Nine members — a veto-proof majority — of the Minneapolis City Council pledged on Sunday to dismantle the city’s Police Department, promising to create a new system of public safety in a city where law enforcement has long been accused of racism.
Saying that the city’s current policing system could not be reformed, the council members stood before hundreds of people who gathered late in the day on a grassy hill, and signed a pledge to begin the process of taking apart the Police Department as it now exists.
Also Cheeto Benito is supposedly sending the Guard troops home, altho I will believe that when I fucking do not see men in camouflage backing up the fucking cops here.
Announcing his order on Twitter, Mr. Trump said the National Guard soldiers would withdraw “now that everything is under perfect control.”
“They will be going home, but can quickly return, if needed,” he wrote. “Far fewer protesters showed up last night than anticipated!”
(In fact, the daylong protests in Washington on Saturday appeared to draw larger crowds than earlier rallies.)
I just don't get how he can fucking lie, and his lies can be corrected, EVERYWHERE, and are so obvious even if they aren't IMMEDIATELY pointed out, and yet nothing ever fucking sticks. I've heard about deliberate chaos and disinformation and theories his batshit supporters enjoy him "pulling one over" on people (including them?), but I will never be not shocked by it. And I lived through Reagan lying about "Cadillac welfare queens," Shrub I lying about the CIA and war, Shrub II lying more about the CIA and more wars, and Clinton going "I. Did. Not. Sleep. With. That. Woman. Miss Lewinsky" live on TV. This is like something of a different kind altogether. He just turns reality into silly putty.
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Date: 2020-06-07 11:15 pm (UTC)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/protests-today-george-floyd-video.html#link-512cff3a
Nine members — a veto-proof majority — of the Minneapolis City Council pledged on Sunday to dismantle the city’s Police Department, promising to create a new system of public safety in a city where law enforcement has long been accused of racism.
Saying that the city’s current policing system could not be reformed, the council members stood before hundreds of people who gathered late in the day on a grassy hill, and signed a pledge to begin the process of taking apart the Police Department as it now exists.
Also Cheeto Benito is supposedly sending the Guard troops home, altho I will believe that when I fucking do not see men in camouflage backing up the fucking cops here.
Announcing his order on Twitter, Mr. Trump said the National Guard soldiers would withdraw “now that everything is under perfect control.”
“They will be going home, but can quickly return, if needed,” he wrote. “Far fewer protesters showed up last night than anticipated!”
(In fact, the daylong protests in Washington on Saturday appeared to draw larger crowds than earlier rallies.)
I just don't get how he can fucking lie, and his lies can be corrected, EVERYWHERE, and are so obvious even if they aren't IMMEDIATELY pointed out, and yet nothing ever fucking sticks. I've heard about deliberate chaos and disinformation and theories his batshit supporters enjoy him "pulling one over" on people (including them?), but I will never be not shocked by it. And I lived through Reagan lying about "Cadillac welfare queens," Shrub I lying about the CIA and war, Shrub II lying more about the CIA and more wars, and Clinton going "I. Did. Not. Sleep. With. That. Woman. Miss Lewinsky" live on TV. This is like something of a different kind altogether. He just turns reality into silly putty.