"Spare Me the Purity Racket"

By artappraiser on Sun, 07/28/2019 - 10:10am |

Op-ed by Maureen Dowd @ NYTimes.com, July 27

WASHINGTON — After I interviewed Nancy Pelosi a few weeks ago, The HuffPost huffed that we were Dreaded Elites because we were eating chocolates and — horror of horrors — the speaker had on some good pumps.

Then this week, lefty Twitter erected a digital guillotine because I had a book party for my friend Carl Hulse, The Times’s authority on Capitol Hill for decades, attended by family, journalists, Hill denizens and a smattering of lawmakers, including Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Susan Collins. I, the daughter of a D.C. cop, and Carl, the son of an Illinois plumber, were hilariously painted as decadent aristocrats reveling like Marie Antoinette when we should have been knitting like Madame Defarge.

Yo, proletariat: If the Democratic Party is going to be against chocolate, high heels, parties and fun, you’ve lost me. And I’ve got some bad news for you about 2020 [....]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-trump-impeachment.html

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As one would imagine, this has hit a sore spot with the readership and currently has 1,534 comments.

A lot of them are along the lines of "fed up centrists"

Like this one just 34 minutes ago which already has 36 recommends:

Lynne

Etna, CA34m ago

The people I know who voted for Trump are not racists nor did they want "a racist Rottweiler." They voted for him because they were sick to death of the corruption of career politicians and considered him the lesser of two evils.

And 108 recommended this one even though it was posted just an hour ago:

Gerard

Connecticut 1h ago

"It turned out that enough voters knew that and didn’t care. They wanted a racist Rottweiler."

Santayana said: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," but it's even worse for the progressive left, who still hasn't figured out why they lost in 2016. Simply, they looked at two dreadful candidates and chose the one they dreaded less. Rather than figure out why they actually lost, they delude themselves with racism and Russians narrative.

A moderate Democrat walks away with the election, but the Ds seemed determined to end up with a far left socialist who has a good chance of losing.

and again, 59 recommends

Matt Carey

Albany, N.Y.1h ago

Every time a Democrat call someone racist because that person merely disagreed with them I think of the old "Frosties" Kelloggs Frosted Flakes commercials from when I was a kid. Who can forget when Tony the Tiger said “They're grrrrrreat!”.

Anyway substitute “They're grrrrrreat!” with "Trumps rrrrRRRacist!!!" and you basically have the Democrat"s battle cry for the 2016/2020 elections. You already know what happened in 2016. When will the Democrats figure out that the identity politics, "Trumps rrrrRRRacist!!!" strategy won't work in 2020 just like it didn't in 2016?

Calling voters that made is possible for the first black man to be elected President of the United States not just once but twice "racist" isn't a winning strategy. That message is a dead as the “They're grrrrrreat!” commercials that you don't see anymore on tv.

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/28/2019 - 10:24am

two from the "I seldom agree with you but this time you're right" contingent, with 344 and 295 recommending, respectively:

ABQGAL

Albuquerque. NM3h ago

I seldom agree with Maureen but this time I totally agree with her. I sense the same anger and frustration. Forget impeachment. Yes, he deserves it and is guilty of crimes that under normal conditions would qualify for kicking him back to NY where he can be prosecuted and sent to prison. Moscow Mitch won't be there to save him. But these are not normal times. Concentrate on winning an election in 2020. I hope the current crop of candidates read Maureen's article and give it serious consideration. The House should listen and support Speaker Pelosi. Impeachment without the support of the Senate is futile. He and the Republicans will be empowered to continue as they have. Trump is hoping for impeachment. As despicable and ignorant as he is...he sees the value to him of being impeached. Democrats must see it, too.

Red Sox, ‘04, ‘07, ‘13, ‘18

BostonJuly 27

I rarely agree with you, Ms. Dowd, but you’re correct.

The voting citizens need to hit the reset button at the next election. Don’t put this in the House; it’s on us. And us, alone.

“We, the People” will decapitate this evil Nagini, the tool of Russia (and Mitch McConnell). We alone can atone for ‘16. We can deliver the nation—if we’re serious. Purity is the enemy of the good. Plain is fine with me.

Here's one along the lines of sick of the Maddow-ite focus; 224 recommend; my underlining

LI

New YorkJuly 27

Great column. The Democrats—and I am one—are really getting on my nerves. They sound whining and judgmental. Stop it already. Get some power! And how about some new topics. Here are a few ideas: we have the highest infant and young child mortality in the developed world, yet spend more on healthcare. What is going on? Why have sperm rates dropped by something like half in the last forty years. Forty more years and we could be extinct. Busing won’t be a big concern at that point. How about all the Republican ideas about privatizing social security. All those older people who actually vote care about this issue but no one deigns to mention it. Bring it up. A lot. A little fear ain’t bad, especially when well founded. As for fear, why not get into how the Republicans tanked the economy in 2008, then didn’t want to bail out the auto industry. If not for the Dems, there might be no auto industry left here, just a Henry Ford museum about past glory. Take a victory lap or two or three and don’t let them get away with this party of fiscal responsibility slop.

Get a grip. What is happening is not interesting and is not smart.

Another good example of "fed up with the purists", adding "it's all their fault":

Travelers

All Over The U.S.July 27

Thomas Edsal's column last Wednesday provided a very important chart. That chart showed that enough Sanders supporters stayed home or voted for Trump (in protest) that it easily made the difference in Trump getting elected.

Not only did the purists get us Trump, but they refuse to acknowledge the data that are right in front of them that they are the reason we have Trump.

And, worse, they are doing it again. They have learned nothing. Trump is laughing his head off watching the Democrats accumulating votes for him.

So, go ahead Kamala Harris. Attack Biden. It got you your purity moment. Must feel good.

Go ahead, HuffPost, ye Fox News of the left, go after the Democrats who have kept this country sane the past 50 years. Attack those long time Democrats like me. Call us Republican-lite unless we are for open borders, Medicare for all, and paying off college debts for people who foolishly took them out instead of going to Community College and State Colleges.

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/28/2019 - 10:50am

lots of Independent-oriented comments,like these

Lefthalfbach

PhiladelphiaJuly 27

We are obviously heading toward three parties. Trump, the Left and The Rest of Us. That means the Trumpers win forever with 40 percent of the vote.

21 Recommended

JerryWegman

IdahoJuly 27

Many thoughtful, responsible Republicans have felt abandoned by their party. Now the "squad" and puritanical Progressives are making me feel the same. Surely there are millions of moderate center/left and center/right Americans who are desperate for representation.

54 recommended

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/28/2019 - 2:17pm

Dowd never addresses real issues. She sets up strawmen to destroy and mocks who ever is in her sights that day. It's all about ratcheting up the emotions at the cost of real discussion of the issues. Today her target is liberals. In 2000 it was the moderate centrist Gore. She's like republicans in style and that's why I've mostly stopped reading her. So really, the complaints about her interview with Pelosi was about eating chocolates and the quality of her shoes? bullshit

by ocean-kat on Sun, 07/28/2019 - 11:37am

Re: never addresses real issues. I find that to be stating the obvious like calling an orange orange. Starting in the mid 80's, she was strictly a political horse race reporter "on the bus" or "from the beltway". She brought a new way of covering that beat, called snark, and it was so popular that she was promoted to op-ed columnist, free to cover her own choices on the same and get even more snarky. I have nothing against those who are against that kind of thing or who find it not their cup of tea. But I will be forever grateful to her for changing political horse race from something that was treated deadly seriously. I think, and always thought. that it deserves cynical treatment.

As for this article in particular, I am only amazed by the reaction with the multitude of comments. Because therein the silenced are finally speaking; somehow she drew them out with the way she said this.

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/28/2019 - 4:18pm

I sympathize with candidates trying to be candidates. I don't think the batch is so bad, just the expectations are so mangled. Where's the carny show? Anything short of that is deathly dull.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/28/2019 - 5:02pm

I see Nate Silver kinda talking on topic with others right now...the "dislikable" factor. He retweeted Henry Olsen's reply to him here:

People still overlook the key fact from 2016. 18% of voters did not like either candidate, much higher than in 2012. Trump won that 18% by double digits. That's why his share of the vote (46%) was 8% higher than his fave while HRC's (48%) was only 5% higher.
— Henry Olsen (@henryolsenEPPC) July 28, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/28/2019 - 5:58pm

I should add what else he's saying:

But "#Actually, Trump's strategy of stoking racial resentment is #smart politics!" isn't a great take. The evidence for it is murky, and became murkier after the GOP/Trump's bad midterm in 2018.

Reporters and pundits shouldn't go around spouting it like it's a savvy take.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 28, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/28/2019 - 6:05pm

Sigh, the 2 GOP winners who most chose as "who they'd like to have a beer with" don't even drink, while the recent Democratic winner comes across as a much more boring drinker than his flyboy competitor or his own wife (brace yourself for Dad jokes):
https://www.thelily.com/when-did-we-decide-the-best-presidential-candidate-is-the-one-youd-want-to-have-a-beer-with/

Let's revisit this: Bush's big "likable" moment was getting drunk and trying to go mano-a-mano with his father or mangling words like a real live chimpanzee, which arguably are kind of endearing in a Tom Cruise meets Pat Paulsen kind of way (if you ignore the mass Mideast carnage required to pull off this legacy presidency), while Donald Trump's likable moments were walking in on underage girls dressing at beauty pageants, or hanging out with famous perverts at Studio 54, or pulling his wife's hair out or fucking & laterpaying off a pornstar while his model wife is home nursing their newborn.

Hillary's "unlikable" moments included working on the Watergate committee & McGovern campaign, wearing a headband 90's style on the campaign trail, telling the press she coulda stayed home & baked cookies but... and not telling her carousing husband to go fuck himself (while ungraciously not inviting every woman who claimed Bill slept with or molested them over for cookies). Oh, and Travelgate (which affected the White House press directly) and her emails and drinking shots "inauthentically" with John McCain.

Jimmy Carter was as likable as your Sunday School teacher in church (feel yourself squirming in your seat) or catching you drinking (though Carter did surround himself with some pretty likable drunks, cokeheads and Southern rockers), Richard Nixon was a Quaker who wore black wingtips and black socks with shorts on the beach (and kept rather creepy lists on his enemies), Ronald Reagan came from that Leave It To Beaver/Reader's Digest era of squeaky-clean fake nostalgia (he once told a reporter his dog was named Lassie because he couldn't remember its name and Lassie seemed a good-enough fit) mixed with some Marshall Applewhite/Heaven's Gate devotion. George Bush Sr. in some ways came across likable for an old rich white person, Clinton had that "We Got a Right (to Party)" fratboy vibe going, and when we get to LBJ and before, well, "admirable" or "mythical" or "captivating" or "overwhelmingly persuasive" (what's that horse head doing in my bed?) might be better terms in an age where the cemeteries often managed to get up to vote on election day.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/28/2019 - 7:49pm

From the NYT

Hillary Clinton’s campaign focused on what a terrible person Trump is. It turned out that enough voters knew that and didn’t care. They wanted a racist Rottweiler.

Trump is a birther. He found good people among Nazis. He called John Lewis’ district impoverished. He called Elijah Cummings district impoverished. He insulted the intelligence of black female reporters. He told black female politicians who are American citizens to go back to their home countries. Trump is a racist. Trump will be re-elected if a critical mass of white voters don't care about the racism.

Edit to add

Even the WSJ is joining CNN and the WaPo in calling Trump’s tweets racist

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheNewsHam/status/1155282678847070209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1155282678847070209&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2F2019%2F07%2Fconservative-wall-street-journal-joins-chorus-of-news-organizations-called-trumps-attacks-racist%2F

by rmrd0000 on Sun, 07/28/2019 - 11:11pm

looking for an old post, ran across this

AMERICANS STRONGLY DISLIKE PC CULTURE: LARGE MAJORITIES DISLIKE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

By artappraiser on Thu, 10/11/2018 - 12:42am |

Youth isn’t a good proxy for support of political correctness, and race isn’t either.

By Yascha Mounk (a lecturer on government at Harvard University) @ The Atlantic.com, Oct. 10

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 12:41am

Maureen Dowd is an idiot. Which of the Democratic candidates is talking about Dowd’s book party, chocolate and high heels? Robert Mueller told us that the Russians are attacking. A bipartisan Congressional report says the Russians hacked all 50 states. Dow’s is offended by some twitter Lefties she doesn’t know who attacked an unknown author, high heels, and chocolate. What a chump.

Democrats are discussing policy. Expand Obamacare or Medicare for all with eliminating private insurance? It’s called differences of policy. Democrats are discussing issues of race because there are opposing views of solutions. Nobody is talking about chocolate.

Democrats are offering choices. If you disagree with Trump you are kicked out of the GOP. Ask Amash.

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 2:13pm

Do you feel the majority of commenters (now 2,602) on her article, some of which I quoted, to be idiots too?

I'll repeat one here that I thought particulary apt and succinct:

Lefthalfbach

PhiladelphiaJuly 27

We are obviously heading toward three parties. Trump, the Left and The Rest of Us. That means the Trumpers win forever with 40 percent of the vote.

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 2:36pm

by the way, been looking at this for quite some time and it looks to me like a lot of emphasis on partying and fun, and not very much political correctness much less earnest righteousness:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacktwitter?lang=en

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 2:43pm

Can you verify the identity of any of these so-called lefties?

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 5:02pm

I didn't call them lefties. They chose to designate themselves #BlackTwitter.

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 6:45pm

Last president, re-elected for a second term, recommends not Dowd's column from Sun., but Ross Douthat's:

Here’s a worthwhile Sunday read: “…nothing should temper partisanship more than an awareness that somewhere, on some issue, people with whom you disagree are telling a story that you really need to hear.” https://t.co/tpdMZ9hJoE
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 28, 2019

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 6:48pm

btw, Saturday he proudly tweeted an op-ed @ WaPo, co-signed by 149 African Americans who served in the Obama administration:

I’ve always been proud of what this team accomplished during my administration. But more than what we did, I’m proud of how they’re continuing to fight for an America that’s better. https://t.co/0cfDltjueP
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 27, 2019

One thing to ponder is that the op-ed wouldn't exist if he hadn't been elected and re-elected.

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 6:56pm

I read this story several days ago. There's a third and possibly more prevalent explanation for the story Douthat cites. Perhaps it's not political at all. Perhaps there's not a liberal or a conservative view. People get scammed. It happens all the time. Very intelligent people get scammed. People with little education or intelligence get scammed. Liberals get scammed, moderates get scammed, conservatives get scammed. Sometimes the scams is sophisticated. Sometimes they're so ridiculous it leaves me incredulous that any one fell for it. Rich conservatives that are clever investors get scammed by Ponzi schemes by other rich conservatives like Madoff. Lonely widows get scammed by by men pretending to love them. People get scammed by Nigerian prince stories.

He got scammed. I feel sorry for the poor schmuck. There are people who read these stories of people getting scammed and are empathetic and people who are heartless and laugh about it with dozens of variations in between. I don't think empathy is a republican or a democratic trait in situations like this. I don't think there's a conservative or liberal version of this story about a guy that got scammed.

by ocean-kat on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 7:44pm

Oh you inspire me by saying this People get scammed by Nigerian prince stories to hijack the thread to a different topic. I was amazed by this at the end of the article you posted Oprah, Is That You? On Social Media, the Answer Is Often No, that those guys have moved on and are on top of the latest developments, really on top, they've got Facebook battling them, they are expert at what they do:

Facebook is fighting much of this arms race against people in West Africa. People who report bogus accounts said they had tracked many of the internet protocol addresses connected to them to Nigeria or Ghana, where those behind the fake accounts call themselves Yahoo Boys.

One Nigerian man who advertises training for Yahoo Boys said in a phone interview that Facebook had gotten better at removing impostors but that Instagram had not. The man, who declined to be identified because his activity could be criminal, said he had run romance schemes by impersonating young female celebrities like Ariana Grande and Victoria Justice.

Those schemes were not as lucrative as pretending to be another kind of celebrity, though. “Porn star is better,” he said.

What is it about that culture that this is a particular part of it? Why isn't some anthropologist doing a thesis on it? I am so intrigued by that that I ended up following Remi Adekoya on twitter, he is a half Nigerian, half Polish foreign policy scholar who lives in the UK I believe. He writes on "our problem with Nigerian culture" all the time, a long series of articles and twitter threads, has lots of Nigerian fans who are incredibly concerned with how the scamming thing, in many different ways, hurts their country. It's like a major meme for them, it seems to be a big group where they are obsessed with purging a whole scam attitude from their culture and the cynicism that comes from it. Lest anyone say "people are the same allover", they would argue "no Europe is different, people don't have this flaw here." So it is not seen as the same thing as capitalism nor as what big corporations do. It is fascinating in a way, I supposed I wouldn't think so if it were my country.

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 9:57pm

FWIW, Laura Ingraham finds it all Trump genius that has brought "Christmas in July":

Christmas in July: Trump has successfully cleaved @AOC +3 AND @TheRevAl onto the 2020 field. https://t.co/xLqNc7Tcs3
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) July 29, 2019

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 10:48pm

The Diva of the Smart Set* vs. Progressive Fanatics

“The progressives are the modern Puritans. … The politics of purism makes people stupid. And nasty.” – MoDo

Acid tongued, virulently anti-Trump Maureen Dowd is *correct* when advising her allies, the “progressive” zealots, that impeachment is a winner – but only for President Trump. However, MoDo is wrong concerning the motives of pro-impeachment fanatics.

“The progressive Puritans think we must honor the Constitution and go for it because it’s the right thing to do.” – MoDo

No, MoDo, “progressive Puritans” are blinded by pure, overwhelming fury, rage – just as when they shrieked and wept uncontrollably on election night. They, the anointed philosopher kings – the priestly caste, and they alone were entitled to win; the irredeemable deplorables had no business voting let alone winning.

It's that conceit, not a duty to “honor the Constitution,” which justifies their determination to steal an election.

* Mary Matalin knifed MoDo with that perfect epithet when they both appeared on “Meet the Press.”

by Gerry K (not verified) on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 9:35am

Moscow Mitch stole a SCOTUS seat and refuses to support legislation that would protect the voting system. Republicans openly support Trump’s racist rants, ignoring his slumlord son-in-law. Democrats openly disagree with other Democrats, Republicans who disagree with Trump are kicked out of the party like Amash. Republicans remind of Nazis with yells of “Lock her up” and “Send them back”. Like Moscow Mitch, Republicans are traitors. Like Donald Trump, Republicans are racists.

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 3:04pm

Our Führer

If the Führer calls and commands, each of us must obey without question, whatever he may say. With the Führer we are everything, without him we are nothing.

Hermann McConnell Göring

The highest that a man can reach on this earth is to give his name to an historic era, stamping it indelibly with his personality. That is true in the broadest sense of the Führer. The present world is unimaginable without him.

Dr. Joseph Hannity Goebbels. link

by NCD on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 5:00pm

How bouts Rusky help swaying the election - you a friend of Ivan's? Like them Trump-Russia briefing sessions in Trump Tower, Manafort sharing data with Kilimnik? What's your thoughts re: Russia poisoning dissidents with Novichok in Salisbury? Constitutions need protecting, dontcha think? There are bad hombres out there who aren't progressives, right?

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 4:50pm

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Russia plays weak hand in Palestine

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The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent

Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019

Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024

Read the article at https://twitter.com/HannaNotte/status/1763116222256701787

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Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.

Actions to take:

Avoid the area;

Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;

Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and

If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.

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[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]

You don’t get it.
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
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Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.

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Could we have a war in South America?!?

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Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-proofing

submitted by artappraiser 1 year ago

"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023

Read the article at https://africanarguments.org/2023/11/central-africas-dinosaur-regimes-and-the-art-of-coup-proofing/

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