10-10-2020, 12:24 AM
(10-09-2020, 10:44 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(10-08-2020, 10:59 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(10-08-2020, 09:59 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(10-08-2020, 09:05 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: And for some reason, Trump has chosen today to attack the Governor of Michigan...
Trump had a falling-out with the Governor of Michigan early in the COVID-19 crisis. At the time Michigan was fourth in deaths among the states. Michigan is now ninth. Michigan got hit early and hard.
So far there is no link between the President and the Wolverine Watchmen, the clique allegedly involved in the conspiracy. The people involved are linked to anti-mask demonstrations, including an armed demonstration in the Michigan state capitol. We must of course recognize the legal principle of the presumption of innocence.
Obviously there is no mainstream support for the alleged plot. This said, President Trump promoted contempt for this Governor, singling her out for disobedience to the wannabe despot.
What is incredible is that the reactionaries like Trump and our own Classic Xer scream and shout about "law and order" and denounce peaceful protesters as rioters, and then condone and promote at least a climate in which this kind of lawless terrorism and attack on our country can occur.
I don't have a problem with peaceful protestors. I do have a problem with peaceful protestors who support rioters by ignoring curfews and so forth. You forget, we already KNOW the Liberals cheat and rarely play by the rules. PB's right, we have the same devices as those who filmed the incident with George Floyd and access to all kinds of other devices like them as well. Oh, and we have access to platforms and people in the the trade as well. Like I said, we think for a living and when begin to switch from thinking about other things that are more important than you or whatever your problems are and start thinking about you and the problems you cause were start using your own game against you and start stirring up trouble and begin tearing your racist identity driven world apart.
Playing by the rules accepts that the rules are valid. So it is with sporting events, and so it is with criminal law. Of course when government makes or bends the rules on the side of repression we have a problem.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.