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As Trump prepares to embark on his National Brotherhood Tour 2020, Kayleigh McEnany was asked if he understood the symbolism of starting in Tulsa (site of the nation's worst racial pogrom) on Juneteenth (unofficial holiday commemorating the end of slavery). Of course he did, because "the African American community is very near and dear to his heart." She said that with a straight face. White House reporters responded with the thousand-yard stare of Marines on Iwo Jima who have seen more hell than anyone should.
We got a glimpse of the healing at an economic round table in Dallas yesterday, where he read, "We have to work together to confront bigotry and prejudice wherever they appear, but we will make no progress and heal no wounds by falsely labeling tens of millions of decent Americans as racists or bigots." In other words, very fine people on both sides. Trump went on to praise police in general, apart from the usual "few bad apples." It's a shame Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown, Police Chief Renee Hall and District Attorney John Creuzot weren't invited couldn't make it.
The conversation at the extremely exclusive $580,600-per-couple fundraiser has not come to light; probably the help were strip- and cavity-searched to avoid another Mitt Romney "47 percent" fiasco. Today, Trump still needed some massaging so he called in Fox News and Harris Faulkner asked about chokeholds: "I think the concept of chokeholds sounds so innocent and so perfect...you have to be careful. With that being said, it would be, I think, a very good thing that, generally speaking, it should be ended." Perfect? Not beautiful? Faulkner did not question the hopelessly confused answer because she's not some Yamiche Alcindor.
Chokeholds are not negotiable. Chokeholds kill. This is not professional wrestling. Making them illegal would be a start -- it didn't save Eric Garner, but it's a start. Also shooting people with rubber bullets, in the groin, the face, or anywhere else. A bullet is a bullet. Dylann Roof killed nine people in a church and the police managed to bring him in unscathed, and even bought him a burger. Treat every "perp" as if he/she were Dylann Roof and watch those protests melt away. (The cynic in me says the cops are loving them, both for the overtime pay and the violence they get to inflict. Maybe I'm wrong.) Also, I will be glad never to hear about a few bad apples again. It's like saying a million Irish died because of a few bad potatoes.
After pissing on Juneteenth, Trump's Traveling Carnival of Hate will be spreading covid and racism all summer, climaxing in Jacksonville on August 27, the sixtieth anniversary of "Ax Handle Saturday," when students sitting in at segregated lunch counters were assaulted by a white mob with baseball bats and ax handles. What else could the campaign commemorate in between? How about Andersonville, Georgia, on July 13, birthday of traitor and Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest? Y'all have to come to Georgia. Its elections are more corrupt than Russia's and its junior senator is literally selling shares in herself. You'd never believe it was settled by English convicts. What better place for a speech decrying "so much hate" for Gone With the Wind?
We got a glimpse of the healing at an economic round table in Dallas yesterday, where he read, "We have to work together to confront bigotry and prejudice wherever they appear, but we will make no progress and heal no wounds by falsely labeling tens of millions of decent Americans as racists or bigots." In other words, very fine people on both sides. Trump went on to praise police in general, apart from the usual "few bad apples." It's a shame Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown, Police Chief Renee Hall and District Attorney John Creuzot
The conversation at the extremely exclusive $580,600-per-couple fundraiser has not come to light; probably the help were strip- and cavity-searched to avoid another Mitt Romney "47 percent" fiasco. Today, Trump still needed some massaging so he called in Fox News and Harris Faulkner asked about chokeholds: "I think the concept of chokeholds sounds so innocent and so perfect...you have to be careful. With that being said, it would be, I think, a very good thing that, generally speaking, it should be ended." Perfect? Not beautiful? Faulkner did not question the hopelessly confused answer because she's not some Yamiche Alcindor.
Chokeholds are not negotiable. Chokeholds kill. This is not professional wrestling. Making them illegal would be a start -- it didn't save Eric Garner, but it's a start. Also shooting people with rubber bullets, in the groin, the face, or anywhere else. A bullet is a bullet. Dylann Roof killed nine people in a church and the police managed to bring him in unscathed, and even bought him a burger. Treat every "perp" as if he/she were Dylann Roof and watch those protests melt away. (The cynic in me says the cops are loving them, both for the overtime pay and the violence they get to inflict. Maybe I'm wrong.) Also, I will be glad never to hear about a few bad apples again. It's like saying a million Irish died because of a few bad potatoes.
After pissing on Juneteenth, Trump's Traveling Carnival of Hate will be spreading covid and racism all summer, climaxing in Jacksonville on August 27, the sixtieth anniversary of "Ax Handle Saturday," when students sitting in at segregated lunch counters were assaulted by a white mob with baseball bats and ax handles. What else could the campaign commemorate in between? How about Andersonville, Georgia, on July 13, birthday of traitor and Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest? Y'all have to come to Georgia. Its elections are more corrupt than Russia's and its junior senator is literally selling shares in herself. You'd never believe it was settled by English convicts. What better place for a speech decrying "so much hate" for Gone With the Wind?
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