OT Black Man In Minnesota Dies After Cop Kneels On His Neck/ Portland Riots

Listening to C-SPAN right now. It's a call-in segment on the president's reaction to the racial unrest.

Almost all the callers the last 15 minutes have been on the Republican line and have been from the Deep South. Some of the things the callers have brought up included:

-- Trump is bringing love and respect to all Americans. This older-sounding woman from Pennsylvania also called for all clergy in the U.S. to form a prayer circle.

-- It was Obama's fault. He was so inept he couldn't even save four Americans in Benghazi (not making this up).

-- Two consecutive callers said they would welcome a racial civil war.

-- Two callers said the president is not responsible for any of this and it's about the governors and mayors. One caller said they finally seem to be getting it and are starting to follow the president's advice for hardline tactics.

-- One woman was not a racist because she has a biracial grandchild.

-- One caller blamed it on Trump but said it also was C-SPAN's fault.

 

Looks open to me.

That's not how it works. In an event, the secret service will take you down to the bunker. Your feet might touch the ground a couple times, but they will not take chances. They will carry you down there.

 

If the dude was black..

 

Please tell me this is a parody account. Goddamn, these people don't want affordable healthcare, or a affordable education, or a minimum wage that is actually reasonabe, but guns... Oh guns they want readily available to the masses.


The lobbyists that control this country and the minions that eat it up are ruining it. Messed up fucking priorities.

 

Has there ever been a president who has been so scared of his own citizens that he as to hide and turn the lights off? Mr. Bone Spurs ain't afraid of nothing.

 

Does past history come into account at all?

 

i'm sorry, but this is insane.

HOW THE FUCK IS THAT EVEN RELEVANT?

Just because he might have priors, he's allowed to be murdered on the street? Is that what you are suggesting?

 

what did you expect them to say?

If one of your family members gets murdered on the street and there's video that the victim's children have to live with every day of their lives, would you not want the most stringent punishment on the murderer?

 

First, I wasn't making a judgement or saying one way or another. It was a question as to whether his past history has any input on Platys post about it being ridiculous.

Second, without agreeing or disagree, past history is most certainty relevant in the courts. Have you heard of 3 strikes?

Not even sure what you are trying to say. Insane? Prosecuting attorneys take past history into account all the time. And you are saying my one question is insane? Or are you saying its insane they do so?

I think that's a bit of a stretch man.....

 

I thought he was referring to the victim, not the murderer.

 

It is insane to think that one life is more valuable than another. And that the punishment for murder should be more lenient if the victim had priors. Wtf. This is exactly the kind of subtle institutional racism that is ruining this country.