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Trump’s Charity Toward None
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 19, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 10/19/2024 6:42:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The cardinal should go to confession.

Timothy Dolan let a white-tie charity dinner in New York showcase that most uncharitable of men, Donald Trump.

At the annual Al Smith dinner, Dolan suffused the impious Trump in the pious glow of Catholic charities. Dolan looked on with a doting expression as Trump made his usual degrading, scatological comments about his foils, this time cloaked as humor.

“We have someone in the White House who can barely talk, barely put together two coherent sentences, who seems to have mental faculties of a child,” Trump told the New York fat cats. “It’s a person who has nothing going, no intelligence whatsoever. But enough about Kamala Harris.”

Trump also offered this beauty: “I used to think the Democrats were crazy for saying that men have periods. But then I met Tim Walz.” When Trump joked about keeping Doug Emhoff away from nannies, even he admitted it was “too tough.”

As he did in 2016 when he crudely attacked Hillary Clinton as she sat on the dais, Trump added a rancid cloud to what used to be a good-tempered bipartisan roast.

Dolan could have stood up and told Trump “Enough!” We have been longing for that voice of authority who could deliver the Joseph Welch line — “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” — to our modern Joe McCarthy. It is the church’s job, after all, to teach right from wrong.

Instead of telling Trump he was over the line, Dolan enabled him in his blasphemous effort to cast his campaign as a quasi-religious crusade and himself as a saintly martyr saved by God. The conservative cardinal didn’t care about soiling the legacy of the great Democratic patriot Al Smith.

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


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: 000001absurdlies; alsmith; alsmithdinner; childkamala; dowd; enemieslist; enemyjournalist; maureendowd; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nytsedition; timothydolan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Morose Dowd, the ultimate angry, old, childless cat lady.


21 posted on 10/19/2024 7:12:46 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: xp38

IF? Thank you for your “optimism. “


22 posted on 10/19/2024 7:15:13 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: griswold3

And here I thought Maureen Dowd found the fountain of youth and became attractive


23 posted on 10/19/2024 7:15:33 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That bitter old hag Mo Dowd is still alive?? Who knew? 🙄


24 posted on 10/19/2024 7:16:29 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: xp38

Plus it never hurts to view the woman. Js


25 posted on 10/19/2024 7:17:28 PM PDT by Kudsman (Swamp the swamp. Vote right NOW. )
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To: xp38

I was wondering that as well. I signed up in 2003 and was unaware of that FR tradition.


26 posted on 10/19/2024 7:17:58 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: xp38


DemonCrap Head

After President Trump Wins Election


27 posted on 10/19/2024 7:20:30 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Fungi

I am but I cannot guarantee the result. I’m just watching from the sidelines. I try not to underestimate the level of evil from the other side.


28 posted on 10/19/2024 7:20:44 PM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

Ha! Thanks for that reminder. I vaguely remember the Dowd / Douglas / Jones saga and FR’s hilarious reactions to bitter old Dowd back in the day. You summed it all up very nicely.


29 posted on 10/19/2024 7:24:11 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Whom bedsides The Clinton family did the Clinton Foundation benefit?


30 posted on 10/19/2024 7:29:34 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

For the four years Trump was President he donated his salary to charity.

Biden on the other hand sent our his drug addicted whore monger son to shake down any leader of any country that wanted a favor.

Long story short the New York Times sucks.


31 posted on 10/19/2024 7:30:16 PM PDT by GOPJ (If the government won't protect the vote, border or citizens, why have that government?-nullandvoid)
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To: GOPJ

👍


32 posted on 10/19/2024 7:32:05 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump’s just trying to change the climate, raise the tide and lift all boats!


33 posted on 10/19/2024 7:33:23 PM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I live in Pennsylvania, and plan on voting on Election day since I will be on vacation. After I vote in the morning, I’ll be driving to Williamsburg, Virginia for some much needed R&R. On the way, I will be fairly close to the Trump winery in Charlottesville, so I plan on stopping by, and picking up a bottle or two.


34 posted on 10/19/2024 7:35:43 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: EvilCapitalist

One of my sisters came after me early this week, trying to get a reaction about Milley saying Trump is a fascist. Because my arm of the family has 5 veterans in the 2 generations; she thought veterans would support Milley. I said no, they don’t really respect him or hold him to represent the characteristic of valor to which many veterans aspired. Then she hit me back with a very long message, making 15-20 “points” about Trump being racist, having Project 2025, having “his armed rioters” for J6, etc. etc. When I disputed those points, she said she felt that I was being aggressive and accusatory and that we were done talking about it. WTF. I don’t even care any more. I have tried to NOT talk politics with her for years, but she started with the Milley crap.


35 posted on 10/19/2024 7:36:00 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: EvilCapitalist

If Donald Trump wins this November, they’ll finally know how we felt about the last four years.


36 posted on 10/19/2024 7:39:22 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Robert DeLong

Nobody but the Clintons.


37 posted on 10/19/2024 7:40:25 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: NEMDF

I’m so thankful that my sister — our whole family, in fact — is rabidly MAGA. The meal after my mother’s funeral in April morphed into an impromptu Trump Rally. There were about 100 of us siblings, cousins, children, grands, etc. Mom would have LOVED it! Maybe she did.


38 posted on 10/19/2024 7:41:47 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: NEMDF

She picked a fight then blamed you. Sorry you have to deal with that gaslighting.


39 posted on 10/19/2024 7:44:41 PM PDT by vivenne
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To: NEMDF
“When I disputed those points, she said she felt that I was being aggressive and accusatory and that we were done talking about it.”

And now you know how every conversation you’ll ever have with a liberal/leftist will go, under the best of circumstances.

Been there and done that many times. Don’t even bother anymore.

40 posted on 10/19/2024 7:44:47 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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