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I knew what I didn’t want. But then turning it into what you did want was the next scenario, and that was going to take time, and effort, and accomplices. What I needed most were accomplices.
Jon and I used to have this thing: crazy out, sane in.
if you make a man comedically look like Hitler and it turns out that he is a retired lawyer with a lot of time on his hands, you’re going to get sued. That’s the lesson for today, children.
You have to make sure that everybody feels invested without feeling that type of ownership.
don’t forget your rubber underwear, because you’re gonna laugh ’til you pee!”
We were serious people doing a very stupid thing, and they were unserious people doing a very serious thing, and that juxtaposition really landed.
outside validation goes away really quickly.
Dissent was now seen as not just snarky, but unpatriotic.
Why take time to do the research when saying it is so much faster?
“Without credibility the jokes mean nothing.”
The way to never be wrong is to not worry about what the facts are but to really go with your gut and what you feel is correct, because you will always be correct if you can name your own reality,
I don’t want to disappoint them, but at the same time, I don’t want to try, because if you try and you fail, well, then you’ve got no one to blame but yourself.”
You can hate the war and not hate the warrior.
Don’t think of this as a moral failure. Think of this as pragmatism we can believe in.
“What’s your favorite element?” He said, “Carbon, because it’s the slut of the periodic table, because it combines with everything.”
Children aren’t that sarcastic. We’re looking at years of therapy.
Most of us are not someone’s first choice. But that doesn’t mean we can’t end up being the best choice.
And this, this, is their genius. Conservatives are not looking to make education more rigorous and informative, or science more empirical or verifiable, or voting more representative, or the government more efficient or effective. They just want all those things to reinforce their partisan, ideological, conservative viewpoint.
Find somebody to throw under the bus—that’s the first rule of show business.
The best defense against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.
