Ep. 8.16.17 - The Stand Against White Supremacists & the President Who Emboldens Them

Intro Spoof – A slight revision of history: U.S. Presidents equivocate on significant events

 

NEWS

3:30 Charlottesville, VA “Unite the right” rally

3:47 KKK, Nazi, & Ultra-Right terrorism

5:41 Trump blames “many sides” for the unrest

7:04 Trump condemns racism and Neo-Nazis days after his controversial speech, then doubles back to equivocate on the issue again

7:45 False equivalency of the Alt-Right as they attempt to coin the term “Alt-Left”

9:06 Trump asks if George Washington and Thomas Jefferson statues are next to come down

 

THEME: The Rise of the Alt-Right, White Supremacy, KKK and overt bigotry in the United States under Trump

 

10:07 There is no “Alt-Left”

12:33 What it’s like as a Black individual to go to a school named after a Confederate leader

15:31 Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz speak out against Nazis

17:18 Bannon is one of the leaders of Alt-Right propaganda

17:32 The White House’s Steven Miller’s ties to Richard Spencer, white supremacist

17:54 The White House’s Sebastian Gorka’s ties to Nazis in Hungary

18:21 Trump administration is filling its positions with the Alt-Right

18:46 Trump has been investing in anti-extremist violence, but only for Muslim extremists

20:10 The Alt-Right falsely claims we are in “post-racial America”

20:48 Colleges are being sued for not accepting white applicants because of Affirmative Action

21:18 “The Voter Fraud Commission”

21:28 Trump’s comments to cops to be harsh with suspects (presumably black/minority)

22:15 John Oliver: Nazis are like Cats

22:37 Republicans’ Southern Strategy and more than 4,000 lynchings in a handful of Southern states

23:44 Call to action – Stand against racism and white supremacists

24:11 CEO of Merck Pharmaceuticals, and others, quits the Trump Business Counsel

24:54 Baltimore takes down Confederate statues

26:30 FBI raided home of Paul Manafort about a month ago

27:50 Half of the states needed to overturn Citizens United have voted to do so

28:27 Trump not coming through on promise to keep jobs in America (mass Carrier lays offs)

29:22 Trump ending grants to teen pregnancy protection programs

30:08 Visit to FDR’s home

 

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