Adages for the Trump Era
By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO−If you don’t have something nice to say about someone, don’t say anything for two days until you are pressured to say something positive you don’t really mean.
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A snitch in time almost ought to be outlawed.
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Late to bed, early to rise makes a man tweet outrageous lies.
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If you can’t beat them, claim the election was rigged and lock them up.
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The only two sure things in life are wealth and evading taxes.
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I may not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defame you so much no one will believe it anyway.
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Birds of a feather collude together.
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Cursed are the poor for they shall inherit nothing.
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Blood is thicker than lawsuits.
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com. San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.