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I missed this important one

artappraiser — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:18:15 +0000

In reply to What Trump did during his summer vacation: crashing and burning via "Fake News." For the record, Aug. 15, 2017

I missed this important one because it happened Aug.13!

Republican senator: White nationalists can't be part of GOP base

By Julia Manchester @ The Hill- 08/13/17 10:29 AM EDT (with CNN Video)

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) on Sunday ramped up his pressure on President Trump to call white supremacists out by name, saying they should not be a part of any political base.

"White nationalists, white supremacists, they're not a part of anybody's base. They're not a part of this country. They're a part of hatred, they're a part of evil, and we need to stand up to that," Gardner told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" during a discussion of violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

Whether it's the president of the United States, a senator from any of our great 50 states around the country, or our city councils and school teachers, call it for what it is. It's hatred, it's bigotry. We don't want them in our base, they shouldn't be in a base, they shouldn't be claimed as part of a base, and it has to be made crystal clear," he continued.

"He should use this opportunity today to say this is terrorism, this is domestic terrorism, this is white nationalism and it has to stop, and I encourage the president to do so," he said [....]

It also has his Aug. 12 tweet:

Mr. President - we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism. https://t.co/PaPNiPPAoW
— Cory Gardner (@SenCoryGardner) August 12, 2017

Major defection:

artappraiser — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 22:13:54 +0000

In reply to What Trump did during his summer vacation: crashing and burning via "Fake News." For the record, Aug. 15, 2017

Major defection:

I Voted for Trump. And I Sorely Regret It.

By JULIUS KREIN, @ NYTimes.com, Aug. 17, 2017

Julius Krein is the founder and editor of American Affairs. Here's the background article that the Times did on his serious political journal supporting "Trumpism": Talking Trumpism: A New Political Journal Enters the Fray, March 8, 2017

You surely wouldn't get them

artappraiser — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:53:26 +0000

In reply to We all appreciate the links

You surely wouldn't get them if you didn't do the day-in, day-out drudge (no pun intended!) work of maintaining this very civil, add-free, click-bait free space to put them! Thank you back!

We all appreciate the links

Michael Wolraich — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:57:54 +0000

In reply to Richard and NCD, it's really

We all appreciate the links very much, AA. It's not just articles themselves, which are always worth reading. You've also created spaces for discussing these huge issues and set a tone that has helped us get past the factional bickering that too often consumes us. So thank you!

blush (I gotta cut it down

artappraiser — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 07:23:21 +0000

In reply to Thanks for all the

*blush* (I gotta cut it down or I'll go broke...comes to mind I said that when the Iraq war started and I did go broke! )

hee hee hee 'merica, whatta

artappraiser — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 07:08:43 +0000

In reply to Wrt the Israel angle we

hee hee hee 'merica, whatta country!

WaPo managed to get some

artappraiser — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 07:06:55 +0000

In reply to Incredible photo, needs a

WaPo managed to get some people to talk about what's been going on with Kelly, it's pretty detailed but what they got is more general change in modus operandi so far rather than any details on what happened Tues:

Lack of discipline from Trump leaves new chief of staff frustrated and dismayed,

The uproar over Trump’s equating of white nationalists and counterprotesters underscored the challenges that even a four-star general such as John Kelly faces in instilling order around the president, whose first instinct when cornered is to lash out.

By Ashley Parker and Robert Costa, Aug. 16