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What kind of country is this?
The Washington Post ^ | November 9, 2016 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 11/09/2016 10:05:00 AM PST by detective

When the KKK’s favorite candidate — a man who mocks a disabled reporter, brags about sexually assaulting women, dabbles in anti-Semitic tropes and paints Mexican immigrants as “rapists” — gets elected, many of us ask rightly ask: What has become of the openhearted, tolerant, decent America so many of us were certain would reject a character like Donald Trump?

As the country awakes bleary-eyed and disoriented, we are certain that the lights will come up, the horror film will end and all will be put back to normal. The alt-right will go lick its wounds, the lying opportunists will be banished and sanity will have prevailed, right? No, not this time.

We — like just about everyone else, including the Trump campaign itself — failed to see what was coming, but perhaps we can make sense of what happened. Here goes.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nevertrumpers; rubin; trump; washingtonpost
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To: Army Air Corps

... but the only thing they’re good for is flushing your toilet.


41 posted on 11/09/2016 10:15:25 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: hawaiian
Don’t forget he destroyed the Obama legacy as well!

Best part

Think about this, Obama was ushered into the White House as a messiah, as someone who would stop the oceans from rising.

For two years, he and his supermajority passed and signed country-crippling legislation like Obamacare and the phony stimulus.

What was the result? Dems lost the House in 2010, the Senate in 2014, and the presidency in 2016. Republicans also control the majority of governorships and state legislatures.

He won two big battles in 2008 and 2012, but the Democrat party is worse off because of him. For that I thank him.
42 posted on 11/09/2016 10:15:37 AM PST by needmorePaine
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To: RightGeek

My gosh. Change the hair cut and skin tone, and she would look like Obama.


43 posted on 11/09/2016 10:16:37 AM PST by laxcoach (Government is greedy. Taxpayers who want their own money are not greedy.)
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To: MUDDOG
There was a despicable report on WABC radio news early last night that "a high-ranking Trump campaign official says it will take a 'miracle' to win."

That is exactly the kind of thing that will backfire when the populace is motivated. It'll take a miracle to win? By God, we'd better get out there and make that miracle happen! Go make sure Uncle Bob, Aunt Sally, Cousin Fred, and the elderly couple down the street were able to make it to the polls. We'll take them with us if they can't drive!

Then, when Trump wins, the people say "The miracle happened! God must want Trump as president!"
44 posted on 11/09/2016 10:17:10 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: detective

Rubin OMG this woman is an IDIOT I saw her on OReilly LOL she was a TOTAL FOOL, it was embarrassing. I honestly after that performance could NOT BELIEVE she could show her face at the WP again, HOWEVER these people have NO SHAME or embarrassed bone in their bodies!!!!


45 posted on 11/09/2016 10:17:15 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: C19fan
Still waving the racist, KKK, etc towels.

What is sad is that they really believe this stuff. Its not just election year screeching. Its at their core. Beware! They will not go quietly into the sunset. They will be there fighting every second to bring one world socialism to this nation. Quidado America. Be on guard at all times. This fight is not over. In fact it has barely begun.

46 posted on 11/09/2016 10:17:55 AM PST by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: detective
When the KKK’s favorite candidate — a man who mocks a disabled reporter, brags about sexually assaulting women, dabbles in anti-Semitic tropes and paints Mexican immigrants as “rapists” — gets elected, many of us ask rightly ask: What has become of the openhearted, tolerant, decent America so many of us were certain would reject a character like Donald Trump?

*The KKK is a Democrat concern with nothing to do with Donald Trump.

*Mr Trump did not pull a John Lennon and mock someone's disability, the gestures he used in his imitation of a reporter saying something ridiculous is something he used for others, and this has been demonstrated on video for those who bother to check.

* Mr Trump joked about women letting famous people take liberties with them but never bragged about assaulting women. The Feminism LOL you tuber did a very good deconstruction of the false media narrative concerning the recordings made in the bus.

* Mr Trump is not the least bit anti-Semetic, tis another part of the fevered imagination of those who slander him.

* Mr Trump did not paint all Mexicans as criminals or racists, he did say that Mexico doesn't mind sending us their criminal elements along with those who just want to work. It takes only a few seconds of listning to his actually words to confirm this.

As to how such a man could be elected. Such a man can't be elected. This man does not exist. He is the fictional creation of the media haters like those at the Huffington Post and Washington Post and other places. The real Donald Trump, who is a very warm hearted and generous man was elected.

47 posted on 11/09/2016 10:18:33 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: detective

The best part of the evening was the looks on the faces of the “un-biased” media as things went south for Hillary. That alone spoke volumes. Can’t wait for Trumps TV News to start up. We all know it will be labeled as LIES TV. How soon will SNL be broadcasted from Canada?


48 posted on 11/09/2016 10:20:43 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (???? It dissappeared.)
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To: detective

49 posted on 11/09/2016 10:21:14 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: detective
Ironic how they're so upset that a plain flawed man got into the WH instead of the most corrupt (even above Billy and Baraaaaack) person ever to go into politics...."Waaaa! We wanted the career felon!"

I guess they consider Leftist warts to be beauty marks....

50 posted on 11/09/2016 10:21:24 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: NohSpinZone
This is supposed to be the token “conservative” at the Compost, right?

Indeed - their idea of a conservative.

Jennifer Rubin reminds me of the old joke about a camel being a horse designed by committee. She's their camel. Or another way of putting it is, she's George Will in a skirt.

51 posted on 11/09/2016 10:22:06 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("He may be a sinner but she's the Devil" - a minister on the candidates)
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To: RightGeek

Mr. Ed may be interested in this horse-faced LIB reject.


52 posted on 11/09/2016 10:23:21 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: detective

” brags about sexually assaulting women ...”

When Bill Clinton was raping Juanita Broderick, we did not here a single word of protest by this woman. She has NO authority to lecture anyone about character.


53 posted on 11/09/2016 10:23:55 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: detective

Jennifer Rubin need a shrink, bad. She is believing her own lies and is running down hill without brakes.


54 posted on 11/09/2016 10:24:10 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: fr_freak

That’s a good way to look at it!

I vote every time anyway, but when I heard that report, my heart sank (even though I know the MSM are liars).

However, if it was true that a high-ranking campaign official said that, at the very least it could mean that there was a traitor in the campaign trying to sabotage it, which wouldn’t be surprising given the political class’s antipathy to Trump.


55 posted on 11/09/2016 10:24:44 AM PST by MUDDOG
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Hard to tell if Richard Jones was for or against Trump. Great post, nonetheless.


56 posted on 11/09/2016 10:25:18 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: detective

Deplorable checking in.


57 posted on 11/09/2016 10:26:29 AM PST by mykroar (Democrats in 2016: The party of genitalia, real or imagined.)
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To: detective

Rubin is a racist.


58 posted on 11/09/2016 10:27:38 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: detective

Someone needs to tell these liberals

...Believing your own propaganda is bad for your mental health...


59 posted on 11/09/2016 10:27:51 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: detective

WP, along with many other lib rags and the msm, still living in the land of make believe.
They can,t have a rude awakening if they never wake up!


60 posted on 11/09/2016 10:28:15 AM PST by Leep (Last Days of Hillary)
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