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This is from the Times Editorial Board:

[quote]Let’s discard the fiction that President Trump wasn’t placating white supremacists by responding so weakly to the neo-Nazi violence that killed Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old counterdemonstrator in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. The neo-Nazis heard his message loud and clear.

“He didn’t attack us,” crowed The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist website, about Mr. Trump’s statement after the two days of racist demonstrations. “Refused to answer a question about White Nationalists supporting him. No condemnation at all. When asked to condemn, he just walked out of the room. Really, really good. God bless him.”[/quote]

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“and let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that barack obama trump doesn’t know what he’s doing. he knows exactly what he’s doing.”

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NBC News: White House officials stunned Trump went rogue
The President’s press conference quickly won him praise from known-white Supremacist David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the KKK.

Really? They’re stunned?!? Where exactly were they for the last 2 if not 25 years?

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LMAO, shocking.

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that may become my new favorite gif

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random search on Giphy turned it up, but I love it, too.

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I want to meet the black people who still support Trump. They do exist, but I can’t imagine how.

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…and DreamHost, who have been sticking to their guns. It’s a pleasant switch when a company doesn’t roll over and play dead.

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I have mixed feelings about the ACLU this week given its handling of the Charlotesville rally. Rationally, I see the point that it has to defend constitutional rights for everyone no matter how shitty they might be.

But still. I think the argument could have been made that this wasn’t protected speech, it was incitement.

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Perhaps the argument could have been made when people started showing up with torches and shields and guns???

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Some people just want to watch the world burn.

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And that is the conflict central to “Skokie.”

And every word of this clip is as true now as it was in 1981:

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One more… not a cartoon character (but kind of close enough):

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:wink:

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That kind of circulates back to the “is Trump functionally blind?” speculation that was happening just after he was sworn in – the extra-large printing, the never reading anything, the going off-teleprompter/complaining about teleprompters, the clutching of foreign leaders’ hands because he’s so nervous going down staircases.

If his retinas are barely working anyhow, it might not make things noticeably worse for him to stare at an eclipse without protection.

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Honestly, he glanced up at the sky for a second or two. I thought of everything Trump’s done, it’s not even newsworthy. I think it’s sad that they didn’t set up a special educational event and instead it just seemed sort of like any office where the employees walked out during the eclipse to look up at the sky. They really do not know how to be gracious and have a public life.

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