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We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners
The Failing New York Times ^ | June 25, 2018 | Michelle Goldberg, NYT opinionist

Posted on 06/25/2018 9:37:24 PM PDT by kiryandil

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To: BenLurkin

The Race Card TM hustlers traffic in racism for a living.

Leave it up to the NYT to cast vitriol upon Trump they would never assign to true racists.

Go figure.


41 posted on 06/25/2018 10:22:54 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: kiryandil

I’ve known as a child of a Holocaust survivor that one day man’s inhumanity to man would happen again on such a scale in the West but I didn’t realize I’d live to see it.


42 posted on 06/25/2018 10:24:02 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: kiryandil

Do parents even teach their children manners any more?


43 posted on 06/25/2018 10:24:04 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: cpdiii
Oddly, this will be a result of a corrupt judiciary that views crimes with a political bias instead of constitutional law. Once citizens no longer respect the judiciary normal law and order no longer exists as one then has contempt for a corrupt judiciary and they are then viewed as an enemy.

Yep, they've been digging that hole for sometime now and they better cool it right quick if they know what's good for everyone.

44 posted on 06/25/2018 10:30:55 PM PDT by Bullish (government=overfunded stupidity.)
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To: kiryandil

Democrats, led by the New York Times, are marching to Civil War. Good luck with that.


45 posted on 06/25/2018 10:32:29 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: kiryandil

America should not be surprised.

Red Hen’s LGBT employees should have made sure Sarah Huckabee Sanders got served
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/06/24/sending-sarah-sanders-away-red-hen-unjust-and-wrong-column/728858002/


46 posted on 06/25/2018 10:32:52 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: kiryandil

Stupid...


47 posted on 06/25/2018 10:34:14 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: DaxtonBrown
Civil War (condensed version) - Daniel Greenfield [January 26, 2018]

https://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2018/01/this-civil-war-my- south-carolina-tea.html

How do civil wars happen?

Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge. That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.

The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it’s not the first time they’ve done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn’t really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There’s a pattern here.

What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don’t accept the results of any election that they don’t win. It means they don’t believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections.

That’s a civil war.

There’s no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government.

This isn’t dissent. It’s not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they’re the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don’t win, what you want is a dictatorship.

Your very own dictatorship.

The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it’s inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can’t scratch his own back without his say so, that’s the civil war.

Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that’s not the system that runs this country. The Democrat’s system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country.

If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything. And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He’s a dictator.

But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can’t do anything. He isn’t even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented. A Democrat in the White House has ‘discretion’ to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn’t even have the ‘discretion’ to reverse him. That’s how the game is played. That’s how our country is run. Sad but
true, although the left hasn’t yet won that particular fight.

When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren’t even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn’t allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission. But under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries.

The Constitution has something to say about that.

Whether it’s Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. This is what I call a moving dictatorship.

Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds, you can’t serve in it if you’re not a member. If you haven’t been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If you aren’t in the club. And Trump isn’t in the club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren’t in the club with him.

Now we’re seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them, and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down.

That’s not a free country.

It’s not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an ‘insurance policy’ against Trump winning the election. It’s not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It’s not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It’s not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn’t supposed to win did.

Have no doubt, we’re in a civil war between conservative volunteer government and a leftist Democrat professional government

48 posted on 06/25/2018 10:34:40 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: kiryandil

According to several news articles, homosexual employees of the Red Hen had asked the owner to tell Sanders to leave.


49 posted on 06/25/2018 10:38:12 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: kiryandil

Socialists love democracies when they vote their way.

Otherwise they scream about the rights of the minority.

We are a constitutional republic. Much better than democracy, which is a step down from that. Mob rule essentially. Only good when the mob doesnt decide to come after you. And as more things go to hell, the more the mob goes after people.


50 posted on 06/25/2018 10:38:15 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
And as more things go to hell, the more the mob goes after people.

I can't remember if my streetsweeper holds six rounds, or seven rounds...

51 posted on 06/25/2018 10:40:15 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: familyop
Amazingly, I know LOTS of LGBT Trump supporters on Twitter.

They're great people, and gallant Twitter comrades.

52 posted on 06/25/2018 10:41:57 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I have a very long umbilical !


53 posted on 06/25/2018 10:42:40 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK ("Vi veri vniversum vivus vici" "By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe)
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To: kiryandil

refit it for the really short rounds and you’ll have 10-12 shots.


54 posted on 06/25/2018 10:56:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
There's a useful tip...   smiling face
55 posted on 06/25/2018 10:58:11 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: kiryandil

Quintessential Democrat


56 posted on 06/25/2018 11:05:47 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: kiryandil

Excellent post!


57 posted on 06/25/2018 11:07:58 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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To: kiryandil

take the pot and the wine away from the author. They obviously don’t mix with this one, as apparent from the observable side effect of vitriolic mouth overload.

And fire the ‘opinion’ editor for allowing this drivel to be put to print.


58 posted on 06/25/2018 11:17:24 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: kiryandil

They need to find some Nazis fast.


59 posted on 06/25/2018 11:20:14 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: kiryandil
Michelle Goldberg, NYT opinionist

Stopped reading right there.

60 posted on 06/25/2018 11:24:22 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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