Donald Trump had peaceful protestors pushed out of the way one afternoon for his ludicrous bible walk, which did nothing but demonstrate again how ridiculous and weak he actually is. Meanwhile, D.C. mayor, Muriel Bowser imposed a curfew to push everybody off the streets every night. Trump continually bloviates about "dominating" the tens of thousands of people in the streets throughout the county-and they continually ignore him, as they do Mayor Bowser.
Meanwhile, the entire palette of Democratic elected officials is imposing curfews and deploying the cops and National Guard all over their cities, and those thoroughly militarized armed forces are not reserving their violence for looters. The cops are attacking and beating peaceful protesters at will, ignoring the soothing assurances of those officials, who jump to their support anyway. While the NYPD was rampaging against peaceful protestors, Governor Cuomo and Mayor DiBlasio were food-fighting over who supported the cops more, and who would be stricter in enforcing the curfew-which thousands of enraged people ignored.
In a country in flames over the imperious power of the police over black and poor lives, this is the message from the Democrats' anti-Trump darling of the day, Andrew Cuomo:
A police officer needs support. They need " to be empowered, they need the capacity to do their job, they have to know that they're backed up, they have to know that if they're out there they can do what they have to do.
These politicians are trying to re-instill the fear, and it isn't working. The cops cannot arrest tens of thousands of people. The people are learning that they can have more power than the mayors and police chiefs and governors and presidents, and that must be stopped. Those officials-the whole rainbow of them-are part of the system's effort to stop it.
I see a lot of people being like "where are the Democrats right now???" The answer is that they're in power all over the country sending their police out to attack protesters
- Jack Mirkinson (@jackmirkinson) June 3, 2020
The " outside agitator " theme has been a particularly obvious-and at times so absurd to be amusing-reprise of J. Edgar Hoover's and southern racists' response to civil-rights protestors. It took off with St. Paul mayor Melvin Carter's May 30th statement that: "every single person we arrested last night, I'm told, was from out of state"-though 86% were in fact Minnesotans. It quickly became a favorite trope of the right and the left center-right, blaming everybody from ANTIFA, drug cartels, Russia (Of course!), Venezuela (ditto), white supremacists, white men , George Soros, the boogaloos, and-my personal favorite- Zimbabwe , for organizing hundreds of actions across all fifty states.
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