Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Given What Trump Has ‘Stirred Up,’ NYT Columnist Fears Aftermath If He Loses
Legal Insurrection ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/09/2016 6:04:13 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Was New York Times columnist Frank Bruni suggesting there could be civil unrest if Donald Trump loses big and bitterly? That seemed a likely implication of his comments on today’s Morning Joe. Bruni said his “fear” is: “what if he goes down big and goes down bitterly? I really worry about the aftermath. I worry about November 9th and forward in terms of what’s been stirred up.”

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tried to soothe poor Frank’s fears: “We survived Bush-Gore 2000, we made it through that just fine and I think we’ll make it through post-Trump just fine, too.”

View the video here.

(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; donaldtrump; fearfuldems; frankbruni; riotsinthestreets
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-96 next last
To: allendale
The real “bitterness” will be against the media. The sickening realization is that the inherently dishonest, corrupt and incompetent Hillary Clinton became President with the help of a worshipful media that refused to examine her record and inform the American people. People will be bitter. Divisions will be real. The country will suffer.

I'm already to the point where I would cheer a Nuke Strike on the media. I want to see their organizations destroyed. They have much bloodshed for which they need to be made to answer.

61 posted on 08/09/2016 7:20:36 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: major-pelham
The USA is ripe for break up. Courts and Urban dwellers are in open revolt against the heartland where all their revenue comes from. It seems the citizenry could live with the wealth transfers, but not the cultural throat forcing. It’s just a matter of time until break up unless a leader, such as Trump, can force some equilibrium back into the system.

Why does that sound so familiar? Oh Yeah. 1861.

62 posted on 08/09/2016 7:22:50 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Personal Responsibility
Given who (read: liberals) actually riots, commits random violence and burns things down when displeased, his concern would be better placed on Hillary supporters.

When liberals riot, neighborhoods burn. when conservatives riot, Nations burn. In a head to head confrontation with Liberals, we will quickly eradicate them. We have the guns, we have the Warrior tribe, and we have a vengeful will once aroused.

63 posted on 08/09/2016 7:26:07 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: SelmaLee

Yeah. Yeah. Something along those lines.


64 posted on 08/09/2016 7:26:11 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: Biggirl

“There will be protests, mark my words.”

Protest: an event at which people gather together to show strong disapproval about something.

Maybe you could call it Tea Party 2? That’ll show em we mean business.


65 posted on 08/09/2016 7:27:06 AM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: DiogenesLamp
I'm already to the point where I would cheer a Nuke Strike on the media. I want to see their organizations destroyed.

It's happening, but in slow motion. Ratings are tanking. The Pittsburgh Democrat Rag raised it's daily newsstand price to $2.00. No one is buying it anymore.


66 posted on 08/09/2016 7:33:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: DiogenesLamp
I have finally succumbed to the realization that our country is being run by a trans-national deep state made up of people who can afford their own pedophiliac islands and body-part farms. These criminals are making billions off of illegal activities like money laundering and refugee smuggling, and legal activities like ripping off small bank account holders through the imposition of ridiculous user fees. Obama and Clinton are merely the puppets, although at some level their egos are so enlarged they think they are in charge. Our military has become their tool. The financial criminals don't have to worry about the safety of their kids and grandkids as they will always have someplace of refuge and armed security. If you follow the facts you can come to no other conclusion. This used to be tinfoil hat territory, but no more.
67 posted on 08/09/2016 7:40:38 AM PDT by binreadin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: governsleastgovernsbest

Liberals are physically attacking Trumpsters on a daily basis now, but the meme is “What Trump has stirred up!”???

Violence by leftists against any who dare to criticize them is ALWAYS the Republican’s fault, isn’t it? It’s like Abused Wife Syndrome.


68 posted on 08/09/2016 7:44:17 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Biggirl

“There will be protests, mark my words.”

Protest: an event at which people gather together to show strong disapproval about something.

Maybe we could call it Tea Party 2? That’ll show em we mean business.


69 posted on 08/09/2016 7:44:26 AM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: Leep

Sorry, didn’t realize it sent the first time.


70 posted on 08/09/2016 7:46:10 AM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies]

To: governsleastgovernsbest

Just amazing that this Special Snowflake fantasizes about non-existent stirrings from the law-abiding Trump supporter/voter but has ZERO to say about the ongoing, daily terrorism from BLM, The New BPP, La Raza, SEIU (OK...that was gratuitous, but they are prone to violence), or anyone else that Soros/Steyer can fund.


71 posted on 08/09/2016 7:56:14 AM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pepsionice

Ohh,I dunno....


72 posted on 08/09/2016 7:59:17 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: DiogenesLamp

My fear is that we could see a massive popular
vote for Trump but have Hillary! win the electorial
votes. A truly bad situation considering a evenly
divided supreme court.


73 posted on 08/09/2016 8:02:06 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: Buckeye McFrog
It's happening, but in slow motion. Ratings are tanking. The Pittsburgh Democrat Rag raised it's daily newsstand price to $2.00. No one is buying it anymore.

The print media is not the major threat. It is the broadcast media which has been deliberately steering elections and undermining the election process.

Those cameras, microphones, satellites and studios are a weapon in the war between left and right. The right needs to take that weapon away from the left, and then turn it against them.

74 posted on 08/09/2016 8:02:33 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: binreadin
The financial criminals don't have to worry about the safety of their kids and grandkids as they will always have someplace of refuge and armed security. If you follow the facts you can come to no other conclusion. This used to be tinfoil hat territory, but no more.

It isn't really a "conspiracy", but more like a tribe of social elitists enriching themselves and looking out for other members of this "elitist" tribe.

It is the reimposition of the Aristocracy from which we got away when we broke from England in 1776. The "Aristocracy" has been working ever since to resume what they believe is their natural station as the source of all power.

And yes, both Republican and Democrat elitists are in this social "tribe." That is why they have been behaving like the "Uni-Party" for quite some time.

75 posted on 08/09/2016 8:06:07 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: tet68
My fear is that we could see a massive popular vote for Trump but have Hillary! win the electorial votes. A truly bad situation considering a evenly divided supreme court.

My fear is that a Nazi-bitch like Hitlery would even have a chance of winning. Only a very sick and vile nation would even consider her as a candidate.

76 posted on 08/09/2016 8:11:46 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: governsleastgovernsbest
Better find your "safe space" now Bruni, while the gettin's good.

After Trump wins by a landslide, the only civil unrest will be at your newspaper, the New York Slimes, trying to figure at how they all got it so wrong.

77 posted on 08/09/2016 8:13:58 AM PDT by HotHunt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: governsleastgovernsbest

Better let him win then.


78 posted on 08/09/2016 8:15:36 AM PDT by Lower Deck
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ilovesarah2012
Yes, because old white people are known to riot at the drop of a hat.

White Riot
I wanna riot
White Riot
A riot of my own.

The Clash

79 posted on 08/09/2016 8:16:05 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: governsleastgovernsbest

“Oh Frank you simply must try the cock...it’s delicious”

Wardaddys Name That Movie game


80 posted on 08/09/2016 8:17:38 AM PDT by wardaddy (black lives kill....and kill....and kill.....like no other race today senselessly)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-96 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson