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Apparently Li'l Boy Bitch got rushed to the bunker underneath the White House again tonight.



You know who never hid in the basement but instead screwed his courage together and faced his own nation and lead it in a time of crisis? EVERY SINGLE OTHER FUCKING PRESIDENT BEFORE DONALD TRUMP!

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The thought of the "most powerful man in the world", the one who shit all over John McCain, the one who said he'd run into school all by himself to stop a mass shooting, crapping his pants in fear because the beast is outside his door, fills me with nothing but delight. To see such a thing squirm makes me happy. It is a pettiness I have no shame at all in feeling.

They all deserve this to happen to them at least once in their lives, to feel genuine fear, they who do nothing but toy with the lives of others. No truce with kings, kid. Not ever.

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conditions would improve. lives would improve. crime would drop. the sting of american life would be lessoned. desperation would be lessoned. and in the mean time, socialists would climb the ranks of the political structures for continued advancement.

bernie isn't the solution. he's the "compromise", the "peaceful way". the path that isn't open conflict between countrymen, that isn't radicals burning precincts, as fun as i think that is.

obama was a lib. he supported the neoliberal order. he bombed and imprisoned kids like presidents before and after him. idpol means NOTHING amongst capitalists. obama cared for the black men dead under his watch about as much as bush. just bad pr to the pampered class.

whether through violent radicals getting bloody in state buildings, or that white-ass pasty old fart being installed president, either you hand the country to proper socialists or america will fall. the redder the better.

We are talking apples and oranges here. This thread is about police brutality. Bernie could be in the White House. He could give every American free health insurance. He could make the minimum wage $100,000 a year for everyone including stay home moms. He could guarantee everyone a place to live and food to eat. None of that would stop what is going on. You say that the crime rate would go down with Bernie. Crime could go to absolute zero and it would not stop the problem. You do not have to be a criminal to get involved with law enforcement. Law enforcement/corrections has become its own industrial complex. It has taken on a life of its own. Its like in the movie: the departed where detective Sullivan is on his first date with Madolyn. She tells him that if there were not criminals he would not have a job. He states that he will always have a job,and that he will just start arresting innocent people. Law enforcement and corrections jobs pay good money. They have fantastic benefits. Many of them have 20 year retirement at 80% of their pay. I don't know about you, but if my job said here is 80% of your pay to not come back......I would be like: see you later! I have fish and crab to catch.

Private prisons get built in the U.S. that have to have prisoners to house to stay in business. Judges and prosecutors get kickbacks to keep the supply of fresh meat coming. Real state owned prisons need a fresh supply of fresh meat as well. No one cares if you are innocent or not. You get arrested while driving uber and picking up people that just made a drug purchase. You happen to be within 1000 feet of a school, park, church, whatever. You are now facing mandatory minimums. SERIOUS mandatory minimums. The prosecutor wants to cut a deal where you plead guilty and pay fines, pay court costs, pay probation, pay for drug and alcohol counseling.....or you take your chances in court. Your court appointed lawyer says to take the deal. He has no interest in working hard for you as he has hundreds of clients. You did nothing wrong but you cannot afford a "real" lawyer. If you gamble and lose you are looking at 10 years in prison. Most people are going to take the deal. Lots of innocent people get dragged through the system. The system does not care. They have their own jobs and pensions to worry about. No one gives a fuck about you. Bernie is not going to change that level of bureaucracy any time soon.

Most police departments main purpose is to generate revenue. Here is a lady out of Texas. She talks about a small town with a big budget to maintain. That
small town has a 3/4 mile main road passing through. All of the police are stationed on that road looking to generate revenue. They read the plates of every vehicle passing through. If any vehicle does not have insurance, they get pulled over. You can say that they should have insurance....I agree that they should but not having insurance is a secondary offence. That means that if the police have a "real" reason to pull you over (like speeding) than they can also issue you a ticket for not having insurance. Not having insurance is not a reason to pull someone over in the first place. Do these police care? No they do not. They break the law themselves to keep the money rolling in.



Here is a guy showing how the cops in Georgia are stopping people heading to Florida to steal their money. If the cops really cared about stopping drigs than they would be stopping people heading north. Florida is a main point of pickup for drugs. They have pain clinics where anyone can go in and see a doctor for anything. They get a script and hundreds of pain pills in the same visit. The cost of the drugs doubles as soon as they walk out the door of the clinic. There are literally people waiting in the parking lot to double your money. The fact that these Georgia cops only care about people heading into Florida shows that they only care about generating revenue through asset forfeiture.



No one man (not even Bernie) is going to shut this down. This is what the problem is all about. The cops have turned into pirates. They depend on this money to keep themselves going. They will create criminals if they have to. The courts depend on this money to keep going. Its not a lack of training thats the problem. Its the fact that the police are trained to escalate every encounter to try to attempt to extort more revenue. Its when someone does not want to be a willing victim that there is a problem. Its when someone does not want to lay on the wet ground and ruin their good clothes that they get beat within an inch of their lives and charged with multiple felonies. Its when they stand on their rights to not incriminate themselves that things go south in a hurry. Its when people start asking questions about what is going on they find their faces smashed into the pavement or their arms twisted above their heads. No one man in the White House is going to slay this beast.

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god that's a lot of writing. bernie won't be the democratic nominee and the hypothetical won't happen. please write less next time

as i said, bernie isn't the solution. the socialists under his wings are. it's a time thing, and politically, america must purge the plutocrats if any state power is to ever be used for the people. even bernie acknowledges that the position is "useless" without people in the streets.

you ask what can possibly stop the cops? this shit, i guess. or a foreign military occupation, perhaps, since the american government is blameless and feckless in the power of their own state apparently and simply can't do anything at all, hands handcuffed.

fine my dude, no bernie. how about the black paramilitary marxist-leninists armed to the teeth?

would be nice if those libertarian and free citizen nerds would show up, but, yknow, it's a class conflict.

I know I ramble. I am saying that law enforcement has become a power unto themselves. The Supreme Court is looking at qualified immunity for law enforcement. That could seriously change things if the cops started being held accountable. I think that the court is to pro state for them to make a change at this time. Some good news that has came out of this is where some cops in Atlanta roughed up some people yesterday, and got fired today. Usually it takes an act of congress to get a cop fired. It should be much easier.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlant ... ing-arrest

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the cops are weak, they are paper tigers.

so now they must kneel and hug folks, and reprimand their assholes, or they'll see their workplace burned to the ground. and bless those smart enough to try such a tactic for saving themselves some trouble, as annoying and full of nauseating propaganda it may be.

they only apologize when it's recorded. to them, it's advantageous to fuck people up and then say sorry later. and thank goodness they don't apologize for everything they do, because they'd need to set up a constant live feed and would have to start truncating statements; "10 yr beat, sry , mentaly ill tazd, sry , reprtr 1/4d + drawn, sry "

i won't hold my breath about things getting better soon. this event'll probably end sometime soon, through hugs or bullets, who knows. but it'll happen again, and will probably be worse, on even higher quality video. until a concerted political force challenges the authority at hand here, you're right, things won't change. i'd rather that all happen under a sympathetic nice guy of a leader, as a leader that has always been on the side of the underclass will probably reduce tension. probably less buildings would be burning if less southern quotes about shooting folks were being aired by the president. and perhaps the cops would be less brazen with their fantasies of being right-wing death squads if the leaders weren't down for it. either way the shit is coming at the cops now, the genie seemed to have been unleashed. the leader affects the temperament and conclusion of the conflict

funny how now they are so much more hesitant to shoot-to-kill in "fear of their safety", now that crowds of folks throwing rocks and such at them are burning down their buildings, taking their cars. guy with a forged document, big scary! thousands of people yelling "kill the pigs", ehh, ummm, who wants a hug!

oh, hey there citizen, here's another clip of a cop playing with a puppy! so cute!

The boomers had a saying: question authority! Before the boomers people just did what they were told if it looked like the person giving orders had some authority, any authority. Now I am not an anarchist, but I have always believed in questioning authority. Who are you? What are your credentials? Show me your credentials! That way of thinking disappeared over time. Everyone just fell back in line somewhere along the way. We turned into a bunch of sheep. I have given the millenials a lot of shit over the past few years. One thing that I will give them some credit for is that they have brought back the need to question authority. Why do I have to show ID as a passenger? Why do I have to lay on the ground like a dog? Why do I have to explain my comings and goings to you? What crime do you suspect me of committing? Is that a lawful order?

You bitch about us boomers, and I bitch about you millenials. It would appear as though we have a lot more in common than we thought.

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You bitch about us boomers, and I bitch about you millenials. It would appear as though we have a lot more in common than we thought.

Careful.
If the bad guys find out that the common man may unite in common cause against the real global enemy, then all hell will break loose.

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i haven't watched plug's video but it's already been noticed that white supremacists and organised criminals are taking advantage of the situation to commit some mayhem of their own

it's not too surprising, honestly. what better time than now to murder your business rivals?

You have any proof of this? I mean there's shit tons of video of the riots so surely you have some video to back this up, right?

The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think

Far-Right Infiltrators and Agitators in George Floyd Protests: Indicators of White Supremacists

Who has been involved in organizing the violence at the protests over the murder of George Floyd? Not the far left and Antifa, as Barr and Trump are already claiming.

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US Law Enforcement Are Deliberately Targeting Journalists During George Floyd Protests

Bellingcat has identified and collected multiple instances of US law enforcement deliberately targeting journalists during the protests against the killing of George Floyd.

The arrest of a CNN crew in Minneapolis while broadcasting live on air on May 29th was a shocking event, especially in a country with such strong protections on freedom of speech. However as of the time of writing we have identified at least 50 separate incidents where journalists have been attacked by law enforcement.

In these examples journalists have been shot with rubber bullets, targeted with stun grenades, tear gassed, physically attacked, pepper sprayed and arrested.

Although in some incidents it is possible the journalists were hit or affected accidentally, in the majority of the cases we have recorded the journalists are clearly identifiable as press, and it is clear that they are being deliberately targeted. This pattern of violence against journalists is replicated in several cities, but appears most intense in Minneapolis.

A selection of these incidents can be found below.

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Injury sustained by Nina Svanberg

Photo-journalist Linda Tirado was hit in the left eye by a less lethal round while covering events in Minneapolis. She later found out she had been permanently blinded.


Incident 11, May 30: CBS news crew targeted by rubber bullets in Minneapolis





A group of a dozen or so journalists were targeted at close range despite identifying themselves as journalists, as described in the video above. Molly Hennessy-Fiske was struck on the leg by a less lethal round.

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Incident 20, May 30: MSNBC film crew targeted with less lethal rounds

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/america ... -protests/

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I abhor this eruption of violence and the crackdowns will not be sustainable. Many will die not only from the violence but from the outbreak of the plague and the collapse of civil society. It was all avoidable but it wasn't George's fault.

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it must have been nice, living in the age of america when it had to look good so they could tell the soviets to eat shit

It was. And now those same Soviets run twitter bot factories that appear to be successfully undermining that democracy.