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Just finished listening to Ep. 1 of this podcast. Highly recommended. Traces the complicated story behind Reagan's "welfare queen" myth, a narrative that launched a thousand conservative jeremiads in years to come. slate.com/news-and-polit…
Here's a thread with more contextual information pertaining to this story.
This specific story begins in 1975-6, but the image of the "welfare cheat" goes back much further. One of Nixon's favorite songs, for example, was the novelty hit "Welfare Cadillac."
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Seth Cotlar
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Nice little amuse bouche from the writers' room to start off the day.
I think I've finally figured out why I'm so Game of Thrones averse...it just looks to me like a hipster mashup of an early 1980s Kiss concert plus a 3.5 hour Lord of the Rings film.
...and brought to you by the US Army [cue recruitment commercial].
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Seth Cotlar
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GOP Patriotism ca. 2019: "We love the Constitution so much that we have no choice but to kill it."

But seriously, this is a horrifying poll. And it is 100% no coincidence that Jerry Falwell Jr from [cough] *Liberty* University tweeted out this idea of an extra 2 years in office.
The other big takeaway from this poll is that 77% of Republicans think there is a "deep state" trying to undermine Trump's presidency. That is a terrifying number.
It's worth noting that this seemingly fringe idea of "the deep state" has become standard issue GOP talking point. Constitutional "scholar" Mike Lee even put the term in the title of his new book.
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Seth Cotlar
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I hear the head of PR for this team is kind of a drip.
"I'm gonorrhea-d this back to you one more time before it goes to press." That's what the PR head should have said.
Are they going to play that Pharrell song "Herpes!" during the 7th inning stretch?
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With immigration, industrialization, growth of cities, etc., the late 19th and early 20th cents. brought interesting changes in laws and courts.
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Universal basic income would be better, but America is struggling with that idea so let's start small. Cash pours right back into the economy
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"We became evil so slowly" while talking about the same Reagan that laughed at AIDS? Oh...okay. I'm not drunk enough for this timeline.
I am 41 next month. In my adult lifetime American politics has largely been a race to the bottom of the barrel at every turn. But okay.
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