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Worth a look: https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aGd0Mvw_460svvp9.webm

The scary thing is that Barr is not low IQ (as far as I know, but its an open question)- he is actually and knowingly doing harm, but doesn't care. That's sociopathic behaviour and puts him in the same group as Charles Manson and Idi Amin.

And Barr is not even a lawyer- he has an honourary law degree only.

Now we're into a bit of a grey area- the UNLV team is called "The Running Rebels". Where do you stop?

On an unrelated note: Blake Wheeler made an impassioned and uncomfortable statement on racism a couple of days ago. It confirmed my opinion of him as one of the good guys.

Well, Trump is consistent if nothing else- consistently a dollar short and a day late. "I am the leader, so I must find the parade and get in front of it."

As Republicans see that Trump has no chance in Hell of winning and that impacts their own chances of re-relection, we will probably see more and more rats deserting the sinking ship. I don't think that Trump's overt racism, stupidity, corrcuption and fascism bothers them- its all about their self-interest in hanging onto their jobs and power.

Infowars is obviously desperate for any distraction to the disaster he/they have helped to create in the US.

Trump is abysmally stupid- dumber than anyone thought. And the deterioration in his statements and actions in the past few days are an indicator of worsening mental stability. He is almost certain to do or say something really, really stupid soon, but that will be difficult to notice apart from all his other idiocies of late..

Pentagon Order Was Behind National Guard Helicopters Buzzing D.C. Protesters @MarielCG3/Reuters The Pentagon reportedly ordered National Guard helicopters to maintain a “persistent presence” in Washington, D.C. this week as protests over the death of George Floyd continued, resulting in the dangerously low fly-bys that sparked outrage from human rights groups. Two helicopters flew low enough over crowds the night of June 1 to blast them with wind and engulf them in noise, a practice known as “buzzing” and most often reserved for war zones. According to The New York Times, military officials said the aggressive maneuver stemmed from a Pentagon threat to send in active-duty military units if the Guard could not control the crowds. (And the line between civilian and military power gets blurred even further)

Texas GOP leaders call George Floyd’s death a hoax and compare MLK to a monkey Leaders of the Republican Party in Texas have been publishing conspiracy theories and racist posts on social media in response to the national protests against anti-Black policing. Amid calls for them to step down, all have refused. Bexar County Republican Chairwoman Cynthia Brehm posted a now-deleted Facebook post in which she claimed George Floyd’s May 25 death was actually a “staged event” to spark opposition to President Donald Trump. In her post Brehm wrote, “I think there is at the very least the ‘possibility’ that this was a filmed public execution of a black man by a white cop, with the purpose of creating racial tensions and driving a wedge in the growing group of anti deep state sentiment from common people that have already been psychologically traumatized by Covid 19 fears.” https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/texas-gop-leaders-call-george-floyds-death-a-hoax-and-mlk-a-monkey/ (Does anyone still doubt that racism is alive and well in the GOP?)

QAnon-loving Senate candidate wants martial law declared in Oregon to combat ‘antifa’ The Oregon GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, Jo Rae Perkins, decided to let her “Q light” shine on a Facebook livestream earlier this week—and it was a doozy. Perkins, an unrepentant “QAnon” conspiracy cultist, told her audience that the state needs to be placed under martial law, with the National Guard being sent not just to Portland—where there have been violent protests over police brutality—but to rural places like Klamath Falls and Bend. Her reasoning: Busloads of nefarious antifa activists, financed by the evil George Soros, are fanning out to these towns to wreak destruction. https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/qanon-loving-senate-candidate-wants-martial-law-declared-in-oregon-to-combat-antifa/

BUSTED: Key Trump aide caught pushing racist vigilantism on social media Video of a chainsaw-wielding Texas man threatening protesters while shouting the n-word went viral on Friday. While many people were shocked by the video, one of President Donald Trump’s top advisors supported the racism and vigilantism in documented in the video, according to a new report. “President Donald Trump and his allies for years have amplified racist messages on Twitter while simultaneously reaching out to black and Hispanic voters, a dissonant balancing act that’s now rocking the GOP amid nationwide racial-justice protests,” Politico reported Saturday. “The two competing forces collided Saturday on the Twitter feed of Trump campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp, when she boosted a tweet that lauded a man in Texas in a viral video as he yelled the n-word and wielded a chainsaw to chase away anti-racism demonstrators.” Apparently Schlapp thought her post wouldn’t be as offensive if the n-word were edited out. https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/busted-key-trump-aide-caught-pushing-racist-vigilantism-on-social-media/

Colin Powell is hardly in a position to be holier than thou. He was instrumental in promoting all the ouright lies that the second Bush administration promoted in ordfer to justify the Gulf War (Hussein was responsible for 9-11, Iraq was seeking weapons-grade uranium and had weapons of mass destruction etc etc) that resulted in the deaths of over a half-million Iraqis (mostly children) and the rekindling of civil conflicts, the eviction of Jews and Christians and the deliberate destruction of Iraqi infrastructure. Powell and the other toadies in HW's regime should have been prosecuted as war criminals. That Bush administration helped to set the stage for the current mess.

Although The Smell Is The Same......

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aAew3oo_460svav1.mp4

Trump is reviled to a extent that makes Nixon look like Mother Teresa.

The Terrifying History of Bad Cops in Buffalo No fewer than four men of color have died as the result of encounters with Buffalo police in the past three years. Then a 75-year-old got knocked down. This story was published in partnership with Investigative Post, a non-profit investigative reporting center in Buffalo, New York. It’s the shove seen round the world: two Buffalo cops push a demonstrator who falls, slams his head on the pavement, and immediately begins to bleed from the ears. City officials wasted no time in suspending the two officers seen on the video shoving the demonstrator, who, it turns out, is 75 years old and fighting cancer. On Saturday, the officers were charged with assault in the second degree. Suffice to say, this is not a good look for the police. https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/we-just-got-a-sneak-peek-of-what-the-november-election-could-look-like/

What was particulary impressive was that there were no police present, nor was there any reason for them to be there. Love this city, warts and all. It has always felt like home, even when I was far away.

Must have affected his driving a lot.

LAPD Accused Of Shooting Man In Wheelchair In The Face With Rubber Bullets A viral image shows a man bent over in his wheelchair, blood pouring from above his eye, in front of a line of Los Angeles police officers. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/lapd-man-shot-in-face_n_5edbeea1c5b691d5e0157182?ri18n=true

Trump Had ‘Shouting Match’ With Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Over Military Crackdown on Protesters America’s highest ranking solider, General Mark Milley, who chairs the Joint Chiefs of Staff, raised his voice when President Trump demanded the regular military be deployed against George Floyd protesters, according to the New Yorker. The verbal tussle happened in the Oval Office just days before Trump’s ill-advised bible photo op, which Milley attended. A senior military official told the New Yorker that the president and Milley “got into a shouting match” with Milley insisting the military could not be dispatched against American civilians. “I’m not doing that,” he reportedly told Trump. “That’s for law enforcement.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-milley-chairman-of-joint-chiefs-of-staff-and-trump-had-shouting-match-over-floyd-protest-crackdown?ref=home

Bill Moyers: It’s happening before our very eyes A frightening read from a credible reporter and historian. https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/bill-moyers-its-happening-before-our-very-eyes/

Just to change the tone for a moment, there is very preliminary evidence that the majority of the COVID virus is being carried by what are called "superspreaders". The problem is that there is no quick or easy way to determine who these are.

And you ain't seen nuthin' yet. He is just gonna get more and more unhinged from here on.