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Trump: 'Country being ripped apart' by monument removals
foxnews.com ^ | 8/17/2017 | Cody Derespina

Posted on 08/17/2017 8:14:34 AM PDT by rktman

President Trump on Thursday refused to back down from critics who've ripped him for failing to condemn protests surrounding the removal of Confederate monuments, doubling down on his belief the statues should stay and questioning if the progressive movement would turn on America's Founding Fathers next.

In the aftermath of a deadly car attack Saturday -- following clashes at a largely white nationalist rally protesting the University of Virginia's plan to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee -- Trump bemoaned the accelerated effort by many on the left to take down other symbols of the Confederacy.

"Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!" Trump wrote in several tweets.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: antihistory; charlottesville; confederatestatues; isis; purge; terrorists; third100days; trump45; trumptweet
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To: rktman

The Left has waged war against the Founding Fathers - and those who look like they could be related to the Founding Fathers - for a long time.

They are simply more and more overt about it, as their view becomes more and more systemically institutionalized.

Even many conservatives recoil from calling what is happening what it is: sociocultural genocide.


21 posted on 08/17/2017 8:34:01 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon (th)
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To: JBW1949

Classic extension of Cloward-Piven strategy


22 posted on 08/17/2017 8:34:13 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

People don’t understand the South. Down here, below the Mason Dixon, Mr. Trump is hitting on all 8 cylinders. The fact that Yankee transplants are having conniptions is all you need to know that what I say is true.


23 posted on 08/17/2017 8:34:31 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Sequoyah101

Sidebar: Hello...PHOENIX, ARIZONA.....Hello...State Of ARIZONA.....Support our POTUS, Donald J. Trump and attend his rally next Tuesday in Phoenix. We need around 100,000 folks to turn out, no matter what the venue holds. We are not only supporting & fighting for DJT...but, we are fighting for the life of the American nation.

We are headed down the road to tyranny and the loss of all of our freedoms. It’s “our time” now to be the “Greatest Generation”!!! We cannot let the extreme right wing & left nutcases & lunatics win. And...the Democrat Party must be completely politically destroyed come the Mid-Term elections of 2018. The Media has already destroyed itself in the eyes & hearts of the American people.


24 posted on 08/17/2017 8:36:05 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: rktman

Trump is right. This is like a combination of the Taliban and ISIS is running amok in the country.


25 posted on 08/17/2017 8:36:05 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: central_va

Um...you’ve got representatives and governors in southern states calling for the destruction of monuments and flags. A lot of us “get it” but a lot of your own people do not.


26 posted on 08/17/2017 8:38:12 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: rktman

Trump was like any typical New York Liberal and the Leftists loved him. He was a Manhattan kind of guy.

Then something happened. Trump read the Constitution and everything changed.


27 posted on 08/17/2017 8:38:29 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: JayAr36

The next phase underway is denial of internet access to “ hate speech”
This is 21st century virtual book burning

Removal of content
Outright tampering with and falsification of content
Censoring of search results
Removal of web sites
“ ghosting” and banning of commenters
Threats and intimidation agaiinst writers and their sponsors

Brb with interesting new development


28 posted on 08/17/2017 8:39:04 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: Sacajaweau

Corectamundo. This is ALL a Barry Hussein Obama production.
THIS is how Community Organizers roll.


29 posted on 08/17/2017 8:42:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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30 posted on 08/17/2017 8:43:25 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: JBW1949

Just wait until these idiots want to remove Arlington Cem and the Custis-Lee mansion


31 posted on 08/17/2017 8:44:13 AM PDT by BubbaJunebug
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To: JayAr36

Just wait until the book burning starts.


“Book Burning” has been going on for years.

Many classics have been banned in public schools because some might find them offensive.

White liberals are the ones that should be afraid. It has become open season on whites. The mobs will soon be in the streets demanding all white must stay out of some areas. Physical assaults will be used to enforce these bans. Those areas will expand.

I hope they enjoy the world they help create.


32 posted on 08/17/2017 8:44:21 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: rktman

If Trump is smart he’ll ride this train...this is an issue that people understand. Most Americans are still abhorred by vandalism of public property.


33 posted on 08/17/2017 8:45:46 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: BubbaJunebug

Charles Krauthammer said the other night that Arlington Cemetary was a kind gift the Union Army gave to southerners. He said that.


34 posted on 08/17/2017 8:51:39 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Fortunately for Krauthammer, Bobby Lee isn’t around to defend his property.


35 posted on 08/17/2017 8:53:24 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: DouglasKC

That’s what I think also. Once again, a small number of the 300+ million citizens causing an issue while most of us are busy working and doing what we must to get by and get along. I play music(?) with some black guys on occasion and we never bring up politics. I’m sure (?) I know where some of them stand on issues but we just crank it up and rock out. Can’t we all get along and play Mustang Sally in ‘C’?


36 posted on 08/17/2017 8:53:58 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

It would be funny if we told the left that we will remove every racist statue and replace it with a statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Because Eisenhower was the first US president to sign Civil rights legislation.

Imagine all the Democrat statues being replaced with a Republican!!!!

HEH!


37 posted on 08/17/2017 8:55:00 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: TADSLOS

Actually, his wife’s property. And her slaves but don’t mention that to Sour Kraut.


38 posted on 08/17/2017 8:55:24 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: rktman
In the aftermath of a deadly car attack Saturday -- following clashes at a largely white nationalist rally protesting the University of Virginia's plan to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee -- Trump bemoaned the accelerated effort by many on the left to take down other symbols of the Confederacy.

'Largely white nationalist rally'? The counterprotestors outnumbered the rally organizers by at least 2 to 1.

39 posted on 08/17/2017 8:59:19 AM PDT by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: silverleaf

When has a nation ( or a civilzation for that matter) ever been made greater by destroying reminders of its own history swiftly, silently, in the night - to appease an angry mob? “

Profound. Perfectly stated.


40 posted on 08/17/2017 9:00:09 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hhate dogs. Add that up.)
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