Holy fucking shit!!! Maureen Dowd at the NYT has gone insane!!! [View all]

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Last edited Sun Nov 29, 2020, 04:07 PM - Edit history (1)

EDIT: I misread the disclaimer. This wasn't written by Maureen Dowd but by her rightwing wingnut brother.

Still, I think the op-ed serves as a nice view into the selective perception of right-wingers, angrily ignoring everything that doesn't fit into their world-view.





https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/opinion/thanksgiving-dowd-2020.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Historians, 20 or 30 years hence, will be the impartial arbiters of his accomplishments, but for the nearly 74 million people who voted for him, he already has fulfilled their hopes and justified their trust.

What happened to draining the swamp? What happened to making the US respected again? What happened to building a wall and making Mexico pay for it? What happened to replacing Obamacare? What happened to reducing the national debt to zero? What happened to the record-braking multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure renovation?

Making a bunch of idiots think that you did something, DOES NOT COUNT AS ACTUALLY DOING IT!

The Democrats call now for unity, but four years ago, they screamed for resistance and upheaval. They encouraged confrontation of Trump officials at their homes and restaurants. They opposed the administration every step of the way. Their hypocrisy is laughable.

Those hypocritical Democrats! Refusing to oppose the best President ever!

Trump gave us a strong economy, achieved the lowest unemployment in 50 years, fortified the border and guaranteed the integrity of the judicial system by appointing over 200 judges, including three Supreme Court justices.

In historical comparison, Trump's economy is actually mediocre. His economic growth percentage-wise (excluding the COVID-recession) is no higher than the economic growth of the George W. Bush-era (excluding the 2008/2009 recession) or of the Clinton-era. Plus, if Obama's track-record has to include the 2009 recession, then Trump's track-record has to include the 2020 recession.

And Trump "guaranteed the integrity of the judicial system" after McConnell prevented Obama from doing so and then stacked the courts with unqualified partisan hacks. What an achievement!

He was labeled a racist but funded historically black colleges and created opportunity zones with Senator Tim Scott. He was able to sign meaningful prison reform legislation.

He labeled Africa as shithole-countries, he labeled mexican illegal immigrants as murderers and rapists, he separated toddlers from their parents and put them into cages, his administration has lost hundreds of underage latino-children and has made no effort to find them, his administration has illegally denied asylum-seekers the right to apply for asylum on US soil, he signed a supposedly anti-terrorist travel-ban for muslim ountries but somehow excluded muslim countries wheremost of the islamic terrorists come from, he called black people protesting police-brutality "sons of bitches", he has protected and supported actual streetfighting Neonazis at every opportunity, he tried to get the votes of majority-black precincts thrown out in the 2020 election. And he built that fucking expensive and fucking useless wall THAT YOU JUST COMMENDED HIM FOR and that won't actually make a dent in illegal immigration because most illegal immigrants come to the US legally and simply overstay their visas.

He had foreign policy successes as well, renegotiating NAFTA and abandoning the disastrous Iranian nuclear deal (which took a $400 million cash bribe to close). He aggressively confronted China for its egregious behavior, brokered Middle East peace deals and was the greatest friend in the White House that Israel ever had.[

He exited NAFTA just so he can negiotiate basically the same deal again but this time with his name on it. He BROKE the nuclear deal with Iran, setting the precedent that the US cannot be trusted to go through on its own deals. He has started a tarif-war with China that increased consumer-prices in the US and is driving small farms ever-faster to extinction. He has shamelessly taken Israels side and has destroyed for good any chance for the US to be a non-partisan broker in the Israel-Palestinian conflict ever again.

Donald Trump was not without his flaws, but he stood like a brick wall against an unfair and openly hostile press and, alarmingly, a deep state aligned against him.

Oh, the unfair and openly hostile press that dared to report on what Trump is saying and doing.
Oh, the deep state that somehow decided to not make it public that Trump is under investigation for russian collusion.
Oh, the deep state that somehow dared to put loyalty to the US over loyalty to him.

Trump made the Republican Party tougher, teaching it to counterpunch harder than its opponent.

Shameless lying is not counterpunching.

Mark down the levels of the Dow Jones and your 401(k)s. If Biden reimposes President Barack Obama’s regulations, the economy will shortly be back to where it was under Obama.

Sooooooooooooo, according to Maureen Dowd the COVD-recession DOESN'T count towards Trump's economic track-record.

The Democrats remain mystified by the loyalty of Trump’s base. It is rock solid because half the country was tired of being patronized and lied to and worse, taken for granted. Trump was unique because he was only interested in results.

No, it was rock-solid because Trump gave them what they wanted: A white strongman who gave them permission to shamelessly give in to their darkest desires.

And the notion that somehow white rural conservatives people are taken for granted is UTTER nonsense considering that the majority of lawmakers are white, christian males AND that rural states have outsized political power in the US Senate.

The Republican success down-ballot and in state legislatures shows the folly of this condescension and sends a clear message that a majority of Americans are not ready for the socialist agenda favored by the radical left.

Yay! Even more evidence that Americans don't know shit about what socialism actually is! They even think that socialism and social-democracy are the same thing!!!
(At this point I am seriously expecting Maureen Dowd to say that the Nazis were left-wingers because they were the National-Socialist Party.)

Trump was adored by his followers, who will remember him kindly.

Yeah, the rest of the civilized world hated him, but republican voters loved him, which can only mean that he was a good person, because the opinions of non-Republicans don't count.

A final word to the media: The open bar at the wedding is closed. Your ratings and circulation are about to tank. You may think you ran down the stag, but you will quickly realize that Joe Biden on a daily basis, speaking through his mask, will not generate the same ratings.

Good grief. Maureen Dowd thinks that having a boring and effective government that doesn't generate apocalyptic headlines is somehow a bad thing.

A word of caution to Fox News: Your not-so-subtle shift leftward is a mistake.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand here we have it:

Maureen Dowd thinks that reporting facts instead of bothsiderism is political bias.

And finally, a special congratulations to Senator Susan Collins, who cruised to re-election despite gloomy forecasts and a ton of dark money spent against her. The people of Maine place high value on integrity.

Nope. Not gonna comment on that.