Fear anger and dicision have always worked to a certain extent in US politics. You could say that fear of Trump is what Democrats are running on.
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I am tired of a lying, malignant sociopath at the helm;
I am tired of his greedy cabinet lining their own pockets and running federal agencies into the ground (to the applause of the low informatin base);
I am really sick of "the Base" and their lily white, half-baked, fact challenged reality (this is what you get when you dont teach civics and radequately fund public education);
I am tired of a high school grad and blowhard named Hannity advising the POTUS (on a non-secure line);
I am sick of the feckless, pampered, inexerienced, ridiculous Trump kids trying to play at global politics.
I want a POTUS who has actually read history;
I want a POTUS who does not embarass me;
I want a POTUS who doesn't brag about grabbing crotches .
I want a POTUS who is smarter than me;
If I cant get all of the above, I want a check on this sociopath.
And in the meantime - I want to see the tax returns
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Trump said,
"He suggested he could change after the midterm. “I would love to get along, and I think after the election, a lot of things can happen,” he said..."
Its always the same scenario - Charlie Brown, Lucy and a football...
He is a pathological liar who has 2 years to bring Our country together under the banner of, "We The People", but instead has polarized Our nation with deviseness, chaos and confusion. He will not and he cannot change. His unrelenting harangue against people of conscious; the Press, the life long politicians who have given their lives to serve, citizens with a moral compass, Our allies, et al will not cease. It's not his nature. Domination and abuse are not the way to run a country.
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What’s important to you and your family? What was in Hillary’s email, or that you keep your healthcare; don’t get dropped for a preexisting condition; don’t get your Social Security or Medicare cut?
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"Therefore only the benevolent ought to be in high stations. When a man destitute of benevolence is in a high station, he thereby disseminates his wickedness among all below him"--Mencius--from The Works of Mencius, page 58--Translated by James Legge.
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The Title of this Article is offensive and misleading. The President has restored our economy. Brought back millions of jobs. He is trying to protect our border and if your not in a border state your opinion really holds no weight. Is he flawed? yes we all are. It's so disappointing that you cannot report the positive things happening. The outreach to minority communities and trying to restore the dignity of this nation. The far left crazies are refusing to even try to unite this country. It's so exhausting never seeing anything positive and half the country can see it so why not NYT?
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Sorry, but I'm seeing hate and fear coming from both extreme sides. And nationalism is not a dirty word; look it up.
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Flooding the country with immigrants at this point would have the same benefit same as adding water to a container of poison. It could only improve America and make it palatable.
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Very biased report. There are at least 10 million undocumented illegal people in this country not counting any who are on the way.Good luck with trying to save all the people of the world who come from a worse place.It will eventually be our undoing. Just look at history.Maybe he describes the situation in a way you do not like but there is a lot of truth in what he is saying.We need regulated and enforced immigration laws in the country.We have needed them for decades.No I am not a racist and fully understand the demographic situation.We need immigrants.
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After decades of the 1% and democrat controlled media dehumanizing anyone who dared to disagree with them (usually the white, male, Christian minority) by branding us racists, xenophobes, bigots, misogamists, intolerant, disturbing, threatening, privileged ... it is inevitable that the persons who built this country, died in its wars, invented and built most of what makes this a developed civilization would finally start to fight back! When you declare a group your enemy you have to expect that even though most of them don't think of you as their enemy, or want a war, when you create an 'its either them or us state of war' that they will fight to kill you before you can kill or subdue them. For you see we are also not stupid enough to buy the fantasy that the 'others' believe in - that allowing yourself to be crucified and abused is some magical way to paradise or a way to be respected for possessing superior virtue. We happen to know that submission is precisely what it actually is - a demonstration of cowardice and ignorance.
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The characterizing of Trump's campaign in these terms exposes the extreme bias that this opinion publication consistently displays. This is not news, it is the opinion of three virtually anonymous people who live on the far left of the political spectrum, yet represent themselves as "objective, independent" reporters. It is obvious that none of these three have ever voted for a Republican in any election in their lives. Biased news is fake news.
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Congrats guys, the last few months of career politicians, Kavanaugh, obscene wealth, Georgetown Prep, rich elites dividing and conquering, poorer folks being fed lies, fear, tax cuts for the gentry etc etc - you’ve finally adopted the class system! We were worried what with all that heady talk of people’s democracy and all, but you cane through. We’re so proud over here in the UK; the sorcerer’s apprentice has gone and gotten all grown up!
Next up: peerages! Now, the SC is a good start what with the zero term limits and the fact they are appointed by politicians from a party shortlist. Maybe needs a few adaptations though...
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Trumpism's ability to prevail over the long run will be determined by two things: (1) whether he can expand the tent, even by a little, to include more than his base of rural, anti-immigrant white men (and a few women); and (2) whether he can continue to keep the rage of that group up at sufficient levels to get them to go out and vote. The data seem to pointing to a "no" on the first question, and a "TBD" on the second. It seems that Americans as a whole are breaking—albeit a bit late—against the blatant bigotry of the Trump campaign, shrinking rather than expanding the tent. People are finally seeing him as an existential threat, and not as just a harmless buffoon who passes tax cuts and appoints conservative SCOTUS justices. On the second, however, he has shown a remarkable ability to keep his ~35% of people enraged, even without any real events to keep that anger up. The blatant lying and brainwashing worked, for about a third of the country. At some point, one would think fatigue would set in, but so far it seems to continue unabated.
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@purpledogWhat never ceases to amaze me is the talk about elitism,and the so called elite. The normal rank and file were not the people pushing for huge tax breaks for the one percent. It was the one percent themselves served by their lackeys.I suppose if you really wanted to find elites,you would go to the party that has the most of them which is the gop hands down of the registry of the one percent. Republicans are big on labels and jingoism, most of the time they are calling out themselves and shifting the focus elsewhere.Look at who is most often devisive and that would be the president who is a republican and seems to think that he is king
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@purpledog
The "Heartland" refused Clinton's offer of job retraining and education for them and their children. She offered transportation to training centers. They preferred the con from a man who flew in on a private plane, riled them up, and left. Carrier went through with the move of manual labor factories to Mexico, leaving engineers in charge of the robotics needed to run the factories. There might be a few manual labor jobs left, with no raises or benefits. The biggest investment is the Dollar Stores which pay low wages and give no benefits. Perhaps a 12B dollar bribe given to losing soybean farmers helped a bit.
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When I went To France 2 weeks ago, everybody (and I mean everybody) who learned that I am living in the States asked me what was wrong with America and the current President. And I got the same feedback from other foreigner friends. People in other countries think that maybe the voters have been fooled once and that the current situation will improve. If Trump supporting Republicans don’t lose their majority during these midterms, I can safely predict that the foreign countries will no longer see the Trump presidency as an accident and that the US standing in the world will take a hit as never before.
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@Gvaltat. While you were there did you ask them why merkle is on her way out? Seems we aren't the only people with leadership issues.
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@Gvaltat. Europe is already toast and in 20 to 30 years will be burnt toast. Trump is attempting to keep the US from taking the same destructive path that Europe has taken. This is not opinion, it is a demographic reality. Some in Europe see it and this accounts for the nationalist movements in many European countries. But it may be too late for western-style democracy in much of Europe. Perhaps those European acquaintances should focus less on the US and more on just how well it’s going to work to bring in large numbers of culturally dissimilar immigrants to prop up socialist countries that have birth rates (in the historically European populations) that cannot support the financial cost of their socialism based economies. Their problems are much bigger than ours.
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@Gvaltat I live an average of 2-3 every year in Europe and travel extensively during that time. and, like you, I'm bombarded with comments about how could Americans elect such a buffoon (and prior to 2016, how could Americans re-elect George Bush?). It's always hard to give a coherent answer because, how do you explain citizens voting against their own self interest ? How can you explain the laziness, ignorance and naivete of 1/3 of the most powerful country in the world? I can assure the readers that the world is laughing at us alright-- since Trump's election and as a result of it, contrary to Trump's claims.
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Yesterday I canvassed for the Democrat congressional candidate in NY district 1. An older white man answered the door; I was hoping to talk to the two women in the house (they were registered Dem) so I assumed it was his wife and daughter. When I told him that I was volunteering for the Democratic candidate, his face suddenly twisted and our cordial conversation turned ugly. He yelled at me (and included some expletives) and slammed the door in my face as I was thanking him for his time and wishing him a nice day.
Later that day I pulled into the parking lot of the grocery store to pick up some things on my way home and an older couple pulled into the space next to me. They both got out of their car yelling at me for no reason other than to tell me of their disgust for the Democratic candidate (I had a bumper sticker on my car). If I had talked to these same people in the hardware store or the fabric store and they didn’t know my political affiliation I’m sure we would have had a nice conversation.
There is something so hateful about the Republican Party that I’ve never seen before. It’s no longer about differences in opinion on policy, it’s that they’re convinced we (anyone who’s not Republican) are evil and want bad things for them. I cannot understand it. Love is supposed to overcome hate, lightness is the only way to eradicate darkness but it is indeed a very dark hour for our country and I’m just not sure anymore how it’s going to turn out.
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@KFC
Thank you for your civic commitment.
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@KFC: "Therefore only the benevolent ought to be in high stations. When a man destitute of benevolence is in a high station, he thereby disseminates his wickedness among all below him"--Mencius--from The Works of Mencius, page 58--Translated by James Legge.
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I"m a Repubican.
I like strong borders and rule of law.
I don't like stoking fear, separating families or demeaning any other human being because they are different.
I like a strong economy.
I don't like it at the cost of the environment or removing regulations that protect the average American family.
I like a strong defense.
I don't like it at the cost of kowtowing to our known enemies and then, alienating our staunch allies.
I like a decisive President that can bring all people together.
I don't like a President that divides, bullies and constantly lies, lies and then, lies some more.
I'm a Republican.
I'm voting DEMOCRATIC.
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Thank you
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@Jules There are more than the obvious benefits to America, when renegotiated trade deal bring jobs back to America.
State and local economies see a boost in tax revenue. Less carbon fuel is used to transport the goods to American consumers. (slow boat from the Orient) The US has stronger environmental protections. Workers have greater protections than the average third world citizen.
And how do you feel about record low unemployment for American-Americans? Is that a problem?
Our NATO allies are now paying their way. I like strong and well defended borders. As for criminals that enter our country, with their children, separate them. Then, there won't be any more family trips to the Estado Unitos. Even the killers in San Bernardino dropped the baby off, before they went Jihading.
I'm a Republican.
I'm voting Republican.
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@Marcus Aurelius
I"ve been voting Republican since I voted for Nixon in 1972.
but not for this lunatic.
We need law and order and sanity.
He personally fails on all three.
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Fear,anger and division as if he didn't have a reason for those thoughts. Look at the alternatives. If you had any smarts you would have the same thoughts.
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Elections have come and gone, and will continue to do so forever. But, as stated in this report, “The divisions exposed and expanded over the past few weeks seem certain to last well beyond Election Day.”
In fact, most of the divisions we are witnessing right now are caused by President Trump. If the Republican Party is allowed to retain its majority House and Senate after this election, it will be taken by him as a mandate for continuing the processes of divisions he has already initiated. He will complete the processes by the time he finishes his first term. In the unfortunate event of his being elected for a second term, he will have destroyed forever the reputation this country has a melting pot of all races in this world. His racially charged, anti-immigrant rhetoric at campaign rallies has already given a clue to this fearful prospect.
He knows full well that it was his racially charged slogans, which his loyal constituents found soothing to their ears, that got him elected president. Hoping to further energize them in the present election, he has shamelessly continued such slogans. He has even added an ideological, if despicable, one to them when he said: “The Democrat [sic] agenda will deliver a socialist nightmare.”
Are the voters in in the country going to be fooled by Mr. Trump's cheap sloganeering this time also? They should bear in mind that this is the most important election held in this republic since its founding.
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@M. P. Prabhakaran
The democrats are as much to blame with their incendiary rhetoric and actions.
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I never voted for Barack but I accepted him as President. His race baiting and corruption around events like Benghazi and Fast and Furious divided this country long before Trump ever came on the scene.. Of course Republicans were mature enough to recognize there would be another President one day that did understand the economy, taxes and job creation by private businesses. We never saw this maturity from the left..
Democrats will destroy this country with their hatred. Democrat Mob violence (Antifa) and the lies told about Kavanaugh show you can't trust them.
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My voting district has many senior citizens in it. In the last election so many voted for Trump. While I was waking into and out of the voting area I noted many seniors arriving and departing. I wondered how could anyone who is not wealthy support a President whose political party has been open about taking money from Social Security and Medicare. Don't these people realize that they are voting against their own best interests. And the young mothers with their small children in strollers who are coming to vote, will they actually vote for a party which puts the seal of approval on putting more toxins into the waterways and air? One often wonders what goes through the minds of voters.
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Note to network executives: I find Trump's rhetoric just as offensive as his ad. Pull him off the air too.
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According to humans and their science, nothing can be infinite, since in order for something to "be", it must be defined and measurable. Attorneys also need undeniable evidence that something is real in a court of law, the same thinking goes for atheists and agnostics. So how can an attorney be a true Christian and believer in God? Humans can only understand infinity as an entity acted upon by gravity as in a black hole. For humans to understand real...it must be something tangible, something you can touch. God is forever not acted upon by man’s ideas. God is infinity. Infinity cannot have a beginning point and an ending point. Man gets real upset because he can not control the weather here on earth nor understand the greatness of forever infinity of God.
There are times when it does not matter whether a majority or a minority of people have the commanding ruling voice. If the ruling voice is indecent and immoral, selfish and sadistic....then the ruling few or the many......are totally wrong.
What's the difference between a Christian and an atheist.....and the difference between separation of church and state?
Blessed be those that believe in His name: who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
no trump voter here, but geez nyt, holder's "kick 'em," hillary's "civility for some of the people," and the rants of booker and waters ain't hardly unifiers...
our failure to communicate goes deeper than trump and its remedy maybe should begin with a look in the mirror on your own wall.
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Let's see. Democrats claim all those that oppose them are racist, xenophobic, homophobic, fascist, nationalist mongers.
Whose platform is built on fear, anger and division?
Asking for a friend.
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Trump Trolls decided to express more hate & anger at their winning in comments today against the rest of the country who care about their freedoms. I had to stop reading the comments because of the hate toward democrats & non trump supporters. Why are they so angry? My God, they won. They got what they wanted & yet they act they are being abused by an oppressive government. Why the hate & anger against your neighbors?
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America wasn't founded on hate and fear and we will not let it end this way. Vote.
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Americans who read the NYT are generally highly educated and living in the big cities or on the coasts. Just as many Americans live in small towns or in the midwest or the great plains states; this is a different America, who feel that they are living in a different country that the one they were born and educated in.
They feel overwhelmed by immigrants, afraid that the jobs that have departed to central and south America and the far east are gone forever (a true possibility), and that they have been forgotten by their own government. Trump sees these fears and his campaign rhetoric inflames them further. People living in the northeast, the west coast, and in major urban areas are oblivious to this, which is why they were blind-sided in 2016 and are likely to suffer the same fate today.
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@AJB
Maybe if they shut off Fox News they would not be so misinformed and so afraid.
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We are supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave, but the Republican Party is running a campaign on fear and revoking citizenship.
We hold this Truth to be Self-Evident, that all Men, and since the 19th Amendment, all Women, are Created Equal.
Identity politics is:
Killing 90% of the native population based on White Christian "superiority."
Slavery based on race, and erecting and protecting monuments to traitors that attacked our Republic when democracy turned against slavery.
Jim Crow, a mass terror campaign against brown people, including unjust laws and lynchings.
Racial profiling.
The Muslim Ban.
Legalizing alcohol while criminalizing marijuana because brown people and left activists like it.
Laws that force you to have a home address to vote, intended to disenfranchise native Americans whose religion does not recognize ownership over land.
Sending armies of militarized police to intimidate and attack left protesters, while white supremacists armed with assault rifles and clubs beat people up unmolested. (Half of the Charlottesville police station stood out front and watched white supremacists beat an unarmed protester).
Killing Jews and the LGBT.
Giving the mostly very rich owners of capital targeted tax breaks, subsidies, and wars to protect their foreign profits.
Fighting against these things is not identity politics. It is fighting for Justice against "conservatives" who base everything on identity.
Equal Justice under the law is Patriotism.
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Dem house and GOP senate will get nothing done except impeach Trump and Kavanaugh. The senate will find both "Not Guilty".
So much for political theater.
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Fear, anger, and division is what America had under Obama by Republicans. Trump won this time, get over it. In 6 years you might win again.
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@Infidel
Then again, President Pence might lose in 2020.
There are too many variables in our current volatile political situation to make any confident predictions as to what will happen over the next six years.
Variables like:
- Congressional reaction to the report generated by the Mueller investigation.
- The current president’s irrational state and the cloud of the 25th amendment hanging over the White House.
- The Honduran invasionary force limping relentlessly northward across Mexico.
The third factor I mention truly is a cause for concern. Three thousand desperate Hondurans seeking to escape a country run by gangsters and corrupt politicians.
5200 armed troops have been ordered to our southern border to bolster the strength of ICE agents and state and local police. But are these valiant fighters up to the task of repelling a full-scale invasion?
The population of our country is only 330,000,000.
We do have the most powerful, well-equipped military establishment on the planet, but there’s 3000 of them!!!
And they’re poor, and desperate. And, worst of all, THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE! There’s nothing in the world more dangerous than people with nothing to lose.
Infidel, in the light of situations as dire as this I doubt anyone can accurately describe where we will be as a nation even next month. You seem to think you can foresee the next six years.
Good luck.
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Trump won two years ago. Today is a new day. Perhaps a day that history will record as the day America turned its back on darkness.
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"a Campaign Built on Fear, Anger and Division" perfectly describes the Democrats who have been angry they lost in 2016, lost to Kavanaugh, fear that the socialist agenda is ending and divides people by color, race and gender.
It is not Trump or the GOP who has since 2016 election terrified cities and destroyed historical statues out of hate and anger.
When you people figure out which bathroom to use I'll pay attention to your concerns. Until then your just a mob showing fear, anger and dividing America.
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Would you still employ me if during the last two years you could cite ten examples of my appalling behaviour like this?
1. I had publicly lied to the media and millions of people several thousand times as noted in the world's press.
2. I and many of those I had hired were still the subject of multiple criminal investigations that had been ongoing for over a year.
3. My closest confidant and long serving lawyer had pleaded guilty to several criminal charges thereby implicating me.
4. Other colleagues I had hired in senior positions had pleaded guilty to an array of criminal charges spread over many years.
5. Corporates etc that I controlled had been charged with frauds and racketeering for many years.
6. I was the subject of defamation claims and litigation by, among others, an exotic dancer.
7. I was being sued by a human-rights group on many counts of using threatening behaviour.
8. I was the subject of several lawsuits for enriching myself as a benefit of holding public office.
9. I was accused of various crimes relating to purported charities I controlled.
10. I had been accused of tax and other frauds.
So can anyone please tell me why Donald Trump is still President of the United States of America? How can you justify having a criminal control a charity let alone a country? PS Please don't quote the economy or, even worse, Pyongyang! https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/edward-burlington/
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Fear, Anger and Division. You forgot the other thing..............THE LIES.
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What a pitiful piece of obfuscation, misinformation, disinformation, and misdirection. RINO Never/Trumpers in Congress will have cover if the Democrats win the House, except for SCOTUS appointments. I owe Obama an apology, with a conflicted Congress, the president's pen and phone become the only governing force.
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It is probably true that 3 million illegal aliens voted for Clinton in 2016 to tip the popular vote in her favor. What is not true is that you say in your article that Trump has no foundation for saying that. How do you know what is true and what is not true?
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@Laberte
How do we know that 3 million illegals didn't vote for Hillary?
Because every investigation of illegal voting shows that it's such a miniscule number that it isn't capable of affecting anything.
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Has President Trump voted? When & where?
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The Democrats continue to insist that Republican leaders are enabling Trump. Well, so are the Democrats. Their quiet timidity and lack of leadership allows Trump to keep igniting his base and dominating the news cycle. Fighting back doesn't have to mean going low.
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More divisive news from the left. Trump isn't resting on laurels when as he prepares the US for an onslaught of refugees as Central and South America continue into chaos, despair, and decline.
As for the constant criticism from immoral individuals of Fox News, it was a matter of a few minutes of viewing when the Christian perspective of the midterms was shared. In contrast, network TV is consistently promoting homosexuality and debauchery.
The left calls for inclusiveness, yet spews hate and vile language toward Christian evangelists who represent the beliefs of the founders and shapers of American democracy.
"More than most midterms, this election became a referendum on Mr. Trump.."
I feel like I'm hitting the beach on D-Day as I prepare to vote this morning. While the Normandy invasion required tremendous personal sacrifice and the privilege of voting requires none, the outcome of this election is just as important in terms of preserving western democracy.
Thank you NY Times for fulfilling the promise of the First Amendment, and thank you in advance to voters everywhere who fight back against the tyranny of this administration.
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Trump Hypocrisy #101
To start I am neither a Republican or a Democrat however I am far more upset with the Republicans today. They claim that the economy is doing great however not one of them will highlight the fact that the Republican congress will have to borrow close to $1,000,000,0000,000 (trillion) dollars this fiscal year to cover the overspending by our government, something they said they would never allow. Not only did they lie to the real taxpayers of this nation they today claim that the economy is in great shape. Not one of them is a CPA and hence can lie about the real economic growth we are experiencing. If you were to properly analyze the numbers, you would quickly learn that the economy is not growing in real terms as we are simply stealing from our children for us to benefit as much as possible before the government can no longer sell bonds to foreigners or the feds must inflate the currency to cover the debt. So, can you trust a Republican? Obviously NOT. Now, it would only make sense if the Democrats had the guts to explain to the taxpayers what the real options will be however it seems that neither party wants to live in the real world today. Both feel that it is good to steal from your own children, that is unless you are in the upper 1% economic group, where you have the power to steal from those who have a lot, a substantial lot less. Very sad but very true! Still many support Trump’s and the Republican’s hypocrisy.
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When I first read the Headline: Fear, Anger and Division, I thought Obama was running for President.
Trump has done a great job of healing this country. Race relations have actually improved, evidenced by Trump's approval ratings among black voters increasing throughout his Presidency. Trump received more votes from black voters than McCain or Romney, but you don't see that story often. So who is doing all this dividing and fear mongering?
While I had high hopes Obama would be the answer to healing this country, I was disappointed in how race relations deteriorated over his 8 years in office, but the interesting part is that it was not all his fault.
The media pigeon-holed Obama as the 1st black President, instead of the 1st half-black, half-white President. If Obama had just acknowledged that his election was evidence we can move forward as one nation, and leave the past in the past where it belongs, the United States would have embraced that message. Instead, Obama dredged up the past and chastised white folks every chance he got. Obama divided this country more than it was before he took office.
Trump is trying to heal the country by pointing out that racism will not go away until Democrats stop using race as a political tool, but he is being called a racist. The Democrat Party thinks they own the black vote, and they try so hard to cast the Republicans as racist. The solution would be for more blacks to register as Republicans, which would take race out of politics
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The people of the world are watching. Will we continue to witness the undoing of America by a Demagogue or will we see the beginning of the end to demagoguery in the US? Choose your vision wisely.
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The GOP will have gains in the House and Senate due to Trumps immigration stance. This will be a Good night for Americans.
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"They say we’re divisive, but we’re not divisive,” Mr. Limbaugh told the crowd. “We’re defending an America that has strayed from our founding. Nothing to do with race."
Even though Black people were slaves under the Constitution.
"Nothing to do with gender."
Even though women were not allowed to vote.
"Nothing to do with any of these identity-political labels. It has to do with culture."
The culture of wealthy white men.
"It has to do with defending the Constitution.”
Or at least the parts he agrees with.
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"Fear, anger, and division." Three things the democrats are very practiced at doing.
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As I have watched this president, with surgical precision, turn Americans against Americans, I am left wondering where are we going, and why are we in a handbasket?
He has unleashed and given new life to our worst instincts, seeing a world where there are only winners and losers, and holding nothing but contempt for those stupid enough to not be winners.
Suffice it to say, I will be voting to change the hateful rhetoric and dystopian vision of the world Trump espouses, all in his attempt to maintain power. Lastly, WORDS MATTER.
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Oh George.....we are heading towards financial meltdown in 2020.
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Anyone who shares a stage with Limbaugh or Hannity deserves whatever punishment comes their way.
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They use fear and division very purposely and effectively. Everyone is so easy to define now, they can draw neat little lines around us on a map and use that to silence the majority. We must remind ourselves every day that we are the majority. They have stolen this power. We now have to vote in such huge and massive numbers to take back control and undo this mess. Get out there and do it, before more harm is done to this country!
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It’s a sad state of affairs on Election Day in America.
Two years ago we were shocked that a cheap huckster obvious to anyone with eyes to see could steal the presidency of the United States. It seemed impossible. But in retrospect this perfect storm was on the horizon for everyone to see. Democrats needed all hands on deck to stop the surge of nationalism that had gripped England and other countries. With Bernie Sanders doing his best to denigrate Democrats and Hillary, while running on the democratic platform he freeloaded on, it allowed him to get national attention. He used it like a wedge to divide Democrats against each other in an effort to get the nomination. Like a kid living at home, all the while plotting to kill his parents, it was enough to allow Trump to eke out the narrowest electoral victory while losing the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.
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@Mick
Exactly!
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Just as in the presidential elections, I find the mainstream media is inadvertently boosting Trump when they say the economy is doing great and Trump should have campaigned on that.
Trump and the Republican Congress have borrowed billions to pay for the tax cuts.
There is no “real” boost to the economy by the tax cuts. This should have been emphasized by the msm all along! Moreover, I saw it immediately, as soon as the tax cut bill was passed, Republicans will now use the increased debt to justify deep cuts in social rescue spending.
Msm disappoints again.
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@violetsmart
Exactly.
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What does this say about the values/ethics of Americans? The message is clear, we are an angry mob but angry at who? Who exactly is the straw man?
Since time and memorial the answer remains the same, don't look behind the curtain, but those "others" are to be feared. Millions of individuals are continually slaughtered for no reason other than to be labeled undesirable vermin, trump loves this show.
The Washington Post ran a piece yesterday, "Congress has a job -- but has largely stopped doing it." by Paul Kane and Derek Willis. This explains the internal destruction of the Legislature which has morphed into the sole arm of the Executive Branch, no legislation is allowed.
This is America today, anger, fear led by a self-enriching autocrat without checks and balances.
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Carol, today we can do something about it. VOTE! Let your voice be heard. Your vote does make a difference. Enjoy your day.
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@Dee L.
I voted early, but certainly to all VOTE, elections do have consequences.
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I'm a white male in my mid 60's. Trump has done a spectacular job of defining us against them along racial, ethnic and religious lines.
I feel the rule of law is good for me. International standards and trust in allies and dialogue with enemies to reduce global warming and the potential for nuclear war is good for me. A social safety net, good education for future generations is good for me.
The destruction of public institutions to private contractors doesn't benefit me at all and is bad for me. Health insurance premiums rising, out of pocket expenses going up and the inability to go to high quality providers if I get sick, is bad for me. If I get sick and can't buy insurance that's terrible for me and my family. Tax cuts that expand our federal deficit, inflation and interest rates for cars and mortgages on balance are bad for me. The selling of publicly owned lands and assets that I don't profit from are bad for me.
In weighing my racism, misogyny, fear of Islamic terrorists, Mexicans, MS 13, the deep state vs. the theft of our Democratic Republic to corporate interests and the destruction of my social safety net, the added threat of global chaos and war, I decided to hold my nose and vote for Democrats right down the party line.
I give Trump credit. There has never been a time in my life where an election and who to vote for has been so clearly defined.
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Instead of talking about Trump all the time the media should be encouraging the youth vote and stop maligning them. All polls do are encouraging people not to vote.
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Aside from the vile nature of this man's character, the questions that has been nagging in the back of my mind is this:
1) Why is the President of the United States taking so much time from his job of ruining... sorry, I mean, running the country, to fly from red city to red city campaigning, when he should be in the White House doing his job. The job we are paying him to do.
2) Since my taxes pay his salary, I resent the fact that I am paying for him him to campaign for candidates I do not and would never support. It is costing the taxpayers millions and millions of dollars for his partisan jaunts. If I were his employer, which by the way I am, he would be fired for dereliction of duty and misuse of government funds, among many, many other things.
3) Is what he is doing even legal?
I guess it would be up to the Democratic Congress to decide the last one.
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How about my fellow Democrats, who staged a show trial against Brett Kavanaugh starring a witness who could not remember the day, date, year, city or house in which her alleged sexual assault took place, nor how she got to and from the party? And none of the several witnesses she named could recall the incident. And days of hearings and dozens of FBI interviews failed to produce any evidence supporting Dr. Ford's claims that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her.
And two other women who came forward to accuse Kavanaugh of rape and multiple rape have since recanted.
I am ashamed that Democrat Diane Feinstein and other Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee used Dr. Ford to try to frame Kavanaugh. It is one thing to dislike or disagree with a candidate; it is quite another to try to smear him with uncorroborated, evidence-free allegations.
The Democratic leaders totally failed to present a positive vision for America to combat Trump's never-ending twitterstorm. I only hope that Americans will nonetheless forgive our so-called leaders and view our party as the one to restore balance to our country, and vote tomorrow accordingly.
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@Mon Ray
It is a sorry time when allegations of sexual assault are called a partisan smear. Have we learned nothing in the age of Harvey Weinstein?
If there was any partisan malfeasance it was the Republican's failure to allow sufficient time for a proper investigation by the FBI. The few days spent talking to a handful of witnesses was ludicrously and intentionally inadequate.
Stop beating yourself up. Though the Democrats often fail to present a solid platform, keep this in mind.
The Democrats are the You Can Do It party.
The Republicans are the Can't Do That party.
If people would understand what this means we would see blue ties all over Washington instead of obnoxiously long red ones.
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@Mon Ray
Regardless of whether you believed that Dr. Ford was hand gagged and subjected to attempted rape by a drunken BK and his frat boy accomplice, it was kind of obvious to anyone who watched him foam at the mouth (alongside fellow foamer Graham who looked liek he was being excorcised) that BK does not have the temperament for the job.
Period.
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“radical,” “left-wing socialists,” “corrupt,” “the Democrat mob” — and accusations that Democrats would raise taxes, destroy Medicare and take over the American health care system.
“The Democrat agenda will deliver a socialist nightmare,” Mr. Trump said in Fort Wayne."
Trump's pathological lies actually insult the intelligence of the people he's preaching to. When I was in high school I learned that it takes a 2/3 majority vote to overturn a president's veto. Even if Democrats win back the House they won't have enough votes in the senate to pass any bills. And even if they did the president will veto what he accuses them of. Then it's a very high bar to actually overturn a president's veto which means Democrats would need the help of Republicans to accomplish that. And that has happened only a handful of times. Sad that people don't recall what they learned in civic classes when they were in school.
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A Trump administration and the Republicans are no longer any mystery if ever they were. It will be most informative to get the results of these midterms. No longer is a vote for Trump primarily one against a known Clinton against an unknown. It seems to me a clearer picture of what most Americans want and value will emerge.
"....attributing his no-holds barred style to a desire to get things done." Wow! Other than a tax cut to benefit the rich, what exactly has he gotten done?
There is no infrastructure plan. No comprehensive immigration plan. Ditto the wall (so far all he has done is ask us to pay for it and Mexico hasn't contributed a single peso). Where is the Kushner Middle East Peace Plan? Two years on, we're still in Afghanistan even though our Commander-in-Chief bragged he knew more than the generals. Even a gun safety plan for our schools is nowhere to be seen.
Yes, he gave his base two Supreme Court judges. But, look at how they arrived on the bench. He should thank Mitch McConnell for changing the rules otherwise neither man would have made it onto the court.
Since the summer of 2015, he has provided Americans with nothing but the same; a big mouth and no plan.
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I will cast my vote today, and then wait - in breathless silence. Are we to be a democracy? If democrats lose today, Trump is likely to ride a wave into a second term. Then, a strongman who began with fueling hatred, and riding the wave of white anxiety and fear, fosters in an unmitigated cash grab for his cronies.
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The die has been cast. Hold out hope. All will be decided today. You can help change things. Please VOTE!
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This morning on the radio I heard part of Trump's speech last night. It centered around the message that "you little people have not been forgotten, we won't forget you the disaffected and the left behind." Ok, if they want to believe that, I feel sorry for them but don't come running back to us like the farmers have with regrets when you learn its not true.
But it was when he said that he and his administration are not about the wealthy, the privileged, and the connected that I was dumbstruck by the brazen, bald-faced lying that his supporters cheer him because that is EXACTLY what his administration has been about. Everything from his cabinet and staff appointees, including Kavanaugh, to his edicts, his nepotism, and profiting, to the tax bill have absolutely been about the privileged, the connected, and wealthy reaping the rewards.
And if he lies about himself than of course he has no compunction lying about his enemies (not opponents in his mind, enemies - as he has said so) whether they are free press or the Democratic party or candidates.
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You are right. Now, what do you plan to do about this debacle? Let your voice be heard. Please, Get out & VOTE!
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@Dee L.
Thanks Dee. I voted early in Mass. Back on10/27!
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Trumps tweet about "Law Enforcement has been strongly notified to watch closely for any ILLEGAL VOTING ...." is not only unintelligible nonsense, but treads on the threshold of an impeachable usurpation of state and local powers and law enforcement.
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@Lifelong Democrat
And in terms of illegal voting go to your search engine and enter "Republicans convicted of voter fraud". Here you will find no shortage of illegal voting and convictions by Republicans who assume "if I do it everyone else must do it", but it still pales in comparison to the systematic voter suppression assault on Americans by Republicans.
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The reporting on Trump campaign tactics is much needed and appreciated. However, I was appalled by the paragraph quoted below, and wanted to ask, sincerely, what compels experienced reporters such as yourselves to "bothsideism" positioning, characterizing previous midterms this way:
"Long before Mr. Trump, presidents have waged fierce campaigns during midterm elections, often demonizing the other side. When he was in office, Mr. Obama painted Republicans as zealots ready to sacrifice Medicare, education and other priorities on the alter of tax cuts for the rich. President George W. Bush accused Democrats of being willing to wave the white flag of surrender to terrorists."
The following paragraph begins "But Mr Trump has gone even further", but your damage was done. Your false equivalencies here have normalized Trump and he is not normal. Very disappointing that this reporting appears on Election Day.
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Well - this is the writers' opinions. In the opinions of many of us, Trump is protecting our borders, bringing jobs back to the U.S., putting taxpayers money back in their pockets rather than more government, going after China and others who dump their products in the U.S. and steal our intellectual property, getting the NATO members to pay their share and generally work for Americans. That is what we see.
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Racism, demonification of the ‘other’ and oh yea, racism. That’s all I see.
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The American democracy is at stake and that is why Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstien must IMMEDIATELY send to Congress what ever parts of the Mueller report are ready. Tonight might be the last night that it may be possible.
When the Republicans lose the House, Trump will fire Rosenstien and bury the evidence with the help of the GOP lame ducks.
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I'm curious, just what is the collective memory of the American electorate? 36 hours? 48 tops. Anybody remember the President's latest promise? A 10% tax cut for the middle class, to be passed by Congress by November 1st. (BTW Congress wasn't even in session!) I guess we'll all find out together in 24 hours just how stupid we are.
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How about running the story that the sanctions against Iran are about increasing oil production for the US and the Saudis. The immigration non- story. Drive the hundreds of miles between San Diego and Arizona and see the fence or “wall” and Border Patrol huge check points (open only at certain hours!!). The immigrants- families! The criminals who sent bombs to the Democrats and who muddled the worshipers in Pittsburgh are Americans. Those stories faded as the media bought the hype. NBC especially - boycott NBC.
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trump and Sessions are now taking a page out of the Georgia playbook: voter fraud as an excuse. Same message he was spewing in 2016....the system is rigged. Maybe Russian bots will come to the rescue, again.
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Get ready for dozens of investigations, multiple impeachment hearings, and complete gridlock for the next two years!! If you thought the division was bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet!!
When did Americans turn into a bunch of Chicken Little`s? The sky is falling; we are being invaded by the scary 1,000 migrants from Central America. They armed with...Starvation??? How can 300 Million possibly survive this onslaught? Vote for Trump...Only HE can save us. Is that how pathetic your nation has become? I guess the world will find out later today. A day of judgement of America for the whole planet to see. Nothing such at stake except Democracy itself. Will it be "WE the People" or "I; Donald Trump." One way or another; the truth of what kind of nation you really are is about to be revealed.
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I've been around since Ike vs Stevenson in the early 1950s. With the exception of Joseph Mccarthy (lawyered by Trump's mentor, Roy Cohn) I've never seen anything as blatantly low, dirty, racist, dishonest and despicable as Trump and the Republicans in 2018.
Let's let then know tomorrow that this type of behaviour will not stand in America.
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It is not looking good for Trump/GOP
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@Steven
Well the weather is supposed to be miserable. And this helps the Republicans. So they welcome the rain.
As reported in another story in the Times today Bob Hugin, a Republican candidate in NJ, openly called the predicted rain “Republican weather.” “I hope it rains hard tomorrow.”
Yes, all Trump knows is fear, anger and don't forget lying. The Republicans are so invested in their 'jobs' they are dumping their good side for their bad side. If they ever had a good side.
Trumps appeal to his raging rabble of supporters is beyond me. How people can deny facts and continue yell 'lock 'er up' is beyond comprehension. What does it mean and to whom are they directing this chant now? It's nothing but a screaming mob of incoherent people as Trump incites them to violence. What happened to decency and humanity?
Trump happened.
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Voting for or against the deadly sins:
Lust
Gluttony
Pride
Greed
Sloth
Wrath
Envy
Choose now or forever hold your peace.
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The economy is booming, unemployment is at a record low, yet the Liberal Socialist Democrats and liberal media keep vilifying Trump.
The liberal media fails to point to the Obama administration's failure to pass immigration reform when they controlled both houses.
They liberal media staunchly refuse to acknowledge any of the accomplishment of the Trump administration. If you choose to wear a MAGA hat in public, the liberal horde will attack you on sight. If Republican's hold a rally, it's denounced as anti American. College campuses are devoid of conservative lectures as administration's cower when faced by fanatical liberal snowflakes. Theses are facts not fake news. Freedom of speech is trampled by liberals daily. Liberals tout pluralism but in fact despise it. Liberals believe they and they alone have the right to govern. The physical assaults, destruction of private property, and mass violent protest are all by liberals not the conservative right.
Regardless of the outcome from the election, liberals will continue their assault in the rights of others.
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@George
The deaths - the stone cold killings have been right.
Assaults on the rights of others - in the guise of "religious liberty" are on the right.
The right sees preventing discrimination of others, others right to be, as "assault on their right" to treat people as they will.
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Here we go again. From the publication that brought us the 2016 Clinton landslide and the paper of the Nobel winning economist who told us the economy would never recover from the election of Trump.
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I’ll take trump over the empty suit democrats. They have nothing, nada to offer we the people. No policies, no leadership, aside from vague notions of “taking it back”, whatever that actually means, and of course smearing everyone else as racist.
This current Democratic Party is a disaster for America. The only thing they are taking back is our future.
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Make America Kind Again.
Vote for Democrats!
Please. I need civility.
Aren't you tired of this exhaustive and mean-spirited administration, currently without checks and balances?
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For sorrow, Americans still deal with Trump rhetorics as direct speech, while it is encrypted. Watch out his body moves and gestures. As a terrorist, like Erdogan, Sisi...etc, he is in need of a platform and media outlets to convey the signal or triggering orders across the world. Doing that he intentionally fools his folks, a factor of success so far.
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Let's see a red tide today!
No open borders, no government mandate of taking guns, not socialism telling us that we have too much and others have nothing so share your wealth.
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@There None of which are part of the US Democratic Party's platform.
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Plain as the nose on our faces the President and the Democrat
operatives are stark polar opposites in most forms.... what you banner sum as fear anger and division honestly are merely expressions of facts... The previous four administrations lazied
idly on immigration both aisle garnering either votes or
low cost labor -- whichever fit the bill... the same four sat as spectators to a constant erosion of the American producing workforce .. that same quartet ballooned the national debt to 20 trillion -- Obama being the worst culprit -- that same foursome entangled the foreign policy into a situation not unlike fog before a path to quicksand... The President has strayed from the "good ole boy" bread buttering status that
that has become what comes known now as "the swamp"
Indeed: we are afraid of a return to the non- accomplished
admins of the recent paste ... we are angry that the corrections so needed are being obstructed .... we are divided as a result of the oppositions' underlying use and endorsement of fear anger and division ..
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@SMPH No good deed goes unpunished. If you simply sat on an index fund since Bush I, you have multiplied your discretionary money by 10. Clinton, fr all the rest of his issues, reduced the deficit and worked across the aisle. Bush II for all the rest of his issues, managed to lead and keep a country together under attack. Obama lead us out of the second greatest economic disaster in our history. You don't exist in a vacuum. Neither does Trump.
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Unfortunately the news media shares some of the blame for showing way too much of this buffoons rhetoric and lies. He's had received Santo may airtime. What he says is rarely newsworthy except for the fact that you repeat his nonsense way to much. Learn from the way he has played you and start ignoring the fluff and simply say, "he lied again today" and don't repeat every word he says. Ignore him and he will go ballistic.
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The religion of Progessivism is marching head-long off the cliff of Socialism. If the country is divided over this path (with the undying help of the DNC's ministry of propaganda) then there is hope yet we won't commit national suicide.. When that opposition gives up the fight, stick a fork in Lady Liberty... she's done. We've had this fight before, in 1776. We all know how that turned out.
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Man alive, from abroad, judging by what I get through my various feeds I would say that your politics and democracy is really in the toilet. Try and grab it back before it’s gone. Febrile, volatile, disgusting - all good descriptors. A POTUS who enrols the army in an election gambit, has media commentators speak at rallies, talks of wire and trenches to repel to invaders. Utterly utterly beyond mad.
The world is watching, hands pressed firmly over face and eyes - except for one eye peeking out from a gap between two fingers. Can’t look away...
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“Why is the party that won the last election so mad all the time?” Barack Obama, Former (and last Real) President of the United States of America.
Why are they not happy they won? What do they really want? Are they not getting what they wanted?
I think some serious soul searching needs to be done.
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If you ever needed an example of the disassociation trump voters have it was in an NPR story this morning. A woman works in a Nail factory in the boot-heal of my home state of Missouri. The tariffs have closed half the plant and the rest of the plant may follow. This woman, who may be unemployed by January, will not stop supporting trump. She will be one of the people who vote against McCaskill in Missouri.
Of course the real irony is, if this woman goes on public support (Food Stamps / Welfare) those programs might go away also because of trump and Republicans.
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It may be too late and it likely won’t matter a whit to folks who have willingly given their minds and will to a gross , malevolent liar. But it still should be remembered that the caravan headed for the US southern border are not illegal immigrants. They are refugees, seeking legal refugee status in America. That status and that program is one of the things that has made America great. It’s willingness to express community empathy and caring. Those fence sitting voters who rightly care about the problem of illegal immigration should very much take note that what Trump is really trying to do is change the very fabric of America by turning what was once legal, and one of the truly great things about the country, into something illegal and a “threat” to the country. It is entirely premised on a racist, white privilege, future for America. This isn’t about illegal immigration. It’s about racism, pure and simple.
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What do you mean "(subpoena-powered Democratic committee leaders) intent on investigating everything from the president’s taxes to Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election"
Everything from?
Trump's taxes undoubtedly provide proof of criminal activity
as does the investigation into Russian election interference;
both of these invalidate the presidency. Full stop.
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If the Trump family is so afraid of being invaded why aren't the two healthy Trump sons in the military. They are leaving their children and wives for other women like their father. Brownsville Texas mayor interviewed recently said their town does not have a crime wave by Mexicans. That is a made up story so GOP can avoid our real issues climate damage, lack of health care and homelessness.
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Trump ginning up the crowds is a sight to behold. I'm always fascinated by still shots of his open mouth, red face, and look of absolutely rapture as he screams something awful to the roar of the crowd.
This is a playbook the world has seen before, but it never ceases to frighten.
I keep reading how Trump can't help himself, he responds to the crowd as they do him. And that the more they roar, the nastier and more mendacious he becomes.
From 5 lies a day, he's gone to more than 20, depending on how many rallies he attends.
Campaign events used to be humble affairs, often at colleges, designed to reinforce a candidate's policy positions.
Trump rallies, are, well, reminiscent of mob emotions, from ancient gladiator spectacles to public beheadings in old England.
People talk about Trump's "raw political skills" in whipping up crowds as if that were a feature not a bug. One could say the same of any tinpot dictator in South America, or despot in Europe circa 1925-1940.
That it has never been seen before in the US, should give us all pause. It is happening here and will assuredly get worse unless folks make sure they vote today.
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"He falsely said that Democrats want to give health care benefits to undocumented immigrants and are openly encouraging undocumented immigrants to vote." Falsely? This travesty is already taking place here In California thanks to some delusional dems and their supporters.
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Clearly, no fear from the Democrat Party. The Republicans are going to take your Medicare, Social Security, Healthcare, throw grandma over the cliff, etc.
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@BeanerECMO - that is exactly what they said they would do. That is exactly what they have promised to do if elected. So it shouldn't seen as fear, right? It is helping the Republicans promote their platform by repeating what party leaders have outlined as their post election plan.
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@BeanerECMO You are wrong about the last one, but the first three are direct quotes.
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ICE arrested about 40,000 immigrants who did not have prior criminal records, up from about 24,000 arrests in the same fiscal 2017 period. That follows previously reported trends of ICE officers picking up more individuals who do not have a record of criminal conviction. Heinous. Vote today for the future of Humanity........
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The damage done to America by Trump maybe your irreversible. So many people around bed on the heating American. They hate our diversity and our laws. They think it’s OK to have a president who doesn’t pay his taxes, cheats, lies, abuses women, launders money stolen from Russian and Ukrainian people, denigrates our free press, and bows down to foreign dictators and emulates their behavior. And much of our rural areas have been turned against our cultural and intellectual centers, causing a chasm that may never be bridged.
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Nothing new in the fear mongering game played by republicans. It’s the gerrymandering (cheating) , lies (Trumps lies 6 X a day) stealing (voter repression) that has this independent voting straight democrat this cycle. The republicans must be punished for what they have done to this country. The deplorable’s must be put back under their rocks.
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Today is a moment on time, a milestone on our long road, where we take measure of where the United States of America has been going the past two years and whether we are pleased or horrified at the nation we've become.
We shall see just how much fear and loathing and hate remains in this nation when all those Trumpians turn out in droves, in a concerted attempt to continue spewing lies and hate and thwart we optimists who look to find the best in America, not the worse.
Today marks two years since that day of infamy when this nation managed somehow against common sense, reason, and logic, to plunge this nation into despair, to cram into the White House the most divisive person ever to occupy that office. Shame on US. In doing so we have become the laughingstock of the World. Considering the conditions around the globe that takes some doing.
But now we must reverse this madness. We must right this ship of state. We must fight fear itself. For the sake of all we hold true, we must restore the fundamental goodness of America. Despite all the misdeeds we as a nation have committed, we are a decent and honorable people, a nation of love and compassion, not a nation of mistrust, fear, superstition and prejudice.
Come on America, in dire times like this, you've always risen to seek your better angels. It is critical that now more than ever we rise once again and be proud to say I am an America. Vote as if your nation's life depended on it. It does.
DD
Manhattan
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Democrats have run around for the last two years screaming "dictator!" "Russian Puppet!" "Insane!" "End of the Republic!"...to say that Trump is responsible for a campaign built on fear is beyond rich. Democrats have offered nothing BUT fear and anger; well, and I suppose, trying to promise everybody a cut of someone else's paycheck.
I really have to wonder what reality those who attack the President on immigration live in. As an English-speaking, US-born, multi-generation American who lives thousands of miles from the Mexican border, I can't drive back to the neighborhood where I was raised (And I'm not even 30), and wander into the local stores or churches or eateries without being more likely to encounter people speaking Spanish than English. The percentage of the population that is foreign-born, and the percentage that do not speak English in the home, are only rising. Whatever trends exist in assimilation at the personal level, they're being outdone by deassimilation at the societal level. How can anyone argue that is a positive? Is it good to wake up every day in a country that is less Americanized than it was the day before?
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Hannity on stage with the president at a political rally? And he acts hurt when people say he’s not a journalist...
I know the MSM is accused of liberal bias, but to his credit Anderson Cooper managed to refrain from campaigning with Hillary.
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"The president offered no basis for suggesting large-scale fraud was likely. 'There are a lot of people, a lot of people, in my opinion and based on proof, that try and get in illegally and actually vote illegally,' he said."
THE PRESIDENT LIES ABOUT THIS. WHY CAN'T YOU SAY IT?
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Illegal immigration is a huge issue for all Americans.
Just as you cannot have exponential growth on a finite planet, you cannot inflict infinite population growth on a finite country.
Still, facts don't seem to necessitate a change to basic economic principals that use up the resources of an Earth and a quarter.
In the second, "Open Borders" sees no problem with inflicting certain economic, societal and cultural suicide upon a whole country.
On any given night in the United States over 600,000 American citizens are living outdoors in their own country. However, George Soros and his ilk, along with the Progressive Socialist Democrats eagerly abandon American homeless citizens and homeless American veterans to spend limited tax dollars, that this country no longer has, on "refugees, migrants, asylum seekers, dreamers, undocumented aliens, George Soros funded boat-people and caravans, or whatever illegal immigration flavor of the week they want to inflict upon this country.
The insanity must be stopped.
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@Jeff Lovejoy Why haven't the republicans and other patriots done something substantial and creative to help the American homeless citizens and veterans? Because they don't matter in the grand scheme of things -- the scheme that gives tax breaks to the rich and takes away benefits from the elderly, disabled and others who need assistance. George Soros is not the boogy-man; the current administration, which demonizes anyone who does not agree with its destructive policies, is what we should be afraid of. Divided we fall.
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Fear and hate mongering are the coin of Donald's tawdry realm. Delivered at high decibel.
Donald does not believe his role is to create policy or participate in the legislative process. Rather, he traffics in lies and conspiracy theories. There are hidden forces preventing his base from having what they believe is a fair, rightful outcome in various aspects of their lives. Donald helps them identify potential culprits: ISIS, Muslims, immigrants, CNN, George Soros, the globalists, the elites, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary, Obama, on and on ad nauseam.
Donald encourages their rage and nurses their grievances. He has loads of grievances too. How about that? The "billionaire" and just regular old Joe sharing a grievance?! Of course, it is a lie, but they are so wonderstruck by coincidence that they never see it. Their gullibility is the ONLY source of power he will ever know in his lifetime. He has never succeeded until he figured out how to exploit those poor pikers. Six bankruptcies, multiple marriages, all that groping of women, sexual affairs with porn stars, cheating contractors, fraud at Trump U, the Trump foundation, etc. One could write a book about his abject failures.
But he'll be quick to disavow his base, every last one of them, when it suits him, you can bet on that. Take that to the bank.
This is an ancient story that never ends well. The wolves of hate can never be tamed so pity the person who is foolish enough to think they can.
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“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.”
-Bertrand Russell
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Politicians universally build their campaigns on fear by contrasting what will happen if the other side wins. I think it is fair game. As an independent free thinking . voter, I listen to both sides but hang up on either side calling me on the phone to promote their candidate. women's causes and grievances during the Trump era have received an exceptional venting and that is advancement in wopmen's rights. There is no way that Trump during his presidency will reverse the gains made by women and I do not see a reversal of Roe v Wade. If anyone tells me otherwise is fear mongering. It is simply amazing the lime light that strong independent women have received in the Trump administration and in the Trump cabinet. Trump has opened up opportunities to women to thrive and shine. Lowest unemployment of women in history
Examples of women in prominent places include Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the UN, Kirstjen Nielson, sec.of the DHS, Director of CIA Gina Haspel, Sec. of Transportation Elaine Chao, Senior counsel to the President Kelly Ann Conway, Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Chairwoman of the Republican party Ronna McDonald, next Us ambassador to the UN will be a woman.
There is nothing to fear but fear itself, if Americans think for themselves and not buy into the fear spread by politicians or follow the herd mentality, gauze the real situation and the ground realities. The division in the country is primarily party based and created by the 2 parties. VOTE TODAY.
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We agree VOTE . But if you are in a targeted group where one party ( in this Case the GOP) pushes to suppress turnout, then democracy is in danger.
Fear is meant to drive white Christians to the polls fearing a migrant group running for their lives in fear ( very real) the fear stoked by white politicians across the country is real in the minds of the ignorant
Vote without emotion
Assess the facts on the ground
Tune out those consistently fear mongering attack ads
But don’t be an ostrich and think that fear is not real and not dangerous. It is indeed far more dangerous than any one political,issue
It is a real and valid threat to the integrity of our country , and that is why both Putin and the GOP,use it. They have no policies...and have been pushing voter suppression & fear for 40 years
If one values the right to think for oneself, to practice one’s religion without fear of being murdered, to vote for candidates with validly different opinions on real issues, there is only one choice
Vote straight Democratic. Then the Republicans will eventually wake up and talk issues not fears.
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The past few weeks have shown us the personification of fear and panic. It's as if he has a mortal fear of his opponents....I wonder why.
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"What kind of country do we want". Is a question or some variation of the question the political pundits raise on the capable networks. The answer is not a referendum on Trump but on us, the electorate. But it's also a referendum on the pollsters who so miserably missed 2016 and several primaries in 2018.
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Thank you, President Trump for not letting Democrats get away with "If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor," and "2% is the new normal."
Thank you, President Trump for standing up to Democrat leaders who call for public harassment of Republicans serving in government and their families, in restaurants and at their homes!
Thank you, President Trump for JOBS!!
Thank you for standing up to China and their theft of our technology and abuse of trade.
Thank you for recognizing that only by maintaining a strong military can we protect not just ourselves, but the many fragile nations around the world that need our help.
Thank you for reviving nationalism. God bless Amercia, land that I love!
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Thank you President Obama, for righting G. W. Bush's capsized economy, providing a path for 30 million Americans to get health care, treating all Americans with respect, and prospering despite Republican obstruction and hate. Trump is lucky he got the country back in good shape, if for no other reason than it will take an incompetent to ruin it. Trump is the right man for that job, but I'm wondering if he'll run out of time.
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Thank you President Trump for the 6,420 lies (source WaPo) you have told since last week.
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@Nancy Kelly
So much to say to your comments, I'll respond to just one comment. You say "Thank you for standing up to China and their theft of our technology and abuse of trade."
Okay... What about Trump and Ivanka have so many of their products made outside of the United States? Why does Trump use foreign workers at Mar-a-Lago?
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Hatred and division destroy countries. I have some sympathy here with the US voter, my own country is tearing itself apart based on lies told and fears raised by foreign powers and hucksters.
For your sake, I hope the results of November the 6th bring the change and unity your country needs.
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Cheers mate.
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The polls begin opening in an hour...spelling the beginning of the end, the left hopes, of the obstruction, dysfunction and stagnation of Republican majority rule.
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I hope the future portends the ash heap of history for these voters and the Democratic Party and independents tells them we understand your fear, your anxiety and your worries but we do not accept your hate, prejudice and anger. For that, it is time to change, and we all know change is hard, but the future is now - the United States as a colorful, amalgam of people interested in the future for their kids and the world. Say goodbye to walls and hello to the leadership of the globe as a responsibility and an honor. You got your blip, your final gasp and recognition that you are hurting and that your old ways are dying. But it is time to get on with the hard work that come from taking responsibility rather than blaming and fearing others. We won’t turn on you or leave you behind as you would everyone you were taught to hate. No, true American values are to bring you along as much as want to come but you have to sacrifice for it and help, and change and grow. Look to your kids, communities and leaders that have embraced the changes and have to courage to try it. It won’t erase the value you claim to really have from the Bible, religion and family.
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So what was the Democrats message this midterm ?
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Health care is a right, and not a privilege. Don't let the Republican Party take it away from you.
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What a disgraceful show of ignorant buffoonery we just witnessed.
The country will never be the same.
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'“Go home to mommy,” he told one protester. “Can we have our law enforcement take him out of here, please?”'
I'm glad Peter Baker included this quote. It's an important reminder that Trump's desire to use the police (or the military or border guards) as is own private army is probably the most dangerous thing about him. There is no doubt that if he "wins" the mid-terms - which would mostly be due to the success of GOP gerrymandering - he will continue his unraveling of American democracy; and then the rule of law, as we know it, will die. In two years he's gotten quite far with his fascist aims - and if he feels emboldened he will only ramp up the wrecking ball efforts. He cannot be allowed to win tomorrow. (The difference between how Trump and Obama handle protesters says everything you need to know about the decency of this former President, and his successor's opposite personality.
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If it’s true that CNN has bed rating it’s because they report on Trumps rallies. Constantly soundclipping him and playing it. It’s awful.
Trump has ticked off to many people in so many ways. From boorishness,to lies,to racism,to inability,to ineffectiveness. Only the economy can save him and I doubt it.
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Yet another sign of living in the twilight zone: I can’t recall a time when “news” hosts have shared the stage at a political rally.
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Limbaugh has come through the Trump administration relatively unscathed and I have wondered why that is. It was Limbaugh who laid the foundation for Republican's control of Congress. He has been brainwashing Americans for many years to believe the lies that the Republican Party espouses.
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America isn’t a country anymore. Perhaps it never was. It’s a collection of states called the United States. It may not be that different from the European Union. As long as significant number of states agree with a policy they go along. Otherwise it falls apart. Again that isn’t much different than the EU, except that the EU has ways for a member to leave. There is no such way in America. We fought a secession civil war and we may well be under way to another one.
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Have wondered, too, if that's where we're headed. Beyond sad.
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When communities are gutted by job destruction, citizens are left with a lack of hope which is intensifies over time, first with a painful decline in the standards of living and expectations for the children, followed by debt, domestic violence, crime and addictions, finaly the anger at the elite minority that has reaped the harvest of economic inequality. Trumpsters fail to recognize the majority of the wealthiest job killers are GOPS
Our forefathers established our constitution to insure domestic tranquility, provide for the general welfare, and the common defense because they were unable to access opportunity in Old England's social castes. The assurance of First Amendment freedoms, and a home to call that may be threatened by low wages has driven many a citizen to take up arms and fight for a false, isolationist, divisive perception of democracy. The real enemy is misappropriation of resources (take cuts for the wealthiest that are not reinvested in the economy) replacing people with robots and blaming other people than the responsible parties.
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In picture after picture of Trump rallies, I keep looking at the faces of the cheering, delighted, even adoring supporters wondering how such ordinary seeming Americans can cheer this bombastic, self-centered bigot and his racist, misogynist, xenophobic ideas.
It's not that I need or want yet another article explaining to me that they feel 1) left behind, 2) that 'their' way of life is being lost, or 3) that they are economically struggling. I have read umpteen of those. I simply cannot understand how normal, ordinary seeming fellow citizens can believe the dirt this POTUS peddles or be deluded into seeming him as their savior (or as one woman said in a recent NYT article 'like the "father of the country").
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@Anne-Marie Hislop - I think that there are many Americans who have lived with abusive fathers. In that way Trump feels normal and like "father of the country".
I didn't know what it was like until I met a friend in college and visited her home. It opened my eyes to what exists and what it is like. Much of what I have seen in Republicans in power feels like that - so yeah, to them it is normal.
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It’s totally incomprehensible to me too.
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I am praying the Republicans just get absolutely thumped today. Will be quite scary if they hold on to all levers of power in our government.
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@KCD. No, either way it's called democracy.
Six months after trump was elected I had a man my own age tell me trump was doing wonderful things already. I asked, “What?”, and at that point I got a nothing answer.
Well, he has done a lot since then, which has created a deep schism in our country.
I never thought I’d see my country at this point. A country where someone has to look down at someone else to feel good about themselves. White fear; which the president has played like an orchestra, although an orchestra is far more refined than this president is.
Tomorrow we will know if this country wants to get back on track as a world class country or continue on its downward spiral towards a class war.
We don’t need an egotistical, racist bigot trying to make America great again. We were already great, and lest people forget, unless you are a Native American, we are all ancestors of immigrants. That is what made us a great nation.
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@KLKemp. Sorry, even native Americans immigrated here. They did not evolve here. Everybody on earth came from east Africa. Doesn't matter, we still get to have borders and laws regarding immigration, whether the left likes it or not.
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@Al
The prevailing theory proposes that Native Americans migrated from Eurasia across Beringia, a land bridge that connected Siberia to present-day Alaska during the Ice Age, and then spread southward throughout the Americas over the subsequent generations.
Whether you and the rest of the right like it or not, Native Americans are considered sovereign citizens.
The rest of us are not.
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Fear, anger and division?
How on earth can the record of economic benefits to 4.5 million more Americans of every race, creed and color on payrolls than 2 years ago be seen as "fear"?
How on earth can the record of the lowest unemployment rate in decades for ALL Americans cause "anger"?
How on earth can the lowest taxes for all as a multiplier of more discretionary income providing far more purchasing power to equal highest consumer satisfaction of ALL Americans be called "division"?
So the questions are:
Who's stoking the fear?
Who's angry at what?
And finally, what's truly dividing America?
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I live in Missouri and am a fourth generation Irish immigrant.
There is an economic crisis in South American countries just like there was in Ireland at the time my ancestors came to America, not that long ago.
These potential immigrants are hardworking men and women who will add value to our country. They want what is best for their families, just like we do and shouldn’t be welcomed into this country with hatred or guns.
Vote for open minded candidates with good hearts who are qualified to do their jobs and don’t espouse hatred toward others. Please don’t let fear determine how you vote today.
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@Karen
Those South America countries dont have social safety nets. Theres a reason why we have a border, and immigration laws.
Unless youre willing to pay for these folks food stamps and medicaid - be my guest.
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@Karen. If you don't fear 100s of millions of people who "just want a better life", no matter how nice they are, coming to your country, you need a new calculator. At 330 million, we are more than full up, or don't you believe in climate change like all those awful right wingers?
Sean Hannity’s appearance on stage with Trump erased as any conceivable doubt that he is simply a mouthpiece for Trump disguised as a TV host for a “news” network. Hannity’s appearance on stage and his statement from the stage, as he pointed to the press corps at the back of the event, that “By the way, all those people in the back are fake news,” should get him fired. But then, we all should know by now that Fox is nothing but the equivalent of Pravda for Trump. Sadly, the MAGA crowd does not. Our country’s future thus lies in the balance.
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@J.
Have you tuned in to CNN or MSNBC lately?
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We saw this revolt in the 60's and early 70's when criminals took over the White House for a few years. A weaken Democratic Party, after the loss of the Kennedy brothers, and a populist revolution against racism and the Vet Nam War made the American electorate easy pickings for flim-flam men like Nixon and Agnew. Scapegoating, name calling, official violence against minority groups were all standard to the Nixon/Republican Party of the day. Saner, more ethical, moral leaders arose in our political class to save the day, but it took a few years. It will take a few now, and a few more atrocities before people wake up. I hope they're not too late this time.
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The angst felt by the Whites is being Chanellised by President Trump.
H1B Visas is a tool to get body shopping at low rates & who loses? the local population,who can’t live with such low predatory pay scales.
The President’s empathy for his citizens misfortunes cannot be construed as rabble rousing or creating tensions amongst the people.
There exists discordant feelings amongst his well wishers,which the President’ mere Amplifying,albeit a bit loudly.
What better than Mid term elections to vent the Angst through the ballot paper.
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Dear authors once again I must ask why does this headline not read “Trump Closes Out a Campaign Built on awful lies, Fear, Anger and Division”.
As ever accurate reporting would have stopped Trump from gaining traction to the extent that he has.
You continue to lend credibility to An outright assault on our democracy. Please Help fight back objectively against the assault against democracy.
You have been a megaphone for Trump’s fabric of lies.
Please do better. Thank you. Please. I sincerely believe you would like to protect Our freedoms.
But there can be no true freedom without truth in discourse.
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Trump is the symptom, his supporters are the the problem.
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This president is not a president.
He has spent most of his time campaigning for himself, rather than working for the country,
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Here in Alabama we don't hear a peep out of Republican candidates. Nothing. Zip. If they are opposed they refuse to debate. There are plenty of out-of-state online agitators harassing Democrats on local news websites, but the candidates and office holders, themselves, are no where to be found.
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"Advisers to the president said his foes take his campaign rally language too literally; as outrageous as it might seem, it is more entertainment, intended to generate a crowd reaction."
Ah. Now I get it. It's nothing but entertainment this thing called governing. A game. No serious consequences. Just getting a crowd reaction. Like a comedian except the reaction sought isn't a good laugh, it's hatred and fear, it's intention to turn American against American. Oh what fun.
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Cable news reports tonight there may be signed that after the election, Trump will "pivot" and become more moderate and try to work across the aisle with Democrats in Congress.
Seriously?
Does anybody believe Trump can run this most race-baiting election this country has seen since George Wallace and "pivot" back into some kind of normal functioning?
I want any elected Dems to make Trump persona non grata.
We need a functioning govt but we need a functioning govt without Donald J. Trump even more.
Don't help Trump. Isolate and punish him until we can get rid of him.
Any attempt to allow Trump to "normalize" his situation with a Democratic Congress now tells Trump he can race-bait and promote hatred and division - and then pivot whenever he wants with no consequences for the hated and violence he has sewn in America.
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I am Australian but following your election with great fascination. You guys have to realise that long queues to vote are not normal in other western democracies. In Australia we have to vote -it is compulsory. We get fined if we don't show up. Yet despite the fact that we all vote, we don't have to queue at all. I can't remember ever having to join a line. The idea of people having to queue for hours is ridiculous. We also always have the elections on Saturday to make it easier.. we can also have absentee votes.
I thought America was supposed to be the bastion of democracy. Also realise (some of you already do) that affordable medical attention is considered an automatic right in most modern democracies. Why do you put up with this stuff? Really!
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Superb testimonial, Bob Guthrie.
America is a fake democracy, only slightly evolved from its 1787 Constitution and Jim Crow era.
White Spite and a collapsed IQ from right-wing fear-and-loathing has successfully disemboweled America's IQ and ethics.
Let's hope we see an historic voter turnout to eject the Russian-Republican mafia from power.
They simply can't stand democracy, the will of the people or people of color.
Pathetic and deplorable.
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It's just all bad.
Look at our allies, long-time allies. They are appalled, and we need them on our side.
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On immigration - in the UK we must also deal with legitimate fears, as well as xenophobia. Both our countries have a history, and have benefitted from this. It is mostly the best who make the effort (often to the detriment of their home) but the latest possible mass movements do risk ruining the benefits, to no- ones advantage. To me, the Dems should fearlessly call out the lies about the excesses. Also, I note Soros is blamed for funding the "caravan" - I would suspect the Koch brothers as more likely candidates...
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We are a diverse nation made of groups of people who hate each other. There's no point in promoting unity and I would prefer a speech more like that the "Can you Dig it ?? " speech from the movie "The Warriors" (1979). Actually we do agree on a few things: there will never be free health care, the cost of college will continue to rise, and we don't have the money to repair our infrastructure. There's nothing we can do about climate change, except to consume less. Anybody expecting a pension should know that Calif. has already defaulted on some of those pension checks.
He's good at what he does - as despicable and disgusting as that is. A tear for America, the idea if not the country.
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Journalists everywhere, please note: you need to stop leading with 'Democrats are poised to win... etc. etc.' Instead lead with 'we're potentially behind in many states' or people just wont show up, assuming we've got this. Rally people by saying we need them out and we are behind. Being behind likely strengthens our turnout and it's also just as true and suggesting we are ahead.
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United we stand; divide we fall. That is the real referendum
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If Trump feels more comfortable only seeing the dark side of human nature and derives political strength only by stoking fear, anger, and hate that prevents society to explore its natural instinct of unity and cooperation, this could be traced to his essentially schizophrenic state of mind that compels one to perceive things in fragmented form rather in the holistic way. His whole campaign effort is directed to vitiated and distort the political reality and pollute the public discourse that needs to be undone by the popular vote.
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In Trump's inauguration speech he said, "this American carnage stops right here and stops right now." In the past two years, and the Republicans have given us nothing but carnage and mayhem upon our institutions, more gun violence, and the constant drum beat of war, be it trade or military. If we vote for democrats tomorrow, this American carnage could indeed stop right here and right now. Don't let anyone sit this out. It's too important, no excuses.
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Vote for the future, not the past.
Vote for decency, empathy and compassion, not fear, repression and hate.
Vote for science, reason and progress, not prejudice, persecution and revisionism.
Vote for tolerance, understanding and inclusion, not bigotry, animosity and exclusion.
Vote for candidates who elevate and protect the people, not those who funnel money to billionaires and run interference for corporate interests.
Vote for kindness and opportunity, not hostility and hopelessness.
Vote for America, not hysteria.
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I understand Trump's new book "The Art of Becoming a Dictator" will be released shortly after the election. In two versions, one if the Republicans win and a second version includes an additional chapter on the use of government agencies and police action to negate election results if the Democrats are the big winners.
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I am quite disappointed by the way election is being covered right now. The Democrat talking points about pre-existing conditions and welfare are based on fear as well, but what the media is emphasizing is how it's "fear-based" to talk about an incoming caravan, when it's well known that once they apply for asylum, they will be free to never report back to authorities and add to the 11 million illegal immigrants that already are in the country.
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@Reasonable Guy
Dems did not use fear in talking about GOP taking away pre existing conditions. GOP have actually voted multiple times to repeal Obamacare to try and take away the health coverage of millions of Americans.
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One thing would be the deciding factor of this vote.
Trumps TAX records.
He’s making US policies for his own personal financial benefit.
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Why does the US hold elections on Tuesday, when most countries hold it on a Saturday or Sunday? Answer: it precludes certain groups from voting, and the turnout at best is 50%. It could easily be changed but the entrenched powers, which Trump says he wants to 'drain' away, want to keep it and he will never change it. The same is true of Presidents before him. So sad.
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Historically you can blame big city Democrats and the unions for that. They used to give all their city employees and unions the day off so they could vote in a bloc on Election Day when most other people had to work. So Tuesday suited them just fine. But perhaps you believe Trump is to blame once again.
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@MaccaUS Name the groups. Employers are required to give their workers time off to vote and the polls are open in most locations until 8 pm. What's sad is this type of misinformation being spread, just like the lies about voter ID.
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Nice try politicizing election day Tuesday. A quick Google search reveals that back in the day of the horse and buggie, holding the election on Monday would have required travel on Sunday. And Wednesday was when farmers sold their product. So Tuesday it was.
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Maybe Trump will hire Hannity for the new secretary of defense and Limbaugh as his new attorney general.
Either that or he will put them in the WH as senior advisors.
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Trump's language, message of fear and hate, is worse than what one heard from George Wallace in 1968 when one considers the country has supposedly become more evolved and enlightened about race in the past 50 years.
If Trump's party prevails, then we are heading back into the depths of racial hatred from times past.
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@Ben
I believe we are all ready there. Hope we can stop the train tomorrow. Thx.
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The Republican Party and 45 persistently and constantly invoke the white male victimization anxiety cry as though the mere expression conjures up a mystical shield to protect them from losing their precious white male privilege. The GOP insists upon employing this incoherently, incompetent, and vicious instrument of racial, gender, and class warfare to preserve, protect, and defend their way of life. Republicans are fiercely united to hold this futile position as sacrosanct. Denying the obvious shifting demographics evidencing multi cultural, multiracial and multi ethnic diversity, multi religious presence, gender equivalency, and LGBTQ participation that significantly contribute to making America better for all, the GOP prefers to exalt white male privilege as the benchmark that everyone else should genuflect and revere as authoritative. The ridiculousness of this inept position is clear. White males entered America freely, including indentured servants. Privileged white males introduced the institution of slavery and benefitted politically, economically, and financially at the tragic loss of Black Americans, who, before the XIII Amendment, were not persons or citizens. Today, the beneficiaries of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Fair Housing Act of 1968, are actively advancing a liberal agenda to benefit and protect all Americans. The death bound GOP brand of racism and classism is gradually approaching its deserved demise. Race matters.
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I have 5 adult children.I believe in kindness and God. I think trump's 'core' as shown in the news is largely exaggerated...i don't believe that any mother would like her son to act/speak like trump...and the women will cast their private votes tomorrow for any body but trump
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Democrats need to look at their own POLICIES. Just hating Trump is not a policy. What is the proper role of government? What should it not be involved in? These are key questions that need to be discussed. The US government is too big, too bureaucratic, and too wasteful no matter who is in office. We are $21 TRILLION in debt. I think individuals will spend their own money more wisely than the government will spend it for them. We need to teach basic economics in this country and teach personal responsibility. Please listen to NPR Planet Money podcasts from 2008 to 2016. Please read "Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem" by Jay W. Richards or "Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt. Watch videos by Milton Friedman. Get government out of healthcare, out of mortgages/housing, from being the police of the world, eliminate subsidies, bailouts, welfare, get out of education, out of student loans, stop excessive regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank, and stop spending trillions more than what they take in. Proper roles of government are: To provide national defense, to protect individual freedoms, and to be like a referee at a football game to ensure fair play in business to prevent fraud and monopolies. This does not mean no government, weak government, or anarchy. This does not mean completely unregulated capitalism. Government does have a role to play.
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Who just massively increased the national debt with tax cuts that benefit mainly people like himself?
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Let's stop talking about the country as if it's 1945. We're fine with government waste in military spending... creating jobs in the defense industry isn't socialism.. But God forbid tax dollars go to any other sector that employs people such as health care. It'd be great for the government to protect us from dangers that don't involve tanks or aircraft carriers. 21st century threats like cyber security, domestic terrorism, climate change, pollution or unfettered corporate access to personal indemnifiable data.
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Voters,
Vote not for yourself, but for the people of America and the world. Vote for the future, vote for decency and empathy and compassion. Vote for science, reason, and progress. Vote against bigotry, animosity and exclusion. Vote for candidates who denounce corporate control of legislation. Vote for kindness and opportunity. Vote for candidates with patriotism and strong intellect.
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What a relief for all the frightened people of privilege: a leader to confirm their worst fears.
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Trump picks his marketing points very skillfully. More important than firing up those who want to hear the rhetoric he serves, what he actually does is put his opponents in the impossible position of having to appear as fueling the problem he "identifies".
Trying to convince Trump voters that a group of a couple of thousand women, children and men, on foot, 4 weeks away does not require thousands of active troops, border patrol and citizen militias to be waiting for them, is in their minds equal to "wanting borders open to invaders".
Trump picks issues that are impossible to dispute because the one who disputes him becomes part of the issue he identified.
Donald Trump makes Joe McCarthy seem an amateur.
"At long last have you no decency left" would sound in 2018 to the ears of Trump voters, like nothing more than sour grapes.
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Trump is usually lauded for his marketing skills, but I say no, not when 'marketing' is built on lies. From the deluxe real estate he pushed yet was built by people who either were never paid or had to fight for every nickel they eventually did get, to Trump University, to a middle-class tax cut by November, Trump doesn't sell... he lies.
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Aren't almost all political campaigns and courtroom battles these days attempts to discredit delegitimize defame and beat your opponents?Cultured people do it with cultured slurs while Trump and his boors do it dirty.
So how credible are the media's pulling out the Roberts Rules of Order against Trump when they themselves are almost all in the Democratic camp? It called a loss of independence - an indispensable principle of Journalism.
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For the record, two Republican Presidents launched 2 wars in the Middle East and 1 in Afghanistan with the wars still going on, thus depleting our economic resources, and it took two Democratic Presidents to have our economy back to a stable healthy recovery with one even achieving a budget surplus.
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@ethan888: Clinton and Obama started the war in Syria.
@ethan888. If BHO hated the ME wars he could have ended them and closed gitmo. He is not responsible for starting them , but at this point the wars belong to who ever is in office, including trump.
He does and says whatever he feels "works"...in all areas of his life. That includes lying, withholding his tax returns, corruption, cheating...
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Your characterizing a campaign “built on fear” is disappointing. Your darling Trump is not on the ticket even though he sells papers/subscriptions. I disagree with most of your slanted commentary , you have the right to espouse your political beliefs. Let the voters vote
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If the president is not on the ticket, why is he campaigning like he is? I am guessing he might be a little worried about being impeached. "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" is Trump's presidency on a daily basis.
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Everyone who loved Trump voted in the last election. He hasn't expanded his base. In spit of the enthusiastic rallies of the faithful he has the reality of an enthusiastic opposition. We will see how the Trump enthusiasm pans put in a much more energetic midterms. Unless he expands his base he will lose in 2020. He lost the popular vote and squeezed with tiny electoral college wins. Something that he can't repeat with all the rallies and theatrics. Unless he expands his base instead of losing its fringes. he is a one term President. A good thing.
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"He falsely said that Democrats want to give health care benefits to undocumented immigrants"
This doesn't make sense to me. Why would anyone, Republican or Democrat, have to "give" U.S. health care benefits to an undocumented immigrant? People who show up at a hospital, e.g., to give birth, are entitled to necessary care. If they don't provide a complete name, address, and Social Security number then the care ends up being free.
Maybe the debate was about non-urgent care?
I feel like the president manipulates people and those people who are naive or gullible are the easiest to convince and to rally. Something came to mind the other day. Trump appeals to paranoia, mistrust, distrust, nationalism and xenophobia and the episode of The Twilight Zone "The Monsters are due on Maple Street" (1960) seems very appropriate for our times today. Some martians arrived on earth and caused power failures and cars and radio receivers to fail and the neighbors started turning on each other because they needed someone to point to and to accuse and to blame. The martians knew this was going to happen and one martian basically said to the other "watch this"....I am not certain that the president know this will be the outcome or is just trying everything in an attempt to get something to work. Also, the word "pandering" comes to mind as well.
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@Andy Panda: Yeah, sure. It has absolutely nothing to do with a faux free trade, which has favored China. Cannot be.
Donald Trump may, in fact, be intentionally creating fear, anger and divisiveness. Nonetheless, if I'm understanding the position of liberals/progressives correctly, they appear to be ok with a porous southern border. And, therefore, if they are ok with having 11 million (or as many as 22 million) undocumented immigrants living in America today, then perhaps they'll be ok with 30 or 40 or 50 million undocumented immigrants living here by the middle of this century. Surely there's a better way to manage the flow of immigrants into our country. I would like to see immigrants coming into America legally. I believe if politicians had the will, they could find a way.
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The presidency and both houses of Congress have been controlled for two years by the same party. If immigration is such an important issue why hasn’t it been addressed ?
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As a liberal, I can assure you that you do NOT understand the progressive position correctly. No one here is arguing for “porous borders.”
Spending obscene amounts of money to send the military to the border as a political stunt? We are not for that either. And as a conservative you shouldn’t be either. What a grotesque waste of time and money.
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@GC. For the same reason nothing has been done nice 1965 when it was turned on its head. The right likes cheap labor and the left needs the votes.
The only fear mongering here is by the NYT consistently printing anti Trump articles. Where is the unbiased reporting the Times is known for? Fear of the caravan of immigrants? Really why should I care but I do. I mean i live in Ohio where the Spanish speaking population is small. I do my own gardening anyway. The immigrants will head to NY and LA adding to the rolls of unemployed and housing so expensive it pushes people out. Who cares if their taxes rise because of the newly created population? Theses states can barely get by as it is.
But I do care! There are either laws in this country or their are none. I know a few people who waited years to come and be part of the USA the right way. The people in the caravan can come the same way, and wait their turn. Funny how democrats have been so silent on this issue while most of the time they are squeaking about it.
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California can "barely get by?" We have the 6th largest economy in the world. We're doing just fine, Ohio.
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@Karen
What about caring about facts.
Trump adding a trillion and a half to the deficit and now doesnt know how to pay for it- that is real.
Why doesnt Trump actually get his behind in his office instead of these hate rallies and solve some problems- my mom's sorghum crop had a 178% tariff. Is that not real?
Sticking kids in tents is not solving problems.
California is "barely getting by??"
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@pmiddy. Any chance you could convince all the ecstatic Californians who are coming here (Idaho is the fastest growing state) to stay there and keep their high taxes, crowded freeways, disappearing open space and high housing prices with them?
What's the Secret Service say about these 'rallies?' Do they get combat pay for this?
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Why won't the Democrats contest the field on immigration? It is fine to criticize Trump but where do the Democrats stand? Do they think it is an issue no one cares about? 100 million Trump voters would disagree. The Democrats need to get common sense immigration reform ideas before the American people, like they have done on common sense gun reform, if they are interested in bringing more voters in. Republicans aren't the only ones who care about immigration. It is an issue that concerns us all.
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So Trump ran as a great “businessman” when in fact he inherited .5B dollars from daddy, squandered it all with multiple bankruptcies, has been sued about 1000 times, was a 5 times draft dodger, brags about not paying taxes, is barely literate, doesn’t study ,read, not even daily intelligence briefings, and is a multiple wife cheater, bigot, racist, and xenophobic by all accounts of his statements and tweets.
And to to top it all off he has lied over 6000 recorded times, gave NATO intel to Russians in the Oval Office the day after he fired the FBI director (who didn’t promise loyalty to him), saluted to dictator Kim Jong Un, and been on the record that he believes Putin over US and NATO intel that Russia cyberattacked our US election system.
I don’t get how anyone who is a patriot to the US could vote for this person or his party that backs him.
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@DBF: Meanwhile Clinton spits on Millions of vulnerable Americans ("deplorables") who have their jobs shipped to China in the name of Globalist Extremist Economics.
Regarding abuse of women, anyone remembers the white house intern used by Bill Clinton ?
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Save American democracy from a Republican monopoly government. Vote out the "Red" Party.
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Seems like it all depends on your perspective....I don't fell fear, racial animosity or thumping nationalism...I just like it that so many more people have been given the opportunity to work again....and hopefully that will continue.
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This vicious, hate-filled rant against Trump is hardly a news article. Even on the New York Times opinion page, which itself is venomous and filled with hatred for anything Republican, this article would stick out, not in a good way.
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@Working Stiff
Actually, Republican Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, is the start of the venomous hate in 1994 that destroyed Bill Clinton, and was carried on against Democrats, including Hillary Clinton since. Trump is a king of hatred.
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He's just a D-list standup comedian on the road with a Z-list celebrity drug addict. Nothing to get excited over.
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What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?
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In other news the Midwest soybean farmers, many support the charlatan from Queens, are in financial straits due to Trump’s war on trade. Yet many are mesmerized by the Great Divider and racist regardless of the fact they are clueless rubes who Trump is skillful at energizing.
It will be sad times for our country should the voters give Trump what he wants-unfettered free rein over our government.
But, we will have the despotic form of government we asked for-single party rule populated by Trump toadies.
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My soy beans are doing just fine thank you!
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There’s nothing left to say at this point except this: go and vote, and vote Democratic, even if you have to hold your nose while you do it. Now is not the time for voting booth temper tantrums (yes, I’m looking at you, Jill Stein voters and Bernie “bros”). Trump doesn’t represent the Republican Party; rather, he’s a conniving liar who represents something terrible, the bigoted, rotten underbelly of society that feels its time has come and that needed a legitimate political party to get there. Do you want to vote for that? Because that’s what you’re “voting” for if you stay home.
The people who’ve hijacked the Republican party feel entitled to their public intolerance, to action born of hate, to their public disrespect of women, minorities, the poor, and LGBTQ people. They want us to be a nation of Archie Bunkers without the laugh track, undermining inalienable rights and getting away with it. If the Republicans win this thing tomorrow, it’s all going to be over and these people’s dangerous ways of thinking and acting are going to move even further into the mainstream.
The only question worth asking now is this: do you want America back, or do you want more of Donald Trump? We can’t have both, because they are two diametrically opposing forces. Get out and vote tomorrow and for God’s sake if it rains, bring an umbrella. Rain isn’t going to stop Trump voters from showing up at the polls. The Trump voters I know are all going to be there. The rest of us need to be there, too
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I don’t see how those people pictured there can stand listening to him, his presentation style makes me cringe. The only thing worse than his word selection and delivery is what MSNBC will twist them into the next day to satiate Lawrence and Rachel’s self-righteous egos.
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If your afraid of Democratic policy then I suppose you could say its a campaign of fear. Listen, after Obama the left wanted to do anything but realize that Obama gave us Trump. The very last thing to do is let the country see this new brand of politics wasn't working with the people, enter the Russian collusion narrative. See people didn't really elect Trump, even though he had record breaking turnout from republican primaries. The truth is the country rejected Obamas Policies. An interesting thing happened. There was a feeling amongst the far left that finally the country has elected someone that represents far left utopian policies in Obama. The reality is people elected Obama the personality, and wanted to get past bigotry of the past and racism. (Remember the DNC speech about the funny last name Obama and anything was possible) The left miscalculated the reason for the vast support, and when America finally realized after the honeymoon what they were married to they vastly rejected it and asked for a divorce. Obama had the most golden opportunity the country has ever seen to bring sides together under one flag of all colors and nationalities. Instead of doing this he sowed division with identity politics, and left a vacuum of leadership in his wake. Remember Obama said that this was a referendum on this presidency and a vote for Hillary was a vote for him. America rejected identity politics, division over law enforcement, apologizing for America abroad/chaos in ME
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certainly glad i do not share your version of truth in your version of bohemia...
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An election built on reality
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It is a public knowledge that the construction industries in the U.S. and else where around the world are controlled by organized crimes and Trump has been dealing, associating and socializing with the mobs for all his life, no wonder he talks like a mob boss and behaves like one. Romney says it right: "Trump is a con-man and a fraud." Can't imagine how normal decent people can still identify themselves with this low life "POTUS." No wonder Trump says he loves the poorly educated.
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Limbaugh, Trump and Gingrich can all share stories about their service during Vietnam.
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@hplcguy hi
Sure. Bill Clinton and Richard Blumenthal too!
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@hplcguy
FDR, LBJ, wjc, BHO all come to mind.
Yes, fear of Trump.
Trump, Hannity and Limbaugh. The new three stooges. All they are all showmen wrapped in fear mongering. Except it’s working.
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Who knew in the 1990s those names would come back to haunt us now?
Let no one be confused: Trump made it clear tonight that he has no interest in being the president of these United States. He has a consumer base targeted & intends to keep 'em. A cutthroat sales pitch is his best thing.
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Have you listened critically to Obama's rhetoric? Can you truthfully deny that it is based on "dark themes, fear, and racial animosity"?
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@OldEngineer
Psssst….
Any criticism of Obama, no matter how legitimate, is "racism, white supremacy, and hate."
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@OldEngineer
I remember "Don't Boo- Vote!" and "The Audacity of Hope"
Great advice.
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Trump is a terrible person but his raw political skills are vastly underrated. His ability to feel the moment, to read the crowds, to know in his gut what people want to hear, what they need to hear -- honed for decades as a master marketer - is better than any politician I've seen in my lifetime.
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I guess people who aspire to public office should follow Donny's lead. I feel inspired to become the worst person I can possibly imagine so that I can become an elected official and use public office to benefit myself. Thanks for the advice.
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His ability to pander to the worst in people is great? i demand better!
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Rush and Donald, both radio and television celebrities putting on a racist show for their followers.
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Trump acts and speaks like a crook and stupid guy but he is nor stupid and mad. Because the people supported him two years ago enjoyed his campaign style so he has to continue to use the same style and approaches. Majority White Americans are silently supporting Trump. Most whites are cautious with blacks because they don't wont to be labelled as racists. Especially in NY and New England and California areas. Our racial divide will continue for a while. Sorry about this. Only a handful of black people will vote for him. Even rich blacks would not support blacks. Probably Oprah will support him. We do have a lot domestic problems need to be taken care by Trump's bold style. Republicans will continue to dominate the Congress both houses. As a resident in DC area since 1949 and I believe I know a little bit about American politics. I am old but not an old fool yet.
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As an independent...i wish President Trump tweeted less.....however he is not a politician....i believe he can work with anyone reasonable...he is a fighter...you hit him ..he will come back harder...Immigration is big for me because of the rule of law...which protects us all...when that breaks down..everything will follow..look at Latin America!!!...the reason i still back the President is he wanted to take care of the Dreamers brought to this country illegally...he was going to give citizenship to 1.9 million...more than a million more than President Obama....it was hard for me to swallow..however if President Trump got the border wall and his new immigration policies passed in congress...well it was worth it...it is called compromise...you don't reward people for breaking the law...a guest worker program would do well for the non DACA people...some far right republicans said no to the Dreamers...that was an opportunity for the democrats to step in and show leadership and give the President what he wanted in exchange for taking care of the Dreamers and put the issue behind us...both sides win...and what is wrong with that!!!
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...say what you will about the tenants of national socialism, dude, at least it's an ethos...
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@expat
tenets?
Mega dittos Rush and Trump!
MAGA!
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Herr Trump und Herr Limbaugh reincarnated from the 1930's!
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Trump cavorting with bottom feeder Limbaugh at right wing rallies is something our of an S. Clay Wilson comic book. This is the picture of America today.
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This is terrifying, very reminiscent of the rise of Nazism.
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More incomprehenaible gibberish from Republicans stirring up hatred and fear? What else is new?
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The Trauma-Triggerer in Chief. Vote Democrat because Trump believes PTSD means you're weak.
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sorry, but I simply have to repeat my 91 year-old aunt's bumper sticker which reads:
oink! if you love rush.
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Maybe there'll come an election where people actually talk about the issues and how'll they'll resolve them, not on fear and lies. Someday!!!
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@Dan O
Maybe someday... but not today. We are polarized going into the midterms and we will come out of it even more so.
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Not a campaign of fear, anger and division but of reality. And the reality is the fear of an invasion that has already enabled statistically 22 million "illegal aliens" crossing into the U.S. many of whom are in fact criminals that have been responsible for crimes including many murders as well as taking advantages of a liberal system that allows many of them to live off the welfare and healthcare which we have to pay with our taxes. Those who cannot see this reality are either simply ignorant or even worse - willfully blinded by their ideology of progressiveness...
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It used to be that news stories in the New York York Times read like editorials. Now the headlines do too. And the spirit of Abe Rosenthal weeps.
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So the trump traveling carnival show now features professional hucksters hannity and limbaugh along side the great con himself...... what a threesome.
The exact opposite of hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil.
This is what passes for a presidency. In the United States.
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Just threw my favorite old red hat in the garbage. Just can't sport a red hat anymore.
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@Anine Send them to me....I've been witnessing conversions over the past 24 months..."winning" is hard to resist.
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Donald Trump is mentally ill, and that is not one of the characteristics of an effective President. Division and hatred within our country is not what we need, now or ever, and he thrives on that. Perhaps that is how he continues to rule the USA.
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Such sad theatre...#45 and Rush Limbaugh!?! How can anybody believe these two puffed-up frogs? What has happened to us?!?
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He, and they, have made their bed. The can be no doubt what kind of country they want. Now we'll see. There are certainly followers. Are there enough followers or are more American's kind hearted and see us all as in this together. If fear and lies work, God help us.
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If the people want a racist corrupt dictator they will keep the House and the Senate and await the Attorney General and Sec of Defense sure to be lackeys to Trump. Mueller investigation will be terminated and his report buried for national security reasons not explained. A war with Iran is quirt possible Jared/MSM ,Bolton will engineer it and Trump will lie as usual but no one can check him out on it national security not explained. Trump will get another 6 years and more tax cuts ,deregulation the income inequality will fester and when he leaves office the national debt will explode to 2 trillion but Trump family will be the 2nd richest family in the world right under Putin. North Korea will still have nukes and entitlements will be cut with 2 more right wing justices on board ready to undo the New Deal as planned by conservatives for 50 years.
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Please let the sun come out tomorrow. Let hope trump hate.
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Thanks for getting us that “10-percent tax cut “ before the midterms like you promised, Donald.
I bet his supporters actually think they got one. LOL.
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@Kip When 50% of wage earners, don't even pay federal taxes, how do expect them to to get a 'cut'??
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RE: President Trump embarked Monday on a final three-state election swing that will close out an us-against-them midterm campaign built on dark themes of fear, anger, division, nationalism and racial animosity.
Racial animosity. FAKE NEWS. It's the democrats who want government sanctioned racial, gender, and ethnic discrimintion. They call it "affirmative action."
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How ironic that it's Trump supporters calling liberals and Democrats "snowflakes".
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I don't get the fear of immigrants and the migrants plodding their way north. It wasn't immigrants that sent bombs to prominent Democrats, or murdered Jews at prayer, or shot people practicing yoga. Dylan Roof isn't an immigrant, neither is the man who killed Black people at a grocery store. The Las Vegas shootings and the shootings in a movie theater in Aurora, CO weren't immigrants. In fact, since 1982, the majority of mass shootings, 54 percent, were committed by white men, yet Trump and the Republicans spread their lies and create fear of immigrants (and let's not forget the blame put on Black men). Americans are more likely to be killed by a White man than by any immigrant, legal or illegal. Who warns us against them? Who protects us against them?
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There's too much verbatim quoting of Trump in this article without challenging his version of "facts". Here's one easy correction:
'Describing himself as a “nationalist” - the preferred name of neo-Nazis - Mr. Trump has vilified immigrants, both legal and illegal, playing to tribal rifts in American society.'
And the sheer volume of labor Claire McCaskill has invested in veterans' care alone surpasses anything Trump has ever done, with the exception of Trump vomiting out tweet after tweet dictated by Fox and Breitbart. For more accurate reading on McCaskill's accomplishments in Missouri, see:
https://clairemccaskill.com/accomplishments
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How nice and inspirational that Rush will join the President in Cape Girardeau! Fabulous! Two of the most important men in modern times. Cannot wait to hear both!!
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Trump, Hannity and Limbaugh. It's hard to think of a more repugnant trio. Does Hannity also have a mail order wife?
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The fusion of trump and Limbaugh on the same stage is beyond nuclear - it could be cataclysmic. Before you know it Limbaugh will become a cabinet member after trump cleans White House, or worse Limbaugh runs for office. If Alex Jones show up too, it will be the end of the Universe.
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Trump made this election about him. That’s too bad because this mid term election should be a referendum on Congress.
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And he’s doing all this campaigning using tax-payer dollars. When Dems take over we must write laws that prohibit presidents from using Air Force One and any federal funds for campaigning purposes. Only Party and campaign war chests will be allowed.
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My scientific training compels me to notice that this is opinion masquerading as news.
As much as I dislike certain politicians, I dislike biased and/or advocacy reporting even more.
How do we get back to fact-based reporting? Can we at least get the opinions out of the headline?
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Our Nation's founders, knowing the injustices in Europe and elsewhere at the time, codified a new nation predicated on Rule by the people through their Representatives. Our Constitutional Democracy has endured for several centuries and has proven itself a nearly ideal form of government as evidenced by the greatness that we have become.
Now, on the eve of a most historic election, we are threatened by the Authoritarian inclinations and aggression's of the Trump led opportunistic and power hungry Republican Party.
If we fail to vote tomorrow for the interests of all Americans, not just ourselves, we will be visited with the horrors of single party rule in what will be an Undemocratic, Unconstitutional monopoly government backed by the carefully cultivated loyalty of the military and nation's gun owners that only represents Republican voters.
We stand to lose health care, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food and Drug safety, clean air and water, even our very lives suffering under the lack of an effective democratic government and the welfare of the people it is mandated to assure by our Constitution.
The only bulwark against the loss of Democracy and it's Representation is for all of us to vote to keep our Democracy. That means a vote of "No Confidence" in the very aggressive power grabbing armed Republican Party.
I will most assuredly vote tomorrow for the True Democratic party to preserve our nation and it's principles of governance. I will vote early and wait.
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This isn't going to end well, and everyone knows it. I honestly think that the Far Right is going to be so worked up that there will be more violence in the country. Unfortunately it's a bit of a paradox: ignore them and let them attack or confront them directly and have a real fight on our hands. I'd like to think we've seen it all and that everything is going to be fine going forward, but I think it is naive to believe this. Based on the article this weekend I think we have to realize that the threat we face is from within.
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The President embodies the very best New York has the offer. His compassion for his fellow man, his honesty and his humility are virtues shared by his fellow New Yorkers. It's no wonder his popularity is soaring with so many fellow Americans.
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I’m a Democrat and a Christian. I simply do not understand how any Christian can vote for these monsters tomorrow, and then sleep tomorrow night. On any topic you can ask “what would Jesus do?” Trump will inevitably do the opposite. Every. Single . Time.
As an aside, the crowd shown in the picture is much much smaller than I would have ever expected based on what I have seen on television.
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So Limbaugh is Trump’s political wing man in the quest to bamboozle the base. Will they be selling vitamins, gold, and MAGA hats to finance their jaunt? Will the tax payers get stuck with the bill?
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The young boy in your photos being exposed to the raw hatred of Trump and absorbing the ugly attitudes of the people in that room is the reminder of what is at stake here. Ironic too that if he were on the border instead of that room, the president would not blink an eye at taking him from his folks and putting him in his Trump tent city.
We have to act as citizens tomorrow. America is better than this president.
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"East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet." Kipling's prophetic words sadly apply all to well to the situation Donald the divisive divider has nurtured and stoked over the first two years of his appalling and despotic presidency. Not necessary to recount his lies, actions and ineptness and I quite unashamedly admit to having total disgust and anger at the fact he is in the Oval Office. His positions on trade and immigration have some merit until he uses the latter as a promise kept ploy to mollify his solid base of followers while disregarding the fact that our vetting system ensures that most immigrants should be welcomed not vilified or scorned. Illegal immigrants should not be welcomed and his predecessors (i.e. Bush, Obama ) hardly endorsed this. A master Machiavellian, craven and self-absorbed hack who, if he had a smidgeon of character and integrity, could actually make a concerted move to bridge the divide and bring the country closer - the tribal mentality he embraces and continues to preach won't change under his watch. And sadly his legacy will not be one of greatness or substantive accomplishment - he will be portrayed as one of America's worst presidents ever to hold the office.
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Even 10 years ago, the maniac described in this article would be at best a marginal, fringe freak show in a Republican primary - now he is the spokesman of their party and hero to 40% of the voters.
Hopefully, the other 60% vote D - not third party, not staying home - anything other than a D digs the hole deeper - please, please be smart.
Your vote for any and all Democrats will mark the beginning of the end of the single greatest self-inflicted wound in American history.
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"Trump Closes Out a Campaign Built on Fear, Anger and Division"
Why must headline writers at The New York Times seemingly assume what voters are feeling? I have seen several headlines in the Times implying that Republican voters are motivated by feelings of "fear" and "hate." Do writers at the Times know what other people feel? Or do they simply impute to others what they feel themselves. Is this a form of projection?
One thing I have learned during my life is that people don't like being told how they "feel." Ever say to someone something along the lines of "Oh, you're just feeling angry."? When you impute a feeling to someone you are bound to alienate them.
Imagine: How would Democrats respond if conservative news outlets told them how they feel. "Clinton Caps Off a Campaign Fueled by Fear." I can't imagine Democrat voters would respond terribly well to such an assertion.
Lessons from life: Don't tell people how they feel.
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The NYTimes sounds more like the WPost every day. Less news and more hysteria.
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@Pat
Please. Limbaugh and Trump are hysterics. They scream, they lie, they twist the truth.
The reporters telling you what these two old hate-mongers are saying is NOT the problem.
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Yes, Pat, the NY Times is finally reflecting what WE THE PEOPLE - average people across America and around the world - care about.
Hysteria? NO. Just clear thinking.
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Already, Trump is subject to "Crimes Against Humanity" charges for what's happened to children at the southern border. The International Criminal Court at The Hague is awaiting his arrival. In case the troops deployed to the border do something stupid based upon illegal and immoral orders issued by Trump, the charges will continue to pile up. And now, Trump brings Limbaugh as a warm-up act? That's a capital crime. Lock both of them up!
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And you know what he thinks about The Hague and its Court.
I would bet he's never heard of the ICC or The Hague.
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I guess I live in a bubble, because I thought Rush Limbaugh had died of a drug overdose years ago.
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He should have
And still can
And likely will
Just not soon enough
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Prediction: the Democrats will take the House on Tuesday. Keep in mind, nearly 11 million people voted against Trump than those who voted for him (around 3 million more for Hillary and nearly 8 million for third party and no party candidates). Even people who like some of what they think Trump stands for but have not signed a blood oath to support him believe that he needs some checks on his randomized style of "governing" to keep him in line. Those voters plus the absence of millions who were called forth by Trump's racist and anti-immigrant messaging in 2016 but who won't bother Tuesday make a horde of voters and non-voters who won't be voting for Trump candidates on election day.
Further prediction: Republicans pick up two seats in the Senate. There are too many Senate seats up in states where Trump won by big numbers. It is just a matter of odds. The Democrats have too many seats to defend, so the advantage naturally goes to Republicans. It is this second prediction, however, I am least sure about. Okay?
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@Doug Terry
You're the expert, after all... it's just a matter of odds you could be right.
Wrong. The Trump/Republican campaign is based on unifying our great country with peace and prosperity. It's the socialist/Democratic/MSM screeching that's pushing division and fear.
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@John Seiler please read your comment again. I'm not exactly getting unity and peace from it.
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and what had he said recently that says he's promoting peace and unity?
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@John Seiler Might want to check his approval rating before you claim he's pulling the country back together.
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Trump and Limbaugh? At least we know who's got two lines next to his mouth and is sitting on the other's lap.
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Trump and Limbaugh , two overweight golfers who play out of golf carts and reside in that bastion of the common man, Palm Beach , Florida. Birds of a feather. Both sell hate.
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As a life-long American citizen by birth, I’ll only be fearful the day immigrants don’t want to come and live in the United States.
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@Tim Shaw. Once all of Central America gets here and we look pretty much like those countries, your fears will be realized. Of coarse, it will be too late to do anything about it by then.
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this might be the best comment in years.
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@Tim Shaw Have you seen the caravan? They don't look fearful.
It is not the lies, fear mongering, racism and demagoguery of people like Trump and Rush Limbaugh that worries me. It is the fact that they realize there are so many Americans who will respond to it.
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Fear is good for this country whos citizens live in a dream-world of big Walmart’s and fantasy flicks. Makes them think a little about the real, nasty world closing in on their lethargic never, never land of free-stuff and Mae-Believe. That’s what Trump is making them be aware of, Fear of the have-nots wanting your free-stuff!
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Democrats dump on Republicans and whine like babies when Republicans punch back. Laughable. And sad for the country.
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@Bob Limbaugh can't punch back. Never could. That's why he never has guests on for interviews. He's an entertainer. He can only operate in an echo chamber. And now so only can the president at his self-selected rallies. Democrats have proven time and time again they can work across the aisle. Also real Republicans did the same. These are not the Republicans who helped build this country. They are not even honest conservatives.
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Democrats dump On Republicans? You're kidding. Republicans are some of the nastiest folks ever. They whine as much or more so than Democrats. They lie, stoke fear and cheat to win elections.
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@JP Demicrsts haven’t worked across the aisle in years. Pelosi? Are you serious?
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Please stop saying that Trump rhetoric energizes conservatives. It energizes the worst racists of American society. I know many conservatives whom I respect but disagree with their views. They aren’t members of Trump mobs of racists. The conservatives I know are not agreeing and are voting democrat.
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@BWCA Who cares? Really--who cares? Do they think voting against Trump somehow absolves them of conservative ideology that has wrecked the economy, spread war and disease and doomed the planet to ecocide?
Please don't even TRY to defend conservativism.
The crowds at Mr Trump's rallies are a good argument for improving our education system. They are the suckers being called into the tent to see the bearded lady. What is hard to believe is that there are so many. Nearly every claim Trump makes carries no facts to back it up and yet the crowd could care less. You have to admit that he is a pretty talented con man. I have one simple point for the Trump supporters, the job of the President of the United States is the top public service job in the country, you have to ask yourselves, "what has Trump ever done for anyone other than himself?, Do you think he really cares about the issues he talks about? " Trump has never done anything that does not somehow benefit himself, that is not how you would define a public servant. He does not care about the issues, he cares about winning by playing to your fears.
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@nb. Many of those previously enlightened voters (now deplorables and uninformed) in say Wisconsin and Michigan voted for mr "hope and change". I guess that didn't work out for them either.
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What a country the president has created. US against them is not making US great again. It is very sad and pathetic that he and the GOP have had to resort to such despicable campaign tactics to try to hold on to power. Shame on them! VOTE.
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If that is the average Missourian’s idea of a night out, leave them to it...issues being bandied about by that pair are as fake as Trump’s tan...
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Trump and Limbaugh, how perfect they are together. What shameless liars they both are. What prime examples of the moral and ethical depravity of todays conservative movement and Republican Party they are. What a motivation to get out and vote Democratic they are.
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Sorry to say but it's been US (democrats, centrists, independents and yes "sane" people) versus THEM (neo-cons, right-wingers, right, racists, republicans) for a loooooong time and at least since Reagan if you want to talk about the modern Republican party, for which Trump inherited the mantle. But one might argue that it was during the Obama period, for better or for worse, that the enemy has finally come out in to the open where we can see them: with How Wilson's outburst of "You lie!" and Boehner/McConnell's vow to prevent the functioning of the government under Obama, the gloves were off in my eye. If the Republicans wanted to divide us, then they got their wish: I will regard the opposition as my enemy going forward and will frankly never trust, help or work with anyone who voted for or supported Trump.
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“My fellow Americans - the only thing to Fear is” - the Republican Party “itself”.
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The mood today while I was doing errands,reminded me of the days after 9/11.When everyone put effort into being kind.Remember being at a 4 way stop,and all 4 drivers kept waving to to each other,to go first?Going to the grocery store,right after.People in front of other people ,were paying for their groceries?I live in a very Blue State.I think we are all just joining each other,hoping.
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Trumps behavior the last couple years is shameful. Contemptible. No person would say the things he's said. No adult. Forget President of the United States. Forget all the lies. No one seems to remember them after 24 hours they come so quickly in such vast numbers. ( Anyone remember the 10% middle class tax cut he just proposed last to pass by November 1st?) But he has this diehard following, that accepts anything he says and just discounts the obvious lies. Tomorrow is a referendum on us not Trump.
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Fear? Do not blame it all on the Republicans. The Democratic ads have indulged in their share of fear promotion with respect to health care, Social Security, and virtually every other issue. And, of course, articles such as this one, implying it is only the Republicans contribute to the atmosphere. If the media simply reported the news, rather than turning every article into a social commentary, the country might not be so divided.
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@Mrs. Cleaverieve ..."The Democratic ads have indulged in their share of fear promotion with respect to health care, Social Security"
I believe it was majority leader Mitch McConnall who just recently said the job of the new Congress was to make cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. There is a difference between fact and fiction.
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Most of the ads I've seen are ugly, nasty and full of lies and the majority of them are from the Republicans.
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@Mrs. Cleaver Way to miss the point. You are equating very REAL fear about losing health care, social security, witnessing MORE school shootings due completely to Republican gun lunacy and watching the planet fry due to Republican intransigence on climate change to infantile, manufactured PHONY fears that desperate people seeking a better life are on the verge of storming our borders and killing us all.
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Trump supporters are embittered failures. Lot of those around. That’s where he gets nearly all of his support.
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Trump’s campaign was not based on fear and anger. It was based on Nationalism, not white or black but plain love for America. If that is the Nationalism he preaches count me in. He dealt with integrity of our borders, restricting those who would come to this country illegally and who will not integrate into our culture. All civilized countries practice a right to determine who comes into their country. This massive influx of uneducated poor people with no skills is an invasion literally especially since seventy percent are young single men between the ages of seventeen and thirty! Wake up America. Vote for Trump and the Republican Party!
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@Ray Paltoo "He dealt with integrity of our borders"......Seriously? He sends U.S. troops to the border just before mid-term elections, when the alleged caravan of 5000 people is 1000 miles from the border. Guess you don't remember the last mid-term election when the Republicans said everyone would die from Ebola because the Obama Administration was incompetent.Be afraid. Very afraid. And vote Republican. There is no cure for stupid.
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@W.A. Spitzer. The border patrol caught ~400,000eople trying to sneak in to the u.s. last year. That is not a trivial number. With between 10-20 million illegals in the country now having 300,000 kids per year, you could even say we have some immigration issue that need to be addressed.
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Patriotism is a love for those that are like you. Nationalism is a hate for those that are not like you.
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Seems like I'm constantly being told to fear Trump's fear-mongering!
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So you think this is a game? That’s what Americans tell themselves when they don’t bother to fulfill their civic duty and show up at the polls.
Vote.
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@joymars Don't worry, I didn't give in to the fear-mongering about Trump's fear-mongering and was happy to vote this morning.
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I always try to give "the other guy" the benefit of the doubt.
I've done that with Trump all the way through the election process and up to this point.
Now,after all of his effort to win for his party i learn that he is finishing up by campaigning with, of all people, Rush Limbaugh ! , and finally, THAT broke the camel's back.
In my effort to be fair minded, i gave Trump every "benefit".
Now. he's holding hands with Rush Limbaugh.
How STUPID can i be !-?
If this piece earns me a lot of "RECOMMENDS", I won't know
if i should be proud or ashamed.
Go out and VOTE tomorrow (That's usually good for an extra 25 recommends) in this section of N.Y. T.
This is kind of stuff we find the day before "The Election".
Only in America.
M.W. Endres
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Rush Limbaugh will reveal that Democrats are Martians plotting to take over the US, that liberalism has been medically associated with alcoholism because they sound the same, that Joe McCarthy is alive and well and promoting his new book "I was a Teenage Commie", and that Steven Miller is actually the comedian Steven Wright. Stay tuned. Who knows what Mr. Trump will reveal to his throng.
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Exactly, and that's the major problem. The other? Will it even be true?
FYI - Truth will always be Truth.
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Trump's campaign is shameful - race-baiting garbage.
This is a nightmare for our country.
Spare us this tragedy!
Robert Mueller - America calling 9-1-1.
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Cape Girardeau, Missouri. A place Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh will leave as quickly as possible and never think about again.
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What kind of President purposefully frightens his electorate? An evil man who doesn't care a whit about anyone but himself and feels just fine about scaring older men and women into believing his vile lies.
What kind of Americans fall victim to his scare tactics? His base in all their glorified American flag clothing and MAGA hats.
America is at a crossroads between returning to the Great Nation we once were or continuing down this rabbit hole with an evil con man.
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Fear? It is the best economy in 1/2 a century. Red wave tomorrow.
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@Steve You're mistaking the securities market with economy. They are not the same. Middle class income is down 9% since 1999. Trump is not reversing that. No one has seen the reality of their federal income tax yet, prepare to be surprised. Deficit to GDP is rising. Even the securities market is flat for the year. US farmers are about to watch their crops rot in the fields due to trade wars. Deficit is in record territory, with no resulting economic stimulus. Productivity is not rising.
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admit you were wrong on Wednesday.
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Modern polling methods are entirely based upon an assumption that one can predict the composition of the voters; this is my PhD and business field.
Such polls completely missed Trump voters in 2016 and I sense that they have missed the Suburban Moms in this election.
I see numerous suburban Moms who view Trump and Limbaugh as heroes for pointing out that their way of life, along with their children's way of life, is threatened if we completely change the character of our country through caravans of migrants.
Time will tell ...
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@Dan Actually, the polls missed fewer than 100,000 voters in the final few weeks. Given the flux in the methods of communication, that's not too bad. Trump had a 1/3 chance of winning in 2016 by the most reliable poll aggregators. Problem is, most people - and that includes academics - don't know how to interpret that number. Baseball fans do. Hope you watch enough sports to make sense of your dissertation outside the lab.
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@JP If pollsters do not understand Electoral College, they should not be in the business.
P.S. Yes, 30 years past PhD and very successful business.
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@Dan They did understand it. Three states were predicted incorrectly. Less than 2 votes per precinct difference over three states. That's very hard to glean from any poll of a reasonable size. Bully for you on your business, but your use of the term "completely missed" belies an understanding of statistics at the fundamental level, and your "sense" as a metric defies an application of data science to a degree that's worse than those you accuse.
New York Times complains of Trump using fear mongering ... does exact same in headline.
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All campaign ads are either positive, as in "I will give you what you want", or negative, as in "My opponent will give you what you don't want". To imply that Trump, or Republicans in general are monopolizing the negative campaigning is a complete misrepresentation. We are being bombarded with negative or "fear" ads from both sides, with Republicans telling us to "fear" waves of illegal immigration and Democrats telling us to "fear" loss of medical care, just to pick an example from each side.
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The fear goes both ways in this campaign. Every ad from the Democrats predicts deep cuts to Medicare and Social Security even tho no Republican has given any indication that that’s what they plan to do.
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McConnell, Ryan and Rubio are a few.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/deficit-budget-tax-plan-social-security-medicaid-medicare-entitlement-1172941?amp=1
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Does the burglar call and let you know he’s stopping by?
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If you (Internet) search "Republicans want to cut Medicare and Social Security" the answer to your premise will be found in numerous media references.
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Why would it be any other way?
If we as Democrats define ourselves by our support for open borders, our support for Dreamers, our social-democrat/Scandinavian economic ideas, and our compassionate identity politics, we'll beat Trump hands down... unless the GOP goes ahead and holds primaries and selects a moderate like Rubio.
Then we'll win Amherst, Berkeley, Manhattan, and Cambridge hands down!
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I wonder how many people photographed at these rallies will someday look back and wonder what in the heaven caused them to be there.
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Selfie photos for the album. They really aren’t there to listen just cheer & take selfies. Too bad they are damaging priceless works of art or falling off cliffs. Selfies can be dangerous in a world of hate.
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Disgust is too mild a word to describe Trump. He is a greedy, cowardly bully who envies autocrats who murder and imprison their opponents. He thinks that his thought is real, but it's all about ignoring morality and going for the kill.
He's good at hate, and he's good at promoting violence. He loves it.
His tutors, from the beginning, have been about taking advantage of people.
If you "worship" him, remember that. He's all about taking all you have, and then taking some more.
He doesn't care about you. He wants your adulation, but he'll leave you cold in the dark after he's conned you out of all you have.
Conmen are good at persuading their victims to blame somebody else for their cons.
The cowardly grifter in chief trades in violence, hatred, and blaming victims.
Jesus would have nothing to do with him. Try the Gospels!
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'crowd of thousands' (ok)....'overflow crowds'.....heavily bracketed appearances of 8-10k folks in hangars, gyms, and small/medium venues staged in safe zone pockets of the country don't fool. Obama gets an impromptu overflow crowd in the street outside a taco restaurant.
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Campaigning with Limbaugh? Hasn’t he been saying that journalists aren’t supposed to be aligned with politicians, or does that just apply to the left? Oh it does? Ok, thanks for the clarification.
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@Mike S If you know someone that listens to Rush, you could ask "What kind of journalist is he?"
And, they would answer, he is not a journalist, he is an entertainer. Like Cher and Bono and Jimmy Buffet. He just has a different view than they have.
Same same.
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I wouldn’t call it a campaign based on fear, but I would point out that the Democrats have done nothing - zero - to help citizens feel safe when it comes to the illegal immigration problem that they helped create. On the other hand, the added regulations every Dem administration brings IS terrifying.
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How’s your drinking water ? Worry about that.
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Let’s talk regulation. The far-right Republicans want to regulate your health (no insurance for preexisting conditions); a woman’s reproductive rights; your tax dollars (exploding the debt, and sent upstream to the wealthiest 1%); your voting rights (move polls out of town, gerrymandering); and ultimately, the democratic republic itself, by turning our back on long-term allies, trashing the nuke ban, and taking up with dictators and autocrats.
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@Midwest Josh Let's see. In 2013 there was a bipartisan immigration reform bill that passed the Senate, was to be signed by the Democratic president, and was brought to a screeching halt by John Boehner. Obama was labeled the deporter-in-chief.
BTW I'd love to hear chapter and verse on the "regulations" that Trump has eliminated that have actually increased commerce.
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When has Trump ever "vilified" legal immigrants? This baseless claim is typical of NYT slander.
I challenge the authors of this article and their drone followers to substantiate this ridiculous claim
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Trump has villified legal immigrants every time he talks about "chain migration." Never mind his wife "chain migrated" her parents over here a few months ago and they were given citizenship within weeks.
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45’s admission of “I’m a nationalist” pretty much covers your request. It’s not even a dog whistle, it’s an Irish wolfhound trombone.
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@Red The annual caravan brings people who are intending to seek asylum by legal means. Trump characterizes the group as an invading force laden with criminals. With no evidence to back it up. His own words. As the man says, you can look it up.
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Sorry, Trump. This won't work a second time. There's no Hillary for you and your party to run against and we all know now what two years of your governance are like. It's not just a cockamamie protest vote anymore. The blue wave is indeed coming, I can feel it at every door-knock. It'll be larger than the pundits think tomorrow, not less. You'll be left out at sea.
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When he wakes up Wednesday and turns on the television at 4 a.m., Trump will likely discover that his final 11 rabid rallies pushed the Republican Party over a steep cliff where it crashed on the rocks of voter outrage and hear the following:
Democrats have gained more than 50 House seats.
Democrats, depending on ongoing counts in two or three states, may emerge with 51 or possibly 52 Senate seats.
Democrats have won back 9 governors offices.
Though it may not be clear for several weeks as it takes longer to count state races, Democrats may have won back as many as 18 state legislative chambers.
Democrats nationwide given their strength in cities, will probably have won the national popular vote in all House races by 54% to 46%.
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We can't have a president who lies like this. This is a man who has zero integrity. He has to go. And quickly.
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It is astounding to see “aggrieved” White folks. This idea that they are victims laughable.
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@Kingsley A. Rowe The current kindergarten class in the US is majority minority. This scares the living daylights out of them. I can only imagine that it is because they fear the new multiracial majority acting the same way the white majority acted for most of our nation's history.
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55 year old white guy here. I could not agree more. 1000 recommends.
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Fearful? No. I just want our immigration laws enforced and our territorial sovereignty preserved.
And we should end the lunacy of Birthright Citizenship as all developed countries other than Canada have already done. Why? Because it incentivizes illegal entry, incentivizes illegal aliens having children, taps the US taxpayer to pay for their birth and ongoing support, and, finally, makes it harder to deport the parents.
But here is the most straightforward reason why it makes no sense: illegal aliens and tourists can't legally work, so cannot legally support a child or children. No matter what party is in office, no matter how we might change our laws, it inconceivable that illegal aliens and tourists will ever be able to legally work in this country. How can it make sense for children born here to be US citizens if their own parents can't legally support them? Ever!
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@Kurfco. Yet it happens, 300,000 times per year. Go figure.
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@Kurfco Maybe enforce existing laws? Or would that break the backs of the 1% who get lots of cheap labor from illegal aliens?
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@JP
Illegal aliens present documents to employers that look as genuine as yours. Employers hire illegal workers every day without breaking any laws. How? eVerify is only a voluntary program (except in a few Red states) and in deep Blue California, they passed a law outright prohibiting any municipality making it mandatory.
Bottom line: the reason you don't hear of many employers getting busted is they haven't broken any laws. We need Democrats to get on board making it mandatory that employers use eVerify.
Some of Traitorous Trump's pro-Kremlin actions:
1. Dividing America more than already divided.
2. Attacking the Free Press.
3. Colluding with Russian Active Measures Campaign.
4. Praising Putin despite Putin's attack on the USA and US allies.
5. Attacking US allies
6. Promising Putin's buddy Erdogan in Turkey the F-35 fighter without conditions during the Nato Summit while Turkey is also buying the Russian S-400 antiaircraft system and potentially compromising the secrets of the F-35 to Russian Intelligence.
7. Weakening US counter measures against Russian political warfare against US.
8. Daily and constant lying causing confusion among US population.
9. Weakening the Rule of Law and faith in US institutions in America.
10. Spreading lies about the former US President to create domestic discord and strife which weakens the US.
11. Cancelling the US-S. Korean war games unilaterally as Putin requested.
12. Not enforcing Sanctions against Russia passed by Congress.
13. Giving aid and comfort to adversary Putin.
14. Calling for Russia to be re-admitted into the G7 despite Putin's crimes.
15. Destabilizing Nato as noted by Russian observers.
16. Doing nothing to counter Russian interferance in US elections that benefit him - an act of war.
17. Bringing laughing Kremlin Diplomats into the Oval Office and bragging about firing Comey the previous day because of the Russian investigation.
18. Giving those same Russian Diplomats classified information in the Oval Office.
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@Proverbs29v12
19. Calling for sanctions against Kremlin to get lifted.
20. Naming the EU as a global foe.
21. Reducing the Republican Party to a bunch of corrupt cowardly Putin stooges.
22. Laundering Putin stooge oligarch's money through his realestate holdings.
23. Ignoring Russian hacking of US power infrastructure.
24. Siding with career KGB agent Putin against the US in Helsinki.
25. Hiring Michael Flynn, a paid Turkish Agent, as National Security Advisor.
26. Telling Russian agent Butina he would drop Russian sanctions if he is elected - collusion.
27. Encouraging Russian intelligence to commit espianage and find the "emails" during the campaign.
28. Giving Assad and the Russians advanced warning (telling them to "get ready") of impending US missle strikes on empty buildings and concrete in Syria (which he lied and said he wouldn't do during campaign).
29. Actually considering Putin's request to interrogate a former US Ambassador to Russia.
30. Inviting Putin to the White House thereby legitimizing his political attack against the US.
31. Collaborating with Russian military via various secret agreements made with Putin and reported in Russian state media but unknown to US military.
32. Hiring Paul Manafort as campaign chairman who had acted as a paid pro-Kremlin foreign agent...
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@Proverbs29v12
33. Saying nothing in response to Putin announcing the end of the US as a Super Power! Even having Bolton there gigling before the former KGB master agent!
34. Encouraging internal violent civil conflict via his support of divisive, racist, antisemitic, hate-filled propaganda...
This is just a few - there is much more!
35. Announcing that he can change the US Constitution with an Executive Order.
36. Acting to withdraw US troops from S. Korea defending against the totalitarian N. Korean regime and then acting to deploy US troops within the US to foster domestic fear against a few thousand civilians fleeing civil strife in Latin America induced by the war on drugs...
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@Proverbs29v12. Huh. You must be watching different news than some of us. The trump admin has put more sanctions on his handlers in Russia than BHO did in 8 years. He has also given Ukraine lethal weapons to use against them, again, something BHO didn't do at all. Darn those alternative facts.
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"taking on the cosseted elites and guarding the country against outsiders."
History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. Words straight from the nationalist authoritarian's playbook. Where have we heard them before?
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Just in the brief quotes included in this article, I count 5 overt lies by Trump, mostly making up wild assertions about what he says Dems are planning to do, which bear no resemblance to actual Democratic positions.
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They plan to conclude the evening by measuring each other's waistlines.
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Dear NYT:
This is another literate smear in a long line of propagandistic election coverage. Why resort to invective and name calling? Why not let your readers decide for themselves how to characterize the themes in this race?
Judging by your standard, but from the GOP point of view, the New York Times has itself been closing out its campaign coverage by pushing themes of fear, anger, division, anti-Americanism and internationalism and most acutely, animosity against white males.
You have missed an historic opportunity to rise above your own bias. Sad.
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@Jorge
So The Times, as I understand from your reaction, should not report Trump's words? Or actions? Help me understand.
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@Jorge Please. Point out factual errors in reporting.
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It shouldn't matter what your political preference is, what SHOULD matter is bringing the UNITED back into States of America! It's time to remove those in office who continue to divide us. There's an old expression..."divide and conquer", however "unite is right"!
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The Times today reads like a campaign pamphlet for the Democrats. Kind of like yesterday, and the day before and...
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Campaign built on fear? LOL. Is there anybody, even the biggest diehard NY "Trump has a 9% chance" Times reader...the biggest leftist urban liberal, who trusts the NYT to tell us about Trump?
The one person on the planet the Times is utterly befuddled by? Wrong wrong wrong about. And hates with a passion?
Trump is listening to actual voters on the ground. He is giving them back what they want - Secure Borders, jobs jobs jobs and America First.
One day this simply concept will sink into the liberal urbanites. Until then Trump will keep winning.
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At least now the young people might understand just who Trump is. If they actively want to lose their civil rights, they can skip going to the polls tomorrow.
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Spreading fear and hate is all they know. Trump and Limbaugh are fitting companions, as they both represent the worst America has to offer while unwittingly offering a clear choice. Tomorrow America will speak.
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What did Trump say about left-wing mops?
Rush Limbaugh is still alive. Who knew. The first choice had been Lowell Thomas.
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I spoke to my wife about the overblow Fear and Loathing caused by inflated fear of immigration. The caravan traveling toward the U.S is not 100s of millions but 7 thousand at most. The U.S. is the third largest country with 330 million people. It seems about as rational to fear 7000 people from Central America even if they all get in to fear the United States is about to be invaded by Martians. I spoke to my wife and like me she is clueless.
I am not surprised that Trump would sow discord. It is much more surprising that an appeal so bereft of reality could triumph.
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@Michael Cohen. Don't we all wish it was a 7000. The border patrol caught ~400,000 people trying to get in thru the southern border last year. We have between 10-20 million illegals now and that's not counting the 300,000 anchor babies born here each year. Immigration, legal, illegal, refugees etc is now the major cause of our population growth in this country. We are also the highest per capita co2 producers on earth. If you believe in global warming as most lefties claim to, adding to the u.s. population is the worst thing you can do for the environment.
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Who listens to Donald Trump expecting the truth?
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I have to wonder whether Trump’s senior adviser, Stephen Miller, isn’t ghost writing Trump’s vitriolic hate speech. It’s not that Trump isn’t capable, but Trump has a very limited vocabulary.
I suspect that Miller writes teleprompter scripts for Trump that include for the most part, complete sentences, and not solely comprised of adjectives such as: horrible, terrible, etc. etc.
Miller works behind the curtains, obsessed with ethnic homogenity, and the Trump speeches provide yet another outlet for his poisonous agenda.
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This campaign for mid terms has been sad and dispiriting.In just the last two weeks eleven Jewish worshippers have been murdered in their Temple- more than a dozen pipe bombs have been sent to Democrats who have criticized Trump.Instead of trying to tamp down anger and division ,Mr,Trump has worked overtime amping it up during his non stop rallies.He even complained that these sad incidents put a "damper" on crowd enthusiasm and momentum.He is working hard to divide Americans and not make them great but fearful and hateful.
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Besides "Fear, Anger and Division", the caption to this piece omitted perhaps the most important go-to tactic in this Fake President's odious bag of reprehensible political slime, "Lies". This guy is beyond disgusting.
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Anyone know who's paying for these Trump Republican rallies?
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Do we really need a full report of every Trump rally?
They are all just reruns of his favorite lies mixed in with his moronic gibberish.
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Surely, something, ANYthing of import is going on right now that truly deserves the attention of the Grey Lady?
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When I saw Trump and Limbaugh at a rally I had a good laugh. Limbaugh has had 3 or 4 wives Trump abused his wives which was 3 or 4 and the women at their rallies should run instead of cheering. I always heard there are some women who love abusive men and we are looking at it now. We Dems don't want women abusers in our government they need to be in jail.
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Not sure I would call Trump a “master” at anything, except bankruptcy (six times!)
But I’ll give Donald credit for being totally transparent about some things - like aligning himself with bloated hate filled racists including Limbaugh. (Ugh)
Transparent about paying taxes? Not so much.
What are you hiding Donald ?
And why does the tiresome, low information base not even care ?
“Base states” rely the most on “liberal” tax payer funded services, but their hero appears to be a big free loader at best. A felon at worst
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@r mackinnon
Trump has never personally gone bankrupt. He went into business with other people's money. Only an upside for Trump a business loss for the bankers' / investors. That's how smart business people operate. Many bets and one or two pay off big and that's all you need.
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@Reader in Washington: Have you informed the business community about your personal notion that "smart" business people cheat other people out of their money? They might be interested to know that all of the things that used to be illegal in business are now considered "smart" by folks like you and Trump.
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@Reader In Wash, DC
Most bankruptcies are indeed chapter 11 or chapter 7 USBC and are related to business failures, not personal losses.(chapter 13 USBC) (I used to practice BR law)
But guess what happens when you are a serial bankrupt?
Your business struggles to get any financial backing. Banks say No Thanks,
Then you find other “sources” of funding and other buddies, like Russian oligarchs looking to dump some rubles.
Donsld is not a legitimate businessman.
If he was, he wouldn’t think twice about releasing those tax returns.
The serial adulterer and pathological liar hits the campaign trail with the doctor shopping Oxycontin addict to make America great again.
Let that sink in for a moment.
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Let Donald be purged from the WH and stuck in his Fifth Avenue bubble house aka his pyramid as a catacomb of a Pharaoh or proxy King Tut. It would be a tourist delight. It would benefit his heirs.
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“But divisions he encouraged will bedevil the country far beyond Election Day.” I am no fan of Trump, but lines like this do not belong in a NYT article. This is not reporting, but editorializing. It has been impossible not to notice veins of this kind of opinion marbling the content of pieces that ought to be free of opinion, or at least not so blatant with it. The Times is becoming a left-wing Fox News, and it should try to stay above such obvious attempts to shape reader’s thinking. You can’t beat the conservatives by playing their own game.
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@Mr. Little
The Times will never become a news organization along the lines of Faux Newz.
Especially since it's only a newspaper. Not a 24/7 right wing echo chamber masquerading as "news."
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@Mr. Little
At what point does journalism have a responsibility to insert what is right before our noses?
At what point does journalism have a responsibility to raise alarms when the most powerful man in the world sponsors, for example, television ads so vile that major networks won't air them?
These are scary, sobering times. I see the leader of America slouching towards an America very much different than what we have always called "democracy."
And I think that responsible journalists have that responsibility to call this out.
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Rush Limbaugh?? Seriously? He's still a thing? Hahahahahahahahaha!
But who better to share the stage with Trump during the Republican hate-fest tour than another doughy lying fascist, racist and sexist boor, draft-dodger, and con artist?
Today's Republican Party: safe haven for the worst of the worst.
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@Larry M
They're both college dropouts.
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So this pathetic human being is president of about 43% of the country. He took an oath to protect and defend the constitution. The constitution is for all not just 43%. We have to endure this louse for two more years. My only hope is that respect for due process will return after the midterms. I am also looking forward to Mr. Muellers report, we have not herd from him for a while, my assumption is that he did not want to interfere in the election . After watching nimrod for the past 11 days campaigning all over the hart of this country he will have no excuse for Mr M about not having the time to answer his questions.
remember vote !!!!!
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Makes sense that the Clown would associate with a lying, loudmouthed, self- absorbed drug addict.
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This is pure and simple Newt Gingrich.
This is pure evil.
We got fooled again.
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The fact remains that, despite Trump’s appeal to card-carrying bigots and bona fide racists, he happens to be absolutely correct about a few things. Unbridled illegal ‘immigration’ (sic) is destructive to the economic, social, and cultural well-being of our own country.
Want universal healthcare, job security, a viable safety net for our own citizenry?...cities, environmental resources, and infrastructure unburdened by overpopulation? Ain’t gonna happen if we have tens of thousands of foreign migrants...in fact, an endless stream.. illegally crossing our borders every year.
Get real about this. There are approximately 6 BILLION people living in poor, overpopulated, often violent third world countries. How many are you willing to ‘host’ at the expense of your children’s future?
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@Shenoa
Unbridled illegal ‘immigration’ (sic) is destructive to the economic, social, and cultural well-being of our own country.
Oh really?
Why don't you go pick your own fruit and vegetables and then see how destructive illegal migrant labor really is.
Spare us the "you're going to host....." argument.
I donate to a homeless charity every year, not because I can rub it in the face of people like you, but because I feel it's the right thing to do. Now, you'd probably tell me that I'm a hypocrite because I won't go live like a homeless person.
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I sometimes wonder if Trump purposely vetoed 2 times the partisan immigration bill so he could use immigration and stoke fears about "others" in his "rallies".
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@Cruzio
Of course he did.
The same way that sleazebag in GA is claiming the democrats hacked the voter database, without any evidence, so he can claim the election was hacked, if he loses.
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@Cruzio
I can't recall a single Trump veto. Wikipedia lists him as having vetoed no bills at all.
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@Kurfco
It may not have been an official veto, but he refused to sign anything that they had bipartisan support on. Same difference.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-he-certainly-wont-sign-gop-compromise-immigration-bill-2018-6
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There are really only two questions reporters should ask Trump:
1. Do you have any proof of what you just said, or are you just making things up?
2. Will you say that you absolutely will not fire Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosemstein or Robert Mueller in the next two years? Why can’t you say that?
Eventually America will understand that Trump can’t offer proof of anything he says, and that Trump is going to fire those three men and set off a firestorm and a constitutional crisis.
Trump has divided us, and his supporters at some point will see that “divided we fall.”
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So Trump has chosen Rush Limbaugh to accompany him on the last leg of his get out the Hate vote. What a fitting choice. The drug user who railed against people using drugs illegally and proclaimed they should all go to jail, got busted for illegal drugs several years ago. Limbaugh is a blowhard disc jockey that was using Trump's schtick before Trump. We can only hope there are more good people willing to stand and be counted tomorrow and push back on the racism, xenophobia, and outright lies coming from these two despicable men.
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I told my mother the day Trump was elected it would end with blood running in the streets.
We aren't far from that un(civil) war now. I'm terrified since there are so many frightening parallels.
Vote, Please, The nation depends on it.
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Ha! "Trump Closes Out a Campaign Built on Fear, Anger and Division"
The opinion page editors are suddenly writing straight news stories.
NYT has gotten absurd.
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It’s amazing how many people have commented that this piece ought to be labeled an opinion piece, as if that label means they should ignore its clearly supported conclusions.
The irony is that Trump’s lies are ignored by the would be editors.
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--" an us-against-them campaign built on dark themes of fear, anger, division [ . . . ] and racial animosity."
You mean that Trump has learned so much from Democrat campaigns? On November 2, 2016, Hillary Clinton was shamelessly appealing to voters of Color: Vote for me, "In Trump's America there will be no place for people like you." Why does the Dem Party outright RELY on race-baiting for votes? Why is the politics of division objectionable ONLY when practiced by Trump?
--"he has vilified immigrants, both legal and illegal"
Rubbish. He hasn't vilified anyone, certainly not legal immigrants. He has spoken forcefully against illegal immigration -- which is an appropriate antidote to the virtual fetishization of the "other" (especially of the illegal "other") by the Democratic Party. The Dem Party and their accomplices in the mainstream media routinely refer to illegal aliens as "immigrants."
And what about the despicable campaign of threats and intimidation waged by Democrats, articulated by Rep. Maxine Waters ("confront [the Republicans] at gasoline stations" and restaurants and "get in their faces") prompting leftist mobs to chase Senators and members of Trump's Cabinet out of restaurants?
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I remember back in 2016, people all over the political spectrum were trying to normalize the Trump candidacy. Well, here is the new normal: constant rage, hatred, fear, and - above all - lies. Lies that keep Trump's supporters always scared, angry, and absolutely loyal to their Dear Leader.
If the Trump crowd is this angry and fearful when things are going well for them (or so we are told,) imagine what will happen if there is an economic crash or a terrorist attack. Just think about all the authoritarian ideas Trump has been tweeting about for the last two years. It's time for sane people to put some checks and balances in place.
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Limbaugh started the hate. Hannity copied him. Trump is just a mini-me to them. Sadly hates wins with too many folks all around the world. We’re not exceptional that way, just run-of-mill haters.
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We should be grateful that Trump is so extreme. What would be more dangerous is someone of intellect and capable of true Machiavellian evil. He is not someone who can set traps and lay in wait. He blurts-out whatever thought comes into his brain. A fool who will self-destruct at his own hand, and be unaware he did it.
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Yes, Trump, you are right that, "there will be prosecutions at the highest level.” But not of people accused of "illegal voting" a crime taking place only in your febrile, mendacious mind.
The "prosecutions at the highest level” will actually be of the crime family and its henchmen and henchwomen currently occupying the White House, corruptly misruling our government with only the profit motive in mind and dividing our nation by appealing to the basest, racist instincts of your gullible followers. May the indictments fall on you like rain.
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The writer of this article accuses the President of building his campaign on “Fear, Anger and Division”. These are the subjective terms commonly used to attack President Trump by liberal media outlets and by the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. It is more of the same old tired liberal agenda that Americans have had to listen to over the last two years.
The President has to govern and he has been governing. This is not the Obama Presidency. President Trump has been taking decisive action to solve the problems of North Korea, unemployment, unfair trade practices by China and our other trading partners and the existence of ISIS. The President is resolute and determined. He is not being paid to be nice. He is paid to get the job done and he is succeeding in that undertaking.
North Korea no longer detonates H-bombs or shoots missiles over Japan. Unemployment has dropped to 3%, the lowest it has been in 17 years. Tariffs have been slapped on Chinese goods entering this country, the exact same tariffs that China slaps on US goods entering China. ISIS has been destroyed; there have been no ISIS inspired terrorist attacks in the continental US for the last two years.
Voters will judge the President on his record. The President governs a nation of 320 million. It is only natural that many people will disagree with what is being done but I believe that the vast majority of Americans support President Trump and will vote accordingly, tomorrow, November 6th.
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This is an accurate synopsis of his strategy. Don't blame reporters for stating facts.
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The emotion of fear that Trump most appeals to is the fear that liberals ever regain Senate or House again. The fear of the disaster of Obamacare, endless investigations, increased taxes. No thanks!
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@Jason
Hopefully you will vote, Jason, to register your disapproval of the President’s actions. I believe that you and other Democrats will be in the minority and the Republicans will continue to control both houses of Congress. See you at the polls!
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Do Republicans look at the divided state of this nation; the amount of hate, violence, threats of violence, deliberate misinformation, voter manipulation, bigotry, lying at the highest levels of governance, and think....'we nailed it'?
I guess I'm wondering if they're all true believers, or if they know exactly what they're doing.
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Since the beginning of the republic, the President of the United states was seen as a person who attempted to unite the country in good, as well as bad times. Also, the rest of the world would turn to the United States fro leadership, in times of world crisis. But, most of all, the president rose above politics, divisions, and strife to united the population.
That all changed, when Trump started his presidential campaign. His strategy was to do the opposite of the 44 presidents that preceded him. His simple strategy was to divide the country along social, ethnic, religious, class, sex, wealth, sexual orientation and ancestry.
As president he continued these divisions, but added the press and any one who opposed his views. He has gone as far to accept domestic terrorism as a fact of life. And, in some cases, condemned the victims and praised the terrorist.
Tomorrow is an election that is also a mandate on Trump's actions, agendas and words. The nation is at a crossroads with this election. Does it extricate itself from its current path, or return to a path that "E. Pluribus Unum" are near mere Latin words.
We will know by about 11 PM EST tomorrow what path America has chosen. Let's hope they choose a different path than the dark one Trump ha sled this country down for teh past two years.
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Trump and republicans can not win elections fairly and squarely. The way they have kept winning is via voter suppression, appeals to racism by stoking fears (culture wars) against immigrants, gays, "liberals", and trump's endless bogus attacks on the media.
Trump's behavior and rhetoric is the most blatantly dishonest and disgraceful in modern US history. The man is a chronic LIAR fantasist incapable of telling the truth. Well over 5,500 LIES since taking office. The fools who continue supporting trump and republicans will ultimately be forced to realize they've all been conned.
NO, the republican base won't have healthcare nor meaningful tax savings/benefits from their "hero's" policies. Instead they and the rest of US will pay for decades just as we did (and continue to do) after Bush/Cheney's LIES about the Iraq war and its costs (all OK'd by the Republican Congress at the time). Conveniently this is all forgotten. Republicans only "care" about deficits when a democrat is in the White House.
Just as republican leaders and their base conveniently forgot about the McCONnell led year long denial of Merrick Garland's fair shake for his Supreme Court seat. Garland was a far better man and better qualified justice than Kavanaugh. Yet, this deluded base believes Kavanaugh was so badly treated their anger is helping fuel the mob at trump's 'klan rallies'.
Here's hoping a massive Democratic turnout repudiates republicans and delivers US the House AND Senate.
VOTE
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Why is it conservatives never call out their own when they go all socialist?
Trump: 800 million in socialist tax breaks.
Hannity: govt backed loan guarantees.
12 billion in farm subsidies for soy beans
Oil and gas subsidies
Corporate subsidies for building plants
etc.
Where’s the outrage GOP types? You seem to only hate subsidies if they are for social security, health care and food for Americans.
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Who would have thought that there were so many cowards in American that such fear based vitriol would work as well as it has? Who would have thought that a once proud political party would lower itself to such divisive tactics? American politics has always been rough and tumble, but these tactics are nothing but disgusting for anyone with an IQ above 90.
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What's wrong, wasn't Father Coughlin available?
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@stan continople Ugh. Just when I had’t had to think about him in a while.
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Looks like somebody is taking Trump up on the suggestion to start using the word 'nationalist", or maybe it's the example of Kapernic
Manchester United Serbian midfielder Nemanja Matic announced via Instagram that he will not wear a remembrance poppy on his jersey this Sunday as it conjures unhappy memories of his experience living through the bombing of Serbia in 1999. (REPORT)
Liverpool midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri will not make the trip to Red Star Belgrade this Tuesday due the club being wary of how Shaqiri’s Kosovar-Albanian heritage may inflame the Serbian team’s fans. (REPORT )
Stoke City midfielder James McClean is hitting back against the Football Association’s decision to investigate McClean for calling fans “uneducated caveman” for criticizing his decision not to wear a remembrance poppy on Saturday. (REPORT)
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As much as I would like to have a calm discussion with Republicans about all the things they've been told to fear, I doubt I would get very far.
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The amazing thing is that most NYT readers believe this tripe.
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These people were quoted verbatim.
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@victor. The truth? Yes, I fell for the truth.
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Who doesn't want to attend a free circus to see the biggest clown in the world perform? He certainly doesn't provide any information that is educational about our government or rally our citizens for togetherness and working together in making our country better. So, the "big" crowds attend his rallies to laugh and get lost in the frenzy for a couple of hours.
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One party tries to scare you, tells you how dangerous "they" are and how the party will keep you safe. Tells you how "they" are stealing from you, standing between you and the good life. Tells you how "they" hate you and your problems are not your fault but are caused by "them". If only we could keep "them" out, if only "they" knew their place and stayed in it everything would be better.
One party defines issues, and proposes approaches to navigating the challenges faced by the nation and its people, suggests policies, not always good ones but at least the effort is put in. This party embraces all and seeks to find a path forward that is inclusive. And while this path may require greater sacrifice from some than others the goal is benefit for all.
The choice is clear, yes?
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There's something inherently wrong when the President of the U.S. uses a taxpayer-provided jet burning tax-payer provided fuel and a taxpayer-provided pilot to fly around the country doing this kind of stuff.
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Interestingly, he's doing the very same thing the Republicans accused president Obama of doing, yet Republicans are silent on the Clown's shenanigans. I wonder what the reason is for the difference.
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@Marcus - I felt the same way. My position is that something is "inherently wrong" - I made no mention of party or affiliation.
Trump Closes Out a Campaign Built on Fear
To understand why that works, I recommend to NY Times readers to
"Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved to Mexico"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/us/union-jobs-mexico-rexnord.html
A substantial fraction of Americans FEAR that the same might happen to them. YES, FEAR
They are aware of
1. The leader of the Democratic Party is financed
by Walls Street, so there is no hope that the
Democrats will take meaning full action
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00001093&cycle=CAREER
2. Trump wrote in the agreement with Mexico
Starting in 2020, cars and trucks should have at
least 30 percent of the work e done by must be done
by workers earning $16 an hour. That gradually
moves up to 40 percent for cars by 2023.
As a labour economist:
While this clause will not bring many jobs back to the US, but it will spare many the fate of Shannon Mulcahy
As the Clinton campaign observed
"It's the economy stupid"
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Who is the NYT protecting with its refrain of "no evidence," "he offered no evidence," etc? Why the PC kid gloves? Call it what it is: he's a liar, a con-man, a demagogue. It's not like you're suddenly going to become anything less than the enemy of (his) people; it's not like his people are going to suddenly abandon Breitbart and Daily Stormer and take out subscriptions of the NYT.
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The headline:
"Trump Closes Out a Campaign Built on Fear, Anger and Division"
And who knows more than fear, anger and division than the one who started it all in American politics, Rush Limbaugh (Newt Gingrich can also claim the title.)
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Trump is closing his dog and pony show with Rush Limbaugh. Wow... Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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Trump is an awful bully, seemingly unrestrained by his republican accomplices, likely in sync with his malevolent trampling on this democracy.
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"while exasperating opponents who accuse him of fear-mongering and demagogy"
You misspelled "energizing," he's "energizing" opponents on the left. We've been fighting discrimination and demagoguery forever, we're hardly going to get exasperated by one windbag like Trump. Exasperation goes to the media for doing such a bad job of calling out his endless lies and treating this like it's a normal administration.
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USA don't deserve a person to be leading her who is friends with a person like lair and fear monger Limbaugh.
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This election may be the turning point as America finally throws off the curse of white Anglo Saxon domination and political and social power permanently transitions to America's new Latin American dominant culture.
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@as. Exactly. Central America is our New Democratic ideal.
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Yet another opinion piece masquerading as a hard news article.
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@Jesse James
Trump is the one campaigning with Limbaugh. Trump is the one spreading Jim Crow garbage. Since Jim Crow is now our president, it’s news. Not opinion.
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For a man of supposedly "wealth and taste," Trump's suit fits him like an off-the-rack irregular from JC Penny---apropos for the crowds at his rallies.
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All this uproar to appeal to his "base." Isn't his "base" already for him without it?
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this is a news article? Belongs in editorial section. Trump is right about the biased media.
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Ironically, Rush Limbaugh used to stress Americans relying on themselves. Using their education, and talent to improve their own lives regardless of the circumstances. Now, Limbaugh preaches the gospel of victimization and dependency, since the most profitable demographics are claiming their problems are everyone else's fault.
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Nobody sinks to the occasion like Donald J. Trump.
VOTE in historic numbers...for adult supervision of the Fear-Monger-In-Chief and his complicit mob of neo-Confederates Making America Hate Again.
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I can't figure out why Trump waited until the final day to finally campaign with one of his top advisers......Rush.
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'left wing mob' ?
Sane Americans who are capable of reading beyond conspiracy theorists are not a mob.
They are a Starbucks or Books a Million.
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A troika of narcissistic personality disorders. No one will be able to get a word in edgewise.
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If Trump's base has not yet understood they have been conned, what will it take to convince them? The man they worship thinks they are all stupid fools to believe his lies and accept his cheating, racism and misogyny, and is getting rich off of their dollars while making them think they are better off than ever. I call this cult worship not the GOP.
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Trump tweeted:
“Law Enforcement has been strongly notified to watch closely for any ILLEGAL VOTING which may take place in Tuesday’s Election (or Early Voting),” he wrote on Twitter on Monday. “Anyone caught will be subject to the Maximum Criminal Penalties allowed by law. Thank you!”
Will some Republicans please tell this man that early voting is not illegal? This tweet can be considered to be voter intimidation.
Once again Trump is violating his Constitutional oath and the GOP does nothing.
Vote for checks and balances tomorrow. Vote Democratic to save the United States for future generations.
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After rereading Trump's false and threatening tweet I realized he isn't saying that early voting is illegal but is setting the table for his whine fest in case the GOP loses tomorrow.
Of course he'll claim that the Republicans lost because of voter fraud (another lie.) He'll also distance himself from candidates who lose- of course they can't possibly lose because of HIM.
Why do people like this guy?
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“Mr. Trump used the final day of the campaign to raise the possibility of voter fraud, a perennial interest of his.”
Of course, the only evidence - real evidence we all can see - is the shameless Republican campaign to suppress and disenfranchise any potential Democratic voters.
Pathetic.
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Trump has been "playing to tribal rifts in American society in a way that went beyond what most presidents have done during competitive midterm elections in the modern era"? Most? Really?
What other president has come remotely close to this vile, unread hatemonger?
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This isn't about fear. It's about fairness. I don’t qualify for a government subsidy for Obamacare. If I want health insurance, I have to pay full price. But, I’m healthy. I have no medical bills. And I haven't seen a doctor in years. Why should I pay $500 a month for health insurance with a ridiculous deductible, while a sick person or a pregnant woman who qualifies for a government subsidy pays less? That’s effectively me opting to pay their bills. We need healthcare reform that is fair. And that won't happen with Democrats in charge. That's why I voted straight Republican in this election.
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I am sorry you don't have a job with a healthcare benefit. But hey, that's what is fair about free enterprise.
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@Mark
Do you think health care issues announce themselves before they will hit you. Or accidents. With the Dems, at least you would be covered….the Republicans will send you to their death panels.
You might as well stop paying car insurance and homeowners insurance too--they are not "fair" either.
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You don't understand how insurance works; you need a big group to spread the risk. One day, you'll need insurance! The most efficient system would be single payer because the risk pool would be enormous, allowing rates to be low. Trump and his allies have no interest in your welfare; they'd rather that you just die when you get sick.
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Some president. Not capable of doing the job so he runs around like a lunatic trying to drum up support for his incompetence and corruption.
The big fat radio liar and the fox so-called news liar are with him? What a group of disgusting human beings.
May they rest in peace soon.
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Never though I would ever see the day when a President of the United States would be campaigning with Rush Limbaugh at his side. That says way more than I really wanted to believe about my fellow Americans.
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@kspach
It is brilliant! Rush Limbaugh is great and understands our "progressives" and their fascist, socialist agenda better than almost anyone.
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Wait, is this a news story? I don’t know who at the NYT authorizes the headlines, but whether his Dem team wins or loses, he should feel sullied by his spectacular lack of integrity in allowing these relentlessly partisan headlines.
The irony is that conservatives are nuanced enough to understand that the Caravan is a symbol of the brokenness of our immigration laws. We also understand that most of those who come to this country are doing so because of the terrible conditions in their home countries (where leftist ideals have been realized) and are not themselves gang members or drug dealers. But allowing them to flood the borders, claim asylum after being met by unscrupulous activists, and then disappear into this country for years is insupportable. But the left sees racism behind every rock and so accuses conservatives of racism and fearmongering. But it is not true—and it has no place in the headline of a news story.
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Democrats are campaigning on fear, too: claiming without merit that Rebublicans are out to deprive them of Social Security, Medicare, access to birth control, and any number of baseless charges that Republicans are Nazis, bigots, xenophobes, homophobes, and the usual litany of epithets. Meanwhile, President Obama, who mocked candidate Trump's economic goals as magical thinking, now wants to claim credit for what the Trump administration has delivered. Voters are not all ignorant or gullible.
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that is not propaganda.
ryan and mcconnel want to reduce ss and medicare and aca
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OldEngineer,
Mitch McConnell recently announced that Social Security and Medicare would have to be cut to pay for the deficit that's resulted from the massive tax cut Republicans gave to corporations and the uber wealthy (if you don't believe me Google it.)
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You're not listening to Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, obviously!
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The horror of that post-election Wednesday in 2016 has built into a slashing devolution of governance, and destruction of trust in our elections. If the numbers fail us on Tuesday, there's little hope for either reconciliation or rebuilding the republic. The toxic GOP and their moneyed front men will have succeeded and we'll be no better than the worst banana republic. GOTV.
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@S. Don’t forget it has resulted in historically low unemployment, jobs and more jobs, increased wages, lots more money in our 401ks and more. A small price to pay for a crass speaking leader who, nevertheless, tells it like it is.
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To see this petty, mean-spirited, hate-driven dictator-wanna-be campaign be reminds me of how Obama asked us to reach to the best in humanity, not the worst. A world in the image of Trump would be a disgusting place to live.
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With Limbaugh Trump proves he is desperate.
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This is not a President campaigning for principles and policies, these are not campaign rallies, they are entertainment shows being produced out of the WH with a President as Executive Producer.
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Yes, a fear of inefficiency of big sluggish government. A fear of weakness internationally. A fear of bad trade deals inherited from prior Administrations. A fear of allowing FBI personnel to run roughshod over election results. A fear of letting the Media misreport the news each day and staying silent. Fear.
Depends on how one looks at it.
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@Maurice Gatien- Trump tells you that,and you believe it... No Facts - sounds right...
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It's striking how Trump has managed to make millions of Americans afraid of nothing. Yes, nothing.
He's described the border as a virtual war zone and a few thousand Central Americans trekking towards it as national menace.
Yet, there have long been millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States for many years. Of the 11 million undocumented immigrants, some 8 million are employed.
So, they have been holding down jobs and not involved in violent rampages, rioting or causing havoc. Yes, there is a small criminal minority, but in general immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than legal residents.
I cross the Mexican border at least once a month. During my lifetime, I have crossed several hundred times. Not once was I assaulted or even threatened. In fact, the American border cities typically have very low crime rates.
And still so many of us are afraid. Of nothing.
And yet so many Americans accept the manufactured Trump horror story.
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There are things to fear, things we desperately need to find solutions for now (if not yesterday), but the #1 thing to fear is a few thousand impoverished asylum seeker at our border.
No, what we really need to fear is anthropogenic climate change. Xenophobic rantings are distracting us from the real work that needs to be done if humanity is going to survive the 21st century.
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The white superamicists and racists that demonstrate in public is a small group of extremists. But, Trump is betting that there is a large segment of white people who are sleeper racists. Trump is waking them to go out and vote. I think he is betting on the wrong horse.
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The name of the game is to entice the media to focus on Trump and his absurd promises, lies and insults. The more time, effort and energy spent on covering him means less time for the candidates that need to be heard to win. The Trump strategy is to drown out the opposition with noise and vote straight Republican, as a vote for a Republican is a vote for Trump.
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I mentioned this a year ago.
Look up Gustave Le Bon and check out his writings on crowds.
Trump stirs the crowd with methodology exactly derived from his studies . It's fascinating and depressing.
Gustave was studying the 'psychological crowd' around 1900.
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Donald Trump's grandfather: immigrant
Donald Trump's wives #2 and #3: immigrants
Donald Trump: not enough adjectives to describe how low and disgusting this man is.
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@dvepaul. I think you totally miss the truth hiding in your words. Add the fact that he has 3 Jewish grandchildren and the rational conclusion is that Trump is not a racist, not anti-Semitic and not anti-legal immigrant. If the left was a bit more nuanced and not consumed with hate for all things Trump, you might see the truth.
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@dvepaul
I thought the Dems were all about nuance? Yet it seems most don't understand the difference between legal and illegal immigrants.
Exploding the deficit is not a promise kept. If we don’t vote out the republicans they will take away your Medicare and Social Security to pay for the wealthy tax cut
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@Deirdre Rebuilding infrastructure is a promise broken. Providing beautiful affordable healt care is a promise broken. The Republican congress could have passed a tax cut for the rich with a wet dish rag in the Oval Office. Ask Grover Norquist. Trump even lied about that, saying the proposed tax cut wouldn’t benefit people like him:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/business/trump-benefit-tax-cuts.amp.html
Internationally, we have nothing on North Korea’s nukes, trade wars everywhere, and the scorn of the entire civilized world - minus the copy cat dictators Trump has helped bring out of the woodwork.
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"Trump Closes Out a Campaign Built on Fear, Anger and Division"
That is what Trump is all about, but not America and not Americans except for a minority of his followers.
" Fear, Anger and Division" are the trademarks of dictators and "Banana Republics." We must put a stop to this terrible scourge and run the republicans out of office this year and run Trump and whoever is left out of OUR Government in 2020, or sooner by Impeachment.
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The immigration pendulum was swung by Ted Kennedy who was racially against educated white western European immigrants from coming to America. Today, 70% of all illegal immigrants are on some form of government assistance. The fear with uncontrolled immigration is that the government handout lifeboat will capsize with millions seeking assistance. The US is already deep in debt and like any other country in the world cannot sustain uncontrolled immigration and free stuff for everyone.
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That 70% number is far from real. Only by counting the number of undocumented receiving a public education do you get there.
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@GC. The illegals anchor babies, all 300,000/yr get at least a free public education and probably, Medicaid and food stamps as well. It's cherry picking numbers not to count the effects of a misinterpretation of the 14th amendment and not deporting people.
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Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity work in media. Aren't they "enemies of the people"?
Trump's embrace of these men and of Fox News is the ultimate hypocrisy.
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I love the New York Times. It is one of the primary reason you will see a REDWAVE tomorrow. The liberal bias is both both very strong, and yet repulsive. Keep up the great rhetoric. Once a great news source, you have devolved into a liberal opinion page. Congratulations.
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@Duane Mathias. Yes. This explains in part why the MSM was so shocked by Trump’s win. For an enjoyable evening, watch video clips of the MSM news anchors and pundits realizing that not only was Hillary not winning by a landslide, but that Trump was winning big. They were not good enough actors to hide their shock and disappointment. If leftists were as smart as they claim to be, they would have honestly evaluated how everyone got it so wrong in 2016. But as so many comments in these pages reflect, humility is not part of leftist DNA.
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Rush Limbaugh????!!! The same guy that castigated drug dealers and users while he was getting his maid to score opioids for him? I guess that old adage is true..."Desperate times call for desperate measures."
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This is the third blasting NY Times headline I have seen that has normalized Trump and his racist, xenophobic, fascist-enabling followers.
When was the last time that every single pre-election story was about how Democrats are flocking to the strong inclusive message and rejecting the fascist message of the Republicans? Where are those stories?
Once again, if Democrats lose, it will be because the so-called liberal media like the NY Times has spent 1000x more effort to normalize the Trump message than it has to tell America was the Democrat message is.
This newspaper has jumped the shark today. Not even a single article explaining why the MAJORITY of Americans like the Democratic message because your reporters are are too busy explaining how appealing Trump's ugly speech is to "regular" "nice" Americans.
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@RJ. I agree with you that the NYT is relentlessly focused on Trump and his voters. But I am not sure why you think these headlines are normalizing them—if anything, these so-called news stories are demonizing them.
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Trump needs to the Dems to win the House. It's the only way he can probably win 2020. If the GOP maintains, then they have no reason not to accomplish their agenda in two more years; healthcare and entitlement restructured!!!NO EXCUSES. Trump will be toast for 2020.
So who is the "low IQ" idiot now--the guy who started criticizing CNN for rejecting his own prideful ad based on racism, that proved to in fact be racist by a wide majority of NBC and even FOX viewers (wow) when those networks were also low IQ enough to run it. Then he puts the final nail in the coffin equating the rejection of such widely acknowledged racism with difficult questions from a constitutionally justified (probably still hasn't read it) free press he calls "offensive". You, sir, are a total offense to this country, its constitution, and its history where you will be remembered in a very shameful light.
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yet another platform for djt.
i mostly read: "he did, he said, he went after, he took to ..."
give us the explicit antidotes instead.
write about what needs to and what can be done
to get things and people back on track.
to make people want to
- trust and rely on each other again,
- believe in common causes worth fighting for,
- place the common good before "me, myself and i"
- face truths instead of hiding forever behind lies
[i.e. acknowledge mistakes and strive for remedies],
- look for inclusive rather than exclusive solutions,
- ...
the constant repetition of djt's strategies and tactics
is nothing ... but highly counterproductive [isn't it?].
I normally vote a straight Democratic ticket, and have always considered myself a member of the working class.
But where are my Democrats? Oh, they’re over on the coasts, taking big money from big donors on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley. They’re in the big cities, pushing for cheap immigrant and undocumented labor, so they can keep my wages low.
And what are they doing to show they care about the little guy? Their media and tech allies are now running hard against the only candidate in 30 years to actually protect American workers and put American citizens first. The media is painting Trump as the anti-Christ, while big tech is censoring ads that are 100% factual just because they paint open borders in a bad light. So Zuckerberg bought up all of the surrounding property and now has a literal moat around his mansion, and yet any news about illegal immigrants hurting Americans is now verboten, because it might wake some of us plebes up.
There may be a Blue Wave or there might not be. If there is, it will be because rich white liberals bought it, and used their allies in Big Tech, Wall Street, Hollywood and Silicon Valley to help create it. But either way, I won’t be a part of it.
I plan on voting for the GOP, straight down the ticket. And should they win or lose, I’ll sharpen my proverbial pitchfork either way, to get ready for another GOP vote in 2020. They’re the party of the working class now. I’ll stand with them.
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@Trans Cat Mom
Since you have not been paying attention, Clinton improved worker protections in the NAFTA pact, which was negotiated by George HW Bush, and had record low unemployment and job growth to boot.
The administration under George W. Bush tried to privatize social security and the unemployment insurance system. Neither was exactly worker friendly. His policies or lack thereof, “spend money to help the war effort,” did little for working Americans. This working American got a few hundred bucks from his first tax cut and little from the others. Same with the Trump “Tax Reform,” a whole lot of bumpkus.
Wall Street, read Republican business owners, need cheap labor for their profit-above all approach, especially in agriculture, construction, and hospitality. Democrats want all workers to receive a fair, even higher minimum, and living wage, and work in humane conditions. Show me a Republican pushing that platform.
Barack Obama? He got the debate going on healthcare reform that was gutted by Republicans while bringing the country back from the precipice of another really bad Depression. Both sound worker-friendly to me.
Open borders? There is no such thing, but a border security system in need of work. Trump rejected several congressional attempts to fix it, though your new party controls Congress and the White House.
Trump as the “anti-Christ?” This movie ain’t over.
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@Trans Cat Mom: Every single thing the Republicans DO (ignore what they SAY) is geared to make rich people richer at the expense of working people. It baffles me that you could look at the track records and think Republicans are on your side.
BTW, what does Zuckerberg's house have to do with anything? And the only ones talking about open borders are Republicans, trying to falsely pin it on Democrats.
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"And the face of the nation
Keeps changin' and changin'
The face of the nation
I don't recognize it no more"
Thank you JM, so prophetic so many years ago.
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A real American president wouldn’t have to use fear, anger or division.
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@Kip: Let's say Trump never became President. He is still in campaign mode where he feels comfortable.
Trump continues to follow a Fascist guidebook. This and his numerous other transgressions make him a clear and present danger. Win or lose tomorrow, Republicans who do not denounce him are complicit in the destruction of our Democracy.
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American Exceptionalism? A resounding Democratic victory across the country, on all levels. End the Nightmare!
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Rush Limbaugh? I hear he’s drug addict, whose criminal past should probably disqualify him from even voting, given Florida’s view of felons.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/us/28ap-rush.html
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@ubique. I watch but rarely agree with CNN or MSNBC. Leftists would do well to see what happens on FOX and Limbaugh. You could learn something and might not be so surprised when you lose elections.
Once we had a president who said, "
"This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly...."
"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
How I wish we had such a president now.
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So he modeled the campianing after Obama?
Please folks no side in this is polite, cordele or remotely civil.
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How anyone could admire this VILE man is beyond my ability to comprehend. When he says "I love the poorly educated," he's not showing compassion. Rather, he depends on obfuscation and "truthful hyperbole" to sell his neo-Nazi agenda. I hope with all my being that this country rejects this charlatan on Tuesday.
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Liberals are angry they lost in 2016.
Liberals have been fear-mongering nonstop about the Russians and fascism.
Liberals lie that they don’t want open borders. They do. Hillary said it in the debates.
I’m afraid I don’t want to live in Central America, thank you very much.
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@M
Conservatives never fact check and then claim everyone else lies.
Try analysis instead
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/us/politics/fast-check-donald-trump-democrats-open-borders.html
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@M
No one is talking about Hillary any more.
The concern is the level of corruption and hatred that Trump is raining down on the country.
Trump is making us into the land of the scared and the bigoted, instead of the home of the free and the brave.
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@M. Democrats subvert/ignore immigration laws, always want higher immigration, weaken the border, never want to deport anybody once they get here (even those on a temporary visa), set up sanctuary cities, insist on a pathway to citizensh for 10s of millions of illegals, want open chain migration, abolish ICE, etc. they never say "we want open borders", but they might as well. Watch what people do, not what they say.
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President Putin has done a good job these last two years. Let's make sure that he can't get anything done in the next two. #maga
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@Iain. Trump (putins stooge) has put far more sanctions on Russia than the globalist St Obama. Trump has also given Ukraine lethal aid to fight the Russians which is something BHO never did either. Most analysts think trump has been tougher on Russia in 2 years than Obama was in 8 years. Are you sure you're not getting "alternative facts"?
I haven't seen this much hatred and bigotry in an elected official since George Wallace had his buddy Bull Connor turn those police dogs on Martin Luther King's civil rights marchers.
Ane then he knocked them down with fire hoses. George Wallace and Bull Connor have been reincarnated in Trump.
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I'm sorry to say it, but when my mothers' Alzheimers was metastasizing these are some of the ugly fear based attitudes that rose to the surface.
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"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world..."
Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity?
Really?
Well, you made your bed. Let's see how well you sleep in it.
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@Martin If you are afraid of Trump, hate Trump or otherwise hold him in contempt, maybe you should watch tonite. You have to know your opponent, before you can deal with him.
OAN(US Directv) or RSBN(youtube). However, this will be so "inflammatory" all the networks will probably cover it.
Lies, lies and more lies. With apologies to FDR, "We have nothing to fear but Trump himself".
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Believe it or not, there are moderate liberals like my family who want our borders secure and favor the end to the (grossly exploited) notion of birthright citizenship and ‘sanctuary cities’. We also want corporations to pay their taxes and America’s healthcare system removed from the profiteering industry. Oh...and we support Israel’s right to defense by whatever means necessary to protect their sovereignty and their citizenry.
Problem. Whom do we vote for?
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@Shenoa
Republicans.
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@Shenoa
Plenty of Democrats are for secure borders, managed in a humane fashion. Trump LOVES to lie about Dems wanting open borders.
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As long as the left and the democrats continue to push for a pathway to citizenship for 10s of millions of illegals, any updating of our antiquated and usually ignored immigration laws, weakening the border, never agreeing to deport anybody once they are here, abolishing ICE and on and on trump will get traction not only from his base, but also people who see no social, economic, fiscal or environmental reason to continue to import more people whether they come from Central America, Norway or anywhere else. There is no reason for the third most populous country on earth where 5% of the worlds population uses 25% of its resources and has the highest per capita co2 production on earth to increase its population. If the left doesn't get that and trump is slowing down the flood, then he'll find an audience.
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Does anyone take this stuff seriously anymore? Pr. Trump is the last dam in America not to crumble. What's to come? Check out Berlin in the late twenties...
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If this works again, then I am an outcast in my native land.
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I don't blame Trump for his outrageous campaign of fear, anger and division. Being a narcissist, he is scared stiff of the possibility of losing control over the Congress, which to him it means humiliation and being laughed at. He also knows well that losing the Congress means opening the door to impeachment and multitude of legal actions against him.
The blame should be squarely laid at the feet of the US mainstream media. Its failure to stand up and openly voice its opposition to a demagogue who is turning the refugee caravan into his campaign propaganda tool days before a historical election.
Looking back, it is not the first time that the US media has miserably failed the US public. The history has not forgotten US media's response when the ship St. Louis carrying Jewish refugees was turned away from US ports in 1939. Nor its halfhearted opposition to Vietnam war, Iraq invasion, or intervention in Libya is forgotten.
Today we are witnessing another indelible blight blemishing the US media. One has to wonder what differentiates this refugee caravan from the Jewish refugee ship of 1939?
This is not to equate the plight of these refugees with those of holocaust's victims. But rather to ask whether those tired, hungry, scared, women and children coming to the US border, seeking safety and freedom, deserve our compassion. Thanks to the weak response of the US media, what they have received so far are the inhumanity and iron fist of an extreme right-wing US government.
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I thought we hired the guy to govern. Instead he’s traipsing all over he country on our dime on a partisan campaign. He should be required to pay back every penny and then be fired for lousy job performance.
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It is safe to say that the Democrats feel the same way, their campaign was also built on fear, anger and division. It is only that they are on the other side of the divide from Trump.
Trump is not the cause of the division or anger but the symptom of it. If the Democrats were honest, they would admit that they are angry at Trump and that their anger is even more pronounced, compared to the anger on the right.
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@Philly
Deflection.
Democrat's are angry.
They will not accept or stand down while the hate, racism and violence that have grown in the US since the ugly base of hate elected trump and extremists are used as "values" to keep Republicans in office.
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You Dems have very short memories if you think tensions and animosity started with Trump.
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“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
— James Baldwin
America is better than this divisive, unpresidential, corrosive, egotistical man. I choose hope and aspiration over the isolation, fear and hate he represents. He is not my America.
VOTE.
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It is perfectly true that the Republicans’ campaign was built on anger and fear. However, it is equally true that the Democrats’ campaign has been built on arrogance, nastiness and stupidly. I would truly love to go to the polls tomorrow and vote, like I once did years ago, and vote straight Democrat, and feel good about it. I can’t do that this time. I will be doing a write in ballot - again. The Republicans never, ever spoke for me; but at this point, today’s Democrats don’t speak for me, either.
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@Maureen
Who is worse for the country? It's a binary choice one has to make. This is how we got Trump. Today's Democrats don't speak for me either, but the Republicans speak even less for me.
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@dba
The reality is that we have no way of knowing with any certainty who is better or worse.
Very unbiased headline from Peter and the Times. Glad you and the DNC are on the same page. Who hosts tomorrow's House Majority Win celebration, you guys or Tom Perez? Its not surprising that with agitprop like this the media, which the Times leads as always, has a lower approval rating than POTUS himself. Great work guys.
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so very funny 45 questioning others' honesty.
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Fortunately we can rely on the Democrats to have such a wonderful positive message beginning with their fear mongering over Russian collusion and their self-proclaimed policy of “resistance” and protest, continuing with their hysteria over Kavanaugh, and most recently culminating with their sour reaction to the boom in the economy. But, of course, it’s Obama’s economy and Trump is such a liar for trying to take credit for it. And the biggest lie of all—it’s Trump who is so angry and negative.
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If feel like Peter Baker does not live on the same planet as me. Peter step outside your circle and take an honest look around.
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Trump will go down in time as a man who was an acquired taste that many people never acquired. However, he has certainly been successful over his first two years. The economy for all including African Americans has not been better since the 60's. His attempts to resolve the many issues with NAFTA have been successful. I could go on and on. If only he could stay off Twitter and think before he blurts outrageous states out of his mouth!
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"Trump Closes Out a Campaign Built on Fear, Anger and Division"
Hello? 911?
I'm calling to report a biased hit piece that has escaped from the NYT editorial/opinion section.
Hurry, please.
Their reputation for real journalism is in immediate danger.
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Okay? What else has he emphasized? Nothing.
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Trump complain of voter fraud again....
Trump to reporters on voter fraud:
“All you have to do is go around, take a look at what’s happened over the years, and you’ll see.”
So Mr. "I've Got the Best Words"....
Exactly WHAT will we "see" by "going around" and looking at "what's happening over the years" ?
This guy can't even talk.
Get the straight jacket.
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Once again The Times plays right into Trump’s hand by headlining his silly antics! Really? With so many important issues to discuss and report on in this election the Times is enthralled by Trump’s lies and outrageous statements. It sells papers!
Jon Stewart is correct that the press is complicit in the rise of Trump.
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@Michael Mekeel
With all due respect, Mike, I couldn’t disagree more with your comment.
Reporting on Mr. Trump’s remarks, exaggerations, fabrications, uninformed statements and obvious lies is PRECISELY what the media should and must do.
I first voted in a presidential election in 1972. As I watched events unfold in 2016, I thought it impossible that American voters would cast their ballots, either in the primaries or the general election, for someone as rude, arrogant, ignorant, deceitful and unprepared as Donald Trump.
“This man is obviously a pathological liar. He’s suffering from a severe personality disorder. Voters won’t support him, bragging about his ‘IQ and big brain.’ He’s a nitwit.”
But, sad to say, millions of voters did vote for him.
And, despite Trump making one knee-jerk irrational decision after another and attempting to fly the most powerful nation on earth by the seat of his pants. Despite his lies, his incoherent speeches, his mismanagement of the executive branch and need for regular pep rallies to bolster his self esteem —> millions of voters continue to support him.
It is not the job of the NY Times to explain how the impossible has suddenly become possible. Nor is it the Times’ job to selectively report the news of the day in order to influence the American political process. It IS THE JOB of the NY Times to report, on a daily basis, what the POTUS did, what he said, how crowds reacted to him, and to fact check the contents of his statements.
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Obama used the Exact. Same. Tactics. The villains were the "rich" "1%'s" "wealthy". Division was rich vs. poor. Remember Occupy Wall Street? A direct result of Obama fear peddling. How about "You Didn't Build that?" The White House web site produced an entire video telling the story of a poor child who needs the federal government to provide her every need cradle to grave. Even The Dark Knight Rises (the Batman movie) picked up on this narrative and showed the "poor" dragging rich Gothamers out into the street. Why is it only newsworthy when a Republican uses this tactic?
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Fear of the rich? No, try righteous fury for the exploitation the oligrachs reap under our current economic system.
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@D Seriously, you are comparing attacking income inequality and the lack of punishment for the 2008/9 recession to Trump's diatribe of racism?
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Trump taught America a very important lesson this year: Fear, intimidation and racial division are lightning bolts through the electoral landscape. His immature, sub-intellectual brand of bloviating and fear-mongering are instructional to any country who intends to elevate autocrats and fascists to higher levels of power. His was the most hateful, angry and acerbic approach to campaigning for his minions and sycophants in memory. We can only hope that our better angels prevail on Tuesday. It ain't over until it's over. I'm exhausted!
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I can't help but feel there is some ethical violation (at the very least) when employees of Fox campaign for a particular candidate. I don't have a problem with their on-line support (It's no different than CNN's obvious support for Democrats) but it's another matter to actively campaign for a candidate.
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@Sledge
Every MSM newscast is an campaign ad for democrats. The bias is so obvious.
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Dear voters of America,
Please don't stuff this up again tomorrow.
Sincerely,
The rest of the world
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The headline for this article is accurate.
But add racism and misogyny to the headline and it would still be accurate.
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Even Fox News pulled the ad deemed too racist. The 30-second ad used the story of Luis Bracamontes, an undocumented Mexican immigrant convicted of murdering two Sacramento, California, police officers in 2014, to stoke fears about what the migrant caravan could bring to America. The delicious irony is Bracamontes come in the last time during the George W. Bush administration and was jailed and released by Sheriff Joe in Arizona. You can't make this stuff up.
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Perfect travelling companions !!!!
Base will love it.
The rest of us will be more motivated to reject his agenda!!!!
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Id like to see a cost estimate of what these little day trips are costing the US government. Also like to know how much overtime the Secret Service has been putting in.
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I’m not quite sure what the purpose of these rallies is. Trump supporters attend Trump rallies and Dems attend Dem rallies. Debates are the only platform that make sense. Maybe these are not taking place because of the possibility of dangerous conflict. If that is true, it’s very sad.
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History has a strange way of behaving. Had Clinton won the election she would be blamed for the recession that will be coming in 2020. That would have enabled a Republican to win the next presidential election. Possibly another absurd populist who would not have the means or method to get us out of the recession. As things stand we will elect a Democrat in 2020. Perhaps one with the economic knowledge and support the will help us better weather the upcoming recession.
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@Harveyko
Republican recessions based on their tax cuts for the rich and spending and heating up overheated ballooning economies normally come in the 6th-8th year (Reagan, Bush). We were lucky to get Obama. Trump's economic destruction will be the biggest ever (he loves big), and I doubt we will have the wisdom, intelligence, patience and grace of an Obama-like figure to help us out.
What a mess!
And then there's climate. That too needs wisdom and restraint, but neither is popular today.
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One party finally gets to the point where their strategies start working, but people have given up by this time and support the other party who then takes credit for the first party’s efforts. And then it cycles back. The party that created the positive initiatives, that the second party has since abused and then run into the ground, inherits their mess. At some point the right part (or Left) will enter the pendulum at the correct point.
The constant election cycle in the U.S. is to blame. Nothing ever settles down politically. There is little opportunity for any social or economic strategies to form. It does take time. Time that people, in the so-called ‘information age’ do no seem to have time for.
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Trump has been running on his favorite fun food, campaign style rallies, for quite a while now. His adrenaline gland must be the size of a pinhead. He has managed to enshroud his followers in a vaporous cloud of fear and hate that will linger a long time after he is done riling up the electorate on both sides for this election.
When the voting is over, I'm sure he will acquaint us with all he has accomplished. He will hand us his bucket full of campaign vile and declare victory. Then it is off to the links for some well deserved time off. That's something he is good at.
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Trump:
Rule by billionaires, for billionaires, with tinges of violence, lies, cheating, and bellying up to the world's dictators.
Disgusting and treachers, that's our cowardly bully in chief.
Don't tell me you're a "patriot" for following a guy who loots and steals and exploits and blames victims.
Don't call yourself a Christian if you don't follow the life and sayings of Jesus, who was all for the least fortunate, for including people, for nonviolence, and against hypocrisy and hatred. Try the Gospels. If your pastor wears a fancy suit and takes your donations, then that's what he's all about. Oily and hypocritical, the rockstar pulpiteers are not even pretending to condemn Trump's multiple transgressions against humanity.
He loves Kim Jong Un, Putin, Duterte, Al Sisi, and other dictators. He envies their ability to jail and murder their opponents without reservation.
Lies are not the truth.
Voter suppression is not "winning" - it's cheating.
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Hold your nose and vote democrat.
Louis Farrakhan
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@.Marta
Open your eyes and vote Democratic.
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Watching Trump from a distance is scary not only for what he represents but what he enables.
Worldwide, there is a trend of electing vacuous violent populists. It could be a long time before the damage is undone. And in less democratic countries, despots are encouraged by his lack of principle and embrace of extremism.
The US has the opportunity to put itself right and reset the international trend. These elections really are important – it is not just hype.
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Dear American friends, please vote Democrat tomorrow and encourage everyone you know to do the same!
Vote to put your country on the road to rejecting the hate and divisiveness that has infected your country and is spreading beyond your shores.
Vote to reject policies that favour the rich and harm women, minorities and the less well off members of society.
Vote to send the message to Republican politicians that the country has a spine, even if they don't.
Vote to reject the dangerous Republican ignorance on climate change and its consequences for the world.
Vote to send the message that rejecting the US's traditional allies and alliances in favour of dictators and autocratic regimes is not what the world wants, needs or expects from the country that was once the leader of the free world.
I can't vote but will be watching the election results and wishing you all well. I don't usually bother with the midterms - it's a very very long night if you're watching in the UK! - but these elections and these times are different. Your votes matter for all of us.
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@katy890 I participated in early voting and voted 100% for Democrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #BlueWave
Imagine for 30 seconds that Louis Farrakhan were president. Yet, we have someone in the White House who is infinitely worse than any nightmare conjured up by Farrakhan. When you hear previously reliable networks like NPR report in well-modulated tones about Trump, it's not hard to understand why such atrocities like slavery and genocide of native people were able to last for centuries. It's called normalization.
We are now a country that barely blinks as trump sends thousands of troops to the American border, uses the presidency to line his pockets, rips children away from their parents and adopts them away, and hurls epithets at black and brown people.
How does the NYT respond? By publishing yet another love letter to trump's supporters, allowing them to gush and froth about his wonderfulness. Would Adolf Hitler get such treatment today? I am so offended and horrified that I can barely contain myself.
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Republicans stand for
Jobs for all
Booming Economy
Reforming Illegal immigration disaster
Lower taxes
if this divisive.... good for them
The democrat Mob holds working American families in contempt... no wonder they are losers.
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@obummer - If that's the case how do you explain the multiple recessions Republicans have treated us to?
How do you explain all the immigrant labor the party donors build their fortunes on?
Unless you're wealthy you won't get any kind of meaningful tax reduction but you will see an increase in the price of all of the things you need to survive.
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@obummer
I wholly understand your judgement of fellow citizens you may need on your side someday. But you do know it makes your soul holey? Bless you because you need all the blessing you can get.
FDR: The only thing we have to fear is...fear itself.
Trump: Be afraid!
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It's deja vu again, folks. Now you know what it was like to live in Germany in 1933. Hannity & Limbaugh, Goebbels reincarnated 2X. If the GOP holds both houses of Congress tomorrow, our Reichstag is toast.
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Who thought that Mein Kampf could be used as a textbook?
Donald Trump. Attack the media. Discredit elections. Create an enemy of others. Hold spectacles for followers and cultists. Blame other countries. Only Trump can fix it.
Remember, the Nazis created pretexts for invading Czechoslovakia and Poland. Watch what happens on the Mexican border.
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Limbaugh, Hannity and the so-called president --
that's what you call larding up, throwing the fat in the fire, and greasing the skids....
Say hello to the Crisco kids...but Christie must've 'slipped' their minds.....
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Trump is a terrible person but his raw political skills are vastly underrated. His ability to feel the moment, to read the crowds, to know in his gut what people want to hear, what they need to hear -- honed for decades as a master marketer - is better than any politician I've seen in my lifetime.
Peter Baker and the Morning Joe crowd and the Beltway green room class think that Trump is making a huge mistake focusing on the caravan, that it's going to backfire and alienate suburban college educated Republicans.
They're wrong
Just like they were in 2016
The border security issue and illegal immigration is a massive massive issue to many many Americans - not just racists in rural Mississippi
Trump's closing red meat is pure political gold with the base and they're going to turn out in huge numbers.
The Dems may still take the House but I predict it will be far far closer than most are predicting
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@Luciano -- "master marketer". What a polite way of saying "con man", "fraud", "grifter". I think it is an insult to those who honestly practice the profession of marketing, but I will agree that Trump has the natural demagogue's skill at incitement, at enflaming passion over logic, and at erasing morality and common sense in those he agitates. I think there have been a few of these in each generation. Certainly Trump's theatrics at his rallies make his image eerily similar to the demagogues of 1930's Europe. Waving hands before agitated crowds, spewing hate and lies, promoting scapegoats and mindless responses. The parallels are there, all that is needed is a look to see it. Beyond any reason, Trumpistas think they are 'winning', while losing their future prosperity, their humanity, and their compassion. Sad.
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@Luciano
"His ability to feel the moment, to read the crowds, to know in his gut what people want to hear, what they need to hear -- honed for decades as a master marketer - is better than any politician I've seen in my lifetime"
NONE of this means he's a "good" politician. In fact, he isn't. All that means is he's a master manipulator and uses it to his advantage, and no one else's. Of course, if one considers politics to mean manipulation, well, there you have it.
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@Luciano There's 1 thing Trump is truly great at. It's shameless lies. In fact, Trump might be the greatest human being ever at shamelessly lying. Seriously, he's so good at it that he even believes the lies himself.
Unfortunately, this is more of a referendum on how most of voting America simply doesn't have the critical thinking or intellect required to make an informed decision. They're all too lazy, stupid, selfish, and unconcerned to actually parse their own information. Pigs to the slaughter for all Republican candidates.
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I love President Trump. I had a handyman in my apartment yesterday and was listening to one of President Trump's rallies. It was crowded as usual and I mentioned to this worker that I voted for Donald Trump. He told me that the residents in the building hated Trump which did not surprise me.
New York is a Democrat town and I am definitely in the minority. He is beloved in other parts of the country as is evidenced by those who attend his rallies. He has fulfilled many of his promises and his supporters are so pleased with his accomplishments in such s short period of time. The economy is booming, jobs have been created, tax cuts have been implemented and he is serious about ending illegal immigration. This is what the people wanted and the reason he was voted into office. Their lives are far better today than when Obama was in office. They would never have come out to his rallies in such huge numbers if they were not pleased with his performance.
I think this support will carry over to tomorrow's elections and the results will favor the Republicans. The country is on sound footing and the people are ecstatic and will no doubt want to have this upswing continue. The Republicans are the ones who will fulfill their wishes and dreams and continue to make their lives better.
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@WPLMMT - Really? Where's the wall? Where's the great health care plan? Where are the infrastructure projects?
He did implement tariff's which are having disastrous consequences.
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Stock up on the vice of your choice, because Wedneaday mornong is going to be an unpleasant return to reality for you
@WPLMMT
"He has fulfilled many of his promises....They would never have come out to his rallies in such huge numbers if they were not pleased with his performance."
These quotes are words of euphoria.
Trump now refers to himself as a nationalist. The white nationalists know what Trump means when he says he is a nationalist. Trumps populist supporters love their country and are mostly unaware that Nazism is defined as "an extreme form of Nationalism." Nazism looked good at the time for those that loved the Rhineland.
"German Nationalists" (had a euphoric period before the end of WWII. Then they paid a heavy price for their extreme Nationalism (hate and destruction.)
Trumps lower and middle class supporters will literally be in pain when they find that they are not able to get medical care after retirement because all the medicare and ss funding is robbed while they were distracted by the chants about doing things that will actually harm our way of life and identify: jobs not mobs, lock her up, him too, ...
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And Democrats are running a campaign of open borders and who gets to use which bathroom. How did that turn out in 2016?
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@MR - Republicans are the ones demonizing people of color and trans people. Democrats merely stood up for what is right and while doing that they also worked for affordable health care and education and a clean, safe environment for everyone, not just a chosen few.
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I find it interesting that the Republicans rely on "fear", but the shouts of "racist", "fascist", "misogynist", "rapist", "privilege" and so on coming from the left are all about fear.
Wasn't the Kavanaugh debacle all about fear? Women who never met Kavanaugh were "raped in the backseat of the car". Well, maybe it was all about lying.
I guess it's all about your belief system since critical thinking and truth is pretty much non-existent in politics.
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...the show must go on, and this man in the WH thinks he is running a show, despite all of his rhetoric, people who actually have a clue will vote their heart, and the beginning of the taking back our culture and our country's heritage will begin...again...
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Trump never closed out the 2016 campaign against men, women and children who do not resemble the Trump family socioeconomics, gender, color aka race, ethnicity, faith, national origin and politics in collaboration, collusion, conspiracy and cooperation between the Trump Organization and the Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin.
Why should he change?
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Everyone in this country should feel fear and anger, just not where Trump says you should feel it.
It should be directed towards Trump for insulting us every time he open his mouth and says stupid things that he expects us to agree with and believe.
The biggest shame of the 2016 election was that of the 330 million people in this country, the two parties could only come up with Clinton and Trump. They better not make the same mistake the next time.
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The terrified people that make up Trump's base would not have won World War II. The Cold War. Risked going to the moon. Started international organizations that kept a world in general peace for 3 generations. And so on.
How the heck did Americans become so fearful about nonsense?
I had a conservative colleague who lived in a rural area whose greatest fear was that blacks from a city 100 miles away were going to come and kill him in a race war. I lived 2 miles away and had zero fear. How is that possible? When did Americans become so chicken? How did the party the valorizes the military, the police, and law enforcement become terrified of shadows and children and the future? You should be disgusted at what Trump has made you.
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The only right wing mobs we've seen are the very rare occasions like the one incindent in Virginia.
The left wing mobs are there. Big ones. Lots of them, disrupting other peoples lives, shrill outbursts like the spoiled brats they are, engaging in violence, and on numerous occasions every year.
The claims of racism are a false narrative created by the masters of the Race Card Play, the progressives - who claim th favor minorities and yet with centuries of control of urban slums to their credit, the only thing we have is more slums. And a few ghost towns where vibrant cities used to be.
It is, us against them.
It isn't Republican versus Democrat, or conservatve versus liberal. That is simple, traditional stuff.
It is, those who hold the principles of the Constitution dear to their heart, versus progressives who wish to change the Constitution to suit their intellectually bankrupt agenda.
They will be defeated, again, tomorrow.
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@Objectivist
They're not mobs. They're crowds of millions who hate what Trump has done to our country. His greedy lying exploitative ways, and his promotion of violence, are tearing us apart.
Trump has violated the Constitution over and over.
Your version of the Constitution has been highly edited, based on what you have to say. I suggest you read it.
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@Objectivist
That's the thing. Bullies want their victims to take their abuse and shut up about it. And when the bullied stand up to the bullies the bullies are the first to cry fowl. They are out of control! They are fighting back! No fair! Bullies, as the Republican congress has shown, believe that they can act with impunity and hurt the people, their land, their country, and their future and should suffer no consequences (other than fattening their wallets) for doing so.
RE: "And a few ghost towns where vibrant cities used to be." All I can say is that my "Mass" is a lot different from the "Mass" of the commenter.
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@Objectivist
"It is, us against them."
These are words of euphoria.
Trump's recent rally's are right wing mobs by definition because he promotes voting by evoking hate and destruction for various groups, you can list the hateful causes and groups from memory.
Trump now refers to himself as a nationalist. The white nationalists know what Trump means when he says he is a nationalist. Trumps populist supporters love their country and are mostly unaware that Nazism is defined as "an extreme form of Nationalism." Nazism looked good at the time for those that loved the Rhineland.
"German Nationalists" (had a euphoric period before the end of WWII. Then they paid a heavy price for their extreme Nationalism (hate and destruction.)
Trumps lower and middle class supporters will literally be in pain when they find that they are not able to get medical care after retirement because all the medicare and ss funding is robbed while they were distracted by the chants about doing things that will actually harm our way of life and identify: jobs not mobs, lock her up, him too, ...
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Southeast Missouri should be completely in the bag for anyone Trump would endorse. I know that Cape is Limbaugh's hometown, but unless the internal polls are sounding some kind of alarm, there's no practical reason for Our President to be there.
@Lorem Ipsum
He just goes anywhere and anyplace where he can preach to the choir and they won't throw tomatoes at him.
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His Barrel is truly bottomless. Thanks, GOP. You OWN Him.
Seriously.
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He invited Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh?
Why? Was the devil busy?
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@thegreatfulauk
Even satan does not want to take credit for this.
Ignorance breeds fear, anger, and bigotry. Doesn't take a psychologist to observe that Trump is an ignoramus breeding fear, anger, and bigotry. He lacks the mental capacity to do anything else. If Trump makes it to the 2020 presidential debates, he will return to his tried and true playbook: fear, anger, bigotry. Why? Because he has nothing to say about any substantive issues. This is the President of the Trump Divisive Base, not the President of the UNITED States.
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"covfefe" is rally-babbling to close out his party-cult's campaign.
I'm casting my vote to close out his occupancy of our White House and their gerrymandering of our government, and fill his day with jail time.
I'll Lock Mine In so our new government will Lock Him Up.
Join me on 11/6, to vote for Real Jobs, Not Russian Mobs.
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I think we just found President Trump's 2020 campaign slogan:
"Fear, Anger, and Division!"
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With Trump, Hannity and Limbaugh on the same stage that would be enough to destroy any country....and they almost have. These are the voices of hatred and divisiveness. Of falsehoods, lies, and false witness. How gullible and misinformed can people be?
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Fear, Anger and Division
That, my fellow Americans is what trump has to offer.
Not Leadership
Not a Path Forward
Not Vision of what we Can Become.
Vote out the enablers who let this pathetic man destroy our Democracy.
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Mr. Trump is stuck in some bizzaro world where he projects onto others the things he knows are his greatest weakness. The names he calls people: dishonest, Liar, a security risk, all apply better to his own self. So when he tells the crowd that the Democrats are a threat to Medicare, you can bet that he is the real threat.
Mr. Trump is a White Nationalist. His candidacy was endorsed by racists like David Duke, he has endorsed racists in primaries and general elections, he thinks nice people march with the Klan and we heard how he doesn't like immigrants from Africa and would prefer they were Norwegian.
So how do we protect ourselves from this raging hate? Take a deep breath and vote a soothing Blue tomorrow.
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In other words he gave it his all.
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Trump has his base so riled up, that I worry if the Republicans lose significantly in both Chambers, there will be bloodshed! I can't believe what I just wrote, as I can't believe this gutter snipe was elected President of The United States!!!
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I wonder if Jesus was alive and preaching about the meek inheriting the Earth and the possibility of a rich man entering heaven if he would be accused to being a radical and liberal and spouting fake news.....
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Another NYT article exemplifying the need for wisened editors; excellent headline (“Trump Closes Out a Campaign Built on Fear, Anger and Division”); thank you, really, enough said (although the “a” would be capitalized in “Another”).
But the dribble towards the aricle’s end, regurgitating Trump tweets; this is not news or newsworthy and merely plays the Times as the others, cast as parrots and pawns.
Step up, please, dear Editors; the Presidency has been changed, words still matter, not all are news fit to print.
Fear, anger and division sounds more like your reporting than anything else!
Don’t take his bait
Vote
Remember Democrats have your back
Trump & the GOP stab your back
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fear - anger - division...
(what a prince of a guy)
but you forgot to mention the 4th ingredient - LIES
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Limbaugh, Hannity and Trump. So who's the 4th horseman?
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Bannon, Manafort, or Stone. Tske your pick, their hands are all bloody
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@JP - Miller
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Trump continues to show that he is the absolute best at being the absolute worst person to ever occupy any elected office, anywhere in the USA.
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If we make trump personally pick up the bill for this caravan stunt of sending troops to the border he might find a different perspective. After all it is a CAMPAIGN stunt that legally the taxpayer is NOT obligated to pay for. So I say rock on trump we will just bill you for your ignorance later. These people coming here can legally apply for asylum therefore they are not breaking the law. So he is NOT doing this as a need for the country. This is a direct link to mid-term campaigning for the GOP. He is doing this to promote GOP policies on the campaign trail for the mid-term elections, therefore it falls under campaigning expense. We have video proof of it. Send the idiot a bill for the 10,000 plus troops, meals, transportation, etc, etc,. Then we will see where his perspective on using taxpayer funds to say and do anything you want goes. HE personally is fiscally responsible for the expense.
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Do you think the NY times itself may be stoking the flames of division by such a headline? The President is married to an immigrant, so how can is it that he vilifies "legal" immigrants.
Written by myself, a legal immigrant
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@Martin Sullivan
No, I don't think.
The President obviously gives a hoot about his wife and other pretty women.
Other, non-Slavic, non-white immigrants, meh!
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Well ... maybe you have a point there.
The republicans and the president are indeed guilty of fear, anger, and division. They deserve severe criticism.
As do Democrats who also waged campaigns based upon fear, anger, and division. Anger so fierce that they encourage their constituents to confront republican officials at restaurants, gas stations and other situations where they might be with their families. Fear so calculated that their leaders say “millions will die !” if republicans change Obamacare. Division that first places us all into ethic , racial, gender, or whatever other category can be dreamed up, then calling sincere criticisms racist, misogynistic, or any other “ist” they can think of.
AA counsels its members that, no matter how intense their resentments may be against another, they must “clean up their side of the street” before they are able to deal with that resentment. All of us share guilt when we are pitted against eachother. Unless we can look inward and realize that we all are responsible in some way for our divisions, we are doomed to a never ending cycle of such “fear, anger and division”. I wish that this article had recognized this instead of stoking up already inflamed resentment on both sides.
Those who respond by blaming only one side will serve to prove my point.
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@Gino G
Anger so fierce that they encourage their constituents to confront republican officials at restaurants, gas stations and other situations where they might be with their families.
Oh stop it Geno.
You can't seem to tell the difference between taking it verbally to a corrupt politician in public and real, fierce anger. There's NO equivalent here. And no, it doesn't prove your point.
There's an enormous difference between the proverbial "pushback" and screaming "lock up" someone who is no longer your opponent at a political sideshow.
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@Gino G -
The Republicans have actually said: We want to take away health care, you will be on your own to select what's best for you. Sounds great - until you find you can't afford it.
The Republicans have actually said: We want to take away or reduce the benefits to those who are enrolled and paid a lifetime into Social Security and Medicare.
The Republicans have actually said: We want to remove the regulations that protect you wealth and health so that companies can make more money.
The people have a right to be afraid of these very real threats to their livelihood and existence.
The Republicans are willing to legislate people out of existence.
Should people lay passively their very being and future is threatened? Isn't the definition of a "snowflake". The problem is when the snowflakes add up to a blizzard.
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@Gino G No, you don't. It's Trump and the GOP that are creating all this fear. Who's attacking immigrants? Who's making fun of people of color? Whose signing executive orders to ban Muslims? If you don't see this, ask yourself why?
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How many days has trump actually spent in Washington D.C. doing the president's job? What will he do on Wednesday, Nov. 7th? Will he start his campaign rallies for 2020 & stay on the road 5 to 7 days a week for the next 2 years? This man has done no work. He is either playing golf or rallying. Air Force One needs to be grounded for about 2 years for maintenance after all this over use. How much has been spent on trump & his family this year in travel, secret service agents & lodgings, skiing trips, hair dressers in New York, use of Air Force One, etc.? If he isn't going to use the East Wing as a residence then it should be closed off with not heat Or lights. We shouldn't be paying for his stays at his properties & keep the East Wing open. Most expensive president in history...another record he can brag about. "I've spent more on personal things than any other president in history."
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Will someone from the media PLEASE ask Trump point blank how he feels about acts of violence and intimidation against his detractors.
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Better yet ignore him!
OK. You wanted change in Washington. You wanted to 'Shake it up!' Well, it's been shaken. And these are the results..fear, anger, division. Also, a money grab for the super-rich (check out the new tax laws closely), a tremendous rise in hate speech and crimes, demonizing of 'the other' from the highest office in the land, and an unprecedented show of cowardice from our other elected officials. Our moral compass is broken. Short term meager economic gains have been traded for an abdication of decency. Nothing is worth what we have lost.
We all make mistakes. Nobody bats 'a thousand'. Please vote tomorrow for a return to the values that have made America great in the past. With everyone's help we can straighten this ship. Without it we're sunk.
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@Mikeyz
Make America Sane Again.
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@Mikeyz
America was never great in the past for enslaved and separate and unequal black African Americans.
America was never great in the past for the brown Native American aboriginal pioneers after the invasion and occupation of their land and theft of their natural resources and ethnic cleansing by white ethnic sectarian European tribes.
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@Mikeyz For what it's worth, I generally vote Republican but I absolutely reject Trumpism, and tell everyone that every opportunity I get. I hope the Democrats drive him out... something the Republicans should have during the primaries...
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RE: “controlled by her bosses”
Trump and the Republicans love votes that can be controlled by the bosses - as long as the bosses are Republican. Matter of fact Trump has made it something of a cottage industry to belittle and name call, bully those Republicans that don't vote the party line. Republicans are far more chastised for crossing the line than are the Democrats.
What this really means is "this isn't a reliable vote. I can't control her. Mitch can't control her. We need a Republican we can control".
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he vilified immigrants, both legal and illegal... Sad that the man who is so anti-immigrants is married to one. More evidence it's a marriage of prestige and convenience for both parties.
History will remember this administration as the turning point for America's decline in government ethics, moral values and global partnership. Congratulations Mr President, no where to go but up once you're out of office.
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Mr. Trump is a Symptom, of a sick Nation, that also had an electoral flaw wherein 46.1% beats 48.9%.
Since the Symptom's onset, the Nation has mobilized it's immune system, to rid us of the diseases that caused the Symptom.
The best prescription for this disease is commonly known as the Blue Wave.
Love Conquers Hate, Episode One, 11.6.18.
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I am savoring the likelihood of having new Deomocratic governors in Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, Florida and Maine.
It’s a big deal, and Trump can’t spin that away.
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This election IS a referendum on Trump. Many voted for him because they wanted to send a message to Washington...blow things up and drain the swamp. Unfortunately it is not only blowing up Washington but also blowing up America. Our reputation internationally has suffered greatly. We are divided, full of anger and the swamp has grown. We are filled to the max with indicted officials, guilty pleas and costly corruption investigations. The rich are getting richer. Lies are becoming the norm. Our sense of being shocked to atrocities is gradually dulling. It is time to clean this up, while we still can. VOTE!
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The man couldn't be more boring, redundant, uninspiring, unpleasant and dangerous. You can't believe anything he says. He's turned the "swamp" into a cesspool. He seems blissfully unaware of the damage he's doing to his own and his followers' mental health and the violence he incites. On the positive side we may, as a country, have needed a another wake-up call to confront more seriously the bigotry and xenophobia and the curse of entitlement in our history that survive in us today. He has certainly helped to instigate that wake-up call.
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with the gerrymandering, voter suppression, and a Supreme Court packed by the right (not to mention a justice drooling in anticipation at evening the score with the Democrats he blames for his disgraceful behavior) it just might work...
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Would anyone like to hazard a guess on how much taxpayers dollars have been spent on flying around Mr Trump? As an employer. I would be happy to fire an employee (and let's face it, that is exactly what Mr Trump is) who spent so much time not doing his actual JOB
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I’m not sure why so many Americans are swayed by what politicians say and not the news media. The closest thing you are going to get to the truth is a reputable news organization. Most of them are non-partisan by profession. It may look as though they side against Trump, but generally they just report on the facts. Facts that do no seem to hold up under close scrutiny when it comes to Trump.
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Every so often I have the feeling readers need to consider
this over 110 year-old observation of the then President,
that fits our current President perfectly... every word describes
Donald Trump.
"But if your government is imaged in one man there will be grave danger. It will reflect all the extreme qualities of the man.
You are liable some day to have a President
supremely lacking in the qualities of a statesman,
and one who is egotistic, impulsive,
of immature judgment, a mere glutton of the limelight,
ready to barter away prosperity and even his
country's freedom for momentary popular applause.
If he is an autocrat, such as he is, such for the time,
will your country be.
Instead of a mighty nation, great in her physical strength
and greater in her moral qualities, you may have a
strutting, confiscating, shrieking, meddling America.
God save us from such a day!"
MARK TWAIN, August 22,1907
quoting MA Congressman Samuel Walker McCall,
referring to President Teddy Roosevelt.
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The NY Times states that Trump's campaign is built on fear, anger and division. But maybe some of the fear is justified.
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich published the Population Bomb, which argued that exponential population growth was unsustainable in the long run. In 1972, the book Limits to Growth appeared, which expanded on Ehrlich's thesis and included several mathematical models outlining possible scenarios as the earth runs out of resources, including environmental degradation. The latter book gave an early warning of what later came to be known as global warming.
The Chinese adopted a one-child policy in 1979, but the US did virtually nothing. Population growth started becoming a more serious US problem with illegal immigration changing US demographics. Since 1980 the US population has grown from 226.5 million to 326 million, an increase of about 44%.
A funny thing happened. Liberals not only denied the impact of population growth but declared that those who were concerned were automatically racists. So they gave conservatives what could have been a liberal issue. Instead of recognizing that countries like Honduras need access to family planning, liberals were too busy characterizing their enemies as racists and bigots to notice.
Neither party is realistic about population growth. The Republicans recognize that illegal immigration is a problem that should be stopped, but don't accept family planning. Democrats live in a fantasy world with unlimited resources.
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It's not the Democrats who have restricted sex education, funding for birth control, and access to abortions in the third world...
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@Angry. It's not republicans who think we should take in everybody from Central America (and everywhere else) who is poor, unhappy and have seen their populations quadruple in the last 50 years completely ruining their own countries.
He has no idea he's supposed to be the unfier, this country's moral compass and today he sent this threatening message.
Law Enforcement has been strongly notified to watch closely for any ILLEGAL VOTING which may take place in Tuesday’s Election (or Early Voting). Anyone caught will be subject to the Maximum Criminal Penalties allowed by law
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Donald Trump; a lasting reminder to all of us about what happens when you choose to age disgracefully.
The path of division the GOP has put this country on will result in the dissolution of our union if Republican voters don’t start acting like responsible adults rather than easily-duped children.
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I'm proudly liberal, and am a good, conscientious citizen. But according to President Trump, I'm horrible. I want absolutely no border control or any kind of immigration policies; I support allowing terrorists to enter this country without checks; I don't care about crime; I want taxes raised through the roof; I don't like jobs or care about good wages; I want everything to be socialized and run by the federal government (particularly health care); and I'm completely clueless that media sources like the NY Times aren't actually reporting verified facts, but rather, they're just making up stories as political propaganda.
None of this is true, of course, nor is it true about the Democratic politicians or the media sources I support. But such is the demagogic, divisive, fear-mongering language of our President. He's a salesman, first and foremost, and fear sells.
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I am not even American, I am a humble Brit. But I am both horrified and intrigued that Mr Trump can convince his base that many things that are demonstrably untrue, are facts. I will wait with baited breath for what I hope will be a clear message to Mr Trump from the American people, stating that: we no longer support your divisive message.
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Referring to Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh as "conservatives" is inaccurate. One might almost call it "fake news." My memory goes back a long way. You didn't call Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman "liberals" or "Democrats." They were "radicals" or "protesters" and you said so. Hannity and Limbaugh are right wing radicals. I am for accuracy in news reporting.
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It would not be surprising if his supporters were the ones behind the caravan coming to the US right before the election to stir fear and get people to vote Republican. They are likely to benefit from "the invasion" hysteria. At the very least, Trump has used this very successfully to elicit the irrational fear that Americans are known for everywhere in the world.
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This is a make or break election for America. Our nation fell into a deep dark hole in 2016 and it will be a long climb out. Tuesday's election will be only the start, but we MUST start the climb back to common decency.
Get out and vote and vote blue!!!
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The evil manipulator and his cronies/enablers are counting
upon as large a turnout as can be had from the core base
only-apparently. Any sane, non paranoid, normal, non democratic party voter cannot possibly agree to sign on with this army of vitriol and contempt for all norms of civilized behavior. An election should not be decided based upon
hysteria about dark mythical fantasies.
There are reasonable and humane ways of dealing with
the breakdown of civic society in Honduras that does
not require waves of people to seek shelter solely in this country. The problem is that trump has had no interest
in implementing them.
He needs and wants apparent chaos to drive impenetrably
deep wedges in this country and profit politically from them. This is as obvious as it is contemptible.
Please look at yourselves in the mirror. Ask yourself
how complicit you will want to feel in the aftermath of this
tsunami of vile paranoia that has been unleashed without
moral qualm. You should not take this lightly. It is not a joke.
When passions this intense and empty of an actual underlying reality are let loose, as they are now, there are seriously damaging consequences that inevitably will follow. There will be much more violent hate directed at innocent fellow Americans. People will be wounded, hurt, and some killed.
The instigator of this must be punished for his conscious
decision to campaign this way. This is not worthy of the country, nor of you.
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trump officially filed for reelection on 20th January 2017. He has no concept of government or governing. He lives with a TV set in his head. It's all about the fame.
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It has come to this: Republicans, led by their bad joke of a president, are basing their election hopes on fear, hatred and racial animosity. And they have a chance of winning.
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The NYT has also promoted fear, anger, and division. I guess we are not supposed to notice this because the agenda is liberal, and therefore “good?” I have carefully considered all my votes, and for the first time ever, I’m not voting a straight Democratic ticket, but for candidates from both parties.
Jobs, infrastructure, and immigration are important to me, and I’m voting for the candidates that are closest to my views. I’ve also considered those who are currently in office, since my state is in abysmal financial condition, and the incumbents need to go. I’m not thrilled with any of my choices, but I’ve made the best decision I can.
What I fear, and what makes me angry, is that if the Democrats do regain some power, they will waste it on deranged Trump syndrome and the grievance economy, instead of actually working for the people they represent.
@MyjobisinIndianow
And when have Republicans worked for anyone they represent other than the most wealthy?
EVER?
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Each day Donald Trump more and more resembles my flamboyant 1948 Super Segregationist Congressman, Emory H. Price. In his bid for re-election in the Democratic Primary, Price stood on a platform in a north Florida Courthouse Square, dressed all in white, from hat to shoes, in case we didn't know he was a bigot.
He started by condemning Harry Truman for desegregating the U.S. miltary, a decision which contributed mightily to winning the Cold War. But what really stood out, like Trump's incessant references to Latino rapists, were Price's rants about his self-anointed mission as a Congressman to protect "southern women" (meaning white women). That meant, he said, maintaining segregation and the Southern White Primary which kept blacks from voting. Now we have Trump (not exactly a apostle of women's rights) making similar accusations about Latino men.
Price lost, a premature indicator of the ultimate fate of segregation. I hope ordinary citizens recognize Trump's dark message is meant to resegregate, in red states at a minimum, adding Latinos to his growing list of second class citizens.
Make America Grotesque Again.
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So now the right wing propaganda machine travels in person with Donald Trump.
It was inevitable, I guess. He is throwing every bit of extremist garbage at the midterms in hope of electing Republicans.
Why not take along Limbaugh and Hannity, stars of 2 of the three pillars of the extremist right wing propaganda empire - right wing talk radio, secular and religious, and Fox "News."
I'm surprised he didn't include Alex Jones in his entourage, representing the third - extremist right wing media on the internet.
One thing that Donald Trump has done for American politics - he has given voters a clear choice- vote for the Republican candidates who will walk in lockstep with him in racism, xenophobia, fear, and lies, or vote for Democrats.
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@Teg Laer
Trump's ad nauseam, relentless attack on immigrants is so repugnant, it makes me physically ill.
How did this disgusting excuse for a human being get elected to lead our nation?
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@Teg Laer
Donald Trump is Ronald Reagan without any of the acting, governing and political experience and talent.
Nor the Reagan gift for rhetorical misogynist xenophobic racist prejudiced euphemism. From extolling states rights to excoriating affirmative action to imagining a Cadillac driving welfare queen to condemning a fictional strapping buck in line to buy steak with food stamps and wondering if Dr. King was a communist.
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@Teg Laer
Growing up my parents were registered independents and as such could not vote in the primary usually. We admired moderate Republicans, people who are extinct today. People like Nelson Rockefeller, Edward Brooke, Jacob Javits, John Lindsay and the like. Nowadays, if you are a Republican you better drink the Kool-Aid or you will find yourself with no campaign funds but you will have a primary challenger made possible by your party. I normally would not vote only the party but nowadays, with the Republicans afriad of the bully, they are usually and most-likely beholden to Mr. Trump so a vote for a Republican is often a vote for the The president or his regime.
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It’s enormously generous of us, taxpayers in blue states, to fully fund Trump’s concept of the Presidency as non-stop campaigning for himself and his brown-nosers. He is such an ingrate about this.
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Evil lives in the United States.
Vote like there is no tomorrow!
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@Majortrout
Reading these comments is so encouraging!
The blue wave energy is very palpable.
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@Majortrout
And perhaps there won't be.....
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A Republican canvasser came to my house yesterday. He was an elderly gentleman, I'd guess about 75. I said hello to him, but he didn't reciprocate. Instead, he launched into a stream of matters that I should be concerned with - "the immigrants are coming to get us", "the world is taking advantage of us", "we're a laughing stock", "the mainstream media is lying"...
I was appalled by his comments, but I also felt very sorry for him. He seemed to sincerely believed everything that was coming out of his mouth, and he was frightened.
When reached the end of his speech, I looked him in the eye and said, "This is the United States. We may have problems, but we're the most powerful nation in the world. Don't be afraid."
He stared at me, speechless and confused. I repeated, "Don't be afraid."
To the President, and all of his enablers, you should be ashamed for what you've done to this man.
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@J Wilkinson It was done to him long before Donald Trump.
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@J Wilkinson
You do know that Trump at 72 years old is the most elderly President we have had since Reagan who reigned from 70-78 years old. And that Trump is no gentleman. While Kim Jong Un has accused Trump of being a dotard.
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@J Wilkinson
And the scores of millions who support his enablers, the GOP, and him.
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trump and his chief advisors, Hannity and Limbaugh, are making a day of it. The pinnochio meter will get a workout, trump will preen, and the country's divide will widen. trump's dog whistle rants are not making America great again; they are fraying America's democratic fabric. That's ok with him, apparently, as long as his mobs ignore the truth and cheer the show.
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@say what are the taxpayers paying for Hannity & Limbaugh's expenses to the rallies?
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@say what They only care about money. They have no true dogma, no moral beacon, no higher authority to answer to... Money is it.
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@say what
The Gruesome Threesome....
"Making America Scared Again"
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Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have no business on the campaign trail.
These angry right-wing purveyors of hate and propaganda are part of the problem we now find ourselves in. They're profiting from their divisive, incendiary rhetoric at the expense of our democracy.
And so is Trump.
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@L
These two high school graduate entertainers aka Hannity and Limbaugh are both working for Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin. Just like Donald Trump.
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@L I agree. I blame Rush for the beginning of this main stream hatred that helped form DT's agenda. I don't remember hatred being part of the American media until he showed up. And Hannity is just a copycat.
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@L
In the late 80's I was working in Woodland, CA when I heard Limbaugh say that liberals should be killed because they don't deserve to breathe the same air as our fine military men and women.
I had no idea the Fairness Doctrine had been repealed and still thought it was illegal to incite violence against others on the air waves.
Still smarting from Nixon's assault on democracy, Limbaugh began to show us the direction the right-wing Republicans would move for the next 40 years.
This imposter of an American president currently in the WH is the Frankenstein created by Limbaugh and his kind, long in the making.
American Democracy, as we know it, may not survive another generation.
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With 5000+ (verifiable and counting) LIES, that this President (and virtually all of the republican candidates), why does this paper (and the press in general) refuse to even use the word ?
(much like they did before, during and after the 2016 campaign - which contributed greatly to this republican administration/Presidency in the first place)
Why ?
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@FunkyIrishman
What you talkin about, mate? The NYT literally accused Donald Trump of committing tax fraud in an incredibly in-depth and scathing expose.
Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/opinion/republican-party-lies.html
They've also published op-eds that have accused Trump of lying. Here's one, just from last week:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/opinion/republican-party-lies.html
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@FunkyIrishman
Falsehoods, falsities, facts without evidence and so on, but 'LIES' is verboten.
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@FunkyIrishman I always look forward to seeing your name here. From what I've read, the press struggled over this very question and probably still does. I think it's because the word as both noun or verb has real power until it's overused. Between marketing, political ads and social media, the most powerful words in our language have been completely overused, wrung of every last drop of potency. The sheer number of lies he and his cabal tell alone would render the word meaningless by using it.
As a rose by any other name smells just as sweet, a lie sugarcoated in euphemisms is still a lie. We know they're lies, and the press knows we know. Anyone with an even minuscule amount of upbringing knows what a lie is. All that's necessary is to print the facts next to his lies.
Those who don't believe he's lying, and in fact believe the press are the liars, will never be convinced otherwise regardless of what words the press uses.
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Four-score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation.
Conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all Men are created Equal.
Are we the United States of America or are we not?
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The fate of much more than the USA depends on the results of tomorrow's vote.
The rest of the world is watching.
Please, take the long view; consider the big picture; and vote with care........care for yourselves, for humanity, and for the planet.
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Absolutely, great comment @Kelly
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@Kelly
Make sure every single family member and like minded friend votes!
Let's make this an election that is clearly heard around the world.
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@Kelly I participated in early voting and voted 100% Democratic
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The desperate president is digging in on his neo-Nazi last-minute attempts to conjure up a right wing turnout. Most “normal” presidents would urge voters to examine the last two years of his achievements in an effort to get out the vote but there’s not a whole lot of successes to which he can point and boast that have made the country a better place than it was when he assumed office. It’s a mess; an “American carnage.”
When all you’ve got in your arsenal is hate and fear and loathing, you don’t have a lot to fall back on. The extreme negativity of his term thus far is an exposition in the very worst, the meanest, that America has to offer: not much.
It is to be greatly feared that Donald Trump has so made over the national character into a mummy’s mask of fear and fright that several generations of presidential turnover will be required to return the country to some standard or resemblance of respectability, a horizon so far beyond us now that it is astonishing how his tenure in office has ruined us.
His 40% of the country, however, sees it quite differently. They were always out there, lurking just beneath the surface, refusing to acknowledge their anti-democratic leanings until a pied paper came along to pipe the tunes they have always cherished but that gentility—or good manners—kept concealed and brought out their worst instincts. No one, save perhaps Ronald Reagan, was willing to be so upfront about his racial and religious animosity.
We’re at the edge of the abyss.
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@Red Sox, '04, '07, '13, ‘18
Not 40% of the country support trump....more like 30%..Do not forget he lost by 3 MILLION votes and half of the US does not even vote....That is changing tomorrow. People are fed up with the hatred, fear and bad, corrupt policies of this circus of trump.
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@Red Sox ...
It's abysmal.
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While I agree with your comments Trump only garnered 26% of eligible voters or 19% of the total adult population (61 million votes). Much smaller tan 40% of the country, thankfully.
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It's too bad we can't have an intelligent and productive discussion about immigration. There are many reasons we need to enforce laws controlling immigration, and there are many policy objectives at stake, and no doubt there are difficult decisions that need to be made. But since Donald Trump dragged the issue into the gutter, we can't have that discussion and come up with solutions that meet our objectives.
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@Eli I agree with you completely. I'd also remind you and others that George Bush and John McCain developed a comprehensive, workable immigration program. It had bi-partisan support. The Republicans in the Senate torpedoed it. It sank off the coast of America.
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@Eli
Donald Trump found the issue of immigration in the Barack Obama aka Deporter-in- Chief sewage gutter. Obama lied to Hispanics then talked down to them about his plan and support for comprehensive immigration reform.
Obama lied to black folks and talked down to them about his plans and support for comprehensive socioeconomic educational criminal justice reform that would benefit black folks due to their needs. Instead of their color aka race
Obama and Trump are both politicians.
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@Eli
I think the vast majority of Americans, Dems and Repubs want our borders secured and common sense, humane immigration laws implemented without caging children.
Start with the common beliefs and implement these piece parts quickly.
These old white guy dinosaurs just want to use immigration as a political football and scare tactic wedge.
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"Fear, anger, and division?" LOL, we have not seen anything yet. Just wait until Wednesday when Trump and his people really start gearing up for 2020. We will experience more fear, anger, and division in America that at any time other than the period 1861-1865.
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@Jason Shapiro
Unfortunately, I think this is true...
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@Jason Shapiro
Yikes...and Mueller releases more indictments!
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It’s all he can do, he’s got nothing else to say. So pathetic
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That is what you say. The Democrats are living the fear political card. You are not being truthful. Democrats are scary to be sure, with no security at the borders, setting up separate legal entities in the urban cities, for sanctuary, the Democrats have nothing, no ideas.
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You call those ideas? Good grief, they’re not even sentences.
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@not the now
Your weak attempt to 'change the subject' is sad.
President Obama lowered Immigration; but you (pathetically) won't admit that. Fear is all trump (your "boy") has.
#SAD
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They're climbing in your window, snatching your people up . . .
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The only fear, anger, division and hatred in the midterm races is coming from the left-wing media and Democrats who have been unable to accept a new destiny for the United States.
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@Rolf
And what exactly is the Republicans’ “new destiny for the United States” which you advocate?
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@Rolf There is no "left wing media". There is a right wing media represented by Fox, Limbaugh, Hannity, and Savage. They are the true enemies of the people. Whatever new destiny you"re talking about is the usual fear mongering, tax cuts for the wealthy, and demonizing the right wing does.
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@Rolf
It is a destiny of self-destruction and isolation from the world. This is not the direction or destiny we should strive for where we lock ourselves away from the world and bleach away the wonderful mix of cultures that made America until all that is left is a bland land mass that was once the leader of the free world.
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Aren't you proud, Republicans? Hate, fear, division.
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@Elaine M And lies. They, especially Trump lie like no tomorrow.
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@Elaine M
You Dems are all about love, compassion, tolerance, and all such hallucinations.
Happy now? Only an intellectually dishonest party apparatchiks view the world through such Manichean caricature of a perspective
@Norman G. Ehrlich
Sometimes the choice actually is Manichaean. Historically, wannabe authoritarian nationalists with no apparent conscience or empathy are some of the most dangerous people in earth.
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A leader is not only responsible for his words, but also for the understanding of his followers. Remember this when you vote tomorrow.
Do not let this divide, hatred, fear and anger distract or cease your steps towards taking control back from group of people who do not represent the majority.
We can be civil, and discuss about our disagreement on opinions. And first step towards restoring civility is: Vote.
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There is always a grain of truth in Trump's remarks, and often more than a grain. Given the situation with illegal aliens in the US , a wall, or something equivalent to a wall, does make sense. Birthright citizenship is a ridiculous concept, especially for an affluent country with inadequate border controls bordering on a poor country, below which is a poor continent, it is nothing m,ore than an additional incentive for illegal entry. And thousands of people, marching towards the US border, intending to enter illegally or make refugee claims, that simply cannot be allowed to happen. If this group is allowed to be successful, how many more will come?
There is plenty fear, anger and division in the US, and there is plenty of exaggeration in US politics, on all issues. Sometimes it may be necessary to exaggerate to produce action that needs to be taken.
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@GBC1 You realize, of course, that far more illegals are in this country as a result of overstaying visas, hiding in vehicles, or tunneling in...e.t.c. The Wall will be a terrific boondoggle.
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@GBC1 Let's assume you're correct about birthright citizenship. The provision, however, is in the Constitution. So is a clear means of amending the Constitution. Trump must not be permitted to use an executive order to alter the Constitution. It must go through both houses of Congress and the state legislatures. Let the people speak.
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@GBC1
Yea....let's build a wall.
It worked out SO WELL for East Germany.
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When you hear these trump supporters interviewed on the radio and they say things like, "he's doing a great job" and "yes, the caravan is something the democrats devised", you have to wonder what universe they live in. I remember the article in the Times a way back about the guy who stopped listening to the news. How I envy him now. What an upside down country we've become.
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@Edmund
I have stopped listening to NPR in the morning. Too many broken windows and coffee mugs.
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@arusso
A shabby remnant of what we once were.
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The incitement of anger and fear, the rampant xenophobia, the politics of resentment, the incessant need for scapegoats, the relentless attacks on the media, and a hatred for the life of the mind inevitably combine to overflow into episodes of ghastly violence -- these are the hallmarks of fascism.
This is what the WH occupier promulgates, it's what the gop enables, supports and defends, and it's what all too many on the right are eager to make real. Our country is on the precipice. Absent a big blue wave that removes large numbers of republicans from public service, tyranny is at our doorstep.
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@Jamila Kisses
The hate predated Trump. And the hate will post date Trump.
The white majority is aging and shrinking with a below replacement level birthrate. While white life expectancy is decreasing due to alcoholism, drug addiction , depression and suicide. From 2008-2016 the white voting majority went 55% McCain, 59% Romney and 58% Trump.
See " Dog-Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class" Ian Haney Lopez
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He offers dread and circuses.
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@PK The question is pretty simple,,who and which party best addresses your needs and beliefs.all promises aside,as they are only words when what is needed are deeds. I see a lot of talk ,but not much else.The gop is always backing off on what they promise and toadying up to the one percent.The reason that we now have a tax shortfall is the huge tax break that was given to the one percent that now you have to pay for.This is the main reason that we have contention with China and it is an excuse to cover up bad financial management. You can't give the farm away and then charge people rent for it. You also can't export every job possible and every business that wants more profit by hiring foreign workers at the expense on american labor and then expect displaced american workers to have any disposable income.You can't get blood out of a turnip.
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@PK The question is pretty simple,,who and which party best addresses your needs and beliefs.all promises aside,as they are only words when what is needed are deeds. I see a lot of talk ,but not much else.The gop is always backing off on what they promise and toadying up to the one percent.The reason that we now have a tax shortfall is the huge tax break that was given to the one percent that now you have to pay for.This is the main reason that we have contention with China and it is an excuse to cover up bad financial management. You can't give the farm away and then charge people rent for it
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@PK Good one!
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