Reader GregB offers this lesson on Trump’s belated response to the Battle of Charlottesville:
“Class, what if:
President Obama had waited three days after Sandy Hook to make a statement?
President Bush had waited three days after September 11th?
President Clinton had waited three days after the Murrah building bombing in Oklahoma?
President Bush had waited three days after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait?
President Reagan had waited three days after the Challenger explosion?
President Carter had waited three days after the American embassy in Iran had been taken?
What would we have said/thought about them?
Discuss.”
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I am glad that you featured this. It was a brilliant comment.
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You know, I can’t help but notice that after 20 years of ed reform bashing public schools based on test scores, now that there are more and more charter schools ed reformers have decided that schools are “more than a score”
That’s nice timing. Is it possibly because charter schools aren’t producing the miraculous gains in test scores ed reformers promised?
If we’re moving the goalposts, does that apply to the unfashionable public schools too? Are they also “more than a score”?
“What’s the point of a charter school? Is acting as another option for families enough, or should it have to post higher test scores than other schools, too?
Those questions are at the heart of a growing rift in the education reform world — and the focus of a new book making waves among some of its most prominent conservative figures.
The book, a collection of essays edited by the Center for Education Reform’s Jeanne Allen and Cara Candal and the Manhattan Institute’s Max Eden, makes the case that the charter school movement has gone awry: it’s over-regulated, hyper-focused on tests, and dismissive of families.”
There is now no way to oppose any charter school anywhere. After all, as long as they provide “a choice” to even one student then “choice” justifies unlimited expansion.
And since public schools have been designated as the “default” schools for the rest of the students, they will always be at a disadvantage.
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I just read that tRump’s approval rating is at 34% and disapproval at 61%…The Hill.
Guess this is why he has to put out political ads and have never ending campaign rallies. (Sick!) This video is an extension of his glorious, wonderful imagination. Video ends with, “I’m Donald Trump and I approve this message.”
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Let President Trump Do His Job
Donald J. Trump for President
Published on Aug 13, 2017
AD CITES MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS, INCLUDING JOBS, THE ECONOMY AND MILITARY STRENGTH EXCORIATES MEDIA “ATTACKING OUR PRESIDENT” AND “POLITICIANS STANDING IN THE WAY”
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UN-Reality TV show Star is potus. Save us! He’s CRAZY.
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That Dump has had other people making excuses for his DSGUSGING & WRETCHED behavior his ENTIRE life. HE ALSO CHEATS at GOLF and LIES. He has to. His frail ego is at stake, because he knows HE’S THE REAL IDIOT.
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/08/14/petition-censure-trump-gains-momentum
Petition to censor t-rump gains momentum.
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Thanks! I signed the petition. Made me feel a tad bit better…just a tad.
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Not sure I understand the “3-day” comment. As I understand it, trouble started Fri pm, culminating in violence Sat, which Trump addressed in a wishy-washy tweet Sat pm, waiting until Mon (2 days later) to finally condemn the alt-right hate groups that started this thing. But: whether 2 or 3 days later, the point is that Dump waited to see which way the wind was blowing before daring to castigate the disgusting neo-Nazi white supremacist outside agitators who’d planned [for months] & perpetrated this aggressive looking-for-a-fight rally on a progressive blue town which was bound to react viscerally.
Why? Because the creeps were carrying Trump signs.
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I am mathematically challenged, counted Sat, Sun and Mon as three days, didn’t count the hours.
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😉
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My teachers never appreciated my snarky responses. This’ll show ’em.
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I agree with the criticisms of trump…but, I thought it was over covered by the media….they love stuff like this which can be beaten into the ground, because there will be endless “yeah, but” responses or worse. Trump has done much worse krap than this….I look forward to getting back to Mueller and the questions leading to information about Trump and money.
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Mueller is not going away.
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The hypocrisy is palpable.
Now – not only is it “What if Obama… said this or did this – you all (GOP) would go ballistic” the examples from all presidents illustrates how unpresidential and elitist (and other “ists” this president is).
MSNBC showed video of Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, and George W. Bush all DISAVOWING racism by name in any form – bold clear statements.
Hate NCLB or not – President Bush declared what was happening in some states was “soft bigotry of low expectations” (Yes, he flew over Katrina – big mistake)
Like or dislike their economic and conservative politics – they called it what it is. They wanted a conservative America – not alt-right/all-whte
And Al Sharpton was very clear today – he refused to call president a racist and the interviewer kept pressing him. He said to the effect “I don’t what HIM on a couch, I want his racist POLICIES to be the focus.”
So today president wink wink nod nod read the script that included kkk, neo-nazi, etc. – they know where he stands no matter what words he uses.
GOP electeds must not be silent… but many are… and we need to remember in 2018
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I’ve written many times in the past about how American comedians are more effective and truthful than journalists about our political times. Tonight there were three good examples. Michael Moore on Lawrence O’Donnell reminded us to pay attention to the horror of the administration’s federal agencies (something Diane has been on top of for years on education, including the current and past one). But more poignantly, Seth Meyers’ opening tonight was one that the whole nation needs to hear and take to heart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ShTR9VtfjI) as was his “A Closer Look” commentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTxMGfYc3jw). He correctly noted that it was two days, not three as I had noted in error, before our Dear Leader had a response that approached decency. Finally, tonight Stephen Colbert was more effective in questioning Anthony Scaramucci than any journalist or reporter of whom I am aware. All employees of major networks or cable “news” channels and most news outlets in the nation should hang their heads in shame.
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Well, technically Trump first responded the other day when he placed the blame on “many sides,” as if it’s not a black and white matter where nazis are clearly wrong and evil and antifas (anti-fascists) are right and good. His stance effectively let the alt-right haters off the hook and neo-nazi white supremacists like Daily Stormer noticed and saw that as positive: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHIF6nNUAAAZfcw.jpg
(This is another distraction that Trump is capitalizing on, so don’t forget about Russia)
Then, after Trump subsequently condemned the haters, they blamed the Jews! Daily Stormer wrote:
“Trump’s statement was forced by the “whining Jew media” and Trump “only disavowed us at the point of a Jewish weapon.”
(Remember Russia)
In the video at the WaPo article, “These are your people, Mr. President,” at about 1 minute in, a guy at Unit the Right in Charlottesville says,
“I’m here because our Republican values are:
#1 standing up for our white identity – our identity is under threat-
#2 the free market &
#3 killing Jews.”
(Being Jewish, this scared me just about as much as Trump’s nuclear threats to NK last week)
(Don’t forget about Putin)
No wonder more Republicans suddenly started calling Trump out. He has been inciting hatred for a long time. He says “Make America Great Again” and for the alt-right it’s a dog whistle and they hear “Make America White Again,” but most in the GOP said nothing before now. And you know Trump himself had to be aware that his base consists primarily of haters, since he’s egged them on so much, so his recent condemnation of them has no credibility.
(Remember Putin)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/08/12/the-charlottesville-attackers-put-trumps-words-into-action/?tid=pm_pop
(Brought to you by the subliminal messages that I feed myself daily so I don’t forget about Russia and Putin)
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FYI, In HuffPost: “Ex-KKK Leader David Duke Has Meltdown After Trump Condemns White Supremacists In Charlottesville”
They said Duke tweeted, “It’s amazing to see how the media is able to bully the President of the United States into going along with their FAKE NEWS narrative”
“Soon after that, in an anti-Semitic, racist Periscope video rant, Duke spoke directly to Trump, claiming white nationalists abhor violence. He said “it’s just ridiculous” that the president felt he had to make Monday’s statement.”
And I repeat, “white nationalists abhor violence.” So what do you call the lynchings by the KKK in their history? And, what, they provoke and rile each other’s hatred in order to sing KumBaYa? What a crock!
The video is below but I can’t see it. Is it just for people with apps on smartphones and tablets, not laptops?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/david-duke-trump-charlottesville_us_5991d6bae4b08a2472764798
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I have a laptop and it came through just fine. How horrible to live one’s life encased in hatred. These people must have a deplorable existence to actually go out and rally for depression of other humans.
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Did you have to sign up to see it?
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No, I just clicked on the link. I get regular emails from HuffPost so maybe that is why it came through so easily????
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Great link homeless!
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Duke said. “We are determined to take our country back. We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump.”
What were Trump’s promises and exactly how are they going to take the country back if they “abhor violence”? By changing the constitution? I’ve read about that, such as here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/12/jim-demint-joins-group-that-wants-to-amend-constitution-tea-party/102748540/
Do they plan on deporting all but the WASPs? (The KKK doesn’t like Catholics.) And what about the Native Americans? –who are really the original inhabitants, not white colonial invaders. Force them all to live on reservations? Did Trump promise this stuff to his haters?
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In a sense, they have taken the country back (and backwards). Please remember that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise once bragged to a reporter that he was “David Duke without the baggage.” He has never repudiated the accuracy of that remark, although he has tried to distance himself from it. Now that he is recovering from being shot, I doubt Scalise will have drawn any positive lessons from his experience. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and has surely counseled his fellow caucus members on how to hide their core convictions from the public and still effectively use the dog whistles that appeal to the David Duke-type of ideology constituencies. Just take a look at the three candidates who are vying for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate in Alabama today. They are in more places than we would want to believe.
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Yeah, and apparently de-radicalizing white supremacists isn’t a concern or priority for Trump. His administration cut off the funding for that program:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/katharine-gorka-life-after-hate_us_59921356e4b09096429943b6?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009.
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A Trump advisory council is losing members, notably, the CEO’s of Merck, Under Armor, and Intel. But, we can be certain, right wing, Ohio-based Timken, will continue to ally with Trump’s circle.
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Trump and Charlottesville,
Best news from the weekend – Susan Bro, the mother of the Charlottesville victim who died when a driver smashed into a line of cars thanked President Donald Trump for “denouncing those who promote violence and hatred,” according to a statement Monday provided to NBC News.
“Make America Great Again.” Those four small words have big meanings – honor, respect, learn, and preserve the history of America. You can’t erase it or change it, and you can’t wipe it out no matter how hard you try. Just as your personal life. You ever get the question -Do you have any regrets? What would you change? Nothing. You can’t change it, and so it’s folly to pretend.
I see a bigger issue in front of us as a nation =The question, as many are beginning to answer – of where does this effort to destroy and remove the history that disturbs them end up? Does removing statues erase the necessity of memory necessary not to repeat history – good or bad?
Their whole argument resides on the notion that it hasn’t changed, that there still is slavery, racism and bigotry,” Sharpton’s appearance Monday night on PBS with host Charlie Rose’s show called the Jefferson Memorial a “personal” affront akin to subsidizing insults towards his family. Where does it end? – George Washington – eradicating the Constitution written by the founding fathers who owned slaves?
“The Klan was all Democrats, and the segregationists in the South were all Democrats therefore one would logically have to get rid of the Democrat party.
Does the left now have the elitist moral standing of being 100% correct and the authority to call The Republican party the problem and needs to explain themselves causing some Republicans running to the mike to disavow Trump so that they are not labeled racist.
Where were the rabid, snarling dogs of the left and media? U.S. Presidents have often disappointed when it comes to matters involving the hate-filled violence and rhetoric of a small number of their supporters. Take the last President, for example. Whether Ferguson, Missouri (more than once), Baltimore, St. Paul, Baton Rouge, Dallas, Oakland, and so on, time and again, President Obama refused to condemn the violent racists of Black Lives Matter (BLM). On the contrary, Obama and the Democrat Party regularly encouraged the perverse cause of BLM and gave them political cover and invited to White House multiple times by Obama.
In spite of their regular use of violence, destruction, and racist rhetoric, in August of 2015, the Democratic National Committee passed a resolution “affirming” BLM. In July of 2016, at the funeral of five Dallas police officers murdered by a BLM-inspired racist, President Obama continued to defend the BLM movement. After the Dallas shootings, law enforcement leaders accused President Obama of helping to encourage a “war on cops.” Politico reported,
William Johnson, the executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, said in an interview with Fox on Friday morning “I think [the Obama administration] continued appeasements at the federal level with the Department of Justice, their appeasement of violent criminals, their refusal to condemn movements like Black Lives Matter, actively calling for the death of police officers, that type of thing, all the while blaming police for the problems in this country has led directly to the climate that has made Dallas possible,”
Complain about Trump, yet remember Holder – and Obama – elicited reminders of their early stance on convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. Obama’s top cop pronounced the ordeal “domestic terrorism.” “If ISIS rammed a car into a crowd this would be labeled quickly & logically. Charlottesville — call it what it is, domestic terrorism,” Mr. Holder tweeted Saturday night. I understand why Trump wasn’t quick to label it until he had the facts.
Additionally, BLM has long made it clear what they were all about. Where were the rabid, snarling dogs of the left and media? As Katie Pavlich noted in 2015,
it’s time to expose the Black Lives Matter [BLM] movement for what it is: a racist, violent hate group that promotes the execution of police officers. The evidence is in their rhetoric and written on their shirts.
Miss Pavlich goes on to chronicle how BLM has elevated individuals like Assata Shakur, “otherwise known as Joanne Chesimard, who shot and killed a New Jersey State Trooper back in 1973.” Last year National Review’s David French highlighted a “sickening” essay by BLM that expressed support and admiration for — in addition to Fidel Castro — Michael Finney, Ralph Goodwin, Charles Hill, and Huey Newton. All were cop killers.
French asks, “How many despots and murderers must Black Lives Matter praise before it’s consigned to the fringe of American life? How many riots and murders must it incite — often through lies and hoaxes?”
In spite of all of this, a single incident by White Nationalists in Virginia — with not a hint of support from President Trump or his administration — and all of a sudden the Charlottesville racists are Trump’s “people.” Nazis are socialists – something the conservative right are not. Of course, eager to paint anyone on the right as a racist, describing the Virginia fools as “Trump’s people” has been a regular refrain from rabid snarling dogs on the left. In spite of all of the evidence linking Obama, the democrats, and BLM, the liberal mainstream media never sought to label black racists as “Obama’s people.”
When the bomb went off in New York City months ago, Donald Trump was immediately criticized for calling it a bomb and for not waiting for all the facts to come in, jumping to conclusions, not being cerebral. And here he makes a statement minutes after the event. We didn’t even at that time know who this guy was, and he’s criticized for it. And my second comment is what Obama would get away with. He was thought of as cerebral or thoughtful for not naming whom the group is. Whatever you do, don’t say radical Muslim —
So he did not single out the Nazis and he did not single out the white supremacists. He mentioned many sides, both sides, many sides, hatred, bigotry, violence on many sides. It’s undeniably true. It’s undeniably true that there is hatred and bigotry and violence sponsored on both sides.
Remember during the presidential campaign at Trump rallies we have learned that a guy named Robert Creamer, who visited the Obama White House over a hundred times and Obama — admitted hiring agitators as Trump supporters and then start causing violence.
It was a Project Veritas video. He admitted that he was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton. So we know this happens on both sides.
We don’t mention left groups because I guess they’re made up of minority groups and, as such, their actions are either valid or are to be understood, but those on the right are just that. Do you know what Reuters did today? Reuters stylebook refuses their reporters permission to use the word “terrorism” in any story about militant Islam or a genuine terror attack nowhere in the world at Reuters. It’s forbidden. They called this action “terrorism” five times in a story. So they’ve been willing to broom their own stylebook, which, again, is illustrative of what is really happening here.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg at the New York Times tweeted the following: “A few rapid thoughts from Charlottesville. Number one, striking how many of the white nationalists were young people, almost entirely men.” Her second tweet: “The hard left seemed as hate-filled as the Alt-Right. I saw club wielding Antifa beating white nationalists being led out of the park.” So here’s an acknowledgment from the media, from the New York Times, that there was an equal amount of hate from the left in this incident.
And then this in the Washington Post by David Weigel — believe me, who is nowhere near the right side of the aisle. Headline: “Fear of ‘Violent Left’ Preceded Events in Charlottesville.” “On Saturday afternoon, shortly before her camera captured a car plowing through left-wing activists in Charlottesville, killing one and injuring more than a dozen others, Faith Goldy warned that the left was spinning out of control.”
“‘Hundreds and hundreds of Antifa, weird BLM [Black Lives Matter] idiots dressed like clowns,’ said Goldy… ‘This is okay, as long as you’re not the Alt-Right. The Alt-Right wasn’t allowed to demonstrate any show of force.’ As if on cue, activists began chanting ‘black lives matter’ in the background of Goldy’s shot. ‘Chant BLM, and all of a sudden the cops don’t care!’ she said. ‘Where are the riot police now?’” Well, the riot police were told to stand down. Somebody had to tell the riot police to stand down.
This has become the latest story and the latest excitement that animates and energizes the Get Rid of Trump movement in the Washington establishment and in the media — and if you think this issue’s going to fade away after today, you have another thing coming.
This is about violence between two hate groups with no association with Donald Trump or the Republican Party, but the media is doing everything it can to associate the Nazis and the skinheads and the white supremacists with not just Trump, but the Republican Party. That’s why the Republican Party, everybody in it ran to the microphones and condemned it
When the fact remains that on the line of ideological trace, both of these groups are extreme leftists. The Nazis were not on the right of anything, and white supremacists are not on the right of anything. All of these groups are to the left of center.
Left-wing protest groups are portrayed as mainstream — and, in fact, they’re portrayed as justified because their grievances date back to the founding of the country
Two supreme fringe groups. The difference is that Republicans are supposed to condemn all of the skinheads and the neo-Nazis and the white supremacists while Barack Obama invites the left-wing groups to the White House and honors them, Black Lives Matter
So, is Donald Trump responsible for Charlottesville?
That’s the popular narrative on social media on Monday morning. Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer, a Democrat, said that Trump had fomented the movement that led to the violence and terror attack in Charlottesville: “Look at the campaign he ran. … Look at the intentional courting both, on the one hand, of all these white supremacists, white nationalist groups like that, anti-Semitic groups. And then look on the other hand, the repeated failure to step up, condemn, denounce, silence, you know, put to bed all those different efforts.”
Signer isn’t the only one making these kinds of statements; Maxine Waters has said similar things, as have Rob Reiner, John Legend, Tom Arnold, and, of course, Rosie O’Donnell.
Rhetoric is responsible for violence when it calls for violence. Radical Islam calls for jihad. Protesters chanting “pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon” calls for violence against cops. Obama isn’t responsible for the Dallas shootings, but he’s surely responsible for cultivating a racially polarized culture, ignoring the real causes of anti-cop violence, and leaving cops out in the cold to fend for themselves.
McAuliffe issued a strong denunciation of the alt-right and the rally violence on Saturday, telling white nationalists there was “no place for you in America.”
Signer sought to place the blame for the alt-right rally on President Trump, declaring that the supposed empowerment of racism “goes right to the doorstep of the president and the people around him who chose to dance with the devil in their presidential campaign.”
Both of these Democratic leaders were praised by the media for their response to the violence that unfolded. But, interestingly enough, few reporters are asking them about their responsibility in letting Charlottesville turn into a battlefield between political extremists.
Law enforcement was on hand at the dueling demonstrations on Saturday, decked out in riot gear and looking prepared for the worst. Except they weren’t allowed to do their job. Police on the scene were reported to have been ordered to “not intervene until given command to do so,” according to the ACLU. That kept them from suppressing the numerous scuffles that broke out.
When police were ordered to disperse the alt-right rally, that act directed the white nationalists into the antifa demonstrators, leading to further street brawls. Police didn’t seem to try to get in between the two groups or suppress the fights.
As ProPublica reported, state police and National Guardsmen mostly stood aside and watched as the violence grew worse.
This appears to be a direct result of what appears to be a stand down order from higher-ups.
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When the alt-right rally was mostly dispersed, police still seemed a missing presence in the city as the leftists kept demonstrating, some armed with aluminum bats and other weapons. This is the scene where the white nationalist drove his car through pedestrians, with police seemingly far away from the action.
That absence allowed for a female reporter who was an eyewitness to the intentional crash to be allegedly punched in the face by antifa. The reason: because she was press.
Curiously, this attack on a journalist hasn’t netted much attention.
The chaos seems like it could have been contained and fewer people hurt if police were a more active presence in Charlottesville.
Both sides of the rally have been critical of police inaction in the rally, putting blame on them for the out-of-control violence that occurred on Sunday.
“There was no police presence,” Brittany Caine-Conley, a minister-in-training who protested the alt-right rally, told The New York Times. “We were watching people punch each other; people were bleeding all the while police were inside of barricades at the park, watching. It was essentially just brawling on the street and community members trying to protect each other.”
McAuliffe was asked about the criticism of law enforcement’s inaction Sunday, to which he offered an odd response — he blamed the presence of armed militia for why police didn’t do more. “They had better equipment than our State Police had,” the governor said of why police stayed put and watched the violence unfold.
But, according to ProPublica, the militia members seemed to be the only ones breaking up fights and trying to keep the peace in the tumult.
Prior to Charlottesville, Berkeley was the locale synonymous with political violence.
In the two events most associated with the California college town, police were nowhere to be found. During the riot that shut down Milo Yiannopoulos’ planned speech at UC-Berkeley, antifa were able to attack anyone they thought may be an attendee and wreak havoc on town stores. All thanks to a muted police presence.
At the “Battle of Berkeley” in April, Trump supporters and antifa were able to brawl for a whole Saturday with nary a cop in sight.
It doesn’t look like the violence will dissipate following Saturday’s chaos, as the clashes between Trump supporters and antifa the following day in Seattle prove.
But there is a surefire way to prevent further deaths and serious injury: let the police do their job to enforce law and order.
Both McAuliffe and Signer should be taken to task for police inaction in Charlottesville — and blaming militiamen isn’t going to cut it as an excuse.
The rabid snarling mongrels – bloggers and pundits alike – see that there’s only one hate group in America and it’s on the right – forget those who on the left hate Trump . The modern home of sheer, unbridled hatred today is the Democrat Party and the people that vote for them. The American left can’t hold a candle to anybody when it comes to hate. They have learned how to market it. They have learned how to sell it. They have learned how to put it into practice. And every other hater out there is a piker compared to the people on the left who practice hate. They get away with their hate by having it disguised as compassion and caring and defense of victims.
So where does this end? Who has the authority to rewrite the history that these groups want to white wash? What will be the truth? a mad dash all across the country to take down statues. A Chicago pastor has asked Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, to remove a George Washington statue. Confederates were taken down in Baltimore overnight. A Brooklyn Army base has been urged to rename streets honoring Confederate generals.
The Dallas mayor called Confederate statues “propaganda,” and a Hollywood cemetery has succumbed to threats and has removed a memorial. And this is just a short little list of some of the events that are occurring now in what looks to be a mad dash to comply with the latest conventional wisdom and to make sure that you are seen on the correct side of it.
Shall we get rid of the Rocky statue in Phil. Art Museum – you don’t really think he might have colluded with that Putin! Now Mayor Rizzo? How about blowing up the faces on the mountain? Monticello, Mt Vernon, the WhiteHouse Does it stop when the call goes out to burn the text books on history? So where does it stop – to satisfy them? It never will. History may be painful, but to not repeat the pain reminders may be necessary.
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Compare the words of George H., George W. and Obama against those of the Orange IDIOT.
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Bush yesterday released a joint statement with his father, George H.W. Bush, from Kennebunkport. “America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms,” they said. “As we pray for Charlottesville, we are reminded of the fundamental truths recorded by that city’s most prominent citizen in the Declaration of Independence: we are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights. We know these truths to be everlasting because we have seen the decency and greatness of our country.”
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Apple does a bad job of not paying employees a decent salary and hides its profits overseas. Apple products are made in China. Having said that, at least the CEO recognizes that Trump has espoused ideas that, “…run counter to our ideals as Americans”.
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Headline: Read Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Email To Employees About Charlottesville
On Wednesday evening Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email to all global employees condemning racism and bigotry as well as President Trump’s response to the tragedy in Charlottesville, according to an email obtained by BuzzFeed News.
“Hate is a cancer,” Cook wrote to employees, noting that Apple must be “unequivocal” about fighting and denouncing bigotry in all forms… Most notably, he came out strongly against Trump’s press conference remarks on Tuesday afternoon.
“I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights. Equating the two runs counter to our ideals as Americans,” he wrote…
https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/read-apple-ceo-tim-cooks-email-to-employees-about?utm_term=.kwG889Nkz
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Insurers blast Trump’s comments on Charlottesville, Va….Politico
The CEOs of Aetna and Anthem issued memos to staff on Wednesday where they castigated the president for his comments on a white supremacist protest in Charlottesville. Trump on Tuesday defended some of the protesters as “very fine people,” and said they had a right to protest and blamed “both sides” for the resulting riots.
“I am ashamed of our President’s behavior and comments,” wrote Aetna chief Mark Bertolini. “We can only remain great if we remain intolerant of hate.”
“The violence and radical ideology at the center of the protests were no less than an assault on human dignity and our societal foundation. There is no place for these actions or sentiments in our country,” Anthem’s Joe Swedish wrote.
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Trump: “Racists and Nazi’s are fine. It’s those Mexicans we have to worry about.”
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The Mexicans and any one else that are the ILLEGALs and broke the law regarding the proper procedures of entrance of immigration, M13 gangs, those individuals who can not be vetted from any country – Muslim nations, or other countries, whose administrations do not have the systems to verify backgrounds.
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