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Military Joint Chiefs Denounce Charlottesville Racism
NBC News ^ | 8/16/17 | PHIL MCCAUSLAND

Posted on 08/16/2017 8:52:56 PM PDT by Timpanagos1

A group of military leaders broke with President Donald Trump and rebuked the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville over the weekend — a near-historic development for U.S. civil-military relations.

Since Sunday, five U.S. service chiefs — representing the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and National Guard — have tweeted their denunciation of the white nationalists whose rally led to the killing of a counter-protester on Saturday. Two police officers covering the rally also died when their helicopter crashed.

The joint chiefs condemnation of racism and white supremacist groups is notable because it stands in stark contrast with Trump's statements that blamed both white-nationalist marchers and counter-protesters — even though it was a Nazi sympathizer who caused all of the casualties.

It is also remarkable because American military leaders tend to stay outside of the political arena.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astroturfer; charlottesville; jointchiefs; liberaltroll; pos; scumbag; trumpdod
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To: Timpanagos1

Did these dudes also denounce antifa and BLM?

Stay out of politics, or get replaced!


41 posted on 08/16/2017 9:10:09 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: edh

What the Hell were they expecting, the Joint Chiefs to support the KKK?

The attempted MSM narrative is getting into Monty Python territory. This skit is getting entirely too silly.


42 posted on 08/16/2017 9:11:19 PM PDT by M1911A1 (President Trump. Ahhhhhhhh.....)
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To: snarkytart

I agree there. They should not be doing it.


43 posted on 08/16/2017 9:11:25 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Timpanagos1

Yes, of course they did

Now go hug a transgendered dolphin who escaped a tuna net for the cameras, generals


44 posted on 08/16/2017 9:12:46 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Wasn’t talking those who frequent this forum.


45 posted on 08/16/2017 9:13:02 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: Timpanagos1
A group of military leaders broke with President Donald Trump and rebuked the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville over the weekend

Fake News. President Trump rebuked the violence at the rally, and the violent groups and their ideology, so if the military leaders also rebuked it, there's no 'broke' to be broke

46 posted on 08/16/2017 9:13:02 PM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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Joint Chiefs must stepfown unless they disavow violence from BLM & Antifa

47 posted on 08/16/2017 9:20:07 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Timpanagos1

Reporter is spinning this. President Trump was not rebuked.


48 posted on 08/16/2017 9:21:47 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia (#DrainTheSwamp #HeFights)
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To: Timpanagos1

So they support Antifa and the BLM thugs.


49 posted on 08/16/2017 9:23:06 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Timpanagos1

The operant bigotry at Charlottesville was not racism. It Ameriphobia.


50 posted on 08/16/2017 9:24:13 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Odd how the leftist media was triggered by tiki torches but okay with this @zz shooting fire directly at someone.


51 posted on 08/16/2017 9:25:53 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Timpanagos1

Joint Chiefs statement bump for later....


52 posted on 08/16/2017 9:27:31 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: Bodleian_Girl

In does not appear that anyone in all the pictures that you have posted is Mr. Harris?

So, why did the mob of White Power pukes attack him?


53 posted on 08/16/2017 9:28:16 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1
US Military take note:

AntiFa, NAZIs, Neo NAZIs and the Workers Party USA are all on the same side - Fascists. They are all enemies of Freedom, Free Markets and the US Constitution.

54 posted on 08/16/2017 9:30:42 PM PDT by Chgogal (Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
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To: Bob434

If you repeat lie enough, pretty soon people start to believe it.


55 posted on 08/16/2017 9:33:10 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: arthurus
"It Ameriphobia...."

Just part of the War Against Western Civ...

56 posted on 08/16/2017 9:33:55 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Timpanagos1

“A group of military leaders broke with President Donald Trump and rebuked the “Unite the Right” rally”

The people at that rally had a right to peacefully express their views via a march and protest. Trump has soundly renounced all violence no matter their politics. What he has not done and should not do is claim their Constitutional rights should be abridged or denied because of their view points. If those “leaders” do not get the difference this nation is in very deep piles.


57 posted on 08/16/2017 9:36:29 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Timpanagos1

You don’t see your home boys blue backpack? He’s with pink shirt who as you know, as one of the ratchet yutes who tried to hit the young man marching from behind.

But ai see you are not one who’s really looking.


58 posted on 08/16/2017 9:38:51 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Jane Long

The NYT has been forced to recognize that it’s out th re and is waxing poetical over it.


59 posted on 08/16/2017 9:40:23 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

No, your arrow points to a man in a blue shirt standing calmly on the sidewalk.


60 posted on 08/16/2017 9:41:17 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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