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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[Echo4]

“There's already a lot of lazy reporting about what happened in Portland last night. It was not a "clash of protesters".

A large group, maybe 200 people, gathered at a mall in a nearby county. They formed a caravan of mostly large, jacked-up trucks, displaying pro-Trump and American flags. The people wore various t-shirts, hats, etc supporting Trump but also with fascist and neo-Nazi symbols. Many of the trucks had additional people (usually men) in the beds.

They were armed with guns, pipes, knives, and other visible weapons. One can reasonably assume there were also concealed weapons. The trucks were also weapons.

They drove from the mall, toward downtown. All along this path, local law enforcement (police, sheriffs) facilitated their movement, stopping traffic so they could stay together as a caravan. This includes the Portland Police blocking off other traffic on a bridge that leads into downtown.

Once downtown -- they did NOT go to the area where there have been daily protests for many weeks. No, they drove directly to and through a busy mixed residential/retail area, with people walking to the grocery store, sitting at outside bars, walking their dogs, etc.  Yes, some anti-fascist, anti-police brutality protestors came to that area in response to the caravan.

But this is what the Trumpers did:  They indiscriminately assaulted pedestrians in this residential/retail area. They shot them with paintball guns, yelled sexually violent things at women, jumped out of their trucks to physically attack anyone who verbally disagreed with them, brandished their weapons and threatened people. They drove their trucks through groups of people.

They laughed while they did it.

Later in the evening, in a different part of downtown, someone was shot and killed. That death will overshadow and cloud the story about the caravan -- which is the part that should chill you to the bone.”

[facilitatorn]

http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/trump-is-a-coward.html

“When the president is a coward, people die.”

[facilitatorn]

http://www.vox.com/21408085/donald-trump-america-rioting

Trump does not follow laws.

Trump cannot maintain order.

[Kam]

You think Trump saying "everyone just calllllm down now" - or quoting peaceful leaders of yesteryear, etc will have any effect?

Yes!

Just like him wearing a mask would've had an effect.

He can't do the right thing.  He is physically incapable of doing the right thing.

[bambu.]

Australin govt's travel advice DFAT website:

China:  Do Not Travel.

[bambu.]

Female Australian journalist of Chinese ancestry has been arrested in China.

Time to get out of China.

[NeedsAdjustments]

A civil authority that ignores violence in cities is illegitimate.

Another one too dumb to understand how this logic can be turned on its head.

Looting makes a civil authority illegitimate, but when that civil authority is gunning down black men and chocking them to death on the street, its all good?  Or don't Black citizens have the right to similarly stand up to that abuse? 

Its truly funny how REDSTATEWARD and kiidcarter8 think we don't see the game they are playing.

[kiidcarter8]

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy:  "Corona virus should be gone by now"

Really?

[NeedsAdjustments]

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy:  "Corona virus should be gone by now"

Really?

Give us one good reason why we couldn't be like Wuhan right now:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000007302982/wuhan-pool-rave-coronavirus.html

[NeedsAdjustments]

But this is what the Trumpers did:  They indiscriminately assaulted pedestrians in this residential/retail area. They shot them with paintball guns, yelled sexually violent things at women, jumped out of their trucks to physically attack anyone who verbally disagreed with them, brandished their weapons and threatened people. They drove their trucks through groups of people.

They laughed while they did it.

Law and Order. 

[kiidcarter8]

Later in the evening, in a different part of downtown, someone was shot and killed. That death will overshadow and cloud the story about the caravan -- which is the part that should chill you to the bone.”



"Someone"




"We got another one over here!!!"

Bang.
Bang.
Bang.


MURDER.

Premeditated.

[Echo4]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-ontario-university-courses-1.5705870

Universities in Ontario are going to be teaching COVID-19 related courses.

[Echo4]

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/31/amazons-prime-air-drone-delivery-fleet-gains-faa-approval-for-trial-commercial-flights/

[barton]

  When deputies tried to stop the man, he dropped his bike and ran, with deputies in pursuit, Dean said. Deputies again tried to make contact with the man, and Dean said he punched a deputy in the face. The man then dropped a bundle of clothes he’d been carrying and they spotted a black handgun in the bundle, at which point both deputies opened fire, Dean said.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say the handgun was recovered and no deputies were injured.

Family members at the scene identified the dead man as Dijon Kizzee, 29, CBS-Los Angeles reported.

Protesters gathered demanding answers, and more than 100 people marched to a sheriff’s station on Imperial Highway. Some said they didn’t think the shooting was justified while others chanted, “Say his name” and “No justice, no peace” the Times reported.

Arlander Givens, 68, lives in the neighborhood. He questioned why deputies fired at a man who, according to the sheriff’s official, wasn’t holding a weapon.

“If he reached down to grab it, that’s different,” Givens told the Times. “But if it’s on the ground, why shoot? That means he was unarmed.”   

https://apnews.com/861957b3727a6bd444627454981332ca

[kiidcarter8]

"University of Alabama tells you of all their COVID cases - but what they don't tell you is the number of hospitilizations and the number of deaths - which I guarantee are ZERO"


-  Jesse Waters, The Five, FOX NEWS, Monday 8/31