I’m already surprised that Orange hasn’t started a dubious military conflict elsewhere in the world by this point.
Maybe this is because the siphoning of huge amounts of treasure (and blood) would soak up all the money he’s now saving the country with his stellar financial and economic policies. 
There is a huge number of “No Kings” protests scheduled for Saturday, hundreds of locations across the country.
It was refreshing listening to Newsom’s speech. He presented a rational and coherent argument–contrast that to Trump, who can’t string even one coherent sentence together.
What bothers me about this whole thing is the blatant violation of the Posse Comitatus Act that Trump has committed, both by federalizing the National Guard and sending in the Marines. The act actually includes a penalty of two years in prison, but SKKOTUS (the Supreme Kangaroo Kourt of the United States) gave him a get out of jail free card–he can just declare his actions an “official act”.
Yes, and trump has threatened to stop them using military. If he actually does so, I think civil war may ensue.
This is a link to a google docs spreadsheet with lists of protests planned for the 14th (Saturday) I was given, I take no responsibility for its accuracy.
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Any guesses on what this will encourage?
I’ll let you folks know how it goes down. I plan to be at the protest in Sacramento on Saturday.
Stay safe!
20, 20, 20
If only history were to have provided many easily accessible examples of how populist nonsense demagoguery shouldn’t be trusted, stretching all the way back to Cleon of Athens.
The mind reels at the potential usefulness of such knowledge.
This one hits close to home for me. My sister lives just across the street from where the shooting of the MN state senator took place and she’s been under lockdown since 5:30am this morning while helicopters circle overhead and police comb the area.
I hope she’s doing okay. No place feels safe any more when masked men are snatching people off the street. I’ve never felt my white privilege more, and I’m still scared. Trump was all but inviting people to attack No Kings protesters.
The assassin was dressed as a cop. Nearly anyone will answer the door when a cop (or someone dressed as one) knocks. The police found his car and it had a bunch of flyers for local “No Kings” protests, so they’re assuming he was also planning to attack protesters at one of the marches.
I attended one of those marches in my city and I was very careful, scouted the periphery, checked out a suspicious-looking bus nearby, satisfied myself it wasn’t full of thugs (if it was they had a lady and a dog traveling with them, lol). My wife didn’t want me to go. I don’t think I was overly cautious … just careful.
This rally was about 3 to 4x as well attended as the last one about 6 weeks ago, which was gratifying. Better organized too, although no great oration, just students leading chants, which gets old well before the 2 hours for the event are over. So I left early.
One of the things that has struck me about everything that has developed in recent weeks and months is just how readily police take up violent confrontational roles in these things. ICE I can understand; those assholes have been groomed for this all along, but the police … you could almost believe the lie that they were in fact there “to protect and to serve” but more often than not they are eager to crack skulls, especially when they think no one is looking or they can otherwise get away with it.
I always have observed that there seem to be two classes of cops: idealistic ones, either still with that idealism or bitterly disabused of it – and those who like the feel of their authority and enjoy using it. At least in more urban areas.
In my city we have at least half-assed “community policing” – the police stay out of the homeless camp unless called for a violent crime situation, and social workers do most of the interactions, for example. But, by and large, the police have always expressed the “police state” side of US society.
And that’s just the police – now we have masked randos cosplaying as police, so here I am here in the 21st century with high situational awareness that I might be set upon by hooligans trying to stamp out what’s left of civil society.
Sometimes I’m glad I’m relatively old.
I just came up to speed on this and realized it happened a couple of miles from the hotel I usually stay at when visiting my brothers who live in Champlain and Brooklyn Park respectively. Just checked and they aren’t seeing any impacts personally.
Big crowd at the Sacramento No Kings. Everyone’s pretty chill and it’s almost a party atmosphere. I was expecting more anger on the part of the participants, but that seems to be mostly absent. No major police activity that I can see.
