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Fran Lebowitz On Donald Trump, Protests and Moving to Canada
Paper Magazine ^ | December 8, 2016 | Abby Schreiber

Posted on 12/08/2016 3:09:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Truthfully, I know this is not the party line -- certainly not the line coming from Obama, because it's his job to act calm -- but I'm not a politician, and to me, what this feels like is if the South had won the Civil War. It took them 150 years, but they finally won. That's what this is. I don't care what people say. Yes, they lost their jobs and it's horrible. I wasn't alone in feeling this, but I would say [on the left] I was unusually sympathetic to these people. I was against NAFTA. They have absolutely legitimate economic grievances, but this does not entitle you to bigotry. There should be no actual connection [between the campaign and bigotry] but the fact that there is -- and I don't know why people are tip-toeing around saying this -- they are despicable. I know you're not supposed to say this, but they are astonishingly ignorant. Who's not angry? I was born angry. I'd put my rage up against theirs any day of the week. But that doesn't mean you should get guns or be a bigot.

And guess what, Trump is not re-opening the coal mines or the steel mills. This isn't Russia where the state controls the mines. It has to be a company and it has to be profitable, and it's not profitable because it's much cheaper to make steel in China, as Trump knows because he used their steel to build his buildings.

And as a New Yorker, the ascendance of Rudy Giuliani is equally awful. There's no doubt in my mind Donald Trump is not going to be president. The only job he's ever had was working for his father, which is not a real job — it's a favor. Trump is lazy and has no idea what being president entails. He didn't even have the grace to look scared when he went to the Oval Office. Obama, who is certainly one of the smarter presidents I've had in my lifetime, looked scared [when he first went to the Oval Office] because no one knows what they're in for until they get there. Every single person on the planet has their life [in the president's] hands, and it would bother every single person who is intelligent or human. But the president will be Mike Pence, whose policies are despicable, and it'll be Giuliani and it'll be Paul Ryan, who is a psychotic nut.

So what do I think people can do? NOTHING. Someone said to me that on the Internet there's a site saying there can be a recall, and I said, "Do I think this will happen? NO! What do you think this is? A high school election? NO!" You can volunteer at Planned Parenthood -- and it's always a good idea to do that -- but I have very little belief that there will be a Planned Parenthood. To defund it has been high on [the Republicans'] agenda for many years. Do I think Trump cares about it? No, he doesn't care about it at all. He doesn't care about anything. But there are plenty of people who want to defund Planned Parenthood. They're definitely going to repeal Roe v. Wade. This election is as much about misogyny as racism.

I do not think the country will work together. To do what? Do you want to work together to pass this agenda? I don't. Do you want to stand in the way? How can we? I don't think the country will join hands. Nor should it. I understand the impulse to [protest] and throw stuff. But that is not going to do anything. That said, I understand it.

But when people say they'll leave the country, I laugh. No, I'm not moving to Canada. If there's one upside to all this, it's that it's gotten Donald Trump out of New York.


TOPICS: Canada; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abortion; fool; giuliani; lebowitz; lesbian; stupidpeople; trump
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1 posted on 12/08/2016 3:09:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It's almost unfair to post this, because she's such an easy target, so repellent inside and out.

The poor woman.

2 posted on 12/08/2016 3:14:02 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, excellent, worthy of praise: dwell on these things)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The wailing and whining on the left is truly amazing. There are NO grown-ups in the Democrat Party. They can just cry themselves to sleep for the next eight years for all I care.


3 posted on 12/08/2016 3:15:17 PM PST by hsalaw
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a persnickety, immature woman. I have no positive comment to make about her.


4 posted on 12/08/2016 3:17:40 PM PST by righttackle44 (Leave the bodies-take scalps.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So just which of the women listed wrote this abysmally stupid, uneducated ( since WHEN was Pa., Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin part of the SOUTH ? ), obnoxious, banal POS?

Sure wee barry looked "scared" ( did he really? ) when entering the White House; he was just a lowly COMMUNITY ORGANIZER/THUG who had NEVER accomplished anything on his own, in his whole little life and he still hasn't managed to do ANYTHING good !

5 posted on 12/08/2016 3:19:40 PM PST by nopardons
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To: hsalaw

I didn’t know who Fran was so I looked on the internet. Wow, that is a scary looking dude.


6 posted on 12/08/2016 3:19:48 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: Mrs. Don-o

These people are not stupid.

They are not ignorant.

They simply know a lot of things that are not true.

They have false assumptions about reality.

Reality has bit them, and they are having a very hard time processing it. They may never get over it.

People who have their vision of reality shattered usually refuse to believe what happened. They make up conspiracies. They find ways to rationalize. Occasionaly, but seldom, they do a serious reassessment and formulate a new vision of reality.


7 posted on 12/08/2016 3:20:03 PM PST by marktwain
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“But when people say they’ll leave the country, I laugh. No, I’m not moving to Canada.”

We also laughed. Because we know that you know US will be made great again


8 posted on 12/08/2016 3:20:50 PM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is this person allowed out of their house without supervision? Their meds should probably be readjusted. Im really curious as to the color of the sky in the reality in which they exist. It’s also apparent that coherency is not in their sphere of awareness.


9 posted on 12/08/2016 3:20:51 PM PST by Gatorvet (Replace the Socialist Republicrat Uniparty.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ugly hate-filled lesbo hag.

Hilarious!

10 posted on 12/08/2016 3:21:17 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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Isn`t Fran the one who died in the kiln explosion in Animal House?


11 posted on 12/08/2016 3:22:09 PM PST by american_ranger
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If there's one upside to all this, it's that it's gotten Donald Trump out of New York.

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LOL! What a dimwit.

12 posted on 12/08/2016 3:25:01 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Yea. She was killed in a kiln explosion. Lol.


13 posted on 12/08/2016 3:25:11 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why didn't you working stiffs do what we rich, white women told you!?

BTW, P.P. won't be "defunded." We can't do that. We just don't want any government money going to it.

14 posted on 12/08/2016 3:25:14 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kinda funny, really. So delusional. Unworthy of comment.

Except for the one thing.

Trump lazy? Wow! The man in the last week of the campaign traveled more, gave more speeches, interviews, and tweets than Hillary accomplished over the course of her entire campaign. Without growing hoarse. Without ever seeming exhausted.

When you can’t even give him credit for that superhuman effort of endurance, you say more about yourself than him.

Heck, the guy’s on a path to accomplish more in his transition period than Obama got done in the last year, and, in contrast, DJT’s achievements are for the good of America rather than its demise.

Lazy? This man earned his win by working his tail off.

His critics who speak like this? I think of them as the big pink mint targets at the bottom of the public urinal.


15 posted on 12/08/2016 3:25:57 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A disgrace to American Jewry.


16 posted on 12/08/2016 3:26:14 PM PST by HomerBohn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Delusional womyn.

She glares down at us from the ash heap of history.


17 posted on 12/08/2016 3:26:59 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: MotorCityBuck

That minx. What a lively sense of humour.


18 posted on 12/08/2016 3:28:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: american_ranger

No, that was her prettier sister “Fawn”.


19 posted on 12/08/2016 3:30:12 PM PST by BlueLancer ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
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To: MotorCityBuck

That was her sister Fawn.


20 posted on 12/08/2016 3:31:11 PM PST by daler
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