Guns, race, religion, terror, wingnut thread

[Vrede too]

Think this guy will have an easy time getting a job on graduation? https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/whit ... 31568.html

Bad link.

[O Really]

Worked for me when I clicked in your post.

[Vrede too]

Bizarre, I get http://start.att.net/

Happens sometimes, not too often, with other Yahoo! links. Must be some glitch since I'm registered there through AT&T. What's the full headline? I can google it.

[rstrong]

Think this guy will have an easy time getting a job on graduation?

The TSA is always hiring.

[O Really]

Bizarre, I get http://start.att.net/

Happens sometimes, not too often, with other Yahoo! links. Must be some glitch since I'm registered there through AT&T. What's the full headline? I can google it.

"White supremacist who marched in Charlottesville: 'I'm not the angry racist they see in that photo'"

The pic is this guy screaming, torches around, yada...

[Vrede too]

Thanks, found it.

Think this guy will have an easy time getting a job on graduation? https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/whit ... 31568.html

"Peter Cvjetanovic, the 20-year-old college student"

Sure, Dolt .45's second term admin. :gthumb: He can even keep the Hitler hairstyle.

[billy.pilgrim]

Thanks, found it.

Think this guy will have an easy time getting a job on graduation? https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/whit ... 31568.html

"Peter Cvjetanovic, the 20-year-old college student"

Sure, Dolt .45's second term admin. :gthumb: He can even keep the Hitler hairstyle.

His parents address please. There is a possibility they don't what what they raised.

[Vrede too]

... There is a possibility they don't what what they raised.

I'll bet that they do now. We'll see if there's a repudiation like the one described at the bottom of page 79.

Ex-KKK Leader David Duke Has Meltdown After Trump Condemns White Supremacists In Charlottesville

I heckled David Duke back in about 1980, the only speaker I’ve ever heckled. I’m still proud of it. I’m not sure that Duke’s whining is news, though. By definition, racists are moronic crybabies that can’t face their own inadequacies.

[O Really]

...the only speaker I’ve ever heckled.

Slacker.

[Vrede too]

Slacker.

Guilty, I guess. Who have you heckled?

I haven't gone out of my way to go to speeches by creeps, it's depressing. Also, the places where I've lived haven't invited that many to speak. I was particularly offended by Duke's speech because the U. I was attending paid him to come. So, it was my money.

I have made some pols uncomfortable with non-heckling questions and comments, though. One of my favorites, from the 1980s: I asked my Dem US Senator if he was going to get arrested outside of the South African Embassy like so many other congresspersons had. His wishy-washy answer included saying that no Senators had done so. I replied, "One has, Lowell Weicker, a Republican." The room cracked up.

[O Really]

Slacker.

Guilty, I guess. Who have you heckled?

Not many, really, for some of the same reasons you mentioned - not wanting to go to the speech, not wanting to increase crowd size, etc. Truth be, heckling is probably more satisfying to the heckler than bothersome to the hecklee.

[Vrede too]

... Truth be, heckling is probably more satisfying to the heckler than bothersome to the hecklee.

That same thinking is one of my hesitations, along with doubts about the use of violence, about opposing nazi gatherings. They gather because they want opposition. However, things changed Saturday and the nazis were the clear losers in the public's eye. I may not be so hesitant next time.

[rstrong]

However, things changed Saturday and the nazis were the clear losers in the public's eye.

Yup. The plan was to "unite the right."

- The alt-right revealed themselves to even to those most in denial, as Nazis.
- Their web sites have lost their hosting.
- Crowd-funding sites have dropped them.
- That Confederate statue in North Carolina was torn down.
- Many on the right will no longer tolerate them.
- Even Trump - finally - has disowned them.

Not the "win" they were hoping for. I think we just reached peak alt-right. The Joseph McCarthy "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" moment for Trump/Bannon/Gorka.

The question is, will the remaining adults in the Republican party, the non-Trump/Palin/Cruz traditional Republicans, seize the moment and return the party to conservatism?

Spoiler:

No.

[Vrede too]

Also:

- They got their asses kicked, not counting the terrorist driver.
- Airbnb rejected them.
- Some have already lost their jobs and families, even more will be outed.
- U.S. cities step up removal of Confederate statues, despite Virginia violence
- Jacksonville reassesses Confederate monuments in Charlottesville's aftermath
- Their idol Dolt .45's wimpy and slow response hurt him. Bannon, Gorka and Miller are on the hot seat, too.

Call it the Battle of Charlottesville.

I hope "we just reached peak alt-right", but I'm not as certain as you. They might be encouraged to hold more gatherings so they don't look weak, and they might be more violent (gunfire) with the Antifas. Frustrated and impotent individuals and small groups might step up hate crimes and terrorism. We'll see.


(Mount Holly) North Carolina woman confronts man flying Nazi flag at his home (article)

Page Braswell
August 13 at 4:21pm

(video here)

403 Forestway Drive Mount Holly NC 28120 (White House on the corner) - Joe Love is his name. Owns Jerry & Sons Auto on Hwy 27 between Mt Holly & Stanley.

We need to ALL stand against Nazis. Share far and wide; let's run this Nazi out of town. For real.

"Love" . If I lived in Mount Holly his house and business would be surrounded with rainbow flags in the morning. I feel bad for anyone besides him that depends on his business.

[O Really]

...along with doubts about the use of violence, about opposing nazi gatherings.

Maybe not a first choice, but probably eventually the only productive alternative. These are not normal people who might listen to reason. These are not ideas or ideals that can be accepted as just another political opinion that "everyone is entitled to." No, they're not entitled to those, and they should be run out of every community until they have nowhere to go except under some rock in Idaho.

[k9nanny]

Hoping the rat is feeling cornered. As if.
When I think it can't get any worse, it does.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ch ... eft-2017-8

[rstrong]

[bannination]

Ha!

[Vrede too]

...along with doubts about the use of violence, about opposing nazi gatherings.

Maybe not a first choice, but probably eventually the only productive alternative. These are not normal people who might listen to reason. These are not ideas or ideals that can be accepted as just another political opinion that "everyone is entitled to." No, they're not entitled to those, and they should be run out of every community until they have nowhere to go except under some rock in Idaho.

If you're sure that it helps the cause of defeating them in the long term and making us a better society, I'm good with that. Eyes on the prize.

[Vrede too]

Obama's Response To Charlottesville Violence Becomes Third Most Liked Tweet In History

Doesn't say what the top 2 tweets are.

... The most-liked tweet of all time was from singer Ariana Grande earlier this year -- saying "broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don't have words." -- after a deadly attack at her Manchester concert.

That tweet dethroned the popular photo tweet from the 2014 Oscars ceremony by actress Ellen DeGeneres....

https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-messag ... 18081.html

Love wins Twitter.