Is the world burning?

[BisMarckie]

Zwarte lives matter. 

[shosta]

I guess, in a way, Trump was right when he said that these riots are an international embarrassment of the US

[thisismyusername]

Pig I went to school with posted this:



Any non-MAGA information on this?

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1267556566594719744

What's up with these old ass very dangerous laws.
Presidents should clean up their laws when they leave office lol

"Well guys, we have some GOOD news and we have some BAD news"
"The GOOD news is, we're leaving this shithole after nearly 20 years of fighting"
"The BAD news is we're shipping out immediately to New York, Michigan and other places"

"Excuse me sir, I live in Texas"

"Well son, that's the BAD news. We've been reassigned to fight and kill communist terrorists on US soil that have infiltrated over 50 cities"
"I'm well aware most of you have PTSD, a bad heroin addiction, depression and other mental issues so this mission like our mission in Afghanistan will be a great success"

"Sir... I'd rather not fight in the US"

"Well in that case you can join up with Sergeant Bradley and patrol Syrian oil fields with the Russians"
"Look son, I ain't gonna lie to you this mission ain't gonna be easy. Everyone wears a mask, so lord knows what you're shooting at"

[thisismyusername]

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1267556566594719744

What's up with these old ass very dangerous laws.
Presidents should clean up their laws when they leave office lol

...Yeah, good luck with that. I think a lot of military folks would balk.

[Madrun Badrun]

So, I don't understand how McAtee died. Every article I read paints a different picture. Was he in the lot too or what he in his shop and got hit by a stray bullet? Not that it makes a difference, just want to be clear on what happened.

It's kind of like we would know if they had their body cams turned on.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/independent-autopsy-george-floyd-findings-announced/story?id=70994827&__twitter_impression=true

[Himu]

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1267556566594719744

Governors often prefer the National Guard forces in these cases because they can legally perform law enforcement duties in the U.S., whereas troops on active duty cannot or they violate the Posse Comitatus Act, a 1878 law that prohibits the government from using military forces to act as a police force within U.S. borders.

Does that not actively contradict the existence of the Insurrection Act?

[shosta]

Apparently Obama wrote a medium post... going to check it out in a bit

[Joe Molotov]

[Ghoul]

Apparently Obama wrote a medium post... going to check it out in a bit

Hillary deleted her post by mistake

[Madrun Badrun]

Hilarious how much these dudes get paid for platitudes

https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1267561036531429376

https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1267562892024442882

Nothing anyone has said on any of this is anything but a platitude at this point. 

[jakefromstatefarm]

https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1267562892024442882

it really hit me yesterday after the portland protest fizzled out that all of these liberal would-be leaders have no idea what political power is, how to get it, or how to enforce demands. the only thing the demonstrations have affected, and will affect in their current form, is public opinion (for the better, and that’s good! but only to a point). the grievances we’ve voiced itt over a lack of organization still hold good, but there’s also a lack of awareness, or maybe an unwillingness to admit, that politics is about coercion

[Nintex]

Florida Police Man: "You all have guns, why not use them?"
https://twitter.com/FOX13News/status/1267539936401592320

[Mandark]

it really hit me yesterday after the portland protest fizzled out that all of these liberal would-be leaders have no idea what political power is, how to get it, or how to enforce demands. the only thing the demonstrations have affected, and will affect in their current form, is public opinion (for the better, and that’s good! but only to a point). the grievances we’ve voiced itt over a lack of organization still hold good, but there’s also a lack of awareness, or maybe an unwillingness to admit, that politics is about coercion

elaborate

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/IdeaFactoryIntl/status/1267533296566583302

[Madrun Badrun]

Nothing anyone has said on any of this is anything but a platitude at this point.

I don't mind if you say them. I just wish I was paid a lot more to say absolutely nothing of value.

I literally had the sentence 'We should strive to have a society where we all are highly paid for our platitudes' but deleted it cause it didn't jive with the first sentence.

[Uncle]

I've been watching some minneapolis streams by this guy Max Chillin, it hasn't been one of the bigger or better streams or anything, but he lives up to his name

I know this is what streaming's about anyway but feeling like you're there with him for the ride

he was pretty demoralized at the end of his stream 2 days ago, seeing the unity cracking as protesters started to fight each other, and he did another short stream yesterday out surveying the damage in the morning

talked about in the stream that his roommate where he had been living discovered that he was streaming, and kicked him out of the house immediately (citing covid worry), forcing him to stop the stream to pack his entire life into his car

at the end of the stream revealed that his mom had been murdered 11 months ago
 

there is no point to this post.  he didn't offer a donation link or anything, he's just some guy out there

[Madrun Badrun]

But in seriousness, I have not seen a single actionable plan about how to achieve police reform, except for maybe reinstating Obama's demilitarization stuff.  It's crazy how everyone in the media can simultaneously agree that racism is bad and structural but don't engage with the question of how to change that.   And in an election year, you think that would be the first thing that happens.  Shame the Dem primaries finished when they did. 

[shosta]

elaborate

[Uncle]

Trump is making a statement apparently within the hour, and it's from the lawn and not the oval office so expect him to get wild

it would be doubly fucked if he invoked martial law because in many places the protests are starting fizzle out as they do, people only have so much stamina

some cities are just gearing up but they too will have their crest and fall, it's going to burn itself out without need for too much intervention...unless he pours gas on it

[Nintex]

Barr is already in place in front of the protesters

[Himu]

Trump is making a statement apparently within the hour, and it's from the lawn and not the oval office so expect him to get wild

Haha WHAT

[Madrun Badrun]

https://mobile.twitter.com/WFPLNews/status/1267560783422074882

dude was retiring in a month and gets to keep his pension. 

[toku]

only filler click this link

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1267582932186783747



 

[shosta]

I have a suspicion that Andy Beshear is one of those governors that a lot of cops would love to make disappear so it doesn't matter what he says or tries to do, it's a functionally rogue institution.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/PaulaReidCBS/status/1267585430179983360

[BIONIC]

it really hit me yesterday after the portland protest fizzled out that all of these liberal would-be leaders have no idea what political power is, how to get it, or how to enforce demands. the only thing the demonstrations have affected, and will affect in their current form, is public opinion (for the better, and that’s good! but only to a point). the grievances we’ve voiced itt over a lack of organization still hold good, but there’s also a lack of awareness, or maybe an unwillingness to admit, that politics is about coercion

elaborate

:horsefucker

[Ghoul]

https://twitter.com/dwuhlfelderlaw/status/1267207997106917380

[Nintex]

[Mr Gilhaney]

Call them pigs and beat them. But please do not fat shame.

[Nintex]

Barr told Trump to bring down the hammer.

Now the police shot tear gas into the crowds in front at the White House as Trump is giving his law and order speech.

Absolute chaos.

[Himu]

Trump's speech is horrific.

[Mr Gilhaney]

that speech hahahahahahhahaha 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/lawsuit-cops-stomped-pregnant-black-womans-stomach-causing-miscarriage/L6GVQZSZHNBQ7LZHPF26ABW52U/

[jakefromstatefarm]

elaborate

protestors outnumbered the police ~10:1 last night in downtown portland. after a couple hours of the most peaceful demonstration as you could reasonably expect, police announced that the protest had become unlawful because someone had lobbed a projectile at them. a handful of people from the crowd, who i can only assume were organizers, started addressing the crowd, assuring them that select leaders of the demonstration were in ‘negotiations’ with the police and that the protest would continue if they moved off of the streets into a nearby park. they did, then the police kettled them, dispersing the 9/10 of the crowd who were there just to demonstrate, and the rest of the night was a cat and mouse game between the police, who had deliberately escalated the situation, and the remaining part of the crowd who were down to buck. the protest organizers meanwhile got a photo-op with the police chief (or whoever) for their social media, while hewing to the police party line that the protest had been ruined by a handful of bad apples in the crowd. no mention of the behavior of the portland police department, no mention of the demands that had animated the protest, most notably, demilitarization of law enforcement -presumably something that would have been ‘negotiated’.

they willingly gave up the only kind of leverage they had -their numbers- in the hopes that good faith dialogue would get the police to take off their riot gear. how are you gonna negotiate if you don’t have any leverage? they arent occupying key spaces of the city, they arent shutting anything down. they largely cant because covid already did. their only plan of action is documenting getting rocked in the face by a gas canister and hoping that enough voting people will see that and think it’s fucked up.

maybe it’s because a lot of these protestors are kids and are naive about what the police want and how they operate, and about how peaceful a group of 10000 pissed off people can reasonably be, idk. whatever it is, it plays into getting rhetorically outflanked by the people you’re protesting. and then pundits like klein can spectacularly misread the room by thinking that the axis and the allies are actually the same people because they’re both at war and ‘feed off each other’.

[Himu]

This did not make me feel better at all.

[Himu]

Who was saying Trump would bend? Nah Trump is horrible.

[Nintex]

When the curfew we pew pew

[Himu]

I have never thought the dark thoughts towards another person the way I do the president

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/alexi/status/1267589514027032589

 

[TakingBackSunday]

Jesus fucking Christ

This country is over

[Mandark]

Trump was trying to thread the needle earlier because his base is lunatic racists but he has actual delusions of winning over some black voters, hence "these riots are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd" or whatever. "Actually the blacks like me" has been part of his schtick the last four years.

When shit got bumpy he was always going to revert back to this.

[Madrun Badrun]

Like this post if you'd like me to write to my representatives to send you guys Peace Keepers. 

[shosta]

https://twitter.com/benyc/status/1267587033783992322

[Madrun Badrun]

https://twitter.com/7NewsMelbourne/status/1267589085108908032

[Boredfrom]

Trump was trying to thread the needle earlier because his base is lunatic racists but he has actual delusions of winning over some black voters, hence "these riots are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd" or whatever. "Actually the blacks like me" has been part of his schtick the last four years.

When shit got bumpy he was always going to revert back to this.

I got the feeling he truly believes he is not a racist piece of shit. His cognitive disassociations are something to behold.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1267591908425072640

Seems like he still has the backing of the GOP after
*checks notes*
Declaring war on the United States

[BisMarckie]

Trump really can't help himself.

 It's not like he couild have said or done anything significant(at least not credibly), but to double down on faux strongman talk is just

[Tripon]

I have a suspicion that Andy Beshear is one of those governors that a lot of cops would love to make disappear so it doesn't matter what he says or tries to do, it's a functionally rogue institution.

Beshear was the former state AG before he became governor, is from a Kentucky political family and his politics skew moderate.

[shosta]

Seeing a lot of the liberal media act extremely confused about what's going on and I'm just sitting here laughing and thinking about something someone once told me years ago, which was that the people who can't see the country for what it is will be very surprised, and the people who can see it will be dead

[Madrun Badrun]

good news

https://kstp.com/news/george-floyd-manner-of-death-considered-homicide-medical-examiner-says-/5748019/

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1267592880077578241

Tear gassing a bunch of protesters so the leader can take a walk 

[Boredfrom]

Trump really can't help himself.

 It's not like he couild have said or done anything significant(at least not credibly), but to double down on faux strongman talk is just

Is the only shtick he has. The guy is one trick pony that depends entirely of his enablers safe guarding him.

[shosta]

It's really like a third world country dictatorship.

fascism was invented in the first world though

[BisMarckie]

Born too late to see the Roman Empire crumble, born too early to see the fall of capitalism, born just in time to see America's fash mask drop.

[Boredfrom]

It's really like a third world country dictatorship.

fascism was invented in the first world though

But this kind of incompetent fascism was perfected in the third world.

[shosta]

trump having unhinged police goons bash peaceful protesters and journalists so he can walk to a church and pretend he's religious is absolutely iconic, I'm probably never going to forget that

[Nintex]