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Just read the press conference transcript - I'm disgusted...

Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:03 am
Posted by StringedInstruments
Member since Oct 2013
18317 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:03 am
...at the constant cherry picking by the media and left-wing supporters that want to paint Trump as a pro-Nazi bigot that needs to be removed from office. I didn't vote for Trump. I have some issues with his leadership and politics. I will say he plays into their hands when he starts rambling in a presser.

But I read nothing that sounded like he was pro-Nazi or pro-alt right. I read statements that condemned the attack, condemned white supremacy and Nazism, and condemned leftists that were there to instigate violence. I read statements from him that called for the allowance of peaceful protests as some were there only to protest the removal of a statue.

He talked about infrastructure and jobs and how he believes that will help race relations.

Yet there are now calls for Britain to cancel Trump's visit because of his "naked sympathy for Nazis."

It's insane. Literally insane. Of course, I thought many were insane to accuse Obama of being a Muslim socialist that wanted to destroy America. But this is crazy too, and I actually worry about the direction of the country over the next decade.
Posted by Prominentwon
LSU, McNeese St. Fan
Member since Jan 2005
93682 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:06 am to
I'm going to keep asking until I get an answer.

What is the left, liberals, BLM, Antifa end game? I just don't understand what they're trying to accomplish. Utopia is impossible. There are people that hate each other and there has ALWAYS been people that hate others and it will NEVER end.

Where does it stop? What do they want? What's end game?
Posted by OTIS2
NoLA
Member since Jul 2008
50085 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:06 am to
True. Our media is an enemy of the People and the country.
Posted by albanyla
Florida
Member since Apr 2012
250 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:11 am to
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What do they want?

I think marshal law and the removal of freedom of speech and assembly. It is unlikely it is antifa's or BLM's end game... but they are just pawns.
Posted by 88Wildcat
Topeka, Ks
Member since Jul 2017
13891 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:11 am to
It wasn't going to matter what he said. The only possible way the left wasn't going to consider his speech to be racist would have been if he had poured gasoline over himself and set himself on fire before he read it and that wouldn't have been enough for some.

Trump could have had Air Force One fly to David Duke's house, borrowed a handgun from the Secret Service and shot Duke right between the eyes and half the media would still say Trump was supporting him.
This post was edited on 8/16/17 at 8:12 am
Posted by Wee Ice Mon
Member since May 2014
1395 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:11 am to
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This post was edited on 1/21/21 at 11:25 am
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
19490 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:12 am to
The mainstream media is running the standard playbook that they've used for years to knock down opposition to the leftist agenda: character assassination.
So far they've made a couple of attempts to tie him to things like elitism (during the election) and Russia, and those have failed.
Now they have Nazism and white supremacy and they're not going to let go of that until the public again shows that it's not working. Which will happen.
Posted by Wolfhound45
Hanging with Chicken in Lurkistan
Member since Nov 2009
120000 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:12 am to
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It wasn't going to matter what he said.
/thread
Posted by DisplacedBuckeye
Member since Dec 2013
70910 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:17 am to
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Wolfhound45


Glad to see you made it out.
Posted by Corch Urban Myers
Columbus, OH
Member since Jul 2009
5993 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:19 am to
Yes. Wear us down until we are tired of fighting it.
Posted by Prominentwon
LSU, McNeese St. Fan
Member since Jan 2005
93682 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:20 am to
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starts with confederate leaders and ends with all the slave owners that wrote the Constitution. This will deligitimize the document in their minds. Just my opinion.


Can you explain what you mean? Then what? Delegitimization and do what?
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
78319 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:25 am to
He spoke the truth. To the ballsy point that he said there were " good people" in both crowds He attempted to add a little moral nuance ( the simple truth) to the issue . But in interrupting Orthodox Progressivism and the Dem media narrative, he sent them into orbit. How dare you interrupt their narrative with truth . This will not stand!
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
89472 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:30 am to
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What is the left, liberals, BLM, Antifa end game?


It's slow-motion anarchy/nihilism. Their entire drive is to tear down the next lowest hanging bit of American traditional culture. Their worldview is that America (particularly white, Christian, "hetero" America) is what's wrong with the world and literally everything else is what's right.

Thus their inexplicable siding with minorities of all stripes, even those ideologically opposed to the balance of their agenda (Muslims), European socialism and third world tyrants - because all of those are either directly in opposition to traditional Americanism or at least stand in contrast to our relatively capitalistic, freedom, individual based system.

So, they are for collectivism, nanny state, restricting individual choices to those the collective deems "acceptable" - it isn't any more complicated than this.
Posted by Revelator
Member since Nov 2008
57825 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:31 am to
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What is the left, liberals, BLM, Antifa end game?


To quell opposing views by violence and intimidation.
Posted by Prominentwon
LSU, McNeese St. Fan
Member since Jan 2005
93682 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:40 am to
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To quell opposing views by violence and intimidation.


I get that....


But then what?
Posted by Prominentwon
LSU, McNeese St. Fan
Member since Jan 2005
93682 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:41 am to
Two downvotes. So there are some that disagree with you.....im assuming it's left leaning or left wing posters...

Yet, there are no responses to your theory.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
98432 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:42 am to
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What is the left, liberals, BLM, Antifa end game? I just don't understand what they're trying to accomplish. Utopia is impossible. There are people that hate each other and there has ALWAYS been people that hate others and it will NEVER end


"Chaos is a ladder"

"Never let a crisis go to waste."

The left flourishes in turmoil.
Posted by SquirrelyBama
Member since Nov 2011
6389 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:47 am to
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This post was edited on 6/5/20 at 7:22 am
Posted by Delacroix22
Member since Aug 2013
3938 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 8:48 am to


Just LOL

"I condemn racism and neo nazis and white nationalists"

LOL

KKK loves Trumps speech! (Only 3,000 members mind you)
This post was edited on 8/16/17 at 8:49 am
Posted by Wolfhound45
Hanging with Chicken in Lurkistan
Member since Nov 2009
120000 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 4:50 pm to
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Glad to see you made it out.
To the best of my knowledge, the Man did not even issue me a warning. I am a low level figure. Not even worth roughing up.
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