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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
“All horror is political, whether the creators want it to be or not. Before you head straight to the comments with your list of apolitical horror films, let me define my terms. By “political,” I don’t necessarily Republican or Democrat (although it can certainly be that). Rather, I mean political in the classical sense, which is “pertaining to the polis.” For the ancient Greek stoics, the polis was the space between the oikos (the home) and the cosmos (the rest of the world). It was your social area, best represented in cities and nations. As soon as you leave the familiarity of your home and family, but before you enter the complete unfamiliarity of the cosmos, you’re in the polis. And within the polis, everything is by definition political.”
— Joseph George, EDITORIALS‘Spiral’ and the Politics That Have Always Been Present in the ‘Saw’ Franchise[Editorial]
Tagged: Horror, Horror Movies, creepy, Politics, Story, How to be a writer, Movies, film
“Donald Trump is an American pop culture legend.”
— Azealia Banks, Azealia Banks calls Trump "An American Pop Culture Legend"
Tagged: Donald Trump, Pop Culture, The discourse, Culture, Politics, Andy Warhol
“We need to do a lot of anti-racist, deep canvassing in this country. Because if we keep losing white shares and just allowing Facebook to radicalize more and more elements of white voters and the white electorate, there’s no amount of people of color and young people that you can turn out to offset that.”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Biden’s Win, House Losses, and What’s Next for the Left
Tagged: Biden, 2020 Election, Democratic Party, Politics
“But the elected officials who matter most in reforming police departments and the criminal justice system work at the state and local levels.”
— Barack Obama, Medium, How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
Tagged: turning point, Change, Politics, protest, Reform
“From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway.”
— Jonathan Chait, Why Can’t Bernie Accept That Democratic Voters Didn’t Want Him?
Tagged: 2020 Election, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Politics
“What I mean is that it is possible to keep the good sides of capitalism, but nonetheless, through a coordinated state, social effort to mobilize. Not just with coronavirus, this is needed with other ecological crises, refugees and so on.”
— Slavoj Žižek, ‘What I like about coronavirus’ by Slavoj Žižek | Spectator USA
Tagged: coronavirus, COVID-19, Communism, Socialism, Politics
“I wanna wear pink and tell you how I feel about politics.”
— Taylor Swift, Miss Americana
Tagged: Politics, Pink, Opinionated
“Politics is about people.”
— Selina Meyer, Veep, Season 1: Fundraiser
Tagged: Politics, People
“I found Romney filled with what seemed like righteous indignation about the president’s misconduct—quoting hymns and scripture, expressing dismay at his party, and bracing for the political backlash.”
— McKay Coppins, How Mitt Romney Decided Trump Is Guilty
Tagged: Impeachment, Politics
“I think my understanding of why politics matters is different. It’s more rooted in everyday life. Part of that’s a mayor’s orientation. Part of it’s my Midwestern orientation. Part of it’s my personal story as somebody who saw, for example, the Afghanistan War, not just in terms of the theoretical debates going on about U.S. foreign policy but the simple fact that it changed the course of my life. As somebody whose marriage exists by a one-vote margin on the United States Supreme Court, I think about politics not in terms of its own internal dynamics and the excitement of the game and the show but in a very grounded way.”
— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum
Tagged: Politics, Midwest, Afghan War, Grounded
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
— H. L. Mencken, In Defense of Women
Tagged: Politics, hobgoblins, Moral Panic
“Both Bloomberg and Patrick staked their runs on the idea that voters would hungrily embrace a fresh face to shake up the 2020 race — but compared to Baby Yoda, they're not exactly capturing the public's imagination.”
— Shane Savitsky, Baby Yoda Is Driving Almost Twice As Many Average Social Media Interactions As Any 2020 Democrat
Tagged: Star Wars, Politics
“In September of 2019, a proposal to install a rainbow crosswalk in the city of Chilliwack, British Columbia was voted down by the city council. Dissenters argued that such a crosswalk would be seen as a 'political statement' and would be 'divisive,' but according to Yahoo! News, that hasn't stopped people from installing 16 of them on privately owned property.”
— Annie Reneau, Upworthy, A city council voted down a rainbow crosswalk. Now residents have painted 16 of them
Tagged: rainbow, LGBTQIA, Politics
“'What's giving me hope is knowing that we have undocumented people in this country with no legal status, no driver's license, that leave their homes every day and they go out there and find a way to make a living,' Iowa-based activist and DACA recipient Kenia Calderon, who started the Iowa DREAM Coalition to help educate and rally DACA recipients in the state, tells Bustle.”
— Leila Bargouty, Bustle, The Supreme Court’s DACA Decision Will Impact Thousands
Tagged: DACA, Dream, Activist, Politics
“I have to do this. I have to write a book.”
— Hank Green, What It's Like Trying To Write A Book In 2019
Tagged: Politics, Twitter
“You guys don't understand the politics of childhood.”
— Nick Birch, Big Mouth, My Furry Valentine: Girls Are Angry Too
Tagged: Understand, Politics, Childhood, peer pressure
“I try to do good things, right? But I'm not a good person. That's my flaw. I'm ambitious. I am political. I'm conniving.”
— Payton Hobart, The Politician, Season 1: The Assassination of Payton Hobart
Tagged: Good Person, Ambition, Conniving , Politics
“If politics is like dog years, you know, I’m probably 80 right now. Even though I’m only 44.”
— Ayanna Pressley, Why Ayanna Pressley is not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Tagged: The Squad, Politics, Dog Years
“Politics isn't about policies, a candidate is elected on a story.”
— Payton Hobart, The Politician, Season 1: October Surprise
Tagged: Politics, Policies, Election, elected, Story

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