5/30/20: So much for understanding people’s hurt
and pain (see: 5/29/20). Seeing protests spread across the country,
President Trump decides to go the full-dictator route. He makes it clear that
he’s ready to unleash the soldiers on demonstrators.
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President Trump wishes he could crush dissent the way Xi Jinping did. |
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“That includes using the unlimited power of our Military.”
President
Trump
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In a tweet, he warns:
Crossing State lines to incite violence is a FEDERAL CRIME!
Liberal Governors and Mayors must get MUCH tougher or the Federal Government
will step in and do what has to be done, and that includes using the unlimited
power of our Military and many arrests.
The president also decides that the best way to address spreading protests in the nation’s capital is to vilify Muriel Bowser, the Democratic mayor of Washington D.C. With protesters knocking at the White House gates, Secret Service agents had to swing into action. The demonstrators were forced to keep their distance. The fact they banged at his gate and hurled curses angered Mr. Trump. He tweeted: “Great job last night at the White House by the U.S. @SecretService. They were not only totally professional, but very cool.”
He couldn’t let it go at that, or be bothered to check facts. Trump went on to say, “On the bad side, the D.C. Mayor, @MurielBowser, who is always looking for money & help, wouldn’t let the D.C. Police get involved. ‘Not their job.’”
Bowser fired back, saying D.C. police officers “were doing their jobs from the start” and assisting Secret Service “like we have done literally dozens of times in Lafayette Park.” The Secret Service later issued a statement supporting the mayor, saying, “The Metropolitan Police and the U.S. Park Police were on the scene.”
(In case you don’t realize, the District of Columbia has more
people than at least two states, but remains virtually unrepresented in Congress.
The people have no one to speak in the Senate, and one representative in the
House. That representative lacks a vote. Residents pay taxes to the federal government
but have no say in how taxation is handled. Congress has final authority over what
laws are enacted by the city, including how money is budgeted. In all fifty
states, voters have some control over who serves as judges. In the District,
judges are appointed by the President of the United States.)
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Trump’s Gallery of Unpleasant Humans
AS WE HAVE often seen, the president has a penchant for
creepy underlings. For example: Press Secretary “Birther” McEnany.
The latest addition to Trump’s Gallery of Unpleasant Humans would be the new “religious freedom advisor” at the U.S. Agency for International Development. That would be Mark Kevin Lloyd, who once called Islam a “barbaric cult.” Yes. A religion begun 1100 years before the U.S. was founded, a faith with 1.9 billion adherents, a faith with 3.5 million followers in the United States – he see as nothing more than a “barbaric cult.”
What is Lloyd’s position again? Religious freedom advisor.
As the Associated Press noted
some years back, and the Washington Post confirmed
this week, Lloyd has often shown animosity for Muslims:
Four days after
the Orlando terrorist attack that same June [2016], he shared a meme saying potential
gun buyers should be forced to eat bacon. In another post, Lloyd wrote that
“those who understand Islam for what it is are gearing up for the fight”…Those
post are no longer public, but Lloyd’s Facebook account as of Tuesday still
shows public posts where he accuses Barack Obama of ties to
the Muslim Brotherhood and says people who believe Islam is a peaceful
religion don’t understand history.
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MEANWHILE, an angry white guy decided he had had enough of Black Lives Matter protesters in Salt Lake City. Emerging from his SUV, he brandished a hunting bow and fired at least one arrow that appeared to hit a protester. Protesters bum-rushed the fellow, took away his Robin Hood toys, and set fire to his vehicle.
Setting the fire went a little too far.
Still, he was shooting arrows.
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