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sheshe2

(83,898 posts)
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 08:13 PM Jan 2017

The KKK And Their Friends Are Overjoyed With President Trumps First 10 Days

Klansmen, conspiracy theorists and online trolls are all aboard the Trump Train.


President Donald Trump may have historically low approval ratings overall, but for many of America’s most politically extreme figures, the commander-in-chief has been a dream come true.


A wide range of fringe figures in the public sphere and on the web ― including white nationalists, anti-Semites, so-called “men’s rights activists” and others with discriminatory views ― have acclaimed Trump’s first week in office, focusing in particular on his executive actions ordering the construction of a border wall with Mexico and banning refugees from entering the country.


“Hail Prez Trump! America First!” tweeted David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard and still outspoken white supremacist and anti-Semite, the day of Trump’s inauguration. “Save USA borders not foreign. Make nations (((Israel)))? pay own defense! NO to (((Neocon))) warmongers!” (Those multiple parentheses are called “echoes,” and they’re used by anti-Semites to indicate people and things perceived to be nefariously Jewish.)


“President Trump has the potential to be placed amongst the greatest,” Duke added on Sunday.


Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-kkk-white-nationalists-happy_us_5890edb7e4b0c90eff00a2a8?

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Read the rest if you can stand it. This is sickening. This is the mentality of the people that are running this country.

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The KKK And Their Friends Are Overjoyed With President Trumps First 10 Days (Original Post) sheshe2 Jan 2017 OP
Drumpf's daddy would be proud. democratisphere Jan 2017 #1
They can go fuck themselves. Initech Jan 2017 #2
How many feet of Wall, I ask them? "0" nt msanthrope Jan 2017 #3
No to neocon war monger, but Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2017 #4
Does that imply that if someone is overjoyed, they might be aligned with the KKK? ffr Jan 2017 #5

ffr

(22,671 posts)
5. Does that imply that if someone is overjoyed, they might be aligned with the KKK?
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 09:02 PM
Jan 2017

You'd think so, right? But the reds around me say no. Nothing in common.

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