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Nowhere will you find more compelling evidence of the corrosive effects of racial hatred than can be found in the years from 2008 to 2016, an eight-year period that Republicans spent despising, ridiculing, and reviling Barack Obama and opposing any policy he proposed. It took them from nominating two honorable and decent men for the presidency, John McCain and Mitt Romney, to finally nominating and electing the arch Obama-hater and very inventor of birtherism, Donald J. Trump. And Trump has fulfilled their vilest dreams by single-mindedly devoting himself to undoing absolutely anything and everything that Obama accomplished.
During George Floyd’s funeral, there were numerous dignitaries in attendance. However, I noticed one glaring absence: our President. Could it be he was afraid to leave his bunker and show his face in public after all of his racist and divisive tweets? It probably was for the best anyway that he didn’t appear. He would have probably tried to upstage everyone and stride around waving that prop bible.
Donald Trump’s logic is you don’t have to understand what I am saying because I am so much smarter than everyone else.
“The Government has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally of the President,” wrote attorney John Gleeson. The Justice Department was accused of “a gross abuse of prosecutorial power” in court papers concerning Michael Flynn. Wow!
Is Mexico paying for that new White House fence?
Despite the Trump administration insisting that ANTIFA has hijacked the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, new federal intelligence points to White supremacist and other domestic terrorists, and makes no mention of ANTIFA.
There are some good cops, and I feel really bad for them right now. They should be the ones teaching the others how to be good cops.
If you can separate good cops from bad cops, you can separate protestors from looters.
With all of these new restrictions, the criminals have more rights than the police. Resisting arrest will be the new routine because it pays big bucks and the criminals get to strike first before the cops can respond — be it shooting, swinging, slashing, spitting or whatever. Who would ever want to be a cop?
Welcome to 1930s Germany, folks! Cops act like Gestapo stormtroopers and Trump acts like Hitler.
One sure way to avoid police violence in minority neighborhoods is to pull out all police and let the citizens police themselves. They could form vigilante patrols or let the existing gangs control their blocks since they are better armed the cops anyway.
Alleged New York billionaire masquerading as the president could be a KKK provocateur. Or is he?
The decision is simple. You can believe Trump and his usually false gut feeling or the hundreds of experts with years of experience.
If these professional players are so intend on making a change, they should stop playing and forfeit their millions to make something happen. Not one will do this because they want the money.
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