Day whatever (78 but who's counting anymore?) and there is no normal, new or otherwise

Backstory -- eight days ago, on May 25, 4 white cops detained a black man they suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill. (Turns out it wasn't.) During the arrest, which he did not resist, one of the cops knelt on the man's neck. For 6 minutes. Need I tell you, the man died of asphyxiation?

Very quickly, peaceful protests were organized all around the country .

The 4 cops were fired. The kneeling cop was arrested and charged with third degree murder -- sort of what you'd get if you pushed someone down the stairs and they died. Need I tell you, some of the protests became less peaceful?

These more active protests were handled differently by different jurisdictions -- mainly based on the political party of those in charge of the jurisdiction. Democrat Mayors, Governors and Chiefs of Police where seen marching with, talking with and kneeling with the protesters. Republican ones, including the president, called out police in military gear, National Guards, etc, with tear gas and rubber bullets.

Everyone in the country kept waiting for the president to make a statement, show empathy for the family of the man who died, call for calm and unity. Right. Instead,  he tweeted that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts", and "the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat." Calm. Unity.

Frightened of the peaceful demonstrators in Lafayette Park, across the street from OUR White House, the chickenshit president spent Friday night in a basement bunker. There were photos of OUR White House with all the lights off.

Naturally, people started making fun of the "Bunker President", calling him weak and ineffectual -- which he was and had been all along. So, to show how strong he was, on a phone call with the nation's Governors he berated them for being weak and ineffectual and told them they had to "dominate" the people, and called the protesters "thugs".

On Monday night, he ordered the DC Police, Park Service, and Secret Service to clear Lafayette Park -- with tear gas. flash bangs, and rubber bullets. This "clearing" happened during his televised speech where he said he was "with" all the peaceful protesters (the ones being tear gassed a few yards away.)

Then, after the speech, he took a stroll across the now empty park, accompanied by a few of his toadies. This is the park where the president of the United States had ordered police to fire upon American citizens, to tear gas American citizens, so that he could have a photo op.

The president fired on the citizens so that he could stand in front of St. John's Episcopal Church, often called the Presidents' Church, without protesters and their nasty* signs getting into the camera's view. A church he had been inside of only once in his 3.5 years living across the street and then only because it was part of the inauguration spectacle. He stood there, holding up a Bible (upside down and backwards), pandering once more to his base and threatening to use the US Military to "shut down" the protests.

Today is Tuesday. So far, over 4,000 people, including journalists covering the protests, have been arrested. It could all have been avoided 8 days ago, by arresting 4 cops.




*nasty = anything that is unflattering to him.