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10. I posted about this earlier. Reaganism personified.

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 04:51 PM

Jan 2019

“The state,” he argues, “should not be seen to work. If the state is seen to work, we shall never be rid of it.”

From an Alan Bennett play I saw yesterday on the NHS.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/18/allelujah-review-alan-bennett-bridge-theatre

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I do not want to hear one shutdown complaint from any Grover Norquist cultist. [View all] TygrBright Jan 2019 OP

righteous rant Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #1

The "Art of the Deal" is hostage taking. oasis Jan 2019 #2

Those assholes are celebrating... Wounded Bear Jan 2019 #3

This. (n/t) FreepFryer Jan 2019 #17

The Architects of Disaster Capitalism see this as a good thing. MarcA Jan 2019 #4

But it only works with enough useful idiots to enable them. n/t TygrBright Jan 2019 #5

and that is the reason for division Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #6

It also works if the free flow of information is blocked/polluted erronis Jan 2019 #8

I posted about this earlier. Reaganism personified. GoneOffShore Jan 2019 #10

Laughable or hateful. GoneOffShore Jan 2019 #12

Brilliant! woofless Jan 2019 #9

Bravo!!!!! bluecollar2 Jan 2019 #13

I think Norquist-types would have to oppose $5 billion for a wall... thesquanderer Jan 2019 #15

Great rant -- if only Trumpsters could read and absorb. LuckyLib Jan 2019 #16