August 17, 2017

'I am no coward': Neo-Nazi whines he has been 'crucified by Jewish media' after crying video goes...

‘I am no coward’: Neo-Nazi whines he has been ‘crucified by Jewish media’ after crying video goes viral

ERIC W. DOLAN
17 AUG 2017 AT 11:20 ET

A neo-Nazi who participated in the “Unite the Right” Charlottesville rally insists he isn’t a coward despite video that shows him crying.

Christopher Cantwell — a 36-year-old self-proclaimed fascist — recently recorded video of himself discussing the fact that a warrant was issued for his arrest after the rally in Virginia. That video, in which Cantwell wipes away tears as he talks about the events that occurred during and after the violent rally, quickly went viral. But now the neo-Nazi from New Hampshire is fighting against claims of cowardice.

“Please be careful. I’m willing to fight and die with you. I’m not a coward. But we are not prepared for the conflict we are about to walk into,” he wrote in a message on the social network Gab. “Yeah, cause cowards and feds always jump into brawls risking life, limb, and liberty for the white race,” Cantwell also wrote.

On his personal website, he claimed to be just “outside of Virginia, preparing to turn myself in to the University of Virginia Police.” Cantwell also complained that many of his online accounts had been deactivated or suspended — including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and PayPal.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/i-am-no-coward-neo-nazi-whines-he-has-been-crucified-by-jewish-media-after-crying-video-goes-viral/

August 17, 2017

Graham Responds To Trump Twitter Rant: 'Please Fix This'

Source: Talking Points Memo



By NICOLE LAFOND Published AUGUST 17, 2017 10:30 AM

After President Donald Trump lashed out against Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Thursday for criticizing Trump’s remarks about the violence in Charlottesville, Graham shot back.

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Graham responded by asking Trump to move the party in the correct direction.

“Mr. President, like most I seek to move our nation, my state and our party forward — toward the light — not back to the darkness,” he said, adding Trump’s tweet honoring Heyer was “very nice and appropriate. Well done.”

“However, because of the manner in which you handled the Charlottesville tragedy you are now receiving praise from some of the most racist and hate-filled individuals and groups in our country. For the sake of our nation — as our President — please fix this,” he said.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/graham-responds-trump-twitter-rant

August 17, 2017

Here's what Robert E. Lee thought about Confederate monuments

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In June 1866, he wrote that he couldn't support a monument of one of his best generals, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, saying it wasn't "feasible at this time."

"As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated," Lee wrote in December 1866 about another proposed Confederate monument, "my conviction is, that however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt in the present condition of the Country, would have the effect of retarding, instead of accelerating its accomplishment; (and) of continuing, if not adding to, the difficulties under which the Southern people labour."

Not only was Lee opposed to Confederate memorials, "he favored erasing battlefields from the landscape altogether," Horn wrote.

He even supported getting rid of the Confederate flag after the Civil War ended, and didn't want them them flying above Washington College, which he was president of after the war.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-e-lee-opposed-confederate-monuments-2017-8

August 17, 2017

USA Today pleads with GOP to help censure Trump for refusing to denounce neo-Nazis

BOB BRIGHAM
16 AUG 2017 AT 22:18 ET

One of the most widely circulated newspapers in America has a new editorial demanding Republicans censure President Donald Trump. Wednesday’s USA Today directs Republicans to “put your votes where your tweets are.”

“Expressing disapproval in 140 characters or fewer is insufficient when the president angrily asserts that there were some ‘very fine people’ among the bigots waving Confederate battle flags and swastika banners,” USA Today explained.

The newspaper claimed “more formal condemnation is necessary” than the tweets GOP leaders have offered to-date.

“This is a moment of reckoning for members of the Party of Lincoln: Do they want to stand up for American values, or do they want to keep enabling a president whose understanding of right and wrong has slipped dangerously off the rails?” USA Today wondered. “If congressional Republicans choose the former — and history will be watching — they should join together with Democrats to censure Trump.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/usa-today-pleads-with-gop-to-help-censure-trump-for-refusing-to-denounce-neo-nazis/

August 17, 2017

Republicans Have A New Plot To Gut Medicaid And They Don't Need Congress

By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published AUGUST 17, 2017 6:00 AM

A wave of Republican-controlled states are petitioning the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for permission to enact measures that will knock more people off Medicaid and the Trump administration has signaled they will give a green light to these efforts.

After the collapse of Obamacare repeal in Congress, which would have cut hundreds of billions of dollars and millions of people from Medicaid–the public health insurance program for the poor–red states and their allies in the Trump administration are preparing to use a powerful administrative tool as a backdoor route to that same goal.

Over the past few months, after Trump’s HHS signaled openness to granting these Medicaid waivers, nearly a dozen Republican-controlled states have submitted or are preparing to submit requests that they openly acknowledge will lead to fewer people being covered as a result. In those so-called waiver requests, some states are seeking to impose work requirements and drug tests on the low-income population that depends on Medicaid, while others are proposing cuts in coverage for vision, dental care, and non-emergency medical transportation, lifetime limits, defunding of women’s health clinics, and requiring people below the federal poverty line to pay insurance premiums.

The governors gunning for the waivers say it will save millions in taxpayer dollars and shore up the Medicaid program. But former HHS officials and health law experts tell TPM that these proposals—which HHS has all but promised to approve—undermine the purpose of Medicaid and could open the Trump administration up to lawsuits in the months ahead.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/medicaid-waivers-trump-hhs

August 17, 2017

Richard Spencer demands respect on Israeli TV, says Jews are 'overrepresented'

BY CALLUM PATON ON 8/17/17 AT 5:24 AM

Displayed with permission from Newsweek -- Don

Speaking in an interview on Israeli television, white nationalist Richard Spencer Wednesday said Jews were “overrepresented” when challenged on antisemitism, adding Jews and Israelis should respect him despite his supremacist views.

Spencer, who has previously courted Israeli media, despite engaging in Holocaust denial and refusing to condemn Hitler, made the remarks while speaking to Israeli state broadcaster Channel 2.

The alt-right figurehead was initially questioned on the weekend’s deadly clashes between white supremacist protesters and anti-fascist demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia. Spencer refrained from discussing James Alex Fields Jr., the white nationalist who stands accused of deliberately plowing his car into the group of counter protesters and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. “We actually don’t know if it was murder yet,” Spencer said, adding that he was waiting for all the facts of the case to emerge.

Spencer, who was present at the rally in Charlottesville in protest of the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. was asked about the anti-Jewish slogans shouted during the demonstration. He said the popularity of Donald Trump and the rally in Virginia was the reaction of the maligned white majority.

“Let’s be honest,” Spencer said, when asked whether such slogans constitute anti-Semitism, according to Haaretz. “Jews are vastly overrepresented in what you could call ‘the establishment,’ that is, Ivy League educated people who really determine policy, and white people are being dispossessed from this country."

The Channel 2 anchor questioned how Jews should react to these kinds of statements. “You are speaking now with a Jewish journalist, most of our viewers are Jews. How should I feel?” he asked.

“As an Israeli citizen, someone who understands your identity, who has a sense of nationhood and peoplehood, and the history and experience of the Jewish people, you should respect someone like me, who has analogue feelings about whites,” Spencer said.

“You could say that I am a white Zionist—in the sense that I care about my people, I want us to have a secure homeland for us and ourselves. Just like you want a secure homeland in Israel,” he added.

On occasion, Spencer has attempted to ingratiate himself to the Israeli right by calling for an alliance with Jews and in December telling Haaretz that he would respect moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

However, he has faced a backlash particularly for his comments on the Holocaust. In December he praised Donald Trump’s controversial Holocaust Day remembrance speech which prompted criticism for failing to mention Jews or anti-Semitism. Spencer called it the “de-Judification” of the Holocaust.

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http://www.newsweek.com/richard-spencer-demands-respect-israeli-tv-says-jews-are-overrepresented-651739

August 17, 2017

Longtime Trump business partner 'told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison': report

DAVID EDWARDS
17 AUG 2017 AT 08:31 ET

Felix Sater, one of Donald Trump’s shadiest former business partners, is reportedly preparing for prison time — and he says the president will be joining him behind bars.

Sources told The Spectator‘s Paul Wood that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s deep dive into Trump’s business practices may be yielding results.

Trump recently made remarks that could point to a money laundering scheme, Wood reported. “I mean, it’s possible there’s a condo or something, so, you know, I sell a lot of condo units, and somebody from Russia buys a condo, who knows?” the president said.

Sater, who has a long history of legal troubles and is cooperating with law enforcement, was one of the major players responsible for selling Trump’s condos to the Russians. And according to Wood’s sources, Sater may have already flipped and given prosecutors the evidence they need to make a case against Trump.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/longtime-trump-business-partner-told-family-he-knows-he-and-potus-are-going-to-prison-report/

August 17, 2017

Gene Lyons - 'Unite The Right' Rally Had Nothing To Do With Statues

Full article posted with permission of the author -- Don

August 16, 2017 2:10 pm

Watching the Charlottesville spectacle from halfway across the country, I confess that my first instinct was to raillery. Vanilla ISIS, somebody called this mob of would-be Nazis. A parade of love-deprived nerds marching bravely out of their parents’ basements carrying TIKI torches from Home Depot.

The odor of citronella must have been overpowering. Was this an attack on the campus left or on mosquitoes?

“Blood and soil!” they chanted. “Jews will not replace us!”

Jews?

Had Jews somehow prevented these dorks from getting laid?

Deeply offensive, but also deeply ridiculous. The iconography of the torch-lit parade was straight out of Triumph of the Will, Leni Reifenstahl’s epic film glorifying Hitler. Deliberately so. These Stormfront geeks get off on trying to frighten normal people with Nazi imagery.

Hogan’s Heroes is more like it. I mean Confederate flags are one thing, but swastikas? Politically, nothing could be dumber. Why not just have “Besiegte” tattooed on your forehead? That’s German for “loser.”

Speaking for the overwhelming majority of Americans, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah tweeted: “My brother didn’t give his life fighting Hitler for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home.”

Then things went from laughable to tragic overnight.

The University of Virginia has always been hallowed ground to me. When I first arrived, the sheer, serene beauty of Thomas Jefferson’s architecture affected me almost viscerally. Was the orderly life it implied even possible in this world? Well, certainly not in Jefferson’s own life, but art is art.

I was first introduced to my wife in a serpentine-walled garden maybe 50 yards from where the would-be Nazis assembled around Jefferson’s statue. If I close my eyes, I can still see her standing there in her little shirtwaist dress—an Arkansas girl more exotic to me than anybody I’d known. A coach’s daughter, she’d applied to study history at UVa entirely unaware that there were no women undergraduates back then.

The dean asked if I’d ever heard of Hendrix College, her Arkansas alma mater—a potentially embarrassing question.

“No Sir,” I said. “They must not play football.”

She laughed because I was right; also because it was a cheeky way to talk to the graduate school dean. I’ve done my best to keep her laughing ever since.

For that matter, I played several seasons worth of rugby games on Nameless Field, where the would-be SS-men lit their little torches. We got married in Charlottesville two years later. Indeed, we’ve sometimes regretted ever leaving. So, yes, it’s doubly distressing to see the university and city turned into a stage set for fascist street theater.

“Charlottesville,” wrote UVa professor Siva Vaidhyanathan “is an ideal stage for them to perform acts of terrorism. This was the home of Thomas Jefferson, the man who codified religious tolerance in colonial Virginia and who declared ‘all men are created equal.’ It’s also the home of Thomas Jefferson, the man who owned, sold, raped and had whipped people he considered racially inferior to him. It’s the site of the University of Virginia, an institution steeped in conservative traditions that echo the Old South. And it’s the site of the University of Virginia, an elite, global research university with a cosmopolitan faculty and student body.”

It’s definitely all that. Old South or not, Charlottesville is also a liberal college town that voted to remove an equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee from its courthouse square and relocate it to a park on its outskirts. Like many of the thousand or so Confederate monuments across the South, it was erected long after the Civil War, in 1924—hence more an expression of white supremacy than Virginian ancestor worship, precisely as Stormfront wants to use it today.

Lee himself steadfastly refused to be so memorialized in his lifetime. He would not contribute to the building of Confederate monuments and steadfastly advised white Southerners to leave it all behind. To an embittered Confederate widow, Lee once wrote “Madam, do not train up your children in hostility to the government of the United States. Remember, we are all one country now. … Bring them up to be Americans.”

Prof. Vaidhyanathan regrets that he and his wife stayed away on Saturday for fear of precisely what happened: a mad act of violence by a deranged young man. He vows to bear peaceful witness when the would-be Storm Troopers march again. Maybe he can help to calm campus hotheads as well. The last thing Americans need is anybody romanticizing violence.

Meanwhile, if Virginians need monuments, and they do, the state’s covered with Civil War battlefields. The Lawn at UVa remains; also Jefferson’s Monticello. For all the terrible ambiguity of his life, the man was the great genius of his age. The Washington and Lee campus in Lexington memorializes Robert E. Lee as he’d have preferred to be remembered.

For that matter, Appomattox Courthouse isn’t far away.

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http://www.nationalmemo.com/unite-right-statues/?utm_campaign=website&utm_source=sd&utm_medium=email

August 17, 2017

SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch To Address Conservatives AtTrump International Hotel

by Colin Kalmbacher | 6:51 pm, August 16th, 2017

President Donald Trump‘s first appointed Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch, plans to address a group of conservatives late next month at the president’s own personally-branded hotel in Washington, D.C.

The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) is a non-profit dedicated to advancing conservative interests through various academic and fellowship programs and is directly linked to the right-wing State Policy Network group of think tanks and tax-exempt entities, according to The Center for Media and Democracy.

TFAS plan to celebrate their 50th anniversary in Trumpian style with the kind of pomp and somewhat curious circumstance that only a Trump-nominated Supreme Court justice can provide by throwing their five-decades-long celebratory shindig at the Trump International Hotel, a 3.5 star Yelp-rated lodging and event space with four dollar signs–indicating presidential levels of priciness.

Sitting atop the former site of the Old Post Office Pavilion, the Trump International Hotel Long was opened to guests in September 2016.

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https://lawnewz.com/entertainment/scotus-justice-gorsuch-to-address-conservatives-at-trump-international-hotel/

August 17, 2017

Confederate Statues Aren't About Slavery -- They're About Treason

by Jon Levine | 3:15 pm, August 16th, 2017

During that infamous press conference in Trump Tower, yesterday, the president spoke darkly of a slippery slope. Sure you could take down that statue of Robert E. Lee — but where would it end?

“I wonder is it George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself where does it stop? asked Trump. “You’re changing history, you’re changing culture.”

Slaveholders all, Trump asserted.

And it’s true. Washington, Jefferson and dozens of other founding fathers were slave holders. In that respect they were no different than the Confederate leaders whose statues sparked protests in Charlottesville and around the country. But Trump is horribly wrong to conclude that our monuments to Washington and others may be in jeopardy if we lose Robert E. Lee. While there will likely always be social justice warriors to protest Washington, or Jefferson or racist sushi, there is a critical distinction that serious people should make that puts Lee and his friends in a very different category.

In a word — Treason.

Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens and the rest of that seditious brood aren’t monsters in our historical consciousness because they were slaveholders, but rather because the waged a treasonous war against their own people in order to keep slavery going. Their efforts to protect that most “peculiar institution,” was ultimately not conducted at the ballot box but through armed conflict. After peacefully losing the 19th century version of the culture wars with Abraham Lincoln’s election, they chose violence over the graceful acceptance of progress.

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https://www.mediaite.com/online/confederate-statues-arent-about-slavery-theyre-about-treason/