Host City for GOP Convention Condemns Trump

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2019/07/23/host-city-for-gop-convention-condemns-trump/

Host City for GOP Convention Condemns Trump
July 23, 2019 at 7:12 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

“The Charlotte City Council on Monday passed a resolution condemning President Trump’s ‘racist and xenophobic comments,’ in a rebuke of the president by the city that will host him next year at the Republican National Convention,” the Washington Post reports.

[hlthe2b]

1. How can a city host him under these circumstances? I know they are boxed in now, but...

[Thrill]

2. Charlotte is a weird choice for them

It’s not conservative at all. But it’s filled with money, so I guess it’s not so weird for Republicans.

[hlthe2b]

3. If I lived there I would be devastated at the thought of those elements taking over the city

with potential violent confrontations or at a minimum, a perversion of everything most people stand for.

I'd be sorely tempted to leave that week if possible.

[spike jones]

8. If I lived there I would try to be in the streets every day to oppose the GOP.

[hlthe2b]

9. Therein lies the dilemma. As one who has done more than my share of protesting...

my decades on earth have not forced a confrontation with hate-filled extremists and White Nationalist elements that will be likely to arrive to "support" Trump.

It is easy to say you'd do what you always do and feel important to do. This time it may be quite different.

[spike jones]

16. That is exactly why this time is the time to be in the streets.

[hlthe2b]

17. yeah.. easy to say from the comfort of our couches. Are you wiling to be Heather Heyer?

I've walked the walk for decades and I won't be lectured. Peaceful protest is one thing...Facing arrest is one thing... Setting one's self up for a violent clash is quite another.

[spike jones]

18. I am willing to take that chance.

I have gone against these gun carrying fascists in Seattle and Portland in recent years. I have seen them start fights with the counter protesters when the tear gas and pepper spray fill the air. I too have decades of protests to be proud of, most of them peaceful, many of them not, from San Francisco 1970 to Seattle WTO 1999 and police brutality protests since 2002 where the police are the Fascists with the guns and clubs. I have been pepper-sprayed, tear gassed, shot with rubber bullets, and pushed around by Fascists with guns and clubs. I am 74 years old and I promise you that if I lived in Charlotte I would be in the streets. American democracy is being destroyed, people are being brutalized and I will not be the “good German.”
BTW I do not have a couch.

[hlthe2b]

19. NONE of us are going to be "GOOD GERMANS"

I resent your implication.

[spike jones]

20. I am sorry that I offended you, but I resent being called a couch sitter. 😊

[Kaiserguy]

14. Remember the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago

and the anti war protest. The GOP needs to have some protest at their convention against there many evil policies in 2020. Just keep it classy.

[DAMANgoldberg]

21. Well I do live here...

Charlotte wants to be known nationally as a "can-do city". Their Atlanta inferiority complex continues. However, there is something to be said for hosting both parties political conventions.

[walkingman]

6. It will bring in the worst of our society. The sad thing is they are proud of these folks.

[GoCubsGo]

7. Consider that the Dems had their convention there in 2012.

This strikes me as more of their "Reverse the Obama legacy" things. It reminds me of a dog pissing on a tree to cover up the fact that another dog pissed there first. But, yes. The fact that they're a big banking center might also play into it. Bank of America, among others, has its headquarters there.

[ancianita]

15. Very true. And right wing digital activism was in greater sophistication there in prep for the DNC.

So now, there won't be any DNC pissing on their tree. Koch money goes far there in networking and right wing activism.

[tanyev]

4. They'd better make sure they get all their fees in advance or the GOP will surely screw them.

[Perseus]

5. They won't get their fees in advance and the GOP will screw them

They know it, but they will fall for it anyway. Imagine the noise if Democrats did that.

[Scarsdale]

10. Democratic party has more class than to skip out on their bills.

Screwing creditors over is strictly tRump's method of showing how "superior" he is.

[llmart]

11. I used to live there.

I loved the city of Charlotte. I haven't been back for quite some time, so I hope it isn't changing into a hive of racist supporters.

[Tech]

12. Good for them. They have more spine than the entire Republican party.

[patphil]

13. This could be a nasty scene

I hope it doesn't end up like the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention where anti-war protestors clashed with police for 8 days during the convention.

You know that Trump's supporters will be looking for trouble, and Trump's opponents will definitely be demonstrating. If the two clash there could be bloodshed.
I think Trump is perverse enough to want this to happen so he could use it to his advantage.

Patrick Phillips