I made this post in the Clusterfuck Continues thread. Now I think this particular part of the clusterfuck should be the focus of its own thread.
Feel free to add what you can, even if it’s merely venting over what’s posted here.
If only to keep track of who they’ve come for so we can update Niemöller’s poem.
Here a gift link to a NYT article about a man (looks like a tourist?) who threw a wrapped Subway at a police officer. He is being charged with a felony. But he’s a hero to me.
Well, the sandwich is at least.
A funny depicable thing happened on the way to the Kennedy Center.
WASHINGTON ‒ Blocks away from where President Donald Trump announced the latest slate of Kennedy Center honorees, workers began to sweep away homeless encampments along his route to the White House as part of his broader crackdown in the capital city.
The Aug. 13 move comes days after Trump seized control of Washington, D.C.'s local law enforcement, deployed National Guard troops, and ordered people living outside to “immediately” move, suggesting, as the president put it, that they be relocated “FAR from the Capital.”
Amber Harding, executive director of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, said officials cleared at least two tents on a patch of green space near the Kennedy Center as Trump spoke at the performing arts center.
Members of the city’s Department of Human Services pinned notices to at least nine other tents in the area, notifying residents that the camps would be broken down and closed if not removed by the following morning.
George Morgan, a lifelong D.C. resident who has lived in the encampment for two months, said he’s not sure where he will go. He won’t go to a shelter because they wouldn’t allow him to bring his American pit bull terrier.
Morgan’s an odd one, though.
“I’m very concerned,” said Morgan, a Trump supporter, about the president’s takeover of the city’s police force and his mobilization of the National Guard. “I try not to take offense.”
He said while he doesn’t know where he will go, he’s “hopeful God will make a way.”
And, of course, the homeless are not being move anywhere; they’re being chased away.
Advocates for the city’s homeless population say they’re still unclear where the Trump administration expects people living outside to move.
Wat are you talking about? Trump is setting up some very nice homeless shelters in the Potomac.
Just like all his properties.
Underwater.
You call it underwater. He calls it liquid.
Maybe he was just offering him lunch?
I only hope that the judge has common sense.
“Your Honor, he attacked a federal officer. He threw a sandwich at the officer.”
“Prosecutor, since when is a salami, ham, bologna, lettuce, tomato, and cheese sandwich any kind of weapon? Do you really propose to take up the court’s time with this?”
“Think very carefully before you answer, Counsellor. Think very carefully.”
“I believe it counts as a club.”
Okay, that made me laugh, @The_Other_Waldo_Pepper . Thank you!
Humans are very susceptible to mental conditioning. Their strategy, as I see it at least, is to condition American citizens to accepting the deployment of troops within our borders any time he feels he wants to do so. It’s only a matter of time before he is successful.
Hey now, heart disease is no laughing matter!
Gasp — Littering!!
Black man harassed for being outside on own porch by federal agents. White “moderates” make excuses. Actually, he was smoking on his on own porch and probably being all uppity.
In a statement to CNN, Pirro said, “The police are not out there to get pushed around or beat up. They have a job to do, and they shouldn’t be abused in the process. Count on me to back the blue.”
The White House said in a statement to CNN, “Assaulting a law enforcement officer is a crime.”
“The Trump Administration will always stand up for law enforcement officers and hold those accountable who seek to do them harm,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said.
All that seems new.
For wich the felon in the Oval Office will happily pardon one if one shouts the felon’s name while assaulting the law enforcement officer.
Is throwing a sandwich really assault? Really?
Is anyone gonna convict this guy?