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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]

[Echo4]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-the-data-behind-police-violence/

and

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/de-escalation-keeps-protesters-and-police-safer-heres-why-departments-respond-with-force-anyway/

[facilitatorn]

You do good work Josh. It is appreciated.

http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/trump-must-go-before-its-too-late.html

[facilitatorn]

http://www.dcreport.org/2020/06/01/trump-has-left-the-building/

[Echo4]

You do good work Josh. It is appreciated.

http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/trump-must-go-before-its-too-late.html

Thanks!

[Yankguy1]

Pious and God-fearing Donald Trump is the best Donald Trump.

[Echo4]

http://www.dcreport.org/2020/06/01/trump-has-left-the-building/

"Just When He Has a Chance to, You Know, Actually Act Like a President, He Disappears"
vs.
"The Best Trump Can Do Now Is to Do Nothing"
vs.
"Remove Trump Now"

He's had a chance to act like a president for years and he has disappeared throughout, even and especially when he was still ostensibly present.

He cannot do nothing, because even his failures to act are implicit actions.

And we cannot remove him right now. Not because his going would not be desirable, but because for Congress to act against him during the middle of this unrest would embolden the anarchic factions of white supremacists even more, with a rallying cry of Coup d'Etat.

Nor, for all that I believe things are worse because of Donald Trump than they were without him, does most of this rest on his shoulders.

This is the latest bubbling over for failure to act in a long series of such things. Larry posted the bit about the 2016 protests, but he could as easily have posted one about the Baltimore riots in 2015, Ferguson riots in 2014, Oakland riots in 2009-10, or those of prior decades.

The conflicts of the 1960s, whether Watts (1965) or Chicago (1968) or others were predicted. Today's events are just the logical descendants of those earlier times, with their issues unresolved in the intervening decades. So long as we (by "we" I mean our governments and ostensible leaders) see these through the lens of specific shootings, pandemic and isolation, or even Trumpism, we cannot and will not find a path forward rather than extended return to stagnation.

[Echo4]

Pious and God-fearing Donald Trump is the best Donald Trump.

And non-existent.

[bodiddley]

Chief Darryl Gates in November 1982, “We may be finding that in some blacks when it [the hold] is applied, the veins and arteries do not open as fast as they do in normal people.”


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/supreme-court-police-chokehold-garner/

Wow.

Sidenote:  most medical testing is done on white males and then extrapolated to black, Asians, females, etc.

[NeedsAdjustments]

Message of protests heard loud and clear

We are on the same side of it. 

No we aren't, liar.

[NeedsAdjustments]

No bunker tonight, motherfuckers.

You want a piece - here I am

- D J T

I spilled a lot of useless words onto the forum last night with someone who made it clear that when the brownshirts roll in, he will polish and pull on his knee-highs, and join the march.

[NeedsAdjustments]

I'm anxious for our Constitutional Scholar to weigh in on the legitimacy of using the military to supress domestic unrest.

More like a peaceful demonstration so that he could have a campaign photo-op, but yes.

No word on the protectors of the First Amendment here.

[NeedsAdjustments]

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history

Trump approval way up since Wed.

Must have been all those great tweets.

[NeedsAdjustments]

Homeowners in South Philly out in droves with bats and guns after hearing a  rumor that AntiFa had targeted their neighborhood.

America.

A rumor started by White Supremacists.

kiidcarter8 approves.

[NeedsAdjustments]

You decided in 2016 that no Trump governance would be suitable. 

And you were wrong!

Look how great things are going!