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"I can't believe I just watched an American president choose his words carefully so as not to offend the klan and Nazis."
johnp3907
(3,730 posts)He's one of them.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Trump can't risk angering his base.
katmondoo
(6,455 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,284 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)BHDem53
(1,061 posts)that voted for the tangerine tyrant.
Augiedog
(2,545 posts)the same path. They are doing what he wants. Never forget his actions at his political rallies where he encouraged this kind of violence. He knew exactly to whom he was talking when he gave the ok to attack protesters at his rallies.
This is Trump world. Ugly, stupid, grim and slimy. Filled with hate for everything, especially that which you don't understand.
Trumps equivocation and false equivalence in addressing the Charlottesville terrorist attack by the neo nazis and other assorted republicans is nothing more than marching orders for the beasts that worship him.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Maybe two pics side by side: tRump making statement and Fields with his nazi shield.
hexola
(4,835 posts)HA!
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)a destructive white supremacist/neo Nazi. The term alt right is a cynical attempt to make hatred palatable. We have to stop using it.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)...during the campaign, when he explicitly incited violence against those who spoke out against him at rallies: "Get 'em out of here!"
Coupled with his offer to pay the thugs' legal fees.
Now, he controls the Justice Department, and -- despite his tiffs with Jefferson Beauregard Sessions the 💩-- Drumpf can provide direct or indirect federal government support to these neo-Nazi vermin.
And, if all else fails, Cheetolini can evoke executive pardons to any/all of these domestic terrorists.
It's no longer a question of if/when this national nightmare will end, but how deeply into the sewer it will drag our republic along the way.
While the Dark Lord Putin sits back and watches us descend into banana republic status, with a shit-eating grin on his face.