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ancianita

(36,053 posts)
Sat May 30, 2020, 11:31 AM May 2020

Washington, 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


In a Twitter thread posted after another night of protests and uprisings against police brutality across the US, the president suggested that US Secret Service members look forward to inflicting violence.

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&quot 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 — didn’t 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.
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Dial H For Hero

(2,971 posts)
5. That actually hasn't been the case (for the US military) for some time.
Sat May 30, 2020, 11:45 AM
May 2020

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)
7. 16 weeks training before going to Nam.
Sat May 30, 2020, 11:52 AM
May 2020

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)
8. Thank you for the correrction. I should have remembered that the troops of that time got that much
Sat May 30, 2020, 11:56 AM
May 2020

training.

EarlG

(21,947 posts)
3. He has two choices
Sat May 30, 2020, 11:40 AM
May 2020

Try to calm the situation down, or try to escalate it. He’s choosing to escalate.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

ancianita

(36,053 posts)
6. Except that he's escalating civil war. No prizes for stolen treasure and spilled blood.
Sat May 30, 2020, 11:49 AM
May 2020

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)
13. Well, it's a metaphor
Sat May 30, 2020, 12:39 PM
May 2020

The stupid game he’s playing is called “Civil Unrest” and the stupid prize he’s 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)
14. Which is why crowds crowd his WH property to remind him that they don't play his games.
Sat May 30, 2020, 12:44 PM
May 2020

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.

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)
9. He's projecting. I don't believe that Secret Service officers enjoy shooting innocent Americans.
Sat May 30, 2020, 11:58 AM
May 2020

I think that’s his own sick fantasy.

Dale Neiburg

(698 posts)
15. "Sir"
Sat May 30, 2020, 01:07 PM
May 2020

That "sir" is a sure sign that he's making that up. (Of course, he makes most everything up anyway.)

delisen

(6,043 posts)
16. Miriam Carey 2013. Mentally unwell panicky shot dead in stopped car
Sat May 30, 2020, 01:52 PM
May 2020

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)
12. And the SS can't correct this depraved wishful portrayal.
Sat May 30, 2020, 12:14 PM
May 2020

He really does want the real protesters massacred.

ancianita

(36,053 posts)
11. You and I both know why.
Sat May 30, 2020, 12:08 PM
May 2020

Your quote comes from another time and context, and is about his people.

Not this crowd.

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