The KKK celebrates
A chapter of the KKK says it’s holding a victory march for Trump next month.
Yeah. The president-elect is being celebrated by the Ku Klux Klan.
This is no dream. This is really happening.
A North Carolina chapter of the Ku Klux Klan announced it will hold a rally in December to celebrate Donald Trump’s presidential victory, in what a national hate-tracking group called the latest evidence that white supremacist groups are feeling emboldened since the election.
The Loyal White Knights of Pelham, North Carolina, one of the largest Ku Klux Klan groups in the U.S., said on its website it will hold the event on Dec. 3. The time and location of the event were not listed. The group is based in Pelham, a small, unincorporated community in Caswell County near the Virginia border. It organized a rally in South Carolina last year protesting the removal of the Confederate flag from the state Capitol building.
The US just elected a president welcomed by the KKK.
Trump was previously criticized for being slow to condemn former Klan leader David Duke after he gave the candidate his backing. The Republican has also repeatedly retweeted messages from white supremacist sympathizers.
Duke celebrated Trump’s win over Democrat Hillary Clinton, tweeting early Wednesday, “This is one of the most exciting nights of my life. Make no mistake about it, our people have played a HUGE role in electing Trump!”
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James Edwards, a white supremacist who runs “The Political Cesspool, a radio show based in Tennessee, wrote about Trump’s opponents, “I hope President Trump shows them no mercy. Don’t be magnanimous, Mr. President. Crush the defeated, especially those in the media, and Make America Great Again!”
Lenz said The Daily Stormer, the most influential Neo-Nazi website, put out a call Thursday to harass Hispanic and Muslim immigrants and to make them feel a genuine sense of fear.
This is where we are now.
My vote’s on cataclysmic… this is a perfect storm and Cinnamon Hitler is just the tip of the iceberg of how bad this probably will be. The federal government will finally be able to turn its full force on its people instead of occasionally helping them against the tyranny of the states.
There are problems with any analogy, including comparisons between Trump and Hitler. One place where it falls short is Hitler had to work to become a threat to the world. He had to rebuild Germany’s military, initially in secret, to break out of the restrictions placed upon it by the Treaty of Versailles. Trump is a threat right out of the gate. Trump, a thin-skinned, vindictive bully with no impulse control and very little idea about what is going in the wider world (hello, Crimea!) beyond the limits of his narrow, orange mind, has at his disposal the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. What could possibly go wrong?
I just refuse to use his name and Cinnamon Hitler’s got a good ring to it.
BKiSA – I’m with you. My husband is on notice that the words “President *****” are not to be uttered in this house. Since he is as horrified as I am, he agreed.
The other thing we are not talking about enough is the money that the federal government collects from us each year to run their systems. These new “leaders” are likely to strip the government, make sure the money gets transferred upward (corporate welfare) and starves the social safety net. When we finally wake up enough to vote them out of office, there may be little left to save.
In 2018 it’s apt to get worse unless we get insanely lucky… Dems are fending more than double the number of Senate seats, so a filibuster proof majority is entirely possible. Constitutional amendments then become possible again, I think.
My wife has taken to calling him Shitler.
I’m partial to the Goblin.
I thought that Hillary’s concession speech was a class act. Only hours after her defeat she’s decided to turn the page and to live with the election results, no matter how devastating they were.
In a final statement she suggested that president-elect Trump deserved an open mind on the part of those who voted against him. America, unlike so many, many other countries, is known for its peaceful transition of power from one administration to the next. America can only do that because her electorate is relatively mature and fair-minded.
So instead of coining new fourth-grade nicknames for Trump, perhaps we should learn to live with the outcome of a fair, transparent and democratic election. For the past 50 years America has been dominated by identity politics and the results of last Tuesday’s election, like it or not, are simply the ultimate expression of that tendency.
No.
Obviously we have to learn to live with it, unless we commit suicide, but we do not have to learn to endorse it or make peace with it or anything of that kind. Of course my tags for him are insulting, but they are addressed to his own grotesque levels of insultingness and violence. Do not tell me to make peace with a lying cheating racist misogynist sexual assaulter and fraud. No.
@John
Fair – as in stricter voter ID laws and reducing the number of voting places?
Transparent – as in using complex gerrymandering to determine whose vote counts how much?
Democratic – as in Hillary Clinton actually won the popular vote?
John – your comment in reply to mine @ 8 is too disgusting to allow through – as I’m sure you intended. I get it: you’re an asshole and you enjoy performing assholery just as Trump does. I think we all get that. You’re not entirely without interesting thoughts, which is why I haven’t banned you – but you also have this performative nasty streak, which makes it very tempting to do so. It’s especially poisonous and malevolent to do it right now. You should stop being that guy, he’s not a good thing to be.
@Ophelia
Sorry for answering to that – feel free to delete my comment…
I’ve refrained for months from saying anything about your elections. I’ve been the very model of restraint. The only election coverage I paid attention to was in the french media here ( TVA especially) because they’ve no paymasters, Republican or Democrat. Their subtitled interviews with female in particular voters were insightful Here’s another ‘nasty’ person ( CNN), one this time that actually had the right to vote…and did so. Weighing her opinions and pondering why she voted the way she did is far more constructive AND instructive than mere name-calling.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/muslim-silent-voter/index.html
Sonderval – no problem at all – the one I was objecting to hasn’t appeared.
John, I don’t object to your talking about any elections. I object to your Trumpesque provocations.