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“You don't give money to the bums
On a corner with a sign bleeding from their gums
Talking about you don't support a crack head?
What you think happens to the money from your taxes?
Shit the Government's an addict
With a billion dollar a week kill brown people habit
And even if you ain't on the front line
When massah yell crunch time, you right back at it
Plain look at how you hustling backwards
At the end of the year, add up what they subtracted
Three outta twelve months your salary pays for that madness
Man, that's sadness
What's left? get a big ass plasma
To see where they made Dan Rather point the damn camera
Only approved questions get answered
Now stand your ass up for that national anthem”
— Brother Ali, Uncle Sam Goddamn
Tagged: U.S., America, Politics, Rap, Poetry, War, Military, Freedom, Taxes, libertarian, Brother Ali, Rhymesayers
“ It’s possible to have a major political crisis even if the Constitution is crystal clear on the remedy, or to have a constitutional crisis that doesn’t ruffle many feathers.”
— Seth Masket, Julia Azari, The 4 Types Of Constitutional Crises
Tagged: Constitution, Crisis, America
“I think it says more about our country and our health care system that more and more health care workers are having to turn to OnlyFans or other means of sex work or other means of getting extra cash, the fact that they’re not getting what they need to make ends meet from the job that they’re dedicating their lives to. I think that says more about our country than any health care worker individually.”
— Lauren Kwei, Meet the Paramedic Whose OnlyFans Was Outed by the 'New York Post'
Tagged: Media, Journalism, New York Post, Only Fans, America, Capitalism, Money, Sex Work
“Protesters say they want to see charges for all four police officers involved in the death of Floyd.”
— CNN, Live updates: George Floyd protests spread across America
Tagged: Protests, George Floyd, America, Updates
“America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.”
— Mike Bloomberg, 15 Essential Quotes From Billionaire Mike Bloomberg
Tagged: America, American Dream
“I often wonder if the Founding Fathers sat down in the pub over steins of ale, or at a dining room table over a hardy supper, and said to each other, Let’s start a country.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy
Tagged: America, American Exceptionalism, Founding Fathers
“What would the world be without America?
It would be a dull and dinky planet, indeed.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy
Tagged: America, American Exceptionalism
“Since this nation came to be, almost every important invention under creation happened here, because America is the coolest invention of all.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy
Tagged: America, American Exceptionalism
“The defining characteristic of America is our fanaticism: We dream big, we think large, we create grandeur. We invented Hollywood, rock ’n’ roll, blue jeans, the Gold Rush, cable TV with thousands of channels, a military that is larger than those of the next ten combined, the shopping mall, and a store that sells nothing but socks. We invented Elvis Presley and teen idols, we invented the phonograph and the movie camera, we invented Disneyland and the roller coaster, baseball and apple pie. We invented the Internet—oh, yes we did—and the anonymous comment. We didn't invent the wheel, but we did come up with the Model T; we didn't invent the wing, but we did give the world the airplane and the miracle of flight. We didn’t invent the computer, but we did invent the PC and everything that everyone can do at home; we didn’t invent the telephone, but we did invent the iPhone and everything that everyone can do in the palm of his hand. We invented Thomas Edison and Henry Ford and Steve Jobs: so there. We invented personality: so there, motherfucker.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy
Tagged: America, American Exceptionalism, Fanaticism, Disneyland, Roller Coasters, baseball, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Motherfucker, Internet
“This country was always cool. Everything we do here is cooler than everything they do everywhere else, and so it will ever be.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy
Tagged: America, American Exceptionalism
“Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan ‘Death to America’ is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan ‘Death to America.’ This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists.’”
— Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei: The Slogan "Death to America" Is No Longer Chanted Only by the Iranians
Tagged: America, Death To America, Zionists, American Imperialism
“This guys is everything wrong with America.”
— Joe Goldberg, YOU, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Wrong, America, Diss
“The American creed that were all created equal was written long ago, but the genius of every generation of Americans has open it wider and wider and wider to include those who have been excluded in a previous generation. That’s why it’s never gathered any dust in our history books. It’s still alive today, more than 200 years after its inception. But I honest to God don’t believe Donald Trump’s sees it that way. On January 20th, 2017 in his inaugural address, Donald Trump painted a dark, bleak picture of our country in crisis when he declared, and I quote, 'this American carnage stops right here. It stops right now'. But as the sitting president, Trump’s anger, hate and divisiveness, pitting Americans against one another, preying on our division and doing nothing, nothing about the endemic and the epidemic of guns is fueling a literal carnage in America.”
— Joe Biden, Joe Biden Iowa Trump Rebuke Speech Transcript August 7, 2019- Rev
Tagged: America, Proposition Nation, Gender Identity, Equality, Donald Trump
“The reason is what we believe. The most powerful idea in the history of the world, I think beats in the heart of the people of this country. It beats in all of us. No matter your race, your ethnicity, no matter your gender identity, your sexual orientation, no matter your faith, it beats in the hearts of the rich and poor alike, it unites America whether your ancestors were native to these shores, or they were brought here and forcibly enslaved, or they’re immigrants with generations back, like my family from Ireland or those coming today looking to build a better life for their families.”
— Joe Biden, Joe Biden Iowa Trump Rebuke Speech Transcript August 7, 2019- Rev
Tagged: America, Proposition Nation, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Slavery
“No matter how old or young you are, you’ve never seen anything like this in your lifetime. We’re being reminded every day there’s nothing guaranteed about democracy, not even here in America. We have to constantly earn it. We have to protect it. We have to fight for it. I believe America is in, as Lincoln named us the last best hope on earth. We have to remember why. It’s not because you’re the biggest economy, the strongest military in the history of the world, it’s not because we have the most innovative entrepreneurs and the greatest research universities. That’s all true, but it’s not why we’re America.”
— Joe Biden, Joe Biden Iowa Trump Rebuke Speech Transcript August 7, 2019- Rev
Tagged: Democracy, Abraham Lincoln, America
“You know, I think America is tired of Twitter fighting.”
— Alex Levy, The Morning Show, Season 1: In the Dark Night of the Soul It's Always 3
Tagged: Twitter, America, fights, Fighting
“Fuck you. Don't drag America into this. They've got enough shit to deal with. ”
— Alex Levy, The Morning Show, Season 1: In the Dark Night of the Soul It's Always 3
Tagged: America, Deal With , Overwhelmed
“In America, we have laws. Laws against killing, laws against stealing. And it is just accepted that as a member of American society, you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society which has its own laws. Football is a way of life.”
— Jonathan 'Mox' Moxon, Varsity Blues
Tagged: America, Laws, Killing, Football
“Our leaders cannot be people who lie all the time. They just can’t. I hope people see that is true whether they are Republicans or Democrats."”
— James Comey, Comey on Trump Winning in 2020: I’ll Be at ‘My New Home in New Zealand’
Tagged: America, Political Leadership in America
“We grow up learning all kinds of history about the founding of America, and one of the explorers taught in every classroom is Christopher Columbus. But how much do we actually know about him as an explorer and his famous journey?”
— Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, Not everything you learned about Christopher Columbus is true
Tagged: christopher columbus, information, America, Truth

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