The United States of Masacres.

[bae]

What I can't understand at all, is that our laws don't allow us to remove a president who encourages violence against the country's own people.

The law does provide for removal. The instructions are pretty clear. It just takes other elected officials doing their duty.

[JaneV2.0]

What does the rate of hate crimes look like?

People are claiming "this is a dark time", and "there are lots more XXX things happening".

So there should be data. And looking at the data, one might be able to tease out some cause-effect relationships.

Which might be more useful than going with the sound bite of the day.

You're free to look up statistics. I had no trouble finding sources.
"Sound bite of the day?" Save your sarcasm.

[bae]

You're free to look up statistics.

Indeed. However, I was not the one making the original claims.

[JaneV2.0]

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/...ntial-election

Among many, many other sources.

[Ultralight]

Indeed. However, I was not the one making the original claims.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

[KayLR]

FBI data here in links:
http://theconversation.com/new-data-shows-us-hate-crimes-continued-to-rise-in-2017-97989

https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2016

Just today one of my FB friends declared (I don't know where she got her info) that "there have always been these massacres; we just hear more about them now."

[Ultralight]

“We are the Trump vanguard. The left will say Trump is a nationalist and an implicit or quasi-racialist. Conservatives, because they are just so douchey, say Oh, no, of course not, he’s a constitutionalist, or whatever. We on the alt-right will say, He is a nationalist and he is a racialist. His movement is a white movement. Duh.” Looking very satisfied with himself, (Richard)Spencer paused and then said: “We give him a kind of permission.” --from Fire and Fury, by Michael Wolff


Violent "racialists" have been given permission--out of the mouth of a White House insider.

Don't give me that crap about "both sides do it." No president in my long memory has ever publicly avowed being a nationalist (Nazi)--never mind attacking the free press non-stop. "Fine people on both sides?" Bullshit. This is a replay of thirties' Germany. The world is watching in horror.

Let me say this. I do not support Trump. I did not vote for him. I am a lifelong liberal.

I also think is it worthwhile to have solid claims.

Okay, so Richard Spencer said that. Do you really think that Trump is a racialist? And to what degree? Remember, Trump's daughter is a Jew. Trump's SIL is a Jew. Ben Carson, a black dude, is on Trump's cabinet. Trump hardly sounds like a full-on milk drinker to me.

Being a nationalist does not make someone a Nazi. Be real here, Jane. There are black nationalists all over the world, and unless the Nazis changed their rules, blacks can't be nazis. A Paraguayan can be a nationalist. So can a Canadian. Nationalism is an extreme form of patriotism, a feeling of superiority over other countries.

For the record, I am not a nationalist and I do not support that philosophy. I am a planetary citizen and I prefer a cosmopolitan philosophy.

1930s Germany? We are a looooooong as way from there. We are about to have a midterm election and can change things with that alone.

Your fever-pitch outrage and leftist mania is not going to help the situation.

[Ultralight]

You tell me, and then we'll talk about those things, compared to slaughters of innocent people.

From the CDC, top causes of death in the USA in order.

• Heart disease: 635,260
• Cancer: 598,038
• Accidents (unintentional injuries): 161,374
• Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 154,596
• Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 142,142
• Alzheimer’s disease: 116,103
• Diabetes: 80,058
• Influenza and pneumonia: 51,537
• Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,046
• Intentional self-harm (suicide): 44,965

[CathyA]

From the CDC, top causes of death in the USA in order.

• Heart disease: 635,260
• Cancer: 598,038
• Accidents (unintentional injuries): 161,374
• Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 154,596
• Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 142,142
• Alzheimer’s disease: 116,103
• Diabetes: 80,058
• Influenza and pneumonia: 51,537
• Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,046
• Intentional self-harm (suicide): 44,965

So? What's your point?

[bae]

And ongoing:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...htmlstory.html