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“It is extremely chilling that Donald Trump views the spectacle of choosing cabinet appointments in a way that is similar to deciding whether or not to fire Lil Jon or Joan Rivers.” quote by Jon Lovett — Download Open image

“It is extremely chilling that Donald Trump views the spectacle of choosing cabinet appointments in a way that is similar to deciding whether or not to fire Lil Jon or Joan Rivers.”

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When in doubt, mock the powerful, not the powerless.

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I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.

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'Veep' is a great satire of democracy.

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If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.

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'1600 Penn' was a hit. It's 2018. Anything you want can be true.

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More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the 'Duck Dynasty' guy almost lost his…

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We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.

There's only so much mistrust we can take before things get much worse.

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