I think the most surprising part of this is that he was at Trump Tower.
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By 3:30 a.m., three of the cityâs four monuments had been removed. They included the Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. âStonewallâ Jackson Monument, a double equestrian statue of the Confederate generals erected in 1948; the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, erected in 1903; and the Roger B. Taney Monument, erected in 1887.
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The fourth statue, the Confederate Womenâs Monument, was dedicated in 1917. Pictures showed that it too had been taken down early on Wednesday.
Also of interest:
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The fuck even is that. I thought some general had taken his phone or some shit.
I knew better, but I looked it up. And, of course, the leader of the NC KKK lauding her death.
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Sorry about that. I had briefly typed something more specific there, but I decided that I really, really didnât want to repeat that garbage in my own text, even to decry it.
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Right? He doesnât even use her name???
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no. not everyone can be a hero in the heat of the moment. iâm super happy so many people are on-hand to record things like this from multiple angles and get it out into the world ASAP, so we can catch these assholes.
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also works on notzee assholes, who have been repeatedly proven to exist.
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The woman who helped pull down a (different) Confederate monument has been arrested, but no one from the video of Deandreâs attack has. Itâs only good if LE are willing to use it.
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today pence has said:
What happened in Charlottesville was a tragedy, and the president has been clear on this tragedy and so have I,â Pence told reporters on Wednesday. âI spoke at length about this heartbreaking situation on Sunday night in Colombia, and I stand with the president and I stand by those words.â
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/346835-pence-responds-to-trump-remarks-i-stand-with-the-president
no, sir. it wasnât a tragedy, it wasnât a situation. it was murder.
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So, thereâs been a lot of uproar and symbolic gesturing, but is it leading anywhere? Or is this just the new normal setting in?
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Depends.
Nothing has changed in establishment terms. The TrumpGOP are undeterred, the RNC-GOP will continue to make empty gestures of criticism while not acting.
The establishment Dems will cluelessly celebrate this (mostly in private) as a great marketing opportunity to assist with their deluded fantasy of a future electoral win.
It may have an impact on the streets, though. People are finally waking up to why antifa is necessary.
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In a statement, the Lee family said the life of the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia âwas about duty, honor and country.â
âAt the end of the Civil War, he implored the nation to come together to heal our wounds and to move forward to become a more unified nation,â the statement said. âHe never would have tolerated the hateful words and violent actions of white supremacists, the KKK, or neo-Nazis.â
Even actual Confederate heritage is disavowing the white supremacists.
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Maybe Charlottesville turns up the heat on Trump to fire Bannon, leading Breitbart to turn against Trump.
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The shitshow will just swirl more rapidly. Bannon has a genievial smile to seem reasonable and has held on this long while the other non-billionaires have flamed out immediately. Heâs what passes for brains in the West Wing and knows how to not self-destruct. Bannon wonât be gone until we see the backside of The Rump.
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I donât think heâs lose Breitbart. I think Breitbart would position it as a betrayal by the GOP rather than by Trump and going hard after the TraitorGOP.
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sidebar thought: i read somewhere that a lot of media is reporting that they were giving ânazi salutes,â but apparently thereâs a KKK salute that is very similar but they maintain is different â itâs about chest-high, palm down, fingers spread, thumb tucked in. anyone know about the symbolism behind it? iâd google it, but iâm averse to diving into alt-right sites. anyway, itâs all hate signaling to me, but iâm just trying to be educated about all the various symbolism out there.
Unicorn Riot - doing some great reporting.
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Stonewall Jacksonâs family also. His great-great-grandsons published an open letter about this:
Last weekend, Charlottesville showed us unequivocally that Confederate statues offer pre-existing iconography for racists. The people who descended on Charlottesville last weekend were there to make a naked show of force for white supremacy. To them, the Robert E. Lee statue is a clear symbol of their hateful ideology. The Confederate statues on Monument Avenue are, tooâespecially Jackson, who faces north, supposedly as if to continue the fight.
We are writing to say that we understand justice very differently from our grandfatherâs grandfather, and we wish to make it clear his statue does not represent us.
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