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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astroturfer; charlottesville; jointchiefs; liberaltroll; pos; scumbag; trumpdod
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1 posted on 08/16/2017 8:52:56 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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This is both embarrassing and #d up.


2 posted on 08/16/2017 8:54:19 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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That is... embarrassing for the Joint Chiefs, and certainly not Trump.


3 posted on 08/16/2017 8:55:11 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Timpanagos1
"it stands in stark contrast with Trump's statements"


4 posted on 08/16/2017 8:55:11 PM PDT by proust (Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
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To: Timpanagos1

Still think the Military will side with the Patriots when the hammer goes down?

Think again.


5 posted on 08/16/2017 8:55:30 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Timpanagos1

WTF?

These peeps are allowed to have public political positions?


6 posted on 08/16/2017 8:55:45 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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Joint Chiefs "Lying to the races."

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""I'll take you there."."

7 posted on 08/16/2017 8:56:17 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Timpanagos1

Are the Joint Chiefs smoking YUGE dope or taking Hopium?


8 posted on 08/16/2017 8:56:42 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

Trump is getting crapped on by just about everyone. This is going to continue for his entire administration. How long before political and racial fatigue sets in with those middle-ground voters who put him in the White House?


9 posted on 08/16/2017 8:56:57 PM PDT by CatOwner
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>>>even though it was a Nazi sympathizer who caused all of the casualties<<<

Well, there you go.

It was the Mentally Ill Kid in the Challenger, and we know nothing of his intent if he even had one.


10 posted on 08/16/2017 8:57:56 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Gene Eric

They just exposed themselves as.....bought and owned.


11 posted on 08/16/2017 8:58:02 PM PDT by Kalamata (With haste and GodÂ’s divine intervention, may Liberty be restored to the People.)
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To: Timpanagos1

How do these Mensa feel about islams, blm, antifaduh and the other anti-white trash?


12 posted on 08/16/2017 8:58:12 PM PDT by soycd
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13 posted on 08/16/2017 8:58:23 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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Guess these are the generals/admirals, etc that were not purged by Obama...

I lost count, but I know a number of purges occurred under obama!


14 posted on 08/16/2017 8:58:41 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: Timpanagos1
The joint chiefs condemnation of racism and white supremacist groups is notable because it stands in stark contrast with Trump's statements

Well, Trump denounced & repudiated it many, many times, so I don't see where it is in stark contrast to anything except lyin' NBC's eyes.

15 posted on 08/16/2017 8:59:00 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: Freedom56v2

Trump is gonna need a bigger purge.


16 posted on 08/16/2017 8:59:56 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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“Are the Joint Chiefs smoking YUGE dope or taking Hopium?”

I don’t think so. They basically said what Trump said Sunday. The media is trying to manufacture news based on what I read.

These media scum are sick.


17 posted on 08/16/2017 9:00:10 PM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: Timpanagos1; musicman
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"Lying to the races..."

18 posted on 08/16/2017 9:00:23 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Kickass Conservative

How did he kill the state troopers? Why is anyone making the point to condemn only Nazis and not communists? And how does this concern the military? This is bizarre. Is that much of our society this addled by the left?


19 posted on 08/16/2017 9:00:49 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Timpanagos1

Time to replace the joint chiefs...


20 posted on 08/16/2017 9:00:58 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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