Former KKK Grand Wizard Endorses Trump

[Newell Steamer]

http://www.theroot.com/articles/new..._david_duke_endorses_trump_for_president.html

It's not that Trump is a racist, it's just that racists love what he says. So, that totes doesn't make him a racist.

Oh, here is a copy and paste for some of you - pick, choose and mix / match the following;
- ,... Yet Another Trump Thread
- Yet Another Race Baiting Thread By Cleveland Steamer
- Why aren't you permabanned?

 

[werepossum]

Of course, it goes without saying that this is completely and fundamentally different from the Democrats putting a former KKK Big Beagle* in the top five succession for the Presidency.

*Can't remember his actual title and too busy/apathetic to look it up. Pretty sure it was a made-up or arcane word that rhymed with beagle though.

 

[Jaskalas]

There's a lot of support in the South for taking strong and decisive action to build a wall and deport illegals, etc. This should come as no surprise to anyone.

 

[soulcougher73]

Now we need Fox news to endorse to use the Simpson helicopter pic

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Moar Trump threads, we need moar Trump threads.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I can't believe Grand Wizard is an actual title.

 

[JockoJohnson]

Let's see if Trump denounces it first. At least when Farakhan said he supported Obama, Obama distanced himself from it.

Also, did Trump actively seek the KKK's support?

 

[Newell Steamer]

Moar Trump threads, we need moar Trump threads.

You created one as well.

Oh, that's right, you used it to bash the Liberal media (Salon I think).

//golf clap

 

[fskimospy]

Of course, it goes without saying that this is completely and fundamentally different from the Democrats putting a former KKK Big Beagle* in the top five succession for the Presidency.

*Can't remember his actual title and too busy/apathetic to look it up. Pretty sure it was a made-up or arcane word that rhymed with beagle though.

I'm not sure, do you view people who currently and unapologetically hold racist views to be the same thing as people who have apologized and publicly repudiated formerly held racist views to be the same thing?

If not, that seems like an awfully big difference to me, wouldn't you say?

 

[Atomic Playboy]

You can't pick your supporters. But if your message is going over well with the KKK, it might be worth examining your views.

 

[alien42]

http://www.getequal.org/blog/who-said-this-a-kkk-member-or-a-gop-presidential-candidate

lol

 

[BoberFett]

You can't pick your supporters. But if your message is going over well with the KKK, it might be worth examining your views.

That's probably a rabbit hole you don't want to go down.

 

[Exophase]

You can't pick your supporters. But if your message is going over well with the KKK, it might be worth examining your views.

You know what they say about Hitler being a vegetarian. Were someone like that to endorse a well known vegetarian's anti-meat stance I'm sure they'd be mortified but I wouldn't say that alone should get them to reconsider.

I guess a sort of equivalent today would be ISIS supporting some of the same Twitter block lists or targets that some social justice advocates support.

Trump's comments stand on his own, we don't need the KKK to inform us that they're racist.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Of course, it goes without saying that this is completely and fundamentally different from the Democrats putting a former KKK Big Beagle* in the top five succession for the Presidency.

*Can't remember his actual title and too busy/apathetic to look it up. Pretty sure it was a made-up or arcane word that rhymed with beagle though.

His title was Exalted Cyclops (D)....lol.

 

[HomerJS]

All of Trumps racist birther bullshit has endeared him to those people.

 

[HomerJS]

Of course, it goes without saying that this is completely and fundamentally different from the Democrats putting a former KKK Big Beagle* in the top five succession for the Presidency.

*Can't remember his actual title and too busy/apathetic to look it up. Pretty sure it was a made-up or arcane word that rhymed with beagle though.

Of course David Duke is still a member just not the HRIC. As opposed to someone who renounced his membership in the group along with said group.

Bit of a difference.

 

[retrospooty]

You can't pick your supporters. But if your message is going over well with the KKK, it might be worth examining your views.

Exactly. I know not all reps think that way. most of them are good people, but seriously the anti-brown people rhetoric has got to be toned down. It's starting to whip up into a fury not seen since Germany in the late 1930's. Stop blaming all your problems on immigrants. Maybe, just maybe you can be responsible for yourselves.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

You know what they say about Hitler being a vegetarian. Were someone like that to endorse a well known vegetarian's anti-meat stance I'm sure they'd be mortified but I wouldn't say that alone should get them to reconsider.

I guess a sort of equivalent today would be ISIS supporting some of the same Twitter block lists or targets that some social justice advocates support.

Trump's comments stand on his own, we don't need the KKK to inform us that they're racist.

If ISIS took something I said and endorsed it, it would certainly cause me to reflect on it, even if it was something utterly benign like "lamb is quite tasty." It wouldn't get me to change my views on lamb, but it would warrant a quick "wait, why are these shitheads agreeing with me" check.

His title was Exalted Cyclops (D)....lol.

I know you're not supposed to praise hate groups, but can we at least agree that the KKK has some pretty incredible titles? It does nothing to redeem the group as a whole (just like the SS aren't redeemed by their excellent Hugo Boss uniforms), but Grand Dragon or Exalted Cyclops are way better than "chief <whatever> officer" or "lieutenant colonel." They sound like a really dedicated WOW guild.

 

[rudder]

Let's see if Trump denounces it first. At least when Farakhan said he supported Obama, Obama distanced himself from it.

Also, did Trump actively seek the KKK's support?

The new black panther party endorsed obama. I guess racists wanna kill whitey types love obama's message. obama did not distance himself from the NBPP... he marched down the street in solidarity with them. The leader of the NBPP even openly advocated violence against whites.

So should I really give a crap if Trump doesn't have a press conference about this endorsement?

 

[CPA]

Reverend Wright.

 

[OutHouse]

The new black panther party endorsed obama. I guess racists wanna kill whitey types love obama's message. obama did not distance himself from the NBPP... he marched down the street in solidarity with them. The leader of the NBPP even openly advocated violence against whites.

So should I really give a crap if Trump doesn't have a press conference about this endorsement?

This

 

[Exophase]

The new black panther party endorsed obama. I guess racists wanna kill whitey types love obama's message. obama did not distance himself from the NBPP... he marched down the street in solidarity with them. The leader of the NBPP even openly advocated violence against whites.

So should I really give a crap if Trump doesn't have a press conference about this endorsement?

That's about the size of it.. and I'm sure you can find more extreme black nationalist groups who endorsed Obama.

It's a two party system here with both parties receiving pretty broad support, you will find terrible and extreme ideologies on both ends and inevitably a lot of them will support whoever is the most favored candidate on their side.

That's not to say the KKK isn't specifically aligning with Trump's racism, I just don't think you need this kind of reverse appeal to authority (appeal to awfulness??) to evaluate them.

 

[BurnItDwn]

KKK is so irrelevant in today's world, I don't see Trump responding any bigger then maybe some wisecrack about how how everybody loves him and there is plenty of him to go around.

Anyhow, at the begininning I really disliked Trump, but I have grown to appreciate the man.

 

[Charmonium]

I know you're not supposed to praise hate groups, but can we at least agree that the KKK has some pretty incredible titles? It does nothing to redeem the group as a whole (just like the SS aren't redeemed by their excellent Hugo Boss uniforms), but Grand Dragon or Exalted Cyclops are way better than "chief officer" or "lieutenant colonel." They sound like a really dedicated WOW guild.

Definitely true - check out this list of Klan terms - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_titles_and_vocabulary

 

[Moonbeam]

You can't pick your supporters. But if your message is going over well with the KKK, it might be worth examining your views.

Why. I have nothing but sympathetic contempt for illegal aliens not because they are often brown, but because they disrupt and destroy the orderly immigration of law abiding people who want to come here but cut ahead out of desperate need. A lot of the people who are trying to come legally are not themselves better off but ARE obeying our laws. I don't much give a shit what the law is or if it is changed, but abide by it.