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"In my 47 years of association with @UVA, this was the most nauseating thing I've ever seen. We need an exorcism on the Lawn," Larry Sabato, director of theUniversity of Virginia Center for Politics tweeted.
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GusBob
(7,286 posts)I fear nothing will be done, and this movement will grow.
The number of people at this hate festival was alarming to me. I can understand a dozen or so knuckleheads, but hundreds? Very unsettling
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)When they go back this thing spreads
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Right now.
spanone
(135,844 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Frightening.
spanone
(135,844 posts)dalton99a
(81,516 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)(emphasis added)
9 posted on 2017-08-12, 3:18:33 AM by Kalamata
Definitely Soros. Does he think weve forgotten how he set up the mobs at the Trump rallies to make people believe they were Trump supporters? We know how he works and thinks.
66 posted on 2017-08-12, 7:54:33 AM by MayflowerMadam
The other half loves it.
Torch lit processions look fantastic. White people standing up for themselves is something new and exciting.
The Alt-Right has made conservatism inc and the official Republican party look weak an ineffective. As an example: The Alt-Right fought for, and won, the right of Spencer to appear at Auburn University. Young Americans for Freedom backed down (shortly after Spencer et al had showed them how to win) regarding a Coulter speech at UC Berkley.
Fighting for your identity and posterity (what do you thing the American Revolution was about?) is more inspiring than arguments over GDP and tax rates.
Most men under 50 (and some older too) looking to choose between arguments over abstract principles at CPAC and the torch light processions asserting their identity will choose the second.
125 posted on 2017-08-12, 11:03:54 AM by evilC
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Sickening.
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Multiple security agencies involved
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)I for one and every Canadian i know who travels are cancelling any plans they had or thought of to go to the USA. Come to Canada folks. We have our own racists but this would never happen in my country. Our government would not stand for it.
spanone
(135,844 posts)this is now trumpworld and it fucking sucks.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Can I get come?
BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)Never been to Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana or any other of the confederate slave states and hopefully never will. I do like Colorado and the Pacific NW but the rest you can have including the state I reside in. For tourism give me Europe any day of the week and twice on Sundays. I've been to London 4 times but have never been to D.C. And I'm ok with that.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)My trips in the last few years have been South Korea, Japan, China, Russia, Portugal, Netherlands, Norway, Finland, etc...oh, and OH CANADA...
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)...I have worked in over 30 countries on all continents except Antarctica, and have been in about 40 total, including some difficult ones...
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I can add a few-- Oman, france, germany. Belgium, Italy, Mexico, French Polynesia, New Zealand, Hawai'i (that's a foreign country, isn't it), Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Switzerland, Austria,
Hey that' more than I thought.
But, nothing like your list...
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)internationalist = liberal, in general. Where I work I have not met any republicans yet... (thank god!)
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)This is a great town, and very, very liberal. And Norther Virginia is also fairly liberal. And Maryland...
So come visit!
BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)I'd be open to coming after Drumpf is gone but I don't think I could fully enjoy the experience given the current state of affairs.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)LOVED it
BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)WE OUTNUMBER THEM
GusBob
(7,286 posts)They are visiting an elderly relative so by force.
I am ashamed about the whole situation for them, especially as the relatives they are visiting are huge Trumpers
I know they are going to be very upset
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)He sheltered students in either his home or office (can't remember which) for fear of their safety.
It's all horrible.