Elizabeth Warren: Enough Is Enough, It's Time To Stand Up To Donald Trump

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Source: Huffington Post

"Donald Trump is a bigger, uglier threat every day that goes by."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is calling on "decent people everywhere" to denounce Donald Trump, saying the GOP presidential frontrunner continues to grow into a "bigger, uglier threat every day."

Warren put up her statement in a Facebook post Monday afternoon. In the first 10 minutes after it was posted, the message was shared thousands of times.

There's a history of demagogues calling those they disagree with "terrorists" and using that as justification for intimidation and violence – and that history is ugly and dangerous. There's also a history of people staying quiet for too long, hoping for the best but watching silently as the threat metastasizes. Donald Trump is a bigger, uglier threat every day that goes by – and it’s time for decent people everywhere – Republican, Democrat, Independent – to say No More Donald. There's no virtue in silence.

https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethWarren/?fref=nf


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-donald-trump_us_56e6ea1ce4b065e2e3d69482

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[corkhead]

1. I say lets wait until the nomination is sealed before he is destroyed. Consider the alternatives.

[Trust Buster]

4. Bingo. Cruz is a deceptive snake. Kasich could win. Let Donny salt away the nomination first.

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[Octafish]

12. Sooner the better.

The NAZI genie is out of the Bottle USA.

[revbones]

2. I really like her but

I feel less enthusiastic about her due to her lack of endorsement. I'm still digesting and resolving that.

[DhhD]

3. The possibility exist that Warren could be nominated at a DNConvention, to run for President.

Romney could be nominated at the RNConvention.

[Trust Buster]

5. And I could win the lottery.....LOL

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[brooklynite]

8. No - it doesn't

Delegates are bound on the first ballot and there will be sufficient support for one of the two candidates.

[7962]

19. that possibility does NOT exist.

[Sunlei]

9. Most of our Gov. people will wait & endorse after the primary is done.

No doubt Mrs. Warren will 'back' either one, same with President Obama and Clinton/Sanders will back each other.

[MatthewStLouis]

18. Warren waiting to endorse makes perfect sense.

With a dead heat or even just respectable competition between our nominees, it would be unwise to risk wasting an endorsement. She knows what's at stake.

[Scootaloo]

26. She's fine. I don't need an endorsement to agree with someone.

[onehandle]

6. ...by endorsing Hillary. nt

[Gore1FL]

10. Doubtful

If she was going to endorse she would have already. She would probably endorse the person closer to her agenda if she did.

[onehandle]

14. Sooner or later, she will endorse Hillary.

Bet on it.

[Gore1FL]

15. She will endorse the Dem nominee, no doubt.

We have some contests before that is determined.

[Turborama]

39. Technically, she already has endorsed Hillary...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/04/27/elizabeth-warren-i-hope-hillary-clinton-runs-for-president/

[Gore1FL]

40. Officially, she hasn't however

The link you provided came before a viable candidate took up her positions in a way Clinton did not.

[closeupready]

43. LOL, but Warren failed to do so in your link. So,

do you want to try again??

[Turborama]

44. "she was one of several senators to sign a letter urging Clinton to run in 2016"

From the above link.

More on it here: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/10/in-secret-letter-senate-democratic-women-rally-behind-hillary-clinton/

[Sunlei]

7. After the primary is the time to go after the Republicans favorite. Trump's their problem.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. Exactly. Why diminish his chances now? Wait until he's the nominee. nt

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Hey, maybe we'll all get lucky and the GOP will rip itself apart

. . .at their convention.

GOP train wreck is taking place right now. Let us not interfere with it.

[7962]

20. Its a loss either way; Trump wins & he'll get beat,

if they replace him, all his sheep will sit at home and cry & whoever they replace him with will get beat.

[JudyM]

30. That's what I'm thinking... why now?

[freebrew]

16. Trump is a creation...

of the Right-Wing. He has become the 'spokesperson' for all the 47%ers. The white, poor and ill-informed former middle-class that put their own immediate welfare ahead of their children's and the nation's.
Those that refuse to think for themselves, refute education and disregard the need for good schools.

It was all planned out. They(PNAC) have been working on it since Nixon.

They didn't plan on this(TRUMP).

Just a little CT in the morning....HAH.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

17. She's right. Trump is gaining massive momentum.

He may win on emotion alone. Then were screwed.

[7962]

21. Theres no way he can win the general. Just wait for the ads

I'm betting there is SO MUCH stuff on him that the Dems have already dug up, that they wont know what to run with first.
Bernie or Clinton would beat him worse than Mondale lost

[kacekwl]

22. Be careful,

I believe he is correct when he says he could kill someone in the middle of Manhattan and would gain support. I believe he could stand up make speeches in full KKK hood and robe and get more followers. Do not underestimate the stupidity of people

[7962]

25. True, but his problem is there arent ENOUGH of them to get him a win.

I've already seen a meme on FB today with him talking about his speech being shut down in Chicago (which I was against, BTW) but easily winning the state primary. Like he would have ANY chance at winning IL in the general.
And I know there are people comparing his run to Reagan's, & how people joked about that, but Reagan had been a 2 time Gov of Cal, so to me there really isnt a comparison.
Certainly Trump COULD win, but it would be because of a major screw up by Hillary. Assuming she's the one, which looks likely

[charlyvi]

29. Right now, he has about 45% of Repub primary voters.

Who are a small minority of the Repub party, which is about 25% of the population. In context, 45% of less than 25% of the population isn't a winnable plurality. Can't see him picking up that many more mainstream votes in the General because he's nuts. I don't think he'll be able to pivot toward the middle for it. But, anything can happen in this crazy, crazy year.

[7962]

31. They just dont understand that you cant win getting only GOP votes

You gotta get most of the independents too. Same with the Dems; cant win with only Democrat votes

[charlyvi]

32. Since they've alienated blacks, Hispanics, women and young people

That only leaves old white guys and Phyllis Schlafly.

On edit: and Asians too.

[7962]

34. "old white guys & Phyllis Schlafly". Busted out laughing on that one.

Thanks!

[The empressof all]

23. America no longer seems decent...

I'm not so sure this Trump train can be derailed even after he gets the nomination. The GOP win at all cost "strategerie" has no real basis in a morality that I can understand but I have full confidence they will follow the Donald over the cliff and bring the country with them.....So yes Elizabeth..we all do need to stand up to this bully but I'm not so sure we can scream loud enough to drown this insanity out.

[Bad Dog]

24. Stop assuming things about Trump.

The only way to make sure he loses is to get out and vote for the Democrat candidate regardless of who that is.

[Turborama]

38. *Democratic

http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/08/16/gop-strategists-christen-democrat-sic-party-and/136406

[Bad Dog]

41. You can split hairs if you want.

I don't even have a vote in this election, so you're wasting your time trying to win me over. I remain neutral between Sanders and Clinton, either one would be far preferable to Trump.

[Vincardog]

27. Face it folks tRump's job this cycle is to make sHillary the more palatable not as bad choice

[Vincardog]

36. Next up DAYGLO

[appalachiablue]

28. Sen. Warren is right, Trump is a real danger. Why it's critical to support Sanders

who beats Trump and all Republicans! Feel the Bern!

[Bluenorthwest]

35. I'd think Warren would have the network to oppose him well and with standing, and that she needs to

do that. She spent 30 years in a Party that was hugely racist and so homophobic that they presided over genocide of neglect as tens of thousands died, Warren was party to all of that. She is one of the people who legitimized and excused all of that bigotry because she thought it was good for the markets which were making her so very rich. She played patsy cake with Reagan and with Bush. She was a member of the Republican Party that wallowed in Pat Buchanan's Culture Wars rhetoric which held up LGBT, racial minorities and feminist women as the enemy. She was part of that. She has a responsibility to help clean up her old room.

[PATRICK]

37. Republican rot is complete

They can't win elections and rely on the impunity of theft and gerrymandering. Trump- the right wing Mussolini is the natural next step for the rich minority seeking power. Power by other means(than election theft) would include a naked coup and not just a packed (SCOTUS, fraud, media, money, impeachment). None of those are very reliable and may have consequences, a sequence of decaying dictatorships out of control.

Trump may cauterize this slide for the GOP but I doubt it very much. They will rally if he succeeds in actually getting something they don't even believe possible, a true majority of voters. Why else have they substituted infantile raving and tantrums for engaging in anything to do with political and governance? Trump is the GOP creature. The vestiges of sanity in that corrupt party are having their faces rubbed in it by a demagogue takeover artist, but they can't change. They would need a conversion which most Republicans with a brain or heart did long ago.

For the rest it is all about financed myths and myths that support finance. Except for petulant insiders they would fall into line.

The amazing hypocrisy. On NPR one of their righteous GOP reporters(Totenberg, Roberts?) interviewed by another, was talking about and advocating a dump Trump movement, which her GOP husband was actively involved in. "I never let politics affect my reporting".
Stunning lack of reality there that beats Trump all hollow in my book. This very activism review on air as a segment is not purest political partisanship? They for once want to become all activist on an overriding issue? Oh, yes, Nixon WAS a crook too. The media is crying outrage all the way to the ratings bank.

When a progressive stands for the truth it can amazingly find a blind ally in someone who only knows they are about to take the big hurt- largely through their own idiocy and even creation.

[Brother_Love]

42. I wouldn't separate Rump from the GOP, they are from the same racist, bank loving clown car.