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Good fucking riddance,” a former DNC staffer on the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

“Everything that Bernie said was what I'd been thinking all along. I didn't think there was anyone else out there. I was just one old crazy lady,” Susan, a protester at the Democratic National Convention, on why she still supports Bernie Sanders.

To call [the comments] irresponsible might imply that Trump really had an understanding of what he was doing. And I don’t get the impression that he does,” Michael Mandelbaum, who studies American foreign policy, on Trump’s remarks about NATO.

“I'm more interested in who these 750,000 people were that purchased a VCR last year. I would have given them mine for free,” an Atlantic reader, on the death of the VCR.