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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWashington, DC Protests Are Looking Ominous, as The Murderer-in-Chief Threatens Them
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-twitter-george-floyd-death-protests-white-house-dogs-guns-a9540216.html?fbclid=IwAR1Nvbr0s8C4z7xvRKfFYiq4Zjv78Y6t5EcwUfA_JR6fDWEBxeArHYbk8t0
He also appeared to encourage counter protests, promoting "MAGA NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE".
The president said: "The front line was replaced with fresh agents, like magic. Big crowd, professionally organized, but nobody came close to breaching the fence. If they had they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen.
That's when people would have been really badly hurt, at least. Many Secret Service agents just waiting for action. 'We put the young ones on the front line, sir, they love it, and ... good practice."
His posts also appeared to try to undermine protesters calling for justice in the wake of killings of black men by police by saying that the US Secret Service (which he appraised as "not only totally professional, but very cool" had "let the 'protesters' scream [and] rant as much as they wanted" but "whenever someone got too frisky or out of line, they would quickly come down on them, hard didnt know what hit them."
This is who allegedly runs this nation. This is who youth see.
They'll move on Washington even more now.
This suited jackal will live up to his murderous intent. IF the U.S. military is worth our tax money, and worth its superior historical education, this military will not stand by and let him kill off America's next generation.
Faux pas
(14,672 posts)any agency is a procurer of human stock AKA cannon fodder, it's the EFFING military.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)Back during the Vietnam War, yes....but today's military personnel are extraordinarily well trained. They're the furthest thing from a grunt given a rifle and a few week's training.
pwb
(11,261 posts)8 weeks basic and 8 or more weeks advanced training was the norm in my 1969-70 Army. Marines training may have been shorter.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)training.
Walleye
(31,018 posts)EarlG
(21,947 posts)Try to calm the situation down, or try to escalate it. Hes choosing to escalate.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
ancianita
(36,053 posts)What looks like a game to him and others is really life and death for a nation of, by and for The People. So no. No game.
Global owners will have to take over funding this military because the Americans who do will be dead or on slave wages after this year.
EarlG
(21,947 posts)The stupid game hes playing is called Civil Unrest and the stupid prize hes going to win is dead and injured American citizens.
But King Lunatic probably does consider this to be all fun and games.
ancianita
(36,053 posts)I've been in protests before this WH three times. Never did his SS show up for those.
THIS youth across the country are letting him know that they run the messaging.
The very presence of his SS (the irony) among DC crowds is proof of the power of their messaging.
sarisataka
(18,647 posts)WTAF??
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)I think thats his own sick fantasy.
Dale Neiburg
(698 posts)That "sir" is a sure sign that he's making that up. (Of course, he makes most everything up anyway.)
delisen
(6,043 posts)Her 1 year old survived.
I do not believe that her interaction with secret service outside White House was properly investigated.
Secret Service is trained to protect officials, not the rest of us. Secret Service also has history of corrruption-I do not know if they are past the scandals of recent years
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)He really does want the real protesters massacred.
louis-t
(23,292 posts)After all, they're "very fine people who are just angry".
ancianita
(36,053 posts)Your quote comes from another time and context, and is about his people.
Not this crowd.