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Trump is defending Confederate monuments more than Lindsey Graham. Cenk Uygur, the host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.
“Washington (CNN)The feud between President Donald Trump and Sen.
Lindsey Graham over the President's response to racially motivated
protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, continued Thursday, with the
South Carolina senator accusing Trump of stoking tensions, a claim Trump
called "a disgusting lie."
"Your tweet honoring Miss Heyer was
very nice and appropriate. Well done," the South Carolina lawmaker said
Thursday morning, referring to Heather Heyer, the 32 year old woman who
was killed in a car attack on Saturday. The man charged in her killing
has been described as a Nazi sympathizer.
"However, because of
the manner in which you have handled the Charlottesville tragedy, you
are now receiving praise from some of the most racist and hate-filled
individuals and groups in our country. For the sake of our nation -- as
our President -- please fix this."
"History is watching us all,"
added Graham, who has been one of the few Republican lawmakers to
directly denounce Trump's equivocation earlier this week between white
supremacists and those who were protesting them in Charlottesville. The
President blamed "both sides" for inciting violence and said there were
"very fine people" protesting in the Virginia city amid the
torch-bearing protesters.”
After a string of disastrous press conferences – and an overall tanking
of his presidency – Fox News host Shepard Smith admitted Wednesday that
his team of producers were unable to find a single Republican willing to
come on the air and defend Donald Trump’s disaster of a week.
When Fox
News can’t find a pro-Trump Republican, you know things are getting bad
in Trumpland.
Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks with
Rachel Maddow about how Congress can do more than the bare minimum of
tweeting condemnation of racism to address the actual problem with
legislation.
Trump’s response to the Charlottesville aftermath is earning him scorn
from even his own party. Cenk Uygur, the host of The Young Turks, tells
you how the moment of truth is coming.
“(CNN)Republican lawmakers and administration aides found themselves
again Wednesday weighing the costs and benefits of remaining loyal to
President Donald Trump, whose equivocal statements about neo-Nazis and
white supremacists marked a dramatic shift in presidential rhetoric.
By
Wednesday afternoon, most appeared to have made their calculation:
deserting Trump now could only harm — and not help — their agendas or
political fortunes.
Republican leaders in Congress, including
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
released statements affirming their disavowal of white supremacist
groups and neo-Nazis — but not explicitly condemning Trump, who said
Tuesday there were "very fine people" protesting in Charlottesville amid
the torch-bearing marchers.
Within the White House, Trump's
aides privately expressed indignation at the derailed news conference,
which unraveled on cable television Tuesday afternoon and has been
replayed endlessly since.
But they, too, stopped short of
declaring their consternation publicly, determined instead to remain
focused on their agenda and keep the President occupied.
Trump
himself has remained largely silent on the matter. But inside the
glassed-in confines of Trump Tower — where he remained inside for nearly
two days straight — the President was defiant in the wake of the
ensuing backlash, according to two people who visited the building on
Wednesday.”
In this ‘Dollemore Daily’ Jesse addresses Heather Heyer's memorial
service which wasn't attended by Donald Trump. Instead, he sent a
tweet... A stark juxtaposition against the actions of President Barack
Obama in the face of similar circumstances.
Roland Martin delivered a blistering commentary in response to Donald
Trump’s bizarre impromptu press conference where he doubled down on his
initial Charlottesville remarks.
Even without the violence and the tragedy, is there a lower moral
hurdle to clear than "Denounce the bastards wearing swastikas and
chanting Nazi slogans?"
And when an American citizen is killed by a terrorist in service of
one of history's most evil ideologies, is it really so much to ask of Trump, "Stand WITH us, AGAINST them?"
Apparently so.
To a nation mourning a terrorist attack, he offered neither healing
nor calm. Instead, he bragged about how well he did in the primary.
Bragged about the economy. Attacked the press. Whined. Aired old
grievances. Spit piss at John McCain for robbing him of a victory on
health care. Motherfucking boasted about owning a fucking winery in a
community still washing blood off the ground.
And all that is abominable enough.
But then he did all he could to give cover to the terrorist's
ideology. To lessen its evil. He stood at a podium adorned with the
Presidential seal, and suggested that those who opposed white supremacy
were equally as bad as those who killed in its name.
There were "very fine people" among the Nazis. The white
supremacists were the ones with the permit, so in a way, THEY have the
high ground. My God.
In his loathsome statements today, Donald Trump blamed Heather Heyer
for her own death. By standing in protest of these diseased
ideologies, Trump said, she was merely part of a regrettable morass
where everybody was a little bit right, and nobody was totally wrong.
Not even the Nazis.
Whether it's Bob Mueller dragging him out of the Oval in cuffs, or
the House GOP defensively impeaching him as his approval rating seeks
absolute zero, or H.R. McMaster slapping a straight-jacket on him before
he can order bombers to attack CNN headquarters, or even, if we
absolutely MUST wait so long, a deafening electoral avalanche in
November 2020, the day is surely coming when we will be push this
shit stain out of the People's House forever. As dark as this day is, we
WILL be rid of him.
And when he's gone, we must NEVER stop scrubbing his stink from our nation.
Every executive order will be reversed. However long it takes, we
will sandblast every molecule of his legacy from our government.
We'll rip every portrait off every wall.
Should anyone attempt to erect any monuments to this Blight on
Decency, know the sun will never set on a single one of them, we'll tear
them down so quick.
Should you break ground on a Presidential Library honoring this
indecent fuck, know that we'll salt the earth before we let you so much
as pour the foundation.
Should you slap his shitty little name on a battleship, future
generations will refuse to serve on it, and it will rust and sink,
forgotten and shunned.
We will hound Trump and Trumpism from our nation, however long it takes.
Three days after Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted into violence and racial unrest,
the family of Robert E. Lee is denouncing the white nationalist groups
who rallied and marched to preserve a statue of the long-dead Civil War
general.
"There's no place for that," Robert E. Lee V tells Newsweek,
referring to the white supremacist protesters who carried torches and
marched through Charlottesville on Friday. "There's no place for that
hate."
The statue of Lee,
which has stood in Charlottesville since 1924, is now at the center of a
racially charged conflict that has gripped the city and resulted in one woman's death. In February, the local city council decided to remove the statue from the park, noting that
for many people, such Confederate monuments are "painful reminders of
the violence and injustice of slavery and other harms of white supremacy
that are best removed from public spaces." In May, white supremacist
Richard Spencer organized a demonstration
in support of the monument, and on Friday evening, a large group of
torch-bearing white nationalist marchers descended on Charlottesville to
protest the decision to remove the statue.
Lee,
a great-great-grandson of the Confederate hero, and his sister, Tracy
Lee Crittenberger, issued a written statement on Tuesday condemning the
"hateful words and violent actions of white supremacists, the KKK or
neo-Nazis."
Then, Lee spoke with Newsweek by phone.
"We
don't believe in that whatsoever," Lee says. He is quick to defend his
ancestor's name: "Our belief is that General Lee would not tolerate that
sort of behavior either. His first thing to do after the Civil War was
to bring the Union back together, so we could become a more unified
country."
White supremacists gather under a statue of Robert E. Lee during a
rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12. Lee's descendants have
denounced the violent actions that led to a counter-protester's death. Joshua Roberts/Reuters
The
general was a slave owner who led the Confederate Army of Northern
Virginia during the Civil War and who remains a folk hero throughout
much of the South.
"We don't want people to think that they can
hide behind Robert E. Lee's name and his life for these senseless acts
of violence that occurred on Saturday," Lee says.
The Lee heir says it would make sense to remove the embattled statue from public display and put it in a museum—a view shared by the great-great-grandson of Jefferson Davis.
"I
think that is absolutely an option, to move it to a museum and put it
in the proper historical context," Lee says. "Times were very different
then. We look at the institution of slavery, and it's absolutely
horrendous. Back then, times were just extremely different. We
understand that it's complicated in 2017, when you look back at that
period of time... If you want to put statues of General Lee or other
Confederate people in museums, that makes good sense."
Lee, who
works as a boys' athletic director at the Potomac School outside
Washington D.C., says that his family was raised to believe that his
great-great-grandfather "was fighting for his homeland of Virginia" and
not for the preservation of slavery.
Historians, though, typically
agree that the Confederate cause was "thoroughly identified with the
institution of slavery," to quote from Mississippi's own declaration
of secession. The Southern states that seceded were largely motivated by
a desire to continue owning and using black slaves as property. (Lee's
own personal views on slavery are commonly debated, though the general
did own slaves and, as The Atlantic notes, "raged against Republican efforts to enforce racial equality on the South.")
The debate over Confederate monuments has erupted in other cities such as New Orleans, where a statue of Jefferson Davis was recently removed, and Durham, where protesters tore down a Confederate monument on Monday evening.
For
the Lee family, the question of Confederate iconography is complicated
as their family name becomes a rallying point for white nationalists.
The younger Lee hopes that lawmakers and citizens in individual
communities will "talk it over and [decide] what makes best sense for
them in the times that we're living in today."
Lee declined to comment on Donald Trump's administration, nor on his erratic response to Charlottesville.
Here's the Lee family's statement in its entirety:
The
events of the past weekend in Charlottesville were a terrible tragedy
for America, for the state of Virginia and for us, the descendants of
General Robert E. Lee. Our family extends our deepest condolences to the
families who lost a loved one. We send our heartfelt sympathy to those
who were injured, and pray for their recovery.
General Lee's life
was about duty, honor and country. At the end of the Civil War, he
implored the nation to come together to heal our wounds and to move
forward to become a more unified nation. He never would have tolerated
the hateful words and violent actions of white supremacists, the KKK, or
Neo Nazis.
While the debate about how we memorialize figures from
our past continues, we the descendants of Robert E. Lee decry in the
strongest terms the misuse of his memory by those advancing a message of
intolerance and hate. We urge the nation’s leaders as well as local
citizens to engage in a civil, respectful and non-hateful conversation.
As
Americans and as human beings it is essential that we respect one
another and treat others as we ourselves wish to be treated. As General
Lee wrote in his diary, “the great duty of life is the promotion of the
happiness and welfare of our fellow man.”
Robert E. Lee V Great-great-grandson of General Robert E. Lee
Tracy Lee Crittenberger Great-great-granddaughter of General Robert E. Lee
1. If you are fighting to prevent a statue of Robert E. Lee from being taken down, you are, in fact, a white supremacist. Trump said today
of Charlottesville that there were "very fine people...in that group
that were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very
important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to
another name." No, you are not a very fine person. You support the
Confederacy and slavery, which is what Robert E. Lee fought for. By
definition, you are not "very fine." This is not difficult.
2. Trump said, "It looked like they had some rough, bad people,
neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call ‘em. But you
had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest
and very legally protest." If you march with neo-Nazis and chant racist
things with white nationalists, it doesn't matter how legal your protest
is. You are still a Nazi. You are still a white nationalist. And, legal
march or not, you should be scorned. Not scorning them is supporting
them.
3. Trump said, "Many of those people were there to protest the taking
down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. So this week, it’s Robert E. Lee, I
noticed that Stonewall Jackson’s coming down. I wonder, is it George
Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after. You
know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?" George
Washington and Thomas Jefferson were slaveowners. They also helped
create the United States which led to the freeing of the slaves. It's
complicated, and, yes, we should have a discussion of their place in our
understanding of history. Robert E. Lee was a slaveowner who, as I said
above, fought so that a country of seceded states could keep slaves.
The same goes for Stonewall Jackson. Lee and Jackson are not equal to
Washington and Jefferson just like Donald Trump is not worth a hair on
Abraham Lincoln's balls.
3a. Could we clone Lincoln from a hair on his balls? Just thinking out loud here.
4. In the same way, both sides of the Charlottesville conflict were not
equal, despite Trump's insistence that they were. Yes, there was
violence from the counter protesters, but nothing like the violence from
the "innocently" protesting racists, including, you know, murder. And,
not to get redundant here, but one side was Nazis. The other side was
against Nazis. To say "there is blame on both sides" is to say that
Nazis are the same as not-Nazis. If you cannot say that not-Nazis are
objectively better than Nazis, you have nothing useful to add to any
conversation.
5. Trump said that Friday night's tiki-torch protest
was done "very quietly." Many pictures from the event show white men
and a few white women yelling or chanting. It is patently false to say
it was quiet. And if they weren't chanting, they were making the Nazi salute, which is louder than just about any noise.
6. If I were John McCain, I'd be looking out for polonium in my tea.
When a McCain comment was brought up, Trump gritted his teeth and said,
"Senator McCain? Senator McCain. You mean the one that voted against
Obamacare? Who is Senator McCain? You mean Senator McCain who voted
against us getting good health care?" He sounded stabby. Also, if I were
John McCain, I'd think nothing of using my last year or so on earth to
destroy the dangerous man who mocked my imprisonment and torture.
6a. If anyone know who these supposed rational Republicans are, now
would be a good time for them to reveal themselves. Hopefully, the
denouncement are rolling in, or we're in deep, deep trouble.
7. Anyone who can watch that press conference and not think that we are
being led by a deranged, out-of-control racist is someone who will never
be convinced about Trump's unfitness for office. Which means we should
be seeing a New York Times article about those people in the next day or so.
7a. Obviously, everything Trump said yesterday was a lie, but we already realised that.
7b. We knew we were in scary territory with Trump. We are now living the
beginning of a dystopian TV series. It's up to us to make sure it's
canceled before it gets renewed for another season.
Bill Bunting doesn’t take kindly to white supremacy. Cenk Uygur, Ana
Kasparian, and Brett Erlich, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us
what you think in the comment section below. http://www.tytnetwork.com/join
"Man Speaks Out Against White Nationalist Rally In Charlottesvlle VA: "We Was Not Born Hating"
During
the recent events from Charlottesville VA, Bill Bunting took to his
Facebook to speak on his disappointment and how the group does not
represent him.”
CNN’s Ana Navarro on Tuesday went off on Donald Trump, arguing if he
cannot stand for people of every color and creed, he “should not be
president.”
Navarro was speaking with former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and CNN’s Don
Lemon about the president’s incredible press conference, where he
equated neo-Nazi’s with the counter-protestors standing against bigotry
and white supremacism.
Brewer claimed Trump “took the bull by the
horns” Tuesday, arguing the real issue is the “relentless reporting and
this relentless attacking of him.”
“I thought his speech on
Saturday was fine,” Brewer said. “I thought the one on Monday was
terrific. I thought today he came forward and spoke from his heart.”
“No one ever talks about the left,” she later added, echoing Trump’s sentiment.
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore on Wednesday didn’t mince words when
discussing Donald Trump’s free-wheeling press conference that equated
neo-Nazi’s with anti-fascist protestors, arguing that the president is a
racist—and so is anyone who supports him.
Moore told Don Lemon
that the first thing he did after Trump’s briefing at Trump Tower was
flip on CNN, where the host was delivering an emotional response to the
president’s rhetoric.
“It was very powerful,” Moore said of
Lemon’s speech. “You talk about African American kids who have to walk
in to a high school under name Robert E. Lee, a statue of a man who
wanted them dead or enslaved. I don’t want to hear this. I don’t want
any fellow American … to ever feel the way you describe how so many
black kids grow up in this country having to feel. This has to stop.”
“He
was elected by white America,” Moore said, later adding “they voted for
Trump because they were angry. They voted for Trump because they wanted
to throw a bomb into the system that hurt them.”
Moore said he believes white Americans have a right to be upset, but black Americans also have a right to be upset.
“[Black
Americans] don’t go to the polls and vote for the hater,” Moore said.
“Black Americans, by a large margin, vote for the person who doesn’t
hate, who’s trying to love.”
Moore explained that most white
people he’s spoken with insist they’re not racists, even if they
supported someone who may be. “If you vote for a racist, what are you
then?” Moore asked.
“Because it sure sounds like racism to me.”
Asked by Lemon if he believes Trump is a racist, Moore replied, unequivocally, yes.
“He’s
absolutely a racist,” Moore said. “He’s not as stupid as people want to
believe he is. He knows exactly what he’s doing, he knows the words to
use and I’m certain the 63 million people who voted for him actually—the
vast majority of them—love that press conference.”
Lemon
countered that Trump supporters might “take offense” to begin called
racists, prompting Moore to provide what Lemon called an “uncomfortable”
comparison.
“If you hold down the woman while the rapist is
raping her, but you didn’t rape her, are you a rapist?” Moore asked.
“Let’s cut the BS, let’s start speaking honestly. If you vote for a man
who says what he said today—that the white nationalists were the
victims, that he equated George Washington and Thomas Jefferson with
Robert E. Lee and said that the people there trying to stop the racism,
the anti-racism protesters, that they were the violent ones—it just went
so far.”
“That’s a very powerful and uncomfortable anecdote you
shared, and people will think you’re comparing Trump voters to rapists,”
Lemon said.
“Yeah, it’s uncomfortable, isn’t it?” Moore asked.
“Because enablers of immoral behavior, of criminal behavior… it is
absolutely criminal to stand behind the people that killed Heather
Heyer, that beat the heads in of people who were trying to speak their
minds in Charlottesville. If you are there, and if it you
participate—even though you’re not the actual person doing it—if you
helped to put Donald Trump in office, you need to think about this
before you kneel down and say your prayers tonight. Think about this
person that you now have leading this country.”
Lemon restated he found Moore’s comparison “uncomfortable.”
“Well,
it was uncomfortable watching this today, and anyone who supports
that—if you still support the racist, you are the racist,” Moore
replied. “That has to end. I’m not sorry. I’m not letting anybody off
the hook here. White people who voted for him.”
“America has to
stand up,” he continued. “We cannot any longer mealy-mouth about this.
Anybody who enables, anybody who votes for and supports a racist, is a
racist. You are culpable white America, I’m sorry. But there is
redemption for you.”
After intense pressure, Trump finally condemned white supremacists, but
he still has alt-right champions working in the White House right now.
Steve
Bannon is the White House Chief Strategist, who ran Breitbart which
proclaimed itself the home of the alt-right. Stephen Miller, who is the
Senior Advisor for policy, is reportedly the mentee of white nationalist
Richard Spencer. And Sebastian Gorka the deputy assistant to Trump wore
the medal of a Nazi organization to Trump's inauguration.
Jim Acosta on Tuesday went off on Donald Trump’s “strange, surreal
stunning and baffling” press conference, explaining the world witnessed
“a presidency go off the rails.”
“The president was trying to
have it both ways during this news conference,” Acosta said. “At one
point he said he likes to wait to see all the facts come in, he said he
did not know that David Duke was at that protest on Saturday in
Charlottesville, but at the same time he said later on—almost in the
same breath—that he was watching the events unfolding in
Charlottesville, ‘very closely.’”
“The other thing that he tried
to say at one point is that not all of the protesters in that white
supremacist, neo-Nazi crowd were bad people,” Acosta continued, noting
authorities would say the white supremacists were “very much responsible
for that violence and that unrest that unfolded.”
“Keep in mind
this is the same president who said that Barack Obama was not born in
this country and that Barack Obama wiretapped him here at Trump Tower
without any proof at all,” Acosta noted, referring to Trump’s assertion
that he wanted to be accurate in his statement after Charlottesville.
“So, for a president to come out here and say he likes to wait for the
facts to come in, the record reflects that he does not always do that,
and you could probably make the case that he does not very often wait
for the facts to come in.”
“This was the president I think
unguarded, unvarnished, unplugged,” Acosta continued. “These were the
real views of the president of the United States today. What we saw at
the White House yesterday where he came out with that very scripted
statement, that was not really the president of the United States deep
down inside.”
“Donald Trump made his true colors very clear here
inside of Trump tower and it felt like when you’re watching it here in
person, you’re not just seeing a press conference go off the rails or
jump the tracks, you are watching a presidency go off the rails and jump
the tracks. It was just that strange, surreal, stunning and baffling to
watch,” the CNN reporter concluded.
The Justice Department wants to know who’s visiting this anti-Trump
website. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks,
break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. https://tytnetwork.com/join/
“The
Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a
website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los
Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post published on Monday.
Dreamhost,
a web hosting provider, said that it has been working with the
Department of Justice for several months on the request, which believes
goes too far under the Constitution.
DreamHost claimed that the
complying with the request from the Justice Department would amount to
handing over roughly 1.3 million visitor IP addresses to the government,
in addition to contact information, email content and photos of
thousands of visitors to the website, which was involved in organizing
protests against Trump on Inauguration Day.
“That information could
be used to identify any individuals who used this site to exercise and
express political speech protected under the Constitution’s First
Amendment,” DreamHost wrote in the blog post on Monday. “That should be
enough to set alarm bells off in anyone’s mind.”
When contacted,
the Justice Department directed The Hill to the U.S. attorney's office
in D.C. The U.S. attorney's office declined to comment but provided the
filings related to the case.
The company is currently challenging the request. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Friday in Washington.”
Trump is losing support bigly. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts
of The Young Turks, break down the latest polls. Tell us what you think
in the comment section below. https://tytnetwork.com/join/
“There's trouble in Trumpland.
The
voters who backed Donald Trump like the disruption but are looking for
more function from the outsider they helped put in the White House,
members of the USA TODAY Network Trump Voter Panel say.
While
they still approve of the job President Trump is doing, the collapse of
the GOP's promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act has rattled some of
his loyalists. So have chaos in the White House staff and the public
humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
"All the
bickering, fighting and firings take time away from solving all of our
problems," worried Joe Canino, 62, of Hebron, Ct.
"The caveat or
the pause there is, he's got to figure out a way to get more done
collaboratively with Capitol Hill," Barney Carter of St. Marys, Ga.,
said. "The Hill to me has the most to blame for it, but he's got to
figure out a way to solve that problem.”
Rep. Gwen Moore called for the removal of President Trump following his
comments about the violence in Charlottesville. House Speaker Paul Ryan
also tweeted his opposition of the president's remarks on Tuesday.
Michael Eric Dyson had an intense conversation with Jeff Dewit on Tuesday as the two of them debated whether President Trump has done enough to condemn racism throughout his political life.
The political commentator and the former Trump campaign advisor appeared on CNN, where Kate Bolduan asked for their thoughts about Trump attacking CEOs
who seem to have left his manufacturing council in protest of how he
handled the aftermath of Charlottesville. DeWit ran defense for Trump,
while Dyson expressed the view among critics that Trump’s condemnation of white supremacists was overdue and insufficient.
Much of the discussion gravitated around the question of why did Trump attack the media
for addressing the bipartisan criticism he got for not denouncing white
supremacists in Charlottesville right away. While DeWit declined to say
whether Trump’s initial statement went far enough, Dyson went off and
accused DeWit of making excuses for the fact that Trump failed to
deliver an adequate statement against bigotry.
“Shame on [Trump] for that. We have to stop making
excuses as our guest is making for a president who is a fully grown man.
Grow up, take responsibility for your actions. Republicans and
Conservatives are always telling us in this nation, ‘pull yourself up by
the boot strap, be responsible,’ and you make excuse after excuse for a
full-grown man who violates the fundmental principals that occupies the
highest office in the land.”
DeWit reacted by saying the president has already denounced racism in
the past, and he accused Dyson and Bolduan of ignoring this. Dyson
responded by bringing up Trump’s history of racially-provocative
comments, as well as his tendency to avoid directly condemning white
supremacists.
“It’s not what’s in his heart that makes a difference,
it’s what’s in his mouth and its what’s in his public policy and his
public statements that make a difference here. It’s not his sentiment
and emotions which are private, it’s his public expression of the
reprehensible emotions against vulnerable people.”
As the discussion continued, Bolduan brought up how often Trump takes
criticism for reversing on his old public positions. Bolduan also asked
DeWit to explain how the president is creating national unity by
tweeting things like that meme of CNN getting run over by the Trump Train.
You can watch how DeWit and Dyson responded in the video above, via CNN.
In this ‘Dollemore Daily’ Jesse addresses Donald Trump's forced
condemnation of alt-right racist white supremacist terrorists, followed
by his immediate retweeting of one of them, sending a signal of support
and alliance.
"They really, really hate them some 'niggers,'" my pal told me over the
phone from Virginia. He lives in a small town, and he's just about had
it with the Trump-loving, racist motherfuckers there who pretend to love
Jesus when all they love is their hate. We were talking just before one
of these doughy, deranged cumbuckets on the Confederate/Nazi right (fuck "alt") plowed
his black Dodge Challenger into a crowd of anti-Confederate/Nazi
protesters, killing one and injuring many others, in Charlottesville,
Virginia, on Saturday.
My pal, bringing out his natural Southern accent for the occasion, told
me about neighbors who "love them some Trump," about a woman who said
how she doesn't know how she'll afford her medical bills if the ACA goes
away but stands by her president, about how nothing really matters
except abortion and homophobia. "These people'd live under a bridge," he
said, "as long as them babies get born and two men ain't sucking each
other's cocks."
And racism, he reminded me. Don't forget the racism, the lifeblood of the Trump-loving Confederacy-humpers.
Donald Trump, who looks like a stack of traffic cones topped
with baboon's ballsack, has been justifiably excoriated for his seeming
refusal for two days to condemn the white nationalists responsible for
the violence and murder in Charlottesville. His initial statement
wasn't just milquetoast both-sides-ism. No, it was an implicit wink to
the racist thugs who took it as such. His pissy statement today, where
he finally called out "the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other
hate groups," was presented with all the enthusiasm of a man in a
bathroom stall asking for toilet paper.
But his delay empowered these assholes, this savage collection of
bearded rednecks in torn rebel flag t-shirts, batshit militia dickheads
toting assault weapons, golf-shirted and pampered little boys, and
pathetic suit-wearing Nazi wannabes who Hitler would have laughed at as
he had them executed for being too fucking dumb to know how to wrap a
gas-covered cloth around a stick to make a torch. Most of them would
have shit themselves and run for their mothers if they had been actual
Nazis or actual Confederate soldiers, facing the American war machine
that tore the hell out of both those armies of losers.
The most pathetic thing here is how shocked they pretend to be that
their views are attacked, as if no one ever told them that slavery and
genocide (not "white genocide," which is so dumb it barely deserves
mention) are bad things to support. And maybe that's on all of us.
It's certainly on the media. Every time there was an article or CNN
investigation on whether or not Barack Obama was born in the United
States, the media made it seem like it was a legitimate story. Led by
the nose by right-wing bullshit websites and commentators, the
mainstream media gave the spittle-strewn glow of credence to it all,
whether it's ACORN or the New Black Panther Party or the thuggish images
of black victims of violence, like Trayvon Martin. And that's just
recent shit.
Almost all the so-called liberal press places extremism on an equal
plain with rational thought, so we'd get semi-sensible conservatives
like Ana Navarro and hell hounds of insanity like Jeffrey Lord, both
given equal airtime (until Lord finally went full Nazi last week). Van Jones should walk the fuck off the air if CNN makes him debate some reprehensible Breitbart shit-for-brains.
There are some things we need to agree on as a nation to move forward.
The problem isn't that people think they're Nazis or neo-Confederates, per se;
we're never eliminating stupidity. It's that we think there is
something noble about tolerating Nazis; about trying to understand their
ideology in an almost sympathetic way, about writing goddamned profiles
about the new, sexy white nationalist movement,
as if a fucking racist isn't just, in the end, a fucking racist, no
matter how many times he wears an ill-fitting sports jacket.
And it is long, long past time to stop tolerating in any sense the idea
that the Confederacy is a heritage worth honoring. I've said it before
and I'll say it again: Fuck your ancestors who fought to maintain
slavery. I don't give a dry rat turd how nobly they fought. They
believed that human beings were property and could be beaten, raped, and
killed. Fuck 'em. If you think there should be statues to them, then
you're the asshole. If I found out my great-grandfather was a child
molester, I sure as hell wouldn't want to honor him because he built a
nice house. And I'd be appalled if anyone wanted to celebrate his
architectural heritage.
Trump himself appealed to the lies of American history in both his sad
little statements. In the first, on Saturday, Trump said, "We must love
each other, respect each other, and cherish our history." Cherish our
history? Motherfucker, our history is a goddamned horror show with
occasional outbreaks of humanity, like the defeat of the Confederacy and
the Nazis, like the welcoming of immigrants and the civil rights
movement.
And then, today,
he said, "We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are
created equal." No, motherfucker, again, we were founded on the "truth"
that white men are created equal for that's all they considered "men."
It's like Trump is the president of the Confederacy, not the United
States.
If we can't agree on our goddamned American history, if we can't agree
that some ideas don't deserve a hearing beyond the half-human online
scrawlings of some cretinous asshole with a frog avatar and a collection
of concentration camp photos he jacks off to, then we're fucked. I want
people to feel shame for believing these things. I want them driven out
of the public square. I want them fired if they express it publicly,
especially if they're cops or in positions of authority. You're free to
say and believe what you want. And we're free to say your ideas are
barbaric enough to tell you to change or get the fuck out of our
society. This is about who we are as a nation.
You're allowed to hate Hate. You're allowed to be prejudiced against
Prejudice. You're allowed to destroy the monuments to people who tried
to destroy the country. You're allowed to say that support of genocide
and enslavement isn't a position that deserves being heard in the modern
United States.
You're allowed to tell these tiki-torch-carrying vermin
that they can kiss your American ass with their traitorous lips. We
kicked them in the balls before and we'll do it again. Your Robert E.
Lee statues are fucking done.
Go the fuck back underground. And take your shitty president with you.
(Note: For a good rundown on how Republican politics led us to this moment, check out Charlie Pierce, who wrote half of what I was gonna write today.)
(For the record, the only great-grandfather I know about was a leading
rabbi in Poland and did not, as far as I know, molest anyone or build
any houses.)
Peter Cvjetanovic didn’t really think this through. Cenk Uygur and Ana
Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in
the comment section below. http://www.tytnetwork.com/join
"They
didn't wear hoods as they chanted "Jews will not replace us." They
weren't hiding their faces as they waved Confederate flags, racist signs
and swastikas. They looked straight at a sea of cameras as they made
the Nazi salute.
As Matt Thompson wrote for The Atlantic, the
white supremacist march and rally this past weekend wasn't a KKK rally:
"It was a pride march."
The bare-faced shamelessness was the point. But it was also an opening.
On
the Internet, some people are crowd-sourcing efforts to identify and
shame the people participating in the rally. Most prominently, on
Twitter, the account called "Yes, You're Racist" has been soliciting
help and posting IDs. "I'll make them famous," the account pledged.”
In this ‘Dollemore Daily’ Jesse addresses Donald Trump's LATE and WEAK
statement this morning on hate groups and white supremacy terrorists in
America.
Former KKK leader David Duke was none too pleased that President Donald Trump
on Monday finally got around to condemning extremist groups by name ―
including including neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan ― for the deadly
weekend protest in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Minutes after Trump’s speech, Duke lashed out in a series of tweets, claiming Trump had been manipulated by the media.
“It’s
amazing to see how the media is able to bully the President of the
United States into going along with their FAKE NEWS narrative,” Duke
tweeted.
Soon after that, in an anti-Semitic, racist Periscope video rant,
Duke spoke directly to Trump, claiming white nationalists abhor
violence. He said “it’s just ridiculous” that the president felt he had
to make Monday’s statement.
“President
Trump, please, for God’s sake, don’t feel like you need to say these
things,” Duke admonished in the video. “It’s not going to do you any
good.”
Duke
also stuck up for James Alex Fields, 20, the white nationalist motorist
accused of ramming his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing
Heather Heyer, 32. “When you’re under attack ... you panic and you do
things that are stupid and you do things that are wrong,” Duke said.
Trump
made an address to the nation on Monday, after two days of withering
criticism for a vague Saturday statement that criticized hatred and
bigotry on “many sides.”
“Racism
is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and
thugs, including the KKK, Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate
groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as
Americans,” Trump said.
Lawmakers
from both parties had called Trump out for not specifically denouncing
hate groups in the wake of a white nationalist rally that left three
people dead, including two state troopers, and at least 19 injured.
Some
white supremacist organizations, such as the Daily Stormer, praised
Trump’s vague weekend statement. Duke at the time appeared to warn the
president against calling out white nationalists, a group that has
largely embraced Trump.
Duke said on Saturday that the rally would help fulfill Trump’s “promises.”
“This
represents a turning point for the people of this country,” Duke said.
“We are determined to take our country back. We are going to fulfill the
promises of Donald Trump.”
According to a report from state news channel Fox News, Donald Trump is “seriously considering” pardoning Crooked Joe Arpaio, who was recently convicted
of criminal contempt of court for his racist and illegal campaign
against Latinos and immigrants in Maricopa County as sheriff.
He faces
up to six months for his reign of terror.
“I am seriously considering a pardon for
Sheriff Arpaio,” the president reportedly told Fox News at his club in
Bedminster, N.J. “He has done a lot in the fight against illegal
immigration. He’s a great American patriot and I hate to see what has
happened to him.”
Arpaio is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 5
and could spend up to six months in jail. Though his attorneys are
planning on appealing the conviction, a presidential pardon would be the
swiftest exit from the case.
Trump told the network the pardon could come as early as this week.
Pete Tefft, Charlottesville riot attendee (Photo: Facebook)
One father of a marcher in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend
is denouncing his own son after the young man was seen on national news
spouting hate.
In a letter to Fargo, North Dakota’s Inforum, father Pearce Tefft wrote that his family wasn’t sure where his son Peter picked up his racist beliefs.
“I, along with all of his siblings and his entire family, wish to
loudly repudiate my son’s vile, hateful, and racist rhetoric and
actions,” Tefft wrote, clarifying that he certainly didn’t learn such
values at home.
“I have shared my home and hearth with friends and acquaintances of
every race, gender, and creed. I have taught all of my children that all
men and women are created equal. That we must love each other all the
same,” he continued. However, he acknowledged, that Peter chose another
path.
The family has remained largely silent, but Tefft said these recent
events pushed them over the edge.
Remaining silent, he believed, would
be a mistake.
“It was the silence of good people that allowed the Nazis to flourish
the first time around, and it is the silence of good people that is
allowing them to flourish now,” he wrote.
He went on to say that his son is no longer welcome in their home or
at family gatherings until he renounces the hate. The beliefs of the
younger Tefft has also brought hate targeted at his relatives, who are
being considered guilty by association.
His father recalled a time when his son joked, “The thing about us
fascists is, it’s not that we don’t believe in freedom of speech. You
can say whatever you want. We’ll just throw you in an oven,” Tefft
recalled.
“Peter, you will have to shovel our bodies into the oven, too. Please
son, renounce the hate, accept and love all,” the father closed.
“In brief, we reject him wholly – both him personally as a vile
person who has HIMSELF made violent threats against our family, and also
his hideous ideology, which we abhor,” his nephew Jacob Scott said. “We
are all bleeding-heart liberals who believe in the fundamental equality
of all human beings.”
“Peter is a maniac, who has turned away from all of us and gone down
some insane Internet rabbit-hole, and turned into a crazy Nazi. He
scares us all, we don’t feel safe around him, and we don’t know how he
came to be this way. My grandfather feels especially grieved, as though
he has failed as a father.”
The younger Tefft posted a photo of himself prior to the rally at the base of the statue in Charlottesville.
The site, which was involved in organizing the white supremacist rally
in Charlottesville, has been given 24 hours to move its domain or have
it cancelled.
As we get underway today, a few thoughts on yesterday. In addition to
going out of his way not to denounce the white supremacist and neo-nazi
marchers yesterday, for those primed to hear it (which is the point)
the President made a point of calling out and valorizing the marchers.
In his at length on-camera comments, in addition to bromides and calling
for people to love each other, Trump noted that we must “cherish our
history.”
Here’s the passage …
Above
all else, we must remember this truth: No matter our color, creed,
religion or political party, we are all Americans first. We love our
country. We love our God. We love our flag. We’re proud of our country.
We’re proud of who we are. So we want to get the situation straightened
out in Charlottesville, and we want to study it. And we want to see what
we’re doing wrong as a country, where things like this can happen.
My
administration is restoring the sacred bonds of loyalty between this
nation and its citizens, but our citizens must also restore the bonds of
trust and loyalty between one another. We must love each other, respect
each other, and cherish our history and our future together. So important. We have to respect each other. Ideally, we have to love each other.
I
spent the better part of a decade training as an historian. I’m
definitely pro-history. But in context, this is an explicit call-out to
the white supremacist and neo-Confederate forces at the march whose
calling card is celebrating Southern ‘heritage’ and America’s history as
a white country. Zero ambiguity or question about that. And they heard
the message. White supremacist leaders cheered Trump’s refusal to denounce them and his valorization of their movement.
Where
does this come from? Who knows who wrote this text for Trump. But many
of Trump’s most important speeches were written by white nationalist
aide Stephen Miller, who came from Jeff Sessions’ senate office. Miller literally worked with Alt-Right leader (he coined the phrase) Richard Spencer
on racist political activism when he was in college at Duke (Spencer
was a grad student at the time). This isn’t some vague guilt by
association. He’s one of them.
When Gabriel Sherman asked what he
identifies as a ‘senior White House official’ why the White House didn’t
denounce the Nazis in Charlottesville, he got this: “What about the
leftist mob? Just as violent if not more so.” Maybe I’ve missed some
other background comments out of the White House. But I haven’t heard
anything that approaches that level of venom about the nazis or white
supremacists. When the top ideologues at Trump’s White House look at
yesterday’s spectacle, they instinctively see the counter-protestors as
enemies.
Was that official Miller? Who knows? It could have been
Bannon or Gorka or frankly a number of others. There are plenty to
choose from. That’s the point. This wasn’t resistance to making a
conspicuous denunciation or being cute. Those were Trump’s supporters.
He recognizes them as supporters, indeed as part of his movement. And he
supports them. This is probably largely instinctive on Trump’s part.
It’s more ideological and articulate on his aides’ part.
In this ‘Dollemore Daily’ Jesse addresses Donald Trump's departure from
his usual trait of bluster and bragging, where he signed the tougher
Russian sanctions bill sent to him from Congress in private rather than
with a public ceremony.
In this ‘Dollemore Daily’ Jesse addresses Donald Trump's White House
Senior Domestic Policy Advisor, Stephen Miller, and his troubling past.
Including his close relationship with Nazi Richard Spencer.
In this ‘Dollemore Daily’ Jesse addresses the sideways NON-ANSWER Donald
Trump gave when directly asked about whether or not he still has
confidence in Steve Bannon.
While the downfall of Donald Trump is far from assured, the
signs are multiplying that the Republicans are preparing for a world in
which Trump is no longer commander-in-chief. This is not the dreaming
of the liberal resistance or the conservative #NeverTrump crowd; we’re
talking about the actions of the Republican leadership, rank and file
and Vice President Mike Pence himself.
No, the Republicans are not
going to impeach Trump, demand his resignation or invoke the 25th
Amendment to say he is incapacitated. But they are preparing escape
routes from the fallout from his dismal poll numbers, stalled legislative agenda and mounting legal problems.
Six
months ago, Republicans, whatever their qualms, saw no need for such
planning. The 45th president, it was assumed, would sign into law the
agenda of the congressional Republicans. The GOP would, in return,
accommodate the president on his signature issues: jobs, immigration
crackdown, revisiting free trade agreements, and restoring friendlier
relations with Russia. With complete control of the government, the
Republican vision seemed realistic.
Fat chance. Impulsive,
unfocused and mendacious, Trump is now treated as an unpredictable
menace against whom Republicans must build defenses. These defenses can
also serve as escape routes if and when the GOP feels the need to break
with the president.
1. The Sanctions Firewall
On July 27, House and Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly to
impose tougher sanctions on Russia, dooming Trump's yearning to make
nice with Russian president Vladimir Putin. The president's allies
originally resisted the additional financial penalties, but caved in
under the weight of Trump's repeated lies about his campaign's contacts
with Russians and his refusal to acknowledge the U.S. intelligence
finding that Russia interfered on his behalf in the 2016 presidential
election.
Trump's identification with Russia has become so toxic
that virtually every member of his party took the opportunity to reject
it. The president can be accused of coddling Putin, but all of his
putative allies on Capitol Hill have inoculated themselves against the
charge.
2. The Sessions Firewall
Trump’s
attempts to humiliate Attorney General Jeff Sessions into quitting were a
transparent gambit to create a vacancy at the top of the Justice
Department. With the Senate out of session in August, Trump could then
make a “recess appointment” of a new AG who would not need Senate
confirmation. The new AG could then fire independent counsel Robert
Mueller, as Trump has made clear he wants to do.
In response, Senate Republicans united to set up a procedure under
which the Senate is not formally recessed during the August break. If
you check the Senate calendar for August, you will find a succession of
days dedicated to "pro forma business," which means “keeping the president from doing something stupid.”
To
underscore their resolve, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a stalwart
conservative and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, added that there is “no way” the Senate would consider confirming a new attorney general if Sessions were fired.
If Trump fires Sessions, Republicans now have a position from which to oppose him.
3. The Mueller Firewall
Two Senate Republicans have gone further to protect Mueller past August.
Thom Tillis, a hard-right Republican from North Carolina, has joined with Delaware Democrat Chris Coons in co-sponsoring legislation allowing the special counsel to make a legal challenge to any dismissal that would be reviewed by a three-judge panel.
Asked
by Fox News if the measure was intended to protect Mueller from being
fired by Trump, Tillis said, “There's no question that it is.”
“Any
effort to go after Mueller could be the beginning of the end of the
Trump presidency unless Mueller did something wrong,” Graham told
reporters when introducing the bill.
If Trump does fire Mueller, the Republicans have established a strategy for separating themselves from the White House.
4. The Pivot to Taxes
Senate
Republicans are ignoring Trump’s insistence that they continue the
party’s failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan say they are moving
on to tax legislation, which they feel offers a better chance of
success.
Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) rejected Trump's call, saying, “We’re
not going back to health care. We’re in tax now. As far as I’m
concerned, they shot their wad on health care and that’s the way it is.
I’m sick of it.”
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the
health committee, is working with Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and
Democrats on potential measures to shore up, not repeal, the Affordable
Care Act.
When Trump threatened the health care plans of Congress if the Senate didn’t heed his demand, Republicans called his bluff. He predictably moved on to other obsessions.
5. The 2020 Escape Hatch
The New York Times reported that interviews with 75 Republicans at every level of the party reveal “widespread uncertainty about
whether Mr. Trump would be on the ballot in 2020 and little doubt that
others in the party are engaged in barely veiled contingency planning.”
Pence has set up a presidential political action committee, the first sitting vice president to do so.
Pence’s outraged reaction to the Times story
only underscored how threatening the perception of post-Trump planning
is to the White House. Yet post-Trump planning is visible everywhere.
Conservative Republicans with presidential ambitions, like Ben Sasse and
Tom Cotton, are cultivating donors and advisers as if there were no
Republican incumbent in the White House.
Rep. Charles Dent, a
senior Republican from Pennsylvania and a relative moderate, said many
in the party would welcome Trump’s exit.
“For some, it is for
ideological reasons, and for others it is for stylistic reasons,” Dent
said, complaining about the “exhausting” amount of “instability, chaos
and dysfunction” surrounding Trump.
Six months ago, the
Republicans gave Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. Now they doubt
he will benefit them, and they are acting accordingly.
I denounce a so-called “pResident” who cannot – nay, will not – denounce racists, white supremacists, and Nazis, and call them out for who they are and what they represent.
I denounce any man who sees any equivalence between those promoting hatred and violence and those who are willing to stand against them, their ideology, and their tactics.
I denounce ANY American – regardless of their political
affiliation or their political position – who is too spineless to speak
out clearly and decisively against those who would divide us as a
nation, those who would cast our fellow citizens as unworthy of
inclusion as Americans based on their race, religion, or ethnicity.
I denounce a so-called “pResident” who sees today’s events as being the result of ill feeling “on many sides”, when it is only one side that is promoting violence, and advancing the idea that racism is not only acceptable, but something to be embraced.
I denounce a so-called “pResident” who dismisses today’s
events as being something that’s “been going on for a long, long time”,
as though racism is something we should just learn to live with, rather
than unite to eradicate.
I denounce Donald Trump as being a champion of violence, a champion of bigotry, a champion of encouraging division among us.
In addition, I denounce the Republican Party that saw Trump
repeatedly incite violence and divisiveness throughout his campaign, and
supported him and elected him nonetheless. They knew who he was from the beginning, and their comments today, which amount to Oh, my, we never saw THIS coming,
are an insult to every citizen who saw today’s occurrence as an
inevitable outcome of putting a self-proclaimed bigot in the Oval
Office.
Trump has never been, and never will be, my “president”. And I denounce
any and all attempts to portray him as other than what he is: an
ignorant, lying bigot desperately clinging to his “base” of
knuckle-dragging racists, who have not only been encouraged by his
remarks, but ultimately emboldened by them.
I denounce Donald Trump, his racist supporters, and the party that enabled him. There is no place in our country for any of them.
A panel discussion on MSNBC’s AM Joy on the violence in the streets
in the city of Charlottesville turned to the root causes of the rise of
white nationalism under Donald Trump.
“This is the face of fascism, this is Breitbart news,” declared former Bush era ethics czar Richard Painter.
As
live video of the clashes showed on the split screen, Painter lashed
out at President Donald Trump and called for him to fire White House
advisers Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka.
“I don’t always agree
with everything the Republican administrations do but we have never ever
seen rhetoric similar to what has come out of this White House,” the
clearly disgusted Painter said. “We never had anyone like Steve Bannon
or Sebastian Gorka in the Bush White House, to that president’s
inauguration.”
“That is disgusting. We never would have tolerated
that and we can disagree,” he continued. “I disagree with my own party
on some issues, but we never would have had any of this in the Bush
White House and these people need to be fired immediately. This is
Breitbart News, and Breitbart News is a racist organization and it needs
to acknowledge as such, they should not be given preferential access to
the White House which is what they’re now getting under Steve Bannon.”
“Bannon
needs to be fired, Sebastian Gorka and the rest of the fascists or we
have to remove this president,” he said while indicating the violence.
White supremacists gather under a statue of Robert E. Lee during a
rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12. Lee's descendants have
denounced the violent actions that led to a counter-protester's death. Joshua Roberts/Reuters 
