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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Trump, seeing the protests against police brutality, has concluded that there isn't enough of it.

https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1267478663949357057?s=19

https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1267478880820121603?s=19

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I've been looking for a way to counteract some of the doom/gloom in at least a slightly comedic way, but Bomani Jones found it. You might have to turn the audio up, as it's just some guy phone-recording the radio show.

https://twitter.com/Ryan_Cortes/status/1267475574701899777?s=19

Utah appears to be 1.6% black.


Edit: and Biden was doing well today too https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1267490630462210049?s=19

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Jun 1, 2020

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I was wondering how much money the bail funds were getting over the weekend.

It's a loving lot!

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1267516611998728192?s=19

Note: half of that ActBlue money went to charities, processed through the ActBlue platform.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Fister Roboto posted:

This is a huge pile of bullshit from someone who should have done something about this while he was president.

Google the beer summit.

I don't think Obama could've done a drat thing on police issues in the overall environment around his presidency. It's even possible that Biden could go harder on race issues than even Obama could. Arguably, Democrats had two years to push serious poo poo, but they only got Obamacare done and it was a loving slog and a half.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
btw Donnie just gassed the peaceful protestors in the park so he could get a photo op of him walking to the church that has a small fire last night

cool

https://twitter.com/jeffzeleny/status/1267591533072723969

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Leavemywife posted:

I like this thread, but Jesus Christ, it bums me out. I just try and think you're all so cynical and jaded (for good reason, don't get me wrong), that it's hard to imagine that things can get better.

I believe they can get better. Things will get better. It seems impossible, but it can improve. These protests are proof that people want things to change. We just need to hold onto hope that enough people support these protests and the points they're making, even if they're not out there on the streets.

I was really, really bummed for a while, but then a magical video showed up on my feed:

https://twitter.com/PinkieToons/status/1267587545644199936

I think we're going to be entering a golden age of civil disobedience here.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Big Bunker Boy just had to gas some people to get some fresh air and fix his fee-fees

https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1267612075536326656

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Donnie's base is evangelicals that only go to church rarely, if ever.

Which means stunts like that can have significant blowback.

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1267618111194304515

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1267622414562799616

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

To everyone that's filled with woe and despair, get out and loving volunteer.

And if you're prone to doomscrolling like me, remember that there's still a lot of good out there, both on display and behind closed doors. The protests have been in a lot of random cities that have never had protests before and people like this dude are all over:

https://twitter.com/AdriannaHopkins/status/1267812250049536000?s=19

70 protestors, running from the cops for bullshit curfew violations, were let into his house. Cops hung outside his house for hours and hours until they gave up. And they covertly got pizza delivered. It's not all bad.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/Mike_Hixenbaugh/status/1267901154601701376

Regional protests are pretty rad.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
They gassed the gently caress out of everyone, shot the gently caress out of everyone, beat the gently caress out of everyone

and the protests in DC roughly tripled.

https://twitter.com/schmidtsam7/status/1267954726806618112

Things may absolutely still go bad since it's post-curfew, but the totalitarian poo poo didn't stifle a goddamn thing. Donnie's numbers are still in the toilet, even for protest/riot response. Biden's up 10 in two straight quickpolls.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Esper's chucking Donnie under the bus (but still gently caress him)

https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1267981977640198145

And the DoD is leaking like crazy

https://twitter.com/ErinBanco/status/1267977752420012032

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Patware posted:

Still awake.

Trying to figure out if Biden actually did pretty good with that speech or if I was just stretched too thin.

Here's a review:

https://twitter.com/sppeoples/status/1267972717636136960

It was a really good speech.

AND SOMEONE HELP THE PENTAGON, THERE'S WATER EVERYWHERE AND IT'S GONNA FLOOD

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/...th-trump-297820

quote:

This account is based on interviews with half a dozen defense officials as well as former officials and outside experts, many of whom spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic. Multiple Pentagon spokespeople declined to comment on the record.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Patware posted:

Well, here's hoping his voter base doesn't get gleefully killed by increasingly obscure units of unreasonable military force. Some of those people in the capital are really feeling like late-game recolors with unfair hitboxes.

THE HOPE TRAIN'S A ROLLIN BUDDY

https://twitter.com/DCGuard1802/status/1267980958080339969

We're 2.5 hours into DC's curfew and I haven't seen poo poo yet. Yesterday might've been a shark-jumping moment. It's early, but there are some serious signs that Donnie really, really, reallyreally hosed up.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
You know, I should've seen this coming. The natural state of Americans is basically gently caress YOU.

Things might get worse, but the reaction of the general public to police brutality and dumb fashy Donnie bullshit has really been gently caress YOU I'M STILL MARCHING today.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
HEY, WE'VE GOT THIS BUS, IT'S ROLLING, AND WE NEED TO PICK SOMEONE

https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/1268000040674525184

IVANKA AND HOPE GET THE TRIPLE AXLE

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Steve King (R-eally racist) looks like he's going down in a primary.

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1268005302605164545

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I'm breaking a personal rule because this is funny as gently caress and I'm in a really good mood:

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1268006529678049281

PEOPLE LOVED MY WALK

SEE, SHE LOVED MY WALK

PEOPLE LOVED MY loving WALK

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
poo poo changed so loving much overnight, the NYPD had 5,000 people trapped on a bridge and let them go.

https://twitter.com/amyjharris/status/1268010222678876160

https://twitter.com/AaronKatersky/status/1268011036726251521

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Current Event: It's all happening, but good for once!

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Found out what happened in DC.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/02/trump-protests-washington-dc-muriel-bowser-karl-racine-296878

quote:

Even as the president admonished state and local officials on Monday to “dominate” the protesters, Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine told Politico he would “not seek to prosecute” demonstrators arrested for violating the District’s 7:00 p.m. curfew, though he would pursue cases about “assaultive conduct and destruction of property.”

“The president has sought to use the District of Columbia as a prop to show how to stomp out lawful protest, using the full authority of the federal government,” said Racine. “Outrageous.”

Racine has spent much of the past few years bringing lawsuits against Trump, accusing the president of corruptly benefiting from profits derived from the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington, a few blocks from the White House. Joining with Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, Racine sued Trump for violating the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause — a case, which, after pending in the courts for months, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled could go forward. It’s likely headed to the Supreme Court. “We look forward to pressing ahead,” Racine said.

Once Donnie had his bullshit border fence, it gave the DC Attorney General the space to force a deescalation, alongside the Mayor and Police Chief. They're both pissed off at Donnie threatening to commandeer their police departments.

The DC protest is still ongoing and the inner guards look bored as gently caress.

https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1268025760515862529

A good loving night.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1268178508255297538?s=19

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1268180230885253123?s=19

Pretty much says everything you need to know about what caused Monday and how badly Monday hosed him.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
More military folks are getting tired of waiting for the higher-ups to allow them to make statements:

https://twitter.com/USNavyEurope/status/1268186480691884035?s=19

And the election is still not close. This is the third poll I've seen this week with Biden up at least 10, but it's the first high-quality phone poll, plus it was taken this weekend. Doesn't even really count the church fuckup.

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1268195746555277312?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
General Milley: oops, I was used as a political prop and that's really bad

https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1268203694170025990?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
They're finally going after the other three.

https://twitter.com/StarTribune/status/1268238841749606400

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Mattis finally talked.

https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1268302573691383815

quote:

In Union There Is Strength

I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation.

When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.

We must reject any thinking of our cities as a “battlespace” that our uniformed military is called upon to “dominate.” At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict—a false conflict—between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them.

James Madison wrote in Federalist 14 that “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.” We do not need to militarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equal before the law.

Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that “The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’” We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.

Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.

We can come through this trying time stronger, and with a renewed sense of purpose and respect for one another. The pandemic has shown us that it is not only our troops who are willing to offer the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the community. Americans in hospitals, grocery stores, post offices, and elsewhere have put their lives on the line in order to serve their fellow citizens and their country. We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Park. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution. At the same time, we must remember Lincoln’s “better angels,” and listen to them, as we work to unite.

Only by adopting a new path—which means, in truth, returning to the original path of our founding ideals—will we again be a country admired and respected at home and abroad.

James Mattis

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Jun 3, 2020

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Holy poo poo.

https://twitter.com/POLITICO_Steve/status/1268308373503500288

Check out the Senate race!

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Jun 3, 2020

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Sleng Teng posted:

All this poo poo is enough to turn my conservative republican family members against the police, when not even 3 mo. ago they would never have said a word against cops.

My favorite observation is that protestors demanded that the police cut the racism and treat everyone equally. So, the police obliged, and now they attack absolutely everyone.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I have two happy links. The first I wish I had more information about, but I loving love it and it's sort of why I'm not anywhere near as freaked out as others about the actual Guard being around:

https://twitter.com/CongBaseballFan/status/1268484778405158913


Second, gently caress this dude. We can all agree that time shouldn't be wasted on a lot of this kind of poo poo, but gently caress this dude anyways.

https://twitter.com/abc15/status/1268569438451687428

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Anyways, the NBA is going to give it the ol' college try.

https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1268606815597625344

Because the Disney Complex has so much poo poo, they're planning on turning the whole area into a highly-tested bubble and playing the poo poo out of basketball.

I also don't think they have a plan for when players inevitably pop hot on the test. So lol it's gonna be a clusterfuck!

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
IT'S INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK

https://twitter.com/laraseligman/status/1268627828096057344

Actual thought: My guess is that there was a massive surge in cops from an alphabet of agencies because they didn't have the gates in place or whatever around the White House. Now they mostly do, so they're going to scale down.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Disagree. Donnie's gassy stroll is one of those events, with on-the-ground video, consequences, pictures, and fascistic undertones that the whole event will be a massive, massive Thing for a long time.

I mean, people have said what I've said about a zillion other things, but the gassy stroll was on its own level.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
The NYPD is in a police riot right now, beating up everyone for curfew violations, complete with the commissioners and supervisors on sites.

But the fascism award of the day goes to Buffalo PD.

Here's the statement:

https://twitter.com/JeffRussoWKBW/status/1268712651292643334

"one person was injured when he tripped and fell"

https://twitter.com/WBFO/status/1268712530358292484?s=20

... because the police shoved him and nearly killed him, if they didn't.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
At least he didn't die.

https://twitter.com/markpoloncarz/status/1268728707063132160

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Jun 5, 2020

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Bored As gently caress posted:

The cop that pushed that guy should lose his job, be sued out of existence, and go to jail for assault.

Police sources say the man will be rendered unconcussed.

https://twitter.com/HannahBuehler/status/1268732415259955202

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Suspended without pay, apparently. Pending their rejoining the force by arbitrator rule in 18 months.

https://twitter.com/MarleeTuskesTV/status/1268740993068777477?s=19

Also the military's dirty little secret is that the officers, when polled, are 50-50 Trump at best. It makes sense because anyone that even sniffs a whiff of college runs from Donnie.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Lowest number I've ever seen Donnie on an issue. His crash-floor is usually 37-40%. Sample size is kind of low, but all done in the past two days and the other numbers look normal:

https://twitter.com/evanmcmurry/status/1268861607280553986?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

shame on an IGA posted:

yeah about that

Here's the graphic on it too:

https://twitter.com/mckonomy/status/1268902470052384768?s=19

Donnie's cheddarbrain Floyd quote was in the middle of a 40-minute nonstop rant about loving everything, so impossible to know if the context was jobs, or protests, or racism, or syphilis of the cerebellum.

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Hey look, I found a thin blue line.

https://twitter.com/DaveGreber4/status/1268977512320819203?s=19

Note: they did not resign from the force entirely, we're still in hellworld, after all.

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