Violent thugs and hooligans brutally attack police officers in D.C.

Lawyer - Please tell me that's a joke?

We need 515151 to comment, he has experience in this area.

 

He seems sane. Account retweeted by AzGOP, etc

 

You will not go alone!

 

Those “other guys” last summer were in fact the exact same rednecks that stormed the Capitol.

Even a leader in the Trump cabinet reported on the evidence of the white supremacists committing violence and vandalism at BLM protests:

A Trump security chief acknowledges role of white supremacist extremists in U.S. urban violence

More:

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

“White supremacists are using the ongoing protests to accelerate civil disorder in an attempt to tear apart the current political system”
Riots, white supremacy, and accelerationism


DHS ID’s white supremacists, not BLM or Antifa, as greatest threat

Kyle Rittenhouse: teen charged in Kenosha shooting posts $2m bail

 

There are 3 black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies in the US. About the same number of white guys named David who are fortune 500 ceos. This article gives plenty of examples of systemic racism:
26 simple charts to show friends and family who aren't convinced racism is still a problem in America

And before you say "NO, these are just illustrations that black people are less educated or wealthy", consider:
- People with black names get less call back interviews. Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
- Minorities are rejected for loans at a much higher rate. A troubling tale of a Black man trying to refinance his mortgage
- Black people get sentenced for longer for the same crime as whites. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...act-same-crime-as-a-white-person-study-finds/
- Black kids are punished more severely for the same misbehavior as white kids. Racial disparities in school-based disciplinary actions are associated with county-level rates of racial bias
- Health care access is systemically less available to black people. The Many Ways Institutional Racism Kills Black People
- Black people have a much harder time voting (polling places not in their neighborhoods and multi hour lines). How Black Americans still face disproportionate barriers to the ballot box in 2020

All the evidence is there but many people will not believe it unless somebody screams the N word as they shoot. I doubt you have cared enough to read on the matter (I know you didn't read the books or articles I linked).

 

The people condoning and excusing this violent seditious insurrection were the same people who lost their ever-loving mind over the “scandal” of Obama wearing a tan suit.

 

#MeToo

 

ironic they turned on Pence. The ultimate trump sycophant.

 

There a number of really good posts that I wish I could *like* but I have no emoji buttons to push.

Damn Russian hackers. I hope this gets fixed soon.

 

You are deluding yourself.

This was far more terrible than 9/11 in every way except how many people died.

9/11 was an attack from foreign terrorists that were opposed by all Americans. This was an attack by domestic terrorists that were organized and directed to attack the United States government by the President of the United States, and it was and is supported by several US Senators and a ton of GOP goobers in the House. ALL Americans opposed the 9/11 terrorists. A shockingly large number of Americans supported this act of terrorism, are defending them (like on this thread), and will support future terrorist attacks against America and our democracy.

If you don’t think this was an attempted “coup” or that this day will “live in infamy”, or it’s our darkest day in 70 years...if you don’t think this is far more disturbing than 9/11...then your head’s not right.

 

It never ends. How do y’all feel about the Million Martyrs March or poor Louisiana

 

History has shown, repeatedly, that the smallest spark can create huge fires. Washington was a powder keg Wednesday. Situation could have been so much worse. Sedition, plain and simple.

 

If you try hard you can avoid acknowledging all of these as systemic racism. It takes isolating each claim and ignoring the others while addressing that one claim, then ignoring the ones you have made excuses for while working on the next one. I used to do that with claims of systemic racism.

The piece of information that got through to me was the rates of traffic stops by race during daytime and nighttime hours. During the day, minorities are much more likely to be pulled over. At night, traffic stops are at about the same rates as the race's representation in the population.

The interesting thing for me, in retrospection, was that once that one fact finally penetrated, I stopped trying to isolate each variable and was able to seem them as a framework within which we live our lives, and which systematically makes like easier for me and harder for people that don't look like me. Each item is pretty small on its own, but the combined weight of all of them together is oppressive.

 

She was shot at a pinch point where the mob was breaking through some windows. On the other side of the glass were some Congresspeople, so officers of the government were in imminent danger. That is what made this confrontation different from most of the insurrection, where the terrorists were facing down either Capitol police or Secret Service.

She was shot because she was the first to propel herself through the broken window. At that point, the thugs were heard to say things like (paraphrasing reporting), “She got shot. They’re getting serious. Back it up.” Those paraphrasing may be way off verbatim - but it was in this vein.

 

Half of Parler: “It was ANTIFA!”
Other half of Parler: “Check out my selfies from the Capitol!”

 

And then arrested and tried for sedition. He can wait in his cell for all the following federal and state charges to be filed.

 

And we see the only reason that you vote for the worst, most immoral and indecent humans alive. It’s always money or hate. Sometimes both. Not sure which reflects worse.

 

You have too much hate in your heart for people you don’t even know.

 

Cuban-Americans who fled the Castro regime say hello. They're doing pretty damned well. They came with nothing except perhaps education and the knowledge of what it takes to be successful.

They are living and breathing proof that if you study, you work hard, build the right habits and relationships, you can make it in this country.

 

They’re at a pivot point. Trump is going to use the money he duped from his cult members for his “legal fund” to either start a Trump Media company, or to buy an existing conspiracy theory propaganda company like OAN. He and the ones he doesn’t buy are going to go after Fox just like they were MSNBC. They will easily usurp their position as the fake news provider to the lunatic fringe. Fox must be wary that they may not be able to survive financially just through the viewership of the establishment Republican fans, without the loonies.