There is no such thing.
Researchers who study extremist groups in the United States say there is no such thing as the “alt-left.” Mark Pitcavage, an analyst at the Anti-Defamation League, said the word had been made up to create a false equivalence between the far right and “anything vaguely left-seeming that they didn’t like.”Trump has begun using that term to imply that those who oppose Nazism are no different from the Nazis themselves. Because, to the alt-right, opposing their agenda of racism and antisemitism makes those people just as evil as the Nazis that they oppose.
If you are opposing the Nazis, then you are on the side of righteousness. Angels ride on your shoulders.
Anyway, to change gears a little, Trump's presser yesterday was so full of bullshit, I'm surprised that they didn't bring in a steam-cleaning rig afterwards. He claimed that he waited two days to denounce the Nazis because he wanted to wait for all of the facts to come in? Since when has Trump waited for facts on anything else? Some half-baked allegation crawls across the bottom of his TV set and he is up on Twitter in less than a heartbeat. Trump is the best friend that the racists have had since maybe Wilson. His whining that the Nazis are being treated unfairly by the media was unseemly. His defense of the "good people" on the side of the Nazis was, frankly, insane. If the Nazis are marching with you, then you are a Nazi. If you don't want to be thought of as a Nazi when the Nazis appear on your side, then go the fuck home.
If you continue to stand behind Trump, who has been unalloyed in his support of white supremacists (other than when he is reading a statement that was clearly written by someone else), then don't be surprised if that stench rubs off. If you work in the Trump White House and you stay on the job after all of this, you will be known, for the rest of your career, by the company that you are now keeping. Savvy corporate executives have broken that code. So should you.
This clip seems to be "slash-dotted" at the moment, but it's worth seeing:
Fox News host @KatTimpf absolutely goes off on Trump’s “disgusting” presser: “I’m wondering if it’s actually real life what I just watched.” pic.twitter.com/BS0xFwxk3o
— Andrew Kirell (@AndrewKirell) August 15, 2017
Not much has changed in fifty years:
As true today as it was in 1968. Pax et Justitia - Stan pic.twitter.com/VbBtiZzUch
— stan lee (@TheRealStanLee) August 15, 2017
By the way: Where were all of these Nazis who are screaming about taking down statues honoring traitors when statues of Lenin and Stalin were being pulled down all over eastern Europe? Where were they when the U.S. Army pulled down statues of Saddam Hussein? Wasn't that also destroying history?
And, if you think, as Donald Trump does, that there is no difference between General Washington and General Lee (other than maybe competence), then I sincerely implore you to go commit an unnatural act upon thyself.
You go girl! 100% agreement, Nazis crawl out now and then and have to be crushed. The blood of liberty has already been shed by a hero of democracy but to Republicans a meddling leftist butted in and got what was coming to her. Why can't they leave poor ole massa Lee alone? Because the dems are the same as the repugs are the same as Nazis (not all Nazi death camp guards were bad) are the same as cannibals are the same as child molesters (not all North American Man/boy Lovers Association members are bad) are the same as serial killers (Ted Bundy was so cute and not all bad). Maybe trump can Unify the Fright with a giant Tiki-torch/searchlight rally of all the groups above. Probably have to be held in Vegas though since todays Germans wouldn't let him use Nuremberg, they learned all about Nazis by 1945.
ReplyDeleteTrump's lead attorney, John Dowd:
ReplyDelete"You cannot be against General Lee and be for General Washington, there literally is no difference between the two men."
-Doug in Oakland