When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross
Trump called Putin. Then Trump Staged An OUTDOOR PHOTO OP Because He Was Furious About Being Called #BunkerBoy on Twitter. He spent the weekend hiding in the basement of the White House while protesters across the street held signs and utilized their First Amendment Rights to denounce POLICE BRUTALITY (George Floyd’s murder by police).
BREAKING NEWS:
CONFIRMED: Bill Barr Behind the Attack on Peacefully Protesting Americans at Lafayette Square
“Trump is holding a knee on the neck of American Democracy, and the GOP is the three cops just watching it happen while protecting him.” Impeach him again.
BREAKING: An independent autopsy requested by George Floyd's family determined his death "was homicide caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression."
Mark D. McCoy
“George Floyd and I were both arrested for allegedly spending a counterfeit $20 bill. For George Floyd, a man my age, with two kids, it was a death sentence. For me, it is a story I sometimes tell at parties. That, my friends, is White privilege.”
@Robert Reich: Protesters and journalists jailed this week, 4,400
U.S. bankers jailed for fraud during the financial crash, 1
America in a nutshell
Tear gas, bullets and brute force was used to clear a peaceful crowd ahead of Trump’s walk to church.
Joe Biden
“He's using the American military against the American people. He tear-gassed peaceful protesters and fired rubber bullets. For a photo. For our children, for the very soul of our country, we must defeat him. But I mean it when I say this: we can only do it together.”
American Friends: Thousands of People Around the World Are Protesting With US Citizens Against the Murder of George Floyd by Police
“...this was a singularly immoral act. The president used force against American citizens, not to protect property, but to soothe his own insecurities. ... A true abuse of power.”
“Let's be clear: when Trump says 'dominate' he's talking about supremacy.”
"These are not the words of a president, these are the words of a dictator...Trump is like the worst combination of George Wallace and Richard Nixon. He is not capable of leading our country"
Kamala Harris
@NYGovCuomo: "The protesters themselves have been making a very valid point: wake up America, we're killing people based on the color of their skin ... POTUS wants to make it a reality TV show of God & country. 'Call out the military & then I go to church & hold up a Bible.'"
Murdering Democracy
The Malignant Narcissist wanted to PROVE HE IS THE MACHO GUY IN CHARGE OF POLICE BRUTALITY TO BE USED AGAINST ALL OF US, SO HE DECLARED WAR UPON AMERICAN CITIZENS ON OUR OWN SOIL (ANOTHER ILLEGAL ACT) and had military utilize brute force by gassing and shooting at peaceful protesters aka AMERICAN CITIZENS so he could stand in front of a church he was NOT welcomed at (he gassed the priests and their guests off of their church property) and hold a bible he has more than likely never read. He has been accused of blasphemy and more.
What kind of government gasses its own citizens?
The Founders did everything they could to protect us against people like Donald Trump.
He is telling his delusional and diminishing in numbers cult fans (who believe every lie he tells them) that he was protecting US from Antifa. NOPE. Another lie added to the 20,000+ lies he has told.
There is no Antifa. It has been proven that outside agitators interfered with peaceful protests all over the country (likely paid for by DeVos and/or another power crazed wealthy donor of Trump’s. They have done this numerous times in the past (paid for folks to show up at his rallies and recent protests against so-called tyranny aka Liberation with KKK and Neo-Nazis with guns) once again projecting his own TYRANNY AND TREASON ONTO OTHERS.
ANTIFA is NOT a terrorist organization
It literally means: Anti Fascism (my dad fought in WWII, he fought fascism in Nazi Germany).
If you want to deem a group as terrorists, start with the White Supremacists, White Nationalists, Proud Boys and the KKK aka Trump supporters.
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. Eisenhower
The Constitution Gives us THE RIGHT TO PROTEST
We have now watched an armed attack, instigated by the president of the United States, on peaceful, law-abiding demonstrators exercising their Constitutional rights.
Tear gas and rubber bullets, horses and batons to break up a peaceful crowd across from the WH apparently to clear them out all so the @POTUS could stage a photo op, holding up a bible. at St. John’s Episcopal Church.
It is ILLEGAL to shoot tear gas at peaceably assembled protestors.
Protesters were Tear-Gassed for Trump’s Law and Order Photo Op in front of a church with a bible, that he held upside down. The Episcopal bishop of DC – who oversees the DC church Trump just stopped at is "outraged" and said that neither she nor the rector was asked or told… “that they would be clearing with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop for his photo op.”
Scott Dworkin
“Trump is putting up an eight foot tall fence around the park outside the White House right now in the dark of night.”
Another PR stunt is planned today with Melania.
Say No to fascism in America.
The U.S. military fights America’s enemies.
The American people are not the enemy.
Anyone who believes differently is not fit to lead us.
PENTAGON SAYS NOPE
Pentagon officials say they are very uncomfortable with Trump’s threat to use the military to “dominate” protesters. Trump seems to think he can use the military to simply mow people down like some dictator.
Lt. Gen. Honore has stated that the Pentagon needs to deliver the message to Congress that they will not obey Trump's illegal order to use U.S. Troops against American citizens on home soil.
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep for the slaughter.”
George Washington
Peaceful protesters were tear-gassed in our nation's capitol, for no other reason than that Trump wished to have a photo op in front of a church. Trump used low-flying military aircraft for crowd suppression in the U.S. capital.
Trump is trying to silence Americans by force.
It's one thing to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 for a natural disaster like Katrina. It's another to do it for Constitutionally-protected demonstrations. It's a sign of weakness, not strength—it's why the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 prevents use of troops for law enforcement.
Trump is testing to see whether he can get the military to do his bidding with his enemies. If he can, he is one giant step closer to full authoritarian control.
Authoritarians polarize citizens into patriots v enemies. Discredit oversight institutions like inspectors general and the media. Target courts to bolster bad behavior.
Final act? Dissolve the bonds of democracy, militarize police and crush the vote.
Trump is threatening to send the military to attack and subdue American citizens on American soil.
a vet wrote: I came home, threw my riot gear off in the middle of my living room after last night i'd be ordered to kill democracy. I resigned this morning. I'm too stunned & ashamed to touch it. I just witnessed another murder on tv. The murder of democracy.
There needs to be an impeachment resolution passed with a removal conviction.
Wonder if our military will turn on its own people if commanded by a puppet installed by a foreign adversary. That is where things stand tonight.
Here is what was happening outside the White House as President Trump was giving his Rose Garden address and saying he is an “ally of all peaceful protestors.” Peaceful protestors being tear gassed outside of the WH gates. I confirmed because I was teargassed along with them.
TRUMP WANTS TO TURN THIS COUNTRY INTO A POLICE STATE
Seems so extremely counterproductive to use police brutality against people protesting police brutality
DC Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde: "Let me be clear: The President just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and one of the churches of my diocese, without permission, as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus."
“I was not given even a courtesy call that they would be clearing with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop, holding a Bible, one that declares that God is love and when everything he has said and done is to enflame violence."
Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal
Jesuit priest
on Trump’s photo-op: "Using the Bible as a prop while talking about sending in the military, bragging about how your country is the greatest in the world, and publicly mocking people on a daily basis, is pretty much the opposite of all Jesus stood for."
Priest run off from St. John's today:
"I am now a force to be reckoned with." twitter.com/jackmjenkins/s…
Jack Jenkins
@jackmjenkins
ANOTHER harrowing account from ANOTHER priest working outside St. John’s who says they were run off by tear gas, etc before Trump’s photo op.
Ends with a defiant decree: “I am now a force to be reckoned with.”
Said that Trump did this in DC because it is NOT a state so there is no governor there that he would have to ask permission so he gassed protesters there and bragged that active duty military will be deployed against the American people when he invokes the Insurrection Act of 1807. This has been used in specific geographical times like LA during Rodney king riots and hurricanes. If he is going to do that, legally he would first have to issue a formal proclamation, order the insurgents to disperse, and retire peaceably to their abodes.
He spoke today as if he has already done that. But not even the Pentagon knows if he has actually done it. He also threatened to use Barr against us (Barr has covered up his many crimes numerous times already) but he said he activated Barr against US. He threatened the Governors to do this if they don’t stop protesters using military force against American citizens peacefully protesting police brutality.
If you want to help the #swannstreet protesters, you can!
Here's the phone number for Mayor Bowser's office in DC, and a really useful script. Give them a call and ask why police are terrorizing these protesters.
@chasemcarter
Demand @MayorBowser end the curfew and release all protestors trapped by police tonight! #DCProtests #LetThemGo
Trump was accompanied by Stephen Miller, Derek Lyons, Keith Kellogg, Mark Meadows, Tony Ornato, Pat Cipollone, Hope Hicks, Dan Scavino, Nick Luna, Bill Barr, Mark Esper, Kayleigh McEnany, Alyssa Farrah, Jared Kushner and (in a mask) Ivanka Trump. #DCProtest
FIRE ALL OF THEM
George Will: “There is no such thing as rock bottom for Trump. Assume the worst is yet to come. He MUST BE REMOVED ALONG WITH HIS CONGRESSIONAL ENABLERS.”
Bryan McGrath
Will no one resign? Will no one stand up and be counted? Will no one point to themselves and say "I was wrong and this man is a monster"? Are there no men and women of honor in the senior ranks of this Administration who love their country more than their jobs?