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Tump is saying the 75 year old from Buffalo that got thrown to the ground is an ANTIFA provocateur.
That's right dipshit. Double down. Your ass is out November.
This is exactly why he wants to designate "antifa" as a terrorist group. There's no membership base or anything so ANYONE can be labeled antifa which means anyone can be labeled a terrorist. This is frightening.
Tump is saying the 75 year old from Buffalo that got thrown to the ground is an ANTIFA provocateur.
That's right dipshit. Double down. Your ass is out November.
This is exactly why he wants to designate "antifa" as a terrorist group. There's no membership base or anything so ANYONE can be labeled antifa which means anyone can be labeled a terrorist. This is frightening.
we started doing this thing at work a couple months ago where we have a weekly zoom meeting purely for casual conversation, just to shoot the shit. generally one person leads and calls on everybody individually and asks how their weekend was etc. like a structured way to hang around the break room and catch up. typical conversation is stuff like what i'm watching on TV, car issues, kids, etc.
well this morning one of the partners at the firm (who is awesome) brought up the topic of the protests and the need for increased awareness, at which point one of our black associates took the floor and shared his experience. i work with this guy a lot and he's an insanely impressive human being, but i've never heard him speak about his experience as a black man. in fact matters of race and politics have never been brought up at my office. he talked about getting hassled by police, having to be repeatedly trained by his mom growing up about how to act around police so he doesn't get killed, and likewise being told he has to be 3 times better than a white person at anything in order to have success. he also said he was open to any questions or to talk about his experience to anyone who wants to, which is such a huge thing to offer.
it was not the direction i expected the meeting to turn and i'm really glad it did.
Can you imagine that poor 75 year old man, that I have heard is recovering from cancer, wakes up in the hospital and finds out he is ANTIFA. They may even try to use this to arrest him and get the cops off that shoved him.
This is who is winning our congressional district race by 22 points right now. It's only going to get worse as the country and world do.
Besides this dumbass shit she's into Qanon and is big with the alt-right. Cool shit.
sometimes it feels like we live in different countries.from friends on the front lines in minneapolis to more conservative military friends getting pulled up for active duty... supporting that psycho would be a nonstarter for everyone
This is who is winning our congressional district race by 22 points right now. It's only going to get worse as the country and world do.
Besides this dumbass shit she's into Qanon and is big with the alt-right. Cool shit.
Lol. Like who is fucking stupid enough or out of touch enough to follow Qanon (yeah I know, lots of dumb Americans)? Reminds me of a sign getting on the I-10 off the I-110 in Pensacola that has a picture of satan as a snake and an apple and says something about the first incidence of political correctness. I keep wanting to pull over and throw paint eggs on it it's so fucking dumb. Fortunately for you, if you went about 30 miles SE, you'd be in reasonable company.
we've had so many previously indifferent people become socially and politically active over the last few weeks, encourage everyone, lets keep this going.
Obviously FTP, but wasn't community policing one of the reasons they were able to dig out of the massive murder wave of the early-mid 1990's? I don't equate that with let's militarize the police or use the military police and turn them on civilians for a photo opportunity. I actually clicked on the tweet which I hate doing, and the first response was, "convenient: you omitted the very next sentence - "they need to institute real reforms like adopting a national use of force standard, buying body cameras and recruiting more diverse police officers. & we need to prevent 911 calls...where police should not be our first responders."
Anyway, you forced me to go find a copy of that op-ed and read it. I haven't read it yet, but this is from a couple of days ago:
In every corner of this country this weekend, George Floyd’s words, which were the words of Eric Garner before him, are echoing from millions of voices in our streets and in our hearts.
“I can’t breathe.”
And, Friday should have been Breonna Taylor’s 27th birthday — a day she didn’t live to see.
They are among the latest additions to an endless list of lives stolen and potential wiped out unnecessarily.
On Friday, in discussing a jobs report that made clear some 20 million Americans remain unemployed, Donald Trump said he hoped that George Floyd was “looking down and seeing this is a great day for our country.”
He invoked the name of a man brutally killed in an act of needless violence and a larger tide of injustice that has metastasized on this president’s watch to celebrate a jobs report that included an unemployment rate of 35% among black youth.
Systemic racism affects every aspect of our society. COVID-19 is ravaging our country, with almost 110,000 people now dead, but it is killing black people at almost 2.5 times the rate as white people.
These are more than just numbers — they are lives. They represent families worried about losing their homes and feeding their children. And, they are a wake-up call to all of us.
The truth of our nation is that too often, the color of your skin alone can endanger your life and, for far too long, systemic racism has oppressed communities of color in the United States.
Black and brown communities must no longer be the only ones to bear the weight of pushing for change. No one can stay silent. No one can ignore injustice.
It’s long past time for our nation to deal with systemic racism, including its contributions to growing economic inequality. We must seize this moment of opportunity to address all the issues that have denied the promise of this nation to so many for so long. Let’s use this moment of urgency to finally find the path forward.
History teaches us that our darkest moments have produced some of our greatest progress. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments followed the Civil War. The greatest economy in the history of the world grew out of the Great Depression. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 came in the tracks of Bull Connor’s vicious attack dogs unleashed on those pushing for change. Let us make this, too, a moment of action to deliver long-overdue, concrete policies to reverse systemic racism, and to propel us across this turbulent threshold into an era of true equality and opportunity.
If elected, I am committed to establishing a national police oversight commission within 100 days of taking office. We need to implement real community policing and ensure that every police department in the country undertakes a comprehensive review of their hiring, their training, and their de-escalation practices, with the federal government providing the tools and resources needed to implement reforms. But, we cannot wait for new leadership to make reforms. Congress should take action immediately to outlaw chokeholds, stop the transfer of weapons of war to local police forces, improve oversight and accountability, and create a model use-of-force standard.
Most police officers meet the highest standards of their profession, which is all the more reason that bad cops should be dealt with severely and swiftly. This week we saw all four officers involved in Floyd’s death charged with crimes. That was an important step toward ending the culture and policies that protect bad cops and keep them from being held accountable for their actions and for failing to intervene when they witness an abuse of power by a fellow officer.
Today, the pain is so raw it can be hard to keep faith that justice is at hand or that we will ever achieve the more perfect union we all want. But ours is a union worth fighting for, and we are all called to the cause. We must become a nation where all men and women are not only created equal, but treated equally. We need to become the nation defined — in Dr. King’s words — not only by the absence of tension, but by the presence of justice.
American history isn’t a fairy tale with a guaranteed happy ending. The battle for the soul of this nation has been a constant push-and-pull for more than 240 years. But, we cannot make progress without leadership in the Oval Office. Donald Trump has turned our country into a battlefield. He thinks division helps him, and his narcissism has become more important than the well-being of the nation he leads.
No president gets everything right. But the country needs a leader who doesn’t traffic in fear and division, a leader who, rather than fanning the flames of hate, will seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued this country. The presidency is about the American people.
I truly believe that we can overcome. And that when we stand together, finally, as one America, will we rise stronger than before.
The rest of that sentence sucks too. Cops often just turn their body cameras off, and plenty of cops are caught on camera shooting people and get away with it (the murders of Tamir Rice and Philando Castile immediately come to mind). The other two "reforms" are so vague as to be meaningless.
300M is basically nothing relative to the size of police department budgets, anyway. That's half of the annual budget of Houston Police Department. One city. It's all empty rhetoric.
While the parties often differ so slightly in policies often benefiting the rich, A /= B in this case. You won't see Trump or the Republican Party proposing solutions. They don't want solutions. They want conflict, and the more conflict they can drum up, the more positive they view it. I was talking about this during the election. It's literally small-man-tin-pot-dictator shit. Create boogiemen and rile your supporters up to fight against them. In his case, the supporters are a bunch of numb-nuts, racists and conspiracy believing idiots that fall in line. The Democratic Party with all its faults is a far better alternative on the way way their leader has addressed the issue. You can't possibly disagree with this, but if you do, I'm all ears.
The rest of that sentence sucks too. Cops often just turn their body cameras off, and plenty of cops are caught on camera shooting people and get away with it (the murders of Tamir Rice and Philando Castile immediately come to mind). The other two "reforms" are so vague as to be meaningless.
300M is basically nothing relative to the size of police department budgets, anyway. That's half of the annual budget of Houston Police Department. One city. It's all empty rhetoric.
Empty or not, here's your alternative:
Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @oann I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?