Ejecting people who ask him questions. I suppose it is something done by all politicians at some point in their career. One thing different here, we get a quip from the politician that points out a particular brutality –thank you Ayn Rand–that most politicians would try hard to hide…
Or alternately: “Let them take aspirin…”
In one instance, with video provided on the left side of this article, a 71-year-old man was thrown to the ground by police and placed in handcuffs. Moments after the incident Paul Ryan joked, “I hope he has taken his blood pressure medication.”
Actually the man was asking how he would be able to afford his medication, but this nuanced difference seems to be lost on the millionaire congressman.
I have a Ph.D. in Existential Phenomenology from the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley, a primary founder of our philosophy program. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering like a. mountain dog through the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the critical intersection of of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with queer theory, and the challenge of finding freedom under the Current Empire.
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