Once again, white supremacists and the aggressive fringe groups that show up to meet them took over an American city that never wanted them in the first place, enveloping the area in violence.
On Saturday, thousands of “alt right” members, white supremacists and other fringe groups took to the streets in Charlottesville for what the supremacists called a “Unite the Right” rally that drew notorious far-right figures including Richard Spencer ― a white nationalist perhaps best known for being punched in the face after President Donald Trump’s inauguration ― alongside thousands of counter-protesters.
The supremacists were met by counter protestors Antifa, a fringe left radical group that often wears black to disguise themselves. Violence was met on both sides, causing a declaration of a “local emergency” by the Charlottesville Police Department.
By the way I don't know who these Antifa douchebags think they are but I will eat my hat if their politics align in anyway with the progressives.
In my opinion they are anarchists out to start trouble, and nothing more.
And clearly trouble is what everybody got last night, and this morning.
You heard that right. They're chanting "Fuck you faggots." 2017. #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/pMwbSXZ3wW— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) August 12, 2017
These guys are so young #charlottesville pic.twitter.com/ucMt8E0Vrt— Andy Campbell (@AndyBCampbell) August 12, 2017
This apparently is Donald Trump's America now.Protesters with torches surrounding anti fascists protesters on the University of Virginia campus #DefendCville #antifa #unitetheright pic.twitter.com/Y1pPxlh98y— daniel shular (@xshularx) August 12, 2017
Update: Jesus this thing got even uglier!
Courtesy of the New York Daily News:#BREAKING : Video of the car running over protestors at the counter rally in #Charlottesville— Zain Khan (@ZKhanOfficial) August 12, 2017
Many reported injured ! pic.twitter.com/dbLvROZFra
Several people have been injured after a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters marching against a “pro-white” rally Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., witnesses said.
Video of the terrifying moment shows at least one person being tossed into the air as the silver Dodge Charger mowed into the crowd.
“Yeah, it was intentional,” said witness Dan Miller. “About 40 miles an hour, hit about 15-20 people, crashed into the two cars in front of it, and then backed up and sped away while cops were standing on the side of the road and didn’t do anything.”
Yeah, Make America Great Again, good fucking job with that.
Update 2: Trump should appreciate this reminder.
Have to admit, he has a point.Why look! It's David Duke reminding @realDonaldTrump that white supremacist nazis put him in the White House. #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/nxneYJrhLg— Cornelia (@PaladinCornelia) August 12, 2017
No "apparently." It IS.
ReplyDeleteNot as long as there is breath in this body!
DeleteWhose bright idea was this anyways? Talk about a set up.
DeleteEye roll. Well now it has backfired. Good luck with all that and them thar folks! Ha!
Trump: MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN!
ReplyDeleteBrings back memories of Trump's campaign when he was asked to disavow David Duke and he would not do it.
ReplyDeleteI have said in the past (and was soundly reviled), and will continue to expound, that this is our own "Rise of the Reich." Stupidity and hatred breed this behaviour, which is fueled by the rhetoric of 45 and his minions. RESIST! 27 members of my mother's family were slaughtered by the same beasts in the 40's. NEVER AGAIN!
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DeleteI don't think anyone here would have reviled your statements about the ugly past repeating itself.
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The alt-right rally was a coming-out party for resurgent white nationalism in America.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.vox.com/2017/8/12/16138246/charlottesville-nazi-rally-right-uva
‘This is the face of fascism’: Bush ethics czar blames Trump’s far-right staffers for Charlottesville riot http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/this-is-the-face-of-fascism-bush-ethics-czar-blames-trumps-far-right-staffers-for-charlottesville-riot/
Staffers schmaffers.
DeleteThey're still in his employ.
Shit rises to the top.
The KKK and other white supremacist groups are unfortunately this country's version of Hitler's brown shirts. It is clear that Trump had no problem with the planned white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. In fact, he probably thought it would be great - another step in "making America great again."
DeleteExcept that it really represented a giant step back to our sordid past history of slavery, subjugation of an entire people, segregation and wanton racial hatred. So many people sacrificed so much for the US to rise out of the ashes of our racist past and now it appears that it was all for naught. All because of the GOP and its leader, Donald Trump, Putin's water boy.
Beaglemom
Donald Trump tweeted a very different statement about Charlottesville than other officials
ReplyDeletehttps://www.vox.com/2017/8/12/16138666/donald-trump-tweeted-different-statement-charlottesville-rally-white-nationalist
'We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!' Donald J. Trump 10:19 AM - 12 Aug 2017
Oh great another tweet from Twitler. Can't even finish a sentene. Come together to do WHAT? Sorry, the left doesn't slit its own throat. we will also NOT be silent in this regression to teh White supremacy of Hoover and the '50's.
DeleteTwitter. Haha.
DeleteWe see the pattern of global warming, we see the pattern of the Republicans stealing the Democratic process, we see the pattern of Hitler's legacy, and yet we use only rhetoric like sleepers unable to wake to a nightmare in a paralysis.
ReplyDeleteWe need to wake up but the good life of internet, shopping malls, reality tv, and McDonalds have us occupied. While Trump ever so subtly takes us back the the forties when Hitler sang this song and people followed.
Wake up. We are there.
The only time we will be objective and see this thing for what it all is, is fifty years from now when Florida and Venice are long under water, when Trump is dead, and Ivanka still holds the White House under the continuing tutelage of Putin and Co.
The end. The story of staid, complacent, lethargic sheeple. This story gets told over and over by humanity. That's where and why fascism thrives.
I want an interpretation of Trump's we need to love everyone remarks. Pres Trump loves us and is making America great so ok for KKK, neo nazis aka his supporters to protest and kill.
ReplyDeleteJust like the Wasillabitch.
Delete"So I said some words. I didn't pull the trigger."
Right. They sure seem to be running their mouths now.
DeleteWhy look! It's David Duke reminding @realDonaldTrump that white supremacist nazis put him in the White House.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/PaladinCornelia/status/896456174660341760
David Duke Praises President Trump at White Supremacist Rally Protest in Charlottesville, Virginia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jhtF_pUbLc
One person is dead, not sure what that is about. Trump wants to study what happened in Charlottesville, he is vague and doesn't acknowledge he knows who or what went down, except there was violence. Meanwhile be nice to each other and unite. America is great and will be greater again.
"Why we voted for Donald Trump": David Duke explains the white supremacist Charlottesville protests
Deletehttps://www.vox.com/2017/8/12/16138358/charlottesville-protests-david-duke-kkk
You can bet that there would be no question about what happened if the person driving the car had brown skin and had run over one of the white supremacists.
DeleteTrump and all his racist followers would be screaming that it was a Muslim terrorist attack before the perpetrator was even in the police car.
dAMN straight! If a black or muslim perpetrated this terrorist attack??? Well, we know the outcome of that scenario...
DeleteOne person has already died from this TERRORIST attack.
ReplyDeleteNowhere was that more clear than in the remarks of former KKK leader David Duke, who said before Saturday’s white supremacist rally that the demonstrations were meant to help advance Trump’s agenda.
Delete“This represents a turning point for the people of this country,” Duke said. “We are determined to take our country back, we’re going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump, and that’s what we believed in, that’s why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he’s going to take our country back and that’s what we gotta do.”
Trump’s refusal to call Saturday’s attack terrorism also likely stems from the fact that he is only comfortable condemning violence carried about by minority groups. Denouncing terrorism at the hands of white supremacists wouldn’t fit his narrative that America should fear only Muslims or Mexican immigrants or African Americans.
At one point during last year’s presidential campaign, to underscore how passionate his supporters are, Trump famously said that he “could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”
With Saturday’s violence in Charlottesville, it appears the reverse is also true.
A white supremacist could literally drive a car through a crowd of peaceful protesters, and Trump would still, as he did today, refuse to call it what it was – an act of terrorism.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/12/trump-refuses-call-charlottesville-attack-counter-protesters-act-terrorism.html
That car, plowing down the street and into a group of people, was definitely an act of terrorism. And an act of pure evilness.
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Read: President Trump's remarks condemning violence “on many sides” in Charlottesville
ReplyDeletehttps://www.vox.com/2017/8/12/16138906/president-trump-remarks-condemning-violence-on-many-sides-charlottesville-rally
Trump's statement was a coward's response and was totally meaningless. The man is a dangerous idiot and fool. He has no right to be president of the United States.
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So who owns the car with Ohio license plate GVF 1111??
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/12/virginia-unite-the-right-rally-protest-violence
DeleteWhy do you ask? Or bait?
DeleteIf the guy driving the grey car had been black, the cops wound have shot him quick!!
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Trump is a Trump supremacist. White supremacy is a subset of that in his case. He will relate to them as he does Putin. He will dance about while avoiding criticizing them directly. His false equivalences are an attempt to obfuscate but we know what he is.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump refuses to name the problem of white supremacist violence
ReplyDeletehttps://www.vox.com/2017/8/12/16138896/trump-speech-charlottesville-many-sides
I would recommend you take a good look in the mirror & remember it was White Americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists. 11:03 AM - 12 Aug 2017
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/896431991821926401 @DrDavidDuke
We came in peace. It was the government and antifa that used force against peaceful, lawful demonstrators. 10:10 AM - 12 Aug 2017 @RichardBSpencer
https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/896418504794157058
Trolling for a race war: Neo-Nazis are trying to bait leftist “antifa” activists into violence — and radicalize white people. Alt-right violence isn't random — it's part of a strategy to radicalize the "normies" and make fascism great again
http://www.salon.com/2017/04/27/trolling-for-a-race-war-neo-nazis-are-trying-to-bait-leftist-antifa-activists-into-violence-and-radicalize-white-people/
When Trump responded to the violence in Charlottesville today, Trump said that "...it has been going on for a long, long time...". Of course Trump would know about that, his father Fred was once arrested at a KKK riot back in the 1920's.
ReplyDeleteTruly. We know that Trump has been indoctrinated with White Supremacy beliefs. It is rumored that he read Hitler's book and it is on this bedside table.
DeleteEven in his skirting around the issue today, he gave little power to peace, and instead let the door open for the violence and anger to permeate. That's a Hitler tactic.
Of coarse racial hatred and fear is here but a moral leader would have said words that calmed the shit down. Instead, Donald Cheeto Hitler left the door open. In his words, sad.
Well let's tell Trumpty he's going to a new golf course.
DeleteTake him by helicopter to
Alcatraz and drop him off.
Lock him in a cell. Toss key.
He's got White Supremacist Nazis on his senior staff!
ReplyDeleteThey have been in cahoots in Washington dc since 1917. Give me a break.
DeleteThe crowd had gathered to celebrate, an eyewitness told The Atlantic, because the white nationalists who’d gathered in the city had finally left. The mood was jubilant. Then, there were screams.
ReplyDeleteTrump is the Alt-Rights bitch. Both need to be eliminated.
ReplyDeleteTeach your children well:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/scientology-defends-its-anti-weed-hokum
Just In - State of Emergency declared...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10155648130148588
The comments are astounding. What are these people going to do if Trump calls out the white supremacists?
Fat Donald will call out his own Attorney General by name because the twerp actually followed the law. Putin or Nazi bastards-oh hell no. They can do whatever the hell they want. Is this finally the tipping point? Hate that sonofabitch. Thank you Governor McAuliffe for finally calling it what it is.
ReplyDelete1 murdered, 2 killed in a helicopter crash, 20 injured, 5 in critical condition.
ReplyDeleteDriver areested, 20 year old male from Ohio
CHARLOTTESVILLE SUSPECT. DRIVER BOOKED ON SUSPICION OF MURDER. Mug Shot Released
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tmz.com/2017/08/12/charlottesville-driver-plowed-into-crowd-booked-murder/
Make America Great Again
http://www.bostonherald.com/sites/default/files/styles/gallery/public/media/2017/08/12/Confederate%20Monuments_Vita%20%2810%29.jpg?itok=bUvv-9St
I'm an optimist at heart, but I am finding it harder and harder to remain one. I am very worried that we will have a war with Korea. I'm worried that Putin has Trumps balls in a vice. I'm worried that white supremacy has become emboldened and will become more and more violent. This is what Trump meant when he said Make America Great Again? I'm sick to my stomach.
ReplyDeleteNorth Korea has an ACE more deadly than any nuclear activity to play. Don't worry. They are just waiting to play it. Shrug.
DeleteTrump's response, in both tweets and speeches, has be the least presidential of any government leader.
ReplyDeleteBarack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi have all condemned the White supremacists.
Even the right sounds more presidential than the Orange Anus.
David French, Marco Rubio. Jeb Bush. Hell, even Ted Cruz, all responded with condemnation of the White Supremacists.
The words TERRORISTS were used.
And then we have our leader and his wish washy tepid namby pamby spread it all around response. The fucker can't even read the speech someone else obviously wrote for him with any feeling or passion.
Just get this fucker out of the people's house.
In handcuffs or feet first. I really don't give a shit any more. Just as long as he goes and quickly.
Washington Post:
ReplyDeleteThe driver of the Challenger, James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Ohio, was arrested and charged with one count of second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding, and one count of hit-and-run attended failure to stop with injury, police said. He is being held without bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Monday, Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail Superintendent Martin Kumer said. Three other men were arrested in connection with violence earlier in the day.
And he had no idea those two cars he hit were there. No way he could see them. His intent was to barrel through that crowd of people, maim and kill as many as possible, and continue on his way. Just as they preach in the Alt-Right playbook.
DeleteT jr and eric were spotted with neo Nazis years ago. It is just their buddies coming out for hate and chaos.
ReplyDeleteThe cops and national guard stood by and watched it was reported. This was an organized event to rumble. The trump base of hateful paranoid white radical trump voters vs anti trump anti hate protesters. What could go wrong? Who allowed the permit?
ReplyDeleteIt sure sounds like team Trump does collude with team David Duke.
Delete“Many sides” didn’t do this.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/896465131210653697/photo/1
Trump's cowardly behavior this weekend with regard to this hateful show by his white supremacist supporters should be enough to bring him down.
ReplyDeleteI remember when President Kennedy made a speech to the nation about the evil of segregation. It was about our moral obligation to put aside the racial hatred that had almost bled the country dry in the 19th century and that was persisting well into the 20th.
Now we have a sick resurgence of that hatred brought to us by Trump and his GOP (thanks in part to Nixon's "Southern strategy"). Blaming both sides, as Trump did in his cowardly statement, will do nothing to make this nation a better place. It is obvious that Trump and his supporters, including his Congress, want the wounds to fester even more - to the point that the white supremacist version of martial law is imposed across the country. Then we truly will become a "failed state."
We, the American people, cannot let that happen.
Beaglemom