The Trump Presidency

[Oklahomahawk]

Is there anything wrong with saying anti fa are bad people?

To me any hate filled group is wrong. I condemn all people who would rather hate than work constructively together. I know this is a sentence full of dirty words, but like each other or not, we're all still Americans and if we don't figure out how to turn things around and right this ship, who the hell is going to?

[Dalyn]

https://twitter.com/wiawm/status/896824085325373440

[thethe]

To me any hate filled group is wrong. I condemn all people who would rather hate than work constructively together. I know this is a sentence full of dirty words, but like each other or not, we're all still Americans and if we don't figure out how to turn things around and right this ship, who the hell is going to?

The prople are fine. It's the people pulling the strings that are the problem.

[Oklahomahawk]

The prople are fine. It's the people pulling the strings that are the problem.

Fair enough, but IMO the prople like having their strings pulled a little too much. It's so much easier than getting our heads out of our collective arses and thinking for ourselves.

[Hawk]

Post-presser WH talking points:

[weso1]

Is there anything wrong with saying anti fa are bad people?

Of course not and in fact it's concerning that so many on the left and some on the right are defending them. Even Mitt Romney tweeted out that they're basically sweet little angels. I honestly think the lack of outrage over ANTIFA is far more dangerous than the widely nearly completely disavowed white supremacist for many reasons.

[thethe]

Of course not and in fact it's concerning that so many on the left and some on the right are defending them. Even Mitt Romney tweeted out that they're basically sweet little angels. I honestly think the lack of outrage over ANTIFA is far more dangerous than the widely nearly completely disavowed white supremacist for many reasons.

I just don't understand how so much of the American people have become brainwashed by the progressive left.

[Oklahomahawk]

I just don't understand how so much of the American people have become brainwashed by the progressive left.

Probably for the same reason that so much of the American people have become brainwashed by the non-progressive right (and don't even begin to realize it)

[thethe]

Probably for the same reason that so much of the American people have become brainwashed by the non-progressive right (and don't even begin to realize it)

So much that we embrace hate groups?

[57Brave]

Of course not and in fact it's concerning that so many on the left and some on the right are defending them. Even Mitt Romney tweeted out that they're basically sweet little angels. I honestly think the lack of outrage over ANTIFA is far more dangerous than the widely nearly completely disavowed white supremacist for many reasons.

I don't think he was defending them , just a very simple explanation

Mitt Romney‏Verified account @MittRomney

No, not the same. One side is racist, bigoted, Nazi. The other opposes racism and bigotry. Morally different universes.


which was what I tried to clumsily say earlier

[Julio3000]

Are we still doing the false equivalency thing?

[thethe]

Are you pretending that anti fa is not a dangerous radical group in its fledgling stage?

[Julio3000]

**** the GOP.

Because they nominated Trump or because they're unenthusiastic in their embrace of neo-fascism? ;-)

[Julio3000]

Are you pretending that anti fa is not a dangerous radical group in its fledgling stage?

I'm pretending that you aren't still talking this tripe in light of what happened this weekend.

[Julio3000]

Are you pretending that anti fa is not a dangerous radical group in its fledgling stage?

I'm pretty sure I know who's already a dangerous radical group, though.

[bravesnumberone]

When you hear that Ivanka and Jarred needed to push him to denounce neo-nazis it does get unsettling.

It's way past the ****ing point of unsettling and has been for a while.

[nsacpi]

I have a feeling some good things are going to come out of Trump being President....just not the things he and his supporters were hoping for

[Julio3000]

That is 140-character ninja ****.

[weso1]

Are we still doing the false equivalency thing?

I agree with you that there is not an equivalence, but would violence have occurred at all if the violent left had chosen to stay at home?

[Julio3000]

I agree with you that there is not an equivalence, but would violence have occurred at all if the violent left had chosen to stay at home?

In my opinion? Yes. Had antifa not been there, there still would have been violence, and one can easily find first-hand accounts that suggest as much.

I appreciate your good faith response and your recognition of the false equivalence.