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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn Influential Vet Just Put The Blame For Todays Violence Right Where It Belongs In Epic Rant
His powerful and harsh words should be read by every American and can be found below in their entirety:
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Fuck Trump. Trump owns this. Republicans own this. This isnt the Alt-Right, this IS the right. These sons of bitches are literally shouting Sieg Trump in the streets of Charlottesville right now. Fuck Trump.
These people are the vile residue, the foul distillation, of every failed hateful rotten-tooth inbred ideology in history. Dont let them hide. Dont make excuses for them. Get them out in the open. Make them own it. They have jobs some of them. They have parents and kids and neighbors. They have churches. The Constitution gives them a right to their hate, but not a right to be free of the consequences. Publish their pictures. Publish their license plates. Get them out in the open. Pull their hoods off. Theyre standing out there shouting hate, flying the flag of treason, their arms upraised in the Hitler salute. Make them own it. Make them infamous. Dont let them hide.
http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08/12/influential-vet-just-put-blame-todays-violence-right-belongs-epic-rant/
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Duppers
(28,130 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)These people would never have felt so emboldened without him.
Doitnow
(1,103 posts)including the media---penned them in and directed negative attention towards them. Threatened them. A fish rots from the head.
keithbvadu2
(37,008 posts)During the campaign season, Trump offered to pay the legal fees for his followers accused of violence.
Of course it was just more of Trump's lies but it got out his message encouraging violence.
D'ya suppose he will offer to pay the driver's legal fees?
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=trump+offers+to+pay+legal+fees+for+violence+in+the+workplace&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-004
MarvinGardens
(779 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)If I did that, I would get banned from DU. Yet here it is published in Washington Journal and linked right here on DU. My point is that maybe we are too cautious here. Remember when Spencer got punched in the head...twice? There were DUers who said that it was bad. We shouldn't punch people. Well, if more of these assholes had been punched, then maybe a 32 year old woman would still be alive today.
infullview
(982 posts)I think he is advocating exposure, not violence. Make it clear who this group is, what they believe, and tie them squarely to the Republican party that empowered and sheltered them.
Welcome to the world of tRump.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Fuck Nazis. I dont want to hear any social justice warrior bullshit about not confronting these racist shitbags with violence if necessary. They get punched in the head, they take a lead pipe over the skull, well it just plain sucks to be a Nazi. Im not going to sugar coat that for you. Nazis are Nazis, they deserve nothing but a boot in their yellow teeth and punch in the throat. Theyre getting off easy. Our grandfathers hunted Nazis down and EXTERMINATED them and its to our everlasting shame that we let this cancer regrow in our midst. Fuck Nazis.
zentrum
(9,866 posts)...physical violence? I'm not seeing it.
Ilsa
(61,710 posts)the nazis and white supremacists continue their vile recruitment. What's the point of convicting one bad cop if these people recruut and flood police forces and government?
usaf-vet
(6,232 posts)Veterans remember your oath. "Support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic".
The Republican party owns this for so, so many reason. For letting Trump spew hate speech. For letting Trump incite violence. For the travel ban citing potential terrorist from Muslim countries. For so many other blatant examples of hate centered in the Trump White House.
The evidence is clear the threats are coming from within our borders. And the president is the one with blood on his hands.