If I were a cop, I’d be losing my gun all the time. Just leave it at restaurants and stuff. The Captain would take me to a revival screening of Stray Dog to teach me a lesson. We’d spend the whole movie making out instead.
Sanders: You know why Trump has a nucleus of support? People say, “I go out and I vote every two years. You tell me to vote every four years. So what? I’m going nowhere. Democracy is not working. You know what I need? I need a strong guy. I don’t give a damn about the Constitution, the rule of law. Give me some guy who’s going to crack some heads.”
It’s not just in this country. You’re seeing this all over the world.
So what we have got to do is make democracy work for working people. If tomorrow, God willing, we passed a Medicare for All single-payer system so everybody in this country could get quality health care, people would say, “Huh, you know what? Democracy, that ain’t a bad idea.”
“I just took my kid to the doctor. We had an operation. It didn’t cost me. That’s pretty good. And you know what? My kid is going to college now, a really good school, and it’s tuition-free. I like democracy.”
So democracy is more than just having elections every two or four years. It is delivering for the people. And the problem that we’re having right now is that because the oligarchs increasingly control our democracy, democracy can’t deliver.
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the new middlebrow podcast with @mcmansionhell is very enjoyable. many of the points raised feel salient to menswear — deskilling in the trades, rise of bad taste because an uneducated customer goes wild with options, poptimism vs cultural criticism, etc
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🔥@GrahamForMaine on his interaction with NY Times reporters about "working class."
"It's everybody who isn't making their money on an immense amount of wealth...all of us don't own anything & a couple people own damn near everything...Fuck off."