Posted on 11/11/2016 6:54:29 AM PST by Cboldt
"I have personally been on the ballot in Nevada for 26 elections and I have never seen anything like the reaction to the election completed last Tuesday. The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America.
"White nationalists, Vladimir Putin and ISIS are celebrating Donald Trump's victory, while innocent, law-abiding Americans are wracked with fear - especially African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, LGBT Americans and Asian Americans. Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America.
"I have heard more stories in the past 48 hours of Americans living in fear of their own government and their fellow Americans than I can remember hearing in five decades in politics. Hispanic Americans who fear their families will be torn apart, African Americans being heckled on the street, Muslim Americans afraid to wear a headscarf, gay and lesbian couples having slurs hurled at them and feeling afraid to walk down the street holding hands. American children waking up in the middle of the night crying, terrified that Trump will take their parents away. Young girls unable to understand why a man who brags about sexually assaulting women has been elected president.
"I have a large family. I have one daughter and twelve granddaughters. The texts, emails and phone calls I have received from them have been filled with fear - fear for themselves, fear for their Hispanic and African American friends, for their Muslim and Jewish friends, for their LBGT friends, for their Asian friends. I've felt their tears and I've felt their fear.
"We as a nation must find a way to move forward without consigning those who Trump has threatened to the shadows. Their fear is entirely rational, because Donald Trump has talked openly about doing terrible things to them. Every news piece that breathlessly obsesses over inauguration preparations compounds their fear by normalizing a man who has threatened to tear families apart, who has bragged about sexually assaulting women and who has directed crowds of thousands to intimidate reporters and assault African Americans. Their fear is legitimate and we must refuse to let it fall through the cracks between the fluff pieces.
"If this is going to be a time of healing, we must first put the responsibility for healing where it belongs: at the feet of Donald Trump, a sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate. Winning the electoral college does not absolve Trump of the grave sins he committed against millions of Americans. Donald Trump may not possess the capacity to assuage those fears, but he owes it to this nation to try.
"If Trump wants to roll back the tide of hate he unleashed, he has a tremendous amount of work to do and he must begin immediately."
Dingy Harry should just crawl back under his rock.
Trump you Reid!
Keep it up, Dingy Harry. That kind of rhetoric is why the Dems lost.
“Yet, we have zero video of Trump people beating up Clinton supporters.”
The gullibility of the libtards is truly amazing. It’s almost incomprehensible how just plain stoopid they are. These a$$holes like Harry and Elizibeth and Barack and all the others have been spewing the same garbage lies about us for 8 years now with absolutely zero evidence to back it up, and the idiot libtards just keep on lapping it up. They’ve been saying we’re racist, hating, violent, “tea baggers”, and the only pushback we’ve done has been at the ballot box, while the libtards are getting ever more bold in their violent actions. They want to talk about fear, do they? Well, what I fear is that they’re going to push too far in their violence, extending it out to people who have been peaceable and far too patient with them, and they’ll FORCE a reaction from the “deplorable, tea-bagger, Bible thumping, bitter clingers” who still make up the majority of this nation, and that reaction ain’t gonna be pretty at all.
FUHR!!!
Harry - you have heard more stories of fear since Trumps victory????
Where have you been the last 8 years when Catholic nuns, Christians of at denomination, and white people have been accused by your liberal friends in government and the news media - of being racists, homophobes, etc. We are all deplorables, etc. It has not been fun for us for a long time. And often we felt fear of our very own elected government which was politicizing all the bureaus in DC.
Dirty Harry....Dirty to the end. What a Disgrace to America.
Who is Harry Reid?
Oh the one-eyed RETIREE who doesn’t matter any more.
Well that statement ought to quell the riots... NOT !!
Amusing comments from a man who is one of our chief FEARmongers.
“The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American”. - Theodore Roosevelt, October 12th, 1915
Harry who? Isn’t he the genius who can’t use simple exercise equipment w/o doing severe harm to himself? I never heard of him suing the manufacturer of the equipment so I must assume that he admits being stupid.
“The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America.” For once Reid is correct, just look at the democrat thugs and illegals rioting in the streets because they didn’t win. Besides that, who gives a shit what Reid has to say, he is more irrelevant now than ever before.
omg you just coined a great phrase.
Trump You. :)
As usual, the reality is more like the following:
"I have personally been on the ballot in Nevada for 26 elections and I have never seen anything like the reaction to the election completed last Tuesday. The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America. "Innocent, law-abiding Americans are celebrating Donald Trump's victory, while some African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, LGBT Americans and Asian Americans are reacting with hate.
Love Trumps Hate!
Agreed. Having lost the election for one of their own, they are now doubling down on the failed strategy. Good luck with that you globalist media elites.
I have heard more stories....
He always uses that line when he makes up things and he never provides any proof same old democrat BS.
Hey Harry, I’m still trying to heal up from you and Bahmer bending me over with your stupid policy’s and your rude, vulgar comments about my life style, color and religion. Maybe I think you should be responsible for your own damn healing.
If there was as much fear as all these folks say there is, wouldn’t they be quiet?
I can tell, they’re scared to death.
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