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The Democrats Screwed Up
NYTimes ^ | NOV. 11, 2016 | Frank Bruni

Posted on 11/12/2016 9:08:52 PM PST by aquila48

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To: aquila48
consigned many to a “basket of deplorables” who aren’t all deplorable. Some are hurt. Some are confused.

We are not hurt. We are not confused. We are not deplorable - we just wear the label with honor because of the perfidy of those who conferred it.

We are pissed. Pissed at a bunch of anti-American turncoat sell-out whiners who tried to destroy everything that America really stands for. You claim compassion, but you spit on all, your whorshippers and your detractors alike. You claim justice, but you deliver no justice to anyone. But you aren't deplorable. We are deplorable. You - you are despicable.

And you are stupid and delusional. Instead of talking to each other in an echo chamber, listen. Listen to us. Follow a couple of folks on twitter you don't want to hear from. Read Free Republic - just don't join and don't clutter it up with postings of your trashy rants.

41 posted on 11/12/2016 9:57:48 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: miss marmelstein
To my thinking, this author gives Trump too little credit for his insight. The democrats missed what was happening to the middle class working folk, to be sure.

I am a "birther". (One who was interested in exploring Obama's eligibility for the office of President.)

I realized when Trump started making noises indicating he was interested in the "birther" question, that this was a feeler into the conservative base. It didn't cost him anything to show a little support to this marginalized group, but they would likely remember it.

That's when I realized he was probably going to run for President.

The man is shrewd. He is a lot more clever than his enemies presumed.

42 posted on 11/12/2016 9:58:47 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: AndyJackson

Liberal in the old sense has to apply to all. We have no license to bully any more than they do.


43 posted on 11/12/2016 9:59:06 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

I agree - he’s very shrewd and like Reagan he allows people to underestimate him at their own peril.

If Obama didn’t want people to question his place of birth, why did he put out a pamphlet listing his place of origin as Kenya?


44 posted on 11/12/2016 10:00:56 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: aquila48

But he is perfect!


45 posted on 11/12/2016 10:01:53 PM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: AndyJackson
We are not hurt. We are not confused. We are not deplorable - we just wear the label with honor because of the perfidy of those who conferred it.

"Yankee Doodle" was a song created by the British to mock Americans. We embraced it.

:)

46 posted on 11/12/2016 10:02:13 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: aquila48

Hahahahaa!
I’m laughing and laughing at people who don’t like it and have the nerve to question me.
Just laugh, point, and say”Loser!”
Riducle is awesome.


47 posted on 11/12/2016 10:02:48 PM PST by SakoL61R
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To: aquila48

Leftists are chumps. Reporters are chump enablers. Spit on them.


48 posted on 11/12/2016 10:03:50 PM PST by Yollopoliuhqui (Smarter - Faster)
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To: Go No
use greater care in how I talk to and about Americans more culturally conservative than I am. That’s not a surrender of principle or passion.

No it's not about being polite. It's about being wrong. It's about substituting propoganda for facts and argument. If you had facts [what you liberals call true facts] and you could argue you would be half way towards being conservative. If you actually had principle, any principle that did not violate human or natural law, and actually stood on it you would be a lot further still towards being a conservative.

Conservatism is not a dogma, like radicalism. It's a way of life based on the ideas of the enlightenment and the rights granted under British common law.

49 posted on 11/12/2016 10:06:25 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: bigdaddy45

Except he’s thinking our side is just as ugly.


50 posted on 11/12/2016 10:07:02 PM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: aquila48

NY Times is sinking quickly and needs people to buy their product. They will say anything.


51 posted on 11/12/2016 10:07:34 PM PST by BAW (It's gunna be Yuge!)
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Did you volunteer to get your ass spanked, Bruni?

The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.


52 posted on 11/12/2016 10:08:54 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: aquila48

It’s the Democraps who have a lot of vulnerable senate seats up in 2018, so they should not start getting smug for a long long time.


53 posted on 11/12/2016 10:09:27 PM PST by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: HiTech RedNeck
We have no license to bully any more than they do.

Could not agree more. But on our side all I see are folks trying to get organized quickly to MAGA. On their side, Soros funded riots and looting.

If they disagree with all of that then I double dog dare them to criticize it and denounce Soros. But they aren't.

54 posted on 11/12/2016 10:10:30 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I agree. I read something somewhere the day of the election (before results) that said the person didn’t believe Trump had got as far as he had without God’s intervention. I believe that to be true.


55 posted on 11/12/2016 10:16:34 PM PST by Shortstop7
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To: BAW
What they need to do is find some journalists real quick - you know, guys and gals or transgendered or ungendered or whatever who will work to find out the true truth, and then can write well-written articles telling the truth. And oh it means, saving your personal opinions for a Dear Editor letter.

Unfortunately that means giving up propogandizing and SJ warrioring.

56 posted on 11/12/2016 10:19:08 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: aquila48

Great that through his condescending sanctimony he realizes that all the racist, sexist, homophobes are not sexist.

Pray for America


57 posted on 11/12/2016 10:19:38 PM PST by bray (The Silent Majority ROARED)
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To: KC_for_Freedom

“There are plenty of things that the democratic party could have done besides looking down their noses at us Trump supporters and calling us every name in the book.”

I believe a lot of Trump support came as a result of cultural issues. People have had it up to their ears with all the propaganda organs and their enforcement of political correctness. Trump eviscerated both the media and PC, and he got the biggest applause when he was doing so.

Here’s a clip from Milo Yiannopoulos giving voice to those sentiments in his very inimitable way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu5_m2PHIZg


58 posted on 11/12/2016 10:20:27 PM PST by aquila48
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To: bigdaddy45

And the ugliness is from ugly people...some paid to perform. We all suspected there would be protests after this election, and even more so if the Dems lost. Some are actual protestors, but the majority IMO are paid dissenters making $15 per hour. Cheapskates selling their souls for $15 an hour.


59 posted on 11/12/2016 10:26:05 PM PST by kiltie65
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To: Billthedrill

“The Democrat establishment is defeated, reeling, but in the absence of credible opposition, resurgent. They’ll be back too.”

The left never, ever gives up. I hope our side doesn’t get complacent...


60 posted on 11/12/2016 10:30:07 PM PST by aquila48
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