“He gave a pro forma address in the White House, then, law enforcement personnel having gassed peaceful protesters to clear the way for the president to walk across the park to St. Johnโs Church, Trump strolled over, stood in front of the church holding a Bible, for a photo op.” … I’m sorry to say that I think the ‘Presidency’ was lost way before this day … I think it was lost the day he was declared the ‘winner’ … he believed it!!
We all have seen, by now, that horrible photo op of the president in front of a boarded up church holding a Bibleโฆ.it was sickening and the push back by the religious community has been hard on Donaldโฆ..
The American Conservative has called that day as the โDay the presidency was lostโโฆ..
I believe that yesterday was the day that Donald Trump lost the presidency.
After days of urban rioting, the likes of which America hasnโt seen in over fifty years, the President of the United States finally deigned to show himself and address the nation. He gave a pro forma address in the White House, then, law enforcement personnel having gassed peaceful protesters to clear the way for the president to walk across the park to St. Johnโs Church, Trump strolled over, stood in front of the church holding a Bible, for a photo op.
From my vantage point, that ALL I’ve seen … TRIPPY!! … “From what I can see, and saw in person, the ones without humanity are the ones wearing badges.”
Conservatives, Trump supporters, and even Trump himself keep pointing out how horrible protesters are. Theyโre so bad, we need to call in the military to every state to stop them from exercising their Constitutional rights.
If you listen to the goons, all protesters are Antifa coming to kill you, loot your store, and impregnate your daughters. Theyโre not all coming to kill you and loot your store. And nearly every time they point out someone as an example of a protester whoโs really a criminal, their example is black. Golly gee willikens, I wonder why that is.
In fact, from conservatives, you only hear about the bad stuff. You hear about looting, riots, and people being hurt. You donโt hear about George Floyd or police brutality. You donโt hear about the message being sent. All theyโre doing is trying to invalidate the Black Lives Movement. And the one thing youโreโฆ
During these times we are currently experiencing as a collective humanity in America, one has to take a side. There’s no option of being neutral because:
“We must take sides.ย Neutralityย helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
These elders were not in a hurry; they were country people. They kept an eye on passersby, greeting the people they knew, sometimes calling out to a child who seemed out of line to them. It was they who taught me that a conversation even between strangers could be a gift and a sport of sorts, a chance for warmth, banter, blessings, humor, that spoken words could be a little fire at which you warmed yourself. Many years later when I spent time in New Orleans and other parts of the South, they felt oddly like home to me, and I realized that this bit of the West Coast had been an outpost of the black South in those days.
It Is What It Is 