August 12, 2018

"After weeks of hype, white supremacists managed to muster just a couple of dozen supporters on Sunday in the nation’s capital..."

"... for the first anniversary of their deadly rally in Charlottesville, Va., finding themselves greatly outnumbered by counterprotesters, police officers and representatives of the news media.... [T]he streets of downtown Washington were charged on Sunday with tension, emotion and noise, particularly in the afternoon, as the right-wing agitator Jason Kessler and perhaps 20 fellow members of the far right... marched under heavy police escort from the Metro station in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood to their barricaded and heavily protected rally area near the White House. They were surrounded by a vast, rolling plume of counterprotesters, who hurled insults, waved middle fingers and chanted 'Shame!'... [I]n Charlottesville... few if any far-right demonstrators could be found, and...  the most palpable tensions developed between left-wing protesters and the police, whose presence in the city was heavy and, some argued, heavy-handed."

From "Rally by White Nationalists Was Over Almost Before It Began" (NYT).

117 comments:

Inga...Allie Oop said...

LOL.

MadisonMan said...

It seems to me that if the Police had had a heavy presence 1 year ago, then this anniversary would not have been needed.

Jersey Fled said...

A couple of dozen people ...

Anonymous said...

The MSM won't let it go to waste. Robert Byrd was unavailable for comment.

Francisco D said...

How many of those "supporters" were undercover agents?

The old joke about CPUSA was that they would have gone broke if not for the dues paid by undercover FBIs.

Biff said...

One is left to wonder about the source of the "weeks of hype."

rcocean said...

Manufactured Story gets one year "Celebration" by MSM.

Next Year, they'll be paying people to wear KKK robes, so they can "celebrate" the 2nd aniversery.

rcocean said...

BTW, whatever happened to "Children at the Border"?

I want to have a good cry.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Remember - Trump ran over that poor black girl with his own limo.

I heard it on CNN.

Molly said...

This is what usually happens. The media wants there to be a bigger turnout in order to prove that white people are all racist. The Charlottesville death (a year ago in 2017 is not unusual in that there were a lot more white supremists at that rally; it is unusual in that an individual white supremecist used his car to run down and kill an person who opposed white supremacy. The left wants us to believe that this is an expression of generalized anti-black or anti-left feeling that is very common. The right wants us to believe that this is an action by a single unhinged individual. Today's numbers (so many anti racists, so few racists) seem to support the interpretation of the right instead of the left. So the press is conflicted: on the one hand we want to report that that the racists were clearly defeated; on the other hand we want to report that racists are a clear majority compared to anti-racists. So watch the actual reporting. But I think there is no way to make this factual report into anything that that supports the idea the most whites re racists.

Inga...Allie Oop said...

“Remember - Trump ran over that poor black girl with his own limo.”

You mean Omarosa?

rcocean said...

Man, what a charge Tiger made. He turned the clock back to 2009.

I don' think he had more than 23 putts.

I'm glad Koepka won though. He missed at least 6 putts birdie putts under 10 feet.

His driving and iron were unbelievable.

rcocean said...

There's supposedly a TV Tape where Trump uses the N word - 10 years ago.

But NBC is hiding it. You' know how they love Trump!

David Begley said...

Racism is long dead in America. The sole purpose of its current feeble existence is to fire up the Left in order to destroy a non-existent enemy. It also creates content for MSNBC and CNN.

I thought 8 years of Obama eliminated racism.

Inga...Allie Oop said...

“The media wants there to be a bigger turnout in order to prove that white people are all racist.”

Really? Most of the counter protesters were white and there were a good many of them.

Mark said...

There never was more than a relative handful of these losers in the entire U.S.

And they managed to get the entire left and MSM and others totally riled up. And a few of those leftist mouth-foamers showed again their own more-present hate.

Congrats to Antifa -- you shut up a handful of cartoon boobs. But the very fact that those losers triggered you means that they actually won.

Yancey Ward said...

The media will remind us that each of those 24 people represent at least 10 million white racists in America.

Yancey Ward said...

I have to admit, the turnout is only about 10% of what I expected.

gilbar said...

How can I tie this in?
Oh, yeah! This trannie is white

she’s appealing to Vermonters with a progressive message that includes a livable wage, Medicare for all, free public college education and high-speed broadband access — even to those who live on remote back roads.

rcocean said...

Isn't it amazing how the MSM REFUSES To report on immigration or trade issues? I mean other than "That's racist" or "OMG, a trade war!!!"

We should be having a serious national discussion. But of course, the Establishment doesn't want that.

So, we get reports about the 1 year anniversary of blah,blah. And hey, what about Oromosa, and did you hear what Trump said about the Press?

Pathetic.

Francisco D said...

In the fever laden dreams of CNN and the Ingas of this world, there are untold numbers of Nazis, KKKs and other White supremacists who threaten our existence as a multicultural society.

That number is about 25. Maybe 35 if you count the mentally ill/homeless types who like free coffee at the meetings.

If these "supremacists" did not exist, the Left would invent them.

rcocean said...

The usual suspects are showing up. So, I hope this reaches 200 comments when Crack shows up. Poor old Chuck must be sad. No one cares anymore.

Etienne said...

Open-air public speaking doesn't work when the audience shows up wearing combat helmets, and hide their identity while pelting you with impossible to perform verbs.

Bay Area Guy said...

It is true I’ve met some racists in my life. Let’s call that number “X”.

It’s also true that I’ve met some anti-racists in my life, i.e, people of goodwill who oppose racism, acknowledge the original sin of slavery, and are genuinely sympathetic towards black folks because of the excess burdens they’ve faced living as a 13% Minority in this country.

That number is 10X.

There’s also a group of folks who don’t worry about the issue. They sidestep it, cause no problems and harbor no lurking resentment towards blacks. These are nice, bland folks who live in, say, Maine or Vermont, where almost no blacks live.

That number is about 30X.

The point is, in 2018, in my rather well-travelled life of 5 decades, I’ve met many, many more people who oppose racism, then support it.
This is my 2 cents, living and working in Oakland and SF.

Ann Althouse said...

Who was most disappointed?

eddie willers said...

Who was most disappointed?

CNN.

Ralph L said...

In case you've forgotten, Kessler was an Occupier 2 years ago.

Inga...Allie Oop said...

“Who was most disappointed?”

Langford Peel

Mike Sylwester said...

Several months ago I wrote a series of comments on this blog, arguing that some conspirators planned for James Fields to drive his car into the crowd of anti-racism demonstrators.

After studying the matter further, I concluded that there was no such conspiracy.

I explain my current reasoning in my blog article Key Considerations About the Events on Fourth Street in Charlottesville.

Later in this thread here, I intend to write some more about why Fields drove his car into the crowd.

CWJ said...

"...as the right-wing agitator Jason Kessler and perhaps 20 fellow members of the far right..."

If the numbers were this small, was it really so hard to get an exact count? Or should I resort to the joke that the reporter needed to count on his fingers and toes.

Birkel said...

Democrat Kessler recruited fewer than did Democrats for BLM and Democrats for Pro-fa.

Moby Peel isn’t a thing.

CNN and MSNBC needed the ratings.

Birkel said...

...right wing (Occupy Wall Street) agitator Kessler...

The press strains and issues forth a mouse.

wild chicken said...

All the racists I ever knew are dead, or in their 90s. And they only spoke so because they were retired and far away from the diversity.

Big Mike said...

It seems to me MadMan is right.

Darrell said...

A couple of dozen?
Sounds like the total US membership turned out.
Except when Lefties are playing false-flag games.

tcrosse said...

So Soros' check didn't clear.

rcocean said...

Who's most disappointed?

Its a toss up between Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush.

rcocean said...

National Review and David French already got there Cucking in before hand.

Jonah wrote another column about the good old days when Bill Buckley read the JBS out of the conservative movement.

So they're cool.

CWJ said...

"A similar dynamic to the one in Washington played out in Charlottesville on Sunday, where few if any far-right demonstrators could be found,..."

And yet our priest today asked the congregation to pray for for the citizens of Charlottesville who suffered under a state of emergency. When my wife turned to me and asked what happened now in Charlottesville. I explained that this was political theater and that nothing was happening now in Charlottesville. Without a beat, and to her credit, she said then why aren't we praying for Chicago where 50 people were shot this very weekend.

Bill Peschel said...

We had more people show up on Saturday at a murder mystery convention in Mechanicsburg, Pa., and the attendees paid at least $15 to get in.

Hagar said...

I still think the original Charlottesville brouhaha was a Democrat dirty tricks operation that succeeded way beyond the organizer's expectations.

n.n said...

The color diversitists (i.e. color judgment, denial of individual dignity a.k.a. "racists") were present in large numbers under "Antifa" and other umbrellas.

Lewis Wetzel said...

And these few dozen individuals elected a president?
Well, Dana Milbank seems to think so. Actually, all the morons in newsrooms across the country think so. But Dana Milbank especially.
Since the actual number of white supremacists is so miserably small, how did Trump get to the White House? Maybe by appealing to working class non-racists? That would explain why so many blue collar whites who voted for Obama in 2012 voted for Trump in 2016.
It is a possibility.

Jaq said...

Yeah, it's a nationwide movement that elected a president all right.

Dylan Roof went off on his church shooting because he couldn't find any like minded white nationalists.

Birkel said...

More people attended thousands of little league games yesterday, in thousands of places across the country.

rcocean said...

Just remember - even though there's no overt racism.

Don't be fooled. Deep down, there's even More racism then ever.

We just have to look harder.

Jaq said...

Probably half FBI.

Jaq said...

..right wing (Occupy Wall Street) agitator Kessler...

You mean the Hillary voter who wrote about his admiration for agent provocateurs on his personal blog? That guy?

FIDO said...

Yes. The police NOT allowing the counterprotestors to attack and maybe kill the people exercising their free speech rights is 'Oh so wrong!'.

There is a reason the Left is hated: they force people to defend rascals like this because of the principles involved.

Jaq said...

Langford Moby Peel is as good an example of misguided powerlessness as one would want to see. He could have everything he wants by moving to Idaho.

Jaq said...

The police were probably protecting the dozen or so FBI agents undercover there.

n.n said...

The original Charlottesville was a conspiracy to deny civil rights, and progressed with creation of an abortion zone that could be used to spread a color judgment (i.e. diversity) of the assembled, that sacrificed one of their own in a poorly... well laid trap.

n.n said...

Deep down, there's even More racism then ever.

In government. In progressive institutions. In socially liberal circles. However, the majority, perhaps most, people, do not wallow in diversity or color judgments including racism, sexism, etc.

CWJ said...

"In the fever laden dreams of CNN and the Ingas of this world, there are untold numbers of Nazis, KKKs and other White supremacists who threaten our existence as a multicultural society."

And every last one not only comments on this blog, but lives under her bed.

Sebastian said...

"After weeks of hype, white supremacists managed to muster just a couple of dozen supporters on Sunday in the nation’s capital..."

So the MSM will conclude that advocacy of white supremacy is actually BS, and that people who claim it is threat are full of BS, correct?

"few if any far-right demonstrators could be found, and... the most palpable tensions developed between left-wing protesters and the police, whose presence in the city was heavy and, some argued, heavy-handed."

Violent leftists don't let an opportunity go to waste. How many Dem politicians will denounce it? How many will catch flak for failing to denounce it?

Bill, Republic of Texas said...

Did the New York Times' racist, Sarah Joeng, March with her fellow haters?

Francisco D said...

"So, I hope this reaches 200 comments when Crack shows up. Poor old Chuck must be sad. No one cares anymore."

Tru dat!

For Chuck, Crack, Inga and Ritmo this place is therapy. It allows them to act out verbally and anonymously.

We are all safer in that respect. God bless Freedom of Speech!

n.n said...

The "far right" in America is libertarian. It is not credible to paint them with broad, sweeping strokes as a diversity class on principle or in practice. And other than the "progressive" Constitution of South Africa, which normalized diversity (i.e. color judgments) as the highest law of the land, is there any other nation that is overtly and legally diverse including racism, sexism, and other color judgments?

CWJ said...

You know, with all the truely physically destructive crimes out in the world, I'm still amazed at how "racism" became the crime of crimes. Something that everyone harbors more or less in one form or another in their heart of hearts. And the less it loses it real world punch in America, the more we have to search for it. I'm stunned at how racially tolerant America has become compared to the racism in the rest of the world, while at the same time America's SJW's and academics search ever harder to find it.

Must pick that scab, lest it heal!

Bill, Republic of Texas said...

Why no coverage of the anti-fa asshole who attached NBC news crew?

I thought the press was concerned about groups getting riled up and attacking reporters.

I can't wait for the wall-to-wall coverage of violence against reporters that will come now.

Ann Althouse said...

"Why no coverage of..."

I've been avoiding this story all week. It had a big "fake news" feeling to it. The fizzle we see today shows my instinct was correct.

Thanks for not asking me why no coverage of the guy that stole the plane.

Jupiter said...

What exactly makes a white nationalist "far right"? Are black nationalists also "far right"? Or are they "far left"?

Bill, Republic of Texas said...

compared to the racism in the rest of the world, while at the same time America's SJW's and academics search ever harder to find it.

They could just look in the mirror. Or in the NYT's editor board.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

Inga...Allie Oop said...

LOL. "

LOL, indeed - but the joke is on you, and as usual you are too stupid to comprehend it.

It's pretty clear that those millions of neo-Nazi Trumpists live only in your own empty skull.

Bill, Republic of Texas said...

Sorry. I wasn't criticizing Althouse about "why no coverage."

I was asking a rhetorical question about why they media isn't covering a story they say is important.


The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

“Really? Most of the counter protesters were white and there were a good many of them.”

Oh, you mean the people who actually have skin in the game of exploiting people of color? There were far more racists there than anyone counted.

Birkel said...

Great post at theconservativetreehouse.com about the complicity of the MSM in the DOJ/FBI/State/CIA/NSA/SSCI scandal.

The corruption is endemic.

rcocean said...

The original Charlottsville Story was Fake news and led to an Establishment Chimp out.

I've never seen so many politicians be so hysterical over nothing.

What it means is that anytime George Soros or some other Lefty Billionaire wants to pay off some Goofballs to walk about in KKK robes in chant "Blood and Soil" - the MSM Will cover it for a week.

And all the dummies will play along, and wring their hands about some non-existent "racism" and chatter about how its "JUST LIKE HITLER".

So, I don't expect this crap to end anytime soon, although most people are wising up.

Mark said...

The "far right" in America is libertarian

Libertarians are so far right that they are on the left in many areas.

rhhardin said...

White nationalists aren't white supremacists. Almost nobody is a white supremacist.

White nationalists want a country for whites to live apart from a country for blacks, on the theory that they don't get along and it will work out better separately. No ill will is implied. I think this is Spencer's position but am not sure since I don't follow it.

That not getting along, however, is the chief occupation of black leaders, at the moment.

Black safe spaces on campus and so forth line up with that nationalist idea, so it's not just white.

rhhardin said...

I take it they lost the statue placement crowd, from reduced size. Those are Trump's good people.

rhhardin said...

Along with not following Richard Spencer, I don't follow Ben Shiparo. Two people so annoying to listen to that they're unlistenable.

Mr. D said...

Thanks for not asking me why no coverage of the guy that stole the plane.

Your blog, your agenda. People who demand you react to things they propose ought to get their own blog.

Paco Wové said...

"Deep down, there's even More racism then ever."

Well, remember that America has a 400-year old legacy of racism. In one hundred years, it will be a 500-year old legacy of racism. In two hundred years, it will be a 600-year old legacy! It just gets worse and worse.

Mark said...

I think this is Spencer's position but am not sure since I don't follow it

Part of the problem of knowing these guys' actual position is that the media does not bother to provide actual quotes of actual things they actually said. Instead, everything is the media's characterization of them.

William said...

I don't know any members of the KKK or the Nazi party. For that matter, I don't know any Muslim terrorists, transgendered people, or antiFa members. The news mostly reports on people I don't know......I did vote for Trump. That means I'm a latent KKK member according to reports I've seen on the news. It's important to watch the news to keep abreast of all these developments.

JaimeRoberto said...

25 people? There's probably more racists in the NYT newsroom.

buwaya said...

Their problem is no fashion sense.
Every successful movement of that sort knew how to dress sharp.

Presentation matters so much.

-------------------------
Racism is a useful crime because you don't have to prove harm.
Or much else. And its a useful club with which to beat the otherwise inoffensive middle class.

rcocean said...

"Along with not following Richard Spencer, I don't follow Ben Shiparo. Two people so annoying to listen to that they're unlistenable."

Who is Richard Spencer? The guy who wrote "Spenser for hire?"

As for Sharpiro, I have no idea why he has a website or a podcast. He's a complete mediocrity, but evidently a well financed one.

The Key with establishment conservatives is to have a minimal amount of talent and then have some big donor back you up - or get a left-wing newspaper or Magazine give you a "reasonable conservative" slot.

Bill Kristol, David Brooks, and David French are good examples. Erik Erickson is another. David Frum had a life-time "Conservative Inc." slot till he went a little Frummy in the head over Palin and now is The Atlantic's "Mr. Conservative".

narciso said...

Yes but last year a governor's race wasn't at stake, so they needed a blood price.

narciso said...

He was a,graduate student at duke, at the time of the lacrosse travesty he ended up at the American conservative, yet that wasn't far enough he's considered the voice of the alt right

narciso said...

Bill kristol has gone into the sense dep tank, and hasn't come out, partially he's paying penance for having promoted the huntress, Erickson is like swanky in this regard, Brooks called her a cancer, French is trying to lipsynch all of them.

Mike Sylwester said...

The original Charlottesville was a conspiracy to deny civil rights

That is true. The city and state governments conspired to deny the Constitutional freedom to assemble and protest.

Perhaps the Federal government participated in that conspiracy.

narciso said...

Spanky from the little rascals, the daily wire with saavedra and a few others are pretty good.

Bob Loblaw said...

There never was more than a relative handful of these losers in the entire U.S.

And they managed to get the entire left and MSM and others totally riled up. And a few of those leftist mouth-foamers showed again their own more-present hate.


Yep. The whole thing was just a campaign rally and fundraiser for the Democrats.

narciso said...

They wanted to recreate the 1979 confrontation between Klan and progressive labor party members from the spike Lee film (topher grace plays David duke, shirley)

n.n said...

Libertarians are so far right that they are on the left in many areas.

The left-right nexus. It happens.

The Godfather said...

I worked in DC for over 30 years, and I saw lots of demonstrations, protests, counter-demonstrations, counter-protests, etc. I thought the best demonstrations were the Gay Pride marches. They got a lot of people on the street, the marchers were distinctive, mostly good-humored, and interesting to watch. There were so many of them that they would have overwhelmed any white supremecist march. If the white supremecists decide to do another march in DC (or Charlottesville or anywhere else) I propose that the Gay Pride marchers be brought in to counter them. One kiss on the lips, and those supremicists would run like the wusses they are.

Mike Sylwester said...

A few minutes before James Fields drove his car into the crowd, he was idling his car north of the intersection of Fourth Street and Market Street.

It's likely that Fields came to that location because he had seen a group of 100 anti-racist protesters march south from Justice Park, which was located further north from that intersection. That large group had marched south on Fourth Street, through that intersection and then further south another four blocks.

Justice Park was a base for the anti-racist protesters. That large group marched five blocks south in response to a report that a fight was taking place.

It seems that Fields saw the large group walk south through the Fourth-Market intersection and then parked just north of that intersection, looking southward at the large group.

That is why Fields was on Fourth Street, which was street on which he subsequently drove southward into the crowd.

That is also why all the anti-racism protesters turned from Water Street northward onto Fourth Street. After the large group found that no fight was taking place, they returned north on Fourth Street toward Justice Park. All of the anti-racism protesters likewise walked northward on Fourth Street.

Thus, Fields happened to be at the Fourth-Market intersection, looking southward, when all the anti-racism protesters were at the Fourth-Water intersection, beginning to walk northward.

Between Fields, on the north, and the protesters, on the south, were two blocks: 1) Market-Main and 2) Main-Water.

For some reason, Fields drove southward from Market to Main, stopped for a while, and then drove southward very fast into the crowd.

In my next comment, I will tell my explanation of why Fields decided to drive southward into the crowd.

wholelottasplainin said...

rocean said: As for Sharpiro (sic), I have no idea why he has a website or a podcast. He's a complete mediocrity, but evidently a well financed one

********************************

But in contrast your un-financed comments, carried by no one, mark you as a fricking GENIUS.

Wanna 'splain to us, fuckwit, why Shapiro gets invites to colleges to speak, while you bloviate in obscurity??

Face it: in the Marketplace of Ideas, you're selling rotten fruit.

narciso said...

Well he has a Harvard degree, he's nominally antitrumo, but he's strongly pro Israel, which is a deal breaker among the left.

I Callahan said...

Why so pissy, Jay? It was just an opinion.

Mike Sylwester said...

Continued from my comment at 10:07 PM
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James Fields had driven his car from his Ohio home to Charlottesville, Virginia, in order to attend the demonstration against the removal of the Civil War statues. It's not clear whether he considered himself to be a participant in the demonstration. He said that he wanted to talk with a particular person (not identified to the public) who was scheduled to speak at the demonstration.

He parked his car at McIntire Park and walked south to Robert Edward Lee Park, which is where the protest against the removal of the Civil War statues was supposed to take place.

He was in the park when the government cancelled the protest permit. When the permit was cancelled, fighting broke out. After a while, Fields walked back, northward, to McIntire Park, because his car was parked there.

During the walk to McIntire Park, which lasted about 30 minutes, Fields became acquainted with three other men who had been at the protest and who were walking to McIntire Park.

After Fields was arrested for driving into the crowd, those three men were questioned by the police, and their statements were mentioned at the preliminary hearing.

[continued in my following comment]

Mike Sylwester said...

Continued from my comment at 11:36 PM
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The pretrial hearing indicated that some eyewitnesses had seen James Fields idling his car north of the intersection of Fourth Street and Market Street a few minutes before he drove southward into the crowd.

During the hearing, defense attorney Denise Lunsford and prosecutor Nina-Alicia Antony questioned detective Steven Young, who investigated the incident. Lunsford compelled Young to confirm that James Fields' shirt smelled of urine when he was arrested. In her redirect, Antony asked Young to confirm that the eyewitnesses at Fourth-Market said that they did not see anyone attack Fields -- in particular, did not see anyone splash urine onto Fields -- while he was idling his car north of the intersection.

Reading between the lines, I suspect that Fields had told his attorney that he was splashed with urine at that intersection and that the attackers prevented him from retreating northward from the intersection. Therefore he was compelled to drive southward on Fourth Street.

Angry, confused and fearful, he subsequently drove further southward and into the crowd.

Reading between the lines, I suspect that the Fourth-Main eyewitnesses themselves were the culprits who splashed urine onto Fields, blocked his northward retreat, and compelled his southward escape from the Fourth-Market intersection.

In her cross-examination of Detective Young, defense attorney Lunsford introduced the story of the three men who walked with Fields from Emancipation Park to McIntire Park. She introduced this story right before introducing the matter of the urine-splashed shirt.

Reading between the lines, I suspect that Lunsford will call the three men to testify at Fields trial and to confirm that Fields' shirt was clean when he parted from them and began driving back to the downtown area. Such testimony might cause the jury to decide that the Fourth-Market eyewitnesses themselves threw urine on Fields and then lied about that and about other facts.

This comment concludes my explanation of Fields' reason for driving southward into the crowd.

n.n said...

Mike Sylwester:

Thanks for positing your analysis. My question is that given the enormous damage and loss of life potential of a weaponized vehicle, why did he stop with one alleged victim?

Gunner said...

I hope that I can say on my deathbed to my children that I couldn't spend time with them on a Sunday because I had to save the world by flipping off 20 dumb white guys at a rally!

Kevin said...

After weeks of hype by this media outlet and others, we're going to tell you why what didn't happen was far more dangerous than if it had.

Leland said...

The hype came only from the media trying to make it an event.

Wendybar said...

And yet, the very same media who are crying about the supposed army of white supremacists, totally ignore the violence of Antifa towards them....Why isn't THIS more of a story?? https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/08/12/nbc-ignores-own-reporter-and-crew-assaulted-antifa

Rick said...

Mark said...
Libertarians are so far right that they are on the left in many areas.


In fact libertarianism is the compromise / centrist position.

Jason said...

So I counted, like, a dozen bats banging on the car within seconds of him driving into the crowd.

Was there a softball tournament that day?

What were these people planning to do with all those bats?

ALP said...

Hey now, as a resident of WA state living very near where that plane crashed....I am happy something wiped homelessness, endemic racism, and real estate market news off the front pages for a day.

Mike Sylwester said...

n.n. at 12:17 AM
My question is that given the enormous damage and loss of life potential of a weaponized vehicle, why did he stop with one alleged victim?

I think he was confused about what he was trying to do.

joshbraid said...

I stayed out of DC yesterday only because of the "counter-protestors", not because of the other guys. I wonder how many other people did so, too.

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

Anti1A and similar leftists are the most disappointed.

The feeble turnout showed their hysteria for what it is, they had nobody to fight, and that they were able to intimidate and suppress the small remaining few of those who will still dare to speak their minds and disagree is how you get more TRUMP.

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

A "white supremecist used his car to run down and kill an person who opposed white supremacy..."

That never happened. Heather Heyer and her ilk weren't there to oppose white supremacy, but to quash our right to free speech, peaceable assembly, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Tom Grey said...

Shame! Shame is coming back, and Dems won't like it when Shame is a real way to oppose politicians.

Lots of Dems have a lot more shameful habits, and support what many folk think are shameful policies.

The double edged sword of Shame is likely to make more Dems bleed, than Reps.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

n.n said...

My question is that given the enormous damage and loss of life potential of a weaponized vehicle, why did he stop with one alleged victim?

He did not stop with one victim. He had more than a dozen victims. ( I have not found an exact number. ) Only one of those victims was a fatality.

And he stopped, at least initially, because he rear-ended another car. I don't know if he injured more people after that, if he was unable to injure more people after that, or if the impact knocked a little bit of sense into him and he chose not to injure more people after that.

Sigivald said...

After weeks of hype from the Left about how Nazis Gonna Take Over Unless We Go Progressive, the losers remained losers and there were never that many of them and nobody should have been surprised?

As far as I can tell, something like 98% of the "encouragement of white supremacy and racism" since Nov. 2016 has been the media telling us it was being encouraged, to Get Trump, rather than any independent sources actually encouraging it.

The irony, of course, will not be noted.

n.n said...

I think he was confused about what he was trying to do.

Maybe, or trapped and reacting. What is someone protesting the demolition of statues, labeled a color supremacist and assaulted, to do.

n.n said...

Protesting for statues of infamous historical significance is akin to protesting for Obamacare and similar acts to protect monopolies and practices that ensure medical care is unaffordable and rationed without a single-payer (i.e. government, insurance) of some kind.

Jim at said...

The only people who pay any heed to these so-called 'white supremacists' are the totalitarian, leftist thugs.

They deserve each other.

Jim at said...

I am happy something wiped homelessness, endemic racism, and real estate market news off the front pages for a day.

Not to mention the freakin' orcas.

bagoh20 said...

Being as they are pretty much powerless toward their own ends, if white supremacists all disappeared tomorrow, who would be suddenly disadvantaged and who would be better off?

Didn't the FBI discover recently that the Russians were helping to intensify the heat at this thing, among other ways of fomenting discord here. The Russians are using the Left as complete tools, and they are probably just fine with that. Why wouldn't they be?

And.... Isn't "white supremacy" redundant?

Steven said...

And they managed to get the entire left and MSM and others totally riled up.

No, they didn't. The modern left isn't riled up by white supremacists, Nazis, etc. The left is a collection of thugs who desperately want to pretend there's a justification for indulging in the violence and oppression they crave deep in their broken souls. The riling is entirely internally-generated, which is why it does not even require that the excuse for the hysteria actually exist.

And, of course, if you point out that the witches they're hunting don't exist, well, watch as they decide that's proof that you are a witch.

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n.n said...

Color supremacists and diversitists share a common principle: denial of individual dignity, and ideology: color judgments (i.e. Pro-Choice). Both are a class of Nazi, Hutu, etc. Leftists by progressive liberal standards. However, where the former can be counted on one hand, the latter are common and even normal in contemporary society and institutions.