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Elizabeth Warren, Trumpian of the Left
New York Times ^ | December 20, 2018 | Bret Stephens

Posted on 12/20/2018 7:42:50 AM PST by EdnaMode

For decades, the left sought to dethrone the idea of truth. Truth was not an absolute. It was a matter of power.

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Which brings me to Elizabeth Warren’s commencement address last Friday at Morgan State University in Baltimore. It sounded just like . . . a Trump stump speech.

To an audience of nearly 500 new graduates and their families at the historically black college, the Massachusetts senator laid out a bleak vision of America. “The rules are rigged because the rich and powerful have bought and paid for too many politicians,” she said. “The rich and powerful want us pointing fingers at each other so we won’t notice they are getting richer and more powerful,” she said. “Two sets of rules: one for the wealthy and the well-connected. And one for everybody else,” she said.

“That’s how a rigged system works,” she said.

It was a curious vision coming from a person whose life story, like that of tens millions of Americans who have risen far above their small beginnings, refutes her own thesis. It was curious, also, coming from someone who presumably believes that various forms of rigging are required to un-rig past rigging. Affirmative action in college admissions and aggressive minority recruitment in corporations are also forms of “rigging.”

But however one feels about various types of rigging, the echo of Trump was unmistakable. “It’s being proven we have a rigged system,” the president said at one of his rallies last year. “Doesn’t happen so easy. But this system — gonna be a lot of changes. This is a rigged system.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bretstephens; elizabethwarren; fakenews; lizwarren; mediabias; stephens; trump; warren
Warren is 1/1024th Trumpian.
1 posted on 12/20/2018 7:42:50 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

[For decades, the left sought to dethrone the idea of truth. Truth was not an absolute. It was a matter of power. ]

Truth is a “concept” to the left.


2 posted on 12/20/2018 7:45:31 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: EdnaMode

Warren is a non starter... though I am sure Trump would love her to be the nominee, because she would be CRUSHED... but she has ZERO shot at the nomination... nor does Booker or Harris or Beto... or nearly any other name you hear being dropped.

The only thing that could take out Trump would be an economic collapse, and it seems like the Fed is bound and determined to create one.....

We see the economy slowing but we are still going to raise rates for a 4th time this year... WTF?

Swamp’s reach is everywhere.


3 posted on 12/20/2018 7:45:32 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: EdnaMode

D R U G S!! that’s the only explanation for a stupid piece like this.


4 posted on 12/20/2018 7:46:02 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberal is lies.)
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To: EdnaMode
Do we have to still pretend she's even remotely relevant.

Like an amateur bomb maker, she blew herself up with a DNA explosive she intend to detonate on Trump.

Her career is 1023/1024ths over.

5 posted on 12/20/2018 7:47:04 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: EdnaMode

“The rules are rigged because the rich and powerful have bought and paid for too many politicians,” she said.

She has GOTTA be talking about soros.


6 posted on 12/20/2018 7:49:30 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: EdnaMode

What does Bret “Repeal The 2nd Amendment” Stephens know about anything? He is obviously a traitor to our nation.


7 posted on 12/20/2018 7:50:18 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: EdnaMode

Is she African-American now?....................


8 posted on 12/20/2018 7:53:24 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: EdnaMode

Projection from the rich beotch...how does ANY black American take her seriously???


9 posted on 12/20/2018 7:53:47 AM PST by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: EdnaMode

An obvious Warren reclamation attempt.....FAIL!


10 posted on 12/20/2018 7:55:16 AM PST by TruthWillWin ([[[MSM]]])
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To: EdnaMode

Good old Paleface Lizzy Warren.

She stole benefits meant for real Indians.

Then, she condemns White people for stealing benefits meant for other racial groups.


11 posted on 12/20/2018 8:00:34 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: EdnaMode

She might as well go stand in front of a tobacco shop.


12 posted on 12/20/2018 8:02:00 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: dead

If 1023/1024ths of her political career is 5 years, she will die in office.


13 posted on 12/20/2018 8:02:16 AM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: EdnaMode

Hey folks, don’t dismiss her.

About the only name being bandied about that I would dismiss right now is Joe Biden. For two reasons, he would be 78 upon taking office for his first term and I just can’t see the Dems electing an old white guy to run against Trump.

The only reason I don’t put Bernie in this category (old white guy) is because he is Jewish and so he can pull the minority card that way (I don’t get it why Jews are somehow considered minorities. They are as white as me) and he has a very strong following among youngsters. He’s a hip old white guy to them. Hey, socialism is hip to the youngsters.

Warren has been planning this for a while. She may have missed her chance. I think she could have definitely beat Hitlery in 2016. The left doesn’t care about her fake Native American claims, she’s a woman and she has a following and an organization. She can win the Democratic nomination.


14 posted on 12/20/2018 8:09:20 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: philetus

Yes, I should have said any advancement in her career is over. She can sit in that seat in Massachusetts until the Navajo rules the earth.


15 posted on 12/20/2018 8:14:17 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: V_TWIN

How do blacks put up with liberal sh*t?


16 posted on 12/20/2018 8:38:30 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: jmaroneps37

One of the worst NYT opinion pieces ever written in terms of logic. But the New York Slimes is no longer about logic or fairness. It’s about two things: saving its own failing business and destroying POTUS Trump.

To that last point, this story is meant to tomahawk Warren’s 2020 run.


17 posted on 12/27/2018 10:09:58 PM PST by poconopundit
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To: dead; EdnaMode

18 posted on 12/27/2018 10:13:30 PM PST by poconopundit
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To: EdnaMode

Trump was talking about the Government being corrupt.

Lizzie Lieawatha was talking about Trump. Her Boogieman is Orange and a Successful Businessman.


19 posted on 12/27/2018 10:13:48 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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