Subj : Re: What happened? To : Lee Lofaso From : Dale Shipp Date : Sun Aug 11 2019 01:43 am -=> On 08-11-19 03:30, Lee Lofaso <=- -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about What happened? <=- >Start with his response to Charlotsville two years ago when a white >nationalist killed a woman and injured others, all the while when the >white nationalists were marching chanting hate slogans. His reponse was >"there are good people on both sides", nothing to condemn what the white >nationalists were doing. LL> Are you calling Donald Trump a white supremacist? No -- but I am saying that he is provided comfort and encouragement to the white nationalists and their movement. >Continue through almost all of his campaign rallies, before and after >election when he touted the theme of invasion from the south by Mexicans >and other hispanics, calling them rapists and murderers. LL> How does that make him a white supremacist? Just because those LL> rapists and murderers happen to be black or brown does not necessarily LL> make him a white supremacist. I mean, I am sure he condemns the acts LL> of all rapists and murderers, regardless of the color of their skin. LL> Just like that white dude who killed eight Mexicans in El Paso. Did he condemn the acts of either the Dayton or El Paso shooters? I might have missed it, but certainly have not heard such language coming from him. He did read a teleprompter speech without any affect. It was clear that he did not write it. Nor did it look as if he really believed what he was told he should say. LL> No president can control the acts of others. And certainly not that LL> of a single individual who is probably insane. Hardly any of the mass shooters would ever have been diagnosed as being insane. LL> Again, how does that make Donald Trump a white supremacist? While LL> he is clearly playing to a crowd, that does not mean he is hoping any LL> of them go off the rails and conduct mass shootings of black and brown LL> people. Try playing a video clip of him in a Florida rally. Paraphrasing, He asks "what can we do about this invasion". Someone in the crowd shouts "shoot them". He laughs and says "well you could probably get away with that in the panhandle". That certainly does not sound like he is discouraging the acts of one such as the El Paso shooter. Then there is "I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it". Dale Shipp fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net (1:261/1466) .... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 01:54:05, 11 Aug 2019 ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 --- Maximus/NT 3.01 * Origin: Owl's Anchor (1:261/1466)