Even though this crap has been happening for almost 400 years.

White people don't play well with others.

Pence reminds me of the student who says teacher-pleasing words, but the teacher knows they're still a rotten bastard.

That stuck out like a muddy elephant in the snow.

It is pretty rich the idea that Trump would take any steps to curb police brutality.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/29/trump-tells-law-enforcement-dont-too-nice-suspects/522220001/

The sole purpose of walking out on

It's so maddening.

That’s what bugs me most about it.

He says “We condemn violence against property and persons.” This tells me a lot about how he thinks.

“Violence” implies bodily harm—intentional, painful injury against a living being—blood, wounds, possible death. One can not commit an act of “violence” against property. The property can’t feel the pain. The property can’t lose its life. The property has no inherent, Constitutional rights.

Pence, evidently, thinks that people and property are equal. He doesn’t understand the law. The law holds that people are more valuable than property, no matter what he thinks.

-Laelth

Isn't this guy supposed to be a Christian?

Good catch, though, on the fact that he lists property BEFORE people in his tweet.

-Laelth

With tRump and Pence and ilk, it is always money before "human capital stock".

I noticed a CNN reporter the other night — can’t remember where it was — talking about the high levels of “violence” he was witnessing. Property damage was occurring, but neither police nor protesters were fighting or otherwise injuring each other. Calling it “violence” didn’t sound quite right.

(To be fair, CNNs coverage has been *really* good overall, but one or two of the reporters have sounded a bit like they’re more concerned about the state of the local Starbucks than anything else.)

But the words “violence” and “property” don’t go together in English.

I agree that CNN’s coverage has been good so far.

Thank you for the reply.

-Laelth

I switched to Fox to see how they were framing the events around the country in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder.

It was all about property damage. About burned out police vans, broken store front windows. Nothing about the protests or the evidence that there were people from out of town who appeared in the night to start fires and cause destruction -- and then disappeared into the shadows.

Of course, they later talked about antifa. Not a word about police agents provocateur or the Boogie Bois (or whatever the hell those rodents call themselves) who may well have been present and fomenting -- or trying to -- violence and destruction.

who had been targeted and shot by police during the night. Nothing on Fox about that, or about the family that was shot at while standing on their front porch, or the protester in Denver shot at in a literal "drive-by" by the police.

They’re working their narrative.

-Laelth

-Laelth

Oh. Forgot what reality I was in....

Nevermind.

but please be sure to know that you're talking about "Pence's" churches (MANY churches are WELL on the other side of the "religion" that Pence seems to practice.............)