Trump just re-tweeted an alt-right guy

[oberliner]

Here it is:

Link to tweet

Apparently complaining that Charlottesville is getting too much media attention?

[mucifer]

1. Someone isn't watching the news in Chicago. It's on the Chicago news every day all the time

Plus lots of protests in the neighborhoods that the press does not always cover.

[lunasun]

3. ++++a zillion

[SweetieD]

2. Isn't that Jack guy a super alt right guy?

[oberliner]

4. Yes he is

Check out his Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Posobiec

[Initech]

14. Jack Posobiec is the dick who interrupted the Julius Caesar production in New York.

Fuck that fucking asshole.

[BootinUp]

5. I have to admit, I'm disgusted with the

murder rate in that city.

[mucifer]

9. Actually, many other cities are worse. If Obama wasn't from Chicago it would be different :

The republicans love to hate Chicago.

But despite the soundbites, Chicago remains in the middle of the pack when homicide is measured on a per-capita basis. In 2016, the city had a rate of 27.9 killings per 100,000 residents — half that of St. Louis, whose 188 murders amounted to 59.3 homicides per 100,000 people and preserved that city’s status as America’s murder capital. Baltimore placed second, with a homicide rate of 51.2, followed by Detroit, New Orleans, and Cleveland.

“Because Chicago has so many people, it can get a murder every day, and that gets people’s attention,” John Pfaff, a professor of law at Fordham Law School, told The Trace recently. “When you focus on numbers, not rates, Chicago ends up looking worse because you forget just how big a city it is.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/chicago-violence-murder-capital-of-america-2017-1

That said Rahm could have done a lot to help with poverty and he dropped the ball.

[BootinUp]

10. What a world. Nt

[sharedvalues]

6. Posobiec: racist asshole. He retweeted a racist.

Also to Posobiec: there's no outrage because black people were killed, and the GOP doesn't care about black people. Democrats have been trying to stop gun violence in cities for years, but GOP like Scalia have blocked them. And Chicago shootings use handguns imported from Indiana, where the GOP got laws passed to allow guns to be easily sold and then brought into Chicago.

[highplainsdem]

7. Media Matters page on Posobiec, that alt-right troll:

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/05/11/meet-jack-posobiec-latest-far-right-internet-troll-press-pass-white-house/216409

[irisblue]

8. Go to bed Donnie boy. You can be more donnie tomorrow

[riversedge]

11. oh donny boy. your twitter fed must be real vile.

Link to tweet

[mucifer]

12. Another reason he hates Chicago. We are the one town which

had such a huge protest when he was coming to campaign here in 2016 that we shut him down. The louse got scared and ran home instead of being around our protesters.

I'm sure the deplorables are loving his anti Chicago tweets

[AlexSFCA]

17. it's because Obama is from Chicago

[Tavarious Jackson]

13. I don't see it

He must have deleted the retweet

[oberliner]

18. It's still there

Four tweets down on his twitter right now.

[nolabear]

15. I swear it's like he's trying to get ousted.

He either does not care from sheer arrogance or has a career death wish. Incredible.

[CakeGrrl]

16. The usual white nationalist deflection: What about 'black on black' crime?

I've seen this in comment sections whenever a white killer is the topic.

These white nationalists/supremacists could care less about the level of black on black crime. In their inner circles, they probably celebrate it.

So why do they bring it up? Because 1) they want to work under cover of relative anonymity, at least for now - no media spotlight; and 2) I believe they think it's unfair for any white person to be singled out for killing while there are so many black offenders out there to arrest.

[rzemanfl]

20. Is there anyone here you agree with? n/t