Ya know this has been a week that normally would be something talked about for years. But this crazy shit happens every freaking day in 2021 America and I for one just want normal still.
The trial of the century is happening. A cop, a killer, a cold blooded killer is on trial in Minneapolis for the murder of a man named George Floyd. A murder everyone saw. A murder that nobody can defend with the exception of racists and morons. And it is excruciating to watch.
Everyone has seen snippets of the 9 minute 26 second video of a police officer slowly killing a man while smirking at a crowd of bystanders pleading for the mans life. But very few had seen the entire video played beginning to end without interruption. You had that opportunity this week. It was the worst thing Ive seen perhaps ever. It wasnt a bad police shooting, it wasnt a terrorist slicing some journalists throat. it wasnt some racist punching someone. It was 9 minutes of a slow torturous death perpetrated by a human being sworn to serve and protect. George Floyd was not only murdered, he was tortured first and then murdered. I will never be the same.
The testimony of guilt stricken witnesses, the testimony of police superiors stating this is not defensible, the testimony of EMT's shocked at the hostility of Minneapolis cops preventing them from helping, the testimony of decent folks baring their souls on how they lay awake at night regretting how this entire murder could have been prevented. The tears, the regret, the anger and of course, the utter stupidity of defense lawyers attempting to portray these people as being an angry mob of black radicals interfering with police business.
The defense of this act of cold and calculated homicide isnt going to work. This cop is going down hard. Even in 2021 America where Blue Lives Matter turned out to be nothing but racist bullshit when it came to "patriots", this cop is done. There isnt a decent human being who cannot see the despicable lack of humanity that happened in the 9 plus minutes.
But then again, decency is becoming rarer and rarer in this day and age.
Another gun enthusiast exercised his 2nd Amendment privileges right this week in California by coldly chaining a gate closed, walking in to a building and murdering 4 innocents, including a 9 year old child. This is news you say? For fucks sake it happens 5 times a week anymore. We have proven that we dont care who these maniacs kill, even 6 year olds or 9 year olds over the last few years. As long as everybody, including the mentally ill and the just plain evil have unfettered access to mass killing weapons of war. The video of Congressional hobbit Lindsey Graham firing a weapon of mass destruction may have the been the most absurd video of the year. I am so sick of it. And of him.
Major League Baseball has pulled its All Star Game from the city of Atlanta since Georgia has decided to go all Lester Maddox and take an axe handle to those pesky black folks who vote. Georgia, who gave us the Senate, started a fight with those people who stood inline for hours and voted not the way the Orange Monster wanted. Passing a voter suppression law that will make it even harder for what happened in 2020 to ever happen again. Basically its a only whites can vote law to ensure that backwards ass hillbillies dominate Georgia politics as has been done for 150 years. I'm not sure what's worse though, The fact that this was passed or the fact white people just cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
Other states are now trying it. Iowa, Texas, Floriduh, Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan, Tennessee, Louisiana all seem to want Republican gerrymandered legislatures to be able to just scream voter fraud and overturn elections simply because the wrong folks voted. The fact this even is an issue shows the desperation of a party of fools dominated by a fascist con man.
Years ago I wondered what would happen once white people's share of the vote went down to a point where they no longer decided elections on nationwide scales. Now I know my answer.
Its full blown panic.
Pull other shit out of these states. Hit em where it hurts. Cancel the culture until it doesn't even exist any longer. The culture sucks. Its based on hate, ignorance and meanness. Cancel it all as far as I am concerned .
NOW
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