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George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with a hat you can knit at home? It's an effective symbol.

It's a terribly ineffective symbol: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156315793671/battle-of-the-hats

The argument posited here is not that it's "terribly ineffective" but that Scott Adams - someone naturally inclined against such causes and demonstrations - doesn't "get it." (His words)

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This is amazing. The womens marches over the weekend and these seem to be an indicator of a very sudden awakening.

And a falling asleep as soon as a better clown takes control. Trump is marginally worse in content but infinitely worse in presentation. I mean ffs Obama care was a heritage foundation proposal and that's his shining achievement, it would be like Lincoln abolishing slavery by buying all the slaves and then making them work to pay off their freedom.

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I must admit, I'm really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.. Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it. Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but…

> I'm really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.

Impeachment requires a crime.

Lying isn't usually a crime, and as best I can tell hasn't been one any of the times Trump has done it (.. yet?). It also hasn't been a crime any of the times Obama has done it.

Failure to give up business interests is breaking precedent and confounding ethicists, but also doesn't seem to be illegal.

When we come up with something criminal (and especially if it rises to the level of "high crimes") we can hope Trump gets impeached. As yet, I don't see it, and certainly not in your examples.

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1984 is out of copyright in Australia and many other countries so you can grab it from project gutenberg for free

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=1984 Don't seem to be able to find anything?

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt

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I must admit, I'm really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.. Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it. Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but…

To be fair, alternative facts wasn't meant as sinister as you may have been led to believe. What was meant was "additional" facts.

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I must admit, I'm really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.. Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it. Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but…

He's 70 years old and his dad had Alzheimer's.

Reagan was 70 when he took office and did later develop Alzheimer's. Did he develop it while in office? If he did, his staff covered for him quite effectively.

If you're saying Trump has Alzheimer's now, and that explains his behaviour... Well, Trump's been acting like this for decades!

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