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Blue_Tires

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12. Fareed is a bit late to the show, isn't he?

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:19 PM

Aug 2017

I'm trying my damndest to kill two framing myths from 2016 that refuse to die:

1. The "working class" is NOT JUST WHITE FOLKS, nor are their votes somehow worth more than working class minorities (not that we would know this given how much fawning attention the WWC has gotten since November)

2. I refuse to believe some bass-ackwards yokel bumpkin was *SO* fucking offended that some mythical city dweller elitist somewhere supposedly called him a bass-ackwards yokel bumpkin that to prove a point he did the one thing that will cement his legacy as a bass-ackwards yokel bumpkin by honestly believing a New York billionaire who literally shits on a gold toilet is a "Man of the People"

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Fareed is a bit late to the show, isn't he? Blue_Tires Aug 2017 #12