- Wow she’s good, and this does seem fitting after the photo op. Sarah Cooper channels Donald Trump as he explains how much the Holy Bible means to him. Much too personal to mention specific verses, however. The whole thing is good. You know… love the whole thing.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony is a bit fed up with the White House fantasy world of small petty lies in which Trump fires people he could not have fired, and tear gas is not really tear gas.
- My president wants very much to crack down on Antifa. PZ Myers wants to join up but wonders if he can qualify since Antifa is a description, not a thing.
- In Hackwhackers, Trump needs an economic revival to ensure his election, so he throws Dr. Fauci to the side and demands that workers ignore the coronavirus and report back to work NOW.
- In MadMikesAmerica, Bill Formby asks if we are heading for a revolution, as in Trump losing in November and finding some way to overthrow the election.
- Okay, so my president threatens to use the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy federal forces, in effect declaring martial law. Green Eagle takes a close look at that actual law, how it was enacted in 1807, how it was changed by subsequent amendments over time, and how it can apply to current protests. But there’s the problem with that last little bit. There isn’t any legal way to use it against the protests.
- Jonathan Bernstein points to James Mattis’ rebuke of Donald Trump as a way big deal. It is rare for a former Secretary of Defense to criticize a president. That degree of harsh judgment is unprecedented.
- Dave Dubya takes notes as my president reposts a tweet urging death to Democrats and excoriates governors for hesitating to use violence against protesters.
- In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson sees a frightened, blustering president finding himself increasingly isolated.
- News Corpse reports as Trump staffers rearrange the chairs in the press room of the White House in a way suggestive of a famous ship. Think iceberg.
- At The Moderate Voice my President is quoted directly as he explains to America what George Floyd is thinking as he looks down from heaven. He is very happy with Mr. Trump’s latest jobs report. Kind of a double assault. A police officer kneels on Mr. Floyd’s neck until he is dead, then a president goes all Charlie McCarthy, using him in a ventriloquism act.
- Scotties Toy Box finds 27 seconds of gentle interaction that captures one huge difference between November’s candidates.
- Of the five things John Scalzi at Whatever observes, the most obvious is that police are not treating protesters with the same polite gentleness with which they approach “a bunch of white dudes with semi-automatics screaming about their desire for a haircut.”
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged carefully reviews Senator Tom Cotton’s vivid fantasy about the virtues of officially beating up protesters. She concludes that the man has snakes in his head. Police ought not to spend their time and moral authority on violence.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has a guest. Ben, who is my age (too damn old), is white. He explains, in a powerful way, what that allows him to do.
- This has become an international incident. Frances Langum shows the video as a camera crew and reporter from Australia are battered, chased, and shot at with rubber bullets as US Park Police in DC obey orders and charge into protesters.
- At The Onion, Buffalo police are asking for reinforcements to keep frail elderly men from rampaging the city.
- Facebook employees, a lot of them at least, are angry with Mark Zuckerberg for not adopting rules about disinformation and advocacy of violence, even though such rules might inconvenience Mr. Trump. Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara doesn’t see their point. After all who can decide what is disinformation and what is truth? Sounds almost biblical.
- As worldwide protests continue over the death of George Floyd and more instances of police brutality are documented on video, nojo finds an ice cream customer who is completely undone by how retail safety measures in response to the coronavirus are affecting his order, and expresses his fury at the way his cone is served.
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