Posted on 09/26/2020 4:41:59 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
"New York Times" columnist Thomas Friedman said in an interview with CNN host Anderson Cooper on Thursday that if you are not frightened right now, you are not paying attention.
"It's terrifying because the Republican Party has become basically a political brothel, that rents itself out by the night to ever will energize its base," Friedman told Cooper. "Whether it was Sarah Palin or the Tea Party, and now Trump. This is a party that went into its convention with no platform. No platform. Basically said whatever Trump wants, we want."
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FRIEDMAN: Backed by a party without spine, amplified by a network without integrity, and by social networks that are marinated in conspiracy theories, behind whom are a lot of armed people. If you aren't frightened by this, you are not paying attention.COOPER: So what happens? So what do you do?
FRIEDMAN: There's only one thing to do. Vote, go out and vote. Vote for Joe Biden, raise money for Joe Biden, canvass for Joe Biden. Register someone -- help someone registered to vote for Joe Biden, and drive someone to the polls to vote for Joe Biden. This is all about power, Anderson. This isn't you're not going to persuade the Republican Party. I had a good laugh tonight when I saw that Lindsey Graham said, don't worry. If we have -- if Joe Biden wins the election, you have nothing to worry about, will abide by that. The same guy, you know, who said if the Supreme Court situation that that the Republicans ran through before repeated again, he wouldn't be for it. There's only one tool we have, but it is a tool that can work, and that is to overwhelmingly vote. ..... I will cast my vote for Joe Biden.
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Never mind what people daily see the violence, the destruction, and "coercing" rando people on the streets to chant their fighting chant du jour.
But only Sarah Palin/Tea Party and president Trump frighten Friedman to crawl to Anderson Cooper's show. As if Biden wins, everything will suddenly go peachy.
It's about time they got onboard.
Fixed it for him. LOL!
Hey Tom, you want to hear a conspiracy theory? Russia, Russia, Russia.
is there any more doubt that the NYTimes and
the DEMOCRATS hate any conservative, hate America,
hate the Truth, and deserve NO MORE respect as
they attempt to cover up the very CIVIL WAR 2 they
planned, hatched, and fomented.
Hey,Tom...there’s a warm welcome awaiting you north of the border.
hey Tom - why don’t you clean up your NY budget crime economic problems first.....then you can talk. you have quite the mess there. get busy.
The comment: “Backed by a party without spine, amplified by a network without integrity, and by social networks that are marinated in conspiracy theories, behind whom are a lot of armed people. If you aren’t frightened by this, you are not paying attention.”
Sounds like he’s describing antifa and blm.
I know what he’s frightened of... and it’s purely selfishness and humiliation in that his beloved corrupt Democrat party is lost and exposed for what it is. Is he frightened of a great economy with opportunity for all especially non-whites? Is it peace in the Middle East? Is it a more unified United States of America? Is he frightened of a Commander In Chief that fights for the working class?
See my tag line.
And I’ve heard Thomas Friedman diddles little children.
Hide under your desk tommie and wait it out. Oh and think about shutting off your computer for your own peace of mind.
He think he going to be covering the civil war isn’t that cute. Tom when it really gets going major media figures, democrat operatives are going to become high value targets. Yes Tom you’ve picked a side. As it turns out one side will be gunning for you
Thanks, TM!
This hack is still around? Thomas Writes With Crayons Friedman. SHEESH. Drama King.
This is either works record level projection or astronomical ignorance/arrogance.
We might think that the election is about Corona 19 and whether Trump properly handled the virus, whether the blame is on Cuomo, whether Democrats have demagogued it, and whether the shutdowns were utterly unnecessary or should be faithfully extended.
We might think that the election is about race, about Black Lives Matter, about systemic racism, about whether burning down our cities is justified or must be stamped out.
We might think the election is about the economy, trumps performance before the virus, and whether he or Biden can better bring it back and who can better put America back to work.
But history will write that the election decided who will prevail and survive intact, China or the United States.
Either Trump is elected and trade with China is properly managed, it's subversive activities in America and around the world are checked, its military threat is countered, and our own economy is rehabilitated and able to withstand the ever growing Chinese threat, or
Biden is elected and all the sold out politicians in Congress will continue to sell us out to China, Wall Street will carry on moving our industrial base abroad, our universities, Hollywood, our media in general will find new and novel rationalizations to justify the long, slow but inevitable eclipse until internal forces, through greed or fear, simply open the gates and let the barbarians through.
It's China, stupid.
“Whether it was Sarah Palin or the Tea Party, and now Trump.””
This ass doesn’t see in his own words the ABSOLUTE intransigence that has brought us to this point. We have backed up for the entire post war period before this absolutism and now there is no where else to go...and here we are.
play book of the dems. Commit evil. Accuse the Republicans of doing what the Dems did. Any time the Dems accuse the Republicans of a crime, you will know what crime the Dems actually did.
Well-stated BUMP!
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