Antifa

AntiFa is going to be a problem in opposing the so-called President. This group will be the convenient and easy excuse for him to justify selective crackdowns and moral equivalencies. Please note that AntiFa assumes in advance that their opponents are violent - in other words their opponents, they assume, typically the alt-right or worse, have ALREADY been violent and deserve a physical confrontation.

Now I understand that the KKK and neo-Nazis actually exist to HARM others and that AntiFa claims to exist to DEFEND, but that defense is not guaranteed to be within the bounds of legality if their definition of defense is to "disrupt" alt-right rallies for example.

Of course, all this is EXACTLY what the alt-right wants them to do so that they can say that the left wing is the real danger to the US. This scenario is not unlike Al Qaeda hoping the the US would attack in Iraq so that they could promote the narrative of the US being at war with Islam. And AntiFa will deliver in this case to the alt-right. Let's not encourage this movement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/us/antifa-left-wing-faction-far-right.html?smid=fb-share

Alt-right false flag?

The alt-right loves to make claims that "liberals" like President Obama plant "false flags" - in other words, create incidents to make the right wingers look bad, like the Newtown Massacre where over 20 children were gunned down by a mentally ill person with a high powered automatic weapon. The 'liberals" created this incident, they say, to promote gun control. Seriously! And they believe it.

But here is a story that may be a true "false flag" where a supporter of the so-called President carried a "Rape Melania" sign among neo-Nazi counter protesters in order to smear the counter protesters. Disgusting. But the so-called President defends the alt-right neo-Nazis and calls out the counter protesters. Sick and disgusting.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/inside-the-alt-rights-campaign-to-smear-trump-protesters-as?utm_term=.tqbgWVxXqa&ref=mobile_share#.apZzEo2NQR

The so-called President's family and the KKK

Was the so-called President's father involved with the KKK? According to a copy of an old New York Times article in 1927, Fred Trump was arrested in conjunction with a riot between the police and the KKK in New York and a person arrested most likely was indeed Fred Trump, father of Donald.

More details are lost to history but there is more evidence that Fred Trump was a KKK sympathizer than Ted Cruz's father helped kill JFK, a meme that the so-called President promoted in the campaign.

Snopes calls it a mix of truth and speculation.

https://www.snopes.com/donald-trump-father-kkk-1927/ 

Written 8/15/17 on Facebook

Today the so-called President compared George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Is he right or wrong to do so?

Is it fair to compare two of the country's founding fathers, who owned slaves, to Confederates who attempted to destroy America and preserve slavery through violent means?

Is the so-called President right in that all of these men are equally bad? Is there a moral equivalence between George Washington and Robert E. Lee?

I don't think so. We now understand, centuries later, that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were not perfect men. They did not have a complete vision of freedom. They did, however, advance the cause of freedom, albeit very imperfectly. But please remember that slavery existed before they did and that the United States was a revolutionary experiment in freedom that, to this day, still needs improvements.

Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, however, stood opposed to the advancement of freedom. They believed deeply in slavery. They were deeply racist and had not progressed as others did in the decades after Washington and Jefferson. They had a choice to make that Washington and Jefferson were never confronted with - go to war over slavery or end slavery and preserve the Union. They chose war and slavery. It is very possible that Washington and Jefferson would have decided otherwise if given the opportunity. We can never know.

We do know this: if there is any common-sense definition of treason, Lee and Jackson fit it perfectly; and all for the cause of slavery. The so-called President ignores this or embraces this; he is mentally unfit for the job.

The origins of racism; the story of the first "Phineas Priest"

Where does White Nationalism come from? The answer is complex and the sources of ideas for it are many, varied and not all of them are related to each other. But at least some of the rationale comes from religion.

For those in some degree of denial, please be aware that there is some biblical basis for the racism of White Nationalists; the story of Phineas, who murdered an inter-racial couple in cold blood. Some racists refer to themselves until today as "Phineas Priests."  https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/phineas-priesthood 

God apparently did not approve of inter-racial marriage. This story is not lost on racist leaning Christians. Here is an excerpt from the Old Testament in the Book of Numbers:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+25%3A1-13

Numbers 25:6-13

6 Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 

7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand 

8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; 

9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

10 The Lord said to Moses, 

11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. 

12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. 

13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”

The so-called President's war on transgenders

Some will say that the so-called President is clever by starting this culture war against transgender persons in the military. Many Americans, as ignorant as the so-called President himself, will see merit in this policy and will actually believe that transgenders will pose some kind of risk and expense to the armed services. However the cost of treating transgender persons is estimated to be under $10,000,000 per year - basically the cost of a few of weekends at Mar-a -Lago - and less of an expense than the loss of the experience and training those persons represent. Do we need to mention the ingratitude shown to those who have volunteered for their country this would represent?

Persons who ultimately require a gender confirmation surgery are rare; it is not something you look forward to having. For those who need the surgery, it is their only path to peace of mind. There is no reason to deny them treatment any more than denying a person treatment for post-traumatic stress syndrome.

In the short run there may be some gain for the President. In the long run it will be a total loss for the country. This is just another disgrace by the so-called President.

https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21725610-it-has-nothing-do-money-and-everything-do-politics-why-president-wants?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fte%2Fbl%2Fed%2Fwhythepresidentwantstobantranspeoplefromserving

Some "Friend" the so-called President is turning out to be

Written July 26, 2017

The so-called President bans transgenders from the armed services. Of course he said during the campaign he would be the LGBTQ community's "best friend". LIAR!

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/politics/donald-trump-lgbt-community/index.html 

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-lgbt_us_57918ba8e4b0fc06ec5c7fdd

John McCain calls the ban "inappropriate" and cites both the process (there was none) and the substance as the as the Department of Defense “has already decided to allow currently-serving transgender individuals to stay in the military, and many are serving honorably today. Any American who meets current medical and readiness standards should be allowed to continue serving.”

https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=80124D36-EF8B-4CBD-A75A-9C6C697CA235

Supporters of the so-called President are probably now busy thinking of ways to rationalize these lies of the so-called President and inventing new lies about transgenders persons as we speak.

Was there any need to do this today? Was there any need to do this WITHOUT the input of the military? Answer: NO!!

This was done to please his base and punish his opponents. If he has to throw transgender persons under the bus, no problem. DISGUSTING!