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Trump's affinity for Russia dates back at least to the late 1980s, during the time of the Soviet Union, and it intensified after his financial empire collapsed.
- Joy Reid
#Back
#Financial
#Late
#Russia
#Time
To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city, this county, this country is mine.
- Joy Reid
#City
#Confidence
#Country
#Space
#White
There are few instances when American history offers us two clear sides of a moral line.
- Joy Reid
#American
#Clear
#History
#Two
#Us
Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails.
- Joy Reid
#Consequences
#Gamble
#Government
#Local
The presidency is, in many ways, America's comment on itself; our collective national costume. In the occupant of our sole nationwide elected office, we see who we think we are, or who we want to be.
- Joy Reid
#America
#Costume
#See
#Want
#Who
Trump has humbled our country under the shadow of China's autocrat Xi Jinping.
- Joy Reid
#China
#Country
#Humbled
#Our
#Shadow
If you are Black or Brown, or a liberal or immigrant or Democrat, or a woman unwilling to quietly submit, then Ailes was the ultimate villain. You were the object of mockery and scorn - sometimes overt, often subtle. You were the thing to be gawked at, pawed at, jeered at, propositioned or feared.
- Joy Reid
#Black
#Brown
#Sometimes
#Villain
#Woman
Republicans have relentlessly pursued investigations of Hillary Clinton, going back to her time as secretary of state (to say nothing of the 30-year project to take down both Clintons by right-wing outside groups).
- Joy Reid
#Back
#Down
#Nothing
#Project
#Time
For many Americans - many humans - Trump's presidency can often feel unbearable.
- Joy Reid
#Feel
#Often
#Presidency
#Unbearable
When I was 15 years old, my sister and I went on a trip to Europe. We went on scholarship because my mother didn't have the money to pay the full fare for the two of us, which ran into the thousands of dollars.
- Joy Reid
#Europe
#Money
#Mother
#Old
#Two
No president can force shuttered mills to reopen, or companies who've left in search of cheaper labor to relocate to the United States (or those who have come back to choose expensive humans over cheaper robots).
- Joy Reid
#Back
#Expensive
#Labor
#Robots
#Search
From jazz, the blues, country and rock to Hollywood movies, culture has in many ways been our greatest export (or our most obnoxious one, depending on your point of view).
- Joy Reid
#Country
#Culture
#Jazz
#Movies
#View
Trump's cabinet picks seem designed to unwind government itself, leaving the average citizen completely exposed and vulnerable to full exploitation by corporate interests.
- Joy Reid
#Exploitation
#Full
#Government
#Unwind
The America that clings to Confederate statues and flags, and that jealously guards the social privileges white Americans have long enjoyed, form the stalwarts of Trump's base.
- Joy Reid
#America
#Enjoyed
#Long
#Social
#White
If I had to reduce 'Black Panther' to a single word, it would be 'glorious.'
- Joy Reid
#Black
#Glorious
#Panther
#Single
#Would
Who in the GOP would complain if Trump federalizes 'stop and frisk' or encourages its proliferation in states using the power of the Justice Department purse?
- Joy Reid
#Complain
#Justice
#Power
#Stop
#Who
Trump is reviled around the world, as is the U.S. under his leadership.
- Joy Reid
#Around
#His
#Leadership
#Trump
#World
Trump, who in his own history as a developer preferred mob concrete and Chinese steel to the variety produced in the Rust Belt, cannot bring back the steel and manufacturing jobs lost in Lorain, Ohio or western Pennsylvania.
- Joy Reid
#Back
#History
#Lost
#Rust
#Steel
The criminal justice system in the United States is designed to do two things really well: to railroad black and brown bodies into prison, and to keep police officers out of it.
- Joy Reid
#Black
#Justice
#Police
#Prison
#Two
Technology has made it a lot easier to be productive. It's incredibly helpful to be able to get little bits of information quickly.
- Joy Reid
#Get
#Information
#Little
#Technology
The Hollywood of Frank Capra's era, when Reagan became a minor star, sold the world an image of American pith and patriotism in many ways as defining as the moon landing or the A-bomb.
- Joy Reid
#American
#Image
#Moon
#Patriotism
#World
Being on a grand jury felt like attending a series of hangings in a legal Wild West. Hands up for a true bill. Hands up for a dismissal. A show of hands to save a life, or to end it.
- Joy Reid
#Hands
#Legal
#Life
#True
#Wild
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