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Time to take back OUR country
San Jose Mercury ^ | November 16, 2016 | Leonard Pitts Jr

Posted on 11/17/2016 5:20:01 AM PST by artichokegrower

is time for the country to heal, time for us come together.

Or so people have been telling me since last week when democracy laid the biggest egg in American history. Well, here is my response: I have no interest in seeing this country heal. And I refuse to come together.

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It’s time the majority that believes in a progressive, inclusive and compassionate America did more than just tweet about it. Nothing wrong with tweeting, but forces of exclusion, hatred and rage have overtaken the highest office in the land, so it’s also time for some old school activism. Time to march. Time to assail lawmakers. Time to boycott. Time to stand and be counted. Enough is enough.

Let’s take our country back.


So much for the peaceful transition

1 posted on 11/17/2016 5:20:01 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Take ‘your’ country back. Let’s see, there is a defined process for that - it’s called an election, and ‘your’ version of the country lost. Suck it up, buttercup.


2 posted on 11/17/2016 5:22:29 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: artichokegrower

What a hate-filled screed!

Pure Evil


3 posted on 11/17/2016 5:22:33 AM PST by Loud Mime (Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance)
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To: artichokegrower

It’s OUR country and WE took it back. If these leftist idiots don’t like it they can take a one way walk into the ocean. We didn’t like it when Obama won, either. We didn’t act like violent, demented little children.


4 posted on 11/17/2016 5:22:41 AM PST by Pravious
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To: artichokegrower

The writer is suggesting the violent overthrow of a duly elected President.


5 posted on 11/17/2016 5:25:07 AM PST by stockpirate (OBAMA MUST BE ON THE PAYROLL OF THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.)
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To: artichokegrower

Why do you post this vomit on FR?


6 posted on 11/17/2016 5:25:40 AM PST by CalTexan
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To: stockpirate

Leonard Pitts, demented leftist. Go ahead and march.


7 posted on 11/17/2016 5:27:30 AM PST by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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To: artichokegrower
I still have a copy of Leonard Pitts' column written on 9/11 and posted the day after: you can read it here. Unfortunately, in the subsequent 15 years he has shown that even if he believed it then, he doesn't believe it now. I still do, and that is the divide between us.
8 posted on 11/17/2016 5:28:28 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: artichokegrower

“Elections have consequences”

Constitutional scholar Barack Obama - Jan 2009


9 posted on 11/17/2016 5:28:54 AM PST by Junk Silver
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To: dirtboy

Just a former “disgruntled employee” of the machine no longer matters.


10 posted on 11/17/2016 5:29:29 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: artichokegrower

Amazing how all them Black racists are coming out of the woodwork and demonstrating how badly the Dems have ruined our country.


11 posted on 11/17/2016 5:29:32 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: artichokegrower

Nothing was stolen.


12 posted on 11/17/2016 5:31:09 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: CalTexan
When Trump has turned the country around (as I pray he and the new Congress will be able to do), let's see what these hateful traitors say then.

Barring some catastrophe, I believe we will be seeing "a rising tide that lifts all boats," like the Reagan revolution, in the next two years.

13 posted on 11/17/2016 5:31:31 AM PST by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: artichokegrower

They are trying to gin up a manufactured version of our spontaneous Tea Party.


14 posted on 11/17/2016 5:34:18 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors!)
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“Or so people have been telling me since last week when democracy laid the biggest egg in American history.”

Golden Egg.


15 posted on 11/17/2016 5:38:22 AM PST by Eddie01 (Democrats are the Liquidate America Party)
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The writer is suggesting the violent overthrow of a duly elected President.

He does say to "assail lawmakers."

It's possible he means this in a figurative sense. But more likely he's slyly suggesting a literal assault, while being ambiguous enough that he won't trigger a Secret Service visit.

Even if meant figuratively, it reminds me of the revoltingly smug phrase liberals to use to describe their self-congratulatory do-gooderism, "afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted."

16 posted on 11/17/2016 5:43:10 AM PST by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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And I refuse to come together.

Now that is what I expected from the San Jose Mercury.

17 posted on 11/17/2016 5:54:22 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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We didn’t act like violent, demented little children

Nope. We had Tea Parties. Which - at least the ones that I attended - were more like church services than protests.

Contrast that with the anarchy that's currently happening now. Who's more civilized?

18 posted on 11/17/2016 5:55:49 AM PST by wbill
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To: artichokegrower

The Obamadaddy was Kenyan. A Kenyan DIPLOMAT, actually.
The Obamamamma was too young to confer citizenship to ANYTHING—let alone the spawn.
Yes, boys and girls—we have had a pretend-LEGAL POTUS for nearly eight years.
And...........HOW’S THAT WORKIN’ OUT?


19 posted on 11/17/2016 5:57:52 AM PST by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: chajin

Leonard Pitts is an excellent example of the Blind Squirrel/Stopped Clock theory. Every now and then, he stumbles into the truth inadvertently.


20 posted on 11/17/2016 5:58:44 AM PST by wbill
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