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I hear you. I get it. It’s always been the Democrats strategy to be fair, while the GOP are the party of No. Fuck these assholes.

I think it’s childish and pompous drivel you’d find on Facebook.

Do something instead of yapping about it. Then I’ll respect you.

Any lesser reaction would seem inappropriate.

Somebody has drank way too much Kool-aid and needs a long nap to sleep it off.

I guess that is one way to look at it.

Here is another point of view. Author is Kevin Dowd (Maureen Dowd’s brother)

The election was a complete repudiation of Barack Obama: his fantasy world of political correctness, the politicization of the Justice Department and the I.R.S., an out-of-control E.P.A., his neutering of the military, his nonsupport of the police and his fixation on things like transgender bathrooms.
Since he became president, his party has lost 63 House seats, 10 Senate seats and 14 governorships.
The country had signaled strongly in the last two midterms that they were not happy. The Dems’ answer was to give them more of the same from a person they did not like or trust. Preaching and pandering with a message of inclusion, the Democrats have instead become a party where incivility and bad manners are taken for granted, rudeness is routine, religion is mocked and there is absolutely no respect for a differing opinion.
This did not go down well in the Midwest, where Trump flipped three blue states and 44 electoral votes. The rudeness reached its peak when Vice President-elect Mike Pence was booed by attendees of “Hamilton” and then pompously lectured by the cast. This may play well with the New York theater crowd but is considered boorish and unacceptable by those of us taught to respect the office of the president and vice president, if not the occupants.
Here is a short primer for the young protesters. If your preferred candidate loses, there is no need for mass hysteria, canceled midterms, safe spaces, crying rooms or group primal screams.
You might understand this better if you had not received participation trophies, undeserved grades to protect your feelings or even if you had a proper understanding of civics. The Democrats are now crying that Hillary had more popular votes. That can be her participation trophy.
If any of my sons had told me they were too distraught over a national election to take an exam, I would have brought them home the next day, fearful of the instruction they were receiving. Not one of the top 50 colleges mandate one semester of Western Civilization. Maybe they should rethink that.
Mr. Trump received over 62 million votes, not all of them cast by homophobes, Islamaphobes, racists, sexists, misogynists or any other “ists.” I would caution Trump deniers that all of the crying and whining is not good preparation for the coming storm. The liberal media, both print and electronic, has lost all credibility. I am reasonably sure that none of the mainstream print media had stories prepared for a Trump victory. I watched the networks and cable stations in their midnight meltdown — embodied by Rachel Maddow explaining to viewers that they were not having a “terrible, terrible dream” and that they had not died and “gone to hell.”
The media’s criticism of Trump’s high-level picks as “not diverse enough” or “too white and male” — a day before he named two women and offered a cabinet position to an African-American — magnified this fact.
Here is a final word to my Democratic friends. The election is over. There will not be a do-over. So let me bid farewell to Al Sharpton, Ben Rhodes and the Clintons. Note to Cher, Barbra, Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham: Your plane is waiting. And to Jon Stewart, who talked about moving to another planet: Your spaceship is waiting. To Bruce Springsteen, Jay Z, Beyoncé and Katy Perry, thanks for the free concerts. And finally, to all the foreign countries that contributed to the Clinton Foundation, there will not be a payoff or a rebate. As Eddie Murphy so eloquently stated in the movie “48 Hrs.”- “There’s a new sheriff in town.” And he is going to be here for 1,461 days. Merry Christmas.

@josie when the first sentence is a complete fabrication it is hard to take the rest of it at face value.

A “complete” repudiation? Seriously? Only 58% of Americans cared enough to bother voting and of this 58% Trump received approximately 47% of the vote from those who did vote. So what is that, about 27%? Hardly “complete” by any means.

@rojo

Tell that to the author please.

Dowds message is one of open contempt for anyone and anything that disagrees with his world view. What I have come to expect from the right. Unfortunately.

I think the point is, the piece you shared is a similar expression of contempt. Everybody has their little ax to grind. Or so it seems.

@filmfann ‘s got it in one.

Nowhere is this contempt more evident than on the author of that ditty in the OP FaceBook page

Every year Maureen Dowd turns over her column at the NYT to her brother Kevin and he saw Trumps train acomin’ 13 months ago when he reviewed all the primary candidates….

“While liberals and the mainstream media may regard the myriad Republican presidential candidates as a “house of crazies,” I see an embarrassment of riches. It is the ultimate irony that the Republican field blows the Democrats away on one of their favorite topics — diversity.”

Here’s how I see the Republican contest and the Democratic coronation:

“Donald Trump: With all his bombast and incivility, Trump has joyfully debunked political correctness for the complete fraud that it is. With his talent for making debate ratings soar, he has allowed all the other candidates to be seen and heard at celestial levels unreachable without him. He has touched a nerve because people are fed up with liberal groups being offended at every slight, real or imagined. (I can assure you none of these people were taught by Jesuits.) Three Ivy League schools are currently under siege, with students at Princeton demanding the removal of Woodrow Wilson’s name from a building. Washington and Jefferson are up next as former slave owners, leaving Al Sharpton as the default “father of our country.” We are tired of apologies for America’s exceptionalism.”

Kevin is also spot on with his reviews of all the candidates particularly Mrs.Clinton…

“Contrast our informed candidates with the Democratic lineup of Queen Cersei, the socialist Doc Brown from “Back to the Future” and the lead singer of O’Malley’s March. I keep waiting for Martin O’Malley during debates to whip out his guitar for a few Irish songs. It would be more entertaining.”

“Clinton: She’s seeking the highest office in the land even though 60 percent of the country does not trust her and her emails are currently under F.B.I. review for potential national security breaches.”

You can read the column here along with his review of Sanders and the other candidates

You don’t have to participate. You can whine for the next 4–8 years. At least it’s something you’re good at. All those wonderful things you think Obama did were soundly rejected. There’s a bright new sunrise coming. You can take advantage of it and move forward or lock yourself in the closet, your choice. Pining for your glory days won’t bring them back.

At least that my reaction.

@Jaxk ‘s Bright New Sunrise

So you won’t care if those who feel that way do exactly what the Republicans did for the last eight years? Good.

@rojo – Actually no, I don’t care if youse want to participate or not. Most of what I want can be done regardless. But while your huffing and puffing, remember what pushing those far left policies got you so far. First you lost the house, then you lost the senate, now you’ve lost the Whitehouse. It certainly looks like you’ve done a spectacular job.

Well I am willing to concede that fans of the obnoxious frog are entitled to their moment of gloating at the success of their champion. I commend froggy on his accurate perception that people will accept the most improbable nonsense. For those confused at the success of a frog appearing and behaving froglike yet achieving the Presidency, to those people I say take heart, as once more in America, Barnum is triumphally vindicated. This still is a great country for those of ambition. Where else can a frog visibly behaving froggishly convince so many millions through the sole expedient of puffing itself up and croaking loudly of invisible princely attributes? As one of the amazed yet disappointed, I look forward to being proven as wrong about prince froggy as I was about the scale of cognitive impairment afflicting our voting population.

I don’t fault you @stanleybmanly for calling trump a frog and disparaging his voters (and me) as lower forms of life…I called all the people who voted for Obama as brain dead lemmings who drank too much of the Obama Kool-aid. But characterizing Trump as a “frog” then is not saying much of the blond one your party anointed 18 months ago. Total humiliation is what Hillary experienced by being defeated by Mr Frog. Even unwashed dimwitted Rustbelt Republicans were just smart enough to see through the smoke screen that the Clinton News Network and entire mainstream media tried to hide Hillary’s untrustworthiness with and the pompous overconfidence of Hillary and the DNC. Even a Silkwood Shower is not good enough to scrub away all the egg on the face of the media and the DNC. You are right about the one thing though…it sure as hell did not take a genius to see all of Hillary’s character flaws.

Three thousand American neighborhoods have recently been found to have unacceptably high levels of lead in their drinking water supply (as high or higher than what was found in Flint, MI), and still some jackass has the nerve to say the EPA is “out of control?”

Tell me again who’s been drinking too much Kool-aid.

@AnonymousAccount8 Why have the EPA and regulations if you don’t enforce them? Exactly why we had the Exxon oil spill in the Gulf. These regulations are only on paper so voters like you are fooled into thinking all is well. As you just pointed out all is not well. Enforcing regulations takes money and if you haven’t noticed this country is stone cold broke.

@Cruiser good point; we should just do away with regulations entirely since no one’s following them. Fuck it, we should do away with all the other laws, too, since obviously, criminals don’t care about laws.

Also, don’t think I didn’t notice that subtle insult. Keep it classy, buddy.

The toxic effects of lead in children include irreversible brain damage and long-term cognitive and behavioral problems. It is going to be way more expensive to pay 1,000,000 lead-poisoned children’s medical bills than it would have been to replace the pipes that supplied their water, especially if the lifetime costs of lead poisoning are considered.

New Yorkers are being forced to fork over over a million dollars a day so Trump can keep living in Trump Tower, but when it comes to enforcing regulations that ensure the safety of our drinking water, well, we’re too broke.

AND they’re going to have to replace those pipes anyway! (Sorry for the multiple posts; I’ll butt out now.)

@AnonymousAccount8 No insult intended…just laying it out on the line as it is and can’t help you wrap your head around the reality of our over regulated under enforced country that has had it’s head up it’s ass for the last 8 years and no…it is not all Obama and the Dems fault. The Citizen United Asshat corporations that have had unfettered access to our countries government is what has been wrong all this time. Trump is our President because he recognized this 3rd rail dynamic….jumped on his soap box and rallied disenfranchised real Americans to his platform. As Time Magazine recognized Trump as Person of the year said it….“for better or worse”

I guess I don’t understand how it’s regulations and not the lack of adherence to them that is the real problem.

We have regulations because some bastard decided his bottom line was more important than we are,....

Sounds like your all complaining that our systems and processes have failed and, at the same time calling anyone that might want to change, stupid. It’s a world gone mad.

It is indeed a world gone mad. And we have elected the proof.

@josie I disagree. It does not show contempt at all. It expresses anger at how those on the opposite end of the spectrum are supposed to act more passive than those whose star has risen. It points out that which the right has done and says we are going to do the same. Where is the contempt?

I’m checking in on lunch break real fast, so forgive me if this has been repeated.

I did some fact checking on the copy and past @josie presented, that was attributed ”Maureen Dowd, but actually written by her brother.”
See Snopes

To answer the OP’s post, I agree with the first half, I disagree with the author’s intent to handle it.
They’re going to continue to sink, to go lower and lower. I will try to stay high.