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Max Kennerly"The greatness of America is that it doesn’t matter where you start — you get to decide where you finish," says the Governor, who is the daughter of the former Governor.
LindaNYC2VT Ⓥ 🌊🐖🐄🐓🦃🐬🐝🦋🦇@maxkennerly “as long as you’re a white male, or if you’re a white female who has the permission of a white male, of course,” continued Huckabee…
Ω 🌍 Gus Posey@maxkennerly To be fair, she's come a long way for a stump.
Tom Bellin 
@maxkennerly "Allow me to use, out of context, the only MLK quote conservatives are allowed to use."
Russell L. Wilson@maxkennerly Conservatives love to cite that MLK quote, but when we do accordingly and judge them on the (lacking) content of their character they throw a tantrum and play the victim. It’s almost as if they don’t mean it at all.
Locksmith
MaybeMyMonkeys@Russtofferson @maxkennerly how many degrees in cherry picking do Harvard and Yale give out every year?
Bruce Mirken@maxkennerly I don't generally favor the death penalty, but would consider an exception for right-wingers who quote #MLK out of context.
@BruceMirken @maxkennerly Too quick. A good beating would be more satisfying.
Sean@maxkennerly Yeah, we SHOULD be judged by the content of our character, but we're not - that's why these things exist. Sometimes I just want to scream
@squizzleflip @maxkennerly Lack of character judgement is why she is governor and her god was president.
BlueintheSouth@maxkennerly We absolutely do NOT get to decide that and many of us do not get opportunities like her.
JeSuisUnHombre@maxkennerly that's the only MLK quote right wing grifters know, because he's too popular to speak negatively about but everything else he says asks for reparations and socialism, even that quote has a "but" after it
grob (teeth era) 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@maxkennerly someone should take a statistics class 🤦♂️
ebbtide@maxkennerly Does she actually believe this?
@sandlapper37 @maxkennerly She believes in whatever gets her the quickier advantages.
msgbi Markus Sagebiel
tobie@maxkennerly oh the irony burns. I'm incredulous at the lack of self-reflection
Nicole ParsonsOligarchs, plutocrats, & kleptocrats are big believers in cronyism, nepotism, & lies about their success.
The rich fund false origin stories like this one from Sarah Huckabee Sanders as part of a blameshifting media strategy.
Her role is to make America's version of kleptocracy into a self-sustaining system like that in Russia, Iran, & Saudi Arabia.
"You're poor because you're too lazy or too stupid to be rich" acts as a cover for the methods used to extract wealth...
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...by Republican billionaire donors.
How to become a billionaire?
Inherited wealth from slavery. Appropriation of tribal lands. Enclosure Acts & other land grabs. Use of natural resources, public lands, & assets for ridiculously low prices.
Inherit a few untaxed millions to give you a good start. Hide your wealth in a tax haven. Distort government to get tax subsidies & tax cuts for the rich.
Adopt whole-of-society immiseration policies like housing affordability, ...
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...algorithmic wage suppression, forced birth, student & medical debt, attacks on social security.
The rich get peevish when the poor escape their fate.
From the perspective of the wealthy, any universal social program is inherently bad because a universal social safety net supports those you're hoping to exploit, demonize, or malign for personal profit.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cbo-american-wealth-inequality/
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2021/01/12/trumps-billionaire-enablers-63-billionaires-worth-243-billion-who-bankrolled
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronyism
@maxkennerly which is to say that she started at the finish line, so it sucks to be everyone else.
GeekGyrl@maxkennerly Of course she quoted #MLK out of context. 🙄 She also said separating immigrant children from their families was biblical. What a fucking twunt.
John Shirley@maxkennerly And even besides having been born with political connections she had all the privileges of a white person from a moneyed family.
Jo Kingly 
@maxkennerly Exactly the issue, that nurture and social background define much more about what a person's chances are than is often admitted.
Agora@maxkennerly, they are so tone-death. She is a governor because she got help, but she doesn't want black people to get help.