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NoGoodNamesLeft

(2,056 posts)
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 10:41 AM Oct 2016

Time to focus on what we can control and stop focusing on what we can't...

We can't change Comey's actions.

We CAN recognize that as long as people are talking about this it hurts Hillary.

Sooo...let's STOP talking about it. The email crap is old news and a distraction.

So, I'm challenging everyone to find a pro-Hillary or anti-Trump article/story NOT related to Comey, emails or Huma and start a new thread.

Let's bury all this email garbage and get back on track!

PLEASE IGNORE any new or current threads about that thing that really does not matter!

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NoGoodNamesLeft

(2,056 posts)
2. From here on out I am clicking on "Trash This Thread" for all Comey/email/Huma/WeinerGate thread
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 10:57 AM
Oct 2016

This entire place is being POISONED with this crap.

Please, everyone post and reply to any thread that isn't about this crap!

Thanks!

Dem2

(8,178 posts)
5. You can temporarily auto-trash if certain words appear in a thread subject
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 11:19 AM
Oct 2016

I have trashed "email", "Comey" and "FBI" for now until people calm down.

Go to My Account Trash and Auto-Trash by keyword (or whatever - can't recall exactly). Add words there. It's very helpful during certain times. Then later you can remove those words from the auto-trash list.

 

NoGoodNamesLeft

(2,056 posts)
6. Thanks! Right now I'm just trashing everything using the x next to the thread title.
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 11:26 AM
Oct 2016

By focusing on the crap we are giving Trump just what he wants and being his puppets.

I'm not playing.

geo1

(81 posts)
3. Good News from Michigan
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 11:14 AM
Oct 2016

I've been "lurking" at DU since the first term of George W. Bush, finally jumping in with my two cents. I heartily agree that it's time to turn our focus on GOTV, remembering that Hillary has the ground game advantage. I live in a small village on the red west side of this state, yet we have a weekly phone bank going at a local business. I'll be going to a small town 18 miles away to work the phones there today. I've contributed $ to the Democratic Party since 2004, yet this is the first election I was contacted to volunteer.

My article contribution: Detroit Free Press Endorsement - Hillary Clinton is a Prepared, Mature Choice

http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/editorials/2016/10/30/free-press-endorsement-hillary-clinton-accomplished-mature-choice/92890252/

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
7. Another great endorsement!
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 11:29 AM
Oct 2016

I especially like this:


The vote will mark the convergence of two historic opportunities for Michigan voters, and America.

The first is the chance to shatter a bigoted gender barrier that dates to the nation’s founding by electing a woman — a woman who happens to be one of the best-prepared candidates to seek the presidency in the last century.

Clinton’s America is a mature, self-confident nation that leads by example in a world bound ever more tightly by its inhabitants’ common economic and environmental interests.

Clinton’s America draws strength and stability from its diversity; Trump’s stews in racial, ethnic and religious resentments, romanticizing a vanished America in which white men reigned supreme and everyone else — women, blacks, Hispanics, Muslims — competed for their favor.


Thanks for volunteering to phone bank, and welcome to DU, geo1!

 

NoGoodNamesLeft

(2,056 posts)
9. Welcome! I'm glad you decided to post!
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 11:31 AM
Oct 2016

And thanks for your hard work and report about what is going on there on the ground!

geo1

(81 posts)
11. Thanks for the Welcome
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 12:11 PM
Oct 2016

Thanks to you and Desert Rat for the warm welcome. I should add that in all the calls I have made so far (working once a week for 5 weeks) I've talked to many enthusiastic Hillary supporters, only a very few not. My experience suggests that Hillary has the "hidden" support advantage. I've lived in this village for many years and never realized how many Dems were around, keeping a low profile among the vocal Republicans. Some are afraid to put up yard signs, and those that have report them stolen. Those who got replacements have started taking them in at night.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
14. The anti-Hillary contingent lives to intimidate others. Loud angry and contemptuous....
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 12:56 PM
Oct 2016

Many of us got our fill of it during the primary from other Dems and are quiet. Not me so much- but definitely the majority of my HRC loving friends are sick of hearing from these troglodytes.

 

TrekLuver

(2,573 posts)
4. I understand you wanting to shift but it won't go until it's all talked out.
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 11:17 AM
Oct 2016

But I'm seeing from the news that they of course are leading with this story but I see other things being covered including negative things about Dump a Trump.

 

NoGoodNamesLeft

(2,056 posts)
8. It would be one thing if there were 2-3 threads but it's burying everything else and is repetitive
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 11:29 AM
Oct 2016

People are too worked up and that just rewards Trump and his ilk...so let's get some other content posted. I am not reading or responding to anymore of the crap. I hope others will join me.

 

TrekLuver

(2,573 posts)
10. Don't worry it will die out soon! I already see improvement!!
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 11:35 AM
Oct 2016

I turned off the news yesterday and I was much happier. Today it's not so bad. I can't imagine this story will continue because there is just not much to talk about!

Demsrule86

(71,257 posts)
13. We will bury Comey instead...and when Chavez and Trump are found to be colluding as well...
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 12:52 PM
Oct 2016

they will go down down and down some more.

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