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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:10 PM Jul 2020

Trump Claims The Confederate Flag Has Nothing To Do With Slavery

From the article:

Trump was asked by CBS News, “You understand why the flag is a painful symbol for many people because it’s a reminder of slavery.”

Trump answered, “People love it. I know people that love the confederate flag and not thinking of slavery. NASCAR, the flags all over the I think it’s freedom of speech, whether it’s confederate flags or black lives matter or anything else you want to talk about. It’s freedom of speech.”



To read more:

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/07/14/trump-confederate-flag-slavery.html

And the Nazi flag has nothing to do with Hitler, and KKK robes have nothing to do with racism.
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Trump Claims The Confederate Flag Has Nothing To Do With Slavery (Original Post) guillaumeb Jul 2020 OP
Can we tell the U.N haters that the UN flag has nothing to do with the United Nations? Aristus Jul 2020 #1
Do not forget the 5G/mind control drug aspect. guillaumeb Jul 2020 #4
"People love it. I know people that love the 'UN flag' and not thinking of international cooperation pampango Jul 2020 #11
tRump's claims have nothing to do with reality Maeve Jul 2020 #2
As deep as a mirror. guillaumeb Jul 2020 #5
The more tRump talks, the more he reveals how screwed up his mind is. It's like listening RKP5637 Jul 2020 #3
It is scary as well. guillaumeb Jul 2020 #6
Yeah, they frighten me more than a deranged tRump! Really makes you RKP5637 Jul 2020 #8
Time for talk is over, he and the GOP are murdering us, by the hundreds of thousands, soon to be Eliot Rosewater Jul 2020 #7
My stock answer is "voting", but it is not enough. guillaumeb Jul 2020 #10
Many wont be alive in January and those of us who are alive will have the Eliot Rosewater Jul 2020 #14
file in folder with COVID is a hoax, if trump thinks he is the smartest man in the room I hate to beachbumbob Jul 2020 #9
And that is just part of the problem. guillaumeb Jul 2020 #12
Why don't these journalists insist on an actual answer? Goodheart Jul 2020 #13
They value access above all else. guillaumeb Jul 2020 #16
He Knows Lots of People who love the Traitors' flag Stallion Jul 2020 #15
He's trying to lose on purpose (again), but the Electoral College won't let him (again). CaptYossarian Jul 2020 #17
He himself just loves it because the Russian Navy Jack is extremely similar muriel_volestrangler Jul 2020 #18

Aristus

(66,307 posts)
1. Can we tell the U.N haters that the UN flag has nothing to do with the United Nations?
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:11 PM
Jul 2020

Will that make them calm down about the New World Order?

pampango

(24,692 posts)
11. "People love it. I know people that love the 'UN flag' and not thinking of international cooperation
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:22 PM
Jul 2020

... the flags all over the I think it’s freedom of speech, whether it’s a UN flag or black lives matter or anything else you want to talk about. It’s freedom of speech.”

Hard to imagine him ever saying anything like that.

RKP5637

(67,101 posts)
3. The more tRump talks, the more he reveals how screwed up his mind is. It's like listening
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:12 PM
Jul 2020

to a patient talk to a psychiatrist.

RKP5637

(67,101 posts)
8. Yeah, they frighten me more than a deranged tRump! Really makes you
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:19 PM
Jul 2020

wonder WTF is wrong with America. I guess too much Fox News for starters.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
7. Time for talk is over, he and the GOP are murdering us, by the hundreds of thousands, soon to be
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:17 PM
Jul 2020

by the millions.

Something must be done...period.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
10. My stock answer is "voting", but it is not enough.
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:21 PM
Jul 2020

When 37% of the electorate think that a lying, racist moron is a genius, solving that problem could take generations.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
14. Many wont be alive in January and those of us who are alive will have the
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:23 PM
Jul 2020

infection with lifelong suffering.

No, we dont have that much time.

This is insane. GOP sits, does nothing. Proof what I have always said, they are not patriots, NONE of them at least this group.

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
9. file in folder with COVID is a hoax, if trump thinks he is the smartest man in the room I hate to
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:20 PM
Jul 2020

think who the dumb one is. A rock?

Goodheart

(5,318 posts)
13. Why don't these journalists insist on an actual answer?
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:23 PM
Jul 2020

As in, do you support waving the Confederate flag, YES or NO?

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
16. They value access above all else.
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:25 PM
Jul 2020

And that is a big part of the problem with the US corporate owned media.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
17. He's trying to lose on purpose (again), but the Electoral College won't let him (again).
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:28 PM
Jul 2020

He's the Greatest American Zero (play the theme).

muriel_volestrangler

(101,294 posts)
18. He himself just loves it because the Russian Navy Jack is extremely similar
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:53 PM
Jul 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_navy_flags#Jack



and the breakaway region of Ukraine that Putin is supporting so strongly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Novorossiya



And there's nothing he likes more than pleasuring Vlad.
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