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It's so pathetically easy to set big groups of voters off angrily chasing their own tails in response to media-manufactured nonsense,
— Matt Taibbi
More than any other politician in recent memory, Bernie Sanders is focused on reality. It's the rest of us who are lost.
— Matt Taibbi
I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.
— Matt Taibbi
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.
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Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.
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An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
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I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
— Matt Taibbi
America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.
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As for the rest of them, God help us. Trump's continued success puts the onus on the field to try to out-crazy the frontrunner.
— Matt Taibbi
How Giuliani is not Trump's running mate no one will ever understand. Theirs is the most passionate love story since Beavis and Butthead.
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One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
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The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
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Yes, let's build a wall, but let's do it to help African-Americans! It's alt-right meets Civil Rights! The best crossover hit since "Walk This Way"!
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More and more often, we all make silent calculations about who is entitled to what rights, and who is not.
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Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.
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America is ceasing to be a nation, and turning into a giant television show. And this Republican race is our first and most brutal casting call.
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America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.
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It may not seem funny now, because it's happening to us, but centuries from this moment, people will laugh in wonder.
— Matt Taibbi
Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy's - that's usually the way this business works.
— Matt Taibbi
Get your liver ready: the second GOP debate is upon us S
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In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.
— Matt Taibbi
Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.
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Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.
— Matt Taibbi
TV is the ultimate leveling phenomenon. It makes everyone, rich and poor, equally incapable of dealing with reality. That
— Matt Taibbi
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
— Matt Taibbi
Curiously, for instance, the drop in violent crime is most pronounced in cities with high immigrant populations.
— Matt Taibbi
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
— Matt Taibbi
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.
— Matt Taibbi
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
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'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.
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If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.
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I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.
— Matt Taibbi
This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.
— Matt Taibbi
Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.
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I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.
— Matt Taibbi
The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.
— Matt Taibbi
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski should be herded into a rocket and shot into space for their brown-nosing of Trump A
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Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.
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Wall Street crime, in part, is a confidence game in which the criminal justice system itself is the mark.
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It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
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Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.
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The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
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The notion of "long-term greedy" vanished into thin air as the game became about getting your check before the melon hit the pavement.
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Too-big-to-fail, meet small-enough-to-jail.
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The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
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In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.
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Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.
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