Guy Chamberlin Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 If you know anything about Steve Bannon, you'd know that the nightmare scenarios we're witnessing are actually his dream come true. 3 Link to comment
zoogs Posted August 14, 2017 Author Share Posted August 14, 2017 https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/10155897809698690/?hc_ref=ARTodC__uetYU4s6fHXm5wovw4pu3-qdB33vioIgFghEvi70Sfyhdu7k8JpP5-6po3A "In this country we have no *other* people." Link to comment
RedDenver Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 We say we want America run more like a business, and to let Trump be the head businessman, but nothing he's advanced makes sense on even the simplest business level. We are pursuing the massive financial undertakings of healthcare, immigration reform (multi-billion dollar wall and huge personnel increase), tax reform and the federal budget itself with virtually no cost/benefit analysis. There's not a CEO in America who would be allowed to move as quickly and vindictively with other people's money on the line. Does anybody really want America run like a business? Not much democracy or liberty in a business. 1 Link to comment
Scratchtown Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/10155897809698690/?hc_ref=ARTodC__uetYU4s6fHXm5wovw4pu3-qdB33vioIgFghEvi70Sfyhdu7k8JpP5-6po3A "In this country we have no *other* people." Good Vid 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 These people are so full of BS. 3 Link to comment
zoogs Posted August 14, 2017 Author Share Posted August 14, 2017 That's the latest revision. This Administration needs to get the right answers hammered into them by the public response before begrudgingly ceding some ground through minor side channels. Those side channels at the outset, as confirmed by several outlets: It was only after a day of criticism that the White House — but, crucially, not Trump himself — clarified that when he condemned violence and bigotry on “many sides,” “of course that includes white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazis and all extremist groups.” https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/13/16140504/trump-charlottesville-white-supremacists We also know exactly what the white supremacists felt about Trump's response: they loved it (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/13/one-group-loved-trumps-remarks-about-charlottesville-white-supremacists/?utm_term=.bb851b8b86b8). This has gone FAR, far past "it's an accident" territory with this Administration. -- Glad you liked the video, Coach! That was produced by the U.S. in the WWII era. These are the battles we must fight again and again, generation after generation. Values wither when left untended. Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Trump's failure to condemn Nazis/KKK/White Supremacists is tacit approval of their existence. He's going to need to get out in front of this or he's not going to have a prayer of a chance in 2020. Swing voters will not vote for a Nazi sympathizer. 2 Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 It's not just placard-carrying hippies who speaking out. Trump's inaction/failure to condemn is not sitting well with at least one CEO, either. 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Trump has FINALLY forcefully condemned something that happened last weekend! He's pissed about the above tweet. 1 Link to comment
NM11046 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 I had to leave the gym this morning because I couldn't drown out the two gals behind me that were asking "why is everybody blaming Trump for this?" "Obama allowed BLM to march and said nothing - why is Trump not allowed to do the same?" Sickening. Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 That's the thing. Conservatives, especially those who watch Fox News, have been conditioned to believe that Black Lives Matter is as evil as the alt-right. They see them as the exact, polar opposite of those hate groups. There's a sense of 'They're getting what they deserve' in all the temporizing, all the failures to condemn. It's exactly the kind of #fakenews Trump has been spouting off about, but since conservatives don't consume anything but conservative propaganda, they have no way of knowing that they're being lied to. 2 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Trump has FINALLY forcefully condemned something that happened last weekend! He's pissed about the above tweet. What a jerk and Bravo to the Merck executive for speaking out. Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Ronald Reagan had something to say about these people. Another takeaway from Reagan denouncing racists is this: That was 30 years ago, and they were dealing with the same problems. We will never get rid of racism. Us vs. Them is ingrained in our DNA since before our ancestors came down out of the trees. All we can do is fight against it wherever we see it. 1 Link to comment
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