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Trump ‘n Hegs: Peace Creates Hate

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Trump: We shall have a stirring world again.

Hesgeth: This peace is nothing but to rust iron, increase tailors, breed ballad-makers.

Trump: Let me have war, say I. It exceeds peace as far as day does night. It’s sprightly walking, audible and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.

Hesgeth: ‘Tis so, and as war, in some sort, may be said to be a ravisher. So it cannot be denied but peace is a great maker of cuckolds.

Trump: Ay, and it makes men hate one another.

(Not really Trump and Hegseth – obvi! – but the more well-spoken war-mongering Servingmen in Act IV of Shakespeare’s Corlioanus.)

Some Dictator Someplace

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We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States. Because if somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they start doing when they see a documentary that they don’t like or news reports that they don’t like.

Or even worse, imagine if producers and distributors and others (colleges perhaps?) start engaging in self-censorship because they don’t want to offend the sensibilities of somebody whose sensibilities probably need to be offended. So that’s not who we are. That’s not what America is about.

President Obama on Kim Jong Un’s attempt to prevent the release of Seth Rogen and Even Goldberg’s 2014 film The Interview