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![George Orwell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588856560i/3706._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.”
― 1984
― 1984
![Kamand Kojouri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583340033i/13500546._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
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They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
―
![Donald J. Trump](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615483024i/676._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.”
― The Art of the Deal
― The Art of the Deal
![Slavoj Žižek](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1449231598i/2340358._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know? And I’m writing now another book on Hegelian dialectics, subjectivity, ontology, quantum physics and so on. That’s the only way to survive. Like Lenin. I will use his example. You know what Lenin did, in 1915, when World War I exploded? He went to Switzerland and started to read Hegel.”
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![Anne Michaud](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1689614769i/5251259._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The Trump marriage veered furthest away from my concept of the union — and surprised me most as a student of American politics. Donald and Melania seem to inhabit separate realms and to come together when necessary, when one could not move forward without the other. The presidency was one instance in which they were forced into a joint undertaking. If my choice of language sounds businesslike, that’s because that’s how I’ve come to view the Trumps. Having learned more about each partner’s history, I believe they are two highly ambitious individuals who benefit from their partnership. It’s a transaction: he gains a beautiful woman on his arm, a solid-seeming marriage, a son, and a savvy adviser. She gains wealth and international cachet.”
― Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
― Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
![Donald J. Trump](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615483024i/676._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“You know, it really doesn`t matter what (the media) write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”
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![Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1301111955i/57921._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.”
― The Story of Mankind
― The Story of Mankind
“All you Trump fans are gonna be really pissed off when your condom breaks and your sister can't get an abortion.”
― How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
― How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
![Mick Herron](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1512920134i/1237964._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“It turned out that in the governance of a nation’s security, many absurd situations had to be worked around: a toxic clown in the Foreign Office [Boris Johnson], a state visit by a narcissistic bed-wetter [Trump], the tendency of the electorate to 'jump off' the occasional cliff [Brexit].”
― Joe Country
― Joe Country
![Naomi Klein](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1494619590i/419._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“[Trump] is also the personification of the merger of humans and corporations—a one man megabrand, whose wife and children are spin-off brands, with all the pathologies and conflicts of interest inherent in that. He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide license to impose one's will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the cusp of catastrophic warming. He is the product of a business culture that fetishizes "disruptors" who make their fortunes by flagrantly ignoring both laws and regularity standards. Most of all, he is the incarnation of a still-powerful free-market ideological project—one embraced by centrist parties as well as conservative ones—that wages war on everything public and commonly held, and imagines corporate CEOs and superheroes who will save humanity.”
― No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
― No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
![Ibram X. Kendi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1607960083i/14161726._UX200_CR0,9,200,200_.jpg)
“Donald Trump’s economic policies are geared toward enriching White male power—but at the expense of most of his White male followers, along with the rest of us.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
![Friedrich Nietzsche](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651474065i/1938._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“The great man of the masses. It is easy to give the recipe for what the masses call a great man. By all means, supply them with something that they find very pleasant, or, first, put the idea into their heads that this or that would be very pleasant, and then give it to them. But on no account immediately: let it rather be won with great exertion, or let it seem so. The masses must have the impression that a mighty, indeed invincible, strength of will is present; at least it must be seen to be there. Everyone admires a strong will, because no one has it, and everyone tells himself that, if he had it, there would be no more limits for him and his egoism. Now, if it appears that this strong will is producing something very unpleasant for the masses, instead of listening to its own covetous desires, then everyone admires it all the more, and congratulates himself. For the rest, let him have all the characteristics of the masses: the less they are ashamed before him, the more popular he is. So, let him be violent, envious, exploitative, scheming, fawning, grovelling, puffed up, or, according to the circumstances, all of the above.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Putting your morals over our politics is always much better than politics over morals.
Politics shouldn't so much be a popularity contest it should mostly be a policy contest...PASS IT ON!”
―
Politics shouldn't so much be a popularity contest it should mostly be a policy contest...PASS IT ON!”
―
“The RNC was easy for Trump to corrupt to his will, because it had already been corrupted with voter suppression, Frank Luntz messaging, the Hastert Rule, the selling of Sarah Palin, telling different lies to different voters just to gain their support, Mitch McConnell's theft of the supreme court (assisted by those justices prevaricating at their senate hearings), to name just a few.
And how about the New York Times, and all those journalists country-wide who cared more about appearing "fair and balanced" than exposing lies and corruption? We watched them not know how to handle the vilification of facts, but that, too, started before Trump (think Joe Walsh calling out "You lie!" during Obama's State of the Union, when Obama was stating facts. They reported the lack of decorum, but not the lack of veracity.)
Now we watch the legal system--and its avenues for motions and appeals before, during, and after conviction--be abused and corrupted by Trump's legal team, with an assist from judges who don't even try too hard to hide their partiality.
We need those who participated whose eyes have now cleared to be as forthcoming as Michael Cohen has been in exposing how and why the deeds were done, and owning their culpability. They need to come clean, to help us find ways to strengthen the frayed and fraying institutions that are barely holding together.
It may be the only way through.”
―
And how about the New York Times, and all those journalists country-wide who cared more about appearing "fair and balanced" than exposing lies and corruption? We watched them not know how to handle the vilification of facts, but that, too, started before Trump (think Joe Walsh calling out "You lie!" during Obama's State of the Union, when Obama was stating facts. They reported the lack of decorum, but not the lack of veracity.)
Now we watch the legal system--and its avenues for motions and appeals before, during, and after conviction--be abused and corrupted by Trump's legal team, with an assist from judges who don't even try too hard to hide their partiality.
We need those who participated whose eyes have now cleared to be as forthcoming as Michael Cohen has been in exposing how and why the deeds were done, and owning their culpability. They need to come clean, to help us find ways to strengthen the frayed and fraying institutions that are barely holding together.
It may be the only way through.”
―
![J.D. Vance](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1721330858i/15109469._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler”
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“Christian nationalism gives people a religious justification for their hate...
This actually means if Christian nationalism is your thing you were never a Christian in the first place.
ie When you're a person who hates, who lives in a society that does not accept that hate you carry that hate like a burden.
So naturally when somebody comes along and gives you a religious justification for your hate...that's a very powerful thing that will take over the core principles of their lives because they want that justification they want that burden to go away...So that they have a raised sense of superiority over the Society in which they live that doesn't agree with their hateful bigotry and homophobic views.
"Mores are the customs, norms, and behaviors that are acceptable to a society or social group. If your personal morals are in disagreement with local mores, you should be prepared to be annoyed every time you go buy beer.”
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This actually means if Christian nationalism is your thing you were never a Christian in the first place.
ie When you're a person who hates, who lives in a society that does not accept that hate you carry that hate like a burden.
So naturally when somebody comes along and gives you a religious justification for your hate...that's a very powerful thing that will take over the core principles of their lives because they want that justification they want that burden to go away...So that they have a raised sense of superiority over the Society in which they live that doesn't agree with their hateful bigotry and homophobic views.
"Mores are the customs, norms, and behaviors that are acceptable to a society or social group. If your personal morals are in disagreement with local mores, you should be prepared to be annoyed every time you go buy beer.”
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“I'm thinking about how as a human being
Trump is immune from all the normal inhibiting factors
that cause people to be good, and caring, and careful
(whether because they believe in humanity
or they fear God's wrath).
No self-awareness.
No empathy.
No humility.
No shame.
I'm thinking about how as a society
we can never wholly become immune from diseased minds like his
because if we ever did find a 'perfect' structure,
we would calcify the findings of that moment
and create a new kind of 'originalism'
that could become equally as dangerous
as any other
(the origin story of the United States,
the constitution,
the Bible).
That belief that it was perfect
would itself defeat us.”
―
Trump is immune from all the normal inhibiting factors
that cause people to be good, and caring, and careful
(whether because they believe in humanity
or they fear God's wrath).
No self-awareness.
No empathy.
No humility.
No shame.
I'm thinking about how as a society
we can never wholly become immune from diseased minds like his
because if we ever did find a 'perfect' structure,
we would calcify the findings of that moment
and create a new kind of 'originalism'
that could become equally as dangerous
as any other
(the origin story of the United States,
the constitution,
the Bible).
That belief that it was perfect
would itself defeat us.”
―
“History tells us this kind of right-wing extremist "maga politics" is the type of right-wing fascist sickness that must be rooted out against noncompliant patients.”
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“Trump's Project 2025 was written by the Heritage Foundation.
History tells us this kind of right-wing extremist "maga politics" is the type of right-wing fascist sickness that must be rooted out against noncompliant patients.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
NeoConservative Republican calculated greed is only outmatched by #maga "republican" willful ignorance.”
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History tells us this kind of right-wing extremist "maga politics" is the type of right-wing fascist sickness that must be rooted out against noncompliant patients.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
NeoConservative Republican calculated greed is only outmatched by #maga "republican" willful ignorance.”
―
![Anthony T. Hincks](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1639574852i/10093675._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Stages can be set anywhere and if they are set right, people won't even know that they are part of a play.”
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“Were Trump born a woman he would never even have come close to earning the respect even of the idiots who respect him. The world rewards morons if the damage to their penis does not outweigh the damage to their brains.”
― Misogyny in Mayberry: How Television’s Folksiest Town Warned of the MAGAts Among Us
― Misogyny in Mayberry: How Television’s Folksiest Town Warned of the MAGAts Among Us
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