mountains”
Another New York Times Magazine piece on how Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel makes its billions.
I’m talking about us women. He’s killing us. He is putting us at risk. He is making us afraid to have babies.” — MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski
🤣 those strong, powerful, independent liberal womyn who want to abort their babies.
oh, the tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive. 🐦⬛🍽️
To Rachel Vindman -- I like DeSantis, and I live in Florida.
To Jimmy Kimmel -- You think it's reasonable to have TDS because your diet of news is limited.
To Nature -- So scientists are smart enough to conduct research but might not realize that the invite that says "Join us this summer" is referring to the season in the event's region of the world?
And does anyone think Chris Cuomo could say, "You people didn't even like her six months ago" if he were still on CNN? That's the power of the media hivemind.