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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 30, 2019 11:04:57 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/30/nolte-elijah-cummings-blames-baltimores-problems-on-trump-and-racism/Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is blaming President Trump and racism for the city of Baltimore’s well-documented crime, poverty, rodent, and despair problems. He is doing this even though, by any objective measure, Trump has done more for black Americans than any president in decades, including our first black president. Thanks to Trump’s economic and immigration policies, black unemployment is at its lowest level EVER. And I add “immigration policies” to that mix because illegal aliens are helping to devastate the inner-cities that are all run by Democrats who give sanctuary to the same illegals who steal countless starter jobs from the inner-city youth who need them most. What’s more, Trump did something our first black president could not… he signed criminal justice reform into law. Trump’s crusade to solve America’s opioid problem is resulting in the first drop in opioid deaths we have seen in decades. And finally, there is this… President Donald Trump highlighted Baltimore City during a White House ceremony Wednesday afternoon as he signed an executive order focused on so-called opportunity zones. Opportunity zones are under-served and distressed communities where tax incentives are offered for private investment. Baltimore preacher Donte Hickman, who attended Wednesday’s ceremony, told the president that Baltimore is prepared to be a demonstration project. That’s from December of last year. That’s Trump focusing on Baltimore with $16 billion dollars in federal grants for just one year — 2018. Nevertheless, here’s Elijah Cummings blaming Trump and raaaaaaacism for the dystopia that is Baltimore, that is the district he represents: How about some facts…? You interested in some facts? Here’s a look at the Baltimore City Council, where nine out of 15 council members and the council president (a city-wide elected position) are black — oh, and they are all, all of them, every single one — a Democrat. Here’s a look at Baltimore’s Mayor — a black man and, naturally, a Democrat. www.baltimorecitycouncil.com/council-membersmayor.baltimorecity.gov/And here’s a look at the guy who has represented Baltimore for 36 years — 13 years as a state representative and 23 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_CummingsSince 1987, Baltimore has only had one mayor who was not black.
Since the office of City Council President was established in 1923, almost 100 years ago, that office has never once been held by a Republican.
Baltimore has not had a Republican mayor in 52 — 52! — years.
There has not been even one Republican elected to the Baltimore City Council since 1942 — 77 years!
In other words, for 77 years, the Baltimore City Council has been made up exclusively by Democrats.
In the state of Maryland, Democrats have had total control of both the Maryland House and Senate since 1918 — 101 years!
So what we have here is a city run exclusively by Democrats for more than a half-century that is…
The 6th poorest city in the country The most dangerous city in America. Has the highest murder rate in America. Is the ninth rattiest city in America.
And here’s a little lol to brighten your day… So what we have here is a failed city. But let’s be generous. Let’s accept Cummings’ premise that racism caused all of Baltimore’s problems… And let’s give him credit for admitting Baltimore does have a problem… And let’s accept the far-left Baltimore Sun’s premise (the piece Cummings links to back up his stupid racism claim) that none of this is Cummings’ fault. How much more time does Cummings want to fix these problems? The man has already had 36 years, and Democrats, at both the local and state level, have already had more than 50 years. So how much time more do Cummings and the Democrats want to fix Baltimore? And how much more time is the Baltimore Sun willing to give to Cummings and Democrats? It’s a stupid question because this is not about fixing Baltimore; it is has never been about making life better for the people of Baltimore. Despair and dependency are what Democrats peddle. To Democrats and their allies in the establishment media, Baltimore is a roaring success because Democrats enjoy one-party rule and have enjoyed one-party for a half century. Democrats and CNN and NBC News and the Baltimore Sun and the New York Times and the Washington Post don’t judge success based on prosperity or safety or a thriving population. They judge success only by how much power Democrats hold, and in Baltimore they hold all the power, so why fix what isn’t broken? And this is precisely what Democrat segregationists did during their monstrous Jim Crow era in the segregated South: divide people on race, keep them distracted with ginned up through shameless race-baiting so voters never bother to vote for things that actually matter, like their standard of living and safety and the future of their children. Decent people, after 36 years of incontrovertible failure, would have the decency to either rethink their policies or step aside… But Elijah Cummings is not a decent person. He’s a demagogue who feasts off despair, who exploits his own people to enrich and empower himself, who enforces racial segregation by demonizing those who have not touched a lever of power in his city for 50 years, and who knows that the key to holding on to his power is to never allow anything to improve.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 30, 2019 16:06:53 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 30, 2019 16:11:24 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/07/30/virginia-delegate-trump-bigot-anti-semitismDemocratic Virginia delegate Ibraheem Samirah accused President Donald Trump of racism and bigotry on Tuesday, but the state lawmaker has his own history of anti-Semitic posts. Samirah interrupted the president’s speech commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown, VA settlement on Tuesday morning, shouting, “You can’t send us back! Virginia is our home. Mr. President, you cannot send us back. Virginia is our home.” (RELATED: ‘You Can’t Send Us Back!’ Democratic State Lawmaker Heckles Trump’s Jamestown Speech) The Democrat seemed to be referencing Trump’s comments about freshman Democratic congresswomen telling them to go back to where they came from before criticizing the U.S. Samirah later took credit for the protest on his Twitter account, writing, “Nobody’s racism and bigotry should be excused for the sake of being polite. The man is unfit for office and unfit to partake in a celebration of democracy, representation, and our nation’s history of immigrants.” However, Samirah had to apologize for his own history of anti-Semitic posts when running for the Virginia House of Delegates in February. In the social media posts, Samirah said that donating money to Israel is worse than donating to the Ku Klux Klan and that late Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon would “burn a million times.” He also accused Israeli teenagers of using the Tinder dating app to “cover up the murders in their names.” Samirah apologize for the posts, stating, “I am so sorry that my ill-chosen words added to the pain of the Jewish community, and I seek your understanding and compassion as I prove to you our common humanity,” but also added that the resurfacing of the posts was a “slander campaign.” bigleaguepolitics.com/breaking-virginia-democrat-ibraheem-samirah-apologizes-for-anti-semitic-posts-i-am-so-sorry/
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 30, 2019 17:12:17 GMT -6
I thought that was a cat.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 30, 2019 17:21:49 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 31, 2019 8:47:20 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 31, 2019 9:01:33 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/07/31/cummings-skips-tour-hud-facility-baltimore/9:51 AM ET Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings declined an offer to tour a Baltimore Housing and Urban Development (HUD) facility with HUD secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday. HUD invited Cummings to tour the facility with Carson on Tuesday, however Cummings rejected the invitation, the Daily Caller has learned. When asked about Cummings’ absence at a press conference, Carson said that he did not know why Cummings did attend the tour but guessed there may have been a scheduling issue. The Daily Caller reported exclusively on Tuesday that Carson would visit Baltimore in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tweets calling the city a “rodent infested mess” in which no human being would want to live. Critics accused the president of employing racist attacks against the Maryland city and against Rep. Cummings. (RELATED: Ben Carson To Tour HUD Facility In Baltimore Following President’s Tweets) Carson defended the president’s comments, telling Fox News, “While I was there, I worked on a lot of issues with many politicians, including Elijah Cummings, particularly in terms of childhood education and improving the life for the people … why not spend some time working more for these people, you know, who are suffering?”
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 31, 2019 21:52:27 GMT -6
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Post by redstripe on Aug 1, 2019 14:45:28 GMT -6
picture from Italian airport
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 1, 2019 14:49:59 GMT -6
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/schumer-compares-dni-nominee-to-disgraced-michael-flynnSchumer said he soured on Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, after watching him question former special counsel Robert Mueller last week. “This reminds me of General Flynn,” Schumer recounted. “He shouldn’t be acting the way. He strikes me as extremely unqualified in every way.” Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about conversations with the Russian ambassador. Flynn was an enthusiastic Trump supporter and at the Republican National Convention led a “Lock her up” chant aimed at Hillary Clinton. At the Mueller hearing, Ratcliffe lambasted Mueller for announcing his failure to exonerate the president.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 1, 2019 14:55:00 GMT -6
I’m certain the left will blame President Trump for this:
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 2, 2019 11:23:11 GMT -6
www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/tech/robot-racism-scn-trnd/index.html?utm_content=2019-08-01T13%3A15%3A04&utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=socialExcerpt: “Robots And Racism,” a study conducted by the Human Interface Technology Laboratory in New Zealand (HIT Lab NZ) and published by the country’s University of Canterbury, suggests people perceive physically human-like robotsto have a race and therefore apply racial stereotypes to white and black robots. These colors have been found to trigger social cues that determine how humans react to and behave toward other people and also, apparently, robots “The bias against black robots is a result of bias against African-Americans,” lead researcher Christoph Bartneck explained to The Next Web. He told CNN, “It is amazing to see how people who had no prior interaction with robots show racial bias towards them.” ........ Reactions:
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 2, 2019 13:11:18 GMT -6
Interesting visuals: Wow. So, CNN, We see your bias in 3 screenshots. Faith leaders to oh look it’s changing to controversial pastor. The pastor didn’t play along now did he? Shame on you.
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Post by wishboned on Aug 2, 2019 13:42:54 GMT -6
Holy shit. He wasn’t giving that piece of shit Lemon the answers he wanted, so then he gets attacked.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 3, 2019 4:10:33 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/08/02/cnn-contributor-mocks-diversity-republican-partyWajahat Ali mocked the Republican Party for lacking diversity on Friday evening during a segment of “Cuomo Prime Time” on CNN, saying that the party of President Donald Trump represented “every shade of white under the sun.” Ali was responding to the news that Republican Texas Rep. Will Hurd, currently the Republican Party’s only black House member, would not seek reelection in 2020. (RELATED: NYT Contributor Calls Out Dan Crenshaw For Not Sponsoring 9/11 Victim Fund — There’s Only One Problem) “President Trump is the President of all Americans,” Ali claimed. “I think the Republican Party is the most diverse party on Earth. When I look at the Republican Party I see every shade of white under the sun, I see white men, old white men, young white men, white men with facial hair, some white men with fades. I even see some white women. What I don’t see are people of color. Why? Because Donald Trump is a racist. He’s a racist president and he’s promoting a white nationalist ideology.” Ali went on to cite the president’s tweets attacking Democratic Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings as further proof that Trump was “racist.” Anchor Chris Cuomo turned then to his other guest, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality Niger Innis, pressing him to comment on Trump’s “penchant for division.” “I turn to you, basically, a unicorn in your party right now. Why are you not offended by what you have to see as this president’s penchant for division?” Cuomo asked. Innis wasn’t quite convinced, however, and argued that the president had been condemning the living conditions in Baltimore rather than the people. “Am I offended by Donald Trump calling out a district that has been controlled by one-party rule for over 50 years and where blacks large — a large number of blacks are in misery?” Innis asked. “He didn’t call blacks subhuman. He said the conditions are.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 3, 2019 6:44:02 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/08/02/chris-cuomo-sucker-trust-trumpCNN’s Chris Cuomo wrapped up Friday night’s edition of “Cuomo Prime Time” with a warning to his “white brothers and sisters,” arguing that if President Donald Trump was not stepping up to help Baltimore, he wouldn’t help primarily white places either. “We’re missing the point of what the problem is with the president pattern of pounding people of color and the places they live,” Cuomo began. “Here it is his best defense: ‘I’m the least racist person there is in the world. As far as I’m concerned.’ First, this really matters. The ‘least racist’ doesn’t mean not racist. Google it.” Cuomo mentioned the fact that Republican Texas Rep. Will Hurd, the only black Republican serving in the House, had announced that he would not seek reelection — and suggested that could have repercussions within the party. “So now what about all the non-white members of the on the Republican side?” Cuomo continued. “How long do they believe they can stay quiet or pretend that this is not about Politics of division? What you ignore you empower. And what you condone you own.” But Cuomo didn’t stop there. He suggested that Trump really only cared about money, saying that when push came to shove, he wasn’t going to help Baltimore and he wouldn’t help white areas either. (RELATED: Elijah Cummings Fires Back At Trump Over Tweets Calling His District ‘Rodent Infested’) “Don’t be a sucker my white brothers and sisters,” the CNN anchor warned. “The joke is on you too.” “Budget too tight. Teachers in short supply. Stores and factories shuttered. Not enough employment,” Cuomo listed off just a few of the issues people in Baltimore have been dealing with. “If he doesn’t care about Baltimore why would he care about where you live? About you? Because you’re white? That tax cut wasn’t targeted to you if you’re in the middle class. 83 cents went to the color he cares about most. Green.” ............ I guess Cuomo conveniently forgot that President Trump sent $16 billion last year to help & a recent report states that an auditor there said for the second consecutive year, they lost track of millions of dollars. Just saying.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 3, 2019 8:59:41 GMT -6
Democrat activist who assaulted Gaetz update: miami.cbslocal.com/2019/08/01/woman-pleads-guilty-to-throwing-cup-at-florida-congressman/MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) -— A woman has pleaded guilty to assault after throwing a sports drink at a Florida congressman who frequently appears on television supporting President Donald Trump. Federal court records show that 35-year-old Amanda Kondrat’yev pleaded guilty to assault Thursday in Pensacola. Authorities say Kondrat’yev was part of a group protesting in June outside a town hall meeting attended by U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz. The second-term Republican was leaving a coffee house when a cup struck him in the back. Several witnesses identified Kondrat’yev as the assailant, and the throw was caught on video. Kondrat’yev faces up to a year in prison at her Oct. 17 sentencing.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 3, 2019 13:51:25 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-03/someone-mapped-every-trash-and-rat-sighting-baltimore-here-epic-interactive-resultPresident Trump’s recent tweet about Baltimore ignited a firestorm of controversy. Baltimore has since become the focal point of a very public fight between Trump and local congressman Elijah Cummings (MD-7). People on both sides have strong views about Trump’s motives. However, on one level, Trump served to highlight the videos of a local political activist Kimberly Klacik. These videos revealed Baltimore’s systemic problems of rats, abandoned buildings, and trash. Klacik reported that many of the city’s residents feel that they have been forgotten.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 4, 2019 7:37:43 GMT -6
The El Paso shooter is a registered Democrat & left a manifesto. In it, he states the obvious: Basically, attack gun free zones to minimize risks of fight back.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 4, 2019 7:42:38 GMT -6
Under his section titled “Economic Reasons” for the attack, the shooter states:
Now THAT is some Nazi level stuff right there. Kill the undesirables so we can have our glorious government programs,(also, all liberal/progressive talking points).His was an act of environmental terrorism as well:
“The decimation of our environment is creating a massive burden for future generations. Corporations are heading the destruction of our environment by shamelessly overharvesting resources.”
Again, we need more/better mental health screenings/services/etc.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 4, 2019 15:30:27 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 5, 2019 3:51:07 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 5, 2019 3:53:42 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 5, 2019 4:06:27 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/crime/2019/08/04/report-el-paso-shooter-claimed-to-be-radicalized-before-trump/amp/Several media outlets are reporting that the gunman who killed 20 people and wounded 26 at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas claimed in a manifesto that his white supremacist views had nothing to do with President Donald Trump. The Washington Post reported Sunday: “Authorities believe … [the shooter] wrote the document, though they are still gathering evidence.” It also noted that the author “stresses that he has maintained his white supremacist ideology for many years, predating President Trump and his 2016 campaign, which he says did not influence his reasons for carrying out the attack.” CNN added: “The writer wrote that their opinions on immigration predate President Trump, and the writer appears to have held these beliefs for years. Portions of the alleged manifesto were published by LatinoRebels.com. In it, the author supported the terrorist in Christchurch, New Zealand, who killed dozens of Muslims earlier this year; rails against the “Hispanic invasion of Texas”; condemns interracial relationships; and calls for a racial partition of the country. The author predicted that some people will blame Trump for the attack, but says that would be “fake news,” since he held his views before Trump. Though the author reserved much of his political bile for Democrats, he also attacked Republicans and espoused some left-wing views, claiming that “our lifestyle is destroying the environment of our country.” The El Paso shooting was followed several hours later by a mass shooting outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio, in which nine people were killed and dozens wounded. .......... So, one was radicalized way before President Trump was in office,(even held leftist views) & the other shooter was a Sanders/Warren/Antifa supporter & yet the left will still blame President Trump & guns for what happened,(all the while being negligent by conveniently overlooking the number of people killed in Liberal utopias like Chicago, Baltimore, etc).
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 5, 2019 4:13:50 GMT -6
Better late than never,(or simply trying to eliminate the leftist ties to this shooter) : www.breitbart.com/crime/2019/08/04/twitter-suspends-allegedly-ohio-shooter/Twitter suspended an account Sunday evening allegedly linked to the gunman who killed nine and wounded dozens outside a Dayton, Ohio, bar early Sunday morning, after several reports identified the account and noted its left-wing political orientation. The user, “@iamthespookster,” identified as a “leftist,” according to the Twitter profile. The suspended account tweeted in support of socialism, against the election of President Donald Trump, and in favor of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for president in 2020. Breitbart News obtained several screenshots from the account before it was suspended: Heavy.com reported: “Connor Betts, the Dayton, Ohio mass shooter, was a self-described ‘leftist,’ who wrote that he would happily vote for Democrat Elizabeth Warren, praised Satan, was upset about the 2016 presidential election results, and added, ‘I want socialism, and i’ll not wait for the idiots to finally come round to understanding.’” The Washington Times published a similar report, and Daily Wire reporter Ryan Saavedra tweeted what he said were screenshots of retweets from the account The Ohio shooting came just hours after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 20 and wounding 26. That shooter was reportedly a white supremacist whose motives for the shooting were specifically racist. Though a manifesto reportedly linked to the El Paso shooter claimed he was not influenced by Trump, the mainstream media and the Democrat presidential field spent Saturday evening and Sunday blaming Trump for inspiring the violence. It is not clear whether the Ohio shooter’s political views motivated him to commit the mass shooting. He was reportedly killed by police a minute after he opened fire. His sister was reportedly among the dead.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 5, 2019 10:47:22 GMT -6
This type of distortion has been all-too common from CNN. In February 2018, following the Parkland, Florida shooting, CNN’s Chris Cuomo said to President Trump via Twitter: “ re you aware that one of the regulations you got rid of made it more difficult for mentally ill to get guns?”
The regulation in question, however, "potentially deprived between 75,000 to 80,000 people of a right based not on what they had done but on the basis of being classified by the government in a certain way," noted Scott Shackford at Reason. "The fact that these people may have these impairments did not inherently mean that they were dangerous to themselves or others and needed to be kept away from guns."
reason.com/blog/2018/02/15/no-trump-did-not-make-it-easier-for-ment"The government does have the power to restrict and even deny gun ownership to people," he added, "but it has to show that these people have engaged in behavior that makes weapons dangerous in their hands."
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 5, 2019 10:50:32 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2019/08/05/wrong-blame-trump-mass-shootings/Why It’s Wrong To Blame Trump For The Mass Shootings Trump doesn’t have a monopoly on divisive rhetoric. It’s time for the left to reckon with its role in sowing division and racial discord. By John Daniel Davidson Two mass shootings in 24 hours. Three in the space of a week. How are we supposed to think about this? How do we make sense of it? Some commentators and politicians on the left are blaming President Trump and the GOP for these shootings, as if that’s reasonable, as if one side of our political divide has a monopoly on divisiveness. Former representative Beto O’Rourke said President Trump was a “racist” and had “a lot to do with what happened in El Paso yesterday.” Sen. Cory Booker was yet more blunt, saying, “Donald Trump is responsible for this.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren called out the president “for advancing racism and white supremacy.” Plenty of others in prestige media echoed these sentiments. But let’s take a step back. Who are these gunmen, and what do they say about what they’re doing? Like the Christchurch shooter, the El Paso shooter was an eco-fascist with strong anti-corporate and anti-immigrant views. Both were ideologically committed political terrorists—white nationalist terrorists, if you like. Like ISIS or al-Qaeda fighters, they might be profoundly wrong about everything, but they aren’t lunatics. The same was true of Dylann Roof no less than Osama bin Laden. We can’t sooth ourselves by saying these men are merely insane. From ISIS to El Paso, then, the terrorists in question are driven by a purposeful—obviously evil—ideology. The Islamists feel it’s their duty to fight back against the West. The El Paso and Christchurch shooters feel it’s their duty to fight back against mass immigration and what they view as the “replacement” of their culture. Indeed, the El Paso shooter expressed a feeling of invasion and occupation—a feeling usually associated with the anti-immigrant right in America but one not wholly alien to the left. After all, it is on exactly those grounds that Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, among others, justify the Palestinian liberation struggle. Blaming Trump for such views is a brittle chain of reasoning because it’s the same reasoning that would blame Islamist terrorism on the Quran. One could argue that Islam isn’t the cause of Islamist terrorism, and that the latter is just a warped and extreme manifestation of certain relatively subdued strains in the latter. The ordinary Muslim understands he is called to worship Allah and keep his commands, even if it sets him apart or imposes obligations on him. In contrast, the Islamist terrorist understands his duty is to impose Islam on others, even if it means slaughtering civilians or other Muslims. So too one might say that Trump is not the cause of the shootings, but that the shootings and Trump arise from the same root cause: the feeling among many Americans that their country and its heritage are under attack, and that nobody is fighting back. The ordinary patriot reacts to this by voting for Trump, maybe wearing a MAGA hat, maybe putting a Trump sign in his yard or attending a Trump rally. The anti-immigrant extremist reacts by publishing a manifesto and killing innocent people. The admiration of some white nationalists for Trump is no more proof of Trump’s divisiveness than the admiration of al-Qaeda fighters for the Quran is proof of Islam’s divisiveness. The difference, of course, is that at least al-Qaeda fighters can point to passages in the Quran that back up their claims, whereas Trump has never once called for vigilante violence in the name of white supremacy or border security, and in fact has repeatedly and explicitly condemned it. As for Trump’s rhetoric, let’s grant that his words and political posture are sometimes divisive. Indeed, let’s grant that it’s part and parcel of his entire approach to American politics. But are we not to breathe a word about the divisive rhetoric coming from the other side? Is it not divisive and inflammatory for Democrats to refuse to enforce our borders while promising to give taxpayer-paid health care to illegal immigrants? Is it not divisive and inflammatory for sports stars and corporations to denounce the Betsy Ross flag and the national anthem as racist? Doesn’t that exacerbate a feeling of helplessness and dispossession, and fuel a whole spectrum of responses—from ordinary patriotism to outright xenophobia and racism? Indeed, the left now treats even mild patriotism as racist, in effect saying to the ordinary patriot: “Either surrender to a left-wing ideology that neither respects nor loves your country, or embrace white nationalism.” Is it any wonder that a few isolated and angry young men will react to these pressures in the worst possible way? This isn’t to lay all the blame on the left, of course, only to say that the divisive rhetoric cuts both ways. Consider the Christchurch shooter’s manifesto, “The Great Replacement,” which the El Paso gunman cited as an inspiration for his attack. That document lays out what one might call a conspiracy theory, that international corporate and political elites in the West are intentionally replacing their native populations with immigrants in order to enrich themselves. Ironically, the left often presents this idea not as a conspiracy theory but as a positive good. In October, the New York Times ran a Michelle Goldberg column under the headline, “We Can Replace Them,” which closed with this line: “In a week, American voters can do to white nationalists what they fear most. Show them they’re being replaced.” This isn’t a new idea on the left, and it isn’t relegated to the fringe. Back in 2002, Ruy Teixeira and John Judis came out with “The Emerging Democratic Majority,” which popularized and mainstreamed the idea that white Americans would be replaced by a permanent majority coalition of nonwhite voters. Ten years later, after President Obama’s reelection, Teixeira took to the the pages of The Atlantic to argue that things were playing out just as he had predicted, and that if Democrats could keep giving Americans what they truly wanted—more welfare, more regulation, more government control over daily life—then “the emerging Democratic majority could be here to stay.” More recently, turning the white nationalists’ “replacement” rhetoric on its head has become commonplace among Antifa protestors chanting “we will replace you,” a sentiment powerfully reinforced by the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protestors who recently tore down an American flag outside an ICE facility and replaced it with the Mexican flag. Left-wing media takes the idea one step further. Last month, a blogger at Mother Jones wrote, “Reactionary American whites, as always, won’t give up their power unless it’s taken from them… Liberals need to be as Lincolnesque as possible in this endeavor, but we also need to be Lincolnesque in our commitment to winning America’s latest race war.” The point here is that if you talk in terms of a race war, if you cast American politics as a zero-sum contest between racial groups, if you vilify half the country because they disagree with your radical views on immigration and welfare, then what you end up with isn’t just identity politics for minorities, you get identity politics for white people, too.
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Post by wishboned on Aug 5, 2019 12:12:06 GMT -6
The guy who attacked the immigration detention center in Tacoma a few weeks ago, armed with a rifle, and throwing Molotov cocktails, has been hailed as a hero by the left.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 5, 2019 12:22:33 GMT -6
The guy who attacked the immigration detention center in Tacoma a few weeks ago, armed with a rifle, and throwing Molotov cocktails, has been hailed as a hero by the left. He was a member of Antifa & his manifesto stated the same rhetoric as AOC about those places being "concentration camps". President Trump called out the media today and he was correct to do so, as they are a major reason why this stuff has been going on by dividing the country and blaming race where it is not appropriate.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 5, 2019 12:31:58 GMT -6
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