The only other methods available are direct action and voting the bums out.
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It's no wonder that around the world they are throwing the bums out.
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Here are some other takeaways from a "throw the bums out" Italian election.
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He was able to capitalize on a "throw the bums out" attitude Americans had.
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The obvious solution, which jaded political minds often forget, is to vote the bums out.
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This is how democracy is supposed to work: angry voters get to kick the bums out.
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In crude terms, by throwing the bums out when they refuse to do the right thing.
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"Things are awesome but you should throw the bums out anyway" is a bit less persuasive.
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After decades of stasis, it is hardly surprising that French voters want to throw the bums out.
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She decides to put the Good American line on hold – which bums out some of her team.
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One that begins with recognizing Congress's capacity problem won't end even if you kick the bums out.
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This was a "throw the bums out" vote, and many of the bums deserved to be thrown out.
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If voters don't like what they see, the argument goes, they are free to vote the bums out.
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Arguing that voters needed to vote the bums out, Democrats won the majority in both chambers of Congress.
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People clearly are sick of Washington, and have been throwing the bums out of Congress for a decade straight.
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The urge to "throw the bums out" after eight years of a Democrat in the office will be strong.
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"Trump condemns the people kneeling for the national anthem, and he said we should kick the bums out," Kallinen said.
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An American's views on accountable government carry weight, because ordinary Chinese know that American voters can kick the bums out.
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The slogan was different — instead of "THROW THE BUMS OUT" it was "DRAIN THE SWAMP" — but the strategy was identical.
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It is a textbook example of why democracy matters: people with bad governments should be able to throw the bums out.
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If our elected leaders fail to deliver the results we expect, we can always "throw the bums out," as they say.
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Victoria's Secret Angel Sara Sampaio set sail on a yacht in Monaco taking the term "suns out, bums out" to a new level.
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This bums out lucky planet Jupiter in friendly Libra, but don't worry—warrior Mars in Fire sign Aries doesn't mind kicking people to the curb.
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The end times are coming to Earth, which bums out the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley who have grown quite fond of the place.
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With democracies, you get to throw the bums out when they mess up, not block them from assuming the power they won at the ballot.
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Bottom line: We ask Mark Zuckerberg – a brilliant and proud American and a proud Jew – to throw the Holocaust-denying bums out, once and for all.
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He capitalized on Brazilians' deep anger with their traditional political class and "throw the bums out" rage after a massive corruption investigation revealed staggering levels of graft.
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The problem is that in democracies it is easier to kick the bums out than to devise ways to stop them getting in in the first place.
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Bella Hadid and Hailey Baldwin went sun's out, bums out while cruising around Miami on a luxury boat -- and got SUPER close once they got back on land.
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"Throw the bums out" is satisfying, but if we want to leverage this moment for real change, we have to refuse to be sated by the firing of any individual predator.
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Get up, stand up for your rights and make a statement – throw the bums out until we find people who truly can represent us, not only in word, but also in deed.
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The problem for Republicans is even if the "toss the bums out" attitude is directed at elected officials more generally rather than at their party in particular, they still stand to suffer losses.
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"If your perspective is back to 2000, you say: 'Life sucks, and we need to throw the bums out and start the revolution, and somehow get to where we were in 2000,'" Grimes said.
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He delivers his brilliantly simple sales pitch — "throw the bums out and let me make America great again" — in the same straightforward language voters use themselves, without backing himself into a corner with specific policy recommendations.
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For any member of the House or Senate who fails to condemn Trump's appeasement of Putin and defend America from the Russian attacks against America, voters should throw those bums out in the midterm elections in November.
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In particular, they suggest that voters who think they can easily detect the quality of politicians respond to political failures "by demanding new people, not new institutions"—throwing the bums out, not changing the incentives facing elected leaders.
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Perdue, a former Reebok and Dollar General CEO who had never run for office before, used an anti-Washington playbook that rejected the traditional conservative-establishment GOP primary fights in favor of a "throw all the bums out" argument.
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Clinton for failing, as a member of the Obama administration, to stop the rise of the Islamic State, employing much the same throw-the-bums-out argument he has used to demand an overhaul of government on domestic matters.
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The throw-the-elite-bums-out ethos of the populists, they say, has led to a government staffed with hapless amateurs who wear their inexperience as a badge, and transported Italy into a bizarro world that upends political logic.
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Virtually the entire federal government was destroyed — the ultimate "throw the bums out" — yet as newcomers have been assembled into a replacement Congress, the same sort of divisiveness and petty horse-trading that characterized the old order have quickly reappeared.
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Not only did Republicans take back the House, but Speaker Tom Foley, a Democrat from Washington State, fell victim to the throw-the-bums-out midterm mentality, becoming the first speaker to lose a seat since Pennsylvania's Galusha A. Grow's loss in 1862.
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Clarke Tucker, a Democratic state legislator in Arkansas who is challenging Representative French Hill, a Republican, said on Wednesday that he took Mr. Lamb's victory as a validation of a throw-the-bums-out message he planned to deliver in his own race.
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To save itself, the European Union is going to need a real opposition political party: one that can formulate a coherent alternate policy agenda and give dissatisfied voters the opportunity to "throw the bums out" without tearing down the entire institutional edifice they inhabit.
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An electorate, once fairly equally divided between center-right and center-left, loosed itself from former allegiances and, its mood febrile and angry, sought parties which promised to throw the bit-by-bit bums out and tell the EU to stop enforcing economic austerity on people who think their lives are already austere enough.
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Exceptions aside, given how often incumbent leaders are losing re-election campaigns, and how many suffer from record-low approval ratings, the confusing pattern of recent election results seems best explained not by the rise of any one ideology but by a sentiment now common to voters all over the world: When in doubt, just throw the bums out.
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Baseball drew barely 14,000 fans a game that season, and even some of the players' family members were yawning at the lack of action, as the Washington Post described that summer: "I think everyone would like to see more of the spectacular things you used to see in baseball: the base stealing, the arguments with the umpire, people screaming, 'throw the bums out,'" said Liz Peterson, wife of Washington outfielder Cap Peterson, who stole just two bases that year while batting .204.
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On the same weekend, The Washington Post and others also reported on the event. Six months later, in a column titled "Throw The Truthiness Bums Out", The New York Times columnist Frank Rich called Colbert's after-dinner speech a "cultural primary" and christened it the "defining moment" of the United States' 2006 midterm elections.
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" The race was close, and Milk lost by fewer than 4,000 votes.Shilts, p. 149. Agnos, however, taught Milk a valuable lesson when he criticized Milk's campaign speeches as "a downer ... You talk about how you're gonna throw the bums out, but how are you gonna fix things—other than beat me? You shouldn't leave your audience on a down.
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La Guardia loathed the gangsters who brought a negative stereotype and shame to the Italian community.Thomas Kessner, Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York (1989) pp 350–68 His first action as mayor was to order the chief of police to arrest mob boss Lucky Luciano on whatever charges could be found. La Guardia then went after the gangsters with a vengeance, stating in a radio address to the people of New York in his high-pitched, squeaky voice, "Let's drive the bums out of town". In 1934 he went on a search-and-destroy mission looking for mob boss Frank Costello's slot machines, which La Guardia executed with gusto, rounding up thousands of the "one armed bandits", swinging a sledgehammer and dumping them off a barge into the water for the newspapers and media.
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