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Anonymous wrote:Ia the goal to "quell"? I wish Obama had helped our nation work through some of this...

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President Obama, show us the way

Obama created this mess.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm lost. Acknowledging structural racism = burning the constitution?

But armed mercenaries disregarding things like the 4th amendment are not a deal breaker for you.

So therefore vote Trump? That's your logic?

You make no sense.

There is no structural racism. That’s a made up term that means nothing. Go back to the drawing board on your argument please. At some point you may actually make sense.

Google FHA and FDR housing policies in the 30s and 40s. Educate yourself.

What do housing policies in the 30’s and 40’s have to to do with the 2000’s?

Just google "how redlinging affects us today" pick with resource you like, educate yourself.

You don't even need to go back that far. Look at how the "War on Drugs" was set up to drive massive inequalities. This was the 1990s-now.

You really have to either have your head in the sand or be a devout follower of Mein Kampf to deny structural racism. There's so much information out there that you have no excuse for not starting to learn.

Let’s vote for ol’ hang em high, mass incarceration Joe!

And you ain't black if you don't vote for Biden.

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Anonymous wrote:Ia the goal to "quell"? I wish Obama had helped our nation work through some of this...

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President Obama, show us the way

He had 8 years and didn't do crap.

Then he purchased a big house in a white neighborhood to settle down in NW DC. I wonder if he heard anything when the protestors screen at Jeff Bazor’s house in the same area.

He also purchased a second home in a white neighborhood in Martha's Vineyard. A very expensive second home at that.

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Anonymous wrote:Ia the goal to "quell"? I wish Obama had helped our nation work through some of this...

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President Obama, show us the way

He had 8 years and didn't do crap.

He was a good President. Led us to eight years of peace and prosperity. An inspiration to many of us. What do these lunatics expect out of government? The righting of every wrong - real or perceived - from the last 400 years?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm lost. Acknowledging structural racism = burning the constitution?

But armed mercenaries disregarding things like the 4th amendment are not a deal breaker for you.

So therefore vote Trump? That's your logic?

You make no sense.

There is no structural racism. That’s a made up term that means nothing. Go back to the drawing board on your argument please. At some point you may actually make sense.

Google FHA and FDR housing policies in the 30s and 40s. Educate yourself.

What do housing policies in the 30’s and 40’s have to to do with the 2000’s?

Just google "how redlinging affects us today" pick with resource you like, educate yourself.

You don't even need to go back that far. Look at how the "War on Drugs" was set up to drive massive inequalities. This was the 1990s-now.

You really have to either have your head in the sand or be a devout follower of Mein Kampf to deny structural racism. There's so much information out there that you have no excuse for not starting to learn.

Let’s vote for ol’ hang em high, mass incarceration Joe!

Anonymous wrote:I'm lost. Acknowledging structural racism = burning the constitution?

But armed mercenaries disregarding things like the 4th amendment are not a deal breaker for you.

So therefore vote Trump? That's your logic?

You make no sense.

Either the country is rotten to the core and founded on the ideal of enslavement or it is not. If the foundation is bad nothing built on it is worth much.

Racists exist but a hell of a lot of black and brown people are chomping at the bit to come to a racist place to live. How is it after 50 years the message that America is so unlivable for non whites hasn’t sunk in?

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Anonymous wrote:So what happened?

As I understand it, the woman in the car drove to Wisconsin Ave and encountered the protest. She wanted to get away from the crowd, so she drove thru a gas station as this would allow her to access another street. The crowd moved to keep her boxed in and unable to drive thru the gas station. They wanted the driver to be “disrupted” by the protest. The streets in Georgetown are very narrow, so there likely would not be an opportunity to make a u-turn and go another route. She apparently drove slow and bumped protestors, who were demanding that she stop her car. It seems like she got a block away, encountered the police, and that’s when everyone was detained.

We live near here and the protest passed in front of our house last night around 9pm. It was pretty small - maybe only 20-30 people. They were blasting music, chanting, and generally peaceful. I have no issue with the protests or marching in streets.

My only issue is that they wouldn’t allow this woman to leave peacefully. They purposefully boxed her in and wouldn’t let her go another direction, away from the protest. That’s BS and just causes more problems.

There is a recording of a woman who was driving in Fredericksburg with her toddler in the car and she ended up on the wrong street where there was protesting. She got boxed in by protesters who were hitting her car. She called 911 as she feared for her toddler's life. The 911 call is on the internet but I could not readily find it. The 911 dispatcher told
her the police could not assist her and she would have to call the mayor's office. The driver started crying as protesters were pounding on her car. She was able to inch forward
and finally turn off but I'm sure it was scary and an honest mistake by the driver.

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That 911 operator was an idiot. If you’re caught in a protest, you pull over the car, turn off your engine, and lock the doors. You sit there for 10-15 minutes until the protest moves on. They were slamming on her car because she was moving closer to pedestrian bodies and moving with the crowd. Just because you feel nervous, doesn’t give a driver the right to continue driving into a sea of pedestrians.

This probably should be explicitly taught in drivers’ Ed in the DC area.

In the Georgetown incident last night, it seems the issue is that protestors kept moving with her car so she couldn’t move away from the crowd. It was a dumb move by the protestors.

Pull over, turn off the enginer, in this heat and in the midst of these awful wackos? With a toddler in the car? No way!

We blame victims now.

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Anonymous wrote:Ia the goal to "quell"? I wish Obama had helped our nation work through some of this...

+100

President Obama, show us the way

He had 8 years and didn't do crap.

Then he purchased a big house in a white neighborhood to settle down in NW DC. I wonder if he heard anything when the protestors screen at Jeff Bazor’s house in the same area.

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Anonymous wrote:Ia the goal to "quell"? I wish Obama had helped our nation work through some of this...

+100

President Obama, show us the way

He had 8 years and didn't do crap.

Anonymous wrote:Ia the goal to "quell"? I wish Obama had helped our nation work through some of this...

+100

President Obama, show us the way

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Anonymous wrote:Let me get this straight....Trump can’t control the protestors and is President right now so you are giving him 4 more years to do more of the same? What will he do differently in six months? It literally makes no sense. If he had a better relationship with Democratic governors and made people (other than Trump supporters) feel like they were heard instead of dividing the nation, this situation wouldn’t happen. George Bush was able to quell racial unrest (remember Kanye after Katrina) because most people knew he was trying his hardest and cared about the nation. This social unrest is due to Trump dividing our nation.

Sorry. This is all at the feet of the Democratic leaders in these cities and states.

Think back to CHAZ/CHOP. That had nothing to do with Trump. It was all because the mayor and Governor tried to appease the idiots. Trump has offered help if they can't get their crap together. They hate him more than they love their cities, evidently.

And, as far as working with Democratic leaders, I think we saw that happen at the peak of coronavirus - Cuomo, Newsome, and others all had great things to say about Trump's responsiveness and willingness to work with them.

+1. And even if this post is incorrect (which it isn't), Trump is and will do a masterful job at spinning it as such. The riots are a no-win situation for the Democrats. What is astounding is that they don't seem to understand that.

Ia the goal to "quell"? I wish Obama had helped our nation work through some of this...

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Anonymous wrote:I need to vote for Trump.

This is crazy.

It’s like the satire account Titania McCrath is mainstream.

Sometimes it’s just too much to handle.

Because if he wins things will calm down? You are a special kind of stupid.

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I, for one, do not wish to reward these rioters, socialists, and anarchists with their goal.

+1. Joe is so weak, his strings are being pulled from the left. A Biden win would be a victory for this set.

Zzzzz. All of this is happening in Trump’s America. Why doesn’t he start a dialogue with protestors?

Haha. Good one. You don't "dialogue" with fruitcakes, PP. Haven't you learned that from all your time on DCUM?

Nationwide protests are Trump’s carnage. He owns it, just like how he owns COVID.

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The Obama/Biden administration faced the protests and riots in Ferguson and Baltimore head on. They opened a constructive dialogue with the rioters and protesters in both situations. And they coolly brought an end to those unfortunate situations with no loss of life.

I’m not seeing that here at all with Drumpf. All I see is a fat racist who would rather play golf than engage with his constituents.

What? This is revisionist history. I like Pres Obama, but if we can't talk facts we need to stay out of the discussion.

I don’t know where you were when the riots in Baltimore and in Ferguson happened, but what is mentioned above is 100% accurate. Maybe you were working with State, or an NGO, and weren’t here in the USA when that went down? At any rate, those situations were diffused by the adults in the room, i.e., Obama and Biden. They were instrumental in bringing about a peaceful ending to tense situations, and did so by constructive engagement with the looters and protesters.

Of course, if you were abroad and the local media where you were sensationalized what happened, I can’t fault you for thinking that things were different than they were

Baltimore recorded 43 homicides in the month of May 2015, the second deadliest month on record and the worst since December 1971 when 44 homicides were recorded.

So I am not sure how you are claiming no loss of life.

As for Ferguson:
Kajieme Powell: Shot by police after pulling a knife

That is all I can remember right now.

Baltimore:
On April 28, President Barack Obama strongly condemned the violence during a White House press conference, saying, "There's no excuse for the kind of violence that we saw yesterday. It is counterproductive. ... When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson. And they're destroying and undermining businesses and opportunities in their own communities. That robs jobs and opportunity from people in that area." Obama went on to applaud the actions of peaceful protesters who he felt were being undermined by the violence, and called upon the nation to take meaningful action to collectively solve poverty and law enforcement issues fueling what he described as "a crisis".

On social media and elsewhere, Mayor Rawlings-Blake and President Obama were criticized for calling the rioters "thugs" on April 28.

Hard no. Trump didn’t work well with ANY governors. They needed to thank him/praise him to get any help from him because that’s how Trump operates - quid pro quo.

Hogan, a Republican, has been quite outspoken about Trump’s failure to work with the Governors. Here’s a quote from the Maryland Governor, who is also Chair of the National Governors’ Association, from his Op Ed, “We expected something more than constant heckling from the man who was supposed to be our leader.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/3/25/21193803/trump-to-governors-coronavirus-help-ventilators-cuomo

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/27/coronavirus-trump-told-pence-not-to-call-washington-michigan-governors.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-trump-coronavirus-response-20200328-54uyi2sr5ffipljd3jv73oaf7m-story.html%3foutputType=amp

Anonymous wrote:Let me get this straight....Trump can’t control the protestors and is President right now so you are giving him 4 more years to do more of the same? What will he do differently in six months? It literally makes no sense. If he had a better relationship with Democratic governors and made people (other than Trump supporters) feel like they were heard instead of dividing the nation, this situation wouldn’t happen. George Bush was able to quell racial unrest (remember Kanye after Katrina) because most people knew he was trying his hardest and cared about the nation. This social unrest is due to Trump dividing our nation.

Sorry. This is all at the feet of the Democratic leaders in these cities and states.

Think back to CHAZ/CHOP. That had nothing to do with Trump. It was all because the mayor and Governor tried to appease the idiots. Trump has offered help if they can't get their crap together. They hate him more than they love their cities, evidently.

And, as far as working with Democratic leaders, I think we saw that happen at the peak of coronavirus - Cuomo, Newsome, and others all had great things to say about Trump's responsiveness and willingness to work with them.