Ok, it's official. The United States has lost its damn mind

[Greg55_99]

It's just too gawdamn much. Too much. This is the age of Trump. Look at where we are tonight. This is as phucked as it gets AND I lived through the Sixties. JAYSUS.

Greg

[O Really]

Yeppers.

[O Really]

Three years of Trump.
Three months of Covid
Jobs lost.
People sick.
Unemployment systems broken.
Decades of police abuse of Black people, particularly males.
Unarmed Black guys shot, nobody gets fired or charged.
And then a cop calmly kneels on a Black guy's head until he dies.

And people wonder why the riots?

[GoCubsGo]

These riots/protests are as much Trump as BLM/George Floyd.

Trump is everything I expected him to be, maybe more. He's checked most of the cra cra boxes. All that's left is for him to get us into a real shooting war and martial law, then his dictatorship can be complete.

[O Really]

We can do so much better than Trump.

"better than Trump" is about as low a bar as could be set.

[Whack9]

Took a gander at the Cuckold Political Forum to see the peanut gallery's take on the situation. It seems the same folks that were claiming Obama would try somehow to institute marshal law are completely cool with Trump edging ever closer to the same thing. Remember Jade Helm?

[Vrede too]

Three years of Trump.
Three months of Covid
Jobs lost.
People sick.
Unemployment systems broken.
Decades of police abuse of Black people, particularly males.
Unarmed Black guys shot, nobody gets fired or charged.
And then a cop calmly kneels on a Black guy's head until he dies.

And people wonder why the riots?

Black male Philando Castile was murdered by Hispanic-American police officer Jeronimo Yanez in a suburb of Saint Paul. Yanez was prosecuted and acquitted of all charges.

White female Justine Damond was murdered by Black Somali-American Minneapolis Police Department officer Mohamed Noor. Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter and sentenced to 12.5 years in prison.

... Police officer Derek Chauvin … is the first white police officer in Minnesota to be criminally charged with the death of a black civilian....

"And people wonder why the riots?"

[bannination]

It's just too gawdamn much. Too much. This is the age of Trump. Look at where we are tonight. This is as phucked as it gets AND I lived through the Sixties. JAYSUS.

Greg

Man I've just been glancing over there at LNF... and looks like those guys are all for this stuff.... we're phucked as a people.

[billy.pilgrim]

It's just too gawdamn much. Too much. This is the age of Trump. Look at where we are tonight. This is as phucked as it gets AND I lived through the Sixties. JAYSUS.

Greg

Man I've just been glancing over there at LNF... and looks like those guys are all for this stuff.... we're phucked as a people.

Secession, the only cure

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[Whack9]

Would you all say this is the most volatile you've seen the United States in your life times?

[GoCubsGo]

Would you all say this is the most volatile you've seen the United States in your life times?

Hard knowing. I'm a little too young to have any clear memories of the 1960's and there was not nearly this kind of coverage.

The 60s did bring about change though.

[GoCubsGo]

Fake news alert!

How long till CPF and LNF are parroting this?

On Twitter and Facebook, hundreds of posts are circulating saying that George Floyd is not actually dead.

Conspiracy theorists are baselessly arguing that George Soros, the billionaire investor and Democratic donor, is funding the spreading protests against police brutality.

And conservative commentators are asserting with little evidence that antifa, the far-left antifascism activist movement, coordinated the riots and looting that sprang from the protests.

[Vrede too]

Fake news alert!

How long till CPF and LNF are parroting this?

...

And conservative commentators are asserting with little evidence that antifa, the far-left antifascism activist movement, coordinated the riots and looting that sprang from the protests.

IMPOSPOTUS is already spewing that one.

[billy.pilgrim]

Would you all say this is the most volatile you've seen the United States in your life times?

Probably more violent, but much more isolated events - as I remember, but I was more interested in being a teenager.

[billy.pilgrim]

Fake news alert!

How long till CPF and LNF are parroting this?

...

And conservative commentators are asserting with little evidence that antifa, the far-left antifascism activist movement, coordinated the riots and looting that sprang from the protests.

IMPOSPOTUS is already spewing that one.

Someone needs to get to the bottom of who supplied the pallets of bricks.

It shouldn't be hard to track down the sale and delivery, but will leo investigate, or do they already know and are covering it up.

[Vrede too]

Would you all say this is the most volatile you've seen the United States in your lifetimes?

Idk.

60s and now:
Brutal cops
Riots, esp. after MLK's assassination
Even a 1968 pandemic

60s:
Vietnam
Antiwar protests
KKK and Night Riders, lynchings
MLK, RFK and Malcolm X assassinations
LBJ and Nixon
Years

Now:
More widespread anti-racism protests
More widespread rioting?
Worse pandemic
45SHOLE
Less than a month

I'd say the 60s were more meaningful, but our current final chapter has not been written yet.

America in Pain: What Comes Next? (An ABC News Special)
tonight, 9:00 PM ET

[Vrede too]

Someone needs to get to the bottom of who supplied the pallets of bricks.

It shouldn't be hard to track down the sale and delivery, but will leo investigate, or do they already know and are covering it up.

Is that confirmed and shown to not just be locally coincidental?

[billy.pilgrim]

Someone needs to get to the bottom of who supplied the pallets of bricks.

It shouldn't be hard to track down the sale and delivery, but will leo investigate, or do they already know and are covering it up.

Is that confirmed and shown to not just be locally coincidental?

Pallets of bricks were set at protest sites in several cities at the same time.

A) antifa
B) asshole rightwingers out to make the left look bad


Your choice

[Vrede too]

Someone needs to get to the bottom of who supplied the pallets of bricks.

It shouldn't be hard to track down the sale and delivery, but will leo investigate, or do they already know and are covering it up.

Is that confirmed and shown to not just be locally coincidental?

Pallets of bricks were set at protest sites in several cities at the same time.

A) antifa
B) asshole rightwingers out to make the left look bad

Your choice

Not really Antifa's style, but fellow travelers are possible.

If true, there are other options besides those 2:

Police provocateurs
Commies
Greedy looters planning ahead
Black radicals
Others?

[neoplacebo]

Would you all say this is the most volatile you've seen the United States in your life times?

I'm 66 years old, and I say not yes, but hell yes. I fear for the country I have known and the one my granddaughter will grow up in. I cry about it.