The airport concession roasted him online because 80% of the tab was his bar bill.
Yeah, Brooks has finger on the pulse of Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea!
Brooks has impressed me at times, but lately his compass seems no longer to point to magnetic north.
And I notice others, who actually covered the protests, saw something a bit different from the RW depiction.
As former Washington Post journalist Paul Waldman explained in his newsletter, People who have actually reported from the protests have by and large found them to be well-behaved. The vast majority of scary, violent images stem not from the protesters themselves, Waldman argues, but from the police crackdowns...
https://www.salon.com/2024/05/03/donald-is-using-campus-to-stoke-right-wing-violence-for-the/
First, the leftist protesters are largely non-violent. Second, the few who do act up end up arrested, despite Trump's insinuations to the contrary. But his tactics have never needed to be fact-based to accomplish their goal of permitting his followers to be their worst selves. They already want to believe that the left is violent, so they feel justified in actually being violent.Assholes on FOX are comparing the campus protests with the January 6 attackers!
Unfortunately this is par for the course.
People engage in protest over a grievance they consider important enough to engage in civic disobedience to bring attention to their issue. Then in almost every instance the protestors separate into groups with competing interests. In my experience the vast majority of those gathering are there for the cause. Then are those who come for the purpose of disruption, either as counter protests or for the sheer thrill of raising hell and wreaking havoc.
During the George Floyd protests the provocateurs were suburban kids acting out for goofs and white supremacists whose mission was to provoke response from police. In Minneapolis the powder keg appear to have been ignited by the guy vandalizing the AutoZone. Known as The Umbrella Man was first identified as a white supremacist
https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-helped-ignite-george-floyd-riots-identified-white/story?id=72051536however
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/minneapolis/news/press-releases/fbi-seeks-publics-help-in-identifying-umbrella-manMeanwhile ANOTHER white supremacist set the police precinct on fire and capped off a bunch of rounds in the process.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/texas-boogaloo-boi-minneapolis-police-building-george-floydThe police response was totally over the top.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/04/02/minneapolis-says-all-postriot-recommendations-after-george-floyds-murder-implementedThere is a third group of those who join protests. They are the ones who see what is unfolding in the streets and figure they can work crazy hours a week and they STILL will never be able to afford that sixty inch flat screen they covet and so it is tally ho!
I might as well go get mine!What does the media report on what drives the people to protest? Fuck no!
What does the general public say about the protests?
Why must they do all the burning and looting? it just hurts their cause!Wash, rinse, repeat.
For perspective consider the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The police rioted and America turned to Richard Nixon to restore Law and Order.
