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It Doesn't Cost Billionaires Anything To Oppress You
There's a simple reason why Republicans default to the culture wars. It is because it doesn't cost their donor class any money. If Republicans pass laws banning transgender people from bathrooms, that doesn't hurt the Koch brothers, it doesn't hurt Sheldon Adelson, it doesn't affect them at all.
If the Republicans pass legislation saying that Muslims can't run for political office, unless there's a Muslim right-wing billionaire out there it doesn't affect them.
And that's why Republicans attack gay people and the whole spectrum of LGBT, they attack people of color, they attack people whose first language isn't English, they attack immigrants, because none of those attacks cost the donor class of the Republican Party a single penny.
-Thom
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Anything Goes - LIVE from Chicago...
Roy Moore - Is This the End of the 3000 year Run of Patriarchy?
Quote: "New theory suggests Vegas gunman didn't act alone but was assisted by 52 senators, 298 representatives, and the NRA.".
Scott Pruitt's EPA is the Environmental POLLUTION Agency?
- John O'Grady, AFGE Council 238 (representing 9000 EPA employees)
Law: " G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia.
Letter: " Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March - 5 April 1776 " in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."
Quote: " It would be a strange thing if Six Nations of ignorant savages should be capable of forming a scheme for such an union, and be able to execute it in such a manner as that it has subsisted ages and appears indissoluble; and yet that a like union should be impracticable for ten or a dozen English colonies" by Benjamin Franklin, letter to James Parker, 1751.
Quote: " But you know from the budget, that the $1.5 trillion-dollar gap, would be closed if we only had four-tenths-of-1% growth in the next ten years." - Mitch McConnell.
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