It’s official
Also in the Post’s live updates:
Hours after Twitter said a tweet by President Trump violated its rules for glorifying violence, the White House posted his same comments about the unrest in Minneapolis on its official account Friday morning.
“These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen,” the White House tweet said, quoting Trump’s words referring to the man who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck. “Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”
The White House did that, so it’s no longer the personal murderous outburst of Donald Trump, it’s an official murderous outburst from the Trump administration. The executive branch of our government is telling us it will murder us on sight for crimes against property.
Reichstag fire.
He’s not even pretending to care about anyone with dark skin. This is straight out of the Nixon playbook, minus the nuance.
Perhaps I misunderstand your “Reichstag” point, but there seems to be plenty of burning without anyone needing to stage an arson. I don’t think you’re saying the police burned down their own building?
Regardless, Trump stirring the pot is not helpful, and doing it with a rhyme as if this is cute is beyond despicable.
Yes, you misunderstood my point; the Reichstag fire was a pretext for terminating the rule of law in Germany.
And Trump isn’t stirring the pot – why do people keep minimizing this? He’s saying he plans to have looters shot on sight. He’s the head of state, not some rando on Twitter.
Yes, he’s got the National Guard there now in a military action against our own citizens. He is just too stupid to get these cops held accountable by making a phone call or 2. He wants to rail against the democrat leaders, make it more politicized, polarize people even further, use military force in a big display of power, and turn the whole thing into a huge shitshow. This is how Donnie Dipshit does business, and it’s disgustingly racist, politically biased, and completely unnecessary except for how it feeds his twisted dictatorial ego.
There’s a video going around of a guy dressed all in black (presumably a white guy, but I can’t tell from the video), with an umbrella, a gas mask, and goggles systematically breaking the windows of an Auto Zone with a hammer. Unsubstantiated rumors that he’s a cop, and that other provocateurs were doing the same elsewhere.
https://twitter.com/MistyGComics/status/1265974519581343750?s=20
Again, aside from the video, these are rumors, and could well have been planted by someone looking to stir up shit.
I see now where the murderer cop has been charged, but the delay was costly. Here again, this is only a feeble attempt at justice, the other 3 cops present need to be charged with accessory to murder. The racially biased foot dragging being used as a political tool is disgusting, and if the media had been able to report these police criminals as being arrested and charged with murder immediately, most of this mess could have been avoided. Not to mention a cop with so many complaints including excessive force and brutality being allowed to keep his job in the first place. This criminal should have been weeded out a long time ago. Meanwhile, it gave Donnie Dipshit and the other corrupt politicians to grandstand at the expense of the citizens of Minneapolis.
What a Maroon, that wouldn’t be without precedent. It has happened in the past.
The Skeletor is such a bore,
I wonder what he comments for?
Every time he opes his craw
Little niggling details pour
That have no relevance or core
Beyond a small velleity
T’indulge his contrariety.
For that’s the way he gets his jollies:
By pointing out imagined follies –
Except they’re not, for Skeletor
Can’t tell a hawk from a toothed handsaw,
Even when the wind is southerly…
iknklast,
That may be, but it still should be news, to push back against the racist narrative that Trump and his followers are pushing.
Here’s more about how white racists are stirring up shit in the hopes of starting a civil war:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkyb9b/far-right-extremists-are-hoping-to-turn-the-george-floyd-protests-into-a-new-civil-war
What a Maroon, I would not disagree with that; you misunderstand me. I was merely stating that I could find it believable. Yes, I agree it should be reported if so. I think it should be reported when they do it to environmental groups, too, where it has been known to happen (and anarchists also sometimes jump in the middle of those protests and create havoc, I suppose because the person just likes breaking things…)