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He was basically giving the white supremacist a free pass by not even mentioning him, and also spreading the blame for the killing to both sides.Originally Posted by theengel
Do you think white supremacy is a good thing? Are you a white supremacist?
A question like that sounds just as silly coming from me as it does coming from you
so white supremacy is the only kind of racism? You’re OK with it as long as it’s not white supremacy?
[QUOTE=copier addict;590955]"He was basically giving the white supremacist a free pass by not even mentioning him"
WOW.. based on your extremely biased interpretation , it seems you would have found fault with any statement POTUS Trump made.
That's what you got out of my statement? You're kidding, right?
A man killed another person intentionally. Nothing was mentioned of this by your pres.
He simply stated that bad things were done by "many sides". When in fact, bad things were only done by one side. The white supremacist side.
We were discussing the incident in Charlottesville, so please don't make a general statement about me concerning the larger evil of racism.
[QUOTE=Geo;591017]Nope! All he had to do was condemn the white supremacist that drove the car intentionally into another human being and killed her.
President Trump came out 3 different times and denounced the acts of the WS person... and YES he did blame the members of AntiFa and BLM for their actions... who else do you want him to denounce on this matter?
Sorry, I should have been more specific. He didn't condemn the white supremacist without a lot of prodding from a lot of people. Instead, he chose to blame people who were not responsible for the young woman's death.
[QUOTE=copier addict;591028]Again it's your interpretation and your dissatisfaction with the choice of words...Seems Trumps statement didn't have the proper P.C. nomenclature.
not true... the day it happened he condemned the driver... but IF the young girl hadn't been there as a member of AntiFa... then she would be alive still.
AntiFa has been causing shit from the left to the right coast. Hell some almost beat a trump supporter to death in NYC the other night.
Protest is part of the reason for our Republic. It is allowed/encouraged by our 1st amendment. Whether some want to make it a "violent" outcome is on them. I have seen many left leaning folks blame him for everything under the sun. While those same people never mention all the GOOD that has been done in the past 12 months.
Do you remember seeing conservatives out busting windows... setting fire to cars/buildings? Yeah? neither do I.
The US Gov't shutdown and then prompt re-opening is being portrayed as a victory by President Trump, the White House and Fox News and a defeat for Democrat Senate Leader Schumer and the Democrats.
I see it more as a trial balloon. It is a strong warning to the country that the Democrats have the power to bring the country to a shutdown again if the Republicans do not come to the table and agree to a DACA solution.
While the right wing media speaks of the estimated 800,000 DACA residents (Dreamers) as illegal aliens, these people are really undocumented citizens who have lived in the USA for almost all of their lives, pay taxes and contribute to society.
Both the Republicans and Democrats will be back at the table on Feb 9th facing the same crisis. That crisis has been created by President Trump and the Republican party because they are five months late in presenting a comprehensive budget to run the country.
There is only so much money in the US budget to go around. The proposed increased funding for the way over sized US military and the Border wall at the expense of social programs is causing a great tear in American society.
President Trump's much heralded tax cuts while giving US citizens a short term pay increase and US Corporations a long term tax deduction is going to cause havoc a few years from now due to greatly reduced gov't revenues and a rapidly expanding debt burden.
If you have NetFlix, President Obama was recently interviewed by David Letterman in a series called "My Next Guest". Obama was exactly correct in his assessment that if a person does not diversify their media consumption across multiple new outlets and political platforms, they can spend their entire time in information silos that filter out facts and opinions that reinforce their own preconceived notions. Many media consumers are weak and lazy and continuously go back to their favorites because it is easy not to think for one self.
The Russian 2016 attack on media outlets prior to the US election recognized this weakness in Western democracies and have crafted an entire industry to exploit this to their advantage around the world.
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