US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

shit is getting testy on Pennsylvania Avenue

Cops trying to clear everyone out. Watching this on TV it’s so clear who’s escalating the violence here

Lotta F bombs on CNN right now

feel like the worm has turned - #bunkerboy is his bush-looking-out-of-a-plane-window-at-new-orleans moment

oh is he talking

I'm watching a Chantal Akerman musical

He declared the riots over. Finally.

The CNN split screen with what’s actually happening on the street is pretty striking

Ooh, he just threatened to call in the military. That'll help. Sounds like he wrote this one himself.

ceausesculastspeech.mov

Don't toy with my emotions like that.

If only.

Don Lemon bugs me at times, but he's 1000% right about how TV staged this all was; get the tear gas going just before he speaks, get the split-screen he wanted. The full Nixon.

lol goddamn commentariat. Did you think the man who said the Central Park Five were guilty would offer sympathy? You're surprised?

at least we can all declare ourselves 1807 insurrectionists now

I have strongly recommended to every governor to deploy the National Guard in sufficient numbers, that we dominate the streets, mayors and governors must establish an overwhelming law enforcement presence until the violence has been quelled. If a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.

'DOMINATE THE STREETS', what a fucking prepubescent Call of Duty wuss.

shoot the fucker now, Corleones

Um, deploying the U.S. military inside the U.S. is still kind of a no-no, last time I checked.

Maybe someone should explain this to the President, who will doubtless realize the error of his ways and immediately revise his plans and apologize.

he would have to federalize the national guard to go over state executives, which he can and has been said to be looking at doing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act

huffy puffy 'christian' coward

medicare for all, social security birth to the earth

Trump’s script said “Once law and order is restored...” but he misread it as “one law and order” and then had to go on a riff about how we have “one beautiful law” for everyone.

— Dan Amira (@DanAmira) June 1, 2020

even when declaring martial law he can't not be a fucking dumbass for two minutes

This is the Insurrection Act he is using? Not martial law?

Xpost dammit

Insurrection Act and martial law not really the same (IA was used in 1992). But completely the wrong move and a scary escalation.

Active troops already deploying to DC.

Did he also threaten to send in the military to states (hmm, I wonder which they would be) that are not up to his standard?

Tonight is going to be terrible.

cops 'taking a knee' sure impresses some TV idiots

So they fired tear gas at peaceful protesters so that he could cross the street for a photo op?

Insurrection Act can't be officially in effect yet as it requires a call to disperse "or else". My guess is his call to the States to use the National Guard as a "last chance" before he invokes it, and he's mobilizing them in anticipation of invoking it.

Technically he can go around the States on this too.but he's using this the opposite of the way it was intended

ACLU, time to shine

"Is that your Bible?"
"It's a Bible."

great photo op. nailed it pic.twitter.com/X7uedAcxHb

— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) June 1, 2020

What's the difference between Martial Law and Insurrection Act?

LOL I walked past the TV when he was doing that one law bit... one law *holds up a finger* ... one beautiful law... I was like WTF is this turd going on about and left the room again.

how fast will the Roberts Court review the Insurrection Act?

#BREAKING: Carmel, Indiana's mayor announced Monday that the city plans to sue Minneapolis for negligence so the Hamilton County city can recover expenses for protecting itself as a result of police actions in Minnesota.

— WISH-TV (@WISH_TV) June 1, 2020

Hearing that the same cops who took the knee were beating people up an hour later or elsewhere almost immediately turned around and ordered protestors tear gassed.
THought there were some decent ones who might just dislike people abusing the role for a moment.
But is this the spin about how the barrel isn't corrupted or something. Or an attempt to portray things as that.

The finger pointing up gag is probably mimicking evangelical Christians, who like to do it as a way of indicating God is involved. Like all those football players who touch their hearts and then point to the sky after scoring touchdowns.

gang i'm starting to get pretty freaked out but i have also been spending a lot of time on twitter so....

well anybody not getting freaked out rn is part of the problem

I’m pretty freaked out but when that happens I just start hoping to spontaneously die

ts: cops vs. yr parents

that's not two sides : /

:( i feel ya

detailed look at what invoking the Insurrection Act (which he hasn't done yet) would entail. why do I see ACLU lawyers having an all-nighter tonight?

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/1/21277339/george-floyd-trump-military-insurrection-act

so it's different from martial law in that martial law means government run by the military, suspension of habeas corpus, etc, whereas via the Insurrection Act, the military's rules of engagement are very limited, comparatively speaking.

wouldn't be surprised if this turns out like every other thing where the threatens to do something, then invents an excuse why he didn't have to ue it ("the Governors really stepped it up!")

Oh, it's 99 percent authoritarian theater, like a lot of things he does. But like the Sec. 230 thing with Twitter, he's very nakedly showing his inclinations. Needless to say a president who got re-elected on that platform would feel emboldened to try all kinds of very bad shit, and god knows 40 percent of the country will apparently go along with just about anything.

and then call the other 60% crazy

lmao this fucking guy. this fucking bible holder

Can’t be assed to thump it

really stupid alpha move right on schedule

where the threatens to do something, then invents an excuse why he didn't have to ue it ("the Governors really stepped it up!")

or just says he did it and the people who get no news but trump news believe it

it's a pretty ingenious way to pad your resume