The culture wars are class war, and vice versa (2.12.17)

The culture wars are class war, and vice versa (2.12.17) February 12, 2017

“The men and women who reportedly handcuffed small children and the elderly, separated a child from his mother and held others without food for 20 hours, are undoubtedly ‘ordinary’ people.”

Something is just plain fishy about Trump’s Putophilia.”

Hatred of immigrants as poor and working people — assumed to be lazy, immoral, and given to ‘dependency’ on American largesse — animated U.S. nativism from its birth.”

“These men and women who proved to be some of the bravest, most selfless people this planet has, not only gave us a chance at success, they fought on our side and paid a high price for it.”

The man in charge of America seems to believe that being a killer is a good thing, because the head of a nation should be a skull-cracking, throat-kicking action hero, that he too has created an atmosphere of hostility against journalists that could spill into something real and bloody.”

Mr Trump’s and Mr Sessions’s claims of permanent, rising crime have consistently been debunked.”

It’s the greedy leading the blind.”

“I find it very hard to believe that you did not know that you had tobacco stocks.”

We have some of the bankers here. There’s nobody better to tell me about Dodd-Frank than Jamie, so you’re going to tell me about it.”

“From his influential post in the White House, Cohn will seek to unleash the ‘animal spirits’ of the market by advancing a ‘regulatory rethink’ in the financial sector — that is, he wants the government to let Wall Street do what it wants and how it wants it.”

“New FCC chair Ajit Pai openly despises and wants to do away with the 2015 Open Internet Order, which reclassified broadband as a utility-like service, and cemented the ‘net neutrality’ rules.”

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“Since 2014, the cost of twin pack of Evzio [naloxone] has jumped from $690 to $4,500 without any apparent reason for such a dramatic change in cost.”

“Tell people who say it that they are grossly wrong and should never speak again about anything until they learn how to decipher truth from right-wing lie.”

“A House committee voted on Tuesday to eliminate an independent election commission charged with helping states improve their voting systems as President Donald Trump erroneously claims widespread voter fraud cost him the popular vote.”

“I knew it would help a little bit, but I had no idea that it would solve our labor problem.”

“All of the nonsense behind the misogynistic fear of a female president has been coming to fruition in Donald Trump’s first weeks in office.”

“So instead of seeing this as an abuse of young women, [some legislators] were seeing this as something we needed to protect for certain cultures.”

“Apparently there’s a big underground movement of right-wing bodybuilders — thousands.”

At which point he stabbed the book with the sword, piercing the hidden bladder and spraying ‘blood’ upon nearby attendees.”

“LifeWay got into a similar controversy in 2012 … over the use of the word ‘vagina.’

“I firmly stand by my statement that neo-Nazis are assholes.”


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