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He is a titanic—and I mean titanic—fraud. We have listened to this guy for many, many years in this country, on his moral high horse assaulting the dignity of gay people, across the board. His moral preening is famous throughout the land. Yet he is the most obsequious of all Trump's cultists in the cabinet.
There have been occaions, as George Will points out, where speaking on Trump, in front of Trump, Pence compliments him on an average of every 3.2 seconds.
We have never seen such slobbering servility by a high government official in this country than we do in Mike Pence and Donald Trump. It is amazing. He's supposed to be service the American people. He's the Vice President of the United State,s and he acts like he's the house butler at Mar-a-Lago." ~ Republican Steve Schmidt
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The veneer of civilization, I concluded, was quite thin—a natural thought for an intelligence officer whose profession trends pessimistic and whose work is consumed by threats and dangers. Over the years I had learned that the traditions and institutions that protect us from living Hobbesian "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" lives are inherently fragile and demand careful tending. In America today, they are under serious stress.
It was no accident that the Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year in 2016 was "post-truth," a condition where facts are less influential in shaping opinion than emotion and personal belief. To adopt post-truth thinking is to depart from Enlightenment ideas, dominant in the West since the 17th century, that value experience and expertise, the centrality of fact, humility in the face of complexity, the need for study and a respect for ideas. ~ Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and CIA, in an op-ed for The New York Times
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People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up." ~ George R. R. Martin
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There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on." ~ Zayn Malik
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I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars." ~ Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
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All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors." ~ Jacques Lacan
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None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an afterthought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you're carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There's no time for anything else." ~ Sir Anthony Hopkins
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"
― William S. Burroughs, The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
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The President said he was going to run America like his businesses. Apparently we have reached the part where he would usually just declare bankruptcy and run away." ~ Jason Kander, Let America Vote
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I can't believe I'm living in a timeline where the 'in thing' is to ignore all medical and scientific sense. Like, I cannot believe that there are people out there honestly willing to drink unfiltered water, eat cyanide filled peach pits for 'health,' and not vaccinate their kids. Those 20 year olds in Medieval times didn't routinely die of an abscessed tooth or a minor cough for this." ~ Sodomymcscurvylegs on Tumblr
And let's not forget coffee enemas.
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It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed is you." ~ Eric Roth
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Go on adventures, fall asleep in the woods with friends, wander around the city at night, sit in a coffee shop on your own, write on bathroom stalls, leave notes in library books, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot." ~ Emery Allen
THIS
I feel like at this point I don't trust anybody who is not openly hostile toward our president and the administration." ~ virjn on Tumblr
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This is why not giving a fuck is so key. This is why it's going to save the world. And it's going to save it by accepting that the world is totally fucked and that's all right, because it's always been that way, and always will be." ~ Mark Manson, from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
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There were no sex classes. No friendship classes. No classes on how to navigate a bureaucracy, build an organization, raise money, create a database, buy a house, love a child, spot a scam, talk someone out of suicide, or figure out what was important to me. Not knowing how to do these things is what messes people up in life, not whether they know algebra or can analyze literature." ~ William Upski Wimsatt
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We must never never adjust to the present coarseness of our national dialogue, with the tone set at the top. We must never regard as normal the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals. We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country. The personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms and institution, the flagrant disregard for truth and decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have been elected to serve. ~ Senator Jeff Flake, (R) Arizona
I am no fan of Jeff Flake. Never have been. But it was quite heartening—not to mention just a little bit surreal—to hear him stand up in the Senate yesterday and finally say (as a Conservative) what we on the Left have been saying since last November. Trump is unfit for office. Period.
A Message to the Current RESIDENT of the White House
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." ~ Mark Twain
But of course we know he's incapable of telling the truth about anything.
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I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak." ~ Neil Gaiman
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The scar meant that I was stronger than what had tried to hurt me." ~ Jeannette Walls
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For the moment I am really very, very tired of everything—more than tired." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"I don't understand any of it. I never did."
In my mind, that is probably the most memorable quote from the 1970 film, Boys in the Band. It was spoken by the character Michael as he was relating his dying father's last words.
I first saw the film during my senior year in high school. I went with my then-"girlfriend," Jean. Not really having any media representations of gay life at the time, Boys in the Band—as bleak and depressing as it was—did offer a glimpse into at least some aspect of the life I was taking my first, tentative steps into—if only as a warning of what not to become. (I returned for a second screening on my own a week later, and Jean's response was, "Why?!")
But I digress.
As I've grown older, those words have rung more true with each passing year.
When I was in my 20s and 30s, I thought had it all figured out. I knew how life worked—even if it didn't always work out the way I intended. The cracks started appearing in that belief as I entered my 40s, and when cancer came out of nowhere and hit me up the side of the head mid-decade, I realized I didn't know shit.
When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're…lost." ~ Stephen King
Guess I'm not the only one…