"The central government is debasing your citizenship, and the big capitalists are debasing your personhood," Mr. Bannon said.
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But in debasing gays, Islam's homophobes have only debased themselves.
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Bob Corker accused the President of "debasing" the United States.
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He is insulting, demeaning and debasing the American presidency itself.
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Now we see populist rage destroying our institutions and debasing our civilisation.
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Corker responded by saying Trump will be remembered for "debasing" the nation.
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Rather than preserving the nobility of the presidency, he is debasing it.
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But as debasing as Tillerson's performance was, it might not be enough.
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" Corker also criticized Trump for not being truthful and for "debasing our nation.
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And I just want to say one more thing about debasing the currency.
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Last year, Amazon had 238 cities debasing themselves to attract their forthcoming second headquarters.
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That allows for a level of human debasing that titillates, makes us feel something.
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Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee said Tuesday that the president was "debasing" the country.
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" Mr. Corker, appearing more weary than angry, said the president "is debasing our country.
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"If Sarah Huckabee wants to start debasing me, she's a joke," Nunberg told NY1.
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Cheap, high-quality propaganda risks making the truth harder to find, further debasing democratic politics.
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I think we see that in a debasing of the political process and the dialogue.
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The story was twisted rather than analyzed in its full context, debasing our national discourse.
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Most men in our society, however, have never committed, or tolerated, debasing acts toward women.
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Will the rebranding and debasing of Republican ideology, from free trade to tariffs, be complete?
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Feminists said the spiteful interactions that the shows sometimes encouraged were debasing to the contestants.
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But I let myself become boy-crazy in ways that I still find debasing of myself.
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We're back to bond vigilantes, and it's not about interest rates, it's about debasing the currency.
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Sincere Republican penance for electing this lout as our president and debasing our collective moral currency.
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In "Desecration," a privileged young bride, Sofia, pursues a debasing affair with a thuggish local official.
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It brands the hazing acts as purely sexually debasing, which the vast majority of us never felt.
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It's often immature and lowers the tone of the debate while debasing the office of the presidency.
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He said the president is not a good role model and would be remembered for "debasing" the nation.
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It would confirm her worst fears about the disastrous and politically debasing social tendencies of the modern age.
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He said the president is not a good role model, and would be remembered for "debasing" the nation.
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Feminists found them debasing and conservatives thought they profaned the institution of marriage, the New York Times reports.
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I wanted to reply with hurtful, debasing language that made him feel as small as his words made me feel.
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Mr Trump's titillating, debasing speeches are the apogee of what a conservative columnist once described as the "pornificaton of politics".
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That means the G.O.P. will continue asking Americans to vote for a candidate who is debasing and trivializing our politics.
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On that note, it's time to address the elephant in the room: A Gemini is currently debasing the White House.
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Higginson said of Poe's face, it had the look of oversensitiveness which when uncontrolled may prove more debasing than coarseness .
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The viewer is embarrassed by this act of violence, implicated in the debasing spectacle and, finally, victimized by the sensory assault.
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But we know the danger of that, but that's what they're planning to do anyway, meaning, printing money, debasing the currency.
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Debasing him recusing himself from Russia-related matters, the President's tirade prompted Sessions to draft a resignation letter (Trump didn't accept).
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" He called Twitter "the political pornography of our time: revealing but distorting, exciting but dulling, debasing to its users, and, well, ejaculatory.
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It is vital that we start debasing these myths and start encouraging women from young ages to be open about any career.
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The meeting between Trump and Kanye was high-octane foolishness and one of many debasing moments in Trump's circus-like White House.
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Meanwhile, Corker told CNN that Trump is "debasing" the country, isn't a role model for children and that he regrets supporting him.
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I think he's debasing our political culture in ways we will be living with, and suffering from, for at least a generation.
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Instead, Barr is debasing the rule of law, degrading our democratic institutions, and decimating any trust the American people have left in this Administration.
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Two Republican senators accused Trump of debasing U.S. politics and the country's standing abroad, a rebellion that could portend trouble for his legislative agenda.
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Priebus paid a debasing house call to Trump Tower last fall to accompany Trump as he signed a loyalty pledge to the eventual nominee.
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With his "s---hole" comment, Trump is insulting, demeaning and debasing more than a billion human beings living in a long list of nations.
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The other retiring senator is Corker, who on Tuesday morning predicted that Trump would be remembered in the history books for "debasing" his country.
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One justification for the existence of bitcoin is that central banks, via quantitative easing (QE), are debasing fiat money and laying the path to hyperinflation.
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In effect, the transmission of monetary policy would come via the banking system, not from debasing the currency and hoping for an export-led recovery.
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But shifting toward visual communication without debasing itself to chase the Stories trend could make Twitter more comfortable for a world that increasingly talks through images.
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Mr. Corker, who has been feuding with the man he once contemplated serving as vice president, accused Mr. Trump of serial lying and debasing the office.
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Mr. Corker responded by going on national television to say that Mr. Trump was "debasing" the United States and that the president struggled with the truth.
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But debasing the debate about race into senseless finger-pointing and disingenuous pandering further humiliates minority communities without offering concrete solutions to the complicated challenges we face.
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Corker and Trump feuded publicly last year, with the senator saying he regretted backing him in 2016 and claiming Trump would be remembered for "debasing" the nation.
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Cross that over into true crime — nay, one of the most harrowing true-life tales of human debasing ever inscribed to history — and something feels deeply wrong.
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He's gained success by debasing the political conversation and appealing to Americans' fears and prejudices, so it was jarring to hear him suddenly and tersely condemn hatred.
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LARRAINE GERELICK NASHVILLE To the Editor: I am appalled that politically correct culture warriors against "cultural appropriation" are in effect appropriating and debasing the mantle of progressivism.
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Corker said Trump is "debasing" the country and is "not going to rise to the occasion as president," a sentiment he expounded upon in multiple television interviews.
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Villages in eastern Bihar state had imposed a similar ban a few years ago, saying mobile phones were "debasing the social atmosphere" by leading young women to elope.
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The two reportedly cooked up the disgusting and democracy-debasing stunt of inviting three women who had accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault to the second presidential debate.
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The president has spent weeks impugning Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, for pointing out that Mr. Trump is "debasing" the nation.
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He is insulting, demeaning and debasing millions of human beings who know America as their home and are celebrated by our Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
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Earl, a gay black actor consigned to working in a slaughterhouse, is hemmed in by the masquerades of the closet and the debasing roles available to performers of color.
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They called out his incessant lack of truthfulness, and his penchant for debasing the ideals of democracy and free speech that are at the core of our great Republic.
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When our leaders blast out insults on Twitter, debasing our civic discourse and our culture, they echo Luther's example of playing on the emotions and hatreds of his readers.
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Earlier that same day, Corker — who is also not running to keep his seat in 2018 — criticized Trump on a number of issues, saying the president was debasing the country.
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But doing exactly what Stephens wanted -- terrorizing and debasing her by potentially putting her name on the lips of everyone in the country, including the man he killed -- is quite another.
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Corker called Trump a liar, suggested he shouldn't have access to the nuclear codes, said he's a bad role model for kids and said debasing the country would be Trump's legacy.
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But the 1990 episode at Mar-a-Lago that Ms. Brewer Lane described was different: a debasing face-to-face encounter between Mr. Trump and a young woman he hardly knew.
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We should be clear about this: The increasing radicalism and irresponsibility of the Republican Party, including decades of demeaning government, demonizing Democrats, and debasing norms, is what gave us Donald Trump.
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She's the most sensible member of the Roys' inner circle, but she also seems to relish verbally debasing Roman, calling him a useless little worm over the phone while he masturbates.
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But formerly obscure figures such as Lord and Nunes who've proven their subservience to Trump are on the upswing, while other longtime players in conservative politics are debasing themselves on Trump's behalf.
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A policy the rest of the EU rejects and that cannot get through Parliament marks the final debasing of what was once the Tories' most valuable asset: a reputation for good government.
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" The Times described the story about Brewer Lane being asked to get into a bikini as "a debasing face-to-face encounter between Mr. Trump and a young woman he hardly knew.
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But as more pregnant women arrive each month to give birth, some Canadians are protesting that they are gaming the system, testing the limits of tolerance and debasing the notion of citizenship.
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If Republicans keep turning a blind eye to Donald Trump degrading, debasing and disgracing the office of the presidency, Democrats will do the job the GOP has been unable and unwilling to do.
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Flake's announcement and subsequent speech came hours after Corker and Trump engaged in a public feud over Twitter and cable interviews, with the Tennessee senator saying the president is "debasing" the United States.
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It was as if a sacred boundary had been crossed; the gift shop had infringed upon the exhibition, coming into view too soon, debasing the space with its tactless flaunting of exchange value.
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Chris Pine — yes, it's a Wonder Woman reunion for Jenkins and Pine — stars as Jay Singletary, a damaged veteran of the Korean War, who has lately found debasing work as a reporter-turned-paparazzo.
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It's a shocking abuse of power and aligned with the many stories we've heard about men who masturbate and make people watch: the power they experience in debasing others is the sexual thrill for them.
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Then I moved back to London and got stuck into a string of apathetic nine to fives, squandered pay checks, and participated in the yearly routine of debasing yourself in the name of rented property.
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Corker on Tuesday said he wouldn't support Trump for president if given the opportunity again, saying he has "great difficulty with the truth" and that "debasing" the US would be his prime legacy as President.
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Having diminished so many other great American traditions, President Trump has now moved on to debasing the Presidential Medal of Freedom by awarding it to the most destructive force in economic policy since Herbert Hoover.
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Corker further unloaded against Trump in an interview with CNN, saying he wouldn't support him in a future election, didn't think he was a role model for children and that he is debasing the country.
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This historically dismal polling comes at a particularly pitiful time for Christie, who, after debasing himself as a shameless yes man for Donald Trump during the campaign, was forced out of the president-elect's transition team.
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Flake's speech was widely praised as a potentially seminal moment in the history of Trump's presidency, particularly because it followed fellow Republican Senator Bob Corker's claim earlier in the day that Trump was "debasing" the nation.
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" In 2017, New York Times political columnist Bret Stephens also said he was done with the platform in a column calling Twitter "the political pornography of our time" and claiming it was "debasing to its users.
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In an interview with CNN, Corker said he would not support Trump for president again, that he has "great difficulty with the truth" and that "debasing" the United States would be his prime legacy as President.
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Even the faculty adviser to Georgetown Prep's 1983 yearbook — a publication littered with debasing comments about women and references to drunken debauchery — has been wondering whether he will hear from the F.B.I., a family member said.
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Establishment conservatives agree with virtually everything Corker is saying, but the devil's bargain they've made is that debasing themselves to support Trump will be worth it if they can reform the tax code and unwind Obamacare.
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Because, while reading a cover story in New York magazine, it occurred to me that Twitter is the political pornography of our time: revealing but distorting, exciting but dulling, debasing to its users, and, well, ejaculatory.
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But it's unclear how much difference that made — and meanwhile, this policy faced constant attacks and vilification from the right, with claims that it was debasing the dollar and/or illegitimately bailing out a fiscally irresponsible president.
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No one can walk among the stones of Arlington and believe those there died for a just country and still support a man who holds nothing sacred except for his own draft-dodging, women-debasing opportunistic self.
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"The industry of money management does you such a disservice on television, because the combination of their seeming perfection coupled with the debasing of your own abilities is a toxic brew for do-it-yourselfers," Cramer said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tensions among Republicans about President Donald Trump boiled over on Tuesday as two senators accused Trump of debasing U.S. politics and the country's standing abroad, a rebellion that could portend trouble for his legislative agenda.
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Even in a four-star appreciation of Baby Jane, from 2008, Roger Ebert couldn't help but revel in the spectacle of Crawford and Davis supposedly debasing themselves—rather than just, you know, playing strange and challenging roles.
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Thousands of families are still separated, and Washington is leading a race to the bottom, debasing the political debate, creating a new normal for horror that we cannot let stand and we will not, as a world, forget.
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Privacy is personal and unfortunately, with the laws lagging, the personal is now trivially cheap and easy to weaponize for political dark arts that treat democracy as a game of PR, debasing the entire system in the process.
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The film ends with a six-minute montage that showcases the debasing caricatures of African-Americans in 20th-century film and television, images that "The Birth of a Nation" and "Gone With the Wind" not only popularized, but celebrated.
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Talking through a series of increasingly intimate questions, exchanging astrological star charts, or even speed dating requires two or more parties mutually debasing themselves to try to find the keyboard shortcut to passion; ROTG relies on one-sided manipulation and coercion.
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This is a real person, with real feelings: Debasing, demeaning, and attacking with vitriolic comments — even ones said in an ostensibly "polite" way — really do encourage people to present cookie-cutter versions of themselves, and we find that much less engaging.
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The monumentally unpopular Christie spent the better part of the campaign debasing himself in sad and hilarious ways, the hope being that his loyalty to Trump would earn him a fancy cabinet job—attorney general, perhaps, or, god forbid, vice president.
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But that's what happens when you achieve something great and then try for the rest of your life to emulate it; you end up crushing and debasing your magnum opus, until it's unrecognizable in the face of your immense, newfound vanity.
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" Finally, despite his friends' protestations, Stephen finishes by both debasing and celebrating himself: "I am going to sound like such a … such a … the ultimate bleeding-heart liberal … How do you like that — I'm 30 and I've finally acquired politics!
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My sister and I were fitted, from birth, with different expectations for ourselves than the ones that white, mainstream 20th-century America had for us, all this in spite of the thousand ways that culture had of humiliating or debasing us.
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In it he names and shames French politicians for debasing his father, a former factory worker, and others like him, by forcing them to work menial jobs for little money when they are in no physical condition to do so.
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The 'Celebrity' Like In which we wonder why we are debasing ourselves by being Kim Kardashian's 432,757th like of the day Often I think—as I'm absolutely obliterating the like button on the latest Charli XCX upload—Why am I doing this?
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It proves that the debasing and abusive treatment that women in the business are often subjected to while doing their job finds its way into even our favorite cult classics, turning a funny moment into a dark and all too real commentary.
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Late in the book, Carrère decides to go to a Christian retreat, one based around a story of the Last Supper in Luke, that of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, men shocked that he is debasing himself in this way.
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In fact, just the other day, a New York University Master's student in journalism just put together this spreadsheet where she — and I believe it was a team of people — tracked every tweet that they categorized as in some way debasing the media.
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GOP Senators Jeff Flake and Bob Corker — who earlier Tuesday had slammed the Trump White House as as "outrageous" and "debasing" — both voted with the VP. Republicans have been bent on killing the rule since it was first published by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in July.
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Inspired by her equal dedication to debasing what has been regarded as "the novel of its generation," Loftus and I met up on a sunny day in early July to brainstorm ways in which we could team up to ruin even more copies of Infinite Jest.
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" Corker, who had previously warned that Trump was leading the country on a path towards World War III, told CNN's Manu Raju in an interview Tuesday that the President would be remembered for "the debasing of our nation, the constant non-truth telling, just the name-calling.
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WASHINGTON — In an address billed as an examination of the future of politics, Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin on Wednesday admonished politicians in both parties for debasing political discourse, urging candidates to lift their gaze toward matters of serious policy and to strive for civility.
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Along the way, he meets other unlucky victims of these mysterious villains — never unmasked — who hack photos, webcams, text archives, whatever it takes to find something incriminating enough to force their targets to act out dangerous and/or debasing acts because... ...well, that's never explained, either.
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Seeing what Richard and Mildred Loving meant to one another, and how hard and long they fought for their freedom and equality is precisely what we need this holiday season as an antidote to the dispiriting and debasing poison that we have been through these past brutal months.
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In an interview with CNN in a Senate hallway shortly after the tweets, Corker escalated his criticism, calling Trump a serial liar, saying he regretted supporting him for president, accusing him of debasing the country and refusing to say whether he trusted Trump with the U.S. nuclear codes.
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The two answers it offers, in a broad sampling of art and documentary material, are openly contradictory (and both right): Galleries provide a generous range of culturally enfranchising work that is free to all, while also grievously debasing culture by commodifying it for the benefit of a wealthy few.
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Leaning into its lived-in sense of place — most members of the all-black writer's room are Atlanta natives — the new season moves easily between Tarantino-esque (a scene-stealing Katt Williams and his domesticated alligator) and straightforward satire (a debasing visit to a Spotify-like tech company).
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"When his term is over, I think the debasing of our nation, the constant non-truth telling, and the, just the name-calling, the things that I think, the debasement of our nation is what he'll be remembered most for, and that's regretful," Corker said about Trump last year.
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It is mostly Iago, the villain of the play, who refers to him as a "Moor" and in debasing terminology; it is he who refers to his sexual relationship with Desdemona as "an old black ram tupping…[a] white ewe", where the word "tupping" is reserved for the copulation of animals.
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"I think at the end of the day, when his term is over, I think the debasing of our nation, the constant non-truth-telling, the name calling … the debasement of our nation will be what he will be remembered most for, and that's regretful," Corker told CNN's Manu Raju.
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If you answered the phones in our office for a while, particularly when I go on Fox, and compared it to what it was like answering the phones in a congressional office 10 years ago or 20 years ago or 30 years ago, it has been a complete debasing of the political dialogue.
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Trump has gone so far -- racial demagoguery and slurs, abuse of office, dictator appeasement, nepotism and family corruption, blazing incompetence, contempt for the rule of law, betrayal of public institutions, epic dishonesty, authoritarian thuggishness... the list never ends -- that he is damaging public institutions and debasing the Presidency of the United States.
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Closer to home, we can also, as a country, recognize that we have a candidate for President who attributed a respected female journalist's aggressive questioning to her menstrual cycle, and who has called women at various times a "dog" and a "disgusting pig," debasing women to the level of animals — that is, less than human.
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Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (Tenn.) spoke out against Trump, calling his behavior reckless and saying he is debasing the nation.
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With the polarities reversed, and the biggest celebrity somehow exposed and not objectified, I found myself craving a sex scene between the one non-sex-worker African-American couple on the show: in this context, such a sequence became elevating, not debasing, a sign that the characters were taken seriously enough to see their private world.
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The same Trump who blasted Clinton for being "owned by Wall Street" assembled a cabinet that is a roster of the superwealthy, including at least two billionaires, and is considering other top-crusters including the miserable Mitt Romney, who is debasing himself by groveling for the secretary of state job before a man whom he once called a fraud.
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Also at the same time, the app has made a cameo in Puerto Rican politics, as the leak of nearly 20103 pages of sexist, debasing, and homophobic messages from a Telegram group chat led to popular protests and the governor's resignation, illustrating that, when they think no one is eavesdropping, politicians and their confidantes will still say anything.
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"I do think members of Congress ought to speak out if the president follows through on some of the policies or threats he's made with regard to the First Amendment, for example, or in terms of the tweets and just kind of the debasing statements that he's made and also on the foreign stage," he added.
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I can write that the growing tribalization of our politics, the notion that members of the other party are not just opponents but "enemies" who must be crushed, is being fueled by a president who has no desire to be president of all the people, but rather only his base, and who delights in dividing us and insulting people, thereby debasing his office.
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No one (except perhaps the acidic H. L. Mencken, who famously described American democracy as "the worship of jackals by jackasses") could have imagined that the 250st-century catastrophe to befall the U.S.A., the most debasing of disasters, would appear not, say, in the terrifying guise of an Orwellian Big Brother but in the ominously ridiculous commedia dell'arte figure of the boastful buffoon.
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Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.) warned that the president could lead America into World War III and mourned that the president is debasing the nation.
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One of the most striking features of the Trump era is how consistently people who work for or with it end up debasing themselves — whether they're defending conspiracy theories or fantasy math, praising the intelligence of the president after news reports that they called him a "moron," or being forced to defend the intelligence decisions of a man who refuses to listen to his intelligence briefings.
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Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.) said he believes Trump will be remembered for "the debasing of our nation," and said the president is not a good role model. Sen.
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Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.), who is also retiring once his term ends in January of 2019, engaged in another public feud with the president that same day, arguing Trump is "debasing" the United States.
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As Corker correctly said of Trump on CNN: "He purposely is breaking down relationships we have around the world that have been useful to our nation, but I think at the end of the day, when his term is over, I think the debasing of our nation, the constant non-truth-telling, the name calling … the debasement of our nation will be what he will be remembered most for, and that's regretful."
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Maybe it doesn't affect you, but it's causing genocides around the world, or it's causing millions of people to believe conspiracy theories and debasing our social fabric, but because that doesn't affect you, people don't have that same level of urgency of we have to shut it down, but they really need to see, it's not like the world was broken before, 10 years ago, when you could watch a video and nothing auto-played. Mm-hmm.
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Anglo-Saxon liberals argued that the best way to create mass prosperity is to create a stable system of economic policy-making: take decisions about monetary policy out of the hands of politicians (who will always be tempted to buy votes by debasing the currency) and give them to central bankers; take decisions about trade out of the hands of national governments (who will always be tempted to make trade-distorting deals) and sub-contract it to trans-national bodies such as the World Trade Organisation.
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Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.) accusing President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE of "debasing" the nation.
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