Posted on 06/24/2017 8:24:02 PM PDT by AndyJackson
Because they live in a make believe world populated by phony fools. It’s hard to see reality from that vantage point.
...made this point earlier today.
There is a need for a word that goes beyond schadenfreude. Schadenfreude is a mere snicker to the joyful feeling I'm experiencing.
Maureen is intellectually bankrupt.
I get the group think mind guard angle, but does she believe she can get away with it and not suffer credibility wise like MyGyn Kelly.
How does Maureen defend her lies to her family.
Do her parents, family and friends all say "we are so proud of the lies you told today"?
The Democrats just got skunked four to nothing in races they excitedly thought they could win because everyone they hang with hates Trump.
If Trump is the Antichrist, as they believe, then Georgia was going to be a cakewalk, and Nancy Pelosi was going to be installed as speaker before the midterms by acclamation. But it turned into another soul-sucking disappointment.
“It’s Trump four and us zero,” says the Democratic congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio. “I don’t want to admit that. When it comes out of my mouth, it bothers me. But Trump does robo calls. He tweets. He talks about the races. He motivates his base, and he moves the needle, and that’s a problem for us. Guys, we’re still doing something wrong here because a) he’s president and b) we’re still losing to his candidates.”
The 43-year-old Ryan, who failed to unseat Pelosi as House minority leader last year, says that the Democrats’ brand is toxic, and in some places worse than Trump’s. Which is beyond pathetic.
The Republicans have a wildly unpopular, unstable and untruthful president, and a Congress that veers between doing nothing and spitting out vicious bills, while the Democratic base is on fire and appalled millennials are racing away from Trump. Yet Democrats are stuck in loser gear.
Trump’s fatal flaw is that he cannot drag himself away from the mirror. But Democrats cannot bear to look in the mirror and admit what is wrong.
“We congenitally believe that our motives are pure and our goals are right,” Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, told me. “Therefore, we should win by default.” But, he added dryly: “You’ve got to run a good campaign. In elections, politics matter. Oooh, what a surprise.”
As Ryan sighs: “If you don’t win, you don’t have power, and you can’t help on any of these issues we care about.”
Democrats cling to an idyllic version of a new progressive America where everyone tools around in electric cars, serenely uses gender-neutral bathrooms and happily searches the web for the best Obamacare options. In the Democrats’ vision, people are doing great and getting along. It is the opposite of Trump’s dark diorama of carnage and dystopia — but just as false a picture of America.
OMG she’s turning into Helen Thomas.
They are not phony fools over there. They are real genuine legitimate fools, clever(sometimes) conniving(always) fools but fools, real fools.
Spell check not working at The Slimes?
Well, ‘for’ is spelled correctly.
Sorry for the typos. Cannot do cut and paste from the Slimes.
You cannot copy and paste from the Times.
I did for a moment and corrected your mistakes.
My bad.
“We congenitally believe that our motives are pure and our goals are right,” Rahm Emanuel
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Rahm, like most Democrats, is a congenital liar.
““fatal flow”?”
And... “It’s Trump for and us zero”
And they make fun of Trump’s misspellings in his tweets... and he doesn’t have twenty editors reviewing them.
You have half the folks here keying in on your typo’s.
That’s not good. Keep it real.
I just went to the actual article, and those misspellings are not there, so AndyJackson owns them.
Ok, I found I can do copy and paste from Microsoft Edge, but physically cannot do so from Chrome, which is the browser I use by default. Now I know I guess.
Dowd proves once again what a mindless, clueless dolt she is.
It is spelt correctly in the article.
It’s not a big deal but when you quote the Times and it looks that ridiculous, you are feeding into a narrative that does not help FR.
We want to know EXACTLY what they are saying. That’s all.
“The 43-year-old Ryan, who failed to unseat Pelosi as House minority leader last year,...”
I read an article by him last week. It was another big hit piece on Trump. Comey is just an honest guy, blah, blah, blah. Sometimes I think my local editor puts stuff out there just so I can wreck their world, lol. He’s obviously still shooting to be Nancy Pelosi’s replacement.
But she does make a few valid points that some Dems are starting to realize:
The party still seems flummoxed that there are big swaths of the country where Democrats once roamed that now regard the Democratic brand as garbage and its long-in-the-tooth leadership as overstaying its welcome. The vibe is suffocating.
And I found some great sarcasm in the following lines:
Democrats cling to an idyllic version of a new progressive America where everyone tools around in electric cars, serenely uses gender-neutral bathrooms and happily searches the web for the best Obamacare options. In the Democrats’ vision, people are doing great and getting along.
He has quite a bit of work to do if he wants to take down Pelosi. She isn’t going without a fight.
As far as Comey goes, he probably was an honest guy in the system. He has the Clinton Cabal and Obama Cabal hanging on his neck. He is honest no more less his nuts hang from the highest pole. He had no choice other than quit.
Trump did him a favor.
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