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K “When you distill the chatter, he was either the messiah or the monster. A legend or a loser. That is the choice in America today.”
J “A monster and a loser. This is America today.”
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K “Reminds me of the obstreperous shouting match between those who pilloried Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and Ed Snowden as ‘traitors’ and those who praised them as ‘patriots’ some disputes ago.”
J “Traitors. However, some of the information should have been made public.”
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K “A lot of Democrats openly cheered and smirked.”
J “Everyone is on edge. Everyone is edgy.”
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K “The clear and central message of the profoundly public statement that is an assassination is that no one is above the Owners. Amid the dross and dregs he spouted, Kirk was challenging some powerful interests who are not amused.”
J “I would not completely deny that Kirk was pushing some issues that brought him up on radar and placed him in the cross hairs. Yet his overall messaging was repellant and repugnant.”
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K “Those in power are keen to get the folks with the pitch forks to turn on the folks with the burning torches. That clever strategy is frighteningly effective.”
J “We are strategically cleaved by the big players.”
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J “The chasm is unbridgeable.”
K “The chasm is a gorge, but it is not gorgeous.”
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J “Stay tuned.”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men [and women] die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in their capitals.” Edward Abbey
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