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Soph0571
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June 26, 2020
courtesy of @Coldwar_Steve
This is genius. It could be Bournemouth beach yesterday - the chaos, the failure to distance, the bedlam - all the righties pushing for opening up are there, you could have a fun drinking game playing spot the nazi! Not sure why Harold Shipman is there but bizarrely it does feel appropriate. And Cummings and Boris trying to sail above it all.
Hieronymus Bosch's Circle of Hell BoJo 2020 Version
courtesy of @Coldwar_Steve
This is genius. It could be Bournemouth beach yesterday - the chaos, the failure to distance, the bedlam - all the righties pushing for opening up are there, you could have a fun drinking game playing spot the nazi! Not sure why Harold Shipman is there but bizarrely it does feel appropriate. And Cummings and Boris trying to sail above it all.
June 26, 2020
Heh. And this is why the pandemic is spiking again - do you think she realises that as red wall southern states ICU beds are at risk of running out that it is she and her ilk that are the problem? Correlation, Causation, Both.
A story in two parts
Heh. And this is why the pandemic is spiking again - do you think she realises that as red wall southern states ICU beds are at risk of running out that it is she and her ilk that are the problem? Correlation, Causation, Both.
June 26, 2020
You have all been amazing keeping the competition kicked!! And you know what I am going to say next!
Seven hours to go until the competition closes, so if you can find the energy to do bit of kicking in the meantime that would be splendid
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213640547
Soph x
June 25, 2020
[link:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/25/two-met-police-officers-arrested-over-photo-of-murdered-sisters|]
Dawn Butler MP has just been on the Channel 4 news saying that they took selfies with their murdered bodies. How appalling. They ignored the family when they reported them. The boyfriend of one found the bodies and then when the police finally turn up to do their jobs they took selfies and shared them. BLM right? Just disgusting.
Two Met police officers arrested over photo of murdered sisters
Two Metropolitan police officers have been arrested after a photograph was allegedly taken of the bodies of murdered sisters in a London park, the Guardian has learned.
Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were found stabbed to death in Fryent Country Park in north-west London earlier this month. They were the daughters of a pioneering cleric, Mina Smallman, the Church of Englands first female archdeacon from a black and minority ethnic background.
The sisters were reported missing after a birthday gathering on 5 June, and their bodies were found on 7 June. Police confirmed several days later that they had been stabbed to death by a stranger who was likely to have been injured in the attack and is still at large.
Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were found stabbed to death in Fryent Country Park in north-west London earlier this month. They were the daughters of a pioneering cleric, Mina Smallman, the Church of Englands first female archdeacon from a black and minority ethnic background.
The sisters were reported missing after a birthday gathering on 5 June, and their bodies were found on 7 June. Police confirmed several days later that they had been stabbed to death by a stranger who was likely to have been injured in the attack and is still at large.
[link:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/25/two-met-police-officers-arrested-over-photo-of-murdered-sisters|]
Dawn Butler MP has just been on the Channel 4 news saying that they took selfies with their murdered bodies. How appalling. They ignored the family when they reported them. The boyfriend of one found the bodies and then when the police finally turn up to do their jobs they took selfies and shared them. BLM right? Just disgusting.
June 25, 2020
This is so powerful. It comes to something when you can look at Bush and think Presidential! But that is what Trump has brought about.
In a battle of heart, mind, and character @JoeBiden wins by a landslide.
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1276112782187003904Biden is the clear choice when it comes to compassionate and decent leadership. In a battle of heart, mind, and character
@JoeBiden
wins by a landslide. We need to ensure thats reflected in the vote this November.
@JoeBiden
wins by a landslide. We need to ensure thats reflected in the vote this November.
This is so powerful. It comes to something when you can look at Bush and think Presidential! But that is what Trump has brought about.
June 25, 2020
Their assault on justice cannot sustain. It will catch up with their corrupt grifter arses in the end. And it is going to be interesting to see after Trump is toast, and law and order has been restored, how many of his Nazi sycophantic enablers will turn on him to save themselves from the clink. I am guessing all of them.
How you can tell that law and order is not what it used to be...
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1275906435671564288If there were law and order in this country, how much of the Trump cabinet and family would be under indictment right now?
Their assault on justice cannot sustain. It will catch up with their corrupt grifter arses in the end. And it is going to be interesting to see after Trump is toast, and law and order has been restored, how many of his Nazi sycophantic enablers will turn on him to save themselves from the clink. I am guessing all of them.
June 25, 2020
They only care about power, privilege, control, white nationalism and politicising the removal of old racist fuckers from plinths to gin up their equally racist basis. They will happily see our worlds on fire as long as they are standing down wind in their white male rich privileged bollocks.
Frankly, my dear...
They only care about power, privilege, control, white nationalism and politicising the removal of old racist fuckers from plinths to gin up their equally racist basis. They will happily see our worlds on fire as long as they are standing down wind in their white male rich privileged bollocks.
June 24, 2020
[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/house-judiciary-chairman-says-democrats-are-looking-into-impeaching-bill-barr/|]
They need to stop looking into it and actually do it. He is a real and present danger to the republic.
House Judiciary chairman says Democrats are 'looking into' impeaching Bill Barr
On Wednesday, in conversation with reporters, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said House Democrats are looking into opening impeachment proceedings against Attorney General William Barr a reversal from his previous assertion that impeachment would be a waste of time.
[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/house-judiciary-chairman-says-democrats-are-looking-into-impeaching-bill-barr/|]
They need to stop looking into it and actually do it. He is a real and present danger to the republic.
June 24, 2020
[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/24/1955651/-The-Unfathomable-Stupidity-of-Rich-White-Men?utm_campaign=trending|]
I remember years ago having a conversation with African friends about white farmers in Zimbabwe and how things could have been different, if they had recognised that their land was African land, and just cause they had it for a time, did not mean that they could claim it for ever. That if they had recognised the changing times they might have done things differently. Share and share a like. Train up a new generation of indigenous Africans to manage their farms, profit share and co-ownership would have been one way to go. But no. Rich white men knew better, until they were beaten out of their farms and the land re taken. I see potential similarities.
The Unfathomable Stupidity of Rich White Men
Oh, rich, white men. You unfathomable idiots. You could have had it all!
There you were back in 2008, freshly bailed out after almost totaling the economy with your criminal greed, with not a single one of you headed to prison for it. While working class incomes stagnated, health costs soared, and the young staggered under the weight of student loans, you and your fellow plutocrats sat smugly atop a mountain of accumulated wealth, courtesy of an economy structured for your benefit by legislators beholden to your largesse.
Yes, you were sitting pretty. And all you had to do to keep it that way was to not wage a racist, scorched-earth war against the first Black President of the United States. Thats all! That is the only thing you dumb, stupid idiots had to do: swallow your pride, smile, shake hands, and play nice with one of the most charismatic, inspiring, intelligent and genuinely moral politicians in American history.
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You elevated this grotesquery to the Presidency, cynically stoking the racist, sexist, xenophobic resentments of the white working as you proceeded to loot the treasury, stack the courts, disenfranchise voters and eviscerate the civil service. Nothing was off limits to your idiotic greed. You even looted the pandemic relief fund! Money that was supposed to go to struggling people and small businesses! You dolts! You seriously didnt think people were ever gonna get sick of your bullshit? Denying systemic racism! Denying economic inequality! Denying police brutality! Denying climate change, for fucks sake?! You know your mansions, your companies, your real estate holdings are located on planet Earth, right? You dumb fucking morons!
And now, the people are in the streets demanding fundamental, systemic change. And, like a bunch of mental defectives, instead of being terrified, you are indignant! Youre shocked at their behavior. Castigating hard-working police officers! Pulling down perfectly good statues! Demanding the resignation of New York Times editors for the crime of publishing the words of a sitting U.S. Senator! Where can fascism get a fair hearing, if not the pages of the Newspaper of Record?! You idiots still have absolutely no idea whats going on do you?
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So here you are. Your last, dumb stand. Your castle gates defended by a rabble of red-hatted brownshirts, maskless mouth-breathers, and their Dear Leader, Ramp Boy. And across the moat, hundreds of millions of angry Americans with torches and pitchforks demanding justice, civil rights, economic fairness, environmental sanity. If you werent so colossally ignorant, youd see that this is the end of the line for your dumb dream of perpetual white supremacy and dynastic wealth.
There you were back in 2008, freshly bailed out after almost totaling the economy with your criminal greed, with not a single one of you headed to prison for it. While working class incomes stagnated, health costs soared, and the young staggered under the weight of student loans, you and your fellow plutocrats sat smugly atop a mountain of accumulated wealth, courtesy of an economy structured for your benefit by legislators beholden to your largesse.
Yes, you were sitting pretty. And all you had to do to keep it that way was to not wage a racist, scorched-earth war against the first Black President of the United States. Thats all! That is the only thing you dumb, stupid idiots had to do: swallow your pride, smile, shake hands, and play nice with one of the most charismatic, inspiring, intelligent and genuinely moral politicians in American history.
-----
You elevated this grotesquery to the Presidency, cynically stoking the racist, sexist, xenophobic resentments of the white working as you proceeded to loot the treasury, stack the courts, disenfranchise voters and eviscerate the civil service. Nothing was off limits to your idiotic greed. You even looted the pandemic relief fund! Money that was supposed to go to struggling people and small businesses! You dolts! You seriously didnt think people were ever gonna get sick of your bullshit? Denying systemic racism! Denying economic inequality! Denying police brutality! Denying climate change, for fucks sake?! You know your mansions, your companies, your real estate holdings are located on planet Earth, right? You dumb fucking morons!
And now, the people are in the streets demanding fundamental, systemic change. And, like a bunch of mental defectives, instead of being terrified, you are indignant! Youre shocked at their behavior. Castigating hard-working police officers! Pulling down perfectly good statues! Demanding the resignation of New York Times editors for the crime of publishing the words of a sitting U.S. Senator! Where can fascism get a fair hearing, if not the pages of the Newspaper of Record?! You idiots still have absolutely no idea whats going on do you?
------
So here you are. Your last, dumb stand. Your castle gates defended by a rabble of red-hatted brownshirts, maskless mouth-breathers, and their Dear Leader, Ramp Boy. And across the moat, hundreds of millions of angry Americans with torches and pitchforks demanding justice, civil rights, economic fairness, environmental sanity. If you werent so colossally ignorant, youd see that this is the end of the line for your dumb dream of perpetual white supremacy and dynastic wealth.
[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/24/1955651/-The-Unfathomable-Stupidity-of-Rich-White-Men?utm_campaign=trending|]
I remember years ago having a conversation with African friends about white farmers in Zimbabwe and how things could have been different, if they had recognised that their land was African land, and just cause they had it for a time, did not mean that they could claim it for ever. That if they had recognised the changing times they might have done things differently. Share and share a like. Train up a new generation of indigenous Africans to manage their farms, profit share and co-ownership would have been one way to go. But no. Rich white men knew better, until they were beaten out of their farms and the land re taken. I see potential similarities.
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