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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu May 24, 2018, 05:17 PM May 2018

Biden: Republicans show 'phony populism,' 'fake nationalism'

Source: Associated Press



By DAVID KLEPPER
44 minutes ago

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — In a forceful rebuke to President Donald Trump and other Washington Republicans, former Vice President Joe Biden told fellow Democrats in New York on Thursday that the GOP has abandoned traditional American values in the name of “phony populism” and “fake nationalism.”

Speaking at the party’s New York state convention on Long Island, Biden urged his party to stand for tolerance and efforts to expand education and economic opportunity.

“This is not your father’s Republican Party,” Biden told the audience. “They are not who we are. They are not who America is. What they are doing is sending a vision of America around the world that is distorted. That is damaging. That is hurting us... this phony population, this fake nationalism.... It’s time to say ‘no more.’”

Biden’s remarks came during a speech endorsing Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s bid for a third term. Cuomo easily won his party’s nomination Wednesday but still faces a likely primary challenge from “Sex and the City” star and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon. Dutchess County Marc Molinaro won the GOP nomination for governor at that party’s convention Wednesday in Manhattan.




Read more: https://apnews.com/b56963c65983467ea6f9600fa7708cf8

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Biden: Republicans show 'phony populism,' 'fake nationalism' (Original Post) DonViejo May 2018 OP
pseudologia fantastica or mythomania lambchopp59 May 2018 #1
The time has come for the democratic Chickensoup May 2018 #2
Excellent not fooled May 2018 #3

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
1. pseudologia fantastica or mythomania
Thu May 24, 2018, 05:28 PM
May 2018

Despite it's flag-waving slick graphics and patriotic veneer, pop the corn while we witness the stack of tantrum-laced falsehoods slowly implode.
My guess is for most, the little mommie spanking every 4 year old got for telling lies made them mad.
Forgive me, now picture Sean Hannity at 4.
https://cretoniatimes.com/2014/09/22/hannity-reveals-miserable-childhood-of-abuse-and-torture-at-hands-of-sadistic-father/
Lashing out at anyone who doesn't buy their narrative... makes ya' go "hmm".

Chickensoup

(650 posts)
2. The time has come for the democratic
Thu May 24, 2018, 05:55 PM
May 2018

Leadership to come out from under
the table and start pounding on that
table. Enough is enough.
The corruption has to stop.we must
get our country back.

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