Demovictory9
Demovictory9's Journal" their President has stood with them and done what no other president would do"
Phrase in Trump Tweet this morning. He is just grotesque. speaking of himself in third person, calling himself the best ever of this and that.
Man smashes window to rescue dog from hot car
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/08/06/new-mexico-man-saves-dog-hot-car-newsource-orig.cnnpuppy found after 2 months
https://twitter.com/InactionNever/status/1158599096606908417He's Getting Worse
Hes Getting Worse
Trump is turning the American presidency into a platform for the wholesale demonization of minorities.
The current, and (to date) most debased, phase of the Trump presidencythe phase that includes the unceasing demonization of minority legislators and the endorsement of North Korean communismbegan, in retrospect, on May 8, in the Florida Panhandle, at a rally in Panama City. It was there that Donald Trump gave tacit approval to the use of violence against immigrants.
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But in this latest phase, his rhetoric has become particularly sweeping. Brown people in general have become his targets. And there is no reason to hope that he will reform. His followers reward his radicalism, and his handlers are among the most cynical figures in American political history. His aide Kellyanne Conway tweeted on Sunday, Working as one to understand depraved evil & to eradicate hate is everyones duty. Unity. Lets do this. And his daughter Ivanka wrote, in a way that hints at a permanent separation from reality, White supremacy, like all other forms of terrorism, is an evil that must be destroyed. And, of course, there is no one of any influence in his party who is willing to confront him.
I watched the video recording of the rally in Panama City shortly after reading the El Paso killers so-called manifesto. It is a document littered with phrases and rhetorical devices injected into mainstream discourse by the president and his supporterstalk of a Hispanic invasion, accusations that Democrats support open borders, and the like. As Trump faces the possibility that he will lose the presidency next year, he may become more enraged, and more willing to deploy the rhetoric of violence as a way to keep his followers properly motivated. The Panama City speech was an important moment in Trumps ongoing effort to make the American presidency a vehicle in the cause of marginalizing and frightening racial minorities; the killings are a possible (and predictable) consequence of such rhetoric.
Three years ago, The Atlantic, in its endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president (an editorial motivated not by love for Clinton but by fear of Trump), stated, In one of the more sordid episodes in modern American politics, Trump made himself the face of the so-called birther movement, which had as its immediate goal the demonization of the countrys first African American president. Trumps larger goal, it seemed, was to stoke fear among white Americans of dark-skinned foreigners.
It is depressing to realize that we were correct (though, if anything, understated in our analysis), and it is depressing to think that there is no immediate way out of this crisis.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/trump-getting-worse/595453/
German Shepherd is left a 'nervous wreck' after being dumped at an animal shelter
Rocco the German Shepherd is left a 'nervous wreck' after being dumped at an animal shelter because his owners were expecting a new babyRocco was abandoned at the Dallas Animal Services and Adoption Center
The three-year-old dog was filmed cowering inside his kennel by a visitor
Preethi Pillaipakkam, who rescues and fosters German Shepherds saw the video and said was shocked the family had given him up because of a new baby
She said: 'But once I saw how underfed he was, it did not surprise me. It is probably a combination of change in family situation, plus not [being] the best owners in the first place.'
Since the video went viral, dozens of adoption applications have been submitted
Preethi Pillaipakkam (pictured) rescued "Rocco" from the Dallas Animal Services and Adoption Center after a video of Rocco went viral
After a few days of lightly treading his new environment, Rocco began to slowly open up and became his former self
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7323591/Dog-nervous-wreck-ABANDONED-animal-shelter-family-new-baby.html
Trump tweets, stays out of sight for hours after shootings
https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/After-pair-of-mass-shootings-Trump-remains-out-14279451.phpBRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) As the nation reeled from two mass shootings in less than a day, President Donald Trump spent the first hours after the tragedies out of sight at his New Jersey golf course, sending out tweets of support awkwardly mixed in with those promoting a celebrity fight and attacking his political foes.
Americans did not glimpse the president in the immediate aftermath of a shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed at least 20 people and, hours later, one in Dayton, Ohio, that claimed at least nine lives. Not until Trump and the first lady prepared to fly back to Washington in the late afternoon Sunday did he appear before cameras.
"Hate has no place in our country, and we're going to take care of it," Trump declared before boarding Air Force One.
While connecting "hate" and mental illness to the shootings, Trump made no direct mention of gun laws, a factor brought up by Democratic officials and those seeking their party's nomination to challenge Trump's reelection next year. He also ignored questions about the anti-immigration language in a manifesto written by the El Paso shooter that mirrors some of his own.
WHAT BULLETS DO TO BODIES
The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront every day.
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/gun-violence/
She is the chair of Temples Department of Surgery, one of only 16 women in America to hold that position at a hospital. In my initial conversation with her, which took place shortly after the mass shooting in Orlando, where 49 people were killed and 53 injured by a man who walked into a gay nightclub with a semi-automatic rifle and a Glock handgun, she was joined by Scott Charles, the hospitals trauma outreach coordinator and Goldbergs longtime friend. Goldberg has a southeastern Pennsylvania accent that at low volume makes her sound like a sweet South Philly grandmother and at higher volume becomes a razor. I asked her what changes in gun violence she had seen in her 30 years. She said not many. When she first arrived at Temple in 1987 to start her residency, It was so obvious to me then that there was something so wrong. Since then, the types of firearms have evolved. The surgeons used to see .22-caliber bullets from little handguns, Saturday night specials, whereas now they see .40-caliber and 9 mm bullets. Charles said they get the occasional victim of a long gun, such as an AR-15 or an AK-47, but whats remarkable is how common handguns are.
Goldberg jumped in. As a country, Goldberg said, we lost our teachable moment. She started talking about the 2012 murder of 20 schoolchildren and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Goldberg said that if people had been shown the autopsy photos of the kids, the gun debate would have been transformed. The fact that not a single one of those kids was able to be transported to a hospital, tells me that they were not just dead, but really really really really dead. Ten-year-old kids, riddled with bullets, dead as doornails. Her voice rose. She said people have to confront the physical reality of gun violence without the polite filters. The country wont be ready for it, but thats what needs to happen. Thats the only chance at all for this to ever be reversed.
She dropped back into a softer register. Nobody gives two shits about the black people in North Philadelphia if nobody gives two craps about the white kids in Sandy Hook.
I thought white little kids getting shot would make people care. Nope. They didnt care. Anderson Cooper was up there. They set up shop. And then the public outrage fades.
Goldberg apologized and said she wasnt trying to stop me from writing a story. She just didnt expect it to change anything.
David Hogg:Trump is trying to remain quiet right now because he knows that if he does this will pass
https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1158061218130812928The shooting in El Paso was political terrorism committed by a Trump supporting white nationalist.
Trump is trying to remain quiet right now because he knows that if he does this will pass, dont let it.
#EmergencySessionNow
Kellyanne: We need to come together, America. Finger-pointing, name-calling & screaming with your
https://twitter.com/KellyannePolls/status/1158030724856811522so.. Trump's campaign strategy for 2020 was to trash African American majority cities
will he continue with that strategy?
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