Cop automobiles have been used to commit these assaults multiple times. Cops, ever inventive bastards, have been routinely using bicycles as weapons in a number of ways, including as awkward melee weapons, rams, and in at least one case, literally riding directly and intentionally over a prone protestor's head.
Paul Krugman got dragged on Twitter a while back for saying something about how there wasn't anti-Muslim violence after 9-11. And I suppose he kind of deserved it, but boy did I look at that and think yeah, the kind of political violence we're seeing now was not happening in 2001-2002.
The political violence was more channeled into overseas wars, no?
I guess, but that seems like an odd way of putting it to me. The overseas wars were criminal, but they don't seem like the same phenomenon as domestic political violence.
The domestic violence was much more one off hate crimes and police/FBI targeting and workplace/public-space harassment or vandalism. You're a Muslim (or Sikh or brown person seen as a Muslim) living your life and someone harasses you or freaks out and beats or kills you. Most of the actual bloody violence thus qualitatively different from actively setting up group battles or group assault on the street. Less organized, more impulsive. The most organized things --- what I suspect a lot of white supremacists used to do more of -- were vandalizing (or worse) mosques and residences in ways that were too extensive to be a lone hateful person acting out on their own.
And back then, the lone hateful people weren't acting with the tacit endorsement of the president of the United States. GW Bush shrank from some kinds of open bigotry.
GW Bush shrank from some kinds of open bigotry
One of the few genuinely good things he did was to make a speech shortly after 9/11 telling people to knock if off with the attacks on muslims or mistaken-for-muslims, and it seemed to have a real effect.
everything seems to have ground to a halt in light of that
The calendar hasn't stopped. And every day that Trump isn't gaining ground, he's losing.
OP: Thanks to Trump's COVID, even this weekend was filled with annoying updates and political discussions, instead of being a break between weekdays of heavier political activity.
The current rumors of discharge seem likely to be about getting him out of the hospital's hair, right? It seems like the pretending to be president pictures, "visits with troops"(while Covid positive), and drive around the block while infected may have convinced doctors that if he's not going to obey doctor's orders, he might as well stop infecting sick people and go back to "executive time" on the west wing couches. Or do you think something different is suggested?
I assume Trump is pushing it, either from normal or steroid-enhanced hubris.
I'm pretty displeased with the extramarital sexting from the North Carolina Senate challenger. (It wasn't even sexy sexting, it was dippy, and his teenage daughters must be right properly embarrassed.) The outcome where we get rid of Trump but McConnell keeps the Senate is a special flavor of maddening, and far too likely.
Trump is quite familiar with discharge related to communicable diseases.
11: The best line wasn't even from the candidate, but from his inamorata: "...get rid of your staffers, starch your best shirt, and get ready to kiss a lot." What kind of Martian laundry-obsessed sexting is that?
Maybe it wasn't the shirt she wanted stiffened
Have the QAnon people weighed in with their interpretation of how starch means heroin and kiss means drain the blood of young girls?
Ok, it's pretty fucked up that autocorrect knows it should be QAnon and non Qanon.
If that's your pet name for your paramour's cock, that's still an inappropriate level of interest in laundry.
Everyone post your SAT score and the sext you'd be most proud to have your political career tanked by.
Now I'm wondering what all the blog references to the French Laundry were really about.
It's really stupid for anyone to run for office thinking that they can keep an affair secret, but a plain old consenting adults sex scandal seems kind of quaint after the last four years. Also hoping to see an explanation of how the texts got out that doesn't involve the Russians.
I just lost a very dear friend to a particularly virulent strain of inflammatory breast cancer. She died about two hours ago. She is the mother of two daughters, aged 18 and 20, and it's just not fair.
(Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May her soul, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.)
That is all.
I'm so sorry to hear that. My condolences.
My deepest condolences. Damn cancer. Damn 2020.
May her memory be a blessing, JPJ, and may her daughters find some peace amidst the sorrow.
I'm so sorry, JPJ. That's awful.
20: So angry that he would do that. In some sense I find it personally gross it don't think it's relevant. On the other hand, I think it's dumb and reflective of poor judgement. In a primary, all things ring equal, I'd probably vote for the person who didn't engage in extra marital sexting.
21: So sorry. Someone I knew died of that. Her kids were much younger. Maybe 8 or 10. It's a particularly tough one to take, Because it's not picked up on a mammogram.
That's awful. I'm so sorry to hear, JPJ.
Thinking of you, and everyone else who loved your friend, JPJ.
Kind of back on topic, what are the odds Chauvin flees the country? I'm guessing it wasn't his own money used for the bail.