On Saturday, Trump said that the violence in Charlottesville was caused by “many sides.”
On Monday, in response to outrage from members of his own party, he finally spoke out against new-Nazis, white suptremacists, and the KKK.
However, today he forget what he said yesterday.
At a news conference, he went back to blaming “both sides.”
Trump doubles down on initial Charlottesville response, saying ‘there is blame on both sides’ for violence – The Washington Post
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Just when you think our Dear Leader might figure out it’s time to quit digging, he made this statement today (I transcribed it):
“There were people in that rally, and I looked, the night before, if you look there were people protesting, very quietly, the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I’m sure in that group there were some bad ones, the following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them. But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest, and very legally protest, because, I don’t know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit. So, I only tell you this, there are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country, a horrible moment, but there are two sides to the country.”
Read that a couple of times. Those hateful faces bearing torches on Friday night were “there to innocently protest.” Read it again. This is the president of the United States. According to his interpretation of history, those torch marches in the days of the Third Reich were “innocent” marchers.
Oh, and he reminded us that he owns a house in Charlottesville and has a large (the largest) winery on the East Coast.
David Duke, Richard Spencer, and all the neo-Nazis in the nation and the White House are whooping it up and cheering.
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Since The Daily Stormer got kicked off of its server and Google rejected it too, we won’t hear their cheering.
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And that silencing is a problem. I’d rather their thoughts and proposed actions be out in the open. All the more easier to counteract their insane bloviations.
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Dwayne,
I’d prefer they go hide under a rock. That would reflect awareness of public rebuke of deplorable ideas and values. They are emerging now because Trump has given a green light. That leads to spread.
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Duane, you could not be more right. If they are going to hate, they should be permitted to be open about how evil and lame they really are. It serves to educate the rest of the country.
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I like the slip of “there are two sides to the country” instead of “the story.”
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FLERP!: you always—I mean always—cut to the heart of the matter! I almost want to forgive Romney for his 47% remark. Almost.
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Trump specifically used the term, the “Alt-Left” the last three days, and pointed to the many young Dems who stood up and protested, as “initiators of violence.” This morning Pence joined him by saying he stands by everything HIS President said. So both are pro-neo Naziis, pro KKK, pro whitening America, and getting rid of all those of color…and of all Jews who they shout “will not replace them”.
Also we see this morning that Israel was attacked yesterday at both their northern and southern borders, by Hezbollah and Hamas, but primarily from Syria which uses the Russian weapons their ally and Trump’s good pal, Putin, gives them.
Too many nations have access to nuclear capability including the US and Israel, India and Pakistan, and probably Iran very soon…and of course N. Korea. Of these, autocrats and fundamental religious whackos are largely in charge.
We are on the verge of a world wide conflagration if we don’t depose this administration. They were elected by less than 1/6 of America’s population, and do not reflect the opinions of most of us.
There is no moral equivalency between Nazi and KKK behavior and those who were protesting their hateful and highly charged bigotry which was a call to arms for the multitude of other Trump voters. It was Trump who released these virulent bigots to come out from under their rocks…and now Pandora’s box is open and David Duke has welcomed them all in “the name of Donald Trump”….all of it now is on public record. This full fledged demagogue who rules us MUST be deposed by impeachment, the 25th Amendment, or whatever rule of law that will get rid of him.
But we MUST work to dump his supporters and/or true cowards who value Party over Country…starting with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, and the other wimps in the Republic legislature.
Concurrently, we MUST work to get our younger Dem legislators to run for higher offices…early money and publicity are vital.
Arthur…you can’t hide under a rock…your voice is huge…this is the time the nation needs to hear from you and from all of us who truly believe in our democratic republic.
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“They were there to protest taking down the statue of Robert E. Lee. What’s next? George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. They were slave owners.”
Yes, the two presidents should be called out for that. But, they were not traitors who led a rebellion to protect slavery. His defenders are defending what the Confederacy stood for in retrospect!
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Interesting that there is no protesting the statue of Vladimir Lenin that stands in the Fremont district of Seattle. He murdered 5,000,000 people by starving them to death.
Maybe it is time to take a second look at all things. But, we are currently seeing a power grab by a minority on the left.
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Robert E. Lee was a traitor. Are you defending him? The statue in Charlottesville was erected in 1924 as a tribute to white supremacy and treason.
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I thought it was Stalin that murdered millions of farmers that refused to give up their farms to the collective.
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The right has control of all three branches of the federal government, the majority of governs are GOP as are most state houses and you’re concerned about a power grab from the left? What a joke. Who exactly is this left minority and what power remains for them to grab?
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Well said, Diane! Exactly!
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Not sure if you realize it, but it DOES take 2 to fight. And the fighting started on Friday already…
I take it that you approve of the needless destruction following events in Ferguson, Minneapolis etc?
And the violence perpetrated by the protestors during G20 and like meetings by those who claim to be against whatever it is they “fight” for this time?
So much for the lessons by Ghandi, Bonhoeffer, M. L. King…
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It takes two to fight? Always? I hope you remember that next time you get mugged.
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There were two sides to that mugging.
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Watch Trump press conference. He says that the neo-Nazis were not all bad people. Carrying torches, saying “Sig Heil” doesn’t make them bad people.
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It’s a pickle. You don’t want to alienate the neo-Nazi base.
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I saw video of a tie dye clad woman on the anti-Nazi side using her bare fists to hit a man wearing black Nazi regalia (and mask). The man approached her with a club extended toward her and tried to beat her with the club. She defended herself. Successfully. What a woman! There was violence on both sides, it’s true — if one doesn’t take all the facts into account.
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Suggest that we avoid strawmen.
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It is very simple. if you march shoulder to shoulder with Nazis, you are a Nazi. If you fought Nazis in Normandy or Charlottesville . You are an American hero . Yes Mr Trumputin there are equivalencies .
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dienne77:
Yes, it does take two to fight. The one that started the fight, and the one that is defending him or herself.
Then there are those who refuse to fight and just end up bloody, beaten, and sometimes dead. That’s is a crime. It is an assault on innocent people who did nothing – not even fight back or stand to stop the hate; the racism.
In this case, the Nazis, the KKK, and the other racist hate groups have a long history going back many generations of violence against those they hate. The Nazis murdered millions who did not put up a fight as the victims were shipped off to the death camps. The KKK hung thousand of innocent blacks, Chinese, and Latinos/Hispanics who did nothing wrong but have black and brown skin. How many millions were murdered just because they were born Jewish?
This is the bottom line. Anyone that marches to a Nazi flag, a Confederate flag, or wears the white hooded uniform of the KKK today, no matter what their age, are no different than those earlier racists who murdered, tormented, and bullied millions of people, and these modern day racists deserve what they get.
I don’t want anyone to turn their cheek to these monsters. I want to see the white supremacists in the United States stopped, and if that means they end up dead or injured and bloody, or on the run and in hiding in fear from the wrath of everyone else, so be it.
Those of us that are not hate filled racists must stand up and let the world know we will not allow this to happen again – not on our watch.
And standing up might mean fighting back and even attacking first.
This is a war between evil and good, and Trump doesn’t have a soul. He is the anointed king of evil and hate.
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I’m with you, LLoyd. These moral degenerates are holding rallies in nine cities this weekend, looking for a fight. We can’t let them intimidate us with their Nazi symbols, their KKK hoods, and hatefulness. Those who make excuses for them insult every American who fought against Nazis in World War 2 and everyone who died at the hands of the KKK.
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Nine cities…I’m astounded at the amount of underground hatred that Trump has unleashed in this country. He is definitely morally degenerate, and speaks out to his kind.
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I while I wont start anything, Lloyd, I most assuredly will fight back if attacked, with everything I can. I won’t “take a punch.”
I used to think like that when I was young. I no longer do. People have pointed out that Gandhi was peaceful. He was, but the British, while racists, we’re not like the resurgent KKK or the neo-Nazis. And MLK was peaceful. But he was assassinated. As were Medgar Evers and a whole bunch of other Civil Rights workers.
The time for passivity is past.
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Gandi was assassinated too.
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Mental health experts estimate 1-3% of the population are sociopaths.
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Oh for God’s sake!
These Lee-defending morons should have at least directed their actions literally against people like Pelosi, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, and Chuck Schumer. They should know who maintains and grows the plutocracy rather than turn against their own brethren who, like them, suffer from the plutocracy’s grip on wealth and power.
If you’re going to be bad, be bad against the right people.
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In a sense, I strongly agree with you, Lloyd! WELL PUT!
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I take it you would have approved of Kristallnacht then? Only one side was destroying things there, the victims were the Jews and the Jewish shop owners.
Gee, if it were not for the Jews, who would the Nazis have had to attack?
Think about what you just said. There is in this case a right side and a wrong side.
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L. Kinyon:
If the majority of Germans had stood up to the Nazis trading violence for violence with the Nazi racists, there might not have been a WW II.
When it comes to white supremacists, the advice in the Old Testament is the best advice to follow. When you follow the New Testament advice of turning your face so they can bash your other side, they just keep on hitting until your body is a burnt crisp hanging from a tree.
Exodus 21:24 ESV / 151 helpful votes
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
When the white supremacists come with clubs, helmets, and shields, we come with the same weapons ready to do battle.
If the white supremacists come with assault rifles, we come with them too.
When the white supremacists plant a huge cross in our yards and set it on fire, we set them on fire.
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Lloyd, I agree. I will certainly not start anything, but if they come after me and mine, we will fight back. We will not turn the other cheek.
And we will never forget, either. We might well forgive, if they are truly remorseful, but we will not forget.
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Ironic that you should post that on the birthday of India. Recall that their independence came after a very organized turning of the other cheek. Satyugruha? Did I spell,that right?
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Turning the other cheek in India was with the British Empire. Try turning the other cheek with a Hitler loving Nazi. That didn’t work out well during World War II in Germany and the other countries Hitler blitzed.
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I disagree with you guys.
Protests must be peaceful. You can’t be violent.
Take this whole thing with Charlottesville, for instance. A woman was killed, for Christ’s sakes, because a Nazi ran a car into a crowd. It is absolutely terrible. The Nazi was the one who got in the car, turned on the car, and ran it into the crowd. Obviously, obviously, the Nazi is at fault.
And the Republicans I know don’t care.
They don’t care because
1.) They believe that the left has been violent in the past.
2.) They believe that the counter-protestors were violent in this rally.
If nobody had been violent, if nobody had fought back at all during the rally, then we would have had a much, much, much bigger win for public opinion. But people fought back. So now, instead of reaching those Trump supporters that might have been reached, all of this outrage is ONLY reaching the Anti-Trumpers. The only people outraged are the people who hated Trump to begin with.
So now here we are. Half of the country is stunned, and the other half doesn’t give a crap. Even my friends who are not white – they are non-white Republicans – don’t care. I would think that something like this would have at least reached the Trump supporters who weren’t white -but nope. It didn’t.
That’s how damaging the counter-protestors fighting back was to the overall public opinion.
So if you guys wind up at a protest and you don’t need to protect anyone, don’t fight back. Be peaceful. Take the punch. You might lose that fight, but you would win a much, much bigger battle.
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How did that public opinion work out for the Jews of Europe .
Or the Lynched blacks in the American South.
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Joel, you know I love you like a virtual brother, but I struggle with the question you pose. On the one hand, I am completely in agreement with you. I want to punch the Nazi (and I have in a past life). But on the other hand, I’m trying to understand pacifism, which is why I am rereading Nicholson Baker’s “Human Smoke”, Adam Hochschild’s “To End All Wars”, and Taylor Branch’s trilogy of the civil rights movement.
To practice nonviolence is a heroic commitment. The Gandhian of ahimsa, “principled nonviolence, even at the risk of imprisonment, starvation, and death” is, to me, the height of principled faith. When Martin Luther King, Jr. was punched in the face by a racist, his commitment to ahimsa was so profound that he dropped his arms and let himself be punched rather than retaliate.
I don’t know the answer. I don’t know how I would respond in these circumstances until I was faced with them. I don’t know if my fundamental commitment is to the short term or a faith in the eventual goodness of the the long term. Would I, as Robert Heilbronner once posed the question, decide “what has posterity ever done for me” or sacrifice myself for a posterity that is greater than what I can now envision? I just won’t know until I am confronted with an actual situational choice. I can only hope that I will make the right decision.
I had a grandfather I never knew who faced this dilemma, made his choice, and knew he would die if he failed. And he died understanding the choices he had made. That haunts me. For now, I know I will resist the regime of our Dear Leader. But I don’t know how deep my commitment is. I wish I did. I just hope I make the right choice for me and my posterity.
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GregB
Under normal circumstance I would agree with you. When fascism reaches the highest seat of power in Government . This is no longer normal circumstance.
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Joel,
If someone drags you out of your house or school or workplace or neighborhood to lynch you or to take you to a concentration camp, then of course you should fight back.
If you are at an organized protest, then be peaceful. The mob probably shouldn’t pull down statues either.
Remember the civil rights movement? Martin Luther King was the one who changed the world, not Malcom X.
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And what did Martin Luther King get for it, a bullet
So did Gandi
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L. Kinyon: it only took one nazi loving scum to mow down scores of people, killing one woman and grievously maiming many others.
Thanks for throwing in your usual straw men, red herrings and other assorted deflections.
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I’m mystified by the notion that liberals/progressives are supposed to be non-violent and if they defend themselves they are then called hypocrites.
This thinking justifies, or at least condones violence by conservatives because they never promised to be non-violent, so they can’t be charged with hypocrisy.
This thinking feeds the illusion that liberals are soft and yielding, not strong and obdurate. These stereotypical liberal attributes, created by the right contribute mightily to the current partisan split of th electorate.
If you demonize your opponents and make them “less”, it’s easier to defeat and destroy them because they are weak and soft, etc.
I won’t instigate and start anything, but I will defend my life if it is threatened. I’m as liberal as they come, but woe to the tea-bagger who expects this science teacher to take a beating.
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L. A. Times had the following account from an eye-witness…
“University of Virginia student Isabella Ciambotti: “I was on Market Street around 11:30 a.m. when a counter-protester ripped a newspaper stand off the sidewalk and threw it at alt-right protesters. I saw another man from the white supremacist crowd being chased and beaten. People were hitting him with their signs. A much older man, also with the alt-right group, got pushed to the ground in the commotion. Someone raised a stick over his head and beat the man with it, and that’s when I screamed and ran over with several other strangers to help him to his feet.”
Several other accounts in the same location… In this particular account, the fight was started by the counter-protesters…
And I am sure there were other instances where the same was the case.
If you are so blinded by your dislike for the one group that facts no longer matter, I feel sorry for you.
My dislike for White Supremacists should not blind me to facts. But then, as was stated here yesterday, “I would rather have a sniper riffle fro about half a mile away and shoot them…,” that really makes me wonder what in the world the First Amendment is all about.
Boston Mayor handed out a permit for a demonstration this coming weekend. He believes the message to be the same as last week. He has stipulated however, that there will be no guns, bats etc. He also signed permits for opposing groups – but has vowed to keep them totally separated from each other.
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He had to revert back to his old rotten self. Or did he just forget what he said yesterday? There was only one side that committed murder. And then some of the alt-right had to call the dead lady names.
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Only one side arrived with bats and wearing helmets. They were prepared for more than a peaceful protest.
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I am sorry–I saw both sides covered or in disguise from the police. There were church members I know walking with the antifas , antiwhite supremacists, BLMs side who did not engage in violence.
There were also citizens who were peacefully marching in opposition to removing the Gen Lee statue, who feel that you cannot change history by removing symbols.
If you read the history of this wise military genius and absolutely remarkable man and educator (see” Robert E. Lee On Leadership” by H.W. Crocker) you might understand his feelings on slavery, the union, faithfulness, Christianity, service, duty and leadership. There is reason to be proud of General Lee!.
The Curtis-Lee plantation seized by the Federal government along with the inherited possessions of George Washington passed down through Mary Curtis-Lee’s family would someday become Arlington National Cemetery.
There are 2 sides to this story that certainly run deep. Both sides are guilty of violence. Ironically–its people who have never been slaves fighting people who have never been a German Nazi. The KKK and NeoNazis were singled out by the president as being very bad and violent. He called the other side violent (I listened carefully to the news interview) The KKK bunch had a permit–the opposition had a permit (president said that they did not) but it was for another area. The antifas crossed the line begging for a confrontation. Perhaps this tragedy may not have happened had the protest marchers been staged differently and farther apart and had policing been more proactive. Why are they not protecting people and property? Perhaps the media could have stayed out of it instead of trying to make it a chance to get Trump.
What we should be asking ourselves is how far will progressives go to wipe out the memory of the Civil War through the destruction of monuments? When will the 10 Commandments (also under attack) be torn down or statues of presidents and political statesmen (both sides) who owned slaves or advocated racism be removed? Will names of colleges, schools and roads be changed to protect the sensitive and easily offended? How about a discussion of the antiwhite rhetoric fueling white nationalism and the part the media plays in it? Just where and when will it end? Just stop trying to blame Trump for the nations woes. These problems have been ongoing for many, many years and will continue long after him.
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“Just stop trying to blame Trump for the nations woes.”
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Trump is the reason the recent flare-ups are continuing. Politically correct language is no longer correct because our leader let it be known that now we can openly hate and spew foul language all over the country.
As I stated earlier, the purpose of our President is to work to heal wounds. Our failed President is opening them and pouring acid to scar permanently. He has no repentance.
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Big swing and a miss. The source for Robert E. Lee you cite is exactly where it belongs—in history books and museums—but certainly not in public spaces. Manstein and Rommel are in the same category. But if either were alive today, neither would support having monuments built in their names and images. But Rommel’s son, a longtime liberal mayor of Stuttgart, would agree that both belong in history books. He would have opposed the erection of monuments in his father’s name. Too bad you don’t see the distinctions.
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“How about a discussion of the antiwhite rhetoric fueling white nationalism and the part the media plays in it?”
You truly are a sick little person . : “antiwhite rhetoric ” what anti white rhetoric . The monuments you so cherish are symbols of repression erected in the Jim Crow South . Erected to serve notice that the reconstruction is over and Blacks are to treated as less than freemen again. .
Robert E Lee is not an American hero he was an American traitor.
Responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans . In
an effort to subjugate the rights of other human beings. Slavery is not a cherished past . It was a stain on the American experience. Those who led others many times unwilling to their deaths in defense of slavery are to be disdained, this is not a cherished past . This is a period as bad as the death camps of Germany, whose supporters were also at the rally . Nothing to be proud about being an American traitor. As there was nothing to be proud about being a German Nazi .
Donald Trump by playing to your sick paranoia of being a repressed majority , is directly responsible for empowering this movement. A movement that stayed in the shadows till they had their man in the White House. Can your sick little mind come up with the “antiwhite” rhetoric that so troubles you . . What rhetoric was it that troubles you . Perhaps it is” Black Lives matter “. Obviously not to you but there is nothing that is anti white about it .
And perhaps what you are missing is that overwhelming majority of those who came to protest the scum Nazis and Klansman were white.
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General Lee fought to preserve slavery. He was responsible for the deaths of 600,000 Americans. No hero.
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The rally is condemnable even if there had not been violent clashes- because of what it stood for: preservation of White, Christian supremacy and domination.
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Yes! It should rightly be condemned, but at the same time they should, no not should but do have the right to express their vile thoughts. When it crosses over into violence then that is a different story. I say keep the roaches out in the light, all the easier to see and crush (intellectually speaking).
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Everyone in this country should denounce the hatred, discrimination, racism, white supremacy and bigotry which has been enflamed by our ignorant President. He has failed as a leader. His job is to unite people, not spread more injustice and distrust.
He spoke out too late yesterday and couldn’t even stand by that statement today. HIs real self is a person who values wealth, has no morality or ethics and continues to spread chaos. He stomps on the values that have built this country.
Donald Trump is a walking disaster. How in the world are we going to tolerate more of this?
I think our only hope is Russia. Get this moron out of office.
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Once again, Carol, you hit the rhetorical nail on the head. My only quibble with you is the use of the word moron. I can deal with morons. Today we finally have confirmation that this man-child is evil to the core.
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I dunno, I kind of prefer the Trump who just lets it all hang out. Diplomacy doesn’t suit him. After all, regardless of what he says, we know what he thinks anyway, so why should he bother to pretend? I mean, did anyone really believe the mumbo jumbo he said yesterday?
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I love it as dienne said .Had he not taken it back the media would have been saying he is turning presidential . Have no fear, by the end of the week he will be fanning the flames on the Korean peninsula once again. Go Donald go . .
Personally I think the NYPD should stop protecting all Trump properties in NYC . The buildings department should then condemn the properties for the stink emitting from them.The sanitation department should let the garbage pile up. And if he holds back funding for the NYPD, NY’rs should hold back their taxes .See who wins that one .
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“Personally I think the NYPD should stop protecting all Trump properties in NYC . The buildings department should then condemn the properties for the stink emitting from them.”
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Great thinking!!! Wish this were a reality wakeup call for the Buffoon.
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You can not wake up the brain dead
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Oh, come on, don’t blame Trump for supporting racists.
Crucify him, but don’t blame him.
Draw and quarter him, but don’t blame him.
Burn him at the stake, but don’t blame him.
Boil him in oil, but don’t blame him.
How can you blame a racist for supporting racists?
He doesn’t read so he knows nothing about the history of racists and all the people they have murdered all over the world for millennia. Racists come in every color, but whites seem to outnumber the rest of the world when it comes to violent racist acts.
Trump only reads guys who claim the Holocaust never happened, so he is ignorant. He has no idea how many millions have been murdered, tortured, and suppressed by racists like him.
Now the Alt-Right has invented the Alt-Left. Where did Trump read that? I don’t think this Fake President ever has an original thought of his own.
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If I draw, will you quarter? Or vice versa?
Also, they were trying to test market alt-left right after the elections. It’s only today that it went public.
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Alt-Right invents Alt-Left = more psyops
No, I don’t want to do it. I want to tie four ropes from his arms and legs to four horses, one rope, and limb to each horse, and then have the horses all run in the opposite direction from each other while his torso stays behind.
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Thanks, Lloyd! Right on comment.
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Puts me in mind of this wonderful bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCrABvZy8uc
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LOL
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That is really odd. Shortly before I posted that, I thought, “This blog really misses Bob Shepherd.” No shit.
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Always a great pleasure to read your thoughtful (and funny) posts, FLERP!
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FLERP: “There are two sides to that mugging.” LMAO!
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Sorry, off topic again but in another way it’s very on topic. I just caught Diane’s interview by Chris Hedges on his show at RT. Excellent, thanks Diane. If this was already posted, my apologies. This interview was new to me.
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The established kkk got its start at lynchings
The neo-nazis got its start following a damaged leader.
The so called Alt-LEFT got its start at Woodstock
He thinks it’s all about one rally – “nah nah – the bigots had a permit and those mean granola eaters yelled at them.”
Somehow they got him to say on script Sunday using every word they squeeze every democracy and religious reference into a statement. And he couldn’t take it.
I sure hope the Dems are keeping tally of who speaks out and who is silent (on this and the dozens of other lies and machinations) and plays it over and over and over in 2018.
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Alt-right=fascists=neo-Nazis.
Alt-left does not exist. It is a mirage, a red herring, a straw man, a vicious fiction conjured by the alt-right=fascist=neo-Nazis.
Please do not fall into their trap by giving this propagandistic term, alt-right=fascist=neo-Nazis, any foothold whatsoever.
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…term, invented by the alt-right…
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hence the Woodstock reference – – –
he’s an angry white man because a Black President was, is, and always will be more popular than him –
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Diana, I am so sorry I have to use some salty language to say what I have to say. But I have no other way to say what I feel as a Jew, the son of a Veteran, a liberal and a true American. There is no moral equivalency between KKK, White Supremacists, and Nazis and those who believe in a society that includes everyone socially, economically and politically. I will say it again, one has freedom of speech, but hate speech has consequences. You have just yelled fire in a movie theater and that is where your absolute freedom of speech ends. When the son of a veteran who fought the Nazis in World War II sees that swastika flag, I have the freedom to rip it into a million pieces and spit on the person who holds it because I feel there is a clear and present danger to my very existence (as those who protested against them in Charlottesville must have felt).These pieces of dreck are the true enemies to our freedom and democracy and we of the left must, must do what we can to protect not only our body but our country. Donald Trump, you are unAmerican and lower than the snakes that marched in Charlottesville..
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More salt please!
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It feels as if we are living in the twilight zone. Sadly all of this is just too troubling and unbelievable to comprehend.
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dreck, that’s it . Good comment but he must be on a salt free diet .
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Need anyone point out that Trump’s daughter Ivanka is a Jew via conversion just prior to her marriage Jared Kushner? Therefore, Trump’s daughter son-in-l;aw, his son-in-law, and his three grandchildren from that marriage are all Jews.
Keep that in mind while you watch the short clip BELOW.
A FOX News reporter walks to the head of a stream of Neo-Nazi’s, and approaches the apparent leader of this group of marchers — “the one who appears to be directing the others” says the reporter — and asks for a quote.
The Neo-Nazi Leader replies, commenting on the police use of tear gas:
NEO-NAZI LEADER: “‘The f#%ing Jew-lovers are gassing us!”
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Diane, I’m so glad that you were interviewed by Chris Hedges (& on RT)! Thanks, Joe–I’ll have to get in on YouTube. As always,Thom Hartmann’s “The Big Picture” & Lee Camp’s “Redacted Tonight” (Lee has been called “the John Oliver of RT” by Salon; I believe Redacted was on before Last Week Tonight). Both of them have taken on & reported about the charter school industry; Lee presented a scathing, sarcastic & hilarious report, equal to that of John Oliver. If you want to laugh (really hard), watch Redacted (every episode is on YouTube, & he also has a Thursday night show: Redacted Tonight, V.I.P.–2 weeks ago, he interviewed Alec Baldwin). If you want to watch great political analysis, watch Thom (sure you all know he has a radio program that’s broadcast on progressive talk radio stations nationwide).
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How interesting that a ultra-conservative Fox news commentator has the guts to say that Trump is a ‘moral disgrace’. It isn’t often that I agree with Krauthammer but he is spot on in this occasion.
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Headline: Charles Krauthammer Slams Trump’s Take On Charlottesville As ‘A Moral Disgrace’ …HuffPost
Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer called President Donald Trump’s bizarre rant at a press conference in New York City Tuesday about the violent Charlottesville white supremacy rally a “moral disgrace.”
The syndicated columnist appeared aghast on Fox News’ “Special Report” when fellow panelist Laura Ingraham suggested that Trump had become “sidetracked” and caught in a “pundit trap” when he became defensive about his response to the weekend’s events in Virginia, instead of talking about the planned press conference topic of infrastructure.
“To critique what he did today on the grounds that it distracts from the agenda or was a tactical mistake I believe is a cop-out,” Krauthammer told Ingraham. “What Trump did today was a moral disgrace.” ..
Read the entire article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/charles-krauthammer-trump-a-moral-disgrace-fox-news_us_5993c9f1e4b04b19336176fe
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Does anyone have a link to the video Trump was talking about showing the alt-left bearing billy clubs and attacking the alt-right –preferably not from Fox News?
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Quartz: The case against free speech for fascists
https://qz.com/1053957/charlottesville-neo-nazis-and-the-case-against-free-speech-for-fascists/
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” The quotation—incorrectly attributed to the French enlightenment…
…Given limited energy and resources, maybe defending the rights of violent bigots isn’t the noble choice in every case—especially when those bigots predictably use their platform to silence others….
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T-Rump is WRONG AGAIN!
What reality is T-Rump living? Lala-land?
T-Rump trashes Our Constitution with every action. He’s a very SICK person and a moron.
He is always deflecting blame from himself. He has had people making excuses for him his entire life.
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Yvonne, he’s playing to his base.
What do we expect when he has people like alt-right Steve Bannon and Nazi Sebastian Gorka advising him? Not to mention Stephen Miller.
That last one I don’t get, since Miller is Jewish. But then, so are Jared and Ivanka, and they sure haven’t said anything in public.
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Did any of you read this? OMG…this is fascism ala T-Rump.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/08/15/trump-doj-wants-info-every-person-who-visited-anti-trump-protest-site
T-RUMP is dangerous and unhinged.
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I read that tRump yells at his TV set. I shed crocodile tears. [Pence is no better. Watch all the Republicans’ sigh of relief at being able to get all their wishes fulfilled.]
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‘Art Of The Deal’ Co-Author Tony Schwartz Predicts Trump’s About To Resign
Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal
Tony Schwartz is predicting that the president is getting ready to call it quits ― and that the resignation will happen soon.
Read the entire article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tony-schwartz-trump-resign_us_59952d91e4b06ef724d64fd6
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