How do you calm your child's fears about the bogeyman, when the bogeyman is real?
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JOHN HARWOOD: Let's go back to the Wall Street bogeyman.
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In politics, a bogeyman is used to scare people too.
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Brussels has graduated from convenient scapegoat to the IMF's bogeyman enforcer.
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Another bogeyman opponent for the kid from Trang was Saensak Muangsurin.
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Someone called "The Sugar Man" who totally resembles Millennial bogeyman, Slenderman.
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Could the deceased Cliff Blossom (Barclay Hope) actually be the bogeyman?
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It would delight Iran's hardliners who need America as a bogeyman.
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For many people in these communities, coal ash is a bogeyman.
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Sanctuary cities too have become a particular bogeyman for the administration.
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It's become like the bogeyman that you tell the kids about.
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The West, symbolized by the United States, is the perennial bogeyman.
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Deflation bogeyman The Trump administration argues that inflation is not a concern.
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Entertainment and popular culture eagerly cast Muslims as America's bogeyman du jour.
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Mr. Trump just needs a bogeyman, and we serve his purposes nicely.
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The Bogeyman hasn't spoken since killing someone at the age of six.
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The girls were allegedly trying to please the fictional internet bogeyman Slenderman.
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He was just like a bogeyman to us, but a real person.
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India, the regional superpower, is an ever-present bogeyman for Sri Lankans.
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Eventually, people started regarding him as a bogeyman or a vengeful spirit.
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But why was ISIS made into a bogeyman in the first place?
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It took a while, but technology has finally flipped from boon to bogeyman.
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Elsewhere in the show, Archie Moore's "Bogeyman" (2017) stands as an ominous presence.
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Go deeper: A world and web divided Why Huawei is the 5G bogeyman
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For such a Washington bogeyman to play that heroic role would be extraordinary.
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Until that recent opening, Iran had been a convenient bogeyman for regional crises.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters Breakingviews) - Big data is the latest bogeyman of Western politics.
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Saturday Night Live guest host Tom Hanks is the hammiest Halloween bogeyman ever.
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MS-13 also provides U.S. President Donald Trump with a convenient bogeyman to
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They invoked their all-purpose Jewish bogeyman, the investor and philanthropist George Soros.
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His long-shot candidate status against a conservative bogeyman helped catapult O'Rourke nationally.
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The NRA likewise opts to scapegoat some "insane" bogeyman during times like these.
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Thus, the bogeyman of 15-percent rates has yet to fade into obscurity.
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The degenerative neurological disease has become a bogeyman for football players and fans alike.
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Once "liberalism" was the proud banner of the Democrats—and the bogeyman of Republicans.
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But until Congress acts, the sue-and-settle bogeyman will never fully be slayed.
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Instead of shying away from the digital bogeyman, he wants parents to embrace it.
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He thinks people use it as a bogeyman, to gin up fear of conservatives.
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China is not the economic bogeyman that it is in America—not yet, at least.
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Finally, the fading of the great December bogeyman — a 2019 recession — has also calmed nerves.
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For a strongman in need of a bogeyman, there is something irresistible about Mr Soros.
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It's hard to conceive that this was the same fighter who was once MMA's bogeyman.
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In addition, Mr Orban has found a useful bogeyman on whom to focus his campaign.
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A Bogeyman who went room to room with a shotgun, and shot them all dead.
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Democratic Socialists, the current bogeyman of the right, are celebrating some big Election Day wins.
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Still, not all is lost, because the Bogeyman, bless him, has not forgotten his manners.
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The El Cuco many Latin American and Spanish cultures know is more like a bogeyman.
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The Warriors don't have to see their version of the bogeyman in the White House.
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The president loves a good bogeyman and to a large extent, American voters do too.
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People were afraid, not of his bogeyman, but of the actual criminals he had inspired.
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Geyser and Weier believed this e-bogeyman would hurt their families unless they killed their friend.
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Reagan's administration launched 49 Section 301 probes, many targeting Japan, the trade bogeyman of the day.
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It's not the first time McConnell has played the role of bogeyman within his own party.
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Is that fair to use you as the bogeyman in terms of, to point at you.
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"We're not just going to let Russia be the bogeyman," one White House official told me.
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"It's a lot easier to pull the trigger when you're aiming at the bogeyman," he explains.
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Is that fair to use you as the bogeyman in terms of-- to point at you.
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"When the going gets tough domestically, you turn to the 'foreign hand' as an easy bogeyman."
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Republicans have used "socialized medicine" as a bogeyman—and they've steadily lost ground on the issue.
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Democratic socialism has become the new hotness on the left, and a bogeyman of the right.
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But knowing that he's a human being, not a bogeyman, has a value of its own.
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And you don't go underground to confront the bogeyman; you go there to avoid being bombed.
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The American fear of confinement never made the prison story the cinematic bogeyman that asylums were.
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It's time we realize OPEC is no longer a bogeyman, but an ally with common interests.
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Where I'm from, a small town in the middle of nowhere, the gay man was the bogeyman.
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President Donald Trump wants to make a familiar political bogeyman part of his 2020 re-election bid.
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Episode 9 Piscatella is, indeed, in the prison — and Red's not wrong to call him the bogeyman.
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Fighting enemy number two should be easier, after all, coal is the global bogeyman for climate change.
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The winning streak, however, was broken at the end of the year by another bogeyman opponent, Thaksinlek.
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And that's important, because Pelosi had been such an effective bogeyman for congressional Republicans for so long.
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Bannon has become the ultimate bogeyman to both the Left and to those in the GOP establishment.
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Instead, he was featured as a political bogeyman: only briefly present, looming over everything in his absence.
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Remember when you were a kid and you'd check the closet and under your bed for the bogeyman?
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But in his first flurry of policy tweets and executive orders, China, his favourite bogeyman, was conspicuously absent.
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LaHood sought to combat Gonzales's criticism by linking him to Soros — who is a bogeyman for the right.
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Soros is a bogeyman for many conservatives as well as people who believe that the Illuminati are real.
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That gives them more scope to push their agenda on trade, infrastructure and a perennial bogeyman, the banks.
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It wasn't Trump who created the bogeyman of voter fraud, which resulted in laws making voting more difficult.
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What does this death of the "class warfare" bogeyman mean for our political culture, this year and after?
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As a result of her liberal refugee policy, Mrs Merkel served as the AfD's bogeyman during this campaign.
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Terrorism—though it claimed fewer American lives last year than toddlers with guns—has become a national bogeyman.
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To Republicans, she is a useful bogeyman, the wealthy San Francisco liberal forever plotting to raise your taxes.
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China may be the bogeyman du jour, but the market access challenges posed by China are hardly unique.
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More from the Speaker's race … Centrist group behind Pelosi holdouts plotted to make her "bogeyman" (The Daily Beast).
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As the election draws near, capitalism will struggle to rip off the mask of Britain's least favourite bogeyman.
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Pryor, a conservative George W. Bush judicial nominee, is somewhat of a liberal bogeyman, famously calling Roe v.
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"Because it's illegal and informal and misunderstood, charcoal has been the bogeyman," said Chris Ward, the project's executive director.
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The gun industry simply used Mr. Obama as a bogeyman to drum up firearm sales – this tactic worked brilliantly.
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By the 1990s, the bogeyman of Democratic voter fraud was becoming a key element in the GOP's core message.
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As bad as fentanyl is, though, the study also suggests that going after any single bogeyman is a losing battle.
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Denunciations of George W. Bush and the Iraq war made him a bogeyman among right-wing fulminators and conspiracy theorists.
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And this kitchen gossip birthed a bogeyman in my brain that whispered insidiously, over and over: Men will hurt you.
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Both political parties may in fact be gearing up to make Big Tech the bogeyman in the 2020 presidential election.
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Pelosi has been a Republican bogeyman since she rose to the speakership in 2007 -- and, in truth, long before that.
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With an election year around the corner, the White House has tried to cast the Federal Reserve as a bogeyman.
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While Lewis' book gave retail traders a handy bogeyman in Flash Boys, speed has been unequivocally good for all investors.
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Instead, the public will begin to see a "bogeyman" version of government-run health care emerge after the 2020 presidential election.
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Dating apps are the latest sex-panic bogeyman, following in the footsteps of birth control and sex-ed in decades past.
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This is the big bogeyman, but the stocks are trading like everything is worthless and everyone is going out of business.
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Republicans' ability to effectively use Pelosi as their bogeyman in Georgia was especially stark when contrasted with the Democrats' tactics there.
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In an editorial for the New York Times in December, Hillary Clinton called for tough measures to contain the global bogeyman.
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In the eyes of many, including the Welsh steelworkers, the main bogeyman is China, where steel output has ballooned (see chart).
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The centre-right parties would certainly use the spectre of a "left republic" as a bogeyman during next year's federal campaign.
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Since then, Article 23 has loomed over Hong Kong politics, either a bogeyman or a panacea depending on one's ideological bent.
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The specter of the welfare queen still looms large in conservative imaginings, and now Trump has added immigrants to this bogeyman.
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And if the NRA is the convenient bogeyman in this instance, what not of the same hurled accusations about Planned Parenthood?
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When Trump and his ilk make immigration a bogeyman, they conveniently ignore the systemic racism blacks have been facing for decades.
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Here, she confronts him about the drunken night 14 years earlier and navigates tricky issues of violence, forgiveness and the bogeyman.
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He's long seen the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits above Curiel, as a bogeyman out to get him.
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Often lording over the whole spectacle, in their telling, was Soros — the billionaire who has become a bogeyman for the right.
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Mueller, famously reticent, was a perfect bogeyman for Trump, never hitting back even when the President blasted him endlessly and dishonestly.
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And in the title role, the astonishing Lars Eidinger is a bogeyman guaranteed to haunt your nightmares for weeks to come.
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Then all of a sudden Trump was leaning into diplomacy while Abe was still waving around the North Korean bogeyman saber.
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Mutated viruses have long been the bogeyman of science fiction films, but in the case of Ebola, mutation could be its downfall.
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He thinks the public will begin to see a "bogeyman" version of government-run health care emerge after the 2020 presidential election.
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But, after months of machinations and negotiations, PowerPoint presentations and strategic "buckets," their odds of leveling the longtime bogeyman are growing longer.
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If they feared environmental change, Trump told them not to worry about the climate change bogeyman under the bed — he wasn't real.
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As for the motivations behind the laws, it's hardly just bleeding-heart liberalism, or "political correctness," the bogeyman Trump loves to invoke.
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The girls told investigators they stabbed her to impress Slenderman, a tall, creepy fictional bogeyman they insisted was real, the complaint said.
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And then there's the bogeyman that no twentysomething wants to confront but lurks hungrily in our inboxes every month anyway: student loans.
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This isn't a wisecracking, tongue-in-cheek picture: Green wants us to believe in his Bogeyman, and Curtis is his ace card.
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Both Comey, whose net worth suddenly multiplied many times over, and Trump, with a base energized in opposition to this latest bogeyman.
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The Sacklers have been pegged as the bogeyman of the opioid epidemic, since their widely known drug OxyContin was introduced in 1996.
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Poland's populist Law and Justice government uses Germany (and especially its liberal refugee policy) as a bogeyman and rides roughshod over democratic norms.
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But because our political class believes in myths, not solid evidence, they keep creating policies directed at an imaginary bogeyman, not real criminals.
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Macron, who advocates economic reforms to loosen rigid labor market rules and promote flexibility and competition, has become a bogeyman for traditional leftists.
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Trump's reliance on extreme images of marauding Mexicans pillaging and looting the US has created the new American bogeyman, the new Willy Horton.
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Things get more complicated, though, when the bogeyman is not an anonymous evil fashion editor at a glossy magazine or the Hollywood machine.
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Writer David Kushner was just 1023 years old when his older brother was murdered – leaving him fearful of the "bogeyman" throughout his childhood.
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Macron, who advocates economic reforms to loosen rigid labour market rules and promote flexibility and competition, has become a bogeyman for traditional leftists.
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But a significant handful have woven a bogeyman out of their troubles, and what emerges is a perceptive portrait of a nation's psychology.
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On the right, in the constituency of conspiracy-theory-addled voters who insist that a "deep-state" bogeyman is hiding under the bed.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The inflation bogeyman has reared its ugly head and sent U.S. stock investors racing for the hills in recent days.
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"Green wants us to believe in his Bogeyman, and Curtis is his ace card," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her New York Times review.
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It's the thing that is most taboo, and the thing that is most shocking, and the thing that's a bogeyman in my life.
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But while Planned Parenthood is anti-abortion activists' biggest bogeyman, the bulk of American abortions are actually performed by small, independent abortion clinics.
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And he said the climate crisis was exacerbated by big money in politics and corrupt corporations -- the bogeyman of the Democratic presidential race.
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Ocasio-Cortez, a bogeyman of the right, has introduced or endorsed many of the policies that are now key to progressive candidates' platforms.
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Individuals in the throes of such personal crises are prone to latch on to whatever bogeyman is preoccupying the American imagination at that moment.
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The former would bolster Russia's strength; the latter would allow the Kremlin to present the American president as a bogeyman and object of mockery.
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"... The attack is part of a broader Fidesz campaign to frame foreign NGOs and foundations ... as a liberal bogeyman ahead of ... elections," it said.
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When the finale aired, catastrophic 251 percent attacks were mostly a theoretical bogeyman in the IRL cryptocurrency world despite minor incidents in the past.
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Piracy isn't always the vile market bogeyman it's portrayed to be by the entertainment industry, a new joint study by Indiana University has found.
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The man was Michael Myers (Nick Castle), though he was also described as the Bogeyman, and the end credits listed him as the Shape.
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Once this latest round of indignation hits a boil, Keurig, in its role as liberal bogeyman, will be drained and ditched by its enemies.
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Software that uses your computer power to "mine" (in other words, create) digital coins for profit have become a bit of a bogeyman online.
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But it was back to snakes and ladders, win and lose, up the ladder and down the snake, with a series of bogeyman opponents.
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Republicans are even expressing "glee" that Sanders might be the nominee, believing they can use his "democratic socialism" as a bogeyman to scare voters.
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Rice became the public face of the Obama administration's initial response to that tragedy, and for that, she became a bogeyman on the right.
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Gibney learns about El Cuco, the Latin American version of the Bogeyman, a scary monster who attacks children who are up to no good.
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Because of its Chinese ownership, TikTok has become a convenient bogeyman to the "privacy-focused," America-first narrative championed by Zuckerberg and his lieutenants.
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" Ben Sasse of Nebraska on July 12 -- "The judge I met today doesn't sound anything like the imaginary bogeyman that Democrats are railing against.
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But she also described the aggressors as "black Muslims," which suggests she comes from a household quick to reach for a clichéd black bogeyman.
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This despite the Russian president's inviting status as a bogeyman, especially among Republicans, and despite the embarrassment that Mr Trump's affinity for him has entailed.
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She has already run ads using Pelosi as a liberal bogeyman, though she did not mention any of her opponents in ads during the primary.
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Many believed that the bogeyman who stole the 7-year-old -- and this community's sense of innocence and safety -- had finally been brought to justice.
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" Baio later said in a Facebook live video that Eggert was his "best friend in the world, then all of a sudden I'm the bogeyman.
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Straight after saying he would slap hefty tariffs on aluminium and steel imports, he is setting his sights on China, a favourite stump-speech bogeyman.
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But media outlets keep calling CTE football's "bogeyman," and there are new pronouncements every day that the league may not exist in a few decades.
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If you were around in the 80s, you definitely do—it was a climate bogeyman of the time, along with acid rain, and rightfully so.
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So how about GDXJ, where we had all these concerns about how it had to deviate from its index to avoid the Canadian regulatory bogeyman?
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The Junkie Whore is a bogeyman used to scare marginalized women straight, yet she has little to do with our lives as we live them.
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But rather than confront the root causes, or maybe offer the federal government's help, Sessions used the occasion to segue to Trump's bogeyman: MS-13.
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In seeking re-election last spring, Orban needed an enemy, and so he used Soros as his bogeyman in a campaign redolent of anti-Semitism.
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With Florida Governor Jeb Bush having left the race, Kasich is the only candidate left who does not view Common Core as the educational Bogeyman.
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Although pundits love to conjure a monolithic "China" as the bogeyman in contemporary rare earth politics, U.S. and Chinese scientists have worked together for decades.
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"People keep waiting for the bogeyman coming in terms of inflation, and they're going to have to wait a long time," Rieder said on Wednesday.
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With Bolton out of the way, the familiar hawkish bogeyman is no longer available as a proxy target for criticism of President Trump's foreign policy.
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The Russian president is the ultimate foreign policy bogeyman in this campaign, summoned like a menacing apparition any time a candidate's manliness is called into question.
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But the entire exercise feels tired -- down to the involvement of a Russian bogeyman -- despite the twists and shifting alliances that unfold over its 10 episodes.
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While the Waukesha incident was very real, Slender Man became another bogeyman for a generation of parents who were worried about the latest fad corrupting youth.
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After all, NRA propagandists routinely claim some bogeyman—communists, zombies, "violent anti-second-amendment extremists" or New York's governor—threaten NRA members and their constitutional rights.
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He said Germany should avoid reacting in kind to provocations from Turkey because that would only give Erdogan the "who needs a bogeyman for his campaign".
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When Rosen officially announced her bid, Heller's campaign responded by attacking Reid, a bogeyman for Republicans when he was still the Democratic leader in the Senate.
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Now, she's written her first novel, "Fleishman Is in Trouble," on divorce, a topic that, she said, in her own life always felt like the bogeyman.
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President Donald Trump's war on supposed social media bias is about a lot of things — riling up conservatives, creating a bogeyman, his confusion over Twitter followers.
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It didn't matter how much I liked my partner, or how good it felt to get off with them; the thought of penetrative sex roused the bogeyman.
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Now, a few days after his 37th birthday and with performance enhancing drugs rightly maligned, Bisping scored the most meaningful victory of his career over the bogeyman.
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Mueller is such a frightening bogeyman for Donald Trump that in his evenings alone he may think he sees him in the shadows at the White House.
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He is a favorite bogeyman of the right, so Fox's conservative talk shows blame him for all sorts of ills, sometimes even pushing into conspiracy theory territory.
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One old soi dog was his bogeyman opponent from the 1970s, Wichanoi, whom he met for a pot bellied dust-up at Omnoi Stadium in February 2012.
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But "shadow banning" continues to be a digital bogeyman, used to shoo away the nuances of social media platforms' increasingly complicated (and often opaque) content moderation strategies.
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Despite the glowing start to 2014, the rest of the year was a hectic calendar of decision losses against Thaksinlek, Luknimit and the perennial 125llb bogeyman, Thanonchai.
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It's about violence and forgiveness, about friendship and the unwanted title of victim, about digging deeper and deeper to seek answers — from yourself and from your bogeyman.
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And the crowd's reaction on Thursday confirms something that's become increasingly clear over these past few months: AOC is the new Republican bogeyman (or bogeywoman) of choice.
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Soros is a long-standing Republican bogeyman, whose support of liberal causes has made him the target of anti-Semitic tropes from conservatives and the far-right.
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While Valor and Shooter don't entirely avoid the bogeyman of Islamic extremists, they take aim at different fear of Second Amendment-loving gun enthusiasts: the U.S. government itself.
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In addition to the concern that kids will get into trouble if they aren't meticulously scheduled in after-school and weekend programming, the other bogeyman is screen time.
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A significant portion of misinformation published during the election focused on stoking ethnic and religious divides, while depicting electoral agencies as corrupt, frequently using China as a bogeyman.
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In countries where there are fewer people that don't look like you, or sound like you, it's easier to whip up anti-immigrant sentiment against an imaginary bogeyman.
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Over the last decade Iran's nuclear program has caused panic in Washington, DC, as successive administrations have struggled to work out how to deal with their regional bogeyman.
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Then he blamed the dim prospects for radical change in health-care policy on the main bogeyman of his presidential campaign: a "campaign finance system that is corrupt".
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On a permanent state of operational readiness, ready to fight at short notice, an obscure kid from the boondocks of Thailand has become a serial bogeyman in Bangkok.
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Unless you're a long-standing reader of ghost stories, it's easy to fall victim to various untruths that line readerly expectations like bogeyman on some dimly moonlit path.
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Investors fear the bogeyman of healthcare reform will finally emerge from the Washington DC cellar, and this will likely weigh on share prices and valuations through November 2020.
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They used Cohen's lawyer and former Clinton associate, Lanny Davis, and suggestions about mysterious forces funding him, as the bogeyman to allege that Cohen's testimony was politically motivated.
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The rank-and-file grew during the Obama presidency, many fearing the liberal bogeyman would advance at any sign of weakness, after a decline during the Bush years.
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Trump has long made China a bogeyman, accusing it in a 2012 tweet of having "created" the concept of global warming in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.
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Describing him as a "real-life bogeyman" and "trophy collector," prosecutors said they arrested 58-year-old William Charles Thomas, a mobile home park handyman in Falls Township, Pennsylvania.
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The near hysteria of 2013 turned to expectation this time as defending champion Djokovic, Murray's bogeyman who beat him in this year's Australian and French Open finals, lost early.
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It is fashionable nowadays to portray Russia as a bogeyman of Europe, which is a cynical maneuver to maintain the Cold War atmosphere and ensure American presence in Europe.
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The ill-conceived British referendum was to a large degree a vague protest vote with immigrants as the bogeyman, and the economic consequences are only beginning to be felt.
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The site is frequently mentioned in conspiracy theories about paid protesters and is often accused of being run by billionaire liberal investor George Soros, a bogeyman for the right.
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McConnell -- who has refused to take up any of the dozens of election security bills in Congress, even the bipartisan ones -- has become a bogeyman for election security enthusiasts.
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Thus, over the holiday weekend, he issued a series of tweets stoking a familiar (and unfounded) fear of border-crossing bogeyman who are hell-bent on committing violent crimes.
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For decades, OPEC has been an economic bogeyman to the United States, and for much of the time since its founding in 1960, the cartel has deserved that status.
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New York (CNN Business)Wind power is a booming part of the American economy, not a bogeyman to fear, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee told CNN Business on Wednesday.
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Nagle attacks a liberal internet sunk in filter-bubbled complacency, drunk on the relative ease of expressing one's politics in retweets, and obsessed with calling out the right-wing bogeyman.
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While conservatives have long evoked rolling blackouts as a bogeyman in the debate over renewable power, energy researchers do express concern about the time frame for achieving Ocasio-Cortez's goals.
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In addition, Russian military aggression has brought about a new wave of nationalism that portrays Russia as the universal bogeyman that is to blame for all of Ukraine's internal problems.
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From my perspective, bots were a bogeyman, a simple narrative that could be used to cover up the highly complex and secretive world of how concert tickets are actually sold.
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Glyphosate is the target of environmental activists because it's applied on many genetically engineered crops, known as RoundUp Ready, which they oppose because both were developed by eco-bogeyman Monsanto.
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At least 16 states involved in opioid-related lawsuits against the maligned corporate bogeyman of the overdose crisis aren't sold on taking a settlement deal, according to an NBC survey.
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Cisneros has knocked Cueller for taking money from liberal bogeyman like the oil industry, Chamber of Commerce, a Koch-funded group and, as recently as 2018, the National Rifle Association.
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" He went on, "Obviously, the Affordable Care Act, I think, is most vulnerable, because that has been a unifying bogeyman for Republicans over the course of the last six years.
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Advertising is Snopes' only source of revenue, and Mikkelson -- who calls Soros "an all-purpose bogeyman" for people on the right -- said his site has no donors or sponsors backing it.
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Most Americans probably don't know the name Mario Draghi, but Trump may have created a new bogeyman for his supporters when he complained about the outgoing European central banker on Twitter.
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Last week, during one of Donald Trump's trademark unruly rallies, he invoked the name of the right wing's latest bogeyman: antifa, or "an-teee-fah," to hear the president pronounce it.
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Silverman became the religious right's favorite godless bogeyman, sparring with presenters on Fox News after launching billboard campaigns urging people to skip church and telling them that Christmas is a myth.
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"And now, the bogeyman," Reitzle quipped as he read out the vote for himself at the end of a seven-hour meeting attended by about 2,500 shareholders, an unusually high number.
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Divided views of the NRA Democrats see the National Rifle Association -- the leading lobbying group against all forms of stricter gun laws -- as a bogeyman in the debate over gun control.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Stefanos Tsitsipas celebrated victory over fellow ATP Finals debutant Daniil Medvedev like he had won the title on Monday as he finally snapped a jinx against his Russian bogeyman.
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This effort to redefine debate as non-debate will be voted upon by the parliament at the end of this month, a European manifestation of the EM-as-bogeyman story line.
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From London to Rome, the European Union over the past decade has served as a useful punching bag, wheeled out to unite domestic voters against a conveniently opaque and unglamorous bogeyman.
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"I think we've transformed the music enough to say that we actually came up with our own genre," El Cucuy (The Bogeyman)told Reuters backstage at a recent Los Angeles concert.
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She also calls for repealing the 1994 crime law, which has become a bogeyman for mass incarceration among progressives (in large part because Democrats, particularly Biden, supported it when it passed).
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"Get Out": you could say it to an invasive bogeyman, a discarded lover, an insolent guest, or a guy who needs to leave, right now, in order to save his skin.
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The key for a successful Democratic bogeyman is that (a) the person is well-known to the GOP base and (b) the person makes Republicans angry or scared or ideally both.
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While coal has long been the bogeyman of climate activists, the IPCC has effectively thrown down the gauntlet and given world leaders a little over 30 years to phase it out entirely.
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He sympathized with autoworkers fighting the tide of imports coming from Japan, and in the 1980s Trump was railing at a "bogeyman in the form of a foreign competitor," according to D'Antonio.
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The main message from Muhyiddin, sources close to him said, was the importance of building an alliance that did not include Anwar and the Chinese-dominated DAP, long the bogeyman for Malays.
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Saturday morning my 10-year-old daughter walked into my bedroom to report her dream that Steyer had come to Reno, like a billionaire bogeyman, creating panic and chaos on caucus day.
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In a flurry of tweets and retweets, Ms. Barr dabbled in far-right conspiracy theories old and new that included falsehoods about a frequent bogeyman, George Soros, the billionaire and progressive philanthropist.
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Well, remember when you were a kid and your parents would scare you into staying in your bed by telling you that if you got up again the bogeyman would get you?
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The wave of migrants who arrived in Europe in 2015-16, which served Mr Orban as a useful bogeyman, has abated, and the fractured opposition is too harmless to serve as a foil.
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The centre, which has long-standing ties to Betsy DeVos, the education secretary and a bogeyman on the left, has begun directly contacting teachers on their official e-mail accounts in 11 states.
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The third category—and the biggest bogeyman—is the spectre of capital controls, measures to restrict the flow of capital in and out of the country, in the event of severe economic turbulence.
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In fact, CEO Tim Cook has at times tried to parlay other tech companies' struggles to Apple's advantage — for example, using Facebook as a bogeyman to demonstrate how seriously his company takes privacy.
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"I have been surprised how often feminism becomes the bogeyman representing what they hate, and it really speaks to the importance of gender norms across conservative social movements in the U.S.," she said.
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The Republicans have long used the national debt as a bogeyman to justify cuts to such programs, while simultaneously pushing for massive increases to the military budget and tax cuts for the rich.
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It is possible to watch an entire primetime lineup without mention of Brexit, of the gilets jaunes, of any Eurasian politics beyond the bogeyman Putin and some snarking at Trump's vague China tariffs.
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Trump has used trans soldiers as a bogeyman to fire up his base, borrowing a tactic from the North Carolina GOP even though he came out against HB 2 on the campaign trail.
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However, the migrant caravan became topical again in autumn of this year when President Donald Trump began using it as a bogeyman to scare Republican voters to the November 2018 midterm election polls.
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Yet there is a bogeyman—a djinn, beloved of Persian legend, cited by conservative neighbors, borne on the wind, and scoffed at by Shideh right up to the moment that she meets one.
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Trump and Xi are expected to meet at the G-20 in Buenos Aires later this month amid their ongoing trade war and the Trump administration's governmentwide effort to paint China as a bogeyman.
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Recently, though, the Mexican establishment's favorite bogeyman has moderated his rhetoric, hammering home his anti-corruption message and courting sections of the middle class who equate him with Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's former leftist leader.
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Trump and Xi are expected to meet at the G20 in Buenos Aires later this month amid their ongoing trade war and the Trump administration's government-wide effort to paint China as a bogeyman.
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It wasn't until the second half of the 20th century that the Ouija board became more of a bogeyman in pop culture, when it started making appearances in the scariest movies of our time.
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But the theory has become a bizarre meme over the past several days, as jokesters make clearly ridiculous claims about antifa bogeyman, only to have them co-opted as evidence of a terrorist plot.
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German officials in particular take a dim view of the ECB's free spending and its impact on prices, something ING economist Carten Brzeski encapsulated in a note entitled "Return of Germany's economic bogeyman: inflation".
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The great irony of the Trump era (well, one of them) is that Pelosi, for so long the GOP bogeyman, is now often cast by Berniecrats and other insurgent progressives as being insufficiently left.
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It's the resilience of Sanders's campaign that's changed that calculus, by creating a bogeyman that so terrifies many Democratic Party elected officials and consultants that Bloomberg's record no longer seems like a total nonstarter.
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Republicans of all ideologies have turned the Democratic leader of the inquiry, Adam Schiff, into a bogeyman, and opposing his stewardship of the inquiry — fairly or not — is an easy call for the GOP.
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ISIS has become such a successful bogeyman — far beyond the already significant threat to human life and culture that they pose — that their mere presence in a headline means papers sold and links clicked.
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Read more " _____ Robert Tracinski in The Federalist: "The obvious lesson here is that angry populism fueled by resentment against the bogeyman of supposed 'elites' is not the basis for a political party or movement.
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He has also worked with the liberal billionaire George Soros, a bogeyman to many on the right, who see his fingerprints -- often without or in opposition to any evidence -- on every protest of policy push.
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California's Disneyland resort has a new spook-tacular Halloween celebration this year inspired by Disney villains and hosted by Oogie Boogie, the gambling bogeyman at the center of Tim Burton's 1993 animated musical dark fantasy.
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The financing is meant to help those countries continue to invest in anti-malarial drugs, insecticide-laced bed nets, and better clinical diagnostics, even as Zika and Dengue have become the bigger public health bogeyman.
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Weier and Geyser lured the victim into the woods and stabbed her 19 times with a kitchen knife to impress Slenderman, a tall, thin, creepy fictional bogeyman they insisted was real, a criminal complaint said.
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Mr. Garcia said that immigration had replaced terrorism as the new "bogeyman" for the American right and predicted that the rise in hate crimes would not stop until the harsh rhetoric against Latinos had ended.
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It's the less obvious challenge of stemming the erosion of the pillars of democracy and order built in the previous two eras — but without a single big, obvious bogeyman or falling wall to galvanize us.
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This season's episodes include a parent's lament about the bogeyman her child fears, the story of a mother "who sometimes dreams she's childless and free," and a tale of two babies, two dads, two cultures.
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In self-care's wake, I find myself reconsidering the bogeyman that has been "emotional eating"— that is, eating out of an emotional need beyond physical hunger — and wondering if it's really so bad, after all.
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Jean-Claude Juncker, the bogeyman of British Brexiteers, retired as president of the European Commission and was replaced by Ursula von der Leyen, who was the longest-serving member of Angela Merkel's cabinet in Germany.
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Food stamps have long served as a bogeyman for Republican lawmakers, who see in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) an example of everything wrong with Washington—namely, in their view, overblown entitlement programs and inefficiencies.
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Weier and Geyser lured the victim into the woods and stabbed her 19 times with a kitchen knife to impress Slenderman, a tall, thin, creepy fictional bogeyman they insisted was real, according to a criminal complaint.
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At times, my conservative friends raise the issue of voter fraud as the bogeyman of a national popular vote system for electing the president — even though it is obvious the current system poses the bigger threat.
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The fear: Sanders is making it easier for Republicans to vote for the Graham-Cassidy bill because he's making it a contrast with single-payer — an easy bogeyman on the right — rather than with existing law.
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For the past eight years, Barack Obama provided the National Rifle Association with the perfect liberal bogeyman—an avatar of white anxiety who wanted to deprive gun-toting Americans of their constitutional right to bear arms.
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Saturday Night Live's latest cold open took yet another trip to Trumpworld, focusing on the president's adult man-children, Eric and Donald Jr. The Christmas-adjacent sketch sees Eric fearful of the bogeyman in his closet.
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Republican beneficiaries of conservative talk radio turned the fairness doctrine into a free-speech bogeyman, but they take a much kinder view of the concept if it can be used to reduce alleged liberal bias online.
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In a tightly choreographed trip through Virginia, O'Rourke embraced the bogeyman of the Democrat seeking to take Americans' guns away, saying he was willing to take a politically unpopular stance he believed was the right thing.
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But that marked her as an outsider, and she was accused of being insufficiently loyal to Trump and possibly even a tool of George Soros, the liberal billionaire who is frequently a bogeyman for the right.
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"The Latinos in Texas are coming of age so quickly… it's just a different group, they're younger, they think differently… and now they've got a full-time bogeyman to focus on," he said, referring to Trump.
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To scare them into giving money, to turn out and vote, to stay involved in the political process -- for fear that, if they don't, the bogeyman (or woman) will seize power and make their lives miserable.
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Government-backed groups have also used the outbreak to launch further attacks on George Soros, the billionaire liberal philanthropist whom Hungarian state propaganda has framed as a globalist bogeyman for his efforts to promote pluralistic values.
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Although he donated more than $1 billion to philanthropic causes like the arts, education, and medicine, David Koch became best known in the last decade for his political contributions — and as a favorite bogeyman for the left.
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If Putin is the bogeyman that so may Democrats seem obsessed with saying he is, why would it be a bad thing for some of his neighbors to have a little more military weight to throw around?
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On far-right Twitter alternative Gab, BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) has emerged as a particular bogeyman; its leader, Yvette Felarca, is a Berkeley middle school teacher, making it whatever the opposite of catnip is for alt-righties.
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The bogeyman of banning zero rating plans has been raised again and again, but everyone should understand now that the whole thing is a sham — just another ploy by telecoms to parcel out data the way they choose.
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However, there is currently a large movement of people opposed to mandatory vaccination, who generally justify that position with scientifically unsupported beliefs that vaccines expose people to toxins and cause autism or some other random bogeyman, like ADHD.
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"It's going to capture trades that wouldn't be captured by the current regulation and that's the bogeyman people would want to avoid in this proposal," said Jacques Schillaci, a banking lawyer at Linklaters who has studied the proposal.
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One popular bogeyman has been that net neutrality rules devastated telecom sector investment, a claim consistently disproven by publicly-accessible SEC filings, earnings reports, independent analysis, and statements to investors from more than a half-dozen industry executives.
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But, he said, the 88-year-old Soros's elevation to global bogeyman of the far right in countries from the United States to Russia and the Philippines had little to do with the foundation or even Soros himself.
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Russian state broadcaster RT, a frequent bogeyman in US political discourse, also knocks CGTN out of the park on YouTube, where the Chinese network has around 800,000 subscribers across multiple channels, compared to RT's more than 3.3 million.
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Even as Abe appears as the supplicant in the relationship with Trump, at home his position is strong and the media in lockstep with his use of North Korea as the perpetual bogeyman, deflecting his domestic political scandals.
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Though often vilified by conservatives as a far-left bogeyman, Clinton's legacies on free trade, financial deregulation, welfare reform, and racial justice have been some of the major targets of the left-leaning Sanders bloc this election season.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a DSA member likely to win election to Congress in November, has joined Nancy Pelosi in the right's bogeyman pantheon (a Republican mailing called her "mini-Maduro", referring to Nicolás Maduro, the tyranical president of Venezuela).
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The dictatorial figure in his natural habitat reminds us that although once-revolutionary leaders on the continent often cannibalize their children because of their own desires for power, the "Big Man" is a bogeyman desperately needed by the West.
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"It's going to capture trades that wouldn't be captured by the current regulation and that's the bogeyman people would want to avoid in this proposal," said Jacques Schillaci, a banking lawyer at Linklaters LLP who has studied the proposal.
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Why did children of the '90s only have nightmares about the bogeyman hiding under their bed, while Geyser and Weier, less than 20 years later, stole knives from a kitchen and lured their friend into being sacrificed to him?
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Sanchez is the latest to join a small but persistent push among some in the caucus for new leadership, driven in party by Democrats' losses in 2016 and Republicans' eagerness to employ Nancy Pelosi as a conservative bogeyman. Rep.
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It is also extreme in its nihilism, a bill that has no function, no reason to exist, except to fend off right-wing primary challengers who could pummel incumbents if they fail to vanquish that great partisan bogeyman, Obamacare.
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But if the goal is to eliminate the bogeyman whom the GOP uses to motivate its base, then some Democrats have a badly mistaken idea of what the modern Republican Party is all about and how contemporary politics works.
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This time around, Ms. Finamore ambitiously set out to track the steady, if occasionally zigzag, evolution of the ways in which most everything we think about fashion has been governed by that hoary and tyrannical old bogeyman — the binary.
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Raul Martinez, a former mayor of Hialeah, a city neighboring Miami that has the highest percentage of Cubans in the US said Castro's role as bogeyman in local politics and civic affairs has been on the downswing in the last decade.
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But here was Doyle offering a profound counterargument, directly appealing to other parents: Instead of being afraid of a trans bogeyman coming to attack your kid, imagine having a trans child of your own, who is worthy of love and protection.
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With pizza boxes joining the possible-carcinogen rankings of well-done fries, burnt bread, red meat, and cured meats in the last few months alone, it can seem as if there is a bogeyman behind many of our favorite foods.
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The show revisits Abdoh's seminal plays — "The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice" (21970), "Bogeyman" (21950), "The Law of Remains" (1992) and "Quotations," along with "Tight Right White" (1993), a searing, no-holds-barred meditation on racism and sexism in America.
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It is necessary to preserve it; it is perhaps harder to preserve than to build; and there is no longer a socialist, or indeed communist, bogeyman that can serve to unite liberals with all others committed to private property and economic well-being.
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The first package containing explosives, which was discovered Monday, was sent to the Westchester County, New York, home of billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who has long been a bogeyman for right-wing conspiracy theorists who accuse him of a range of nefarious activities.
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And here's where Michael's fall from pop wunderkind to drug-addled bogeyman begins: soon there will rumors about him craving a brain transplant and partying in a clown suit to avoid detection by psychotic fans; soon things will get very dark indeed.
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There was plenty of bluster about Wall Street corruption, the need to "combat climate change" and vague warnings about the endless evils of a Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, which the Democrats have turned into a bogeyman of corruption for the ill-informed.
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"This is ridiculous, it is not tenable and Republicans ... just politically, this cannot last, so go ahead and start holding the President accountable, the bogeyman is not going to come out from under your bed," Amanda Carpenter, a former communications aide to Sen.
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"A Ghost Story" is seldom a scary movie, but it comes from scary stock; the last figure to sit up like that, with such sudden purpose, was the white-masked bogeyman who lay on the floor behind Jamie Lee Curtis, in "Halloween" (1978).
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After all, Trump is obsessed with returning to the 2016 election, his last and only real political triumph, and with making a bogeyman of Hillary Clinton, one of only a handful of opposition figures who can compete with him in terms of unpopularity.
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And though Soros is maybe the most famous Democratic donor in the country (and the one most often made into a bogeyman by conservatives) there are plenty of other donors, including women, who agree with him, according to recent reporting from HuffPost.
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Science has fought for over 50 years over whether eggs are a "nutritional bogeyman for cardiovascular risk," said Andrew Odegaard, an assistant professor in the department of epidemiology at the University of California in Irvine, in an editorial published with the study.
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Essentially, the Delaware Supreme Court seems to have waved away the wrong bogeyman: Concerns about the next step beyond forum selection for '33 Act claims were not centered on mandatory arbitration of, say, breach of duty suits arising from M&A deals.
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If Putin isn't always pleased by his more strident expressions of aggression and intolerance, he surely finds something useful in his role as the bogeyman of Russia's political system, and, in any case, he lacks the ability to control Kadyrov's every move.
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The fact that the bogeyman used to frighten children has been ubiquitous, and parenting in the 19th century—when the tradition as we know it was consolidated—was strict and employed threats and corporal punishment throughout Europe, not just in Germany and Austria.
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That&aposs why the special counsel is such a terrible institution and it&aposs been a terrible institution to every president of either party that it&aposs ever been -- INGRAHAM: I think there&aposs a lot to do -- everyone says Russia is the bogeyman.
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Claims that the largely West Coast-based tech world is secretly undermining the conservative movement have long been a right-wing bogeyman, but with Donald Trump leading the charge it's been an open question whether he will use federal resources to crack down on them.
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" As Spencer put it: "The fact that I, and most all of the alt-right, offer him moral support is because he has become a bogeyman in the mainstream media and is clearly the target of the Deep State, military industrial complex, foreign-policy establishment.
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If I had to identify a point at which the tone of debate started to deteriorate, it was when former London Mayor Boris Johnson, de facto leader of the Leave campaign, compared the European Union's ambitions to those of Hitler, the continent's ultimate bogeyman.
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This would really be the time for Trump to tone down the combative, defiant, and arrogant speeches and make a solemn promise to all Americans that he is not the bogeyman the Democrats and the news media worked so hard to convince us he was.
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In April the Hungarian parliament amended a higher-education law in a way that threatened to close down the Central European University (CEU), a graduate institute founded by the Hungarian-American billionaire, George Soros, a bogeyman to conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic.
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In the last week, Russian hackers have become the bogeyman on American media after an enormous hack of tens of thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee's computer systems embarrassed the party and led to the resignation of its chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
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On Thursday night, he pulled out the big guns, releasing secret tapes of pre-interview conversations with Kelly in which she stated, "I'm not looking to portray you as some kind of bogeyman" and promised to run the clips past Jones before airing them.
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But it will be worked out in a fundamentally post–Cold War environment, in which the nightmarish aspects of Soviet communism no longer exist—either as a bogeyman to be used to suppress the left, or as a goad to inspire capitalism to defensive reforms.
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Social media data gathered by Mafindo as well as Indonesian big-data consultancy Drone Emprit shows that allegations using China as a bogeyman are widespread in Indonesia, where suspicions about the wealth of the ethnic-Chinese community and the influence of Beijing run deep.
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But Sanders took his real hits from Clinton, whose debate strategy seemed to be to mention her opponent's name in the same sentence as some liberal bogeyman—the NRA, the Koch brothers, the Minutemen—and see what sticks, regardless of whether any connection actually exists.
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As the world tackles the threat of a terrifying new Nigerian bogeyman, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will come under pressure to demonstrate enforcement of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations.
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He has even warned that Johnson's Brexit deal might ultimately block a much sought-after trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K. "He's a bit of a bogeyman," Matthew Oxenford, lead U.K. and Brexit analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, told CNBC via telephone.
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One of two Wisconsin teen girls who stabbed a classmate 19 times to appease a fictional Internet bogeyman known as "Slenderman" was sentenced to the maximum 25 years in a psychiatric facility after she was judged not criminally responsible for her actions, according to multiple news reports.
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Thiel's attack on Big Tech — despite his status as a tech baron — elucidated one of the key themes of the ideology being expressed by the national conservatives, which is that the greatest threat to Americans doesn't come from the government, that old bogeyman of the conservative movement.
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"With the uptick in interest rates, with the Fed signaling two more rate hikes this year, and with people waiting for the bogeyman around the corner, there is real worry that the loan market may be starting to turn," said Ellen Snare, a partner at King & Spalding.
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Based on those numbers, the FAA would be well advised to ignore the bogeyman of drone-to-aircraft strikes, and instead focus on the legitimate dangers involved with drones: hitting babies, cutting pop stars, or causing idiots with shotguns to go hunting in a residential area.
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Similar to how the Historical Memory Law faced bipartisan criticism for summoning the fascist Franco bogeyman for political points seven decades after the Civil War ended, the PSOE's latest decision has some critics accusing the government of brazen propaganda meant to consolidate its constituencies on the left.
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When detectives in California discovered their great bogeyman, The Golden State Killer, earlier this year, it was the elderly Joseph James DeAngelo living as a "totally average Joe, an average person" with his granddaughter and daughter in Oakland—the truth somehow always smaller than the telling.
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Resentment against his political activities has gone mainstream in the past few years thanks to President Donald Trump's rally speeches, which often use Soros as a liberal bogeyman funding paid protesters to harangue the Republican government and sow a narrative of national conflict into the media industry.
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There are researchers who argue that saturated fat, in general, might be less of the nutritional bogeyman its reputation would suggest, because even if it does raise your total cholesterol levels, the research isn't clear yet whether that actually leads to heart disease in the long run.
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While Bloomberg's giving will give him credibility with Democrats, should he decide to run in 2020 he will have marked hurdles to overcome, too -- namely the fact that Wall Street, something synonymous with the centrist former mayor, has become a bogeyman in left-leaning Democratic politics.
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None of these things involved the government taking over any aspects of health care or health insurance provision, let alone establishing a British-style system where the government actually runs the hospitals—not that this prevented American conservatives from using Britain's superior system as a frightening bogeyman.
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Birnbaum — a political consultant who has worked in the US, Israel, Hungary, and across the Balkans — had agreed to talk for the first time about his role in the creation of the Soros bogeyman, which ended up unleashing a global wave of anti-Semitic attacks on the billionaire investor.
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But Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the EU executive and long a bogeyman for some in Britain's eurosceptic press, said the first stage of talks on the rights of expatriates, the UK border with EU member Ireland and the financial settlement when Britain leaves had not gone far enough.
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Mark Zuckerberg is no longer a hero brandishing a $230 million check in a well-meaning attempt to save Newark's schools, like Booker once described him — he is a bogeyman who badly mishandled our last election and is now as divisive as any of the people running for president.
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Benardo believes Soros has become the "Rothschild of the 21st century": a convenient anti-Semitic bogeyman to the growing ranks of nationalist world leaders — from the Philippines to Israel to Russia to Italy to Turkey — embodying the liberal, globalist values they see as a threat to their regimes.
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Starting with the Lebanese Civil War, Raad has been active in pointing out the merging of fact and fiction in regard to the wars in the Middle East — how Western governments and media have played hard and fast with the facts, manufacturing a bogeyman for their fears (see: orientalism).
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Because of Gülen's international influence, he has been a lesser-known right-wing bogeyman in the United States for years, but he — and his extremely tenuous connections to Bill and Hillary Clinton — didn't really catch the eye of right-wing media until the lead-up to the 2016 election.
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Although the threat of toxoplasmosis gondii, a bogeyman for pregnant women and babies in the media, is definitively overblown (you're more likely to get it from undercooked meat than from a cat), they are the prime vector for the most common "zoonotic" disease seen in doctor's offices: ringworm.
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For its part the environmental lobby, with the support of farming groups, is running a scare campaign on natural gas, using the typical bogeyman of greedy corporations sucking up and exporting resources, but ignoring that only one of the seven LNG plants actually buys gas that could be supplied domestically instead.
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And these faceless dudes-in-hoodies — who all go by Charon, speak to each other in Latin, switch to Ethereum because it "has a better exchange rate," and specialize in torturing and killing teen girls — are a spot-on embodiment of the most extreme version of the internet bogeyman imaginable.
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He's a figure often seen as a bogeyman by conservative pundits, who have latched onto both his Hungarian roots and massive success in the financial sector — such as betting against the British pound in the 1990s — to create shadowy associations with his extensive support of progressive causes and social justice.
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James Graham's play "Ink" tells the story of another bogeyman, Rupert Murdoch (Bertie Carvel), who in 1969 bought the foundering newspaper The Sun and turned it into a tabloid sensation, setting the course for a media empire; Rupert Goold directs the Manhattan Theatre Club production (April 2, Samuel J. Friedman).
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The doll is still, thankfully, voiced by Brad Dourif, the semi-retired actor's actor who's been the beloved bogeyman since 1988's Child's Play, and returning to the role of the wheelchair- (and now asylum-) bound Nica Pierce is Fiona Dourif, Brad's daughter and the effective heir to the throne.
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All of this is encouraging, especially for young whites who have been beaten on for so long as being on the wrong side of history as the bogeyman, as the guys who have done one bad thing after another to every non-white group in the history of the world.
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" (He hasn't quite explained what that is.) Then there's the black-on-black crime conservative bogeyman he's so concerned with—as noted in The Atlantic, that's the fulcrum of a Carson radio ad in heavy rotation: "FBI crime statistics show 52 percent of murders were committed by African Americans last year... It's a national tragedy.
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The Repair Bogeyman The letters rely in part on some flimsy arguments: The Dyson and LG letters, for instance, suggest that opening their products up to third-party repair could put consumers in imminent danger from independent repair people who they posit could enter your home to fix an appliance and instead harm and hack you.
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After early protests outside his Brooklyn home threatening repercussions if he were to lead the Senate to in any way compromise with Trump, he made the rounds on progressive shows and got vocal about standing against Trump nominations, all without being so incendiary and highly visible as to become a go-to far-right bogeyman a la House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
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Then the transmogrified Donny, no longer a little white horse with a unicorn horn taped to his head but a bulbous, heaving bogeyman with a snout, five eyes, and a crude human physique, goes on a rampage, before he's stopped by a group of marauding unicorns who magically turn him back into a pony, only to inform him that he was actually a unicorn all along.
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Lisa Monaco, former Homeland Security advisor to President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaBen Shapiro: No prominent GOP figure ever questioned Obama's legitimacy 22019 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,000 at auction MORE, gave a talk at Dartmouth College and recalled how in the early days of ISIS, American children had expressed their concern that ISIS militants might come for them, like some bogeyman.
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