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Yavin4

(35,437 posts) Wed May 15, 2013, 02:03 PM May 2013

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You want a scandal? Here are some: Income Inequality...

Joblessness
Student Loan programs
Afghanistan
The treatment of vets from Iraq/Afghanistan
Health care costs
Racial/Gender/Ethnic Discrimination
Human Trafficking
Outsourcing
Exploitaiton of Immigrant laborers
Gun violence

Everything else is a bunch or bored inside the Beltway bullshit. Kings Landing has more relevance in Westeros than DC does in America.

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You want a scandal? Here are some: Income Inequality... (Original Post) Yavin4 May 2013 OP

They are quite seriously trying to provide a lot of distraction. k&r. uppityperson May 2013 #1

Definitely. Every time a SCANDAL! hits the corporate-owned news, I watch for what they're trying to Fire Walk With Me May 2013 #3

Add corruption in Congress to that list AndyA May 2013 #2

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

1. They are quite seriously trying to provide a lot of distraction. k&r.

Reply to Yavin4 (Original post)

Wed May 15, 2013, 02:05 PM

May 2013

Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)

3. Definitely. Every time a SCANDAL! hits the corporate-owned news, I watch for what they're trying to

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #1)

Wed May 15, 2013, 02:25 PM

May 2013

obfuscate. Weapons of mass distraction. Divide and conquer.

AndyA

(16,993 posts)

2. Add corruption in Congress to that list

Reply to Yavin4 (Original post)

Wed May 15, 2013, 02:07 PM

May 2013

Bought and paid for, Congress works only for the entity with the most money.

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