In the wake of Charlottesville on Saturday, President Trump said things like this (from various news articles):
We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides, on many sides. It’s been going on for a long time in our country. There’s no place in America (for this). What is vital now is a swift restoration of law and order and the protection of innocent lives.
We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. We must remember this truth: No matter our color, creed, religion or political party, we are ALL AMERICANS FIRST.
It’s exactly what needs saying. Because Antifa and #BlackLivesMatter are at least as bigoted and violent (and probably more so) than the detestable #WhiteLivesMatter types who marched in Charlottesville. All Americans should condemn all bigoted violence from all sides, because #AllLivesMatter.
Nonetheless, the Controlled Media and the Left (but I repeat myself) were furious, claiming that Trump had somehow *not* denounced white supremacists. Because he hadn’t done so “by name”, or something. Do you see the game, here? No matter what he says: complain. Keep claiming it’s not enough.
How do we know that’s the game? Because, as of this morning, Trump went even farther:
President Trump delivered a statement from the White House on Monday explicitly condemning violent white supremacists.
“Racism is evil,” Trump said from the White House Diplomatic Room. “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.”
“As I have said many times before, no matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws,” the president said. “We all salute the same great flag. And we are all made by the same almighty God.”
And is it enough for them, now? Of course it isn’t. You’ll never guess the new complaint:
In his statement Monday, Trump did not use the word “terrorism” to describe the car attack in Charlottesville.
That’s right: NOW, all the sudden, the media/Left luuuuuuuvv the word “terrorism” and want to see it used. Joining the pile-on are longtime Trump opponents who really should know better:
“It’s very important for the nation to hear @potus describe events in #Charlottesville for what they are, a terror attack by #whitesupremacists,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., tweeted.
OK, suppose Trump calls it terrorism. What happens next? They’ll come up with a new line of attack. This game is endless, it’s empty, and it’s only a new chapter in the Establishment’s effort to de-legitimize Trump and overturn the 2016 election.
It also shows the Establishment’s (and the Left’s – but I repeat myself) spectacular hypocrisy. Again, Antifa and #BlackLivesMatter are at least as bigoted and violent as the groups whom Trump condemned today. But the Establishment/Left won’t condemn those groups and don’t want their own hypocrisy and bigotry (in refusing to condemn) to be highlighted.
For dessert: This video shows that Trump called out David Duke as “a bigot, a racist, a problem, this is not exactly the people you want”…Years ago. He went there, he did that, long ago.
President Trump didn’t set enough of an hysterical tone over the racial incidents as expected by freakazoids that wanted the incidents to underline their ongoing dialogue against white privilege.
With the Liberals, it’s all about race. Even to the point of invalidating real incidents of bigotry. They cannot allow that the US doesn’t really have a problem anymore with racism, compared with most other nations on the planet.
All the while, they do indeed promote actively replacing the population with foreigners. It’s documented. It’s obvious. Their various immigration stances document it & the now-former streams of everything south of our border actually invading the country illustrate just one avenue into our states & cities.
You can’t win with the Left. It’s best to ignore it. They wanted hysteria. If you didn’t show hysteria you must be a racist. It’s their Democratic Plantation Politics. They’ve been screwing with Blacks, owning them corralling them all this time. They’ve long since set their sights on every other non-White group of people.
Except they don’t like the endemic Hispanic anti-abortion mindset.
If Trump responded to Charlottesville the way Obama responded to San Bernardino, the administration would be threatening to take “action” against anyone who said anything that could be interpreted as “anti-White Nationalist rhetoric.” The Secretary of State would say that white nationalism had nothing whatever to do with it. The media would do stories about all the innocent White Nationalists who fear a backlash. Ben Affleck would be on a TV talk show, blubbering that any criticism of white nationalism was “gross” and “racist.”
If the media covered it the way they covered the terrorist truck attack in Nice, they would refer to it as “the deadly car crash,” making it sound like a traffic accident.
And, after eight years of “workplace violence,” “gun violence,” and “spontaneous protests,” suddenly the POTUS has an obligation to use the word “terrorism.”
Pardon me for repeating myself.
[This is the closing remark I made @ #21 in the comments attached to ILC’s post: A Tragedy staged? or at least allowed? below.]
A new frenzy in the push to overturn the 2016 election is raw politics and one of sub-plots is Terry McAuliffe positioning himself for 2020.
The DemonizingRats, I believe, are rattled by Trump luring too many blacks away from the DemonizingRat plantation. The DemonizingRats fear Trump is luring immigrants away from bonding with the useful illegal immigrant idiots. The DemonizingRats are seeing the blue collar worker raising a beer to Trump and they hate that.
The party of skunks knows no bounds. They believe that they must double down on the politics of hate and division. However, one has to wonder if that isn’t exactly the wrong road for them to take.
McAuliffe’s vision is focused on taking the urban vote. People in cites recognize and depend on government services more than do the people in flyover America. That is to say that the urban voter is far more sympathetic to government services and entitlements and therefore more inclined toward the “guarantees” of socialism.
On another note, ILC’s title might also have been: A new frenzy in the putsch to overturn the 2016 election. [Putsch as in the Hitler Beer Hall Putsch.]
I don’t think the Dems are aware of any of their identity base they may have lost. To them, it’s still the morning of November 8th, 2016 in that regard and the question is not how many ethnic minority votes they are going to win, but by how much they are going to increase it over the last election. At some point they will eventually get over the fact that She Lost and chalk it up as an anomaly in an election cycle that was crazy to begin with. Some will still hang on to the “interference” aspect, but eventually most will realize that the Fairy Godmother was actually the Wicked Stepmother and it’s really hard to put lipstick on a pig and call it seasoned bacon. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are also failures of the candidate and anyone other candidate would have won, no question about it.
This, however…
…is the real element which keeps them up at night. You can’t spin the loss of the middle-class white voter who doesn’t have two degrees and constantly sees their way of life attacked, from their choice of occupation (manufacturing, mineral extraction, blue collar service, tradesmanship) to what they like on TV and the continual drumbeat of how they should just step aside so a less-qualified woman, Black, or Hispanic can do the job for more money and benefits (after all, what company is going to allow a new father to bring The Kid to work or expect boss-man to provide daycare?).
This:
…is also true and is the other cog in the Dem machine which is scared shatless. How on Gaia’s Good Earth could a bunch of uneducated, uncouth Neanderthals hijack an election and install the Worst President Ever into office?? How could it happen when urban America is in the majority?
So the task of the Dems will be to assure their population demographic base that it was an anomaly and rest assured, we still believe government is The Answer so relax while we hold a rally and have The Boss do a couple songs and Chelsea Handler crack a few jokes and reassure you that The Resistance is not in vain and we have all these wonderful candidates for you to support and throw money at, even though they all cluck the same and crow in a way indistinguishable from any other candidate. The real shocker will be when the know-nothing rubes in Hicksville USA manage to elect someone else other than the new anointed candidate the next time around. Then the real cognitive dissonance will set in. That is when things will become really interesting.
Terrorism: (n) An act of violence intended to cause fear and terror for the explicit purpose of obtaining submission to the authority of the organization taking credit for or committing the act of violence.
By that definition, this act does not exactly fit. Sounds far more like a crime of passion.
for all the liberals so concerned about racism. you could beat white people morning, noon and night and not one of you would be concerned about racism. kind of what antifa does and nobody in liberal America condemns it.