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The great majority of police are good people but they are constrained by the culture they work in, just like most of us. Their well-being and sometimes even survival depends on mutual support but often that leads to complicity by silence.

The sad thing is that pretty much all this was predicted when Trump was elected, but I do not think that anyone would have believed the depth and breadth that Trump would go to to benefit himself by corrupting both the GOP and senate. Apart from all the corruption and gross incompetence, the GOP, with complicity/silence from the Democrats has mortgaged the future of America for at least the next decade. If/when the Democrats come into power again, they will have no choice but to raise taxes, and you can bet that its not going to be on the top1% or big corporations. The GOP will howl about how profligate the Democrats are.

Mike Pompeo ‘crossed a line’ by forming CIA advisory board ‘solely designed to advance his potential funding and political network’ Written by Alex Henderson May 27, 2020 Before Mike Pompeo was secretary of state in the Trump Administration, he served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency — a position he held from January 2017 (the month Trump was sworn into office) to April 2018. Journalist Natasha Bertrand looks back on Pompeo’s activities as CIA director in an article for Politico, reporting that he “put together an undisclosed board of outside advisers” that “some at the agency viewed as inappropriately weighted toward wealthy individuals and well-connected political figures.” https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/mike-pompeo-crossed-a-line-by-forming-cia-advisory-board-solely-designed-to-advance-his-potential-funding-and-political-network/

A couple of years ago, the FBI stated that right-wing/neo-Nazi groups posed a far greater threat than all other groups but were prevented from going after them by..... you guessed it- the White House.

Anti-Lockdown Protesters Now Calling for Dems to Die The head of Cowboys for Trump says a good Democrat is a dead one. And protesters in Kentucky hanged the governor in effigy. Will Sommer As the head of Cowboys for Trump, Couy Griffin has led pro-Trump horse rides through Washington, D.C., and posed for a photo in the White House with Donald Trump. He’s a superfan of the president and on May 17, he made the case that Democrats should die. “I’ve come to a place where I’ve come to a conclusion where the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat,” Griffin said to cheers at a rally at a New Mexico church. He was there to defy a public safety order pertaining to the coronavirus. https://www.thedailybeast.com/

Because that's what what petulant would-be dictators do.

But there is the rigid rule that one cop never, ever says or does anything to interfere or contradict another, even in court under oath.

No. There is this "blue wall".

And Trump will scream, throw himself down on the floor and hold his breath until he turns blue unless he gets what he wants.

He's a real ****.

(insert PT Barnum quote here)

I would think that between Trump's abrasive personality, his blatant corruption and, most importantly, his plummeting poll numbers, there must be a growing discontent with him. If he does not get his way, it might be a signal that they have finally had enough and are beginning to defy him.

John Ratcliffe confirmed as Trump’s new intel chief despite being ‘manifestly unqualified’ and having no real intel expertise Written by Alex Henderson May 26, 2020 4 The GOP-controlled U.S. Senate, on May 21, confirmed former Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe as the United States’ new director of national intelligence — and journalist Garrett M. Graff, known for his extensive reporting on intel and security matters, slams Ratcliffe as a “Trump loyalist” who is “manifestly unqualified” for the position. Graff, author of the 2001 book “The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11,” explains why he finds Ratcliffe’s confirmation so troubling in an article published by Wired on May 26. According to Graff, the 54-year-old Ratcliffe was nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate not because of his intel expertise, but because he is a strident partisan. “Perhaps the clearest sign that three-term Texas Congressman Ratcliffe is manifestly unqualified to serve as the nation’s director of national intelligence isn’t the fact that he embellished his resumé, nor that only a minority of the U.S. Senate would vote to confirm him — nor that the first time he was floated for the post last summer, he was so soundly rejected that he withdrew almost immediately,” Graff warns. “Instead, it’s that years before…. the 108th Congress tried to stop a man like Ratcliffe from assuming that very role in the first place.” https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/john-ratcliffe-confirmed-as-trumps-new-intel-chief-despite-being-manifestly-unqualified-and-having-no-real-intel-expertise-national-security-journalist/

And another woman called 911 to report a black guy with binoculars birdwatching.

Reports out of the GOP committee that is organizing the upcoming convention state that Trump is doing everything he can to undermine the current location and divert the convention to one of his facilities. Typical Trump.

Well, if your parents didn't have any kinds, there's pretty good chance you won't either. role modeling and all that.

Of course. Karen and her other sister Karen.

AMERICA TODAY! (North Dakota)

Just as a matter of caution, I think that visitors from Saskatchewan should be required to pass through a trough of sheep dip at the Manitoba border. It wouldn't stop the Coronavirus, but I just like the idea of de-lousing them.

But the clients looked mmaaarrvelous.

But some of the bad movies are so, so bad that they are unintentionally hilarious. When I was in the hospital recovering from abdominal surgery, I rented a small TV. That evening, a real honest-to-God spaghetti western was shown and it was so bad that I could not stop myself from laughing but was afraid I would pop my stitches. My "laughter" consisted of snorts and gasps to the point where a nurse felt compelled to come check on me.

The Crispr technology has proven to be nowhere as good as promised.

You obviously haven't seen "Battlefield Earth", "Spies" or "Cats" to name a few culprits. As an interesting aside, the original costumes for the cats had prominent buttholes, and at the last minute before release, the studio spent several hundred thousand dollars to digitally erase them. It didn't help. At all.

We are viewing this insanity from what is probably a safe distance, but for those Americans who are committed to staying in the US and can see Trump and his brownshirts for what they are it must be little short of horrifying. Their electoral system has betrayed them, as has the GOP and Trump. And their kids have to grow up in this morass. their best, brightest hopes (Warren and Sanders) have been sidelined and everything rides on a doddering Biden and a broken and corrupted electoral system where corporations are considered "persons" and money rules. Way beyond sad.