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September 1, 2020

Of course Trump does not want Police to wear body cams, he thinks they are his militia against BLM

Trump struggles with police body camera question at Kenosha event: ‘Well, that’s, uh, very interesting’

While attending a round table in support of law enforcement, the president was asked if he favored the use of body cameras.

“Um, body cam,” the president said, searching for an answer. “Ah, whew. Well, that’s, uh, very interesting.”

At that point the commander-in-chief turned the question over to Attorney General Bill Barr, who offered a favorable opinion of the technology.

“It’s very tough,” Trump said, adding to Barr’s answer. “The whole thing, you read it and you read two sides of the story.”

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/trump-struggles-with-police-body-camera-question-at-kenosha-event-well-thats-uh-very-interesting/|]
Emphasis mine



Executive order to ban body cams in 3...2....1....

September 1, 2020

Boris Johnson signals no-deal increasingly likely and hits out at EU for refusing to compromise

Boris Johnson has admitted the UK is currently heading for a no deal Brexit, with progress now “very difficult” as the two sides refuse to compromise.

In a new gloomy summary of the state of the talks, No 10 described an agreement as only “possible” – with a strong attack on the EU’s refusal to bend.

“An agreement is still possible and this is still our goal, but it is clear it will not be easy to achieve,” the prime minister's spokesman said.

He confirmed Brussels was refusing to discuss British proposals on future fishing quotas until it had received a state aid plan – something London has so far refused to set out.

[link:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-no-deal-boris-johnson-eu-compromise-a9698876.html|

For fucks sake - they have spent decades slagging off the EU and then expect them to capitulate after we have told them to fuck off...They have used the EU as a very useful flogging post for everything that goes wrong in the UK for the last 40 years.
Although I am sure the economic terrorists at the heart of government are delighted that we will end up with no deal, in the middle of a depression and with a pandemic killing far too many... no doubt we will end up with a second wave as no deal hits us hard. Empire throw backs believed they are entitled, unfortunately for the rest of us it will be too late before they realise what the rest of have known for years - that the days of empire are long gone and they are trying to punch above our weight in a way that all of us will end up with a bloody nose.

https://twitter.com/Sime0nStylites/status/1300801526097760260
‘Folks, we will have the rock hard certainty of a no deal Brexit to turbo charge the economy so we can shoot like a rocket through the grey clouds of this terrible virus and explode in the sunlit realm beyond, painting the heavens in glorious red, white and blue.’


Heh. Promised sunny uplands of Rule Brextannia in 3...2...1...👀
September 1, 2020

He took the 10 years



Not enough that they murdered her - attempts to smear her after death are a new low.
September 1, 2020

Former Trump supporters clash over the president's failures in Kenosha



Just wow. There are some people that are just lost to the rest of us.
September 1, 2020

All in one day...

Trump:

*White House is investigating a plane 'loaded with thugs in black uniforms' who went to the RNC focused on doing 'big damage' and alleges rioters are being funded by some 'very stupid rich people' (there is absolutely no evidence for this - there is of course evidence of federal thugs in black uniforms being flown into Portland...).

*Says "people that are in the dark shadows" and "people you haven't heard of" are 'pulling the strings' for Joe Biden (literally using language that speaks directly to the classic conspiracy theory mindset and connects back to the very very very anti-Semitic conspiracy theory the Elders of Zion - because of course he did).

*Kyle Rittenhouse was 'very violently attacked' before he shot two BLM protesters and says that the White House is investigating the circumstances of the shooting (even though his fanboy has actually been charged with murder, so the police investigation has concluded that there is sufficient evidence to bring charges).

*Claims he has reached out to the Blake family to meet with them when he visits Kenosha (family confirms that this is complete bollocks).

*Tweets condolences to a far right agitator who got in too deep and died on the streets of Portland (because they are very fine people?).

*Refuses to condemn far right vigilantes descending on the streets, encourages more of them to take the law into their own hands and bring violence to the streets of democratic cities (confirming once again that he is a vicious morality free zone).

*Compares police shooting people in the back to golfers who 'choke and miss three-foot putts’ (I can't even).

*Confirms that he would be 'irreparably harmed' if Manhattan prosecutors gets his tax returns (because he is a lying crook….).

He is batshit fucking cray cray, and a danger to every single American. Even the nutters that still support him, despite all of the evidence of his mendacity - are at risk of severe harm at his hand. He will see America burn to retain power and he does not care who gets harmed in the meantime. That far right chap who got shot in Portland? He will see him as a willing martyr to his cause and cares not one jot for his death - in fact I am sure he is rather pleased as he uses it as a rallying cry to bring more of his brown shirts onto the street – where have we seen that kind of shit before? Oh. Wait.




August 31, 2020

No-one could ever call me Florence

I am shit with blood and bowels and vomit. When I was 16-18 I worked as a cleaner in one of my parents nursing homes. I was heaving *gack* pretty much all of the time. But now I have made a decision and I am living it. As the SO spends most of the day in bed, hunkered down with his pain, I am being his Nightingale. Quite frankly, my ability to put up with *gack* seems to have matured as my only focus is to make him as comfortable as possible. What he gets he needs, always. But the dread of him leaving me, laying heavy in the pit of my stomach, will not cease. He is dying in front of my eyes. Every time I go check on him, I expect it to be the last time I see him breathing. So yet again I call on you. I know this is tedious, but this is the rhythm of my life as my heart prepares to go off planet and I need your backs. Soz for emotional bollocks.

August 31, 2020

This is what Trumps America looks like



Good people trying to do the right thing, while Trumps brown shirts stop them, even when one of their own could die.
August 31, 2020

Trump is supporting and applauding radical far right terrorists in real time



Many academic studies, government reports and news articles have analyzed the role of religion (or the misinterpretation of religious concepts and scripture) in radicalizing Muslims and mobilizing them to wage “Holy War” against their enemies around the globe. Few have discussed how right-wing extremism exploits Christianity and the Bible to radicalize and mobilize its violent adherents toward criminality and terrorism. Much like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, violent right-wing extremists — who refer to themselves as “Soldiers of Odin,” “Phineas Priests,” or “Holy Warriors” — are also inspired by religious concepts and scriptural interpretations to lash out and kill in the name of religion. Yet very little is said or written about such a connection.

White supremacists, sovereign citizens, militia extremists and violent anti-abortion adherents use religious concepts and scripture to justify threats, criminal activity and violence. This discussion of religious extremism should not be confused with someone being extremely religious. It should also not be misconstrued as an assault on Christianity. Rather, it represents an exploration of the links between violent right-wing extremism and its exploitation of Christianity and other religions to gain a better understanding of how American extremists recruit, radicalize and mobilize their adherents toward violence and terrorism.

[link:https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2018/holy-hate-far-right%E2%80%99s-radicalization-religion|]
Emphasis mine

The report is from a couple of years ago but makes very interesting reading. I think maybe Trump read it as a how to model... When a teenager goes out and guns people down on the street and NONE OF THEM condemn it, while sending RIP to a white supremacist agitator, it is akin to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi not condemning the Beatles of ISIS, while spouting his vindication bollocks. The type of murder may have been more grotesque but the justification coming from the American far right are the same. And hell, if they continue to get away with this, if these terrorists get more and more emboldened by the terrorist in chief who knows where it will end, and what they will feel comfortable with. Certainly coming after any enemies of Trump - the media, the democrats, BLM, all of them will be fair game if Trump gets another four years, which would lead to another 40 years in the darkness. Look at Eastern Europe after World War 2 and how long it took them to get out from under communism when most of those states where functioning democracies before WW2 when Hitler and then the SU rolled in. Russia is rolling in right now.

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They are the American ISIS of 2020 and if he gets another term Gilead be like bring it on.

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I am a Brit. I am a working class child of the troubles in Belfast who now lives a life of privilege. I am an anti-racist, progressive monster for truth. If I fail in being that monster, call me out....
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