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  • RainmanR Offline
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    Rainman
    wrote on last edited by
    #5

    Yes, that is EXACTLY what happened!
    I was there, so I know.
    Trump turned and said, "I want a photo-op, so clear the country of all the jerks that get in my way. AND, somebody get me a bible, he he he, now THAT would look good. AND, make sure there's only white guys around me at the photo-op, maybe a couple of good looking babes if they're around."

    And, that's exactly what happened, and the reason it all happened.

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    • Aqua LetiferA Offline
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      Aqua Letifer
      wrote on last edited by
      #6

      This is a cameraman working for Australia's Sunrise on 7 getting punched in the face for covering the clearing out by St. John's.

      E0D55A2B-83CD-42A3-AD2E-0F7A6599A705.jpeg

      Please love yourself.

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      • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

        I thought you had no problem with the protesters? No violence on the blocks that were cleared, nothing thrown at the police. They were cleared out with flashbangs, mounted police, and pepper balls shot by military police for a photo op at St. John's.

        LarryL Offline
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        Larry
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        #7

        @Aqua-Letifer said in So nobody is going to talk about:

        I thought you had no problem with the protesters? No violence on the blocks that were cleared, nothing thrown at the police. They were cleared out with flashbangs, mounted police, and pepper balls shot by military police for a photo op at St. John's.

        This hasnt been a protest for days now. The entire thing has been hijacked by anarchists, and those who just want to be involved in a peaceful protest should just go home. Theyve made their point. You can point to a few small situations where it was peaceful, but that doesnt alter the fact that the vast majority of what is going on now is not a peaceful protest, it is a bunch of punks destroying things.

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        • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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          Doctor Phibes
          wrote on last edited by
          #8

          If they attack journalists, it can be anything they say it is.

          I was only joking

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          • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

            Trump threatening to deploy troops in the US, then having the Secret Service and US Marshalls fire on peaceful protestors with rubber bullets so he could clear them out for a photo op at St. John’s?

            AxtremusA Away
            AxtremusA Away
            Axtremus
            wrote on last edited by Axtremus
            #9

            @LuFins-Dad said in So nobody is going to talk about:

            Trump threatening to deploy troops in the US, then having the Secret Service and US Marshalls fire on peaceful protestors with rubber bullets so he could clear them out for a photo op at St. John’s?

            While craving to appear “big” and “strong,”
            Trump is too small a person to lead the land of the free,
            too thin skinned to respect the First Amendment,
            too thick to understand, much less to appreciate, the Constitution.

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            • LarryL Offline
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              Larry
              wrote on last edited by
              #10

              Oh, shut up, you moron.

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              • AxtremusA Axtremus

                @LuFins-Dad said in So nobody is going to talk about:

                Trump threatening to deploy troops in the US, then having the Secret Service and US Marshalls fire on peaceful protestors with rubber bullets so he could clear them out for a photo op at St. John’s?

                While craving to appear “big” and “strong,”
                Trump is too small a person to lead the land of the free,
                too thin skinned to respect the First Amendment,
                too thick to understand, much less to appreciate, the Constitution.

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                L Offline
                Loki
                wrote on last edited by
                #11

                @Axtremus said in So nobody is going to talk about:

                @LuFins-Dad said in So nobody is going to talk about:

                Trump threatening to deploy troops in the US, then having the Secret Service and US Marshalls fire on peaceful protestors with rubber bullets so he could clear them out for a photo op at St. John’s?

                While craving to appear “big” and “strong,”
                Trump is too small a person to lead the land of the free,
                too thin skinned to respect the First Amendment,
                too thick to understand, much less to appreciate, the Constitution.

                I guess as long as someone else pays for the hundreds of millions of dollars of damage, people are paid not to work and only a few people die as collateral damage you are 100% correct.

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                • AxtremusA Away
                  AxtremusA Away
                  Axtremus
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #12

                  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-push-to-tear-gas-protesters-ahead-of-a-trump-photo-op/2020/06/01/4b0f7b50-a46c-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

                  “We long ago lost sight of normal, but this was a singularly immoral act,” said Brendan Buck, a longtime former Hill aide who is now a Republican operative. “The president used force against American citizens, not to protect property, but to soothe his own insecurities. We will all move on to the next outrage, but this was a true abuse of power and should not be forgotten.”

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                  • AxtremusA Axtremus

                    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-push-to-tear-gas-protesters-ahead-of-a-trump-photo-op/2020/06/01/4b0f7b50-a46c-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

                    “We long ago lost sight of normal, but this was a singularly immoral act,” said Brendan Buck, a longtime former Hill aide who is now a Republican operative. “The president used force against American citizens, not to protect property, but to soothe his own insecurities. We will all move on to the next outrage, but this was a true abuse of power and should not be forgotten.”

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                    Loki
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                    #13

                    @Axtremus said in So nobody is going to talk about:

                    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-push-to-tear-gas-protesters-ahead-of-a-trump-photo-op/2020/06/01/4b0f7b50-a46c-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

                    “We long ago lost sight of normal, but this was a singularly immoral act,” said Brendan Buck, a longtime former Hill aide who is now a Republican operative. “The president used force against American citizens, not to protect property, but to soothe his own insecurities. We will all move on to the next outrage, but this was a true abuse of power and should not be forgotten.”

                    I guess you have to be able to see both sides of this. Trump’s stunt was an outrage but so is the uncontrolled violence in the cities. It seems like each side is justifying the wrongs of its own side.

                    As in the left is looking past the damage and lawlessness and the right is looking past the rights to protest. Sorry protesters you are pawns and human shields.

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                    • JollyJ Offline
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                      Jolly
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                      #14

                      The only thing better, would be if streams of flame shot out from the Bible as Trump raised it above his head, incinerating the looters, thugs and anarchists.

                      Now, that would have been cool !!!

                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                      • L Loki

                        @Axtremus said in So nobody is going to talk about:

                        @LuFins-Dad said in So nobody is going to talk about:

                        Trump threatening to deploy troops in the US, then having the Secret Service and US Marshalls fire on peaceful protestors with rubber bullets so he could clear them out for a photo op at St. John’s?

                        While craving to appear “big” and “strong,”
                        Trump is too small a person to lead the land of the free,
                        too thin skinned to respect the First Amendment,
                        too thick to understand, much less to appreciate, the Constitution.

                        I guess as long as someone else pays for the hundreds of millions of dollars of damage, people are paid not to work and only a few people die as collateral damage you are 100% correct.

                        LuFins DadL Offline
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                        LuFins Dad
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #15

                        @Loki these guy’s weren’t rioting or looting, they were standing around it was pretty peaceful. I was listening to one of them being interviewed on the radio when it started. It was quiet in the background, the reporter was describing the peaceful scene, then all hell broke loose as flash bangs began to drop.

                        The Brad

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                        • AxtremusA Axtremus

                          https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-push-to-tear-gas-protesters-ahead-of-a-trump-photo-op/2020/06/01/4b0f7b50-a46c-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

                          “We long ago lost sight of normal, but this was a singularly immoral act,” said Brendan Buck, a longtime former Hill aide who is now a Republican operative. “The president used force against American citizens, not to protect property, but to soothe his own insecurities. We will all move on to the next outrage, but this was a true abuse of power and should not be forgotten.”

                          JollyJ Offline
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                          Jolly
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #16

                          @Axtremus said in So nobody is going to talk about:

                          https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-push-to-tear-gas-protesters-ahead-of-a-trump-photo-op/2020/06/01/4b0f7b50-a46c-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

                          “We long ago lost sight of normal, but this was a singularly immoral act,” said Brendan Buck, a longtime former Hill aide who is now a Republican operative. “The president used force against American citizens, not to protect property, but to soothe his own insecurities. We will all move on to the next outrage, but this was a true abuse of power and should not be forgotten.”

                          Dude, did you not see the picture of people lining up to purchase guns and ammo that George posted? All this deal hasn't been a protest, since the first day of so.

                          Well...

                          Link to video

                          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                          • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                            Trump threatening to deploy troops in the US, then having the Secret Service and US Marshalls fire on peaceful protestors with rubber bullets so he could clear them out for a photo op at St. John’s?

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                            Loki
                            wrote on last edited by Loki
                            #17

                            @LuFins-Dad said in So nobody is going to talk about:

                            Trump threatening to deploy troops in the US, then having the Secret Service and US Marshalls fire on peaceful protestors with rubber bullets so he could clear them out for a photo op at St. John’s?

                            Yeah it was terrible and the opposite of what I expected Trump to do Monday night.

                            I will tell you I have heard people in the suburbs saying they want a gun...people that would never consider one and were opposed in the past. Something is going on.

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                            • LarryL Offline
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                              Larry
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #18

                              Blaming Trump for putting together a plan to protect people because a few of the people on the force did something dumb is silly.

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                              • LarryL Offline
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                                Larry
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #19

                                Ax, as long as you get your information from the Washington Post you will continue to not be able to find your own ass.

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                                • CopperC Online
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                                  Copper
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #20

                                  This is the Secret Service.

                                  They do the same for any president and the president doesn't get much choice in how they execute it.

                                  I have seen them do some pretty outrageous stuff for Carter, Clinton and Obama. It is how they operate. Personally I don't like how they operate and I have told them so, more than once. It is overkill but that is what they want.

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                                  • MikM Away
                                    MikM Away
                                    Mik
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #21

                                    Copper is right. The Secret Service does not screw around. Most serious people I ever saw.

                                    That said, all this law and order posturing is going to give us our Tiananmen Square. We do NOT want that.

                                    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                    • AxtremusA Away
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                                      Axtremus
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                                      Sure, the Secret Service has their protocols.
                                      Trump and his lackeys are too stupid or too inconsiderate to account for those protocols with his decision.

                                      Imagine:

                                      1. Trump: When does the curfew end?
                                      2. Lackey: 7pm.
                                      3. Trump: How much time do we need to get the site ready for my photo op?
                                      4. Secret Service: half hour
                                      5. Trump: OK, let’s do my photo op at 7:30

                                      Trump and his lackey failed step 3, so steps 3 and onwards did not happen, and you end up with the use of violent force on peaceful protesters, trampling over the First Amendment in the process.

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                                      • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                                        @Loki these guy’s weren’t rioting or looting, they were standing around it was pretty peaceful. I was listening to one of them being interviewed on the radio when it started. It was quiet in the background, the reporter was describing the peaceful scene, then all hell broke loose as flash bangs began to drop.

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                                        Aqua Letifer
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #23

                                        @LuFins-Dad said in So nobody is going to talk about:

                                        @Loki these guy’s weren’t rioting or looting, they were standing around it was pretty peaceful. I was listening to one of them being interviewed on the radio when it started. It was quiet in the background, the reporter was describing the peaceful scene, then all hell broke loose as flash bangs began to drop.

                                        I've watched dozens of videos and spoke with my friends who participated. That particular incident, at that location and at that time, was peaceful. Anyone who says otherwise is an asshole.

                                        Please love yourself.

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                                          Aqua Letifer
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                                          #24

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                                          She's the rector of the St.John's in Georgetown, not Lafayette, but she was at the latter yesterday. Look her up on social media, she's quite the radical.

                                          Please love yourself.

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