“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.” IfsWayWantMayDoneWould BeCertainResultsPartyRepublicanTasteVoteDemocraticLifetimeAppealsCandidatesVotingRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyRobert Heinlein Author:Kevin Drum
“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.” IfsWarDoneShowsLyingFiveMinutesTrumpEvidenceIraqFive Minutes Author:Kevin Drum
“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.” WantLongStillsDoneEnoughHelpingLeftTechnologyFolksCampaignsTwilightConcentratingLeft AloneWork DoneDronesTrollExtrovertsBeavers Author:Kevin Drum
“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.” KnowsGivingTryingCountryDoneWeaponsPercentClintonIncludingNuclearRussiaOur CountryBad ThingsNuclear WeaponsResetUranium Author:Kevin Drum
