While there is seemingly no depths of debasement conservatives won't go to in pursuit of defending the president, Wohl seems unusually fixated on the "debasement" part of the process.
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Citizens must not let political debasement destroy our constitutional system.
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But it is really about the debasement of the process.
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Religious faith and the debasement of human beings cannot be reconciled.
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The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.
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Like Trump, Bolsonaro has a female following, despite his verbal debasement of woman.
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Therefore the Coinage Act of 1792 made currency debasement a crime punishable by death.
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The atmosphere of debasement and indignity in the White House, it appears, is contagious.
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Thus began years of debasement of American politics and a national climate of fear.
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Of course, there remains a tried and true method to achieve this policy: debasement.
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"Already we've seen some debasement in the idea of what the presidency is," Zelizer said.
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For his core 40 percent, there's no crime or debasement that will change their minds.
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In 2017, the online retailer asked cities to participate in a contest of self-debasement.
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Walker's Gone, on the other hand, depicts racism as an ongoing horror of mutual debasement.
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"I guess the one group spared his uninformed, knee-jerk debasement has been golfers," he added.
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"The debasement of our nation is what Trump will be remembered most for," Corker told CNN.
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People wanted disruption, but too often Trump has given us destruction, distraction, debasement and sheer ignorance.
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So it's particularly demoralizing to watch publishers package the ongoing debasement of our country as entertainment.
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They hope voters will recoil from both this ill-fated debasement of American values and its architect.
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Being a junkie is bad enough; being a junkie whore is a debasement that cannot be borne.
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It's moral and institutional corrosion — the debasement of our discourse and the fracturing of our civic bonds.
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"I'm sorry my Republican colleagues have gone along with Senator McConnell's debasement of the Senate," he said.
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We are all practicing our Netanya debasement alongside Dovaleh, and what passes for our redemption as well.
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But is all that Skull & Bones skullduggery worth the debasement of one's self and others required for entry?
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But it serves as a reminder that comedy need not be an act of debasement for the performer.
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"Moore's criticism of Fed balance sheet policy was driven, in part, by concerns over currency debasement," Gapen said.
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After every slapstick debasement, self-inflicted and otherwise, Chris Christie might have found his level, and his calling.
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And that's evident in the kind of willing self-debasement that this ad from the Florida primary showed.
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So, as I said, what we're looking at here is another step in the debasement of our nation.
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We're looking for a few good men and women in Congress to understand the gravity of this debasement.
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When gold and silver circulated as money, this often took the form of outright debasement of the coins' purity.
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News agency Reuters reported Thursday, citing sources, that policymakers were being pressured to oversee a 10-15 percent debasement.
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The debasement of British Cycling comes as questions are increasingly being asked about the price of Britain's Olympic success.
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But changing the composition of the penny and nickel to steel fails to address the root cause behind currency debasement.
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And yet, somehow, he retains the capacity to shock many of us with his ongoing debasement of the American presidency.
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Excluding women from politics protected them from debasement and corruption, and allowed them to maintain their innate purity and grace.
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Code could make it impossible to mint more digital petros, but it does not solve the older problem of debasement.
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"This was seen as an affront, a debasement," Weldon says in Episode 196 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
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The authors of both novels have written extensively about debasement and despair and the trouble with living in a human body.
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We need to revel in the debasement of others, which is why we embrace capitalism and follow the rich on Instagram.
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We disagree that rising regional banking stress is a precursor to a broad financial crisis or a trigger for currency debasement.
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"I don't think this is a dollar debasement policy," said Stephen Gallo, head of European FX strategy with Bank of Montreal.
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Among its allegations is that the company has fostered systematic involvement in the abuse and debasement of women in recent years.
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" The retiring senator calls Trump an "utterly untruthful president" and says he will be remembered for "the debasement of our nation.
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Along the lines of doing no harm, do nothing that may contribute to the debasement of America's position in the world.
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For Trump, the debasement of Romney was just another hit of dopamine — the neurotransmitter once called the Kim Kardashian of molecules.
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"Gold is a hedge against debasement and what we saw in 2011 was debasement, printing too many dollars and the real rate goes down, down, down, which then pushes up the price of gold," Currie explained, adding that another crucial factor in play on that occasion was a substantial weakening of the dollar, which further propelled gold prices.
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And they have these targets, 27 percent here and 200 percent there, and they seem to be struggling to generate monetary debasement.
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IN THESE potty-mouthed times, when certain world leaders sling profanity about with abandon, many observers naturally lament the debasement of speech.
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What's more, the Islamic face covering for women is not a religious symbol; rather, it is iconic of female subservience and debasement.
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Investors are betting the central bank actions will lead to broad currency debasement and possible inflation, leaving gold as the best alternative.
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" Corker fired back, saying he wouldn't support Trump's reelection bid and that Trump will be remembered for "the debasement of our nation.
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They're being designed for us and driven by us—the ratings grab—resulting in the debasement the "deaths" we once valued and appreciated.
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The debasement of the government that we are so shocked by under Trump—some of us, anyway—has been decades in the making.
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By their refusal to confront those flaws and failures in Mr. Trump, they are complicit in the debasement of American culture and politics.
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An environment of low inflation does not justify tearing down institutions that guard against currency debasement like that seen in Argentina and Turkey.
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"It is a complete debasement of political discourse where ordinary political disagreements are elevated to a level of capital crime," Mr. Larson said.
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As long as Giuliani continues down the path he's chosen, with an eager U.S. president in tow, the debasement won't end anytime soon.
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The banker argued this replication could only lead to debasement of cryptocurrencies to the point where they held no economic value at all.
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We devour reality videos that show us at our worst, our most abject, and we celebrate these moments of the debasement of others.
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" That same year he began exploring the conundrum of the simultaneous elevation and debasement of black men in "The Great Black Airmen (Tuskegee).
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" Mediocrity is the opposite of what the band are seeking—it's obvious that they'd rather take total debasement than become anything akin to "reliable.
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These purchases "risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve the Fed's objective of promoting employment," the group wrote.
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Prices are rallying as investors believe gold will be the best alternative as the central bank's actions lead to currency debasement and possible inflation.
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The constant and vicious attacks on Hillary Clinton, the seemingly nonsensical appeals to Bernie Sanders supporters, the unending debasement of the norms of American democracy.
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He says he was very nervous to return but that seems kinda tough when your whole thing is shameless slapstick self-debasement on national television.
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What it says is that the female body is both everything and nothing: It is the mesmerizing spectacle of women's complicity in their own debasement.
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He's weighed down by actual scandal, while Spicer and Scaramucci are weighed down only by their volitional debasement, and that's apparently no drag at all.
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The key point here is that our shared history of slavery, of institutionalized violence and debasement, as destructive as it has been, is also constitutive.
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Unlike how gold can be effectively counterfeited with fool's gold and debasement, bitcoins remain unfailingly authentic due to mathematical checks built into all bitcoin wallets.
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Previous debasement scares, like the beginning of quantitative easing in 2008, triggered inflation fears that turned out to be unfounded but were beneficial for gold.
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True story: Some weeks ago, I emerged, downtrodden, from my latest debasement on the subway to encounter a traffic jam near the street where I live.
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This is not about believing women, this is instead about a video, offering proof -- in Trump's own voice -- of his sexual abuses and his debasement of women.
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Conservatives who failed to call him out — most of them, I'm sorry to say — have become accomplices in this project of their own intellectual and moral debasement.
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" Sanders similarly dismissed Tennessee Republican Bob Corker, who sent shockwaves through Washington on Tuesday when he told reporters he believes Trump's legacy would be the "debasement of America.
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The retiring chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called Trump an "utterly untruthful" person and predicted that Trump's legacy would be "the debasement" of the United States.
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We must continue to deploy it, lest the president achieve by debasement what our collective efforts have thus far prevented him from doing directly: stopping Robert Mueller's investigation.
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Rather, Andre's political power lies in his desire to elicit genuine reactions from real people on the street and the audience through antagonization and frequent acts of self-debasement.
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That outraged some staff members and many citizens, who emailed public relations officials at NOAA calling the rebuke a debasement of the federal government's scientific integrity, the documents show.
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Conservative orthodoxy holds that borrowing must be kept in check so future generations don't pay for the excesses of today, to avoid currency debasement, and prevent inflation from exploding.
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For there are enough Fifth Avenue Republicans, in the apt term of James Hohmann of The Washington Post, to shield this man from any debasement of our national dignity.
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The story of blackness in the United States, is a plot full of sensation: soul-crushing debasement, dogged survival, and triumphant catharsis — sometimes in violence, but also in joy.
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Both films conclude with a frozen shot of sudden, fierce debasement, ending with a striking indictment of how working class women have been forced to sell their bodies to survive.
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An official photographer in the ghetto administration, Henryk Ross defied the laws of the Nazi regime by taking clandestine photographs of Jewish residents as they confronted poverty, squalor, debasement, and death.
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The site was a way for Harvard students to rank whether their peers were hot or not, foreshadowing the debasement and humiliation we'd all feel as social media found its footing.
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Two billionaire hedge fund managers see more gains ahead for gold, even after the precious metal's 16 percent rise in the first quarter, on predictions of further central bank currency debasement.
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For all of the ardent protests on cable news and the Sunday shows about Trump's debasement of the office, journalists now judge historical events based on a scorecard he has devised.
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In Revolt of the Body, Hijikata, alternately in drag and nearly naked, melds European dance styles, including Flamenco and ballet, with grotesque movements in a spectacle of heady sexuality and debasement.
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As images of her "amazing progress" (that's what he insists on calling it—to her, it's debasement) flash across the screen, every cell of her body aches to retreat from his.
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There are so many scenes of her debasement that it comes as a relief to join Lucy in wishful thinking for once, even though it's clear this story can't have a happy ending.
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As such, Pizarnik ultimately demonstrates the dubious virtue of extremity without excess, sending us transcriptions of onslaught, pressure, and the ultimate insufficiency of her life and language to reveal their debasement and abjectness.
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"Sichuanese cuisine really faces a crisis," said Wang Kaifa, a 71-year-old chef who has been leading a campaign against what he sees as the creeping debasement of the region's celebrated cooking.
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But it says something about the debasement of diplomatic expectations — both of what we have a right to demand and what we think we can achieve — that any of it should be controversial.
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It was difficult not to feel bad for her when "Saturday Night Live" depicted her as a craven hack driven to "Fatal Attraction"-style debasement by a desire to appear on the news.
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He taught us through the words of his Washington Post columns and other writings – and through his brilliant insights when appearing on Fox News – the difference between criticism and animus, between debate and debasement.
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The problem with the penny and nickel is not that the price of copper and nickel are rising, but that the purchasing power of the dollar is declining due to the Fed's currency debasement.
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Although these "greenbacks" were unpopular and eventually ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, they marked the first step on the road towards government monopolization of currency and thence to the debasement of the dollar.
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"We are a guinea-pig generation for an experiment in mass debasement that few of us would have ever consented to, and whose full nefarious impact may not be known for years," they write.
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" Corker also said that Trump is "absolutely not" a role model to American children and that "the debasement of our nation is what he'll be remembered most for... It's very sad for our nation.
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Now, in what appear to be perplexing acts of self-debasement, a few members of Congress (with some notable exceptions) have demanded that the media release the name of the Ukraine national security whistleblower.
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Yes, this tweet a further debasement of the office of President, a steaming hot dump on decent human values and the weight that his title would carry if it wasn't in his puny hands.
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"We found that spikes in geopolitical tensions lead to higher gold prices when they are severe enough to cause currency debasement," Jeff Currie, head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs, said in a note.
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They have sown the seeds for the debasement and ultimate destruction of the G.O.P. I think the best course of action for the Bob Corker-type Republicans would be to move to the Libertarian Party.
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Seemingly every second character in "The Kingdom" is motivated by the debasement of others, and one experiences a certain discomfort in the ways the author himself appears to relish his protagonist's own humiliations and manipulative sexuality.
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And so, a room full of people who actually want the same thing can be reduced not only to silence and lying but to complete and total debasement by the power of a little corporate yelling. Intimidation!
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While Goldman strategists say they don't expect MMT to be implemented on a wide level, they think simply the talk of it can cause worry about currency debasement and rampant inflation, both historically strong backdrops for gold.
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It added that gold can offer a good hedge against global risks when the event leads to a debasement of the dollar, but on average, it doesn't respond too much to geopolitics after controlling for macro variables.
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" He says "a vote for egregious obstruction of justice, rampant conflicts of interest, the demonization of minorities, the debasement of political discourse, the alienation of America&aposs allies, the end of free trade and the appeasement of dictators.
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We will not acquiesce to the debasement of language in the public square that would distort what is at stake, but we will make our voices heard by any in this new administration who are willing to listen.
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We do that through color and light, noise debasement and humidification, all these things that give you an ambiance where, when you get off the airplane after a long period, and you're going to be in good shape.
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There's a false belief in some circles that my cartoon was among the chorus of critics that predicted an inevitable debasement of the dollar — a belief possibly spurred by Mr. Bernanke's reference to my work in his memoir.
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That's what we have here in China: The self-silenced majority, sycophants of a powerful regime, resentful of people like me who speak out, are doubly bitter because they know that their debasement comes by their own hand.
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"This change of dynamic suggests we may be in the midst of a regime change in the market where the dollar actually falls as U.S. yields rise on fears of deficit expansion and debasement of the currency," said.
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"We found that spikes in geopolitical tensions lead to higher gold prices when they are severe enough to cause currency debasement," Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs said, adding an escalation in U.S.-Iranian tensions could further boost gold prices.
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Why do we get to hear Sansa defend this on the basis that her debasement by men—not the fact that she has run the North like a queen and killed most of her enemies—is the locus of her strength?
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The uptick in GoFundMe pages as a result of the shutdown shows what could come after the gig economy, a natural next step in the total and utter debasement of the working class in the service of technocapitalism: The begging economy.
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However, Currie highlighted that the precious metal could have further upside potential, with spikes in geopolitical tensions historically leading to higher gold prices when they are severe enough to cause currency debasement, most often seen during wars or military escalations.
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Corker, likewise, delivered an unexpected broadside against Trump on Tuesday morning, after the president attacked him on Twitter, telling CNN's Manu Raju: The debasement of our nation will be what he'll be remembered most for, and that's regretful, and affects young people.
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But he greets this debasement, and more, with a degree of measured calm that suggests that Shylock has known — or fears — far worse, and must temper his reaction to suit what he knows of the world in which he lives and prospers.
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Bob Corker of Tennessee, who said in October that Trump would be most remembered for "the debasement of our nation," was all smiles and congratulations this week as he appeared alongside the president in his home state for the signing of an executive order.
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That is, above all, due to the corruption and debasement of the Republican Party, which has turned into the Trump party, roared on by the right-wing talk machine honed over many years now through Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the rest.
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But Trump's attempt to head off retaliation for Saudi crimes by claiming that there are big economic rewards to staying friendly with killers — and the willingness of his political allies to embrace his logic — nonetheless represents a new stage in the debasement of America.
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Personal debasement is not easy for white people (especially for white men), but to retain the conviction of their superiority to others—especially to black people—they are willing to risk contempt, and to be reviled by the mature, the sophisticated, and the strong.
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With the new facts exploding every day about the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, there is a great new hope for the Democratic Party to take back control of Congress and the White House, and reverse the horrible debasement of our democracy initiated by Donald Trump.
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But it's in keeping with the presumptive Republican nominee's longstanding habit of using dogs as a touchstone for lowliness and debasement—a habit that reveals a lot about Trump's view of humankind, about the strange campaign he's running, and about the stark choice Americans will be making in November.
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But it has also led to vaporous commentary about the supposed debasement of our political "discourse," which wasn't entirely lofty when Adams and Jefferson stalked the nation's capital — with their surrogates accusing each other of having ambiguous anatomy and pedigree — much less so when LBJ and Nixon did.
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If the price of this revolution is the subordination of ordinary fairness to abstract justice, the elevation of rumor over fact, the further debasement of journalism, the devaluation of the rights of the accused, and the complete toxification of public service, it will be a price too high.
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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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"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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In his incendiary wartime novel Funeral Rites (1948), the collaborator Riton is willingly sodomized by a Nazi lover on a rooftop in occupied Paris, a national debasement Genet echoes years later in an interview in which he ridicules Adolph Hitler as the "Austrian corporal," who brings a cowardly France to its knees.
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Republicans on the far right, in particular, Fishkin and Pozen write, have been willing to engage in constitutional hardball because they are drawn to "narratives of debasement and restoration," which suggest that something has gone fundamentally awry in the republic, on the order of an existential crisis, and that unpatriotic liberals have allowed or caused it to happen.
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The result is We Don't Embroider Cushions Here, published by Édition Monumental, a photo book that will make you giggle or blush — but also cleverly draws unexpected ties between the debasement of the women on film and Le Corbusier's own brusque treatment of his female colleague who, for decades, didn't receive due credit for her vision.
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Between 1940 and 1945, Ross recorded life in the Lodz Ghetto, a 1.6-square mile district in the Polish city where 45,000 Jews died of starvation and disease during World War II. An official photographer in the ghetto administration, Ross defied the laws of the Nazi regime by taking clandestine photographs of Jewish residents as they confronted poverty, squalor, debasement, and death.
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It is not only the liberal establishment that has gone off the deep end in its rhetoric of anger and debasement, but also President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump congratulates Washington Nationals on World Series win Trump hints that dog injured in al-Baghdadi raid will visit White House Vindman says White House lawyer moved Ukraine call to classified server: report MORE.
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Last Friday, at one o'clock in the morning, he even ambled over to his colleague from Arizona, John McCain, and unsuccessfully lobbied him to vote yes on a so-called "skinny bill" to repeal Obamacare—a vote that would not only have cost millions their health insurance, but would also have been an endorsement of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's debasement of Senate procedures and norms.
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Mr. Trump's debasement of Mr. Sessions — starting with a mind-boggling interview he gave last week to The Times — is in line with everything he's said and done since he fired James Comey, the F.B.I. director, in May, in an inept attempt to shut down the bureau's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
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Opinion by: Saagar Enjeti Failed presidential candidate Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonSanders: 'Outrageous' to suggest Gabbard 'is a foreign asset' Clinton attacks on Gabbard become flashpoint in presidential race Saagar Enjeti: Clinton remarks on Gabbard 'shows just how deep the rot in our system goes' MORE continued her debasement tour over the weekend in a stunning display of hubris and the perfect encapsulation of why she lost in the first place.
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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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But as the news cycle churns on, we have seen Hillary's example play out, again and again and again, an endless film loop of self-debasement masquerading as self-sacrifice: the spurned wife Mary Jo Buttafuoco standing by husband, Joey, at a press conference, her face permanently contorted by his teenage mistress' bullet; Huma Abedin, elegant and imperturbable in pumps and a tailored pencil skirt, stepping out with her husband and their child days after he'd been caught sending lewd pictures to teenage girls in 2013; and, most recently, Camille Cosby, sitting by her husband's side in court, her face fixed in a rictus of what is either permanent defiance or humiliation.
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