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New York Times’s Michelle Cottle Blames Trump in Cornell Rape Case
“We can go to the president for this one [Cornell rape case]. I mean, we are in a moment in this culture where the glorification of being thuggish and swaggering and mistreating women is kind of making you a cool kid.”
— New York Times Opinion writer Michelle Cottle discussing Cornell University rape case as aired on ABC’s This Week, October 4.
Robert De Niro to Donald Trump: Keep Your F***ing Hands Off Our Vote!
“When the weak and spineless Republicans in the House and Senate won’t protect our rights. What do we say to them? Keep your f***ing hands off our votes! When the Supreme Court rubber stamps voter suppression? What do we say to them? Hands off our vote! When Trump’s Department of Justice threatens election officials, demands voter rolls, and seizes ballots. What do we say to them? F***ing hands off our vote! When masked and armed ICE thugs storm our polling places? What do we say to them? Keep your f***ing hands off our vote! And when that coward, that f***ing piece of sh*t Donald Trump tries to take our voice and power away. What do we tell him? [Keep] your f***ing hands off our vote!”
— Actor Robert De Niro at Indivisible’s Protect the Vote event, October 4.
Mark Ruffalo: We Got To Get This Dumb-Ass Out of Office!
“We gotta get this dumb-ass, fool-ass, tired-ass, lame-ass, duck-ass out of office! We got to make him a lame duck! We have to stop his policies now! Another two years of this, and who knows what he’ll be doing? He’s calling to throw Democrats out of the country, and he means it!...They’re gonna try and stop us from taking our country back, and we’re not gonna let them! Trump, we’re not letting ya! Hands off! Hands off! Hands off! Hands off our fucking vote!...Yeah! I’m gonna Hulk out!”
— Actor Mark Ruffalo at Indivisible’s Protect the Vote event, October 4.
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