Apparently, when it comes to shooting black men, police forces around the country are unable to help themselves.
It's like an addiction.
They keep doing it no matter how much damage it causes individuals, families, their communities, or the nation.
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Groups like "Bikers for Trump" which is basically an updated, more public relations savvy incarnation of the Klan, arrived in Milwaukee yesterday to engage in some well staged political bravura / bullying, have stated making their way here.
Should go well.
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The Trump team is eating this up, and fuck off if me saying so offends you. I doubt that much could make Trump more gleeful than the idea of a full scale race war erupting this close to the presidential elections.
He knows it will scare racist white people to the polls.
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And, he hopes it will depress minority voting, out of simple fear.
Worse, my gut tells me that his preferred scenario involves things degrading to such an extent that he will be "forced" to declare a state of national emergency allowing him to, at last, declare martial law.
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You might find that an extreme idea, but after 35 years of watching the far right tighten it's grip on power I have little doubt that it is something they will not give up easily or even voluntarily.
Demographic realities being what they are, Trump is their last chance here.
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White supremacy is slouching toward Hades. In most white dominated populations white birth rates barely surpass death rates, and often do not meet them.
The term itself will soon become an anachronism. That is if we don't destroy ourselves trying to maintain the status quo.
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The cynic in me, who was born sometime around November 9th 2016, has become something of an amateur conspiracy theorist. And he sees all kinds of dark possibilities creeping in behind and around last night's shooting.
If not only because logic dies here.
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The nation is engulfed in a racial crisis brought on by (usually) white police officers brutally murdering unarmed black men and somehow, in the middle of it, cops are still shooting the same in the back at close range?
This proves the police agencies are tone deaf & blind.
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It proves that police departments around this country are not taking this seriously
It proves that officers are still not being given any new, let alone, proper training.
It proves that individual officers are not policing themselves or each other.
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And it also proves that the police chief in Kenosha has much to answer for, and hopefully Daniel Miskinis will provide some of those answers to whomever replaces him after he resigns, which should happen immediately or before.
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Soon the National Guard and their blockades will roll into the city in which I live.
They will militarize our landscape, but will do so legally and to maintain safety.
The same cannot be said of Trump's private army should their boots make their way here.
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And @GovEvers, your leadership, words, and actions on this and so much else are inspiring and deeply moving.
You have earned my respect and my loyalty the hard way.
There was no interest with first group of paintings. But, I'm desperate, so here is the third set. If you e interested in any of them DM and we can discuss favorable cost and shipping terms. Proceeds go to my legal defense fund. My next court date is Thursday.
I'm not sure if anyone on here still cares, and I wouldn't blame you if you didn't, trust. My depression and illnesses have swallowed me up and I get anxiety even thinking about logging on because I used have people on here who cared deeply and I have alienated most of them.
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I have done the same IRL and have literally no one out here who cares anymore. I have a major court date on the 17th and need to get my lawyers some to keep them from dropping the case and while I have some, it's not nearly enough.
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I've decided to post some artwork on here to see if anyone was interested. All of them will not ship for at least 7 days as I have not yet top coated them.
The sizes and materials are noted with the pics.
Thanks to everyone who reads this, and to anyone who is interested, DM.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein
The war being fought today by Vladimir Putin's Russia will not end well for anyone. Not for the world. Not for Europe. Not for America.
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It obviously will not end well for the Ukraine.
But, contrary to Putin's personal hopes and belief, it will especially not end well for Russia.
This is a nightmare of a war on so many levels and too few seem to understand the implications or the possible ramifications
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And for those Americans who think that this is a foreign war that does not undermine our domestic interests and so, therefore, requires military, if not, diplomatic neutrality, consider the following.
Russia is a bully nation that is run by an even bigger bully.
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Yesterday there were dozens of Trump supporters protesting along a major traffic artery here in Kenosha, one that runs directly in front of our largest hospital; a hospital once again filled to bursting with Covid-19 admissions.
They were protesting all covid-19 mandates.
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They do not want them anywhere in public, and, it seems, especially not schools.
No masks.
No social distancing.
No vaccine requirements.
I know a nurse who works in that building who battled Covid and who lost her own mother to the virus.
This was a shameful display.
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The cognitive dissonance is profound and is a danger to all of us.
I grow weary of reading about yet another of these "patriots" who, just weeks ago probably stood in such protests themselves, but who now have Covid and suddenly its all "I wish I had listened..."
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The Magas in the region I live in were often fairly well off financially. Well off enough to pay both arms and legs for the array of very expensive Trump signs, Trunp flags, and other types of political detritus to fill their yards and windows and automobiles with.
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Your economic disparity argument was never a good fit and was based more on the guiding force of your imagination than in reality.
In 2016 more of the truly impoverished in this nation voted for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump.