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Anti-Gay Confederate Flag Supporting Conservatives Call For Gay Flag Ban In Wake Of Virginia Shooter

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Anti-gay conservatives still angry the nation decided the Confederate flag is racist are claiming the gay pride flag is a symbol of anti-Christian hate and demanding again it be banned.

For 150 years, the confederate battle flag has been a symbol of hate, oppression, slavery, racism, and white supremacy.

As the nation began its Civil War, Southern leaders, like the Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens, made clear why they were fighting: to maintain slavery. 

Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.

The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization.

In June, when 21-year old Dylann Roof walked into a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, sat and prayed among members of a Wednesday night Bible study class for an hour, then opened fire killing nine parishioners including State Senator and pastor Clementa Pinckney, the fate of the Confederate flag was sealed.

Internet sleuths later dug up images of Roof proudly posing with the Confederate flag, and holding a burning American flag, along with his racist manifesto. Later, his ties to white supremacist groups became clear.

Calls came from around the country and around the world for the Confederate flag to be banned from government buildings, license plate, and state flags.

Conservatives across the nation were furious, mounting protests, screaming, “Heritage, not hate,” in response to the very real fact that the Confederate flag is a symbol of hate.

In response, some called for a ban of the gay pride flag, conveniently, as just nine days after Roof’s racist massacre the U.S. Supreme Court ruled same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry.

This week, when a Vester Flanagan, Black gay man, seemingly mentally ill, as is or was Roof, gunned down two reporters, police subsequently found a gay pride flag in his squalid apartment.

Irrational and illogical calls once again resulted from anti-gay conservatives to ban the gay pride flag. Jim Treacher at the Daily Caller this morning wrote:

Dylann Roof is a white, heterosexual racist who murdered black people. He owned a Confederate flag. Therefore, we need to ban the Confederate flag.

Vester Flanagan was a black, gay racist who murdered white people. He owned a rainbow flag. Therefore, we need to ban guns.

Witness conservative logic: tweak and cherrypick the facts to support your claim so you can compare apples and oranges and come out with a conclusion that you think makes sense.

In the real world, however, it does not.

Dylan Roof did not just “own” a Confederate flag, he posed with it and used the belief system it represents to murder nine people. That belief system is one of hate, oppression, slavery, racism, and white supremacy.

Over at the racist and homophobic Breitbart News, John Nolte once again purveyed his filth.

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“The Daily Telegraph has learned that ‘police reportedly confiscated a gay pride flag’ from the apartment of Vester Lee Flanagan Wednesday. In an apparent hate crime, Flanagan is the 41 year-old black journalist who murdered two white Virginia reporters on live television Wednesday morning before turning his gun on himself,” Nolte wrote. 

“The gay pride rainbow flag reportedly found in Flanagan’s apartment is seen by many as a symbol of anti-Christian hate,” he added, failing to mention he has been among the leaders propagating that ludicrous claim.

InfoWars, the far-right wing conspiracy site, offered this yesterday:

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Meanwhile, yesterday, Raw Story’s David Edwards called this attack on the gay pride flag a “petty grudge-mongering tantrum,” and posted tweets from conservatives, like Breitbart editor-at-large Ben Shapiro, whom Edwards labels a “perennial self-declared victim.”

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Melania Trump Hails Herself as a ‘Visionary’ at Women’s History Month Event

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First Lady Melania Trump, in remarks at a White House Women’s History Month celebration, hailed herself as a “visionary” as she gave advice to guests.

“As a visionary, I know success is not born overnight, but rather takes shape after long, and sometimes challenging process,” the First Lady said. She also described herself as “a mother, humanitarian, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.”

Mrs. Trump also mentioned her new film, “Melania,” saying that she “shaped its creative direction, served as a producer, managed post production and activated the marketing campaign.”

Noting that “curiosity is a core value” that keeps her “ahead of the curve,” she said that her “unrestricted mindset” has led her to “build across very different sectors,” including, “fashion, digital assets, publishing, accessories, skincare, commercial television, and of course, filmmaking.”

Sharing advice and personal experience, Mrs. Trump told the audience, “Often alone at the top, I follow my passion. Listen to my instincts, and always maintain a laser focus.”

She also declared that the “strength of America is closely tied to the role women play in shaping their children’s character, education, and morals. The values cultivated within our communities shape the voice and vision of our next generation.”

“A woman’s influence strengthens our democracy, capital markets, and time-tested business institutions,” she said. “Across the country today, women are finding unique ways to balance career, ambition, and family.”

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‘Seems to Be No Plan’ Expert Says on Trump Securing Iran’s Nuclear Material to End War

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President Donald Trump says he is bombing Iran so it “does not obtain a nuclear weapon,” but a veteran nuclear policy expert is blasting his war strategy, warning there appears to be no plan to secure Iran’s nuclear stockpile — a failure that could leave the U.S. in the “worst of all worlds” while Iran is “holding all the nuclear cards.”

“This may be the worst planned war in history,” Joe Cirincione told Mother Jones. “I see no sign that they knew what they were doing. It seemed to be just literally bomb, bomb, bomb. There didn’t seem to be a plan for how you were going to get at that particular material. If there is one, it hasn’t emerged.”

He warns, “there seems to be no plan for how to end this war.”

“Almost all wars end by some sort of negotiation,” Cirincione says. “If you project forward several weeks, it’s going to have to end. Usually there’s some sort of arrangement that’s made to end a war.”

But, he says, President Trump “seems to be flying by the seat of his pants and making this up as it goes along,” so “we just don’t know.”

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Cirincione warns that “it’s possible that Trump has put us into the worst of all possible worlds. He’s made it impossible for us to have a negotiated solution to this. And we can’t use any military means to solve the problem. So we’re left in this worst of all worlds, which is Iran is holding all the nuclear cards at the end of this war.”

Mother Jones reports that “with his war in Iran, Trump has created a big, possibly catastrophic problem: A half-ton of highly enriched uranium, which can be made bomb-ready, is somewhere…out there—available for use by Iran’s new regime or perhaps not fully secured and susceptible to theft or expropriation.”

So, what are the options?

“The United States either has to conduct some high-risk military maneuver where we would land people from the 82nd Airborne or an Israeli commando unit into the site at Isfahan and try to find the uranium, go down hundreds of meters underground, retrieve the uranium and pull it out or perhaps destroy it on site,” says Cirincione. He calls it “a high risk proposition.”

“What you’re left with is really the only other solution where we started: a negotiated deal.”

President Barack Obama signed one with Iran. Trump tore it up during his first term.

With a negotiated deal, “You have to get Iran’s agreement to secure that material, declare it, allow inspectors, and then either secure it under inspection or downblend it—the process in reverse, bring it down to a 3-percent or 4-percent level. That’s the only two solutions to this problem.”

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Trump Has ‘No Idea’ If Iran War Will Win Him Nobel Peace Prize

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President Donald Trump says not only does he not know if his war against Iran will help win him the Nobel Peace Prize, he also doesn’t care, and doesn’t want to talk about it.

“Trump claimed to have ‘no idea’ if Operation Epic Fury will ‘get him over the finish line’ with committee members,'” the Washington Examiner reported on Thursday, after a telephone call with the president.

“I don’t know,” Trump told the Washington Examiner. “I’m not interested in it.”

“No, I don’t talk about the Nobel Prize,” Trump also said, when asked if the topic came up in his recent talks with foreign leaders.

The Examiner’s Christian Datoc, who spoke to the president, reported via video that Trump “appears to be having a massive about-face about winning the Nobel Peace Prize amid his war with Iran.”

“He told me over the phone that he’s not sure if he’s deserving of this award anymore,” Datoc added. “This is a massive change in the president’s rhetoric from really anything he’s said over the past thirteen months.”

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