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A Shocking Eye-Witness Account Of What's Really Happening During The Seattle Riots

The protester proceeded to yell, asking why the Officer was on the “white-man’s side.” He called the Officer an “Uncle Tom,” a “pretender,” a “race traitor,” and a N-word I’d prefer not to use. Every fiber of my being wanted to lash out. How can you use racist terms and protest racism while using it in a derogatory manner towards someone else? How can you even find fault in someone that is remaining peaceful, that is protecting your rights, and is obviously concerned for the community?! I was furious as the protester continued berating the Officer… We then got replaced by another squad for relief.

Lately, I’ve been thinking of the 8,000 word “long telegram” that George Kennan, then the American chargé d’affaires in Moscow and later an architect of the Cold War, sent to the State Department in 1946 – a document in which Kennan described the methods of an authoritarian dictatorship, “so strange to our form of thought”. Under Stalin, wrote Kennan, “The very disrespect of Russians for objective truth – indeed, their disbelief in its existence – leads them to view all stated facts as instruments for furtherance of one ulterior purpose or another.”

It’s remarkable, how much one can get used to, with a president who has made over 18,000 false or misleading claims since taking office. But all that seems more disturbing now, not only because the tweets and speculations have gotten more aggressive and outlandish, but because the upheavals in our country, the crises we face – the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, the tanking economy, the unrest inspired by the early stages of a necessary reckoning with racism – have made us wish, more than ever, for a leader who shows some honesty, common sense, or who just (we’re setting the bar quite low here) behaves like a responsible adult.

the crises we face [...] have made us wish, more than ever, for a leader who shows some honesty, common sense, or who just (we’re setting the bar quite low here) behaves like a responsible adult.

George Floyd did not commit a crime but he was killed for being black. Breona Taylor did not commit a crime. Ahmaud Arbery did not commit a crime. Trayvon Martin did not commit a crime. Eric Garner's "crime" was selling a few cigarettes and not collecting NY tax but he's dead. too.ccChaney, Schwerner and Goodman, ississippI Freedom Summer 1964 did not commit crimes, but a mob with lawmen in it killed them and dumped them in landfill. Your reasoning is bogus.

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George Floyd did not commit a crime but he was killed for being black.

He passed a fake 20 and had illegal drugs on him. A career criminal with multiple prison sentences.

I understand a store owner accused him of passing funny money. No confirmation that I have seen, and if true, no particular reason to think Floyd knew it was queer. He was apparently killed before they could ask him. Also, I see no reason to kill someone over $20.00 - real or not.

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This is fake news, folks. It’s invented, cherry-picked and deceptively framed information meant not to convey actual information but, instead, to placate the president and his supporters. It is to news what your mom’s evaluation of your performance in your Little League game was — reassuring but hardly objective. And not only is this report misleading and unethical, it makes very clear why they removed the initial report last week: it wasn’t positive enough for Trump. This one is, even if it’s dishonest, so it’s still online.

Yet somehow I am skeptical that Trump will reject OAN as an untrustworthy news source.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed President Donald Trump a defeat in his legal showdown with the most-populous U.S. state, declining to hear his administration’s challenge to “sanctuary” laws in California that protect immigrants from deportation.

The justices left in place a lower court ruling that upheld the bulk of three laws in the Democratic-governed state that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement authorities. The Trump administration had appealed that ruling to the high court.

What anybody wants is unverifiable by others.

Try again.

Sadly, there is little in the way of "reasoning" for a person defending Trump these days.

There is just the bullheadedness of refusing to see the blight that Trump is on America...on humanity in general.