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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

[LarryBnDC]

Don’t be fooled by the economic news today.

They’re gonna claim a V shaped recovery

They’re gonna claim there’s no need for more stimulus

They’re gonna holler we need a payroll tax cut (which fund social security and Medicare) and REDSTATEWARD and Kiid gonna crow about todays numbers:


https://exjournalistsunite.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/make-no-mistake-the-reopen-protests-are-all-about-white-privilege/

[LarryBnDC]

Juan Cole took the trouble to try to find out who George Floyd was and listened to Big Floyd's Houston rap output:
https://www.juancole.com/2020/06/remembering-artist-transcendence.html

A good read.  Cole is a mensch.

Read what the police union said about George Floyd who was murdered by his police

https://fox2now.com/news/national/minneapolis-police-union-head-says-george-floyds-criminal-history-not-being-discussed-claims-officers-were-fired-without-due-process/

[LarryBnDC]

DC Mayor Bowser with a big FUCK YOU! to Donald Trump.

She also told the feds to get all those extraneous federal cops National Guard units from other “states” to get the fuck out of DC.

They’re squawking but the Constitution loving GOP seems to have overlooked the 3rd Amendment.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/06/05/a-huge-black-lives-matter-mural-is-being-painted-on-the-street-by-the-white-house/

[bankshot1]

Trump's utter lack of remorse over the murder of Floyd and his comment that "George is looking down and and feeling good" implying a stock market rally somehow erases the institutional racism and lawlessness and the deep pain and anger this country feels is fucking delusional.

[Yankguy1]

I believe the third amendment has never been part of any litigation Supreme Court. This "Administration" continues to blaze new trails.

[LarryBnDC]

I believe the third amendment has never been part of any litigation Supreme Court. This "Administration" continues to blaze new trails.

So far their response is the “Mayor doesn’t own the hotels... so there.”

[bodiddley]

So the 2nd degree murder charge is based on a felony-murder reading.  The idea that Chauvin was conducting a felonious assault on Floyd, and that the death led directly from that felony (felony-murder).

It's an interesting charge and can always revert to 3rd degree Murder if necessary.
Defense attorneys will question at what point did a policeman doing his duty to subdue a large alleged confrontational man change from lawful exercise of force to a felonious assault?  After 2 mins?  5?  7'50"?

To get to 2nd degree murder, the prosecutors need to prove that the restraint equaled a felony assault.   I don't when excessive or over-extended force by a police officer can equal a felony assault. 

[LarryBnDC]

Now he gets to back home...


https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/06/04/man-who-drew-bow-arrow/

[LarryBnDC]

So the 2nd degree murder charge is based on a felony-murder reading.  The idea that Chauvin was conducting a felonious assault on Floyd, and that the death led directly from that felony (felony-murder).

It's an interesting charge and can always revert to 3rd degree Murder if necessary.
Defense attorneys will question at what point did a policeman doing his duty to subdue a large alleged confrontational man change from lawful exercise of force to a felonious assault?  After 2 mins?  5?  7'50"?

To get to 2nd degree murder, the prosecutors need to prove that the restraint equaled a felony assault.   I don't when excessive or over-extended force by a police officer can equal a felony assault.

You put your hands in your pockets and kneel with your weight on a suspect in custody waaaaaaaaaaaaaay past the point of necessary restraint that is a fucking assault.

That is a crime and if it is determined in court George Floyd died as result of a crime, that’s felony murder. The rookies gotta go but they won’t get slammed as hard as Chauvin but they’re guilty because at that moment their academy training should tell them not to let their boss kill a guy.

Only one with a prayer of coming out of this is Tao because he was not hands on,

[LarryBnDC]

Trump's utter lack of remorse over the murder of Floyd and his comment that "George is looking down and and feeling good" implying a stock market rally somehow erases the institutional racism and lawlessness and the deep pain and anger this country feels is fucking delusional.

The GOP has been operating ona different plane of reality for decades. No one gets it.

They lie and while they’re being fact checked they’re twenty lies down the road.

We wonder how they lie with such ease... they believe the lie.


https://exjournalistsunite.wordpress.com/2020/02/03/were-living-in-the-republican-partys-altered-states/

[bankshot1]

Trump's utter lack of remorse over the murder of Floyd and his comment that "George is looking down and and feeling good" implying a stock market rally somehow erases the institutional racism and lawlessness and the deep pain and anger this country feels is fucking delusional.

The GOP has been operating ona different plane of reality for decades. No one gets it.

They lie and while they’re being fact checked they’re twenty lies down the road.

We wonder how they lie with such ease... they believe the lie.


https://exjournalistsunite.wordpress.com/2020/02/03/were-living-in-the-republican-partys-altered-states/

I generally agree, the path of toxic partisan lies and overt deception goes back to Atwater and Gingrich, and was truly developed into a mass produced product by Alies and Fox-Far Reich news.

But the level of cowardly complicity with the Trump lies on partisan basis is truly extraordinary.

It wasn't that long ago that Lindsay Graham or Cruz or Rubio had the balls to speak some truths about Trump, but no longer.

Its fucking sad and amazing.

It seems the Repubs lost their real last voice of opposition and their moral backbone when McCain passed. I didn't agree with much of his politics, but he was a patriot and loved America and a decent man, I have a hard time seeing him being complicit with the fascist wannabe dictator.

 

[Echo4]

This is the world that Bambi thinks is okay and that is supported by the politicians that Kid and Ward endorse regularly. This is the world they are silent about.

I am a 45 year old white woman living in the south, and today was the first time I spoke frankly about racism with a black man.

When Ernest, my appliance repairman, came to the front door, I welcomed him in. As this was his second visit and we’d established a friendly rapport, I asked him how he was feeling in the current national climate. Naturally, he assumed I was talking about the coronavirus, because what white person actually addresses racism head on, in person, in their own home?

When Ernest realized I wanted to know about his experience with racism, he began answering my questions.

What’s it like for you on a day-to-day basis as a black man? Do cops ever give you any trouble?

The answers were illuminating.

Ernest, a middle-aged, friendly, successful business owner, gets pulled over in Myrtle Beach at least 6 times a year. He doesn’t get pulled over for traffic violations, but on the suspicion of him being a suspect in one crime or another. Mind you, he is in uniform, driving in a work van clearly marked with his business on the side. They ask him about the boxes in his car--parts and pieces of appliances. They ask to see his invoices and ask him why there is money and checks in his invoice clipboard. They ask if he’s selling drugs. These cops get angry if he asks for a badge number or pushes back in any way. Everytime he is the one who has to explain himself, although they have no real cause to question him.

Ernest used to help folks out after dark with emergencies. Not anymore. He does not work past dinnertime, not because he doesn’t need the business, but because it isn’t safe for him to be out after dark. He says “There’s nothing out there in the world for me past dark”.

Let me say that again. Ernest, a middle aged black man in uniform cannot work past dark in Myrtle Beach in 2020 because it’s not safe for him. He did not say this with any kind of agenda. It was a quiet, matter of fact truth.

A truth that needs to be heard.

When I asked Ernest what ethnic terms he gets offended at, he said that the most offensive term people use is ‘boy’. Ernest has a bachelors in electronics and an associates in HVAC. He is not a ‘boy’, and the term ‘boy’ in the south implies inferiority in station and status. He came to Myrtle Beach and got a job at Hobart. The supervisor repeatedly used the term ‘boy’. Ernest complained. After several complaints Ernest was fired.

Ernest says most white people are a little scared of him, and he’s often put in a position where he has to prove himself, as though he’s not qualified to repair appliances.

After getting a job for 2 years at Sears appliance, Ernest started his own company, one he’s been running for several years. He is the best repairman we’ve had, and has taught me about washer dryers and how to maintain them myself, even helping me with another washer/dryer set and a dishwasher without charging me. I highly recommend his company, Grand Strand Appliance.

I asked Ernest what he thought of “black bike week” in Myrtle Beach, where thousands of black people come with bullet bikes and trash our town. He says it hurts black people in our city, and he disagrees with the NAACP coming in to sue businesses that close on black bike week. He hates working that week.

Ernest doesn’t have hope that racism will change, no matter who the president is. His dad taught him “It’s a white man’s world”, and he’s done his best to live within it.
When I asked him what I could do, he said, “everyone needs to pray and realize we’re all just one country and one people”.

I am a 45 year old white woman living in the south. I can begin healing our country by talking frankly with African Americans in my world---by LISTENING to their lived experience and speaking up. I can help by actively promoting black owned businesses. That’s what I can do today. Let’s start by listening and lifting up. It’s that simple.

#listenandlift
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Edit: I asked Ernest if I could take his picture and post our conversation on facebook. He thought it was a great idea. As he left my house an hour later, he looked me in the eye and said, "If you ever march, or have a meeting on this topic, or want to change things in Myrtle Beach, I'll stand with you."

What a great idea. Let's begin standing together.

[Echo4]

https://twitter.com/mayorbowser/status/1268928589975695361?s=12&fbclid=IwAR2r_3FWdaVVijBC-LAxaEIgMsL9QIxAs5XKscBsQsmdxBycBGJE3I3kczY

Mayor Muriel Bowser
@MayorBowser · 2h
The section of 16th street in front of the White House is now officially “Black Lives Matter Plaza”.

Can't imagine that will thrill the "commander"-in-chief.

He might even stop attacking Senator Lisa Murkowski for a little bit to go after Mayor Bowser.

[Echo4]

The conspiracists are out in force these days:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bexar-county-gop-chair-suggests-floyd-killing-may-have-been-staged-to-hurt-trump/ar-BB1509bX?ocid=sf

[facilitatorn]

http://www.emptywheel.net/2020/06/05/when-billy-barr-called-a-press-conference-to-target-non-terrorists-rather-than-brag-about-the-terrorists-fbi-caught/

This, combined with footage of last night’s carnage minuet, puts trump, Barr, and all cronies down to the last baton swinging copthug outside the protection of U.S. law, the Geneva Conventions, and the Gospels.