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martin george

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I want fat hands and I'm going to dance.

  1. Nancy Reagan: "Just say no." Barbara Bush: "Get reading." Hillary Clinton: "Get healthy." Laura Bush: "Get educated." Michelle Obama: "Get moving." Melania Trump: "Buy my meme coin."

    You can see the sharp drop off into inertia and corruption in so many places and ways.

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  2. One of my favorite acting performances ever is James Caan in A Bridge Too Far. Everything about it is perfect, down to the way his hands shake when he holds the gun on the doctor. Not some iron, flawless he-man hero, but a guy determined to honor his word and willing to pay the cost to do it.

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  3. The irony of a college kid talking about "corporate Democrats" is too, too rich, as it were. This is the kind of guy who will vote for Republicans because the Democrats didn't absolve him of 100% of his student debt.

    Max: How do we get the corporate wing of the Democratic Party to embrace a progressive working class agenda? Bernie Sanders: Go to meetings and take the party over. West Virginia was one of the strongest Democratic Party states, until the party gave up on them. Take it back. Don't ask, take it.

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