DC Episcopal Bishop Decries Trump Photo-op in Front of St. John's

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Anonymous wrote:Wait is it in poor form to use tear gas and rubber bullets are citizens exercising their constitutional right?!

Wait... they had a "constitutional right" to vandalize and set fire to a church?

Nobody gassed on shot tonight to clear the way for the fat orange an,Ed empowers parade was vandalizing anything. Moron.

Says the moron who can't even string a coherent sentence together.

DP. Now you're attacking someone for typos? You don't like that pp pointed out that none of the people gassed tonight were vandalizing anything.

At least pp isn't president. Here's your candidate trying to string a few sentences together in front of the church:

A reporter asked him if it was his Bible and he said, “It's a Bible. We have a great country,” he said. “That's my thoughts. Greatest country in the world."

"That's my thoughts"? Really? And why are you holding a Bible if you're not going to talk about it?

Let’s get one thing straight. The Jews were gassed. The protesters had some tear gas thrown their way so they would disperse after not listening to police when asked to disperse. The protesters will be back to beat and loot tonight. The gassed Jews will never come back.

So, in your bizarre world, that makes it OK to gas peaceful protestors so Trump can have a photo op?

And, OMG, did you actually say "had some tear gas thrown their way"?

Were they asked to leave prior? Yes or no

Do you understand the first amendment? Yes or no.

If they were asked to leave because the President was going to come through,and they actively refused to disperse after being asked multiple times, yes, they can be forced to leave. With tear gas. Furthermore, in a public park, they need a permit to assemble to protest. Did they have one? No.

"When do you need a permit? Protests of 25 people or more on the National Mall or other National Park Service operated spaces in DC require a permit (click here to see a listing of those spaces) require a permit, as does any event that requires streets to be closed. The Metropolitan Police, because they lost an important court case, are required to allow permit-less marches in the street as long as they stay within a single lane. Demonstrations on public sidewalks are legally permissable without a permit so long as they don’t block the walkway and fewer than 100 people are expected. "

The optics are terrible. That's all that matters. Trump gassed people for one of the most inane photo ops in recent memory. Nobody cares about any of your nitpicking, it won't erase this disastrous image.

So you now admit that they were gathering illegally and should have left when they were asked. They didn't, so the police had to use tear gas to force the issue.

The optics? I think the images and video of people being beaten near to death, and all the looting and graffiti far surpass what you are complaining about. But....TRUMP.... BAD ORANGE MAN

I think you are a toddler in sore need of some sleep.

They weren’t gathering illegally at all - but Trump did just commit a war crime against his own fellow citizens.

You nut jobs keep harping on a few business owners allegedly being beaten, but you don’t care that George Floyd is dead, or that that follows on 400 years of inequality.

You’re worried about graffiti and looting when you don’t care what the GOP has done to the environment or how they’ve robbed the middle class and poor blind to give billionaires more money.

So I say again: go get a snack and go to bed. Hopefully you can wake up more mature in the morning.

DP.
This is a totally idiotic post.

1. If they did not have a permit, they were gathering illegally. Sure, the police haven't been enforcing this. Maybe that is why things have gotten so out of control in DC.
2. A war crime? You are f'ing kidding me. This is why I pay little attention to some of you hysterical liberals. You are hyperbolic and frankly, you lie.
3. A few business owners beaten - no biggie, right. And, there is no "allegedly" about it. There is plenty of video out there.
4. What is happening in our cities has NOTHING to do with George Floyd's death. These people don't care about George Floyd. The reason we are not talking about George Floyd is because the cities are on fire and people are being beaten.
5. Your statement about the GOP is ludicrous. What YOU don't seem to understand is that what you see happening in cities right now is a total destruction of places the poor and middle class go to get food and goods. Replacing and repairing the public property that has been destroyed will cost money. And, that means that funding going to these things won't be there for the people that need assistance. Many of theses business owners - middle class people - have lost EVERYTHING. Save me your faux comments about your concern for the middle class.
6. Hope YOU had a good nights sleep and can see the ridiculousness in your post. Maybe it was alcohol talking.

DP. You are mentally stunted. Get help. Nothing you’ve mentioned justified gassing people for an inane photo op. Nothing he did helps with any of the problems you mention or is even related to them at all.

Trump poured gas on the flames, literally. Stop whining about protest permits already.

Was there widespread rioting and looting last night in DC????

WTF is wrong with you? Why does anything else happening—purple dinosaurs, something after he spoke—justify gassing people for a cheap photo op?

Because the area wasn't cleared out for a photo op. It was cleared out - people escorted to an area where the police had control.
And, it looks like their plan actually worked.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I found her tweet disturbing. She was more concerned about Trump than the fact that the "protesters" set fire to the church. Seems a little topsy turvy to me.

I don't like it when any pastors get political--and that includes the ones that support Trump and the ones that don't. They should stay out of politics.

Are you Christian? You think speaking out against police violence and a man using your religion as a photo op moment is political??

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Trumpeters have become the cheaper Big Government tyrants that they always accused Of Democrats of being.

Who remembers their panic over Jade Helm? Yeah, that’s actually Republicans enacting it.

Vile traitors to the Constitution.

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Once again......

The crowd was driven away to an area in which the police had more control. It wasn't SO the president could have a photo opportunity, but you don't care about truth. Apparently, neither does this pastor at this point (it is a SHE by the way).

The crowd was told to disperse, then they were escorted to the area they could control.

Once things were cleared out, people from the WH made the walk over. They didn't clear them out SO the WH folks could walk over.

And, BTW, Bowser agreed with their efforts to get things under control.

Do you believe your own BS? Because nobody else does. So it was just a coincidence the orange fatty crossed the park and did his faux bible waving right after the gassing? You need to do better than this.

I KNOW I am right.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait is it in poor form to use tear gas and rubber bullets are citizens exercising their constitutional right?!

Wait... they had a "constitutional right" to vandalize and set fire to a church?

Nobody gassed on shot tonight to clear the way for the fat orange an,Ed empowers parade was vandalizing anything. Moron.

Says the moron who can't even string a coherent sentence together.

DP. Now you're attacking someone for typos? You don't like that pp pointed out that none of the people gassed tonight were vandalizing anything.

At least pp isn't president. Here's your candidate trying to string a few sentences together in front of the church:

A reporter asked him if it was his Bible and he said, “It's a Bible. We have a great country,” he said. “That's my thoughts. Greatest country in the world."

"That's my thoughts"? Really? And why are you holding a Bible if you're not going to talk about it?

Let’s get one thing straight. The Jews were gassed. The protesters had some tear gas thrown their way so they would disperse after not listening to police when asked to disperse. The protesters will be back to beat and loot tonight. The gassed Jews will never come back.

So, in your bizarre world, that makes it OK to gas peaceful protestors so Trump can have a photo op?

And, OMG, did you actually say "had some tear gas thrown their way"?

Were they asked to leave prior? Yes or no

Do you understand the first amendment? Yes or no.

If they were asked to leave because the President was going to come through,and they actively refused to disperse after being asked multiple times, yes, they can be forced to leave. With tear gas. Furthermore, in a public park, they need a permit to assemble to protest. Did they have one? No.

"When do you need a permit? Protests of 25 people or more on the National Mall or other National Park Service operated spaces in DC require a permit (click here to see a listing of those spaces) require a permit, as does any event that requires streets to be closed. The Metropolitan Police, because they lost an important court case, are required to allow permit-less marches in the street as long as they stay within a single lane. Demonstrations on public sidewalks are legally permissable without a permit so long as they don’t block the walkway and fewer than 100 people are expected. "

The optics are terrible. That's all that matters. Trump gassed people for one of the most inane photo ops in recent memory. Nobody cares about any of your nitpicking, it won't erase this disastrous image.

So you now admit that they were gathering illegally and should have left when they were asked. They didn't, so the police had to use tear gas to force the issue.

The optics? I think the images and video of people being beaten near to death, and all the looting and graffiti far surpass what you are complaining about. But....TRUMP.... BAD ORANGE MAN

I think you are a toddler in sore need of some sleep.

They weren’t gathering illegally at all - but Trump did just commit a war crime against his own fellow citizens.

You nut jobs keep harping on a few business owners allegedly being beaten, but you don’t care that George Floyd is dead, or that that follows on 400 years of inequality.

You’re worried about graffiti and looting when you don’t care what the GOP has done to the environment or how they’ve robbed the middle class and poor blind to give billionaires more money.

So I say again: go get a snack and go to bed. Hopefully you can wake up more mature in the morning.

DP.
This is a totally idiotic post.

1. If they did not have a permit, they were gathering illegally. Sure, the police haven't been enforcing this. Maybe that is why things have gotten so out of control in DC.
2. A war crime? You are f'ing kidding me. This is why I pay little attention to some of you hysterical liberals. You are hyperbolic and frankly, you lie.
3. A few business owners beaten - no biggie, right. And, there is no "allegedly" about it. There is plenty of video out there.
4. What is happening in our cities has NOTHING to do with George Floyd's death. These people don't care about George Floyd. The reason we are not talking about George Floyd is because the cities are on fire and people are being beaten.
5. Your statement about the GOP is ludicrous. What YOU don't seem to understand is that what you see happening in cities right now is a total destruction of places the poor and middle class go to get food and goods. Replacing and repairing the public property that has been destroyed will cost money. And, that means that funding going to these things won't be there for the people that need assistance. Many of theses business owners - middle class people - have lost EVERYTHING. Save me your faux comments about your concern for the middle class.
6. Hope YOU had a good nights sleep and can see the ridiculousness in your post. Maybe it was alcohol talking.

DP. You are mentally stunted. Get help. Nothing you’ve mentioned justified gassing people for an inane photo op. Nothing he did helps with any of the problems you mention or is even related to them at all.

Trump poured gas on the flames, literally. Stop whining about protest permits already.

Was there widespread rioting and looting last night in DC????

WTF is wrong with you? Why does anything else happening—purple dinosaurs, something after he spoke—justify gassing people for a cheap photo op?

Because to be a republican now is apparently anti-Christian and pro-martial law

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I found her tweet disturbing. She was more concerned about Trump than the fact that the "protesters" set fire to the church. Seems a little topsy turvy to me.

I don't like it when any pastors get political--and that includes the ones that support Trump and the ones that don't. They should stay out of politics.

Are you Christian? You think speaking out against police violence and a man using your religion as a photo op moment is political??

I agree with pp. There was no police violence last night.

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This is how you win an argument with a liberal - use fact until you force them into stupidity.

Oh look, another Con thumping his chest about an argument he actually lost.

You can’t defend the indefensible. Your orange baby gassed people to make one of the dumbest, crudest photo ops in history. All your attempts to conflate the peaceful protestors he gassed with looters are transparent lies. Whether or not he had the right to gas them is irrelevant in the face of the cruelty he inflicted by actually gassing them. The church where he grandstanded is outraged that he used their property to wave around someone else’s bible and didn’t even pretend to pray.

If they dispersed as asked, would they have been ‘gassed’?

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This is how you win an argument with a liberal - use fact until you force them into stupidity.

Oh look, another Con thumping his chest about an argument he actually lost.

You can’t defend the indefensible. Your orange baby gassed people to make one of the dumbest, crudest photo ops in history. All your attempts to conflate the peaceful protestors he gassed with looters are transparent lies. Whether or not he had the right to gas them is irrelevant in the face of the cruelty he inflicted by actually gassing them. The church where he grandstanded is outraged that he used their property to wave around someone else’s bible and didn’t even pretend to pray.

If they dispersed as asked, would they have been ‘gassed’?

And this is why we are shunning you. What a shameful, unAmerican thing to say.

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You guys understand that most protesters are not out there rioting and looting right? Please stop conflating these 2 groups. Peaceful protesters were attacked. Even an Australian journalist was attacked and the embassy is asking for an investigation.

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This is how you win an argument with a liberal - use fact until you force them into stupidity.

Oh look, another Con thumping his chest about an argument he actually lost.

You can’t defend the indefensible. Your orange baby gassed people to make one of the dumbest, crudest photo ops in history. All your attempts to conflate the peaceful protestors he gassed with looters are transparent lies. Whether or not he had the right to gas them is irrelevant in the face of the cruelty he inflicted by actually gassing them. The church where he grandstanded is outraged that he used their property to wave around someone else’s bible and didn’t even pretend to pray.

If they dispersed as asked, would they have been ‘gassed’?

And this is why we are shunning you. What a shameful, unAmerican thing to say.

Shunning me?? Oh, how very painful - LOL.

Again, if they dispersed as asked, would the police have had to use tear gas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I found her tweet disturbing. She was more concerned about Trump than the fact that the "protesters" set fire to the church. Seems a little topsy turvy to me.

I don't like it when any pastors get political--and that includes the ones that support Trump and the ones that don't. They should stay out of politics.

Are you Christian? You think speaking out against police violence and a man using your religion as a photo op moment is political??

I agree with pp. There was no police violence last night.

I’ve seen the footage. It’s kind of everywhere. What do you call it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Once again......

The crowd was driven away to an area in which the police had more control. It wasn't SO the president could have a photo opportunity, but you don't care about truth. Apparently, neither does this pastor at this point (it is a SHE by the way).

The crowd was told to disperse, then they were escorted to the area they could control.

Once things were cleared out, people from the WH made the walk over. They didn't clear them out SO the WH folks could walk over.

And, BTW, Bowser agreed with their efforts to get things under control.

You Cons need to stop lying. Here’s Bowser in the Post this morning disagreeing with the shameful photo op:

Some local officials were livid. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser upbraided Trump on Twitter: “I imposed a curfew at 7pm. A full 25 minutes before the curfew & w/o provocation, federal police used munitions on peaceful protesters in front of the White House, an act that will make the job of @DCPoliceDept officers more difficult. Shameful! DC residents — Go home. Be safe.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This is how you win an argument with a liberal - use fact until you force them into stupidity.

Oh look, another Con thumping his chest about an argument he actually lost.

You can’t defend the indefensible. Your orange baby gassed people to make one of the dumbest, crudest photo ops in history. All your attempts to conflate the peaceful protestors he gassed with looters are transparent lies. Whether or not he had the right to gas them is irrelevant in the face of the cruelty he inflicted by actually gassing them. The church where he grandstanded is outraged that he used their property to wave around someone else’s bible and didn’t even pretend to pray.

If they dispersed as asked, would they have been ‘gassed’?

The clergy member who described the incident was on church property and was not asked to do anything but instead was forced off with no warning. Yet you are defending the cowardly actions taken to create a photo op. Shameful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This is how you win an argument with a liberal - use fact until you force them into stupidity.

Oh look, another Con thumping his chest about an argument he actually lost.

You can’t defend the indefensible. Your orange baby gassed people to make one of the dumbest, crudest photo ops in history. All your attempts to conflate the peaceful protestors he gassed with looters are transparent lies. Whether or not he had the right to gas them is irrelevant in the face of the cruelty he inflicted by actually gassing them. The church where he grandstanded is outraged that he used their property to wave around someone else’s bible and didn’t even pretend to pray.

If they dispersed as asked, would they have been ‘gassed’?

And this is why we are shunning you. What a shameful, unAmerican thing to say.

Oh, shut up. You know you are whining about "left intolerance." Yes, shunning. Not our friendship, not our money. This is beyond politics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This is how you win an argument with a liberal - use fact until you force them into stupidity.

Oh look, another Con thumping his chest about an argument he actually lost.

You can’t defend the indefensible. Your orange baby gassed people to make one of the dumbest, crudest photo ops in history. All your attempts to conflate the peaceful protestors he gassed with looters are transparent lies. Whether or not he had the right to gas them is irrelevant in the face of the cruelty he inflicted by actually gassing them. The church where he grandstanded is outraged that he used their property to wave around someone else’s bible and didn’t even pretend to pray.

If they dispersed as asked, would they have been ‘gassed’?

And this is why we are shunning you. What a shameful, unAmerican thing to say.

Shunning me?? Oh, how very painful - LOL.

Again, if they dispersed as asked, would the police have had to use tear gas?

Stop deflecting with this bs about being asked. Several accounts, including from the pastor of the church, say they weren’t asked, that the police just started charging.

Bottom line: the president disrupted a peaceful protest for a cheap photo-op. WTF cares if he asked or not.