tRump's DEATH TOLL!
At the Guardian, Robert Reich on Trump's need to distract the nation from his handling of the pandemic via "riots" and other actions protesting the police -- and it's now announced that he'll be going to Kenosha on Tuesday to meet with the police there. Tom
"One week ago, Rusten Sheskey, a seven-year veteran of the Kenosha, Wisconsin, police department, fired at least seven shots at the back of a Black man named Jacob Blake as he opened his car door, leaving the 29-year-old father of five probably paralyzed from the waist down.
"After protests erupted, self-appointed armed militia or vigilante-type individuals rushed to Kenosha, including Kyle Rittenhouse, a white 17-year-old who traveled there and then, appearing on the streets with an AR-15 assault rifle, allegedly killed two people and wounded a third.
"This is pure gold for a president without a plan, a party without a platform, and a cult without a purpose other than the abject worship of Donald J Trump.
"To be re-elected Trump knows he has to distract the nation from the coronavirus pandemic that he has flagrantly failed to control – leaving more than 180,000 Americans dead, tens of millions jobless and at least 30 million reportedly hungry.
"So he’s counting on the reliable Republican dog-whistle. “Your vote,” Trump said in his speech closing the Republican convention Thursday night, “will decide whether we protect law-abiding Americans, or whether we give free rein to violent anarchists, agitators and criminals who threaten our citizens.”
“We will have law and order on the streets of this country,” Vice-President Mike Pence declared the previous evening, warning “you won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.”
"Neither Trump nor Pence mentioned the real threats to law and order in America today, such as gun-toting agitators like Rittenhouse, who, perhaps not coincidentally, occupied a front-row seat at a Trump rally in Des Moines in January.
"Pence lamented the death of federal officer Dave Patrick Underwood, “shot and killed during the riots in Oakland, California”, earlier this year, implying he was killed by protesters. In fact, Underwood was shot and killed by an adherent of the boogaloo boys, an online extremist movement that’s trying to ignite a race war.
"Such groups have found encouragement in a president who sees “very fine people” supporting white supremacy.
"The threat also comes from conspiracy theorists like Marjorie Taylor Greene, the recently nominated Republican candidate for Georgia’s 14th congressional district and promoter of QAnon, whose adherents believe Trump is battling a cabal of “deep state” saboteurs who worship Satan and traffic children for sex. Trump has praised Greene as a “future Republican star” and claimed that QAnon followers “love our country”.
"And from people like Mary Ann Mendoza, a member of Trump’s campaign advisory board, who was scheduled to speak at the Republican convention until she retweeted an antisemitic rant about a supposed Jewish plan to enslave the world’s peoples and steal their land.
"Clearly the threat also comes from hotheaded, often racist police officers who fire bullets into the backs of Black men and women or kneel on their necks so they can’t breathe. Needless to say, there was little mention at the Republican convention of Jacob Blake, and none of George Floyd or Breonna Taylor.
"And the threat comes from Trump’s own lackeys who have brazenly broken laws to help him attain and keep power. Since Trump promised he would only hire “the best people”, 14 Trump aides, donors and advisers have been indicted or imprisoned.
"Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W Giuliani – who ranted at the Republican convention about rioting and looting in cities with Democratic mayors – has repeatedly met with the pro-Russia Ukrainian parliamentarian Andriy Derkach, whom American intelligence has determined is “spreading claims about corruption … to undermine former Vice President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party”.
"In addition, federal prosecutors are investigating Giuliani’s business dealings in Ukraine with two men arrested in an alleged campaign finance scheme.
"Trump’s new postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, who had been a major Trump campaign donor before taking over the post office, is being sued by six states and the District of Columbia for allegedly seeking to “undermine” the postal service as millions of Americans plan to vote by mail during the pandemic.
"Not to forget the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, who spoke to the Republican convention while on an official trip to the Middle East, in apparent violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits officials of the executive branch other than the president and vice-president from engaging in partisan politics.
"You want the real threat to American law and order? It’s found in these Trump enablers and bottom-dwellers. They are the inevitable excrescence of Trump’s above-the-law, race-baiting, me-first presidency. It is from the likes of them that the rest of America is in serious need of protection."
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There is absolutely no evidence that Jacob Blake was brandishing a knife as he walked to his car in Kenosha. The fact that the local police union is pushing that false narrative is the exact reason Black Lives Matter exists.
When 100 million snowflakes join together it creates an avalanche.
Bernie Sanders understands that his progressive dream dies forever if Donald Trump is given four more years to stack the federal courts with conservative judges and make more Supreme Court picks. Bernie is not trying to re-litigate his 2016 grievances with the DNC. He's trying to save progressive values for the next generation. If you believe in what he spent his entire life fighting for so should you.
LeBron James has grown from being a spoiled prima donna into one of the most powerful civil rights leaders in the country, a transformation of majestic proportions.
Chad Boseman was more than just an actor. He created a character that touched the hearts of people of color throughout the world, especially children. The Black Panther showed them they could be as smart, as brave, as strong and as dignified as anyone else on the planet. Wakanda forever.
Donald Trump is so terrified of winding up in prison that he is willing to incite a civil war to prevent that from happening.
The protests will not end until this country addresses the issue of police brutality and racial injustice. No amount of intimidation will change that.
Doubling-down when you know you're wrong doesn't make you right. It makes you arrogant.
No one travels across state lines with an AR-15 to protect a stranger's business. They do that because they want to shoot someone.
I would crawl through a mile of broken glass to vote Donald Trump out of office.
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