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“Turnbull stared at the pillaging below. “You know, we’re going to fight our way in, throw these assholes out of power, and in twenty years our next generation is going to forget and insist that true socialism has never been tried.”
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“that’s why the press was no longer treated as an elite clerisy of neutral truthtellers dedicated to the public good while its members mostly behaved as open partisans, lying and distorting to serve the interests of a failing liberal elite.”
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“You know, none of this had to happen. We had problems, but we were free, we were comfortable, we had our dogs,” he said. “But they couldn’t leave it alone. They had to push us.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Collapse

“But those hacks were just the same. You can track the PR’s propaganda right back to old CNN. Don Lemon became their first minister of the Messaging Ministry.”
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“I thought since you were only going in and out in under 48 hours, you’d probably not need an arsenal,” said Ernie. “Then Clay reminded me that it was you.”
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“Florence, Colorado, was a small town, and a much less annoying one than it would have been had the Split in the early 2020s not cut off the endless supply of liberal refugees from blue states who arrived eager to inflict the same socio-political atrocities upon their new home that had made their old one uninhabitable. Back then, the place was flooded with Californians who moved east having learned nothing.”
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“Have you ever seen The Dirty Dozen?” asked Deeds. It was a stupid question – Turnbull was a man.”
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“Who’s Don Lemon?” asked Hamada. “Nobody,” said Turnbull.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Collapse

“The West Coast is part of the United States again, God help us,” Deeds said. “But the UN is reinforcing the eastern PR to protect against ‘American aggression.’ Russians especially. We’re still not one country again, and our allies are threatened. Britain is in the EU’s sights. Israel is surrounded. It’s not over yet, not by a longshot.”
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“Prime Minister Thunberg finished her speech, and the prior speaker went back up to the podium and proclaimed that “Food treason is our greatest challenge!”
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“Turnbull flipped the channels on the Vizio monitor. Star Trek: Victory was the latest US version of the old TV series, the copyright issues having been rendered largely moot by the Split and the subsequent cold war between the United States and the People’s Republic. The new Star Trek shows in the new United States, produced in the heart of the red movie business, Atlanta, reflected the attitudes of their country. Conversely, the characters in the version produced inside the blue in Hollywood spent a lot of time confronting intergalactic human privilege and the systemic racism of the Federation.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Collapse

“Florence, Colorado, was a small town, and a much less annoying one than it would have been had the Split in the early 2020s not cut off the endless supply of liberal refugees from blue states who arrived eager to inflict the same socio-political atrocities upon their new home that had made their old one uninhabitable.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Collapse

“A failing economy, a surplus of dudes who can’t find chicks, and a brittle commie ruling class,” said Turnbull. “Oh, this is going to end well.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Collapse

“There were lots of Barack Obama Freeways across the PR; this naming had honored what had been the 44th president’s official birthplace until 2028, when the People’s Republic government ordered the schools and all publications to list his birthplace as Kenya because it was felt to be more diverse if he had come into this world in Nairobi. The powers that be did not want to tarnish his legend with nativity privilege.”
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“they just leave us alone? Why the hell didn’t they understand that eventually we were going to hit back if they kept pushing us, and then someone was going to have to win and someone was going to have to lose?”
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“Why do you hate me, Clay?” “The people I hate I turn you loose on.”
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“The last shot was of the episode’s nubile Bond Girl, Bond Boy, and Bond Gender Questioning Two-Spirit joining 007 in looking down from their shared hotel room balcony in San Francisco as women on the street below freed themselves from their tyrannical handmaid robes and put on hijabs to celebrate their liberation.”
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“Turnbull recognized her as the Prime Minister of Sweden for Life, installed into the job with extraordinary powers in the face of the climate crisis that was scheduled to have destroyed the world five years before. She segued into talking about the beauty of Sweden’s Fridfull Utgång Plan, “Peaceful Exit.” To save the planet, she had decreed that one in five Swedes must “make way for other life.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Collapse

“The last shot was of the episode’s nubile Bond Girl, Bond Boy, and Bond Gender Questioning Two-Spirit joining 007 in looking down from their shared hotel room balcony in San Francisco as women on the street below freed themselves from their tyrannical handmaid robes and put on hijabs to celebrate their liberation. The”
― Kurt Schlichter, Collapse