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Why Trump’s con can’t last forever
The Washington Post ^ | January 24, 2017 | Katrina vanden Heuvel

Posted on 01/24/2017 10:43:34 AM PST by detective

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To: LouAvul
We may not realize it, but we're in a civil war.

I think we ourselves, the informed, conservative, traditional Americans are in a war with our would-be globalist masters. But that is more of a counter-revolutionary war and is not yet at the violent stage and that war is not even seen by most Americans walking through life with their eyes closed.

But a decision time is coming. The uninformed, the mushy middle as I call them, are finally waking up to the the fact that they've been lied to for their entire lives by the MSM, the schools, the uniParty politicians and everyone else the globalists have purchased and now that they are awakening they are going to have to decide for themselves where they stand.

If enough go to one side or the other (freedom loving, traditional American values versus One-World Socialist Utopians) we won't need a civil war to decide the matter. But if they break anywhere close to 50-50 there has to be a fight to decide which way this country goes because the two positions are completely at odds with each other.

The middle is waking up quickly now though, so we should be seeing which way our country is headed very soon. Will we decide to be an enslaved population entranced by our masters' promises of a socialists utopia, or will we decide to be a free people in the traditional American sense, or will we take to the streets to fight it out? Interesting times ahead for all of us.
101 posted on 01/24/2017 12:00:52 PM PST by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: KosmicKitty

around the block from Calle Ocho?


102 posted on 01/24/2017 12:01:21 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: reformedliberal

“Know thy enemy” but don’t obsess over thy enemy and don’t focus on thy enemy. Thy enemy can get you basically in two ways - 1) by getting you to be ignorant of his devices and/or 2) by getting you to be overly attentive to what he is doing.

We should be mostly publishing the truth on FR, not the lies. We should find reliable sources that have already deconstructed the lie and replaced it with the truth and with a headline that says the truth. We need much more of that on FR IMO. The key is the headline and the first few sentences because not everyone has time to drill down. The endless stream of negative, lying headlines sabotages our purpose IMO.

As I said, some posts of certain certain published lies can help in ferreting out the truth and can be very helpful. But the almost mindless stream of endless Leftist media’s published lies posted on FR often has no redeeming value, gets everyone all pissed off and demoralized, and seems sometimes to even strengthen the lie.

If you’re told a lie, don’t repeat it. Neutralize the lie by speaking the truth. Lies aren’t defeated by repeating the lie. Lies are defeated by repeating the truth. We should have our eyes on the prize - in this case, politically, what it takes to recover our Free Constitutional Republic. That should be what we major on and focus on.

To be honest, part of the problem IMO is many know what they’re against but have difficulty clarifying for themselves what they are for. That may be one reason they continually want to publish and then bash the Leftist lies rather than mostly publish the truth that will actually defeat the lies.


103 posted on 01/24/2017 12:01:47 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: detective

Where the hell have these fact-checking critics been hiding for the last 8 years?

OBAMA PROMISES:

“Hope N’ Change” wasn’t a con?

“Shovel Ready Jobs” wasn’t a con?

“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” wasn’t a con?

“If you like your healthcare plan you can keep your healthcare plan” wasn’t a con?

“My plan will cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.” wasn’t a con?

“I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office.” wasn’t a con?

Obama’s repeated assertion that a video caused the Benghazi attacks and deaths of 4 Americans wasn’t a con?


104 posted on 01/24/2017 12:07:20 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Lurkinanloomin

She is the editor of The Nation, this country’s oldest magazine devoted to the ideas of Karl Marx. which have led to more untimely deaths, so much more bloodshed, hunger and poverty than any others during the past century and up until these times.


105 posted on 01/24/2017 12:54:01 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: detective

How much moneu has George soros invested in the Washington Post? Says a lot of what their “news reporters” are required to ask and write. I’ve read he’s invested in every mass media organization in America.


106 posted on 01/24/2017 12:55:35 PM PST by tillacum (I've been a Great Deplorable, from the beginning of DJT's entrance into politics.)
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To: kabar

Wonder what this rich leftist botch would think if a group of angry poor whites (like coal miners from Appalachia who lost their jobs because of leftist government decrees; my sister-in-law is from that area and she has told me stories of the poverty there) were to show up on her doorstep?


107 posted on 01/24/2017 1:05:31 PM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: detective
I mean come on....SERIOUSLY?

The Washington Compost and Katrina Vanden Heuval in the same sentence?

Just one of them is enough to keep me from reading any further.

108 posted on 01/24/2017 1:41:20 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: Jim Robinson

“But when he wants to send a message requiring more than 140 characters, he should use FR.”

Loud applause.


109 posted on 01/24/2017 1:45:42 PM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: detective

By Katrina vanden Heuvel:

...“For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital ...”

“... His inauguration sparked some of the largest women’s demonstrations ever in the nation’s capital ...”

Busted.

Fake Spelling and Editing.

Katrina, The Washington Post, her editor(s), and her website supervisor(s) need to take a remedial course in spelling Capitol.

Not once, but twice.


110 posted on 01/24/2017 1:53:18 PM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: SaveFerris

I guess she doesn’t know Mr. D. Gray


111 posted on 01/24/2017 1:55:37 PM PST by Texaspeptoman (Even canabels get feed up with people... sometimes.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Hi

Yikes. Wouldn’t put it past her.

Could you give me a source for that?
Googling turned up nothing. Could be the story
got scrubbed.

But nobodies going to buy it unless we can cite a
printed source.

Thanks


112 posted on 01/24/2017 1:56:20 PM PST by tsomer
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To: detective

We should listen to what this person has to say because she correctly predicted Trump would win the nomination and then the election.

No, of course she didn’t.


113 posted on 01/24/2017 1:56:32 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: detective

Wow, the author should apply for a job at Pravda.


114 posted on 01/24/2017 2:14:04 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: detective

KVH can get back in the kitchen and fix me a sammich ...


115 posted on 01/24/2017 2:15:46 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (FU Schmuckie Shoomer (Rat-NY))
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To: detective

KVH can get back in the kitchen and fix me a sammich ...


116 posted on 01/24/2017 2:15:48 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (FU Schmuckie Shoomer (Rat-NY))
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To: hsmomx3

He is going to use Skype.


117 posted on 01/24/2017 2:29:11 PM PST by LookingUp
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To: LookingUp

Ok. That’s one thing I have never done.


118 posted on 01/24/2017 2:52:15 PM PST by hsmomx3 (Love my Steelers!!)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

The anti-Trump Meme is fueled on Speculation of all the bad things he MIGHT do. When he doesn’t do them—or does things that help the nation—they will be out of gas. The now beats anything he may have said or implied back in the day. Actions speak louder than words—even if they are seen in a negative light. To be better that Obama will not be hard.


119 posted on 01/24/2017 3:20:51 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: stillfree?

I don’t know what’s worse: the image or the eye bleach!


120 posted on 01/25/2017 10:41:49 AM PST by pingman ( Go Trump! Best Election, EVAH!)
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