Posted on 08/16/2017 8:36:56 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has weighed in on the weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, castigating Donald Trump without naming him.
'We can have no tolerance for an ideology of racial hatred. There are no good neo-nazis,' McConnell said in a statement.
The choice of words, while careful, appeared to push back against Trump's claim on Tuesday that some 'very fine people' were among a crowd of white supremacists who rallied in the college town.
McConnell's wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, stood next to Trump on Tuesday as he insisted both sides of the weekend's clash bore some responsibility for the violence that led to one death and nearly two dozen injuries.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich tore into Trump earlier in the morning.
'Pathetic, isn't it just pathetic?' Kasich said kicking off a 'Today' show appearance Wednesday morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Agreed! Trump had the guts to stand against the MSM narrative.
He is the only Republican doing anything to fight for conservativism.
He has slashed Obama's regulations.
Business is reviving and jobs are being created.
He shut down the arming of Syrian terrorists.
Get out of here with your lying trolling!
What Trump said was completely true!
Trump didn’t say there was anything like a good Nazi, and you know it!
“But seriously, he’s not defending Conservatism. He’s rarely pushing any agenda of note.”
Gorsuch
Military strength
Defeating ISIS
Deregulation
Repealing Obamacare
Tax cuts
Bringing industry back to America
Jobs
Energy independence
Ending Obama’s war on coal
Freeing the US from the climate change agenda
Rebuilding infrastructure
Funny how none of this showed up on your radar. But then neverTrump, like the MSM, only criticizes.
They didn’t co-opt the event. It was THEIR event from the beginning.
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No.
If an inordinate number had Nazi flags, I would be concerned.
Also, I finally found a decent version of the flyer for the rally itself. Every person on this is a Neo-Nazi or White Nationalist. And the imaging is, well, Nazi-ish.
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<< The problem is that the friday night demonstration was NOT the “good conservatives” being CALLED those things by the left. It was the ACTUAL Nazis, the ACTUAL KKK, and the Actual White Supremists. “ >>
The destroyers are globalists. They are quite capable of nudging toward our annihilation, as a democratic Republic.
Maddening the masses and the godless has been underway for decades. In the case of Friday’s events, they are used as a means to an end. They are in many cases orchestrated and in other cases spontaneous, several with “permits” from local authorities, but they are besieged with infiltrators who know how to turn events to their favor.
Regardless of what you see on the ground, it is all a means to an end, and the media and the UniParty and the anti-American, anti-Trumpers are all assisting when they sit by and allow the blame of chaos and death to be turned away from the evil doers and onto this president. These idiots prefer political correctness, word-smithing and Duchess of Queensbury Rules used by the RINO establishment, to be their excuse.
The president is the last one standing between our future as a free nation and we get decent Americans labeled for opening their mouths. Trump has a grasp on the Marxist plan for America. He called out evil and got blasted for disregarding the PC labels— for understanding exactly that this is a battle between good and evil, not versions of it and not labels of the versions. Outrageous misdirection, by miscreants.
The labels are aimed for your forehead. Speak, and you get labeled, and then funneled into the box canyon— silenced, in the company of only your high minded opinion, which no one will hear.
If you don’t hate the president, you are Alt Right, KKK, or a nationalist and on and on, infinitum.
Permitting the president to call out the destroyers without their various labels indicts him.
What he said was a teaching moment. Some will learn from it and others will play whack a mole with each rise of a new label and new event.
Plainly, we are learning who is who.
That’s true....
And it’s now ‘Mass hysteria’ from unhinged left and media left encouraging it ......getting worse because their globalist agenda is falling apart.
Like I said, the fact that former friends hold this view shows what dire straits we are in. I think the view I described is dangerous.
“their globalist agenda is falling apart”
It is indeed! They shriek a lot when they’re desperate.
You did not answer my question.
I don’t know you. Sorry.
They were there when the girl was run over - sorry, I was out of town over the weekend and only learned of the entire mess on Sunday evening.
Altura, I think that’s the freeper name - do a search and you’ll find his posting.
Pretty sure we are all aware of the judges, and I’ve said elsewhere (maybe even in this thread) that the judges are by themselves reason enough to be glad Trump won the election.
And I mentioned deregulation as another great thing that would never have happened without Hillary being defeated.
However, I would say “repealing Obamacare” is an example of him NOT pushing the conservative agenda. He has done very little on this, given not very many speeches, not invested a lot of capital. He actually criticized a tiny conservative push on the issue as being “mean”, he supported half-measures, quarter-measures, and even the almost meaningless measures. I’m sure if anything passed he’d call it “repealing Obamacare”. He fights to keep things like forcing companies to cover pre-existing conditions, which may be necessary but isn’t the conservative position.
Jobs, well “Jobs” is not a conservative or liberal thing, it’s how you push them. In general, conservatives push for the feds to get out of the jobs business, because we are for limited government. Trump is a big-government job creator, pushing for the feds to intervene to create jobs (except the deregulations also work to create jobs, we addressed that above). His position on trade agreements is not clearly conservative. His attacks on businesses for sound business practices that are not “pro-american” is not conservative.
Sadly, “Military Strength” has become a conservative thing, it should be a universal thing. And one good thing is he’s not afraid to just take action when it is politically incorrect to do so.
Tax cuts will be a great thing, if it actually ever happens. The “non-conservative” George Bush did that in his first 4 months of office.
The climate change action is also good; a whole part of the “repealing Obama regulation/executive orders”.
On the other hand, we still have DACA. We still have the Iran deal.
The fact that we have NOT passed a trillion-dollar infrastructure deal is a “conservative” thing, but I think you were saying his PUSHING for infrastructure was a conservative thing. Not sure though. If we are including things he hasn’t gotten done, he’s been a bit more conservative.
I think social conservatives have more to be happy about maybe than fiscal conservatives.
It’s just dissappointing that, as a great communicator, Trump can’t figure out how to make common-sense points (like “Of course, the KKK and other extremist groups are hateful, but if you look at the rally, there were people there who were not Klan, not Nazis, and not with White supremicist groups, and it is wrong to smear every participant with the most vile among them, even as it would be wrong to smear all those rallying against them with the actions of the violent Antifada and other extremists on the left”
I doubt he really wanted the news to be “Trump says there are fine Neo-Nazis”. I doubt he wanted to lose Julias Krein when Trump clearly does NOT support these groups.
Hence, I still believe that the way he said things was wrong-headed, and did nobody any favors.
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