Watch White Privilege in Action

So White Sumdood pulls a gun and points it at both protesters and in the general direction of the cops. For which he was taken into custody, and not lit up like a fucking Xmas tree with 30 or so rounds from the cops.

Do you really need me to explain how it wold have been different if he wasn't a white dude?

Does anyone not believe that we are watching a recipe from an 80 year-old cookbook on How to Seize Power in a Democracy? Need I remind you who wrote that cookbook?

Spawn of Trump Tells People to Vote by Mail

Oh, the hypocrisy!

We’re anticipating a substantial increase in the number of whiplash cases at local hospitals, thanks to a robocall sent out to Georgia voters over the weekend. Listen here, but below is a transcript:

“This is Donald Trump Jr., and I’m calling on behalf of the Republican National Committee because my father, President Donald J. Trump, mailed you an official absentee ballot request.

“Voting absentee is a safe and secure way to guarantee your voice is heard. That’s why President Trump wants you to join him in being an absentee voter this year…

“President Trump needs your absentee vote to make America great again.”

In other words, "voting by mail is for Republicans only."

Only it's no longer the Republican party. It's the Trump Party.

Speaking of the Trump party, Donald Trump has finally gotten his Horst Wessel. The Trumpist guy was going around, spraying protesters in the face with bear spray. To my mind, that hardly makes him an innocent.

But don't worry, the Trumpers will portray him as a cross between Mother Theresa and the Pope.

So Now the Wisconsin LARPing Kiddo is in Trouble with the Feds?

This from some Trumpanzee of a lawyer:

When you start manufacturing facts to support false accusations, you get into trouble under the law of defamation. Kyle did not carry a gun across state lines. The gun belonged to his friend, a Wisconsin resident. The gun never left the State of Wisconsin.

Truth always prevails. https://t.co/iDbsykaVvY

— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) August 28, 2020

The thing is, I don't believe that there is any such thing as "loaning" or "borrowing" a firearm when it comes to the residents of two different states. That's a "transfer", so far as I know, and I'm pretty certain that what the shooter and his friend did is a violation of Federal firearms law.

18 USC 922(a)(5)

Both the LARPer and his buddy violated Federal firearms law. There is an exception for sporting purposes that sort of implicitly OKs loaning a gun, but standing around outside of a car dealership and playing security guard isn't a sporting purpose.

Drunk Trumpist on Patrol

Waco police arrested a 30-year-old woman Wednesday morning on driving while intoxicated and aggravated assault charges after she chased at least two cars and intentionally crashed into one, later telling police she thought she was chasing a pedophile who had kidnapped a girl, arrest affidavits state.

Officers arrested Cecilia Celeste Fulbright, of Waco, at about 10 a.m., after she crashed into a barrier near the gas pumps at H-E-B on North 19th Street, police reported.

A driver called police at about 9:20 a.m. to report a small red car had chased them on North 19th Street but that they were able to get away, according to the affidavit.

About 20 minutes later, another driver reported the red car was chasing her and that the driver, Fulbright, was yelling at her and rammed her car multiple times before the caller pulled into the H-E-B parking lot on 19th Street, the affidavit states.

According to some of her friends, the Bag of Nuts is both a Trump supporter and a QAnon believer.

Apparently, the Bag of Nuts is still living in Ya-Ya Land:

Fulbright contacted Molina after getting out of jail, seemingly unaware that she had done anything wrong. Molina said that Fulbright told her that one of the cops who arrested her had winked at her and told her she was in “good girl jail” because “they knew I was doing good.” Molina said she confronted her ex-roommate about the seriousness of her actions but that her concerns were “not registering at all.”

“I feel like I’m mourning my friend’s death,” Molina said. “I don’t know her. Like, I have no idea who this person is. … That’s pretty much how we all feel.”

Five days after the incident, Molina sent a text message to Fulbright asking her if she was still “following the white rabbit,” a common slogan for QAnon adherents that describes the “researching” of the conspiracy theory. Fulbright responded in the affirmative.

“Q is I… Q is you… Q is us… it’s literally data… collected by the white hats and then turned into videos and shit. But okay… yeah I follow Q,” Fulbright wrote back on Aug. 17.

These nut jobs are out there and they can be dangerous; attacking strangers based on some wild-ass conspiracy theory.

I think it's going to get worse.

Fear-Based Politics

From an email:

An idle thought....
In '68, I can recall driving rural KY and seeing Wallace bumper stickers: "Don't Live in Fear, Vote Wallace". Then it was the message of a Southern racist crackpot, now that's the message of the whole damned GOP, recited nightly at their convention. -- SD, 8/27/20

Both Wallace and Nixon ran racist campaigns, but they were campaigning as the challengers.

Trump, who is decrying things, is the fucking incumbent. He's the guy who has been in a position to try to do something to address the problems of this country. But all he does is engage in his barf-fests on twitter. Trump is the guy who said that neo-Nazis are fine people. Point out that Black and Latino Americans suffer disproportionately at the hands of the police and Trump makes mockery of those concerns.

Let's update Dr. King a tad:

“…I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, [police brutality,] equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.”

Fifty-five years ago, the cry was "Black Power!" Today, the cry is "Black Lives Matter!"

The counterpoint to that today tends to be bullshit. "Blue Lives matter" ignores the fact that, in many jurisdictions, crimes committed against police officers draw heftier penalties than crimes against people, in general. Blue lives have always mattered more to the justice system. Hell, the cops are the ones who routinely get away with committing perjury to the point that there is a term of art for that: Testilying.

Still, whatever you think of the growing protests over racial injustice, the hard truth of the matter is that Donald Trump, the man who promises that he along can fix things, has not only sat on his hands for the last three and a half years, he has made things worse. Whenever the issue of racial justice is brought before Trump by a reporter or congressman, Trump crosses his arms and affects the mien of an offended and petulant toddler.

If anything is going to be done, the first thing has to be to remove from power those politicians who are obstructionist Wallace-type racists, beginning with Donald Trump.