We have audio of the phone call. This is crazy.
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My big article on Mariko Tamaki's Hulk & She-Hulk runs, discussing the good, bad, and its creation.
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Therein lies the problem. We all know the only thing keeping Trump from a court date to answer for his crimes from the Mueller Report is presidential immunity from prosecution, so he'll be desperate to stay in office by any means necessary. If Trump loses by a hairline margin, he'll contest the results all the way up to the right leaning Supreme Court, if he gets blown out, he'll scream bloody murder that the election was rigged and the fix was in for Biden. However, an even more worrisome scenario would be what happens AFTER he comes up short come November, that being the two month gap between election day and inauguration day in January, can you imagine the damage a lame duck and vengeful Trump could cause going out the door when he has nothing left to lose? Any way you slice it, the country will be in for a rough ride for the rest of the year and beyond.
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U.S. lawmaker readies bill aimed at ending police court protection: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-m...rce=reddit.com
A stupid moment brought to us by the GOP.
Rep. Michael Waltz is on Fox News saying the federal government should go antifa's financing. Did I miss antifa becoming like a nonprofit or something?
Also, ouch. He was doing so well. Like, really well! And then...
Biden moments ago said we should train cops to shoot unarmed people “in the leg instead of the heart.”
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Saw this on Facebook:
"You know, I always wanted to know what it would be like to simultaneously experience the Spanish Flu, Great Depression, and 1968 mass protests while Andrew Johnson was president."
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National Security Advisor says Systematic racism with police is not a problem. Thank god for that. Could you imagine how bad things would be if there was racism?
https://time.com/5845676/systemic-ra...rt-obrien-cnn/
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Racism can play into it, but it has been informed to me that the militarization of the police is one of the main problems, such as the police using tear gas, which was originally developed for the US Army around World War I. The fact that many police departments have gotten to the point that they seem free to use things like tanks, assault rifles, submachine guns, flashbang grenades, grenade launchers, and sniper rifles anytime they want, even by racially motivated police officers, seems like an alarming concern in the first place.
However, it's not comparable to the condition of African American descendants of slaves. Before World War 2, there was a very small population of Japanese Americans in the United States. Chinese, Native Americans and and blacks faced far worse for far longer than the Japanese here ever have. It took a World War for any serious, organized and government sanctioned xenophobia to be used against them and that was ended and almost immediately criticized by the authorities and the society as soon as the war was over.
A better comparison would be to look at Germany. Imagine if, after the Holocaust, Germany had the death penalty and it turned out that German Jews were disproportionately being executed and put in prison for longer sentences today. Even after slavery, African Americans were lynched and murdered, imprisoned and segregated and forced to work in labor camps as convicts for another hundred years and today they are ticketed, arrested, imprisoned and executed far more often in proportion to other ethnic groups.
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The issues are fully entwined, because the police wouldn't dare to use that level of force if the suspects were primarily white. The dehumanization of black people and the us vs. them attitude that exists in way more police departments is one of the main reasons why they have become so heavily militarized over the years, there's a reason they didn't use force to disperse the lockdown protesters. For now, it does seem like the police response to these protests have been relatively restrained, but I'm guessing that's going to change very soon.
I thought that people saying blacks got higher prison sentences and were imprisoned more often was just a myth. I never really thought about it much even as I got older. Then I went to jail;. I saw all the black people in county jail and how they outnumbered the white inmates in some pods in a country that is 93 percent white. I saw the black inmates getting a higher sentence and being harassed by the guards more often. when I went to prison I was ina dorm with 163 other inmates. 119 of them were balck.
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