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Get Angry, and Get Involved
New York Times ^ | By David Leonhardt

Posted on 10/08/2018 9:16:38 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Get Angry, and Get Involved

The midterm elections are the smart way to make your influence felt.

By David Leonhardt

Opinion Columnist

Oct. 7, 2018

If you’re not angry yet, you should be.

Let’s review: Decades ago, a businessman built a fortune thanks in large measure to financial fraud. His corrupt gains helped him become famous. He then launched a political career by repeatedly telling a racist lie, about the first black president secretly being an African.

This lie created an audience in right-wing media that made possible a presidential campaign. During that campaign, the candidate eagerly accepted — indeed, publicly sought — the illegal assistance of a foreign enemy. When national security officials raised alarm with Congress, before Election Day, leaders of the candidate’s party refused to act.

The foreign assistance appears to have been crucial to the candidate’s narrow victory. He won with only 46.1 percent of the popular vote, less than 16 losing candidates over the years had, including Mitt Romney, John Kerry, Williams Jennings Bryan and the little-remembered Horatio Seymour.

Having won, the new president filled a Supreme Court seat that his party had stolen with an unprecedented power grab. This weekend, the president finished filling a second seat, through a brutal, partisan process. During it, the president, himself an admitted sexual molester, mocked victims of abuse.

Together, the two new justices have cemented an extremist Republican majority on the Supreme Court. It has already begun acting as a kind of super-legislature, throwing out laws on voting rights, worker rights, consumer rights and political influence buying. Now, the court is poised to do much more to benefit the wealthy and powerful at the expense of most Americans — and the planet.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fakenews; newyorkslimes; nyslimes; sedition
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Go step on a rack.............
1 posted on 10/08/2018 9:16:38 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

The clock in his head going koo koo...


2 posted on 10/08/2018 9:18:12 AM PDT by Professional
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To: Sub-Driver

The Commie coup coup call continues


3 posted on 10/08/2018 9:18:17 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Sub-Driver

I intend to, Slimes.
And so do millions of conservative voters.


4 posted on 10/08/2018 9:18:54 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Sub-Driver

“Get angry, get involved”

Get therapy


5 posted on 10/08/2018 9:19:24 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: Sub-Driver

First lie, financial fraud. What financial fraud is he talking about?


6 posted on 10/08/2018 9:19:47 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (If your church believes in evolution it is not a Christian church.)
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To: Sub-Driver

built a fortune thanks in large measure to financial fraud. His corrupt gains helped him become famous”

So says a cat who voted for “Clinton”

Three times


7 posted on 10/08/2018 9:20:25 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: Sub-Driver

The Commie coup coup call continues


8 posted on 10/08/2018 9:20:40 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Sub-Driver

If they have to be told to get angry, they’re just going to get back to inhaling their doobies. “Yeah, man, whatever.”


9 posted on 10/08/2018 9:21:30 AM PDT by Migraine (<)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

His books, casinos/hotels/resorts, and tv show as well as movie appearances made him famous.


10 posted on 10/08/2018 9:21:41 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: DungeonMaster

One he either made up or someone at the Slimes who made it up

Another display of INSANITY

See my Tagline


11 posted on 10/08/2018 9:24:43 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Mods/Independents/Dems/Non-voters" Are CRAZY DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: Sub-Driver
(((David Leonhardt )))
One of the self-hating bed fouling usual Bolshevik suspects.
12 posted on 10/08/2018 9:25:29 AM PDT by IWontSubmit (2)
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To: Sub-Driver

Right Wing media?
We have talk radio and that is it.
Faux has gone full PMSNBC to keep the Globalists happy.


13 posted on 10/08/2018 9:25:31 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Sub-Driver

So many lies... so little time...


14 posted on 10/08/2018 9:26:25 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Sub-Driver

I think it would be very wise if President Trump did use his office to find out exactly who Obama is, and where he was actually born. After all, until he ran for president he claimed he was born in Kenya; however, Jerome Corsi who did a great deal of research into Obama’s life, believes he was actually born in Canada. After this election, if it yields strong majorities in both houses, I don’t see any reason why this should not be done. The govt will be strong, there will not be any constitutional crisis.


15 posted on 10/08/2018 9:26:37 AM PDT by erkelly
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Get therapy

Sometimes the best professional help, the best pharmaceuticals, the best theological intervention can't help. After all reasonable things have been tried, it's going to be necessary to lock some of them up, and even put some of them down.

16 posted on 10/08/2018 9:26:47 AM PDT by politicianslie (OPTIMIST-Glass 1/2 full- PESSIMIST 1/2 empty TO ENGINEER, Glass is twice as big as it needs to be!)
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The Leftist all ready angry and involved. An their hysteric partisan political bigotry and complete contempt for the rule of law is going to be punished by voters.

I suggest instead of getting “angry” the Left try being sane.

17 posted on 10/08/2018 9:27:19 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (2016: For the first time since 1984, I voted for a Rep President all other votes were anti Dem)
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...the new president filled a Supreme Court seat that his party had stolen...

Uh-huh. Sure.....

18 posted on 10/08/2018 9:27:37 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Sub-Driver
David Leonhardt is one really throwing one heck of a.....

typical radical Liberal who doesn't get their way.

19 posted on 10/08/2018 9:29:48 AM PDT by yoe (A vote for the Left is a vote against YOUR Constitution.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Not possible

There’s actual brain damage . . to be that angry, when one is that WRONG

They need to leave or off themselves.


20 posted on 10/08/2018 9:29:48 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Mods/Independents/Dems/Non-voters" Are CRAZY DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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