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And the one seen where the elf people are whipping the mole men does sort of make you wanna sing that old Devo song.
Colmes is very weak and was a virtual unknown until, he "sold out" to become Hannity's whipping boy.
And Trump, an ignorant narcissist with no political experience, managed to become President of the US by whipping up popular resentment against educated elites, bankers, foreigners, immigrants, and international institutions.
But is the Fed just a convenient whipping boy?
The IMF has long been a whipping boy for both left and right – the former because of the Fund’s emphasis on fiscal rectitude and economic orthodoxy, and the latter because of its role in bailing out indebted nations.
And, like Trump, he regularly used the media as a whipping boy to rally his supporters.
Indeed, the nuclear issue has served to rationalize the face-off, with Iran’s leaders playing to their domestic audience by whipping up nuclear nationalism and the US playing to the international audience by harping on the proliferation threat.
Standing ready includes mustering more domestic support for assistance than is currently available, not whipping up anti-Russian feelings with supposedly new discoveries of money-laundering.
For starters, the public perception that central bankers are omniscient makes them an attractive whipping boy for politicians.
And soon he was back to whipping up fear of a caravan of refugees from Honduras.
Yet bureaucrats are merely whipping boys for a political system that fails to deliver the basics of democracy: a government that can lead and an opposition that offers realistic alternatives.
While the EU question was weightier than the French one about constitutional procedural matters, it still wasn’t enough to discourage voters from pursuing other motives – above all, the desire to give the (pro-European) “establishment” a good symbolic whipping, seemingly at little to no cost.
Some in the newly freed press are publishing sometimes inaccurate stories – whipping up ethnic and tribal enmity and attacking Abiy.
At home, it has trumpeted its own resolute action, whipping up nationalism, and criticizing Western democracies’ weak responses.
Interestingly, China is relying only partly on tariffs to respond to Trump, and is also resorting to other measures that are likely to cost it less – such as whipping up patriotic sentiment, targeting Boeing, and protecting its tech companies.
In an insult to the demonstrators – not least the young – China’s leaders blame outside forces for whipping up anti-communist sentiment.
He received a vigorous punishment, a whipping which his mother applied to him on the pavement outside before the terrified children of the settlement.
Jeanlin, with skin still red from the whipping of the day before, had not run away from the pit on this day.
At last at the end of the Place a large hired landau appeared, drawn by two thin horses, which a coachman in a white hat was whipping lustily.
Tom took his whipping and went back to his seat not at all broken-hearted, for he thought it was possible that he had unknowingly upset the ink on the spelling-book himself, in some skylarking bout--he had denied it for form's sake and because it was custom, and had stuck to the denial from principle.
When Becky told her father, in strict confidence, how Tom had taken her whipping at school, the Judge was visibly moved; and when she pleaded grace for the mighty lie which Tom had told in order to shift that whipping from her shoulders to his own, the Judge said with a fine outburst that it was a noble, a generous, a magnanimous lie--a lie that was worthy to hold up its head and march down through history breast to breast with George Washington's lauded Truth about the hatchet!
The first to halt were those who were carrying the image, and one of the four ecclesiastics who were chanting the Litany, struck by the strange figure of Don Quixote, the leanness of Rocinante, and the other ludicrous peculiarities he observed, said in reply to him, "Brother, if you have anything to say to us say it quickly, for these brethren are whipping themselves, and we cannot stop, nor is it reasonable we should stop to hear anything, unless indeed it is short enough to be said in two words."
On hearing this Merlin said, "That will not do, for the lashes worthy Sancho has to receive must be given of his own free will and not by force, and at whatever time he pleases, for there is no fixed limit assigned to him; but it is permitted him, if he likes to commute by half the pain of this whipping, to let them be given by the hand of another, though it may be somewhat weighty."
Consent to this whipping, my son; to the devil with the devil, and leave fear to milksops, for 'a stout heart breaks bad luck,' as you very well know."
Sancho drew out an open letter from his bosom, and the duchess, taking it, found it ran in this fashion:SANCHO PANZA'S LETTER TO HIS WIFE, TERESA PANZAIf I was well whipped I went mounted like a gentleman; if I have got a good government it is at the cost of a good whipping.
Once more, sirs, I say my master may go alone, and much good may it do him; and I'll stay here in the company of my lady the duchess; and maybe when he comes back, he will find the lady Dulcinea's affair ever so much advanced; for I mean in leisure hours, and at idle moments, to give myself a spell of whipping without so much as a hair to cover me.""For all that you must go if it be necessary, my good Sancho," said the duchess, "for they are worthy folk who ask you; and the faces of these ladies must not remain overgrown in this way because of your idle fears; that would be a hard case indeed."
Let my lady Dulcinea have patience, and when she is least expecting it, she will see me made a riddle of with whipping, and 'until death it's all life;' I mean that I have still life in me, and the desire to make good what I have promised."
Will Sancho's whipping be accomplished without fail?
Sancho's whipping will proceed leisurely.
I had no hopes to give her, nor treasures to offer her, for mine are given to Dulcinea, and the treasures of knights-errant are like those of the fairies,' illusory and deceptive; all I can give her is the place in my memory I keep for her, without prejudice, however, to that which I hold devoted to Dulcinea, whom thou art wronging by thy remissness in whipping thyself and scourging that flesh—would that I saw it eaten by wolves—which would rather keep itself for the worms than for the relief of that poor lady."
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