Pulling down statues of men who were traitors, guilty of treason, owned slaves, and murdered Americans in war ... renaming places previously memorializing these slavery-supporting traitors ... forbidding the display of the Confederate flag at public events ... protesting the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children by police ... protesting the police's commission of myriad non-lethal crimes, such as rape, sexual assault, various forms of terrorism, destruction of personal property, stealing personal property . . .
Donald Trump sees all of that as:
a merciless campaign to wipe out OUR history, defame OUR heroes, erase OUR values and indoctrinate OUR children ... tear[ing] down statues of OUR founders, defac[ing] OUR most sacred memorials ...In this context:
"OUR" history: The Confederate States of AmericaTrump is exalting a sworn enemy of the United States in the hopes of inciting his followers to commit acts of violence against peaceful Americans.
"OUR" heroes: Slavery-supporting men who seceded from the US to preserve slavery, declared war on the US, and killed US soldiers in battle in a defense of slavery
"OUR" values: Slavery, lynchings, genocide, etc.
"OUR" founders: Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, etc.
Trump is doing so on the day the US celebrates its independence and in the wake of reports that he has been silent for 18 months after being told Russia was paying cash bonuses for the murder of American soldiers.
I find it both shocking and typical that the Democrats do not believe Trump's actions (which also include numerous crimes regarding the coronavirus) rise to the level of impeachment. Yes, he can be impeached again.
More than 100 newspapers demanded that Bill Clinton resign after he spoke one lie about his sexual activity in the Oval Office. Not one US newspaper has called for Trump to resign, despite Trump committing numerous crimes far more serious than Clinton's every single day.
Trump will be in office for nearly seven more months; that's if he loses in November. He could do an incalculable amount of damage in seven months (think of all that has happened since December 2019). ... The Democrats don't seem too concerned.
Cases, Cases, Cases! If we didn’t test so much and so successfully, we would have very few cases. If you test 40,000,000 people, you are going to have many cases that, without the testing (like other countries), would not show up every night on the Fake Evening News.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2020
He's as dumb as a fucking post.....In a certain way, our tremendous Testing success gives the Fake News Media all they want, CASES. In the meantime, Deaths and the all important Mortality Rate goes down. You don’t hear about that from the Fake News, and you never will. Anybody need any Ventilators???— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2020
The number of cases will be the same at any given moment whether you are testing or not. Testing shows you what is happening (so you can see the problem (what a concept!)) and fix it. Not testing simply means all of those existing cases are unidentified and unknown. The ONLY reason thousands of new cases are being identified is because thousands of new cases exist!
I'm sure Trump is not pretending here. He is truly this stupid ... but it is still difficult to fathom.
I wish someone would ask him:
Sir, have you considered telling the police to stop arresting people? According to your logic with testing, if the police never arrest anyone, crime would no longer exist. You would be responsible for getting rid of all crime!But I'm not holding my breath.
Also: No one should ever get screened for cancer. Those tests cause the cancer to appear. #Bad
"We are now in the process of defeating ... people who in many instances have absolutely no clue what they are doing."
Projection!
“The United States Space Force” pic.twitter.com/tUXHnk0FQs— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) July 4, 2020
The President does his jerk off motion to pump up the crowd pic.twitter.com/fvO5sl3E7F— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) July 4, 2020
Trump's July 4 message to the nation: "We are now in the process of defeating the radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters, and people who in many instances have absolutely no clue what they are doing." pic.twitter.com/zh7wPYmT3z— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 4, 2020
He should be careful wishing for the defeat of people who have absolutely no clue what they are doing.— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 4, 2020
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 4, 2020
People actually applaud after Trump mentions that "we got hit by the virus that came from China" pic.twitter.com/uXhSwsd4Ke— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 4, 2020
Trump is really committed to his talking point that the US only has so many coronavirus cases because of testing, ignoring that we also have the most deaths, a relatively high death rate, and hospitals on the brink of being overrun pic.twitter.com/hrHFjfYIvT— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 4, 2020
Trump accuses the media of slander by (accurately) describing him as racist pic.twitter.com/8rzyskmkyT— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 4, 2020
Trump is out here straight up delivering a campaign speech during what is supposed to be a non-campaign event pic.twitter.com/Zfk1OTVbTb— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 4, 2020
Worst "We Didn't Start the Fire" cover of all time pic.twitter.com/D9pEUG1JKL— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 4, 2020
So instead of a competent response from the government to the pandemic, we get a statue of Scalia pic.twitter.com/vf6zB0SAAD— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) July 4, 2020
"swipping" pic.twitter.com/rzO4RodaYt— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 4, 2020
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) July 4, 2020
In A Fair Election, Yes. But Those No Longer Exist.
I am thankful, in all seriousness, that he is so incredibly delusional & deranged which renders him fully unaware of how sick he appears to 65% of America right now. With his endless denial of reality & science and his endless racism & divisiveness he is ensuring his loss in Nov. https://t.co/K06vejzewQ— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) July 4, 2020
Exceptional (& Disturbing)
Now this is American exceptionalism. pic.twitter.com/m3BfSQNfaq— Kashana (@kashanacauley) June 25, 2020
Hard to believe people want to defund cops who refuse to work unless they get to kill black people. https://t.co/NV06CePQG9— Kashana (@kashanacauley) June 18, 2020
This trying to solve police brutality by letting the cops commit unchecked amounts of police brutality plan doesn’t seem to be working out.— Kashana (@kashanacauley) June 4, 2020
TW: Rape, police retaliation— Kendall Brown (@kendallybrown) July 4, 2020
In June, Norman, OK cut the police dept. budget by $865,000.
In retaliation, an NPD officer doxxed a female city council member, to "teach her a lesson".
On Saturday, her duplex was broken in to & her neighbor—mistaken as her—was brutally raped.
A Very Bad Night At The Star-Tribune's Headline-Writing Desk
An Amusing Thread
I am on my way to Gettysburg, PA, to sweat my ass off and laff hysterically at far right idiots who actually believe antifa is coming to burn flags, paint children’s faces and kill white people. pic.twitter.com/u4UFBdgJgK— Shawn Breen (@TTOJAF) July 4, 2020
This truck just came through. Trust me when I tell you that these folks drank the Koolaid. pic.twitter.com/T5fypDiHtq— Shawn Breen (@TTOJAF) July 4, 2020
Because nothing is more compatible than American and Confederate flags. pic.twitter.com/vIIcTPYRNB— Shawn Breen (@TTOJAF) July 4, 2020
Such a great informal sociological and psychological study of the uninformed.— Dr. C. S. Vogelmann (@DrVogelmann) July 4, 2020
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