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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

[bodiddley]

I read that in WI 17 year olds are tried as adults.

You can't vote until you're 18, can't legally drink alcohol until 21, but you're fully criminally liable for your actions at 17.  There have been recent studies that the human brain isn't fully developed mentally and emotionally at 16 and 17, combined with psychological turmoil and potential chemical imbalances, and that such teenagers often have poor judgment about consequences.   

My takeaway from that is that such adolescents should be restricted from gun ownership.  They can't be trusted to use alcohol until 21, but let a kid shoot guns when they are teenagers.  Volatile political protests with emotions running high are a terrible place for armed groups to attend and hang around.  Let alone a 17 year old with what nearly everyone described as a huge weapon.

About the only thing good is this was a warning (which will go unheeded) which could have been much worse; only 2 died and another shot when this could have been a bloodbath, and this 17 year old jerk never got to become a cop, which would have been a future nightmare.

There are a lot of folks growing up thinking its okay to be openly racist, to be aggressive with guns in public, used to a very polarized antagonistic political culture -- and some of these are future police of America.  Worrisome..

[bodiddley]

Tucker Carlson has it all figured out:

“Our leaders want us to believe this is all a racial conflict, they’re always telling us it is. But they’re lying. It is not a racial conflict. At its deepest level the chaos they have unleashed has very little to do with race. Most Americans are not bigots. Unlike CNN, they’re not fixated on skin color, they don’t really care, most of them.

What you watch is more sinister than that. What you are watching is an effort by the academic left funded by big business, to crush the last remaining resistance to their control of the country and that resistance is an independent American middle class. That’s who they really hate. This is not a race war. This is a class war.”

So the Left is protesting police brutality and racism in order to destroy their real enemy the middle class.  Because the Left supports more inequality and wants more poor people.  With academics and big business pulling all the strings.  Got it.

Does this make any kind of sense?

At least in his worldview, race isn't really an issue or problem, just a smokescreen the cynical, middle-class hating, big business loving academics use to manipulate us.

It's like Carlson knows this all must be a sham, that white people never really care about black people, so he's trying to piece together the hidden conspiracy.  Trying to figure out how to scare middle class white folks into voting for Trump regardless of whatever reality exists.

And a 17 year old running around in public with a huge weapon?
Well, that's the fault of the protesters and the gov't response.
Nothing to do with ridiculous gun laws that legalize such insanity.

[bodiddley]

With schools closed in many districts, it won't take long before the next Eric Harris/Dylan Klebold decide they'll conduct a mass massacre at a political protest/rally.  You can't bring your arsenal openly into a school, but you can go to a BLM protest and just hang around the periphery with your weaponry on display and in hand.  Two or three shooters could do a lot of deadly damage.  Might even be able to blend in with the chaos or perhaps other gun aficionados and just walk away as the Kenosha killer did.

[facilitatorn]

And Red didn't.

LOL!
Sorry you can’t escape reality by watching the NBA tonight.

I know! Damn Marxists. I'll have to read your posts for amusement.

Might as well cancel the season.

Yes, cancelling your season is a definite possibility.

Finally caught Red doping. It was only a matter of time.

[facilitatorn]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/kenosha-suspect-kyle-rittenhouse-trump-rally

Gee, so surprising.

So what exactly happened before the kid fired the gun?

He watched a bunch of fox and trump ads which we all know leads directly to involuntary celibacy and then homicide.

[bambu.]

THEY,.. PC, woke, cancel culture mob in America ... are saying the US national anthem is "war mongering" or some such thing. "Not suitable", reportedly ( on my tv news).
...want it replaced by John Lennon's "Imagine",  or the like.

The flag will be next, you watch.

[facilitatorn]

The anthem is no officially “Alice’s Restaurant”.

Now join with me and sing along!

You can get...

[Echo4]

Tucker Carlson has it all figured out:

“Our leaders want us to believe this is all a racial conflict, they’re always telling us it is. But they’re lying. It is not a racial conflict. At its deepest level the chaos they have unleashed has very little to do with race. Most Americans are not bigots. Unlike CNN, they’re not fixated on skin color, they don’t really care, most of them.

What you watch is more sinister than that. What you are watching is an effort by the academic left funded by big business, to crush the last remaining resistance to their control of the country and that resistance is an independent American middle class. That’s who they really hate. This is not a race war. This is a class war.”

There are so many holes in his explanation that it is just plain ridiculous. It doesn't even explain last week's news about the mortality rate of Black newborns, let alone the rest of the studies of system racism.

Hey, do you suppose our beloved racist, Ward, is really Tucker Carlson?! Their excuses for reasoning are very similar.

[facilitatorn]

The most important address of the night was delivered by Elizabeth Neumann. Very compelling.

If you haven’t seen it and shared it with all of your friends yet, I suggest you look it up.

[bodiddley]

I thought Carlson's explanation was completely bizarre.
I presume he wants to downplay racism and assert the Dems are anti-middle-class simply to help Trump get more votes.  And then this nonsense theory will just be dropped and forgotten.

Not sure how this is playing out in Americaland, but I would assume the police execution of a black man in WI and the major hurricane crashing into Louisiana has distracted from the RNC.  Seems like bad timing.  And then when there's violence and death at a BLM protest it's the result of a pro-Trump, pro-police, gun fanatic right-wing vigilante teen.  Just the way the whole year has gone for Trump.

[Echo4]

More on Mr. Carlson, who last night endorsed vigilantism and vigilante murder.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/27/media/fox-news-tucker-carlson-kenosha-shootings/index.html

[Echo4]

"Wait, I don't have the virus, yet? Hold on, let's try again!"

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/08/27/trumps-in-crowd-pence-speech-masks-rnc-2020-collins-sot-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/2020-rnc-night-3/

[facilitatorn]

I thought Carlson's explanation was completely bizarre.
I presume he wants to downplay racism and assert the Dems are anti-middle-class simply to help Trump get more votes.  And then this nonsense theory will just be dropped and forgotten.

Not sure how this is playing out in Americaland, but I would assume the police execution of a black man in WI and the major hurricane crashing into Louisiana has distracted from the RNC.  Seems like bad timing.  And then when there's violence and death at a BLM protest it's the result of a pro-Trump, pro-police, gun fanatic right-wing vigilante teen.  Just the way the whole year has gone for Trump.

This is how trump always knew America would be under his imposter regime. He fired anyone who tried to talk him out of this mess and promoted anyone who encouraged him to dig the hole deeper.

Trump is going to be worse for southern states than Sherman between now and the election.

He spent all our FEMA money because he’s terrified of Nancy.

His supporters are shooting people in the streets.

The trump administration is American MS-13 run by a very inbred and dilapidated knock off Pablo Escobar.

[bodiddley]

"Are we really surprised that looting and arson accelerated to murder?"
- Tucker Carlson

Except of course, they didn't.
Unsurprisingly heavily armed right wing vigilantes attending BLM protests accelerated to murder.

Which was clearly coming.
Dodged a bullet at the Michigan statehouse.
Took some bullets in Kenosha.

As it turns out it's illegal for a 17 year old to carry a gun in public.  Gotta be 18 to menace folks.  Maybe instead of the cops tossing out water bottles and thanking vigilantes for their support, they could have been checking ID's so they'd know who was there armed and potentially dangerous, and might have picked up that the 17 year old was illegally carrying before he killed anyone.

[LarryBnDC]

"Are we really surprised that looting and arson accelerated to murder?"
- Tucker Carlson

Except of course, they didn't.
Unsurprisingly heavily armed right wing vigilantes attending BLM protests accelerated to murder.

Which was clearly coming.
Dodged a bullet at the Michigan statehouse.
Took some bullets in Kenosha.

As it turns out it's illegal for a 17 year old to carry a gun in public.  Gotta be 18 to menace folks.  Maybe instead of the cops tossing out water bottles and thanking vigilantes for their support, they could have been checking ID's so they'd know who was there armed and potentially dangerous, and might have picked up that the 17 year old was illegally carrying before he killed anyone.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/26/almost-none-deaths-linked-recent-protests-are-known-have-been-committed-by-protesters/