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EXPERIENCE … EMF

FIVE WEEKS OF MUSIC EXCELLENCE

Eastern Music Festival brings world renowned musicians and the most promising young artists to Greensboro for five weeks of intensive study and captivating performances.

Concerts nightly on the Guilford College campus and in venues around the community.

Tickets are available now for the 2016 Season Monday, June 27 through Saturday, July 30.

PERFORMANCES TO INCLUDE: Joseph M. Bryan, Jr. Festival Orchestra Series Saturday, July 2 / 8PM Dana Auditorium, Guilford College Pianist Awadagin Pratt plays Brahms’ STUNNING Piano Concerto with the Eastern Festival Orchestra.

Saturday, July 16 / 8PM Dana Auditorium, Guilford College New York Philharmonic Violist Cynthia Phelps WORLD PREMIERS Julia Adolph’s viola concerto.

Saturday, July 23 / 8PM Dana Auditorium, Guilford College Eastern Festival Orchestra presents a WORLD PREMIER by renowned composer Andre Prévin. ACCLAIMED Violinist James Ehnes performs Strauss.

Violinist Nadja SalernoSonnenberg in Recital Thursday, June 30 / 8PM Dana Auditorium, Guilford College A MESMERIZING evening with one of today’s leading violinists.

The Magic of Mozart Orchestra Gala

EMF Open House

FREE Sunday, July 24 / 1-8:30PM Guilford College Campus Recitals SHOWCASE EMF percussion, guitar and piano students. Conducting Fellows lead Eastern Festival Orchestra in concert.

Music For A Sunday Evening in the Park Tuba Skinny with special guests The Swamp Nots caps the day with a concert on Dana Lawn.

EMF Guitar Summit Wednesday, July 27 / 8PM Temple Emanuel, Greensboro EMF’S SUPERLATIVE guitar faculty and young artists perform works spanning four centuries.

Young Artists Concerto Competition Winners Thursday, July 28 / 8PM Friday, July 28 / 8 PM Dana Auditorium DISCOVER EMF’s most talented young artists.

Friday, July 1 / 8PM Dana Auditorium, Guilford College The Festival’s three orchestras CELEBRATE Mozart’s genius.

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Chamber Music at UNCG School of Music, Theatre and Dance Mondays between June 27 and July 25 / 8 PM Special SUNDAY MATINEE, JULY 3 / 4PM (NO July 4 performance) Recital Hall, UNCG School of Music, Theatre and Dance

Wednesday, July 6 / 8 PM First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro The best of Italian Baroque in one of Greensboro most EVOCATIVE settings.

Eastern Music Faculty Faculty Artists provide INTIMATE concerts twice weekly during the festival.

Chamber Music at Guilford College Tuesdays between June 28 and July 26 / 8 PM Dana Auditorium, Guilford College

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Liberian rules

UP FRONT 3 Editor’s Notebook 4 City Life 6 Commentariat 6 The List 7 Barometer 7 Unsolicited Endorsement

by Brian Clarey

NEWS 8 From pop-ups to Ferris wheel 10 Journalist ejected from Trump event 12 HPJ: Millennials pitch High Point

OPINION 14 Editorial: Scoring imaginary points 14 Citizen Green: The great crackup 15 It Just Might Work: Road dieting in LoFi 15 Fresh Eyes: Together forever

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COVER 16 The annotated Donald Trump

CULTURE 22 Food: Italian sit-down for casual friends 23 Barstool: Brown Truck endures 24 Music: Rock vs. HB2 26 Art: A gleeful edge to Southern comedy

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27 Love that dirty water

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ALL SHE WROTE 30 A Taylor Swiftian Proposal

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And I’d meet with smaller groups, and I’d say, ‘Well, what’s the big problem?’ They’d say, ‘Heroin.’ I’d say, ‘Heroin? What, are you kidding? Heroin? They’d say, ‘It’s a massive problem in New Hampshire.’ It’s a massive problem all over, and it comes in through the southern border.

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We’ve been calling the house across the street “Joe’s house” for at least 10 years, starting when we bought our house and met the man and his young family as we moved in. It was Joe’s house after his divorce, when he prowled the four-bedroom space all by himself, and even through a couple of other tenants who rotated through after Joe walked away in a short sale.

The new family moved in a few months ago: three generations with a couple young kids, two cars, and a well-kept yard. Nama, a man who looks to be in his late twenties, broke the ice this weekend by inviting our whole family over for a cookout with his family, which he told me was extensive.

“We’re from Liberia,” he explained.

My Greensboro neighborhood is the most multicultural one I’ve ever lived in. We’ve got Somalian lost boys who have settled in with their families, Montagnards, a German and a South Korean all in a couple of subdivision cul-desacs. There’s a foster group-home a couple doors down, and another house built by a church for a veteran.

And now: Liberians.

I love telling people that students in Guilford County Schools speak 118 different languages. It blows my mind — and usually theirs — that all these people from all over the world are coming to live in this little forgotten corner of North Carolina.

The Liberians, for example, fled a country on Africa’s west coast colonized by former American slaves that eventually incorporated local tribes into the fold and saw great prosperity through the last century before a civil war tore it apart.

Nama told me he lived in Washington DC for a time before rejoining his family in Greensboro.

In the kitchen, which I used to call Joe’s kitchen, My Greensboro Nama’s aunt had set out giant trays neighborhood is the of beef ribs, roastmost multicultural ed goat, chicken, one I’ve ever lived in. spinach and corn.

“We don’t eat pork,” she said.

I ate a bowl of Liberian pepper-pot soup, a stew of sorts featuring fish, shrimp and fiery stock with a doughy potato dumpling as a base. My eldest son went at a piece of roasted goat like it was a popsicle.

Out in the yard, another nephew roasted whole fish on the grill while the children played tag on the lawn, which we used to call Joe’s lawn, but not anymore.

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CITY LIFE June 29 – July 5 ALL WEEKEND Heavy Rebel Weekender @ downtown W-S If Winston-Salem wasn’t weird enough, the Heavy Rebel music festival is rolling in to fix that for sure. In between bands, be sure to swing by the circus sideshow featuring “Adam the First Real Man,” and don’t miss the Wiggle Room burlesque show and the hot rod car show. Tickets and lineup can be found at heavyrebel.net.

WEDNESDAY Street art panel discussion @ GreenHill (GSO), 5:30 p.m.

A panel of North Carolina art leaders discuss street art from their perspective, talking about the history of the medium and why it matters.

Guests include Gab Smith, the executive director of CAM Raleigh, and Weatherspoon curator Emily Stamey. Urban Grinders and Pig Pounder Brewery bring the drinks.

Find GreenHill on Facebook for details.

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THURSDAY

Grove Street People’s Market grand opening @ Glenwood and Grove streets (GSO), 6 p.m.

Glenwood’s outdoor weekly market for all things homegrown and handmade celebrates its official grand opening with music, kids’ activities, seasonal produce from local gardens, baked goods, crafts and international foods. In two-birds-one-stone/win-win fashion, the market addresses the neighborhood’s food insecurity issues while allowing local entrepreneurs a venue for making cash. For more information, call 336.430.3125.

Resonate presents Cereus Bright @ Hope Chapel (GSO), 7 p.m.

Chipper melodies with bummer lyrics are this Knoxville band’s MO. “It’s all part of the plan and you know it, do the work for a rich man to turn in,” they sing on their latest album. Pretty sure they might have a few happy ones, too, though. In a stroke of Triad serendipity, a hit of theirs is titled “River Run.” Collaboration, anyone?

Cover at the door. Cereusly check them out (Oh, god, I’m so sorry). Find Resonate Greensboro on Facebook for more info.

Stonewall Sports game night @ Westerwood Tavern (GSO), 8 p.m.

Stonewall Kickball, an LGBTQ and ally sports league, welcomes challengers to its first game night. There will be Pie Face, Catan, Mario Kart, Giant Jenga, Soul Calibur and Super Smash Brothers Melee, and you’re invited to bring your favorite game. Get in touch with them at stonewallkickballgreensboro.leagueapps.com.

FRIDAY First Friday @ downtown W-S and GSO, 6 p.m.

In Winston, you’ll want to stop by Burke Street Comics to say hi to geekdom artist and our personal fave Marshall Lakes; he’ll be live painting. Head down the block to Delurk Gallery to check out winning art from a very serious doodling contest. In Greensboro, don’t miss TCB veteran Korinna Sergent’s gallery opening at Urban Grinders; the painter’s using Sylvia Plath poetry to inspire canvases of terrifying mermaids. Then go to Natty Greene’s to pet a Corgi at their pop-up dog park and make Eric Ginsburg jealous.

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Dominican Blowout’s Jazzjam II @ Test Pattern (W-S), 9:30 p.m.

What happens when three guys get together to play music having never met each other or rehearsed together? A blowout, that’s what. This “accidental band playing improvised jams” isn’t half bad, actually, as it’s comprised of Eddie Garcia, Adam Kelly and Anthony Petrovic. Details on Test Pattern’s Facebook page.

EVENTS

Wednesday, June 29 @ 7pm

Ink making and quill pen writing @ High Point Museum, 10 p.m.

Re-evaluate your Etsy-licious life and think again about how far you’re willing to go back to be truly hip. Meaning, ditch the typewriter and pick up a damn feather if you’re going to commit, friend.

Costumed interpreters more vintage than you will help you go back in time 300 years. Visit highpointmuseum.org for info.

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Thursday, June 30 @ 8pm

Open Mic Night

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SATURDAY

Friday, July 1 @ 8pm

House of Fools Acoustic Show w/ Special Guests Saturday, July 2 @ 8pm

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Super Smash Saturday @ Gamet1me (W-S), noon Why play Wii by yourself in your basement when you could make some friends and some cash doing the same thing?

Play Super Smash Bros to vie for a 100 percent payout to the winners. Doubles will begin at noon and singles at 2 p.m.

All participants are encouraged to bring their own consoles and controllers. Space will be provided for system setups. Call to register beforehand at 336.712.0062.

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MONDAY Uncle Sam Jam @ Oak Hollow Festival Park (HP), 4:30 p.m.

Get there early for vendors and live music, and to claim a prime viewing spot (duh) before the fireworks show starts at 9:45 p.m. over Oak Hollow Lake. There’s an entry fee per vehicle, so you might want to clown-car it.

Visit highpointnc.gov for info.

TV Club Presents “Preacher” Based on the hit comic book series! 9 p.m. Sunday, July 3. Free Admission with Drink Purchase!

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The Muppet Movie

Featuring The Rainbow Connection! 8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 2. $6 ticket includes FREE BEVERAGE!

Star Trek Countdown Featuring the TOP 50 EPISODES of Star Trek. 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 29. FREE ADMISSION!

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Stupid and its cousins Stupid reigns in Raleigh [“Editorial: Sabotage in the Senate”; June 22, 2016]. Look at Phil Berger’s sick ideology that leaves federal money on the table for Medicaid expansion (taken and used by other Republican-controlled states), while North Carolinians die!

Hate, bigotry and inequality are stupidity’s siblings, also residing in Raleigh.

ARK3000, via triad-city-beat. com Ample parking? Right.

LOL at “Ample parking,” [“Iconic fire station expands footprint of the Time Square retail center”; by Jordan Green; June 22, 2016]. That place never has enough spaces, and you can barely maneuver through it.

Karen, via triad-city-beat.com An unnecessary death We do our best at trying to help family or friends [“Death of a panhandler”; by Jordan Green and Eric Ginsburg; June 8, 2016]. But we can only do so much. You cannot help those that [don’t] want to help themselves. They have got to help themselves first. And she was doing what she could by panhandling. Divorce is a harsh situation. And can put a lot of people on the street. And having medical problems doesn’t help. It is a sad day though when you are arrested for such a petty issue. All that it should have been was a fine. Not jail time; that is so petty of the city of Greensboro. She did not have to die. If the caregivers had listened to her and done better she would be alive today and back with her ex-husband.

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11 things that the US Constitution does and does not include

by Brian Clarey

1. Political parties (no) The US Constitution is comprised of seven articles and 27 amendments that plainly lay out our system of government, our criminal justice system and the rights of our citizens. It is the shortest working constitution in the world. And it makes no mention of Republicans or Democrats, or any political party at all, though the first US political party, the Federalist Party, was founded a year after the Constitution was ratified n 1788.

2. The Air Force (no) The Constitution talks about the army and navy, but not an air force because, duh, warplanes weren’t used until World War I. Our Founding Fathers never could have foreseen that.

3. Taxes (yes) Article 1, which outlines the powers of Congress, gives that legislative body the ability to levy taxes, as well as pay off debt, borrow money and coin currency. This falls under the responsibility of providing for the general welfare and common defense.

4. Marriage (no) Not a single word.

5. Slavery (yes) The 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, made slavery illegal in the US after the bloody and costly Civil War brought the Southern states into line. But before that, in 1861, another slavery amendment was proposed, passed the House and Senate and was signed by the president (James Buchanan, in case you’re wondering) disallowing the feds to interfere with state traditions, including slavery. The Corwin Amendment, as it was known, was intended to appease the seven states, which had already seceded. It did not work.

6. Immigration (no) There is nothing about immigration in the Constitution, but the powers of naturalization are granted to Congress in Article 1, Section 8.

7. The media (yes) Very few professions are mentioned in the founding documents of this country, but the

media made the cut, right up front in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, which conclude that a free and unfettered press is essential to our democracy.

8. Congressional Districts (no) The original documents left the election of representatives up to each individual state.

9. Primary elections (no) While it lays out the powers of government quite specifically, our Constitution says nothing about how our elections should be conducted. The first presidential primary wasn’t held until 1901, in Florida. There’s nothing about the Electoral College either.

10. Guns (yes) This one’s also in the Bill of Rights, Second Amendment, which asserts the importance of a well-regulated militia.

11. God (not really) There is no mention of God, the Lord or the Creator — or even Jesus — in the US Constitution except for at the very end, in the Signatory section, where the date of 1787 is described as “the year of our Lord.”

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86% No

9% Yes

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Readers: Our readers overwhelmingly said no (86 percent), with just a few (9 percent) voting yes. As our editorial intern Joanna Rutter said, “The phrase ‘comes back to bite you in the ass’ comes to mind.”

The remaining 5 percent selected “unsure/maybe,” suggesting that — no surprise here — our readers aren’t particularly fond of Trump and figure that any association with the Drumpf can only hurt. Time will tell.

Opinion

Jordan Green: You can look at it a couple different ways. One view is that Republican politicians who don’t jump on the Trump train will find themselves blocked from accessing the power centers when and if the presumptive Republican nominee is elected to the White House. But another — and I go with this one maybe because I’m an optimist — is that smart Republicans are keeping their distance from Donald and positioning themselves to help pick up the pieces after he either loses in November or completes a disastrous first term in 2020. Notably, no US senators, members of congress or members of the council of state appeared with Trump in Greensboro on June 14. The local officials who did likely had different calculations. State Sen. Trudy Wade has already antagonized progressives and progressive-aligned

Eric Ginsburg: Thank you, Jordan, for putting it all so eloquently. Overall I’d say no assuming that he either will not be elected (look at the Electoral College math) or that if he is that it will be so disastrous, Republicans will want to back away, and maybe not so slowly.

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Brian Clarey: I was a little stunned to hear that Sheriff BJ Barnes and state Rep. Trudy Wade had taken to the podium at Donald Trump’s Greensboro rally last week. I don’t think too many NC Republicans are real anxious to publicly marry their brands with his — save for our governor, who is doing whatever he can to gather votes in his upcoming re-election campaign. Mouthy New Yorkers generally don’t do well in the Old North State — trust me, I know — but in the case of Barnes and Wade, who are safely ensconced in their positions, it probably won’t make a difference.

city government, so doubling down on extremism is probably her best bet for fending off a challenge from a feisty Democratic challenger in November. Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes’ appearance at the rally makes less sense. He’s not up for reelection until 2018, so he doesn’t risk alienating anyone in the short term.

Yet, as Guilford’s only countywide elected Republican, he has a remarkable amount of goodwill from political moderates and Democrats, and it’s kind of surprising that he would be willing to put it on the line.

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Some Republican politicians appear to be struggling with the question, and there’s certainly plenty of disagreement, so we asked our readers and editors for feedback.

by Joanna Rutter The very first thing I wrote for Triad City Beat was called “Why I’m Staying,” a bit of a flush-faced early love letter to Greensboro and slower living. I had arrived mere months before penning it in 2014 with a minivan full of what was left in my house after my family had packed up for California. In a way-too-metaphorical parallel, when I rolled into town after the 10-hour drive from Jersey, I promptly drove the wrong way up Friendly Avenue, then pulled onto a side street and struggled with an outdated map, trying to discern how to get home.

Almost two years later, I don’t think I have any greater clarity than I did then.

In that article justifying my choice to stick around in the Triad, I wrote something that I’ve mentally revisited quite a bit since: “When you’re 22 and uninhibited, every choice you make feels like it carries the weight of a hundred different possible stories.”

Life still feels that way now, leaving this internship for I’m not sure what next.

The one thing that’s changed? I’m realizing that I can only live one story, and that selecting that story over the other 99 presenting themselves is the only way forward.

I came to TCB from a full-time job; at the time that I handed in my two weeks’ notice, I had no idea how I’d even pay rent. I simply knew in my gut that working with the three amigos would change my writing forever and I’d pull together the rest somehow (hat tip to cheap Southern rent and rice and beans). And it’s not accidental that this career move coincided with another move in my spiritual practice — stepping away from organized religion for better perspective on my faith. The new year was a departure in every sense.

The lessons since have been copious and surprising. Learning the weekly ritual of edits from Sensei, Jordo and Bossman, carving out my bad habits and replacing them with clarity and efficiency; being exposed to high levels of both praise and disdain from readers I’d never met, and learning to shake both off as exaggerations of reality; discovering the delight of telling an artist’s story well. There have been other peripheral surprises, notably, the inconvenience of unexpectedly falling in love, and navigating a social life outside of the security of a physical church building. The idiom “thrown for a loop” doesn’t do this season justice.

But it was a season I had to choose, and because of that, a semi-recent New York Times op-ed by Ruth Chang keeps coming to mind as I think of what’s to come. She wrote, “When we choose between options that are on a par, we make ourselves the authors of our own lives.” The wisdom holds up: In deciding between on-par options, like staying in or parting with a community, or leaving one job for another, the only variable that matters is my choice itself.

Another way to look at it could be embracing agency.

Or, better yet, jumping ship: Knowing now after this internship more than ever that I can assign my choices the power I want them to have. Life was only ever a series of leaps over impossible chasms. The beauty is that each one only makes me braver to jump again.

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Jumping ship

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NEWS

Spark Fund pitches range from dance pop-ups to Ferris wheel

by Joanna Rutter

Action Greensboro is accepting applications for the next round of Spark Fund micro grants, which allot up to $5,000 to unique ideas for attracting people to downtown. An Idea Slam at Collab on June 23 drew entrepreneurs, artists and a political candidate.

In the front space at Collab in downtown Greensboro on June 23, about 50 people gathered in a half-circle as tunes from the Beach Music Festival taking place up the street reverberated off downtown buildings.

The high-pitched refrain of “Love Shack” was impossible to totally ignore, but the music didn’t impede Ryan Saunders of No Blank Walls and Create Your City as he clicked through a presentation on bringing in a renowned muralist to do a new piece downtown and attract national attention to Greensboro.

“The more murals we do, the more we elevate the art scene here,” he said.

He was one in a lineup of 10 representatives from various nonprofits, businesses and individuals vying for Action Greensboro’s third round of Spark Fund micro grants. The initiative, which makes gifts of up to $5,000 toward unusual and new ways of attracting attention to Greensboro’s downtown area (“placemaking” is the trendy urban-planning term), was inspired by a chamber of commerce trip to Chattanooga in 2015, said Cecelia Thompson, executive director of Action Greensboro.

“We came back knowing that we wanted to do something downtown,” Thompson said in her introductory remarks before hearing pitches at the Idea Slam.

“We wanted to facilitate companies, individuals and nonprofits to be able to have the flexibility and the funding to do unexpected placemaking activities in the center city,” she added. “Often, people come to us with these awesome ideas... but we don’t have the bandwidth or the funding in our budget that’s allocated for that purpose.”

After the trip, a funder from the Cemala Foundation suggested to the rest of Action Greensboro’s supporting

An audience of entrepreneurs, nonprofit staff and curious individuals gathered at Collab in Greensboro to hear and critique the latest batch of potential proposals for Action Greensboro’s Spark Fund.

foundations that they put a fund together for one-off micro grants to attract new people to downtown. Thompson said the process was very informal and that there’s “no rhyme or reason” to the limit on how many grants they’ll award this round.

“They put a pot of money together and said, ‘Figure it out,’” Thompson said.

Each quarter, Action Greensboro staff review the applications — which are only two pages long to decrease hurdles for community applicants — and make recommendations to the six foundations.

This will be their third grantmaking period. Past projects that received Spark Fund money include a “Jeansboro” pop-up historical exhibit and SpoonBoy, an inflatable character and social media campaign raising awareness of the Weatherspoon Art Museum at various downtown events.

In the most recent round of grants, the Westerwood Neighborhood Association received $3,500 to paint a mural

on a blank wall across the street from the Westerwood Tavern on a building owned by Greensboro College, along the future Downtown Greenway.

Westerwood Neighborhood Association board member Jeff Nimmer said in an interview Monday that the association is in final discussions to retain Jeff Beck and Gina Franco as the muralists.

“We talked about different things we might apply for,” he said. “We applied for the first round, were told it was a good project, and if we applied again, we’d have a pretty good shot.

“I think it’s a great program,” he added. “You’d be surprised what you can do with $3,500 of grant money.”

At the Idea Slam last week, participants vying for the next round of grants ranged in preparation from a slick presentation on food education from HomeGrown Heroes to dancer Olivia Meeks’ two-minute idea of bringing a Helen Simoneau piece to downtown — “I hope I’ve stirred your thinking pot!”

Clement Mallory of Kids Poetry

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Basketball opened with an interactive poem, during which he signaled the audience to shout “poetry” as rhythmic punctuation. His nonprofit uses basketball as a metaphor for constructing language, partnering with Parks and Recreation and the YMCA to provide programming that helps kids improve their literacy while getting active. Mallory seeks funding to expand the program into a pilot iteration at LeBauer Park with portable equipment.

Elsewhere Museum’s George Scheer is hoping for $5,000 to rent a giant Ferris wheel for the day on Sept. 17 and set it up on South Elm Street to attract visitors to the museum and surrounding businesses.

The audience was as diverse as the ideas presented. Amber Graning, a Lincoln Financial employee, was there with her husband just for fun. Latoya Neal, who works with the Greensboro Police Department’s CrimeStoppers program, was there just to watch, but took copious notes and asked probing

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questions during talkbacks, especially in relation to how the pitched projects were connected specifically to downtown.

Tawana Rowland of TSR Kids, a mentorship nonprofit, was intentionally upstaged by her young mentees, demonstrating the effectiveness of TSR’s confidence workshops; 9-year-old Jacquirah McKoy strode back and forth with the air of a Silicon Valley executive.

“My dream is, I want to be a rapper,” McKoy said.

“Y’all remember this face, you’re gonna see it on TV.” The evening took a surprising turn when MiMi Boyett took her four minutes to pitch not a downtown business idea but herself, as secretary of state — she is not on the ballot in North Carolina — where she said God had called her to serve. Boyett said she spent three days in jail after peacefully protesting in favor of lowering a Confederate flag to half-mast in Columbia, SC, after the Charleston shooting.

“I don’t believe this two-party system is working at all,” she said.

More on-topic pitches rounded out the lineup, including one for an arts event hosted the Artist’s Bloc, and printing an up-to-date road biking map to equip casual bikers with knowledge about the best routes into downtown in collaboration with Bicycling in Greensboro. Applications will be accepted until July 15. “[The ideas] have to be fun, they have to be exciting, they have to make change in the downtown area,” Thompson said.

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Journalist ejected from event with Trump state campaign director

by Jordan Green

The North Carolina state director for the Donald Trump campaign talks about why he supports his boss’ immigration policy, but saves “the meat — no potatoes, all meat” for after a reporter has been ejected from the room.

Earl L. Phillip, the North Carolina state director for the Donald Trump campaign found a receptive audience during his appearance on Monday before a group of conservative voters, who regularly meet at the Golden Corral at Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem.

Phillip cited a related issue as the primary aspect of Trump’s appeal to him. A political consultant in Charlotte, Phillip has worked closely with the Republican Party, including previous roles as North Carolina African American State Director for the Republican National Committee and chairman of the National Veterans for Republicans Association, along with consulting with the state GOP on minority engagement.

“What I love most about Mr. Trump is his stance on what he wants to do for immigration,” said Phillip, who was born in the US Virgin Islands to parents of Trinidadian heritage. “I am not a fan of illegal immigration. I am a huge fan of immigration.”

Trump has made immigration a cornerstone of his campaign, with pledges to build a wall to keep undocumented immigrants from crossing the US border with Mexico and to temporarily prevent Muslims from coming into the United States, while assailing his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for her plan to ramp up refugee resettlement from Syria.

“We’re immigrants,” Phillip said. “We are.

My family has no problem with immigration.

We have the problem with illegal immigration because we believe Earl L. Phillip — my family and I, we talk about this all the time — that if this country could fix illegal immigration, most of our problems will start to decrease, if not go away. We’ve felt like this since the ’80s. Illegal immigration,

Not everyone who came to hear Earl L. Phillip, the Trump campaign’s North Carolina state director, speak at the Golden Corral in Winston-Salem on Monday supported the candidate in the primary.

it’s not just a problem today; it’s been a problem for many years.”

During his speech to the conservative group at the Golden Corral on Monday, Phillip described an upbringing in which his father moved to a one-bedroom apartment on the west side of Baltimore in advance of the rest of the family and worked two manual-labor jobs to save money. When the family joined his father in Baltimore, Phillip said COURTESY they slept on the floor, PHOTO but eventually moved to the more affluent northeast side of the city and the children attended parochial schools.

Phillip explained his opposition to people coming into the United States without proper documentation or

overstaying their visas as a matter of believing that people shouldn’t jump in line and should abide by the rules.

“My parents took more than five years to become naturalized citizens, so imagine yourself waiting in line to listen to Earl’s speech when it’s a mile long out there — I’m giving myself a little bit of props — it’s a long line and you’ve been waiting in line for hours and then the doors open up and you’re slowly but surely coming up to the front, and somebody just says, ‘I’m gonna walk in the front and go in while you’ve been waiting in line for all this time,’” he said.

“One, it’s not fair. Two, it’s not right.

And three, there’s a big old sign that say, ‘The line starts back there.’ And if you walk up there you’re breaking the rules.

We are a country of rules, right?”

Phillip said that while his father emphasized hard work and discipline, his parents were registered Democrats. His older brother changed his registration

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to Republican after then Vice President George HW Bush intervened to ensure that he got appointed to the US Naval Academy.

“America is great, and we will always be great; we’ve just got some tweaking to do,” Phillip said. “And that’s why I support Donald Trump from way back in the day. I said, ‘You know what, if he runs for president he’s gonna win because I don’t see him to be a politician.

I see him to be a man of getting things accomplished.”

The Trump state campaign director threw this reporter out of the meeting.

His remarks about his family history and why Trump’s position on immigration appeals to him were part of a sanitized prologue, and he made it clear that he would not speak candidly with a reporter in the room.

“I can really do some talking, but I can’t because we have a member of the press here,” Phillip said. “I will leave it

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answer questions if he receives permission from the campaign.

“If they say, ‘Sure, he’s good…’ — because they’re gonna vet you, obviously, see what you wrote before and things like that, and then they’ll probably want a couple subjects, and then they say, ‘Okay,’ I’ll be more than happy to talk on the phone or come down and meet with you,” he said.

Ashley Mocarski, communications coordinator for the Trump campaign, said in an email on Tuesday that Phillip was not available for comment.

Pam Lofland, who organizes the weekly luncheons, said she hadn’t realized prior to the meeting that Phillip would only speak on condition that the press was not present.

Lofland has hosted the luncheons for two years, and they have acquired a reputation as a forum where conservative voters ask pointed questions, and Republican candidates and other guests typically provide candid responses. On at least a handful of occasions in the past that this reporter has attended the luncheons, no speaker has ever asked him to leave.

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up to you: If you want to know the real deal, he’s gonna have to leave. If you want me to speak PC he can stay.”

“You don’t understand,” Phillip continued. “I work for a presidential campaign. I do not speak to the press unless the campaign authorizes me to.”

Phillip said he would speak in the presence of a reporter while he talked about his family background and why he supports Trump, adding, “When we get into the meat — no potatoes, all meat — then we can decide what you guys want to do.”

“I say the press goes,” one person attending the meeting said, prompting murmurs of agreement.

One person seemed to argue for transparency, saying, “First Amendment,” but the sentiment elicited no support from anyone else.

Phillip also protested when this reporter started to take a photograph of him.

“No pictures, please,” he said. “I did not give you permission to take my picture. I play it very safe — very, very safe — and I hope you understand.”

Before ejecting this reporter from the meeting, Phillip expressed willingness to

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HIGH POINT JOURNAL

A task force of millennials pitches their cohorts on the city

by Jordan Green

A task force comprised of millennials has enthusiastically taken up a city council’s charge to bring more of their peers to High Point.

Sarah-Belle Tate, a Greensboro native, lived on campus for her first four years as an undergraduate at High Point University. It wasn’t until her fifth year, as a grad student, that she really got to know the city.

“If I stepped off campus it was go to another city,” she recalled of her undergrad years. Renting an apartment off campus and taking a marketing and communications internship with Wells Fargo Advisors that fifth and final year changed her relationship to High Point.

“Through that I met some wonderful people,” Tate said. “I saw the generosity of the people of High Point.”

Tate graduated with her master’s from High Point University in 2015, and by June 1 of that year she had a job as director of communications and community relations for the High Point Chamber of Commerce.

During a retreat in March, members of High Point City Council identified the attraction and retention of active, engaged, entrepreneurial and working millennials as one of three priorities, along with the creation of a catalytic downtown project to boost economic development and the city’s tax base, and proactively attacking blight in areas with concentrated poverty.

Tate immediately stood out to City Manager Greg Demko as a candidate to lead a task force that would identify ways to increase the city’s number of active millennials.

“I’ve had the opportunity to watch her work probably for the last six months,” he said. “I’ve been impressed by the quality of the work, ambition and dedication. She’s an accurate, clear communicator.”

Identifying three priorities was a notable step forward for a city council that seemed paralyzed by indecision and indifference when urban planner Andrés Duany visited in 2013, and that balked a year later at proposed investments like narrowing North Main Street to make it

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more pedestrian friendly.

“For us to have a focus was important,” said Councilman Jason Ewing, who chairs the council’s Prosperity and Livability Committee. “We’ve kind of flailed around the past couple years in identifying what we’re going to do.

We’ve done a number of studies and put those studies on the shelf. Having three identifiable priorities was imperative to us in getting something done.”

The clout of millennials, the generation born from 1981 to 2000, makes them a coveted demographic as the city seeks ways to increase its tax base, Ewing said.

“We have come to find that we have a problem with people going to Greensboro and Winston-Salem to do stuff socially,” he said. “Our population has been somewhat aging. We have a senior center that we need to look at replacing.

At some point we’re going to start losing tax base due to people aging out and dying.

“Millennials are a unique demographic,” Ewing continued. “A lot of cities are trying to attract millennials.

They represent a very large piece of the population, and we’re trying to get our piece of the pie. We will have a more entertaining and lively city that is more attractive to millennials and, of course, others. We need to attract millennials who are in their twenties and early thirties who enjoy shopping, eating and entertainment to live here for the next several decades.”

When the city council commissioned the Millennials Task Force, it was con-

ceived as playing an advisory role, but when Tate started recruiting members it quickly became clear that the group was going to take an action-oriented approach. Tate’s initial conversations with the 10 members, who include two High Point University students, a representative of United Way of Greater High Point, a nonprofit executive director, a supermarket owner and a landscaper, a common theme emerged.

“When I asked each of them if they would take time out of their busy schedules, every one of them asked me if this was going to be a committee that just talked,” Tate said. “That to me spoke volumes about their commitment.”

Inspired by plans to link the Bicentennial Greenway and High Point Greenway, task force members batted around the idea of hosting a run to showcase the new connection, with local breweries serving beer at either end, and a “Plant the Greenway” day to beautify the corridor.

But the task force’s first order of business was to identify what makes the city attractive to their generation and figure out how to build on the city’s pre-existing strengths. The city’s central location in the Triad, the state and the East Coast came up, Tate said. So did affordability and the city’s small-town feel. One member, Philippe Duvall, who had been commuting from Elon to work in High Point, mentioned that he took advantage of the city’s Core City Homebuyer Assistance Program, which provides $22,500 in financing as a downpayment on a house.

Discussion about amenities that make High Point appealing soon turned to restaurants, coffee houses and bars: Bluewater Grill, Lulu & Blu, Blue Rock Pizza & Tap, DeBeen Coffeehouse, Tipsy’z Tavern, Alex’s House, Liberty Steakhouse & Brewery, Sammy G’s, 98 Asian Bistro and Penny Path Café.

“We had a good laugh,” Tate said.

“All the things we love about High Point are restaurants.”

Discussing some ideas for attracting millennials during an interview in her office at the chamber of commerce,

Tate touched on the two other priorities identified by council.

“Walkability — being a pedestrian-friendly city — is important,” she said. “We need a walkable downtown. It needs to be well lit and safe.”

She also cited the importance of addressing poverty in the Core City, noting that the 27260 ZIP Code, which runs through the east-central portion of High Point, struggles with food insecurity.

“Urban agriculture we figure is going to be a big factor in revitalization,” Tate said. She added, “We don’t want to leave those who are in hardship in the dust.”

The combination of factors that make a community attractive to millennials is different from what drew him to High Point, acknowledged the 39-year-old Ewing.

“When we moved here it was more or less for work and proximity to work,” Councilman Ewing said. “So again, I’m in that generation outside millennials.

I’ve been more focused on working than playing. A lot of things that are attractive to millennials are not things I looked at. Now that I’ve got younger kids I’ve started to pay more attention.

“From an economic development and job standpoint many millennials are picking a community that has the social things they want and then finding a job,” Ewing added. “In decades before, people found a job and then socially figured out how they’re going to fit in.”

In contrast to their parents and grandparents who might have worked for one company for most of their careers and dedicated their lives to that company, Tate said millennials are more interested in living fulfilling lives and giving back. She cited BuzziSpace, the Belgian furniture maker that recently opened a factory in the city’s southwest quadrant, as an example of a company that is attractive to millennials.

“They chose a building in a low-income area of the city,” she said.

“They’re putting in a community garden that their employees work in. They get a couple hours a week to do that.

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Employees and community members can harvest food from the garden. High Point will have success if we find a way for companies to implement those kinds of programs.”

Tate gave an upbeat assessment of the city’s prospects for increasing its cohort of active and engaged millennials, noting the recent opening of Brown Truck Brewery and plans by the South Africa-based winery Rickety Bridge to expand to High Point.

“When I grew up in downtown Greensboro, me and all my friends called it ‘Greensboring,’” she said. “Just to look at the changes between when I was growing up and now, it started with the ballpark — bringing it downtown. It was two to three blocks from my house. It was great: We could watch the fireworks from my porch. Once the ballpark came, so did the apartments.

With the apartments came the wider sidewalks. Then came the brewery. Now, there are a handful of breweries. I’ve seen it all happen. The transformation didn’t take 40 years. It just takes one thing. It might be a ballpark. Whatever it is, I’ll get behind it.”

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OPINION EDITORIAL

Scoring imaginary points The broad strokes, platitudes and scattershot insults coming from candidate Donald Trump on the campaign trail are considered low-hanging fruit [that’s putting it mildly!] in the media business these days: a guaranteed goose chase of fact-checking and application of context sure to get some eyeballs and SEO love.

We did it anyway, with a deconstruction of Trump’s Greensboro speech in this week’s cover story, “The annotated Donald Trump,” beginning on page 16.

And while it’s sure to get traction among our readership, who by and large seem to reject the mouthy New York millionaire and everything he stands for, we know full well that the people who need to read this story — the ones planning to vote for the guy — likely will not. Even worse, if they do it probably will not change one bit their opinion of the man who just hours before his Greensboro appearance denied media credentials to the Washington Post, the newspaper of our capital city.

Point something like this out to a Trump supporter, and they’ll likely fire back immediately with an indiscretion of his competition, Hillary Clinton, who to be sure has raised plenty points of contention thus far in her long career.

Benghazi!

Seriously, though: American politics have devolved this century into nothing but rock fights, where the preferred means of scoring points is to make the other party look bad. And scandals can be found everywhere: old tax returns, Twitter accounts, magazine articles from the 1990s. Chances are in the hours between when this newspaper goes to press Tuesday evening and hits the streets Wednesday morning some fresh new outrage will have emerged concerning one or both of the candidates. And chances are it will make no difference to the faithful.

Oddly enough, just as political parties are devoting their energy to smearing the opposition, it seems to have less of an effect than ever. What new piece of information could a confirmed Trump voter receive that would finally convince him to change his vote? Likewise, is there any conceivable situation that would push a Hillary supporter into the Trump camp?

No way.

So we admit we’re tilting at windmills here when we take candidate Trump to task. But still we stand by the work.

We don’t just stop newspapering because people don’t want to listen. We maintain that Trump is a dangerous grifter whose plans for this country are the antithesis of the American way.

And nobody’s gonna tell us different.

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The great crackup When the world awoke on Friday, June 24, the convulsion of insanity that has overtaken the United States for the past six months suddenly felt like a global paroxysm.

And thankfully, Donald

by Jordan Green Trump was at the ready by the crack of dawn with a congratulatory tweet on the occasion of his visit to his Trump Turnberry golf course: “Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!”

“Scotland voted in, you moron,” British pop singer Lily Allen tweeted in reply — a relatively mild representation of a reaction that was on the whole far more profane.

For weeks, the discussion in the run-up to the referendum in the United Kingdom about whether to leave or remain in the European Union has focused on dry examinations of trade and tariffs, regulations and bureaucratic red tape issued from Brussels. Yet the results of the vote told a story of a starkly divided nation, not unlike like our own: Young people, the highly educated and well off tended to favor staying in the union, with strong sentiment in the global financial center of London, the port of Liverpool and the entirety of Scotland.

Meanwhile, the victorious leave movement drew its strength from cities like Sheffield and Birmingham in the industrial heartland, where wages have stagnated over the past several decades. An anti-immigrant backlash hasn’t been too far below the surface of the rhetoric surrounding the leave campaign, and was blatantly articulated with a poster portraying UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage standing in front of a stream of brown-skinned refugees with the wording, “Breaking point: The EU has failed us all.”

There was a time not that long ago when anti-globalization was predominantly the turf of the left. After the end of the Cold War, when the United States became the unrivalled world superpower and capitalism the dominant ideology, anxiety on the left about corporations rewriting the rules on trade, labor and the environment crystalized in a series of militant protests — against the World Trade Center in Seattle in 1999, against the World Bank and International Monetary fund in Washington and against the European Union in Nice in 2000, and against the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001. Far-right groups attempted to co-opt the anti-globalization movement for racist and nativist purposes, but with little success.

Then the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks reoriented the

US state apparatus from the agenda of global capitalism to military dominance, forcing the left in the United States and much of the world to redirect its energy to opposing the invasion and occupation of Iraq. With the drowning of New Orleans in 2005, the foreclosure crisis in 2007 and the Great Recession, along with the rise of tea party intransigence and the ascendance of the Koch Brothers oligarchy, the US left has been preoccupied with domestic rather than international matters for the past 10 years.

So it’s rather stunning for those of us in the United States who haven’t paid much attention to the rest of the world to discover that while our own political system appears to be spinning out of control, reaction to the refugee crisis in Europe is similarly giving rise to far-right political parties that appeal to xenophobia and national sovereignty.

No one draws the comparison more clearly than Trump himself, who wrote in a fundraising email to his US supporters on the day after the Brexit vote: “Voters in the United Kingdom chose to leave the flawed and failing European Union and reassert control over their borders, politics and economy, taking a brave stand for freedom and independence.”

It’s not just in the United States and the United Kingdom that we’re seeing a revival of nationalism based on what journalist Mary Kay Magistad calls a “narrative of national humiliation,” but also in Russia, China, Turkey and many others. When nationalism curdles into fascism, it expresses itself on the homefront through racial appeals and the scapegoating of outsiders, while abroad — mark my words — it manifests as military aggression.

There was an odd echo of Trump in the exultant reaction to Brexit by Marine Le Pen, head of the ultra-right National Front Party in France, who argued that by breaking up, nations can paradoxically come together.

“For all the patriots, for all those who love freedom, this day is one of joy,” she said. “It’s not Europe which has died; it’s the European Union that is shaking. And it is the rebirth of the nations and a need to rebuild between them a new European project — that of cooperation.”

Trump said something strikingly similar in Greensboro on June 14.

“But we’re led by the stupid people, and that’s gonna end, folks,” he said. “That’s gonna end. And you know, I’ll tell you something: We will have a better relationship with Mexico and China and India and Japan and Vietnam.”

If you believe that, good luck.

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After a quick breakfast of muscadine grapes and crunchy toast topped with super greens, I set my intention on making the 9 a.m. yoga class. But heavy traffic got in my way this morning, so I turned the car around and came home.

All I could think about was the cigarette pack in the kitchen drawer and how good

by PL Byrd it would feel to kick back to a nail.

I’m one of those people who’s read Alan Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking three times. I love that book. The little nicotine monster croaked easily after the first try, but was resurrected when my mama died.

Mama was a heavy smoker the last 20 years of her beautiful life and, after her lively memorial service in December 2013, it felt dishonorable to ignore a chance to bond with my sister and nephew over a smoke. Had it been offered, I’d probably have taken a toke and a shot in the church parking lot, too, but Mama would have frowned on that.

A shiny metal keyring-sized cylinder, filled with a small batch of my parents’ mixed cremains, sits on my writing desk. I can touch them anytime I want to. A few of their ashes are floating somewhere off the Adriatic Coast near Vasto, Italy and, in October, Dad will finally realize his dream of traveling to Australia. Mama has no choice but to join him, although she’d rather go to Hawaii.

Near the cylinder is a dime-store box filled with more tiny treasures. A lock of Mama’s long steel-gray hair, held together by a narrow black ribbon, entwines around one of her lipstick-stained cigarette butts.

Now, I realize non-smokers might find this creepy or disgusting, but feel free to honor your mama in your way and I’ll do the same.

The little red cardinal feather lying in the top left corner of the box is a glowing ember straight from Mama’s heart, a gift of warmth that floated through the sky and landed on my arm a few weeks ago while I was working in the garden. Her message? “Have that okra fried with gravy on the side, doodle-lee-do.” Or maybe it’s a reminder that everything is going to be just fine, especially if I wear red lipstick.

Soon, I’ll hit the mat and practice a few sun salutations. Then I’ll smoke another cigarette and think about my mama some more.

Then, maybe, just maybe, I’ll pick up where I left off with Alan Carr.

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out of the car.

These intersections survived their dormancy without the benefit of easy pedestrian crossings, but now they are necessary — if you don’t believe me, try to walk from Smith Street Diner to Crafted without working up a little sweat.

The Downtown Greenway will help with pedestrian access to LoFi — when it’s all fleshed out, bicycle maybe the best way to get to LoFi from the north — and slowing the traffic flow. But that still leaves a precarious corner on Battleground between Preyer/Crafted and the Greenway Apartments, which should have enough pedestrian traffic between them to at least merit a crosswalk, a Don’t Walk sign and one of those little buttons to activate it. The city is on it, with a redesign of the intersection forthcoming, but I have ideas of my own.

I’m thinking we pop a traffic circle at the intersection of Smith, Battleground and Eugene big enough to divert traffic east to Murrow Boulevard or along the northwesterly Battleground route, because after the greenway runs through LoFi, Eugene Street will be finished as a major outbound street.

It’s too bad. That’s how I get home.

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With the soft opening over the weekend of Joymongers Brewing near the lower end of Fisher Park, the LoFi neighborhood is starting to have all the best kinds of probby Brian Clarey lems — soon we’ll be hearing about parking, noise and rising rents.

But the biggest problem plaguing the city’s newest activated area — home also to Preyer Brewing, Crafted: the Art of Street Food, Deep Roots Market, the Greenway apartment complex and, tangentially, the ballpark — is walkability.

Nearby Carrolltown, Roy Carroll’s self-contained, mixed-use project, rises quickly.

The roads that cut through LoFi were designed as outgoing pathways to bring people in and out of downtown, leading to Wendover, Battleground, Murrow and points north. The arterial loops still do the necessary job of pulling traffic away from downtown, but now, with so many places plotted along the thoroughfare described

by Battleground, Eugene, Smith and Fisher, people have a reason to pull off the road and get

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[1] Trump purchased a golf course and clubhouse in Mooresville in 2012, renaming it the Village at Trump National Golf Club, Charlotte, according to the Charlotte Observer. An investigation published by USA Today in early June uncovered numerous lawsuits alleging Trump doesn’t pay contractors and employees for their work. While the story didn’t mention the Mooresville golf course, the investigation found that Trump’s companies have been cited for 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act since 2005 for failing to pay overtime or minimum wage. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club resort in Florida wound up paying one employee $7,500 to settle a lawsuit alleging failure to pay time-and-a-half for overtime over a period of three years.

[2] Clinton told CBS’ “Face the Nation” in September 2015 that she would like to see the United States increase the number of Syrian refugees it accepts from 10,000 to 65,000, according to Politifact. That is, indeed, an increase of 550 percent. As to the claim that “there’s no documentation” for refugees “from a certain area” (apparently Syria), Politifact cited the State Department with saying that Syrians tend to have more documents than other refugees and although gaps have been identified, the reasons for gaps, such as a bomb falling on a house, can be easily verified.

Meanwhile, Politifact rated the claim that refugees aren’t vetted as “false,” writing, “While there are concerns about information gaps, a system does exist and has existed since 1980. It involves multiple federal intelligence and security agencies as well as the United Nations.

Refugee vetting typically takes one to two years and includes numerous rounds of security checks.” Politifact also noted that, contrary to Trump’s claim, “Clinton has spoken about stepping up the rigor of the vetting and proposed specific solutions.”

[3] An account in the Washington Post

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confirms that Seddique Mateen, the father of Omar Mateen, has indeed appeared in a YouTube video expressing gratitude toward the Afghan Taliban.

Suitable for the social-media age, Donald Trump’s brand of demagoguery is a flurry of lies, flung like so many impulsive tweets in speeches larded with self-congratulation and personal insults — a barrage designed to overwhelm any attempt at a tidy media report packaged for the 24-hour news cycle.

The presumptive Republican nominee for president made a campaign stop in Greensboro on June 14 — his 70th birthday — and turned in a speech in less than an hour that was characteristically heavy on fearmongering, a loose regard for facts, and the real estate developer-turned reality TV star-turned politician’s peculiar, richguy populist schtick. Here were lies that have long been debunked like the one about the United States giving Iran $150 billion, and spontaneous creations such as the unsupported assertion that protesters outside the event were burning American flags. Most of the fibs, distortions and manipulations echoed points made in his response to the Pulse nightclub shooting during a speech in New Hampshire the day before, while anticipating his frontal attack against Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton a week later in New York.

And, it must be noted, Trump is an extraordinary candidate in an extraordinary election year, and some claims that seem outlandish or dubious are actually true.

Donald J. Trump, Special Events Center at Greensboro Coliseum Complex, June 14, 2016 (transcript edited for length) This place is packed. This is beautiful.

Not a lot of notice either. We just wanted

to be here. You know, we won North Carolina.

That put us right over the top, thank you everyone.

Thank you. And we’re gonna put our country over the top. We’re gonna make America great again, believe me.

So, I walked in, and there’s this great man, great guy that I’ve been — ‘happy birthday,’ oh, don’t tell me about.... Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. This is a nice crowd, I’ll tell you what. I love you folks.

Thank you, folks. I love you. I have a lot of property in North Carolina, and I like that.

Have a lot of employees, and we pay ’em money big league. We have healthcare. We have education. We take good care of our people, I want to tell you that. [1] They’re great people. Great people. You know, I walk in and — I’ve been a fan of this man for a long time. And he wanted to come over and endorse, not only me, but you because this is a movement that we have going, folks. We have a movement going. And you people may have heard of him. He’s got a lot more courage than all of us. He won 200 races — King Richard Petty. [Petty briefly appears onstage.] He’s a great guy, I’ll tell you. So I said, ‘Richard, you want to speak.’

He said, ‘No, no. I want to drive. I want to drive.’ You know, now, politicians are all talk, no action, right? Richard Petty is the exact opposite of that.

So again, North Carolina’s a special place.

And, you know, we went through a weekend the likes of which we should never have to see again. And I wrote a few things down that I want to read, because we can’t let this happen anymore. We have to be so tough, we have to be so strong, we have to be so vigilant. We can’t be led by weak, ineffective people. They’re weak and they’re ineffective. And, believe me, Hillary Clinton — weak, ineffective. I don’t know if you know she has 550 percent more people she wants to come in than Obama from a certain area where we just don’t know what’s going on.

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We don’t know who they are, where they’re coming from. There’s no documentation.

[2]....

So… [reading from a script] the killer’s parents emigrated from Afghanistan. As the Washington Times reported, the children of Muslim immigrant parents, they’re responsible for a growing number — for whatever reason — a growing number of terrorist attacks. The killer’s Afghan father supported the Taliban [3], which believes in violently oppressing womings [sic] and gays. Violently. We’re not talking anything else. We’re talking violently. Once again, we’ve seen that political correctness is deadly. They don’t want to talk about the problem....

Now there are reports that the wife knew about the attack — the second wife. Knew about the attack, but may have not told the authorities. Nobody really knows. Her family reportedly is from Afghanistan. According to Pew — it’s a Pew report, 99 percent of the people in Afghanistan support oppressive sharia law. [4] Immigration from Afghanistan has increased five-fold. [5] We don’t know what we’re doing, folks. Every year, we bring in more than 100,000 lifetime immigrants from the Middle East [6], and many more from Muslim countries outside of the Middle East. A number of these immigrants have hostile attitudes, and it doesn’t take a big percentage. Look what one wackjob — look at this one wack, this one horrible savage — look what he did in a short period of time to great young people. Look what he did, and look at the carnage and devastation and destroyed families that he’s caused.

So a number of these immigrants have hostile attitudes towards women, toward gays and people of different faiths. And that includes everybody. They’re hostile.

wonder why I have packed houses all over the place.

Hillary Clinton just yesterday used the term ‘radical Islam.’ Sort of used it, right?

They all said, ‘Oh, Trump forced her.’ I shouldn’t be forcing anything. If you don’t know what the term is, and if you don’t discuss what the problem is, and if you can’t say the real name — we have a radical Islamic terrorism problem, folks. We can say we don’t. We can pretend, like Obama, that we don’t. Obama spent a long time talking about it. And nobody at the end of that speech understood anything other than that, ‘Boy does he hate Donald Trump.’ That’s about the only thing.

Hillary said — and this is an exact quote — and just so you understand I have many Muslim friends. These are amazing people.

They’re great people. The problem we have is whether it’s 7 percent or 9 percent or 11 percent or 1 percent, we’re having a tremendous problem in our country. We don’t know. There doesn’t seem to be assimilation.

[13] We don’t know what’s going on. And there’ no reporting. As an example, in San Bernardino, people saw this horrible married couple where they became radicalized — he probably became radicalized through her, but whatever happened — there’re bombs on the floor. They had all sorts of weaponry.

People knew that bad things were gonna happen, and they didn’t report it. We have to have people report it….

These dishonest people in the back [pointing towards the media section] — in fact, we just took — they are so dishonest [“boo”] — we just took — they’re so dishonest we just took the press credentials away.

I love it! We just took the press credentials away from the dishonest Washington Post [cheering]. I said, ‘Why should I have people following me around, sitting up there like big shots and they write very untruthful stories?’ They write very untruthful stories.

So I did it with the Washington Post. I said, ‘I’m so happy. I don’t…’ I said, ‘You can come in.’ Where’s the Washington Post? They’re probably somewhere — maybe they’re in the back, in the back bleachers; I don’t know.

Now look, our federal authorities spend billions of dollars and deploy thousands of agents tracking and disrupting terrorists and people that are not really up to any good.

We’re gonna stop it, folks. We’re gonna stop it. Just remember what I said: If I got elected, we’re gonna be fair. We are gonna be so totally straight down the middle — straight down the middle in terms of justice, but we’re not going to let people take advantage

[4] Politifact found the claim to be “mostly true,” while noting that people’s interpretation of sharia law is not universal.

The study also reported that “many supporters of sharia say it should apply only to their country’s Muslim population.”

[5] Not far off the mark: According to the US Department of Homeland Security, the number of persons obtaining lawful permanent resident status from Afghanistan increased from 2,196 in 2013 to 10,527 in 2014 — more than quadrupling.

Many people, including some US military veterans, argue that the United States should be accepting more immigrants from Afghanistan. Robert D. Crews wrote in a February 2016 article in Foreign Policy: “Stingy constraints on Afghan immigration to the United States, even for those who aided the US war effort, are another source of despair. American veterans have taken up the cause of thousands of interpreters and guides seeking visas to escape reprisal at home. Between October 2006 and November 2015, the United States issued only 17,619 visas earmarked for this special category, though many more of these applicants remain limbo.”

[6] Politifact found the claim to be “mostly true,” coming up with a tally of 104,920 people from Middle Eastern countries who obtained legal permanent resident status in 2014. To reach that number, they included countries in central Asia (Afghanistan and Pakistan), countries in north Africa (Tunisia, Libya and Algeria) and one country that is partially in Europe (Turkey).

[7] Trump’s speech in Greensboro walked back a misleading claim made the day before that Mateen was born “an Afghan” — or “in Afghan,” as other reports would have it; the remark departed from the candidate’s prepared text — while failing to mention that Mateen, like Trump himself was actually born in New York City. But Trump’s rhetoric has been widely criticized for the implication that a more restrictive immigration policy could somehow anticipate which unborn children of immigrants might wish to commit acts of violence against Americans decades after their parents’ arrival.

[8] It’s unclear where this notion comes from, although ABC News reported in December 2015 that US intelligence officials believe that ISIS is issuing convincing fake Syrian passports since taking control of Syrian passport offices in the cities of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zour. Of course, the word our would be misleading because it implies the passport machines were American as opposed to Syrian.

[9] The statement references concerns raised about the Clinton Foundation, a non-governmental organization founded

by Hillary Clinton’s husband to combat global poverty and HIV, accepting contributions from countries that oppress gays and women, specifically Saudi Arabia.

A fact-check by Politifact confirmed the claim, noting that a review of the foundation’s searchable database indicates the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia gave between $10 million to $25 million.

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[7] If you’re not with them, it’s like forget it. Hillary Clinton’s immigration plan would bring in millions of un-vetted immigrants or very poorly vetted. And how can you vet somebody when you have no idea where they come from, you have no idea about the paperwork. Frankly, they have better passports than we do because they stole our passport machines [8]. How that happened is pretty amazing. All right? Including those who hate gays, women, Jews, Christians, everybody. How does this kind of immigration make our life better in this country? How does it do it?....

Hillary Clinton — crooked Hillary, as we all know her by — crooked Hilary, which is what she is — wants to increase these immigration numbers very, very substantially. She’s no friend of women. And she’s no friend of LGBT Americans. No friend, believe me.

And how can you be a friend when you take many, many millions of dollars from these countries — $25 million from one country, they think. And how can you be a friend when these countries are oppressing to LGBT, when they’re oppressive to everybody? How can you be a friend? How can you be a friend to women when you take that kind of money from people who enslave women? [9] And then women like Hillary better than Donald Trump? I don’t think so, I’ll be honest.

She wants a 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees coming into our country [boos].

Where do they come from? This could be the all-time great version modern day of the Trojan horse, folks. Remember that. Hillary’s plan for resettling hundreds of thousands of refugees will cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars [10], which we don’t have. We owe $19 trillion — we’re going to $21 trillion. Now we’re gonna spend billions and billions of dollars in bringing in people, people that we don’t know, we don’t know enough about. And what I want to do — let’s get the Gulf states — we don’t want to put up the money because we don’t have any money. Our infrastructure’s going to hell. Our country’s going to hell. Our military is in such trouble, It’s so unbelievably depleted. Our jetfighters are old. They need new parts. They take ’em from plane graveyards and museums. [11] Jetfighters. Terrible.

So this is what we do. We’ve admitted four times more immigrants — remember this — than any other country in the world.

[12] We can’t do this. We can’t do this. Not surprisingly, wages for people working in our country — real wages, real numbers — haven’t increased in 18 years. And then they

[10] Although the Clinton campaign hasn’t placed a price tag on her refugee resettlement plan, Politifact determined that the real cost would be likely be a fraction of the figure cited by Trump. Scaling up the Obama administration’s FY 2017 budget request for almost $2.2 billion for refugee and entrant assistance to take into consideration Clinton’s stated goal of resettling an additional 65,000 Syrian refugees, Politifact estimated the cost would fall somewhere between $3 billion and $4 billion.

[11] Confirmed. A Fox News report in May stated that crews at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota have cannibalized parts from a military plane graveyard in Arizona, and Capt. Travis Lytton told reporter Jennifer Griffin that the Air Force has salvaged parts from the planes in the South Dakota Air and Space Museum.

[12] The Washington Post calls this a “dubious” claim, asserting that it’s based “on raw numbers and inconsistent data sets among countries, making it difficult to make an apples-to-apples comparison.” Regardless, it’s a spurious claim, considering that the United States holds one of the largest populations in the world. To make a fair comparison between large and small countries, a better gauge would be the number of immigrants accepted per 1,000 people. By this measure, the CIA World Factbook ranks the United States 34th — not terribly high.

[13] Contrary to Trump’s claim, the Pew Research Center concluded in a 2011 study that Muslim Americans are “highly assimilated into American society.” Specifically, the study reported that Muslims are more likely than other immigrants to become US citizens and more likely than non-Muslims to believe most people can get ahead if they’re willing to work hard.

Moreover, the percentage of Muslims who identify first by their faith is about equal to that of Christians, and adherents to the two faiths report about the same rate of seeing no conflict between being devout in their faith and living in a modern society.

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[14] Yes, that’s right, he said aeroplanes.

[15] So much for “The Snake.”

[16] This oft-repeated statement by the candidate is misleading at best. As Politifact reported back in March, “Trump’s statement makes it sound like we’re cutting Iran a $150 billion check. In reality, the money is already Iran’s to begin with, just frozen under the many economic sanctions levied against the country.”

[17] Politifact rated the claim as “false” on June 22: “We searched newspaper articles and television transcripts from 2002 and 2002 amid the debate leading up to the Iraq war. We didn’t find any examples of Trump unequivocally denouncing the war until a year after the war began.”

Although Trump expressed skepticism about the invasion in an interview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto in January 2013, his response to a question by shock jock Howard Stern about whether he supported the invasion in September 2002 was, “Yeah, I guess so.”

[18] As Jim Geraghty points out in a July 2015 article in the right-leaning National Review, the two precepts are contradictory: “In 2007, Trump said that the US should ‘declare victory and leave’ Iraq, ‘because I’ll tell you, this country is just going to get further bogged down.’ Four years later, as Obama prepared to withdraw US troops from the country, Trump was more or less getting his wish. But then he appeared to be arguing that the US should maintain its troop presence simply to seize the Iraqi oil fields.”

[19] WTF?!

[20] Probably higher. Neta C. Crawford, a professor at Boston University, estimated the cumulative costs of the US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan at $4.4 trillion in June 2014.

[21] This windup is killing me.

[22] And… back to the windup.

[23] The News & Record estimated that about 6,000 people attended the rally. And judging by the number of times Trump had interrupted himself to acknowledge disruption, it appears that there had actually been three protesters.

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of us. We’re gonna go to the movie theater. We’re gonna go on aeroplanes [14]. We’re gonna lead our lives like we’re supposed to lead our lives. We’re gonna be straight down the middle. Everything’s gonna be fair. There’s gonna be total justice. But we can’t continue to live this way. We can’t continue to live this way. People are gonna be afraid to go out — they already are. I mean, if you think you feel safer now than you did eight years ago — I think there’s probably not anyone in this room that feels that way.

So I just want to read something. Did anyone ever hear me do ‘The Snake’? I think maybe I’ve never seen a time maybe ever where this is so appropriate. It’s so appropriate. Now, you have to think of this in terms of Islamic terror. You have to think of it in terms of our border. You have to think of it in terms of all the people that are crossing, that are criminals, that are killing people and hurting people. We need borders. If we don’t have borders we don’t have a country. We need borders. We need to have our country back. We want to get our country back. We want people coming into our country, but they have to come in legally. They have to come in legally. [Crowd chanting, “Build that wall!”] “Don’t even think about it — we’re gonna build that wall. Don’t even think about it. And who is going to pay for the wall? [Crowd: “Mexico!”]

Who? [“Crowd: “Mexico!”] 100 percent, okay? 100 percent. [15] You know, when I had the debates — the big debates, right?

Now what did I know about debating? I’ve been building and employing and building up a great company and having lots of fun. I didn’t want to do this, folks, I’ll tell you. I don’t know about you, but up here it’s about 110 degrees right now. I didn’t want to do this. I would have been very happy had Obama been a great president. I would have been very happy. You know what? If he were a great president — I’m a Republican, I’m a conservative — had he been a great president, I would have been very happy, and most of the people in this room would have been happy. But you know what? He’s been one hell of a lousy president. He’s done a terrible job. Terrible job. He has done a terrible job.

And we’re running through weakness, and people are laughing at us. All over the world they’re laughing at us. And when China has a trade deficit — we have a trade deficit with China. Think of it: We have a trade deficit: $505 billion a year. Mexico: $58 billion a year. Japan: So much we don’t even know what the hell the number is. Everybody. Vietnam is hot. They’re all hot. Every country does great. When you negotiate against the United States, if you can’t win you don’t have much goin’. You don’t have much goin’. And we have to turn it around.

We’re gonna get the greatest — we have in our country the greatest negotiators in the world. We’re not gonna make an Iran deal where we give $150 billion. We shoulda never given that money back. [16] We shoulda never, ever given that money back.

Those prisoners shoulda been released years ago before we ever started the negotiations, folks. Years ago.... The Persians are great negotiators. The Iranians are great negotiators.

Not only, by the way, did they make a great deal there, but as sure as — and I was against the Iraq war from the very beginning. [17] You know, Hillary said, ‘Oh, can you trust him with the button?’ She’s the one that wanted to go into Iraq. I’ve been against it. I said, ‘Iraq, if you obliterate their military, you are going to totally destabilize the Middle East, and that’s exactly what happened. The Middle East became totally destabilized. And what happened? We got ISIS outta the whole deal. I mean, the thinking that we’ve had — for a long time — and the way [Obama] got us out. He gives a date: ‘We’re gonna be out by X date?’ Who the

hell would ever say the date? In fact, the other side didn’t believe him. Because they said, ‘Nobody could be so stupid to give a date.’ And then it turned out to be true. So he got out the wrong way. Came out the wrong way. If you remember a few years ago, I said, ‘Keep the oil.’ Shouldn’t-a been there, but keep the oil. [18] Well now, ISIS has the oil. Iran is going to have the oil. They’re all going to have the oil. And instead of just a surgical strike in Syria and Libya and all these different people — I mean, look at Libya — a surgical strike maybe. But the highest grades of oil in the world — who has the oil, folks? ISIS has the oil. We don’t even do anything to blockade them. They’re selling the oil. They’re making a fortune. They cannot believe how lucky they got. If I get elected, they’re not gonna be so lucky anymore, folks. They’re not gonna be so lucky. And when we get out we should have taken — remember this — when we got out she should have taken the oil. I’ll never forget, some of the pundits — most of them don’t have the brains they were born with — they said, ‘They’re talking about a sovereign country.’ Iraq! Crooked as hell. How about bringing baskets of money, millions and millions of dollars and handing it out? I want to know: Who’re the soldiers that had that job? Because I think they’re living very well right now, whoever they may be. [19] But think of it — the money that went out. We spent probably — probably — $4 trillion over the last 15 years in the Middle East.

[20] We build a school; it gets blown up. We build it again, and again, and again. But if we want a school in Greensboro, if we want a school in Brooklyn, if we want a school in Los Angeles we have no money. We’re flat broke. No longer, folks. No longer.

America first. America first. Remember that. It’s America first. It’s America first.....

So, are you ready? So this is called ‘The Snake,’ right? Al Wilson. Great Al Wilson. And it’s really sort of amazing because it just works. What you have to do is think about what we’re getting into. We’re letting in hundreds of thousands of people into our country. We don’t know anything about ’em. We do know though it’s gonna be trouble. And again, it doesn’t take a lot. It doesn’t take a lot. It takes 2 percent, 1 percent. It takes two people. It doesn’t take a lot. But it’s gonna be much more than that. And we are gonna see things over the next number of years like you’ve never seen, I really believe — unless I’m elected president. I really believe that. Because we’re gonna be very, very smart. And we’re gonna be very strong. And we’re not gonna be the fools anymore.

This is called — this is called ‘The Snake.’ Who, by the way — I rarely do it, but who has heard it? Should I do it again? So think of your border. Think of people pouring in. Think of people pouring in who you know are going to be trouble at some point, okay?

You know they’re going to be trouble, alright? All right. Let’s go.

Ready? Are you ready? [21] [Noticing a protester] That’s right, get ’em out. Get ’em out. [Audience: “Boo!”] I love our protesters.

The only way the cameras show what massive numbers of people we have is if we have our protesters. Take care of our protesters.

Please don’t hurt our protester. It’s a single protester. That’s right, go home to Mommy. Bye. Okay, let’s go. Ready? Think about your border, folks. Think about your border. Think about people coming into your country. We’re gonna protect our country. [22] [Reading from the text] ‘On her way to work one morning down the path along the lake, a tender-hearted woman saw a poor, half-frozen snake. His pretty, colored skin had been all frosted with the dew. ‘Oh well,’ she said, ‘I’ll take you in, and I’ll take care of you.’ ‘Take me in, oh tender woman. Take me in, for heaven’s sake,’

[24] Obama’s White House actually backs Trump up on this point, with the Office of National Drug Control Policy reporting that Latin America evolved as the primary supplier of heroin to the United States, “with Mexican heroin most prevalent west of the Mississippi and Colombian heroin most prevalent east of it.” Given the extensive commerce between Mexico and the United States and traffickers’ ability to move contraband goods by air and sea, it is unclear how building a wall will stop the flow of heroin into the United States, however.

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had one state where I won like 38 percent of the vote. And Krauthammer and some others said, ‘He has not broken 50 percent.’ I mean, I had, like, I think, 14 or 15 people. Right?

How the hell do you break 50 percent? I must have gotten a record. You have 17 people You’re down to 15 or 14, and then you get this massive number, whatever it might be, and they said, ‘He has not broken 50 percent?’ Who the hell — ? Abraham Lincoln could not have broken 50 percent. So then I won, and I kept winning and winning. And then we get to New York. And you know what’s nice about New York? New York is tough and they know me, right?

Isn’t it nice that the people who know me the best — the people from New York — they give me a massive victory, and we still have three people. We still have three people.

And I got almost 62 percent of the vote — with three people. You know, in politics, with two people, if you get 55 to 45 they call that a massive victory. You know that, right?

In almost every county. But before that I had Florida. You remember Florida, right? So Florida — and I was against Marco Rubio, sitting senator, and very, very low-energy Jeb Bush, right? I only say that because he signed the pledge, but he hasn’t endorsed me. Of course, I don’t really want his endorsement. Folks, when you sign a pledge, you’re supposed to live up the pledge. Even if you don’t like Donald. He’s got good reason not to like me, I guess. Don’t forget: He raised in his fund — his PAC — $168 million. So think of this: I spent the least and I got the best result in a landslide. Isn’t that what you want in a president? I spent the least and I got the best result.

I remember New Hampshire. I love New Hampshire.

In fact, I just gave — yesterday I was in New Hampshire — gave the speech on what happened — this horrible, horrible weekend in Orlando. And New Hampshire’s been a special place because that was my first victory. And I remember so vividly talking to these massive crowds — it’s different because you don’t have rooms as big as this, for the most part. But people — thousands of people were in the room and then standing outside. And I’d meet with smaller groups, and I’d say, ‘Well, what’s the big problem?’ They’d say, ‘Heroin.’ I’d say, ‘Heroin? What, are you kidding? Heroin? They’d say, ‘It’s a massive problem in New Hampshire.’ It’s a massive problem all over, and it comes in through the southern border. [24] And that’s why we’re going to build the wall.

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sighed the broken snake. She wrapped him up all cozy in a curvature of silk, then laid him by the fireside with some honey and some milk. Now she hurried home from work.

That night she soon arrived….’ [spotting another protester] Ah, don’t worry about it. Get ’im out. [Crowd: “USA! USA!”] USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! [crowd: “USA!”] All right. Get ’im out. Thank you. Thank you, officer. Thank you. Don’t hurt him! Don’t hurt him. No, no. You know, I get criticized every once in a while. They think Trump is too tough. I’m not tough. Please don’t hurt that person.

That’s a very nice person. Okay. Gone? Gone? Are they gone? Yeah? All right, good. [returning to text] ‘Now she hurried home that night. As soon as she arrived she found that pretty snake she’d taken and it had been revived.

‘Take me in, oh tender woman. Take me in, for heaven’s sake. Take me in, oh tender woman,’ sighed the broken snake. Now, she clutched him to her bosom. ‘You’re so beautiful,’ she cried, ‘but if I hadn’t brought you in by now, my gosh, you would have died.’ She stroked his pretty skin and then she kissed him and held him tight. But instead of saying, ‘Thank you,’ that snake gave her a vicious bite.

‘Take me in, oh tender woman. Take me in, for heaven’s sake. Take me in, oh tender woman,’ sighed that vicious snake. ‘I saved you,’ cried the woman, ‘and you bit me.

Heavens why? You know your bite is poisonous, and now I’m going to die.’ ‘Oh, shut up, silly woman,’ said the reptile with a grin. ‘You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.’’

So folks, I mean, we know what we’re getting into, and we keep doing it because we don’t learn. But we know what we’re getting into. And we can’t let it happen. We can’t let it happen. “So when I started on this quest [spotting another protester] — yeah, get ’em out. They’re a little noisy over there. Get ’em outta here. Get ’em out.

So, so far in a crowd of like nine or ten thousand people, we have two people that made a little noise. [23] Front page of every paper: ‘Trump rally….’ Let me tell you, folks: My rallies are the safest place on earth. The safest. So when I started this quest — and I didn’t know I was gonna do it — and I was helped by a lot of people — and do you remember Indiana? Remember? Bobby Knight said, ‘I want to endorse you, Mr. Trump. You’re what we need as president.’ And, boy, was that gonna be the firewall. Boy, did we win Indiana, big league, right? That was like Richard Petty. That was something. But we started. And who knew what it would be? We had all these people, like this Charles Krauthammer — ugh — forget it. [crowd: “Boo!”] Before I announced — before I announced I listened to Charles Krauthammer. And it’s like a month before I announced. I told my wife: ‘Boy, this sounds tough.’ He said, ‘This is the single finest group of Republican leaders perhaps in the history of the Republican Party. This is a great, great group of people.’ And then I think he might have said, ‘Donald Trump’s not gonna run, is he?’ So I said, ‘If these...’ — I didn’t know most — I said, ‘If these people are so good, then what am I running for?’ And then, one by one — boom, boom, boom, boom. We start off with 17 people. Boom. Sixteen. Fifteen. Twelve. Nine. Then we go eight, seven. Then we go five. Then we go four. Then we go three. And we had three left, and I’ll never forget: I

[25] Greensboro Police Department spokesperson Susan Danielsen said police are not aware of any flag burning that occurred outside the rally. Eye-witness observations, media accounts and social media posts also give no indication that any flag burnings took place.

And by the way, the border patrol agents — 16,500 border patrol agents — four weeks ago endorsed Donald Trump. The first time in history that they endorsed a presidential candidate.

So I’ll never forget it: I said to the people of New Hampshire, ‘We are going to work hard. Number one, we’re gonna stop it, and number two, we’re gonna work hard to get your youth and everybody else hooked on this crap — get them better. Because we have to make ’em better. There’s so many people. And it comes in, and it pours in.

And so you know, I was saying before — so during the debates, I didn’t know about debating, I didn’t know — and yet I was center stage for every single debate — and according to Drudge, who, by the way, is an incredible man, an incredible guy — according to Drudge and Time magazine and Slate, and like seven others — they do polls now for everything — I think I’ve like made polling a very important thing — you never used to hear about polls — because I like polls. But according to all of these online polls that are taken immediately after the debates I won every single poll of every single debate. How did that happen, okay? And again, I was center stage. It used to make me very angry when Fox and CNN — [spotting a protester] get ’im out. Get ’im out. Get ’im outta here, folks. You can get him out. Thank you. Don’t hurt him. Be very kind. Be very, very gentle. We get criticized. We want to be very gentle. Unlike the people that we see outside, where they’re burning the American flags, folks. They’re burning the American flags. [25] [crowd: “Boo!”] You can get him out. Thank you very much. Unless he wants to stay.

He’s got a very weak voice. Very weak voice. If you want, you can stay. Thank you. Thank you. [From the crowd: “We love you Donald.”] His parents are going to be so angry at him tonight.

So I was center stage and I was a little bit upset. Whether it be Fox or CNN or any of them. ABC. I said, ‘Look, if I’m center stage the only thing I ask for is I want an odd number. I don’t want an even number. Because if it’s an even number then we have two people center stage and that’s not fair. So I thought — I’ve done something — because I am the messenger, I’m not, I don’t even want to say the leader of this group — we have this all over the United States — wherever we go — we went to Dallas. 35,000 people in Mobile, Ala. No matter where we go we have the

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[26] It’s not true that every-

where Trump goes he attracts “far bigger” crowds than even Bernie Sanders. To give one specific example, when Sanders spoke at the Special Events Center — the same venue as Trump — back in September 2015, he drew an estimated 9,000 people — so many that his supporters had to be accommodated in an overflow room and watch a simulcast of the speech. Trump, in comparison, drew 6,000 people and didn’t even fill the room.

[27] Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill and How They Operate is actually scheduled for release on Tuesday.

Veterans of the agency “strongly denounce” the book, according to a June 21 story in Politico, contending that Byrne was too low ranking to have had the kind of access he would need to the First Family to accumulate the kind of revealing encounters that populate the book. “People familiar with West Wing security laugh at the idea that Byrne or any uniformed officer ever would have walked in on Bill Clinton anywhere, whether in a meeting, or as a New York Post article over the weekend claims, in the middle of a makeout session with the late daughter of former Vice President Walter Mondale.

The Secret Service presidential detail would have stopped him.”

[28] Trump has repeatedly made this claim, and shows no signs of backing down on it despite being challenged. Politifact ruled in early May: “We found no evidence of Clinton ever saying verbatim or suggesting explicitly that she wants to abolish the Second Amendment. She has repeatedly said she wants to protect the right to bear arms while enacting measures to prevent gun violence.” The article noted that gun advocates cite Clinton’s openness to a gun buyback program and disagreement with a Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment, adding, “For this claim to hold water, the support for Second Amendment abolition needs to be more direct.

So we rate it false.”

biggest crowds. Far bigger than even Bernie Sanders, who was, by the way, second, in all fairness. [26] But we have the biggest crowds. And what I am is the messenger.

We have got a movement going, and it’s a movement based on taking our country back and running our country intelligently, smartly and being respected all over the world again.

Because we’re not respected right now by anybody. We’re not respected by anybody.

So I’m running against a person that I think is totally unfit and unqualified — and Bernie Sanders said this — totally unqualified to be president. Now, a new book just came out by the Secret Service, the person that was with her. You have to hear what he said.

I mean, I hope the books sells. I’m sure the mainstream media won’t be writing much about the book. It’s a new book, and it says she doesn’t have the judgment, she doesn’t have the character, she was like a screaming maniac. [27] Folks, we would be making one hell of a mistake. I’ll tell you what: If Hillary Clinton becomes president I don’t know that our country will ever, ever come back. I mean it.

Now remember one thing. So important. Judge Scalia — Justice Scalia, who was a great guy — he died unexpectedly. So we have one, we have one slot already. And if the liberal Democrats get in and put the people that they want in there, it’s a whole different world. Including guns, by the way. You can forget about your guns. You can forget about your guns.

The NRA endorsed me. The NRA a few weeks ago endorsed me. I believe it’s the earliest endorsement in the history of these races. And we are going to protect our Second Amendment. We are going to protect our Second Amendment. [cheering, “Trump, Trump, Trump”] Thank you.

Hillary Clinton effectively wants to abolish the Second Amendment. She wants to take your guns away. [28] [Crowd: “Boo!”] And believe me, she’s trying to get out of that positon. Take a look at what she said, just like what she said before I went to West Virginia.

A few weeks before, she said, ‘We’re gonna take away the mines and we’re gonna take away the jobs from the miners.’ [29] How about that for brains? Four weeks later she’s in West Virginia and she didn’t register too well there, folks. We’re gonna bring back our miners. We’re gonna bring back our jobs into this country. We’re gonna bring back our jobs into this country, big league.

So here’s a story: We have a country that

we love. But we have a country that’s gone astray. We don’t win anymore. We don’t win with Sgt. Bergdahl. Remember Sgt. Bergdahl? [crowd: “Boo!”] Remember. We get Bergdahl. This is a typical Obama trade.

I call him ‘the five for one president.’ We get Bergdahl and they get five of the worst killers that they wanted for nine years, who are now back on the battlefield trying to kill everybody, including this group right here.

[30] I’m not gonna let it happen, folks. This is the deal we make — and by the way, probably five and maybe six people — wonderful, young military people were killed looking for Bergdahl after he deserted, okay? [31] Think of it. Now, in the old days you know what would have happened to him, right? [miming someone in a firing squad pulling the trigger on a rifle] In the old days. [32] Ten years ago it wouldn’t have been pretty but he would have lived. [And today they’re talking about maybe nothing’s gonna happen to him. [33] Because this is where we’ve come. This is

than any other person in the history of the Republican Party [36]. Pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. Almost 14 million votes. We’ve received almost 14 million votes. Think of it.

I mean, that’s pretty good. I’m very proud of that. Ronald Reagan, who we love — we received many more than Ronald Reagan.

More than Nixon, more than Bush. More than Eisenhower, Dwight D. Eisenhower. I mean, he won the Second World War, folks, you know, I mean…. So we’re very proud of that. In addition to that, the Republican Party was up almost 70 percent in terms of voter turnout. [37] And the Democrats, despite all you hear about Bernie — by the way, it looks like Bernie’s gone, folks, he’s gone, looks like he’s gone. Crazy Bernie, I guess he’s gone.

So now we’ll only have Pocahontas to think about. I think maybe it could be Pocahontas.

I hope so. I hope it’s Pocahontas. They said, ‘Mr. Trump, that’s a terrible thing. Would you apologize?’ ‘Now they want me to apologize.

They want me to apologize. I have to.’

[Crowd: “No!”] But I did. I did. Can you believe it? I apologized. I said, ‘I’d like to apologize to Pocahontas.’ It’s true. The great Pocahontas.

So folks, we have to win. We don’t win anymore. We don’t win on trade.

We don’t win with the military. We can’t beat ISIS. We don’t win anymore. We are going to start winning like you’ve never seen before. We are going to win with our military. We are going to kick the hell out of ISIS. We have no choice.

We’re gonna win on trade. We’re gonna make great deals. We’re gonna bring COURTESY PHOTO our money back. We’re gonna bring where we’ve come to. We cannot continue our jobs back. We’re not gonna let people to be politically correct. We cannot continue take our companies so easily anymore. with what’s happening to our country — is We’re gonna win on the trade. We’re gonna devastating folks. It’s devastating, and it’s win at the border. We’re gonna build a wall. embarrassing, and our lives will never be the Mexico’s gonna pay for it; they’re gonna be same. That’s why what we have to do is in very happy to pay for it. They’re gonna be November — we have to get out and vote. very, very happy to pay for the wall, believe “This state’s looking very good. I have me. They make so much money off us. That to tell you. North Carolina, we’re looking wall is peanuts — peanuts — compared to very good. Just like we did in the primary. I the money.... remember. I remember the primary. I wasn’t We’re gonna have a better relationship really favored to win [34], but I remember I with Mexico and China than we have right went to make a speech in North Carolina — now with all of them. Look at China. They’ve in the Charlotte area — and the crowd was ripped us left, they’ve ripped us right. like unbelievable. I came back to my people They’ve taken our jobs. They’ve taken our and I said, ‘You know, I think we’re gonna manufacturing. They dump their product win. That’s not like a second-place finisher all over the place. And they don’t even like crowd.’ And we won easily [35], as we did in us. And what do they do? They go to the many, many other states. And by the way, South China Sea, and they build one of the speaking of that, we — we, not me — we great and big fortresses of the world; they’re have received more votes in the primaries not supposed to be doing that, folks. [38]

[29] Clinton has acknowledged misspeaking during a March 13 CNN town hall, explaining that she didn’t mean that she personally was going to take away miners’ jobs, while clarifying that the job losses would occur if no action was taken. Here’s what she actually said: “So for example, I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country. Because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right? And we’re going to make it clear that we don’t want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories.”

[30] Notwithstanding the dubious claim that Taliban fighters have their sights set on doing harm to Trump supporters in Greensboro, North Carolina, it’s undisputed that the Obama administration exchanged five Taliban prisoners for Bergdahl. An Associated Press story described one, Mohammad Fazl as a former deputy defense minister, noting that a 2008 detainee assessment by the US military warned that if released, “detainee would likely rejoin the Taliban and establish ties with… elements participating in hostilities against US and coalition forces in Afghanistan.”

[31] Various examinations of this claim by respected media outlets in 2014 have determined that the six people in Bergdahl’s unit who were killed in action after his disappearance were not engaged in a search mission. But family members of slain servicemen have argued that finding Bergdahl was always part of the unit’s mission in one way or another after he disappeared. Stars & Stripes reported in September 2015 that two officers have testified that no one died while looking for Bergdahl and that “he was trying to expose what he saw as command misconduct that put troops at risk.”

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[32] Execution as a penalty for desertion by the US military has been extremely rare since the Civil War. In fact, Pvt. Eddie Slovik, who was killed by a firing squad in France in 1945, is the only US soldier who has been executed for desertion.

[38] Politifact rates the claim as “half true,” explaining, “China made large land grabs in the South China Sea and has constructed several artificial islands in the region. However, it’s a stretch for Trump to say these outposts that could be used for military purposes amount to a fortress.”

[33] Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl still faces a military court martial — in February at Fort Bragg — and if convicted of desertion he could face life in prison. The military judge moved the court martial to February to allow the defense team time to review thousands of classified documents.

[39] The claim has some merit, actually.

A November 2015 New York Times review found that “in many states, more than half the plans offered for sale through HealthCare.gov, the federal online marketplace, have a deductible of $3,000 or more.” The article went on to say, “Those deductibles are causing concern among Democrats — and some Republican detractors of the law, who once pushed high-deductible health plans in the belief that consumers would be more cost-conscious if they had more of a financial stake or skin in the game.

[34] From December 2015 onward, every single poll favored Trump to win the Republican primary in North Carolina, according to Real Clear Politics.

[35] In fact, Trump’s margin of victory over Republican rival Ted Cruz was only 3.5 percent, while an average of the polling data by Real Clear Politics in the run-up to the primary predicted Trump would win by a margin of 12.3 percent.

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They have no respect whatsoever. Nobody respects our country anymore.

So here’s the story: We’re gonna win with our military. We’re gonna win at the border.

We’re gonna win on trade. We’re gonna save our Second Amendment. So important. So important. We’re gonna appoint great judges that are going to keep our country running and running maybe even better than ever before. Because the next president could have five — probably three. Could go to four.

But you could even have five judges — five justices of the Supreme Court. And I already put a list out. And everybody’s very impressed with that list. So what we’re going to do folks. We’re going to start winning. We’re gonna repeal and replace Obamacare, which is a total disaster. And if you look at your premiums, and if you looked at your deductibles it so high that unless you lead a really long, horrible death you’re never gonna get to use it. [39] The deductibles are so high it’s a disgrace. Obamacare is a major failure. We repeal it, we replace it. We repeal Common Core, we bring our education local.

And this is for the people of North Carolina, because you folks were great to me.

It was early on, and we won big. [40] We’re gonna start winning again in this country.

You’re gonna respect your president. And I don’t care so much about that, but you’re gonna again respect your country and what’s happening in your country. We are going to start winning again. We’re gonna win at every single level. We’re gonna win so much that you’re gonna beg me: ‘Please, Mr. President, we’re winning so much. We can’t stand it, Mr. President. We cannot stand it. Please, a little less winning, Mr. President.’ I’m gonna say, ‘There’s no way I’m gonna do that. We’re gonna win, win, win, and we’re gonna make America great again. That’s going to happen.

Thank you. I love you, North Carolina. I love you. Thank you, North Carolina. Thank you.

[40] Not that big, and not that early on.

[36] According to the Washington Post, it’s true that Trump received more primary votes than any other Republican presidential candidate. The previous record was set by George W. Bush in 2000.

The same article reported that Trump set a record for the most votes against the top vote-getter, winning the smallest percentage since 1968, when Ronald Reagan won the popular vote in the Republican nominating contest despite losing the nomination to Richard Nixon.

[37] It’s hard to find recent data, but a Pew Research Center study published in March suggests the claim is credible. Pew found that the percentage of registered Republicans who voted in the primary rose from 9.8 percent in 2012 to 17.3 percent in 2016.

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CULTURE Italian sit-down for casual friends

by Eric Ginsburg

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riving a newspaper delivery route is an overwhelmingly boring and rote experience, and these days, often unbearably hot. I catch up on podcasts, unable to do much thinking or any work as I rush through my weekly Wednesday Winston chore.

I rarely talk to anyone besides exchanging the briefest pleasantries — at one stop, the receptionist never responds when I offer, “Hi, how are you?”

But Melissa and Teresa are different. The two women, usually working the front desk at SciWorks, told me long ago how much they like my food writing. I’m a generation or two apart from them, but they’re so friendly and willing to engage that I sometimes feel disappointed when my food beat swings to Greensboro — they don’t make it to the Gate City, and it cuts the conversation short.

So imagine my delight when I found a relatively new restaurant just minutes from their place of work, a place that actually offers tasty, fresh-tasting food and quality service.

Melissa and Teresa said they’d never been to Mozzarella Fellas, an Italian sit-down with pizza, pasta and sandwiches. But they knew the location — home to the old Francesco’s, they said, which relocated across the ERIC GINSBURG The Red, White & Green sandwich with tomato and spinach is one of the best ways to taste the street from the nearby K&W in north Winston-Salem. I mozzarella for which the new Winston-Salem restaurant is named. need to go, they said, especially for the cheesesteak.

I could only briefly break from my delivery duties er (like, say, macaroni). Even the smalls are decently are made fresh daily. to tell them about the sandwich and pizza I tried at sized, especially considering the $9-11 price tag, and I tried a slice of a friend’s mac & cheese pizza, and the new place, between Sweet Frog and a vape store you can order by the slice or build your own. But the another from a friend’s Popeye pie with spinach, in North Summit Square shopping center. Now that options stretch much further, incorporating considermozzarella, ricotta and garlic. We would all give both a I have the time, here are the other details I want to able sandwich and pasta choices as well as strombolis favorable rating, but I preferred my sandwich nonetheshare with them: and calzones. less. The cooked down spinach counterbalanced the Mozzarella Fellas falls at the midpoint between othI wonder what Melissa and Teresa would think of the light cheese and cool tomatoes, helping the restauer pizza joints in Winston-Salem. It’s a nicer, sit-down South Philly sandwich with steak, bacon, pickles and rant’s namesake shine. version of most restaurants slinging dough, with table pimiento cheese or the more classic Fellas Philly with Melissa and Teresa won’t care that there are plenservice and a printed menu as opposed to the type of steak, mushrooms, bell peppers, pickled red onions tiful vegan options at Mozzarella Fellas — though place where you walk in and order a slice off the board and mozzarella. you might — but I do want to tell them how much we at the counter. It’s clean, and someone with some I took the vegetarian route — the Red, White & liked the cheesesteak chips appetizer we shared. The sense decorated the place, which can’t be said for a Green sandwich with tomato slices, fresh mozz, chips, which look similar to Ruffles, are made in house, few of the other venues in the area spinach and a garlic dill aioli — in doused in mozzarella and cheddar, and topped with that are more closely aligned with pursuit of the cheese for which beef and an appropriately thin amount of scallions. gas-station cuisine.

Visit Mozzarella Fellas at the restaurant is named. I figured Dipped in ranch, it’s exactly the kind of sinfully deliYet it’s still a considerable here it would be easiest to discern, cious we wanted. I think Melissa and Teresa will, too.

336 Summit Square Blvd. distance from the likes of Mission though it appears in countless (W-S) except Mondays or Pizza, the first-rate downtown other items including a sandwich Pick of the Week at mozzarellafellas.com. restaurant with a wood-fired oven. with salami, ham, pepperoni and Gin and Juice and Urban Activation feat. Snoop That’s the sort of place you’d take a capicola because the entrée’s simDogg date to impress. Mozzarella Fellas plicity means there isn’t much to June Residents’ meeting @ Greensboro Distilling Co., 6 is the kind of spot for a business lunch, somewhere to hide behind. Plus it’s an interesting twist on a caprese, p.m. go when you have the time to rest your knees but don’t subbing the more substantial spinach for the flavoring In addition to a Downtown resident update, Distillwant to change out of your street clothes. of basil. ing Co. reps will give a tour and demystify the distilAnd it isn’t just a pizza place.

The mozzarella cheese here isn’t life changing like lation process from the Carolina-grown grain all the The menu does offer about a half-dozen specialthe buffalo mozz I encountered all along Italy’s Amalfi way to the craft spirits they make. It’s not clear if you ty pizza pies including one with steak, shrimp and Coast. But it’s pretty impressive, leagues better than have to be a resident to get in, so, better just show up Worcestershire-sauteed mushrooms and onions most I’ve found in the Triad, with its soft and fresh and sit in the back, maybe? Ask them on their Faceand an enjoyable mac & cheese pizza that bizarrely flavor that can stand on its own. Maybe that’s because book page if you’re one of those rules people. features penne noodles instead of something small— according to the restaurant’s website — the cheeses

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Todd Isbell, the brewmasIn the long run, that support will need to come priWith school out, few twentysomethings could be ter at High Point’s Liberty found at Brown Truck, making the average age sigmarily from locals in order to sustain anything. And as Brewery & Grill, and a nificantly older than the crowd that can generally be Isbell and Burnett are already proving, that High Point coworker leaned against the support is already underway. But considering that the found at other Triad breweries, including Liberty, which bar top, their backs to the two breweries are a mere six minutes apart, there’s no usually brags a strong High Point University continfront door of Brown Truck reason not to visit Hype Point and check out both. gent.

Brewery. It made sense that Actually, most of the best things in High Point are in Then again, the scene easily could’ve shifted once they’d come here after a day the sun disappeared, or on Friday and Saturday nights. walking distance from Brown Truck — Kepley’s Barbeby Eric Ginsburg at work for a pint, but not cue, Mayberry Ice Cream, Sunrise The bar itself hits similar aesthetic just because all of the beers Books, Blue Bourbon Jacks, Blue notes — the unfinished wood, the Visit Brown Truck were $1 off or because it was a Thursday. Brown Truck, Rock Pizza & Tap, Blue Zucchini, mural — as other contemporary as the city’s only other brewpub, is a welcome addition Sweet Josephine’s and Emerywood joints that cater to a younger set.

Brewery at 1234 N. to Isbell and plenty of other High Pointers. But the And we are talking about a brewery.

Fine Foods. If the city slowed down Main St. (HP) or find reason is deeper than that, too. traffic and made crossing the street The city of High Point hopes to Ian Burnett, the brewmaster and a co-owner here, retain more millennials, but young easier, more like Tate Street or Walkit on Facebook. had been by Liberty for lunch the same day. That’s how er/Elam in Greensboro, Uptowne people aren’t necessarily the key to they do in High Point. could quickly become one of the creating a sense of place or making Burnett, who used to work at Foothills in WinTriad’s coolest commercial districts. a portion of the Third City cool. Brown Truck Brewery, ston-Salem, started Brown Truck’s first batches in In the meantime, at least Brown Truck offers that Sunrise Books and other businesses clustered together January. These days, there are seven house beers on tap patio, and solid beers to boot. in the Uptowne district are doing that on their own, — including a satisfying maibock, a dry-hopped Belgian though they could certainly use all the help they can pale and a saison — accompanied by three wines and a get. hard cider.

Unlike Liberty, Brown Truck doesn’t serve food, though food trucks such as PorterHouse Burger Truck and King-Queen Haitian Cuisine from Greensboro regularly pull up alongside the expansive patio.

And my, what a patio it is.

Especially in the summer months, it’s nice to have somewhere with a large, open-air patio such as this one.

It’s as big as the taproom, at least in terms of seating, though that’s not including the brewhouse portion of the building. There’s even a raised platform that can act as a stage, and jutting window ledges where someone could rest a beer if there’s nowhere to sit.

Comfortable, abundant and well-arranged chairs and two L-shaped couches are really what distinguish Brown Truck’s patio.

Sandwiched between the wall of the taproom — which still sports the mural of old rockers with a baby blue backdrop — and a food truck, it’s easy to ignore the busyness of Main Street out front. Otherwise the overwrought thoroughfare might be distracting, even though Brown Truck is set back a few paces from the road, and hopefully a line of bushes grows up ERIC GINSBURG to block some of the noise and sight Besides the beer, the patio is the biggest attraction at Brown Truck Brewery in High Point. pollution.

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CULTURE North Carolina musicians grapple with injustice during anti-HB2 concert

by Jordan Green

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ith the notable exception of Lara Americo, a transgender singer-songwriter accompanied by an electric guitar, the A-list lineup of the Stand Against HB2 concert to raise money for Equality North Carolina at the Millennium Center in Winston-Salem on Sunday seemed to be heavily weighted towards allies.

Americo spoke briefly and performed one song during a changeover between two of the 32 acts crammed into the 14-hour benefit to raise money for Equality North Carolina. Her song directly addressed her experience of being transgender; she confessed during her introduction of the song: “Sometimes I wish I could turn into vapor, and rain down on your head, I guess.”

In a testimonial after the song, Americo said, “I’ve spent 29 years of my life pretending to be a guy. I didn’t realize there were people who weren’t trying to hurt me or marginalize me. So thank you.”

“You’re beautiful,” a woman shouted from the audience.

“I hope to get a hug from each and every one of you today,” Americo said.

The moment captured the feeling of gentle affirmation and community among musicians and volunteers, coupled with determination and anger directed at the politicians who rammed through the hateful HB2 legislation.

As a counterbalance to the allies-stacked lineup, the organizers of the benefit deserve credit for interspersing the sets with remarks by trans people, including Dr. Laura Levin, a pediatrician in Concord, who called out “a direct connection between the violence in Orlando and the hate that is spewed by our administration,” and Rylen Givens, who provided a brief history lesson including references to Christine Jorgensen, the first trans person to undergo gender reassignment surgery, and the role of trans people in the Stonewall rebellion.

To be sure, there were some notable exceptions to the normative whiteness and rock-pop-country spectrum, including a hip-hop set by High Point’s Tange Lomax; the ethereal guitar-keyboards mash-up of Foxture, a majority black group that defies musical category; and the mindblowing jazz-funk stew of the Camel City Collective. Molly McGinn and Quilla, whose collaboration fuses Americana and electronic dance music, perhaps came closest to an artistic statement that captures the political ramifications of the state’s aggression towards transgender people. While the McGinn-penned “Wild and Kind” is nominally about environmental despoliation, the song is imbued with an insistence on humanity, liberation and dignity, and is anchored by a beat that pulses with quiet strength.

Within the limitations of the lineup, the more mainstream artists grappled often movingly and sometimes painfully with the implications of their privilege.

The musicians, producers and promoters who have

Lara Americo was one of the few performers at Stand Against HB2 in Winston-Salem who identified as transgender, but others demonstrated solidarity in striking ways.

built the North Carolina music scene over the past four decades, largely in the state’s liberal cities and university towns have in a sense carved out an autonomous cultural space. Many of them enjoyed the luxury of remaining largely apolitical, with a series of moderate governors and legislatures keeping the worst demons of bigotry at bay and promoting at least the illusion of an enlightened culture. But the 2012 election, which gave Republicans a complete lock on state government and elevated a hard-right legislative leadership, forced many musicians off the sidelines with the enactment of an agenda that has bombarded the state with onerous policies, from punishing the poor to suppressing black voters and demonizing LGBTQ people.

The paradox is captured most succinctly in a song by Snüzz, a Fayetteville native whose birth name is Britt Uzzell, in a song that has become an anthem of the Moral Monday movement with the rueful refrain, “I

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Snüzz, who has been in poor health recently, was not able to attend the concert, but his song was performed

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sense of time slipping away, while also looping cruelly back again in a replay of the country’s worst traits.

Imagining what it would be like to attend his high school reunion at Reynolds High School, Stamey sang, “Here’s where we went to class a hundred hours a day/ And here’s where we smoked grass and laughed our cares away.”

And introducing “Condition Red,” a song he wrote for the Sneakers in 1976 that dealt with narrow definitions of patriotism, Stamey said, “Today, a lot of people are talking about keeping Muslims out and which bathroom you can use. It doesn’t feel like my country, but I do feel like it’s my country.”

Before performing “You Are Beautiful,” a song from last year’s Euphoria album, Stamey said he admired several close friends for their courage to realize their true gender identities.

“When you were younger, did you hide away, afraid to say the truth?”

Stamey sang. “Now let the sun shine on your rainy day, the whole world waits for you.”

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Holsapple played keyboards during longtime collaborator Chris Stamey’s set. The two Winston-Salem natives formed the dBs, a New York jangle-pop band whose heyday in the late ’70s and early ’80s is considered a bridge between Big Star and REM. The first Stand Against HB2 concert at the Haw River Ballroom in May occasioned a dBs reunion, but this time the honor went to Little Diesel, a band Holsapple formed in 1973 with his chums at RJ Reynolds High School.

Billed as Winston-Salem’s first punk rock band, Little Diesel was a reaction to the laidback boogie of Southern rock, with a repertoire that favored MC5 covers and bracing originals. The choice of opening their set with David Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel” perfectly transported their loyal audience — many of whom danced to the band’s music as teenagers in church basements and rec centers — back to the period while joyously celebrating gender queerness (“You’ve got your mother in a whirl/ She’s not sure if you’re a boy or a girl/ Hey babe, your hair’s alright/ Hey babe, let’s go out tonight/ You like me, and I like it all/ We like dancing and we look divine).”

Some of the songs bore a wistful

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gling conviction and only the accompaniment of her electric guitar: “All I knew was what I was taught/ So I had to teach myself/ I knew what I was taught was too small.”

Laurelyn Dossett, who waded into protest music in 2012 with her song “Vote Against Amendment One,” articulated the challenge of welding creativity to an activist agenda introducing another cut, “The River’s Lament.”

“People were saying, ‘Write the fracking song,’” she recalled. “Then, after the coal ash spill people were asking for a song about that. I didn’t really want to write a protest song. I was just sad about it.”

While the artists on the bill who are white, male, heterosexual and cisgender simply don’t have to endure the daily experience of discrimination that burdens trans people — all the more acutely if they’re poor and of color — official betrayal proved to be a pervasive theme, whether by treating young people as cannon fodder in misguided wars (Jeffrey Dean Foster’s “Young Tigers Disappear”) or by abandoning them afterwards (Peter Holsapple’s “Don’t Mention the War” and Howie’s cover of John Prine’s “Sam Stone”).

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twice — first in a rousing Americana rendition led by singer-songwriter Kenny Roby and fiddler Caitlyn Cary, and then during a reunion of Snüzz’s old band Bus Stop, with former Athenaeum frontman Mark Kano filling in with a spirited vocal delivery.

Many of the artists pushed beyond the confines of identity and format to promote empathy with a numerically small and politically demonized group whose vulnerability they’re unlikely to have experienced firsthand.

John Howie Jr., a Triangle artist known as a honky-tonk purist, talked about learning values of inclusion and acceptance from his parents while growing up amidst blatant racism in Wake County. He applied his rich baritone and dexterous guitar fingerpicking to an affecting rendition of Billie Holliday’s “Don’t Explain.”

“This is a song about not being treated well, like a lot of Billie Holliday’s music — and being resigned to it,” he said.

“We don’t need to be resigned to it.”

Sarah Shook, ranked No. 1 in a recent Buzzfeed list of “5 Women Who Are Kicking Country Music’s Ass,” proved that culture and upbringing don’t have to be a prison, singing with spine-tin-

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CULTURE Blayr Nias brings a gleeful edge to the Southern comedy scene

by Joanna Rutter

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he first thing Blayr Nias did when she took the stage at Greensboro’s Comedy Zone on June 19 was let loose a high-pitched, lengthy scream.

The small performance space immediately filled with her rapid-fire, gravelly delivery and undeniable presence. She sported a short, black dress, which she joked would give the front table a direct view of her crotch — “Watch out, it has teeth!” — and leopard-print heels.

It was her armor for an evening she later dubbed an uphill battle, as the whole front section of the club seemed steeled to resist all attempts at crowd work.

“Is this a party or a meeting?” she said to the mostly white audience after a race-related bit to no avail. A different joke scored better with the crowd a minute later.

“You can go home with a bad decision or Taco Bell,” she said, with the tiniest of pauses.

“Either way, you wake up in used wrappers.”

The next morning over brunch, Nias said the set had been the worst of the four she’d packed into the weekend.

“That is not my ideal show,” she said.

Nias is black, and said that after opening with her “white girl scream” and getting a sub-par reaction, she knew right away the evening would be tough.

“It was a definite, distinct discomfort with me doing race-related material,” she continued. “That one table was throwing me off. Even when I was getting laughs, all I could focus on was that one table going, ‘We don’t really like this.’”

Then she switched tones, from confessional to braggadocio.

“You don’t like me? Why not? I’m awesome! I do this all the time!”

Her cockiness is warranted. The Charlotte native has won a reasonably impressive amount of local accolades, including Charlotte Magazine’s Best Comedian of 2014, but also performed for broader audiences on FOX’s Laughs and in the Oddball Comedy Festival headlined by Louis CK and Aziz Ansari.

The Comedy Zone in Queen City is her unofficial home base, but since the chain owns spots up and down the east coast, she books gigs all over the place — her stop in Greensboro preceded a weekend in Jacksonville, Florida opening for Josh Wolf.

As she tells it, one good-looking comic galvanized her career at a 420 festival in 2011. He invited her to do a five-minute open mic.

“I only went because the guy was cute,” Nias said. “I was like, ‘I think I’m funnier than you.’”

She took eight focused days to rehearse and edit before her debut. After she exited the stage, people asked her how long she’d been doing standup, expecting her to give them a number of years instead of minutes. Their encouragingly shocked responses were a confirmation.

“I felt like I was in the right spot when I was up

there,” she said.

Nias initially doubted that the stage was where she was destined back when she was scribbling jokes on napkins in her office. In a former life, Nias was recruiting IT staff in Charlotte six years ago, complete with corporate “clacker heels” and an expense account.

More often than not, she worked 70-hour weeks, and even recalled a Super Bowl party during which she was answering emails in the kitchen.

“I was burning out,” she said. “Writing was stress relief. [I thought,] This would be a funny joke, I don’t know what to do with it.”

One fateful open mic, a well-timed end to that job and five years later, it’s obvious her perseverJOANNA RUTTER Charlotte standup comedian Blayr Nias visited the Greensboro ance in that tough job Comedy Zone on June 19 for what ended up being a tense show; the atmosphere didn’t carried over to working deter her from confidently cracking jokes about the audience. tough crowds at comehappens, Nias’ popularity would skyrocket. dy clubs like the one in Or maybe the right person just needs to follow her Greensboro with confidence.

Twitter account, @GummyBlayr.

At the Comedy Zone, her voice vacillated between “Men and women can be just friends as long as high-pitched energy, different characters and sheepwomen are able to ignore that men are constantly ish self-depreciation, bursting with unapologetic glee trying to hump them,” she tweeted recently. “Similar throughout her act. to owning a dog.”

But the tight set is about more than just a goofy Until then, though, she’ll keep closing her show by hyper-persona. offhandedly dropping her preferred term for a biracial “As a writer, we play with words on how things hit,” child, adding offhandedly, “I know ‘zebra baby’ isn’t Nias said. politically correct,” she said.

“I have this joke that goes, ‘If you wait too long to “But nothing I’ve said tonight has been.” take Plan B, you run the risk of the baby coming out holding the pill saying, ‘I believe this is yours.’ That was improvised, then I went back and polished it.”

Pick of the Week It’s likely her love of wordplay can be traced further With open eyes back than her creative writing degree from George Wake Forest Student Union Collection of ConWashington University, back to a high school Shaketemporary Art opening reception @ SECCA (W-S), speare course and an improv group she signed up for Thursday, 6 p.m. just to get out of class.

This collection of art of all mediums has been With the end goal of becoming the female Steve curated in rare fashion by Wake Forest students Martin (meaning being able to pursue a diverse array since 1962, selected by students and purchased with of mediums), Nias has a path set before her: She’s university money. Turns out college kids have great signed on with a regional acting agency, and hopes taste. Fifty-nine pieces of the 160-plus collection will to someday land on Broadway. In comedy, all it could be on display, and it’s free. The exhibit will run until take would be for the right person to be in her next early October. Check secca.org for more details. audience, and it’s fairly possible that as soon as that

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who said it, because all memory ceased at the moment I saw the green backside of Fenway looming before my eyes.

I felt shot through the heart with feelings. I grinned like a maniac and giggled giddily. I was here, finally.

When I went to Wrigley Field only a month ago, I related a wash of nostalgia as my mind ran through the events which had transpired there. But Fenway Park’s history overwhelmed any recall.

I ate a hot dog before the game in the Bleacher Bar, literally in the belly of the Green Monster, the infamous wall where thousands of potential home runs became long singles and doubles after smacking impotently into its high face. I sat in the right-field bleachers, and I could stare right into Williamsburg, the bullpen built to enable Ted Williams — Teddy Ballgame, the Splendid Splinter, the greatest hitter of all time — to tally more home runs. Catcher Carlton Fisk made an appearance at the game, 40 years after engraving himself in national folklore by willing a fly ball fair in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, keeping the Sox alive for another letdown.

And I was there with fast, long friends, on a beautiful, partly cloudy June day.

Loyalties ranged from BoSox faithful like Kevin, White Sox rep Kat, St. Louis Cardinals follower Kyle, Oakland A’s devotee Laura, Toronto Blue Jays confidant André and even a Yankees fan, The only thing more Boston than Fenway is when ANTHONY HARRISON Art, who bravely wore his Bomber hat in you pahk yeh cah in da Hahvahd Yahd. Sorry, y’all. enemy territory.

Mookie Betts to best the Chicago Sox 8-7.

“Do you think I’ll be okay with this No, Ortiz didn’t get to be the hero in his final at-bat on?” he asked before we left. that day. A long single fired into right field became a “You’ll be fine,” I reassured him. “It’s midday on a ground-rule double after it bounded past Pesky’s Pole midweek game.” and into Williamsburg. Just another day in Fenway.

No matter who we rooted for, we all heckled the visitors, especially the White Sox pitching staff. They all looked like they’d just gotten out of prison, graduated Pick of the Week from middle school or were stoned out of their minds.

Heavy metal The pitcher who inspired the greatest zingers was Heavy Rebel Weekender Car Show @ Trade and Liberbespectacled closer Matt Purke, who came up in the ty streets (W-S), Saturday, 9 a.m. th 10 inning.

Pre-1972 automotive beauties line the streets “That guy was in ‘Tim and Eric,’” pal Stephanie said. outside of the legendary Heavy Rebel Weekender.

“I didn’t know Stoned Lightning was a White Sox Check ’em out for free all day Saturday. If you’re feeder team,” said Red Sox fan Kenny, referring to looking to show off your own jalopy, preregister Achewood protagonist Ray Smuckles’ blazed-out slowat heavyrebel.net or on-site on show day; the fee pitch softball league. totals $15, but you’ll be eligible for prizes. There’ll We had a damn blast. also be mud wrestling, pinstriping, vendors of all Speaking of blasts, the Red Sox won off shortstop kinds and more.

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Put it right ovah heah.

C’mahn, kid!”

“Jus’ ground it. Thass all yah gahta do.”

“G’d eye!”

At the plate stood Big Papi — David Ortiz, the already legendary designated hitter

by Anthony Harrison for the Boston Red Sox, a surefire shoo-in future Hall of Famer — readying himself for retirement following this season. I’d seen him once before at Yankee Stadium.

And New York hates him.

But here, the crowd appreciates him as much as the whole of the Bronx despises him.

“He’s hit 210 home runs here,” said my friend Kevin.

“He knows how.”

Ortiz had a chance in the bottom of the ninth to break a 7-7 tie and clinch a win for the home Sox on June 23 in a mismatch against the Chicago White Sox. I’d looked forward to this day for seeming countless months. I was at Fenway Park, the greatest and grandest survivor in the history of baseball, surrounded by friends I’d known for years but had never met.

Back in December, I’d booked tickets for Chochachocon, an annual gathering of fans of the web comic Achewood, which I endorsed in these pages last year. If you haven’t read it, well, that’s your fault for missing out. Anyway, we fans all joined a Facebook group dedicated to Achewood some years ago, and that group became a whole web community, inspiring impromptu meetups and splinter subgroups based on different interests. I belong to dozens of the subgroups, because I am a gigantic nerd and love the internet.

But even nerds love sports. There’s a group dedicated to sports talk named, “Let no man put asunder what I believe thee proper attyre for footballe” — an obscure Achewood reference, of course.

Kevin, a native New Englander and group member, posted back in December if anyone would be interested in attending a Red Sox game. He’d booked two whole rows of bleachers. Immediately, I commented, “As a sportswriter, I require one (1) ticket.” A quick $28 later and it was so.

All I had to do was wait.

After all the anticipation, being in Boston itself barely felt real. Some of us Chochachos rode the T in town — the Orange Line, lovingly dubbed by train nut Kat as “That ’70s Train,” decked in fake wood paneling and tour-bus upholstery with faux red-marble flooring, sans digital displays.

Even when we stopped on Massachusetts Avenue and started our final approach to the stadium, I couldn’t really believe I was about to see the Sox play at home.

When we rounded a corner on Ipswich across from Lucky Strike Lanes and someone asked, “Anybody wanna go bowling instead?” we all laughed, but I forgot

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1 FitBit unit 5 Somber 9 Carson City neighbor 13 Repelled a mugger, in a way 15 Really small amount 16 Have ___ (know somebody) 17 Vegetable designed to stick in your nose?

20 Legal term that means “directed against a thing” 21 Saigon soup 22 ‘90s General Motors brand 23 Former “Tonight Show” announcer Hall 25 Gift decoration 27 Film composer Danny 29 Official who sings in Hebrew 32 It’s hardly a snack for a steed 34 Candied tubers 35 Worst score ever from Salt Lake City’s team?

38 Large part of the globe 39 “Here Comes the Hotstepper” singer Kamoze 40 “___ Ruins Everything” (truTV show) 43 Places where you can only order sloe drinks?

47 Taj Mahal builder ___ Jahan 50 “___ tree falls...”

51 Add some sparkle to 52 Bothers

54 Smooth sax player Dave 56 Far from strict 57 Short-___ clothesline (wrestling move) 58 Rabbits, e.g.

60 Baloney 63 Wild coffee shop where everyone’s had 10+ shots?

68 Cookie with the crossed lines from the Nabisco logo on it 69 Corrida snorter 70 Pasta-draining device 71 Lament 72 Swing to and fro 73 Floral emanation

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Texting protocol initials “Tic ___ Dough” (TV game show) Spiny anteaters Magician whose last name is Jillette Whosamawhatsis The New Yorker cartoonist Chast “Break ___!”

Tool that’ll definitely hack it Stereotypical cheerleader’s shout Puzzlement Start of a day shift, often Burger toppers Palme ___ (Cannes Film Festival award) Alphabet book regular Mustard’s rank: Abbr.

23 Old French coin 24 Facts and figures 26 Apple co-founder Steve 28 Existentialist Dostoyevsky 30 Chicken servings 31 California resort town near Santa Barbara 33 Comedian Ansari 36 ___ Davis (publishing conglomerate with an agreement to buy Gawker Media) 37 Bring down the house?

41 Investigated thoroughly 42 Physical beginning?

44 Simpletons 45 ___ : France :: “Swing kid” : Germany 46 “___ is an emotion in motion”: Mae West 47 Manatee or dugong 48 Zimbabwe’s capital 49 $2 to get $20, perhaps 53 “Hail!,” to Caesar 55 “Here we go again ...”

59 Bank makeup 61 The 40 in a “40,” for short 62 “South Pacific” Tony winner Pinza 64 Dandy guy 65 Chapter of history 66 Ab ___ (from the beginning) 67 “ ___ the ramparts ...”

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aylor Swift: I knew you were trouble when you walked in so shame on me now.

European Union: Um,

huh?

Taylor Swift: Flew me to places I’ve never been, now I’m lying on the cold, hard ground.

Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble.

Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble.

In late June’s heartbreakingly breaking news that Taylor Swift has called it quits with the EU, it would come as no surprise that the Teflon chanteuse had written a song about the breakup. Yet in a bizarre turn of events the EU has beat her at her own game and is poised to release a song about the split. Triad City Beat has secured an early copy of the lyrics.

In other news it is rumored that Swift has rebounded with the Eurasian Economic Union and is studying the Cyrillic alphabet furiously at her Rhode Island mansion. This story has not yet been confirmed.

“Mad Cow” by the European Union Cause baby, you’re a Mad Cow You know it used to be Chunnel vows So take a look the pound now Cause baby, you’re a Mad Cow You can’t take it back, look at where you’re at We was united, like the states Now it’s like, we don’t even date Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson broke us like panne Just like a baguette — in Paris, France Cameron resigned — like a shrimp in a pan In a paella in Spain where our love began I don’t hate you, but I have to critique

Those geezers who made us incomplete It’ll take time to erase you and jobs galore And a lot of wailing on Parliament’s floor So you can see why my respect ain’t sincere no more Oh it’s sad to Think about the good times You and I Eurostar trips and real French fries Belgian chocolates and diamonds galore Inexpensive Bordeaux and petit four Sauerbraten and so much more Erasmus-funded education and Italian shores Balkan brandy and Portuguese fado door-to-door Cause baby, you’re a Mad Cow You know it used to be Chunnel vows So take a look at the Pound now Cause baby, you’re a Mad Cow You can’t take it back Take a look where you at We was united, like the states Now it’s like we don’t even date Now we’ve got problems Like economic pull out Forget the sauerkraut And I don’t think we can solve ’em You made a really deep cut And baby, now you’re really a Mad Cow Nobody will touch you And it’s sad cause we loved you Forty-eight percent wanted us together Now it’s raining all the time, just like you It’s nasty weather I don’t care if you can knit a sweater You broke the yarn that tied us together Cause baby, you’re a Mad Cow You know it used to be Chunnel vows So take a look at the Pound now Cause baby, you’re a Mad Cow

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