When George Floyd lay dying in the street under that cops
knee his last thoughts probably weren't that he was giving his life to spark a
world wide protest movement; but that's exactly what happened, and will
continue to happen because after 15 days of increasing peaceful protests this thing is simply too big to
stop. It has become a global movement
now. The one uniting thought common to
these global protests must surely be that the time for radical change is
now! Nowhere is this more evident than America .
This isn't just a crucial moment in American history; its THE
crucial moment for Americas NOW
if this American experiment is to survive.
"Daddy, You Changed the
World"
~ Giana Floyd ~
Darnella Frazier, The 17 year old girl who filmed the George
Floyd murder, has become the Abraham Zapruder of our time. Just as with the home video of the JFK
assassination, her video of Floyd's murder has shocked people out of their
bubble of complacency and activated their sense of outrage. Imagine the presence of mind it took to
recognize she was seeing horrific racial injustice, and the courage it took to
stand her ground and film the entire incident with many cops swarming around
her! The reason we are usually shielded from such brutally graphic events isn't
to spare our sensitivities, it is to keep us complacent and out of the
streets.
I wonder what Derek Chauvin was thinking for those eight
minutes and forty six seconds as he was killing George Floyd. I also wonder why his left hand (which is gloved) isn't used to detain Mr Floyd during the filming, as
that seems very strange indeed.
Perhaps if he had used both hands to safely
subdue his suspect, George Floyd might still be with us today; so it makes me
wonder just exactly was his left hand
doing, instead of his job.
I am impressed and encouraged with the significant changes
being made with regards to policing in the aftermath of George Floyds murder. However;
the police are how the system always defends systemic racism; so to be
truly meaningful some damn deep reforms are gonna have to happen before the
police belong to the people & not the
politicians. There are 18,000 police departments in America
We have to turn the heat down in this country before Trump
boils it to a crisp. He definitely seems
the scorched Earth type to me, if I can't
have it, nobody can.
"Cops who murder aren't
bad apples,
they're murderers"
~Samantha Bee~
they're murderers"
~Samantha Bee~
1,098 American citizens were killed by police in 2019. That alone is a national disgrace in the land of the free. There are many things in place which give cops a sense of impunity, most of all police unions, which make it damn difficult to fire bad cops. Many fired cops are re-instated because of pressure from unions. Did you know there is no national registry of cops who have been fired for cause? This means a bad cop who is fired can just move to another city and start over. In many instances police departments fail to do an in depth due diligence when hiring. You wanna know something else that doesn't exist...A national database of complaints filed against cops. Such a database doesn't exist because police departments conceal that data from public scrutiny.
Derek Chauvin had received 21 prior complaints against him
but was still on the job that day to murder George Floyd. I'm not sure what its
going to take to fix these problems but I know it'll take more than paramount
canceling "Cops" after 30 years, or HBO pulling "Gone
with the wind."
Black people have been marching for equal justice under the
law for 100 years. A century is a damn
long time to wait for your voice to be heard.
Right now, led by the Floyd family, blacks are marching with whites in
outrage over a senseless, racist murder; demanding that systemic changes be
made immediately. Not in another hundred years, NOW . I gotta say that everyone should be
exceedingly grateful that the mood right now is for equality and not
revenge. 100 years is a long ass time.
As president it is Trump's job to protect and unite the
country, that goes with the title commander in chief I guess. Alas just as his myriad other duties and
responsibilities he has let us all down time after time for nearly 4 years
now. Golfing, rallies and 12 hours of
daily TV are the priorities of this president.
Trump has repeatedly showed us who he is and what's important to him,
and it ain't us folks! Remember a month
ago after totally botching our Covid response, when Trump actually said "I take no responsibility at all"? Huckster.
We saw what Trump was willing to do to clear out Lafayette Square for his photo-op;
what do you suppose he will do when thousands surround the white house
demanding his resignation? Serve them hamberders and bleach maybe? What about when protesters block all access
to Mar-A-Lago...how do you think Trump would respond?
Trump has never hidden his desire to be an autocratic dictator,
while he openly adores the likes of Putin, Kim, and several others following
his Hitler role model. He wanted a
military parade with tanks in his honor in D.C. - never mind the hundreds of
thousands of dollars damage done to the streets by tank treds...such a parade
for a cowardly draft dodger would be an insult to every service member
everywhere.
Trump NEVER backs down, not even when resoundingly proven
wrong. Do you suppose he will now
start turning over a new leaf? He is so
angered over recent events, he just couldn't wait to do something nasty; so he
overturned Obama's Atlantic Sanctuary, opening the entire Atlantic seaboard to commercial
fishing; just out of mean spite.
Then the next day he re-instated the legality of inhumane hunting
tactics banned by the Obama administration.
Trump knows the minute he is a civilian
again he will be arrested to account
for his impressive list of crimes. He
also knows that his reactions to pandemic &
protesters has cost him the coming election.
He seethes in abject resentment watching Biden steadily rise in the
polls, as his numbers continue
to dissolve.
"When people show you who they are;
believe them."
~Maya Angelou~
believe them."
~Maya Angelou~
Then there is his fragile, super-inflated ego, and his toxic
narcissism to factor into the mix. The
whispers from three years ago regarding Trump's mental illness are now raging
tornadoes of serious concern. With each
new bizarre thing to come from his mouth, we are doubled over in reality cramps,
knowing the president is a raving lunatic.
"People are dying now who have never
died before" ~ "This is a great Day for
George Floyd"
Now, take all these traits together: shake well under
pressure & add the withdrawal
symptoms he's having from not being able to hold his ego-stroking rallies. Let ingredients simmer for a few hours in the
underground bunker. Repeat on a daily
basis and you have the ultimate recipe
for disaster. What with the Covid-19
pandemic, and the systemic racism pandemic hitting simultaneously as the economy
continues tanking & 44 million
unemployed; less than 6 months ahead of the presidential election...we now have
a new definition of the Perfect Storm.
Out of sight but still stoking division, Trump tweeted Monday
that Martin Gugino, the 75 year old Buffalo N.Y.
Trump is one of those children who jump up and smash the
game board whenever they loose. When he
looses the election he will try every trick he can think of to stay in office,
up to and including smashing the game board, which in this case is our
country. He will unleash
every kind of chaos to stay in office, up to and including using those nuclear
launch codes. If you tend to think this
is just wild speculation on my part I would point you towards this news
item: When a recent poll showed Biden winning the election if it was held
today, Trump immediately hired a private PR firm to investigate the results of
that poll! If poll results
bother him that much, how do you suppose he will respond when the election
doesn't go his way? A dignified and
orderly transfer of power? Guess again.
Remember when Trump said he would run into a school shooting
scenario unarmed to protect children? Now
we know he would really have just hid in the bunker until it was safe to come
out. The secret service protects &
defends the white house, and they are a formidable
force on the same scale as SWAT
teams. The son of a friend of mine was a
member of the white house secret service detail, and believe me when I say they
would never have whisked Trump off to the bunker over one
crashed barricade 350 yards away. First
of all the threat level didn't warrant "bunker time" and secondly;
for the secret service to have done this on their own is, well, ludicrous. It made them look like the Keystone Cops. Naw,
the whole bunker trip was Trumps doing.
He ordered the secret service to take him to safety.
With the election just a few months away, the optics are
lame to say the least for a wounded president sinking in the polls to run
hiding in his bunker because protesters surrounded the white house. Trump can already just imagine the kinds
of election ads the Democrats will flood the airwaves with, the kind his ego
has a very hard time dealing with, we know how much he hates to be
embarrassed. Just another reason to strike
first, with a totalitarian iron fist...no election, no election ads!
Covid cases are up sharply in at least 22 states since the
relaxing of the shutdown protocols. This
is only partly due to the unprecedented mass protests of the last 2 weeks. I say partly because Trump of course pushed to re-open the country
too soon (after botching his response to
begin with). Re-opening, even on a
tentative, limited basis was all the virus needed to stage a resurgence...the
protests were overkill, icing on the cake.
As of today the total number of
Covid-19 cases in America passed 2 million, with 114,000+ deaths. To date
only 5% of Americans are infected
and we're not even close to seeing it end.
CDC experts are now saying on
their website that the infection rate is projected at 60 to 70% when it peaks. Peak Corona .
CDC experts are today projecting 200,000 Covid deaths by November. Meanwhile,
Trump has returned to his initial tactic of ignoring the virus. When was the
last time you saw a Covid-19 update briefing from the government? You may have noticed there haven't been any
for a while and that's because Trump has abandoned hope, given up & declared victory. He's touting that it's safe to re-open the
country. Remember back on March
6th when Trump asked the CDC if we could just let the virus sweep across the country. That was the exact moment they should have
fitted Trump for a straight jacket and enacted the 25th amendment to the
constitution.
It's not too late, we can still do it. Imagine 100,000 peaceful protesters surrounding the white house chanting "Wrap Him Up!"
It's not too late, we can still do it. Imagine 100,000 peaceful protesters surrounding the white house chanting "Wrap Him Up!"
What if Trump throwing up a steel
wall around the white house amid the recent protests was just a dry run for
November? Speaking of November; I got
this kinda weird eerie feeling watching Trump leaving DC for a political visit
to Dallas , Texas Dallas
resulted in death...like when G.W. Bush went there and killed a motorcycle cop
with his Limo.
As if to propel us into the next
level of the Hunger Games the
announcement today makes it official: The
economy is in recession. With
unemployment exceeding 44 million, we are still
loosing
900 to 1000 citizens a day to the pandemic. Trump wants to open the economy & country back up but fails to understand
that businesses need customers who won't be showing up in a
pandemic-recession-social outrage kind of environment if they are dead or
afraid of becoming dead. That boy's got
more issues than National Geographic.
"The single biggest threat to man's continued
dominance on the planet is the virus"
Joshua Lederberg - PhD - Nobel Laureate
On Wednesday it was reported that since June 1st; 14 states & Puerto Rico hit
their highest 7-day average of new Covid infections ever. The same
day, Trump announced he will be holding huge re-election rallies in 7
of those states having their worst week of new
Covid cases since the pandemic began. No social distancing, no masks. In what
insane world does that make any logical sense at all? Mega-MAGA
rallies in seven states with the highest rates of new infections! If we were
to apply logic to this, the only way it makes sense is if Trump is intentionally
trying to personally amplify
the pandemic by hand delivering his followers as new victims. Trump supporters are dwindling on a daily
basis anyway, between these new rallies and the bleach drinkers, this ought to
finish off the rest of them. Then again,
what if he's trying to create a Covid
resistant MAGA base like Jim Jones? "We can't do
social distancing" ~Donald Trump 6-10-20~ It is perhaps relevant to note here
that those who attend the upcoming Trump rallies, and attendees of the republican
convention will be required to sign a waiver promising not to sue Trump if they catch Covid-19.
You just can't half ass your way thru a pandemic like this
one; there is simply too much at stake. Then there is the Trump Factor; we must expect results like we're seeing when we finally
understand that from the very beginning (of Covid) back in December,
Trump's only interest in the virus was two-fold; how can he weaponize it to help him win
re-election, and how can it enrich
him. We've seen Trump in broad daylight using this pandemic to his benefit (Hydroxychloroquine) but did
you know that quietly, behind the scenes he has offered one million dollars to a German lab for the rights & title to any Covid-19 vaccines developed? How is that for depraved? Trump not only cleared the way for the virus
by dumping Obama's entire pandemic response team, then when it arrived he drug
his feet as the virus raced across this country like a wildfire, allowing it to
infect over two million and kill 114,000 people. Now he wants to be the only one selling Covid
vaccines! There is a special place in
Hell for Donnie Trump; as Satan's bunker bitch!
"You want it darker, We kill the flame"
~Leonard Cohen~
What if George Floyd was killed deliberately because
'they' knew the result would be massive protests (which they call "Riots" to
justify using force against us)? Suppose
for a very dark minute that this whole entire scenario was gamed out and made
real by Steven Miller as part of the plan to declare martial law before
the election? They would certainly have
known
that thousands of shouting, angry protesters choking the streets would give the
pandemic a resurgence, killing still more needlessly. Then all it would take is poking the bear a couple more good jabs
to fully enrage it...pour fuel on the fire.
All its going to take now is for just one more black citizen
to be killed by cops; and there will be no stopping what are now peaceful
protests from becoming a full on revolution, and we remember what JFK had to
say about that!
The great shining lie
will always
defend itself with force
when needed.
Another recipe for you: Provoke and enrage American citizens
until they fill the streets, then treat them like an invading force to really
get things going. Season liberally with
tear gas, peppering heavily with rubber bullets and brutality. Add to these ingredients one deranged
narcissistic president prone to fits of rage, and a few hundred career
politicians terrified of loosing their jobs, all smothered in a creamy arrogance
sauce. Finally bring ingredients to a
full boil so that when the citizens rise up you can clamp the lid down for
good.
The system will defend itself from these nationwide
protests. Just as we've seen again and
again recently, peaceful people protesting police brutality are met with more
police brutality. In Buffalo
the entire emergency response team of over 50 cops resigned from that special
unit in SUPPORT of the cops who
shoved that 75 year old man &
cracking his skull on the sidewalk. Now
scale this attitude up to the national scene!
The system will resist reform and
meaningful change. As long as Trump
is allowed to shout orders we are all in serious jeopardy because we already
know he never apologizes, never admits being wrong and never backs down.
Trump ordered peaceful protesters to be hit with tear gas,
flash bang grenades and rubber bullets just
to clear a space for his silent bible holding photo-op: What chaos do you
suppose he might order up to stay in office despite loosing the election? With so much going on just now, and with
literally the future at stake, it is necessary to state that America
might never see another election for president. In case you haven't been paying attention the
last 2 weeks, America
is at it's boiling point.
Around the world, statues and other symbols of racism are
being taken down; in some cases torn down &
dumped in the harbor. As if in shame, most municipalities that remove such
offensive statues do so in the dark of night. Why not do it in broad daylight, and make a
public ceremony out of it? Why not make
a visible public demonstration that you want to be on the right side of
history?
Voter suppression, purging voter rolls, "election
monitors" and deliberate disasters, (such as Georgia 's
current voting nightmare), are tools the system uses to avoid reform of any
kind. Mail in voting is currently under
a full court press attack by the entire Trump administration. Trump is determined to stop mail in voting (despite Iowa Iowa 's republican
politicians passed legislation making it illegal for Iowa
to ever hold mail in voting again. Why,
when it was just so successful? Because
they want to control WHO gets to vote. Now keep in mind the fact that Trump votes by
mail, as does every member of his staff including William Barr...so why is he
so obsessed with stopping vote-by-mail?
Because he doesn't want YOU to vote!
In the aftermath of the George Floyd murder the city of
Minneapolis Minnesota has decreed their police department is too
corrupt to repair; and that they will dismantle it entirely, and start
from scratch to build a new, better police department that will serve the
entire community. With the entire
republican party & the senate falling
in line behind Trump no matter how bat-shit crazy he becomes; I'm thinking here
that we should do to Washington
politics what Minneapolis is doing
with its police force. Gut it. Shitcan every single elected official
regardless of party affiliation, ban them from ever holding office again, then
fix it! The trials can come later, let
them stew in prison for a few years while we rebuild and heal the country. If we don't do this now; we will never see the chance again.
© 2020~Full re-post with permission only
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Darnella Frazier full video:
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Police body-cam footage of George Floyd arrest
If there's going to be a "safe word" for Trump my vote is "Meatloaf "
Perfect on so many levels
You wanted a reality show host for president;
Well, now you're on Survivor!
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