"...Comes A Time When It's Time To Say You're Out Of Time..."

Time's up.

And I'm not talking to Donald Trump.

More on that shortly.

Chris Cillizza is an online editor and writer for CNN.com. And, right off the bat, on this day after Charlottesville, spare me, if you're feeling inclined or obligated to go there, the knee jerk, go to dismissal of one of "them there libtard snowflake fake news media morons".

Today, I'm neither interested, inclined or obligated to give a shit what you think or what you have to say. And if what I'm saying already has you ready to sputter and spew and distract and defend, do yourself and the sincerely reasonable people left in this country a huge patriotic favor and move along.

Cillizza wrote this piece for online appearance after Trump's statement regarding the Charlottesville lynch mob's exercise of their "right to free speech."

A group of white supremacists, screaming racial, ethnic and misogynistic epithets, rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday. One person was killed and 19 others were injured when a car sped into a group of counter-protesters. 

This is what the President of the United States said about it:

"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides. It's been going on for a long time in our country. Not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama. This has been going on for a long, long time."

It's hard to imagine a less presidential statement in a time in which the country looks to its elected leader to stand up against intolerance and hatred.

Picking a "worst" from Donald Trump's statement -- delivered from his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club -- isn't easy. But, the emphasis of "on many sides" -- Trump repeated that phrase twice -- is, I think, the low ebb.

Both sides don't scream racist and anti-Semitic things at people with whom they disagree. They don't base a belief system on the superiority of one race over others. They don't get into fistfights with people who don't see things their way. They don't create chaos and leave a trail of injured behind them.

Arguing that "both sides do it" deeply misunderstands the hate and intolerance at the core of this "Unite the Right" rally. These people are bigots. They are hate-filled. This is not just a protest where things, unfortunately, got violent. Violence sits at the heart of their warped belief system. 

Trying to fit these hate-mongers into the political/ideological spectrum -- which appears to be what Trump is doing -- speaks to his failure to grasp what's at play here. This is not a "conservatives say this, liberals say that" sort of situation. We all should stand against this sort of violent intolerance and work to eradicate it from our society -- whether Democrat, Republican, Independent or not political in the least.

What Trump failed to do is what he has always promised to do: Speak blunt truths. The people gathered in Charlottesville this weekend are white supremacists, driven by hate and intolerance. Period. There is no "other side" doing similar things here. 

"Mr. President - we must call evil by its name," tweeted Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado. "These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism.",tweeted Sen. Marco Rubio, another fellow Republican: "Very important for the nation to hear @potus describe events in #Charlottesville for what they are, a terror attack by #whitesupremacists."

What Trump is doing -- wittingly or unwittingly -- is giving cover to the sort of beliefs (and I use that word lightly) on display in Charlottesville. 

Chalking it all up to a violent political rhetoric that occurs on both sides and has been around for a very long time contextualizes and normalizes the behavior of people who should not be normalized. It is not everyday political rhetoric to scream epithets at people who don't look like you or worship like you. Trump's right that this sort of behavior has existed on American society's fringes for a long time -- but what we as a nation, led by our presidents, have always done is call it out for what it is: radical racism that has no place in our world.

So, that's the big one. But there are other things in Trump's statement that are also worth calling out -- most notably "not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama."

What Trump is doing here is pre-emptively absolving himself of blame for creating a political climate in the country in which people like these "Unite the Right" demonstrators feel emboldened enough to rally in public. Not my fault, Trump is saying. There were hate groups and hate speech under Obama too! 

With someone dead and more than two dozen people injured, this is, of course, not the time for assigning blame. Or for making political calculations. This is a time to say: We stand together against what we saw in Charlottesville today. Trump didn't do that. Not even close.

Then, last but not least, is what Trump said a few paragraphs after his "on many sides" comment. 

Here it is:

 

"Our country is doing very well in so many ways. We have record -- just absolute record employment. We have unemployment, the lowest it's been in almost 17 years. We have companies pouring into our country. Foxconn and car companies, and so many others, they're coming back to our country. We're renegotiating trade deals to make them great for our country and great for the American worker. We have so many incredible things happening in our country. So when I watch Charlottesville, to me it's very, very sad."

Really? A pivot to an I-am-not-getting-enough-credit-for-all-the-good-I-am-doing-in-the-country line? With scenes of hatred splashed across TV screens? With someone dead? 

This speech is not the time to tout your accomplishments. I mean "we're renegotiating trade deals to make them great for our country"? Who thought that was a good thing to say in the same speech in which Trump, theoretically, was trying to reassure people that what we all saw in Charlottesville is not, fundamentally, who we are?

That no one -- starting and ending with the President -- raised a red flag about tacking on a laundry list of accomplishments to a speech that should have simply condemned the behavior in Charlottesville and called to our better angels, is staggering, even for this White House.

There are moments where we as a country look to our president to exemplify the best in us. They don't happen every day. Sometimes they don't happen every year. But, when they do happen, we need the person we elected to lead us to, you know, lead us.

Trump did the opposite today.

First...yeah, what he said.

Second, time's up.

And I'm not talking to Donald Trump.

The exhausting, infuriating and, bet your white pride bonfire, baby, inevitable knee jerk, go to defense of Trump and his latest failure to show any ability whatsoever to do the job he was hired to do from numerous victims of Kool Aid poisoning was, and will continue to be, the pivot to "but what about."

But what about when Obama ___________________

But what about when Hillary ___________________

But what about when Bill Clinton _______________

And the libtard, snowflake, Demo"rat", O"bummer" side of the aisle didn't get all of the harpooning.

But what about when Bush ________________

But what about when, well, hell, just fill in the blank because blaming everything and anything for what's wrong at any given moment of the day or night, these days, is what being Trump, or being a Trump supporter, is all about, right?

Here's the thing.

Time's up.

No more blaming Obama or Hillary or Bill or Dubya or Nixon or LBJ or Groucho or Harpo or Chico or Zeppo for ANYTHING having to do with what is happening today, right now, in this nation.

Trump's watch.

Trump's responsibility.

That's the gig.

He wanted it. He got it.

You wanted him. You got him.

And spare us any more "but what about" fill in the blank bullshit.

Trump's entire election campaign, from the moment of its inception, was an overt and unmistakable appeal to the lesser of us, the angrier of us, the less educated of us, the less informed of us, the less tolerant of us, the less intelligent of us, the less compassionate and decent of us.

The least worthy of being among us... of us.

And spare us the sad, sorry and, once and for all, useless attempts to parse words, mince words, play word games and/or head games to either cover his ass or cover your own for your part in putting him in the Oval Office.

Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing when he appealed to the anger and frustration and venom and vitriol that existed, and exists, inside the soulless, vicious animals that showed up in a pack this weekend in Virginia.

And they hung on every word he was saying during those speeches, every mention of "beating the shit" out of somebody/anybody who gets in the way, every cheap shot, name calling he did, and still does, to those who got in the way, every mocking moment of putting down those who were different, from their color to their sexuality to their inability to hold their arms in front of them without having to let others see that they are bent and defective.

They hung on every single word.

And they heard a promise in those words. A promise that the America where they want to live, an America of heterosexual only, whites only, master race pride was only the push of a ballot box button away.

So, those ballot box buttons got pushed.

And yesterday, they showed up to cash in on that promise they heard him make.

Not the promise Obama made. Or Hillary. Or Bill. Or Bush. Or Nixon.

Trump.

And while we all have to live with the results, and consequences, of what you set in motion when you pushed that ballot box button until he is no longer in a position to do any more damage to this country, your "freedom" to defend, detract, distract, obfuscate, rationalize, justify and/or condone what he is and what he is doing, and has yet to do, has been revoked.

That "right" went up in smoke this weekend. A victim of the fire of hatred that blazed bigly in Charlottesville, Virginia.

No more "but what about" fill in the blank bullshit.

Trump owns this. And all that is yet to come.

And you own Trump.

Still need some time to prove that he really is presidential?

Still need some time to show us we've been wrong all along about this man and you've been right?

Not gonna happen.

Time's up.

"...And We Hear The Bratwurst In Charlottesville Is To Die For..."

God, or whatever supreme being, spirit or entity to whose existence you subscribe, has, at the very least, one irrefutable quality or characteristic, if you prefer.

A cosmic class sense of humor. With not just a little splash of irony and impishness thrown in for good measure.

The how I know part of today's sharing shortly.

Alt-right activists held torches and marched late Friday through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville.

Chanting "blood and soil" and "one people, one nation, end immigration," the group rallied around a statue of Thomas Jefferson before they clashed with counter protesters.

The march came hours before a Saturday rally that police anticipate will attract as many as 2,000 to 6,000 people, in an event that could be the "largest hate-gathering of it's kind in decades in the United States," as described by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Before the group left the university's grounds when police arrived and ruled it unlawful assembly, outraged city and UVA officials condemned Friday's gathering.

Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics tweeted."In my 47 years of association with @UVA, this was the most nauseating thing I've ever seen. We need an exorcism on the Lawn,"

Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer released a statement referring to Friday's rally as a "cowardly parade of hatred, bigotry, racism, and intolerance march down the lawns of the architect of our Bill of Rights."

"Everyone has a right under the First Amendment to express their opinion peaceably, so here's mine: not only as the Mayor of Charlottesville, but as a UVA faculty member and alumnus, I am beyond disgusted by this unsanctioned and despicable display of visual intimidation on a college campus," he added.

University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan said law enforcement is investigating the "intolerable" violence displayed on the campus.

"I strongly condemn the unprovoked assault on members of our community, including University personnel who were attempting to maintain order," she said in a statement. "Law enforcement continues to investigate the incident, and it is my hope that any individuals responsible for criminal acts are held accountable."

Friday's rally took place shortly after a federal judge granted a temporary injunction allowing alt-right activists to hold Saturday's "Unite the Right" event in Emancipation Park around the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Earlier this week, city officials had tried to "modify" the rally's permit to move the demonstration more than a mile away to McIntire Park, citing safety concerns associated with the number of people expected to attend the rally and counter protests.

Jason Kessler, who organized the "Unite the Right" rally, filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming the city's intentions will violate free speech rights.

"While the City is disappointed by tonight's ruling we will abide by the judge's decision," the city said in a statement late Friday. "The goal in moving the Unite the Right Rally from Emancipation Park to a larger, more accommodating space like McIntire Park had nothing to do with the content of the demonstrators' speech.

First, let's skip over the small talk, cordial chit chat, how are you, nice to see you portion of the conversation here and get right to the meat of the matter.

America has never known a time in its history when it suffered from a shortage of ignorance, hatred, prejudice and/or bigotry.

And let's not lie to each other, or ourselves, while time and circumstances have made it occasionally necessary to deal with the rationing of gasoline, meat, water and other basics of life due to short supply, there's never been a need to be concerned, for a single nanosecond, about our always available and ever flowing, overflowing, abundance of stupidity.

So, my fellow 'Muricans, while the hairball of hatred that got coughed up in Charlottesville was as vile and viscous as those little gatherings of great minds always turn out to be, no one either involved or aware stands a chance of proving any assertion that there's anything new going on here.

In fact, this particular mass of mouth breathers was possessed of neither the inclination, or even ability (the latter of those the more likely) to come up with a new mantra to inflict upon the mainstream, rather, they fell back on an oldie but goodie, a classic former chart topper from that stack of cracks in the foundation of goodness, compassion, kindness, even just basic, simple human decency.

Blood and soil.

Not to be confused, of course, with blood, sweat and tears which was, depending on your particular areas of interest and/or SAT scores, either the iconic conclusion of an historic moment offered up by Winston Churchill or the 70's pop band responsible for such conventional radio staples in the day as "You Made Me So Very Happy" and "Spinning Wheel".

Frankly, many of us who are, understandably and inevitably, appalled at what the Charlottesville mayor, there, referred to as a "nauseating parade" are almost as weary of the lack of originality when it comes to these things.

Blood and soil? Really? That's all you got? A dusty, moderately obscure phrase from the 1930's playbook of ignorance, hatred, prejudice, bigotry and/or stupidity?

I mean, after all, just sitting here spitballing off the cuff, I can come up with some fresher, catchier, infinitely more inflammatory moron mantras than that.

"If You Ain't White, You Just Ain't Right".

"Muslims Ain't No Good, Get Out Of Our 'Hood".

"Green Card This, Motherfucker."

Wait. Here we go.

"Make America Great Again".

Oh. Yeah. Sorry. Already taken.

And, by the way, that other chant you offered up, this "one people, one nation, end immigration" thing?

Please. You're embarrassing yourselves.

In terms of the great idiot incantations of all time, that one ranks a couple of notches below "hell, no , we won't go" and "hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today."

Hold on. Try this on for size.

"Ask not....to be treated like a human being, you slanty eyed, hijab wearing, watermelon lovin', wetback, praisin' Allah piece of shit."

Yeah, Too much. At the very least, given the collective intellect at work here, way too many words.

Meanwhile, back to blood and soil.

For the less knowledgeable on the subject and/or those too lazy or stupid to bother Googling it up, the term "blood and soil" originated in 19th century Germany, the actual German translation, by the way, being "blut und boden". Which, come to think of it, there, mouth breathers, would have been a much cooler way to offer it up during your little Rhodes Scholar reunion, there, at UVA, benefiting from the double delight of showing a little cultural authenticity, even, dare we say, education along with the take no prisoners, kick ass Klingon-esque sounds that the German language provides.

Nothing like a little pllaak, taak, kerplick, aaach to enhance the theatrical impact while making that hairball of hated sound like an acutal hairball.

How cool is that?

The German take on the term was that it represented, according to the Google, a "celebration of the relationship of a people to the land they occupy and the high value and virtue of rural living."

Boiled down to its ethnic essence, "....you is either one of us or you ain't and if you ain't from around here, then you ain't one of us, yew savvy?.... And we don't take to no city slicker, libtard snowflakes around these here parts, either, yew copy?"

New spin on an old snark....

..."same racist, white supremacist, amateur hour Aryan shit, different day."

Not for nothin', by the way, although the phrase originated in the 1920's, it very quickly, and almost frighteningly easily, meandered into the mindset of what became that zany, fun filled bunch of loyal, loving gang of looney tunes, those oven lovin', gas, gas, gas jumpin jackbooted haters of all things not German...

...the Nazis.

And, once again, we find that those very likely non NPR subscribing testaments to higher education at UVA Friday night not only couldn't find the fresh when it came to sloganeering, they couldn't even gather with any sense of originality or contemporizing.

Charlottesville. Nuremberg. Been there, Burned that.

Yawn. Snooze. Seig Heil. Whatever.

Here, though, is where that supreme being sense of humor comes twisting its way into our plot.

As a rule, when I'm writing these pieces, be they for print or broadcast, or both, I have some kind of instrumental music playing in the background. Mood setting, mind clearing, whatever the result at any given time, I simply find it helpful in the process.

And to avoid the inevitable distraction we ADD's experience if we "know" what's coming on a list of musical pieces, I employ one of the music services, choose "instrumental" and "random" and let the music come from whence it comes and play as it will.

As I was reading through the story regarding the assembly of the piss poor excuse for patriotism, before I ever put fingers to keys to begin sharing that story, and these thoughts, with you, a beautiful piece of music I hadn't heard in a while suddenly appeared in my little speakers. 

Lovely, eloquent and very moving.

And, today, to be sure, more delightfully ironic, and appropriate, as it gets.

Because while I would never presume that God is, or was, validating what I have to say here, I just have a feeling, in that place where you get those feelings, that he, or she (don't get me started), was, at the very least, sending me a little cosmic wink.

Via a lovely, eloquent, very moving and, to be sure, ironic piece of music.

John Williams' haunting theme....

..from "Schindler's List."

Well played, God, or whatever spirit, supreme being or entity to whom you subscribe.

Well played.