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In reply to the discussion: Trump Is Starting to Panic - By Frank Rich [View all]Jarqui
(10,185 posts)15. I think Trump has had it. The only questions are when and how.
He took a good shot at Schumer I wasn't aware of ...
As for Schumer, his water-carrying for Facebook, as documented by the Times, is mortifying: He even tried to shut down a fellow Democratic senator, Mark Warner, who dared question the company. (It will surprise no one that Facebooks employees contribute more to Schumer, the Democrats Senate leader, than any other member of Congress.) Its a cruel irony, I guess, that prominent Clinton supporters like Sandberg and Schumer in the end contributed to Trumps victory by allowing Russian interference to play out unchecked at Facebook for much of 2016. But it is not a fresh irony. As I wrote in my New York piece on Trump and Roy Cohn this spring, From the mid-1970s to the turn of the century, well before Trump debuted on The Apprentice or flirted more than glancingly with politics, he gained power and consolidated it with the help of allies among the elites of New Yorks often nominally Democratic and liberal Establishment some of them literally the same allies who boosted Cohn. Those powerful Democrats priority, I posited, was raw personal power that could be leveraged for their own enrichment, privilege, and celebrity. And so the story of Sandberg, Schumer, Facebook, and Trumps 2016 victory, as told by the Times, is yet another chapter in that same sordid narrative.
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The thing about Hitler was, he never listened to his generals unless they agreed with him
FakeNoose
Nov 2018
#8
Hitler also ruled by chaos, pitting administration heads against each other, internal discord
mastermind
Nov 2018
#17
Trump does not even know enough to know the firemen were raking leaves to create a firebreak.
True Blue American
Nov 2018
#12
I just kind of herd what he said and he was criticizing the fire fighters and I just knew ....
Botany
Nov 2018
#35
Frank Rich is a two faced hack. He helped Bush win with his lies. Screw him and his horse.
olegramps
Nov 2018
#51
Thanks for posting this- Schumer's role in amplifying Facebook's Russian influence should be known.
NBachers
Nov 2018
#30
He has been in panic mode since he was sworn in as I suspect he thought when this all started
cstanleytech
Nov 2018
#25
Oh, Sweet Baby Jesus I LOVE THIS ARTICLE ... 1,000,000,000,000 RECS ... Rich is just AMAZING (nt)
mr_lebowski
Nov 2018
#27