So how did the riots go? Turned out Trump made it worse that very night I last wrote here and the marching in the streets is still going on almost 2 weeks since the murder of George Floyd. I've never been to Washington D.C. but apparently Lafayette Park is a place where people often gather in front of the White House and that Monday night there was a peaceful protest which got tear gassed under the apparent direction of Attorney General Bill Barr to stage a bizarre photo op for Trump. They cleared this park with tear gas and military like force which was also filmed by several journalists so Trump could walk out of the White House to the Episcopal Church across the street to hold a Bible upside down and stand there like the hemorrhoid on History that he is. I haven't gotten too much into the weeds on this one but I have heard Evangelicals are no fan of the Episcopal Bible or the teachings of this church in particular so hope that goes well for him too! Turned out to be perhaps the worst photo op of modern times (since Mission Accomplished perhaps) and certainly one of the worst moments in this stupid Presidency! Apparently Trump, Melania, and Barron were hiding in the White House bunker which got leaked to the media which made Trump nuts, since they have been trying to tag Biden with "hiding in his basement" so he had to get out because he always has to act so tough because of his masculinity issues. But it has been leaked and I think the idea of him hiding in the White House will stick, people had been noticing the blacked out White House looking like the Haunted Mansion recently and in the days after this stupid stunt a very tall and cement based fence was erected around the "People's House" nice. Later Trump tried to lie that he was just "inspecting" the bunker and if you believe this well you must already have drunk the kool-aid!? This only enraged more people to take to the streets everywhere, and I mean everywhere from Los Angeles to small town Montana and everywhere else in the US too. So many terrible images come from these riots, a CNN reporter who is also black was arrested live on the air with the camera crew who just put the cameras on the ground, an Australian crew also assaulted by police on live TV, who cares about the 1st Amendment anymore? Several more very brutal assaults on protesters by police all caught on camera now many of these officers are being charged, it just seems everywhere the police just make their case worse and America looks like China cracking down on it's people! In several cases the military or something like it is brought in, making America look more like a brutal regime, an image of the Lincoln Memorial surrounded by armed military looks more like something from the 80's movie Red Dawn and I think will haunt Americans for a long time! Even more disturbingly is these guys who look sorta military yet have no identifying credentials and will not tell people who they are, one of them said "from the Justice Department" others have said "Corrections" it's pretty creepy and makes one wonder if this is another brain child of Bill Barr? What kind of country has secret police who are accountable to god knows who following who's orders? I think we know the answer! So as Trump tries to descend into nutcase dictator territory the charges against the police who murdered Floyd are upped, for the main cop it is now 2nd degree murder. There are 3 funerals for Floyd this week the last one featuring a message from Joe Biden who always knows what to say in these situations, because he has empathy, and also quotes from the Bible which I think is a pretty telling contrast to Trump who doesn't even know how to hold one! Don't be surprised though Trump doesn't understand how umbrellas work either! It's a huge contrast in the Presidential contenders and I think Trump will lose this one, already we see support crumbling for him in many areas of the population, the elderly and the white men college and non college. People are tired of the brutality, the lying, and just the evilness of this reality TV show idiot who accidentally became President.
So how's that pandemic going? Geeze is seems soooo last week already! One wonders if the thousands of protesters everywhere will spread the virus, probably, but the racism cause is de rigueur with this generation it seems! We even have large protests in Canada especially Montreal ( probably because the French are assholes to everyone not a white French Catholic) but even in Calgary, I think it's too many people all crowded together in Olympic Plaza but racism! Yes I know I am not black and do not know what that experience is like but I am guessing that since we are an officially Multicultural country with a completely different history than the US and approach to policing that being a minority here is not as bad as many other countries!?!? Keep in mind before condemning me that I experienced many homophobic moments in my life and I would say to many straight people who think we are past all that that you do not know what it is like. I was enjoying the black comedian Amber Ruffin on Seth Meyers' show relay stories of being black while encountering police some of them maybe not so funny but I have almost as many as a gay man dealing with police in my life too! We have come a long way baby! But for you.....??? I hope it gets better for everyone one day, the police brutality on display is always enraging, they are public servants after all!!! Anyway, Alberta is opening up under the direction of Kenney, everything from day care to swimming pools to casinos and movie theaters are open. I just think this is exactly what happened in the Spanish Flu of 1919, everyone relaxed in the summer and it came back even worse that fall/winter! Since we do not have even a treatment we should be concerned it will come back but the attitude out there is that everything is getting back to normal, oh boi! I think we could get semi-normal if everyone just wore a mask, this is what we learned from Korea and other Asian countries but most people do not wear them, the good vibes of summer have got everyone feelin' fine!!!!
In the world the top virus countries are still the USA, Brazil, Russia and the UK, all led by idiot dictator types. Brazil says it will just stop counting cases so that should help that problem! India has only 200,00+ cases but they also have a nationalist asshole PM so I'd take that number with a grain of salt! In the US cases are still on the rise in many states and how bad will it get after all the partying rednecks in the Ozarks and all these protests? I wonder if the police will be hit hard too? I really don't see a lot of precautions on either side of the protests.
The days are so nice now I don't really want to think about the larger world most days, the scent of lilacs, the brilliant green leaves and the many other flowers keep me busy now.
reporter who is black was aressted on live TV
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