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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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From: koan1/14/2018 12:16:35 PM
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Just more instances of the Republican beating up the poor like they have always done.

And the Kentucky folks seem to love them. Look at the crazy people they vote for.

Jim Buntin, crazy Rand Paul, McConnell all wanting to lay waste to them.

They don't even have a sense of self preservation.
From the snopes website and is something that is attributed to Johnson
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
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