5 Political Icons We’d Like to See Inspire Fashion Lines

Abbie Stutzer — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 08:00:21 +0000

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No one can deny that Bernie Sanders is a political icon.

His progressive viewpoints made many Americans feel engaged, invigorated and interested in politics. And even though he didn’t receive the democratic presidential nomination, he’s still loved by many.

So beloved, in fact, that Balenciaga, a French high fashion brand, honored the American senator’s presidential campaign at Paris Fashion Week.

That got us thinking—what other political icons should inspire fashion lines? We’ve got a few obvious—and a few not so obvious—suggestions.

1. Michelle Obama

Hello, obvious, but we can’t state how much we want—need—this to come true. Michelle Obama has an impeccable look that appeals to any woman who appreciates clean, smart fashion. Now, we know Mrs. Obama’s fashion line is far from happening—she’s got more important things on her mind (like sleeping in with her husband and running for office in 2020?). But we know if she gets around to it, this line would be impeccable.

2. Hillary Clinton

Say what you will about Hillary Clinton, but that woman knows how to work a pantsuit. Although Hillary and pantsuit used to be a punchline, even her haters have to admit that Hillary’s inauguration and concession pantsuits were amazing. My dream is that Hillary and Paris Geller, a fictional character and a pantsuit champion, get together and make the pantsuit brand every professional woman needs.

3. Barack Obama

I’m not sure if you’ve seen photos of president Obama lately, but he looks so chill. He’s wearing a backwards hat, flip flops and a short-sleeve shirt—for real. Wouldn’t it be great if Obama collaborated and made a killer athleisure line? I know that men of all ages would love wearing presidential swag while hitting the greens on the weekend.

4. Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren has a lot of thoughts. A lot of awesome, progressive thoughts. Because of those thoughts, she may have many filibusters ahead of her during the next four years. So, wouldn’t it be great if she started a line of survival-wear? We’re talking electrolyte loaded, urine resistant survival-wear that will withstand the most intense debates. Heck, I think we all could use that kind of protection right now.

5. Ben Carson

Sorry, but we have to go for the obvious joke here. Although Carson may not be a political icon, he needs to embrace his natural abilities and start selling sleepwear. Our guess it that he spends most of his time in bed or asleep, so he’s the man to know, or… ahem… wake up, to find out what the best, most comfortable sleepwear is.

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SNL Nails Bigoted American Bakers [Video]

Abbie Stutzer — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:54:14 +0000

If American politicians keep doing boneheaded things, SNL will have an amazing season next year, too.

This past weekend, SNL did an on point fake movie trailer about bigoted bakers and politicians in America. Watch the hilarious spoof below.

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25 Quotes on Who Really Runs America

Jessica Marati — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:53:29 +0000

A collection of sayings from politicians and pundits on the role of corporations in government.

It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. -Henry Ford

The real truth of the matter is, and you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. -Franklin Roosevelt

Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its powers, but the truth is the FED has usurped the government. It controls everything here (in Congress) and controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will… When the FED was passed, the people of the United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here… A super-state controlled by international bankers, and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure! -Rep. Louis T. McFadden

The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. -Abraham Lincoln

The banks can and do create money… And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of governments and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people. –Reginald McKenna

Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun. -Kurt Vonnegut

Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens. -Britney Spears (in 2003)

Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as “internationalists” and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it. -David Rockefeller

I knew that all corporate leaders get special attention in Washington. But the ones who are the most feared are media corporations. -Ben H. Bagdikian

They think they’re gonna get away with this. These people who stole the pension funds of the American public. Who stole their money, who stole the future of our kids and grand-kids they think… They’re kleptomaniacs and they think they’re gonna get away with it. They have taken our Democracy and formed it into a klep-tocracy. -Michael Moore

What we have today is a laissez faire American version of feudalism; a private government in the form of private corporations run by private individuals who consolidated power to govern entire activities within our political economy. -Barry C. Lynn

Private monopolies determine the brand of breakfast cereal we eat, the type of car we drive, where we bank, the medical treatment we receive, the fashion of our clothes, and the kind of toothbrush we use, in addition to the beer we drink, the health insurance we buy, and what we feed our pets. -Don Monkerud

What we’ve had since the Industrial Revolution was one or another form of state capitalism. It’s been overwhelmed, certainly in the last century, by big conglomerations of capital corporate structures that are all interlinked with one another and form strategic alliances and administer markets and so on. And are tied up with a very powerful state. So it’s some other kind of system – call it whatever you want. -Noam Chomsky

We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years… It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. -David Rockefeller (at the Bilderberg Meeting in 1991)

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we (will then) be taxed in our meat and our drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they (will) be happy. -Thomas Jefferson

They’re upset about the fact that Wall Street has iron control over the economic policies of this country and that one party is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wall Street and the other party caters to them as well. -Alan Grayson (on the Occupy Wall Street movement)

I would have to say that who has had the largest effect on the whole planet without us really paying attention across the board and everywhere is the entire banking industry and their disregard for the people that they’re supposed to be working for… So the ways the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed and taken most of it into their hands is as good as Stalin or Hitler and the evil guys… They’re not heroes, but they are people that had a really huge effect on the way the world is operating. -Mario Batali

The growth of the Nation and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world – no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men. -Woodrow Wilson

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.” -Philip Slater

The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control… Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent. -Rep. Larry P. McDonald

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their father’s conquered. -Thomas Jefferson

A private corporation, let’s say General Electric, is, in fact, just a pure tyranny… And when those institutions also control the government, the framework for popular decision-making very much narrows. In fact, that’s the purpose of shrinking government. It’s so that the sphere of popular decision-making will narrow and more decisions will fall into the hands of the private tyrannies. -Noam Chomsky

It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go… We are living in the end of the sovereign states… In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish… Countless people… will hate the new world order… and will die protesting against it. -H.G. Wells

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