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Absorbing the Impossible
NY Times ^ | 11/9/16 | Dowd

Posted on 11/09/2016 7:20:16 AM PST by pabianice

I sat watching in astonishment. The one who couldn’t bear to show up to concede was not, as expected, Donald Trump, but Hillary Clinton...

When the Apocalypse came at midnight and the TV analysts — even on Fox — were scrambling to reverse their analyses and justify their bad polling data; and the stock exchanges had to temporarily halt the futures market because it was falling too fast, and the world was spinning off its axis, I called my conservative brother to see what the heck was going on.

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“As flawed a candidate as Trump was, he had his finger on the pulse,” Kevin said. “The polls were off because nobody wanted to admit that they were going to vote for him. But it’s a populist revolt and a lot of people believed in Trump’s message: too much regulation, too much government. The whole thing is a bunch of guys getting rich on Capitol Hill and not paying attention to the people who elected them...

Kevin mused: “The Clintons remind me of the Universal horror movies where you thought the monster was dead and then the monster would show up in a bad sequel. I’m glad now that they’re finally gone.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dims; dowd; dumbocrats; hillarylost; liberalmeatheads; modo; modowd; rats

1 posted on 11/09/2016 7:20:16 AM PST by pabianice
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To: pabianice

Just tell your leftie friends that in this election the voters wanted to try something different-like taking it up the ass.


2 posted on 11/09/2016 7:22:51 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Salena Zito
Shout out to Salena Zito, mentioned in the article, referencing: Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally
3 posted on 11/09/2016 7:25:08 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #VICTOR)
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To: pabianice

It’s amazing how every flaming liberal has a “conservative brother”. Which means that liberalism, as a mental disorder, is not a genetic but the acquired one....


4 posted on 11/09/2016 7:25:28 AM PST by exinnj
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To: pabianice

Oh, and...


5 posted on 11/09/2016 7:26:33 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

after all, rules are rules


6 posted on 11/09/2016 7:28:57 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #VICTOR)
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To: pabianice

Poor Maureen, the fly-over country fails to follow the lead of the New York Times! What a disaster (for New York City Values!)


7 posted on 11/09/2016 7:30:04 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: pabianice

[I thought the hard-core support for Trump had dwindled down to a hardy band of loyalists: Rudy, Newt, Chris, Sarah, Kellyanne...AND MY BROTHER KEVIN.]

A lot of LIBERALS are going to be eating CROW this THANKSGIVING!


8 posted on 11/09/2016 7:32:47 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: SES1066

From the Western Rifle Shooter Association blog:

Hey, Manhattanites!

Where do you get your food?

Signed,

The Dirt People


9 posted on 11/09/2016 7:36:42 AM PST by Noumenon (We owe them nothing: not respect, not loyalty, not obedience.)
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To: pabianice

Those damn deplorable conservatives rose up and kicked our ass!


10 posted on 11/09/2016 7:39:59 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: pabianice
The one who couldn’t bear to show up to concede was not, as expected, Donald Trump, but Hillary Clinton...

I'm a bit surprised to see that Dowd can recognize a simple truth when it's staring her in the face.

That's a rarity to behold and savor.

11 posted on 11/09/2016 7:41:22 AM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: pabianice

They still don’t get it. I read in a few articles questioning “how did our politics become so poisonous”. Dems can look at themselves and their leadership over the past 10 years: from Pelosi and Reid, to Obama and his statement ,”I won”; to using the nuclear option to ram through Obamacare. Eff them all, after all, Obama did say to punish your political enemies. The electorate has given the house, senate, and executive to the other side for a reason. SCOTUS has an empty chair, and there will likely be another during this term. Ram it all home. The people and states have spoken.


12 posted on 11/09/2016 7:48:48 AM PST by canalabamian (Durka durka...Muhammad FUBAR!)
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To: pabianice
How Trump plans to repeal Obamacare?
How Trump will appoint Supreme Court justices that will transform America into a drastically more conservative landscape over the next 20 years?
How Trump plans to undo the Iran deal?
When will Trump begin deporting Hispanics?
When will Attorney General Rudy Giuliani pardon Chris Christie and put Hillary in jail?

What a great agenda!

13 posted on 11/09/2016 7:49:52 AM PST by MUDDOG
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To: pabianice

Guilty Confession: I can’t read Maureen Down without becoming distracted by how amazingly gorgeous she is.


14 posted on 11/09/2016 7:53:32 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: grey_whiskers
I'm absorbing the impossible...with Hillary's fireworks!
15 posted on 11/09/2016 8:11:53 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: pabianice
"...But it’s a populist revolt..."

Liberal weenies like this turd like to say this as short hand for "knuckle-draggers who didn't pay attention to the policies".

We paid attention all too well to the "policies" of the last eight years...

16 posted on 11/09/2016 8:17:35 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: pabianice

“What would they discuss? How Trump plans to repeal Obamacare? How Trump will appoint Supreme Court justices that will transform America into a drastically more conservative landscape over the next 20 years? How Trump plans to undo the Iran deal? When will Trump begin deporting Hispanics? When will Attorney General Rudy Giuliani pardon Chris Christie and put Hillary in jail?”

And who said Maureen couldn’t get things right?


17 posted on 11/09/2016 9:50:12 AM PST by ops33
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To: pabianice

After reading this article it looks as if the brother got the brains in the family.


18 posted on 11/09/2016 9:52:03 AM PST by ops33
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To: pabianice

Howls, liberal bunghole.

Howls of derisive laughter.

You have afflicted America for far too long. Would you please go to Hell already, you loathsome sow?


19 posted on 11/09/2016 1:17:40 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: ops33
After reading this article it looks as if the brother got the brains in the family.

Yup, Dowd would do well to listen to her brother for a while, instead of wondering whether he's one of what Hillary called "deplorable".

She might learn something. And she might be taken seriously outside her self-imposed leftist bubble.

20 posted on 11/09/2016 2:25:43 PM PST by justlurking (#TurnOffCNN)
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