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  1. Kindly take your Antifa bullshit to the CR. The Antifa narrative is nothing but an obviously laughable right-wing boogeyman distraction that many of you posting in this thread take as gospel truth. Jeezus. What a load of horseshit.
    16 points
  2. It's clearly James and Tommy Brockermeyer.
    16 points
  3. The insults of urban living magnify the power imbalances enormously - a structural defect aggravated by neglect. Whomever gave the order to - "Light them up" - should lose his badge. Ignoring warning signs of a bad cop put people in danger. Redirect him into a job that doesn't require sound judgment. He is probably the same person who told those cops to pretend like they were Iraq as they walked through a neighborhood. Say a neighborly thing - like, please stay in your houses and close your windows. We have protestors headed this way and tear gas might be used. Sane and rational people respond well to such kindness. The police acted as if they were angry at the residents. That's not smart police work. We must change our approach to law enforcement in several areas. It would make everyone's lives better - LEO and civilian.
    16 points
  4. Anybody who would utter the name Obama right now is suspect. Especially in regard to a police force that has been infiltrated by stone cold racists. Obama bent over backward to appease everyone and bring everyone together. He was naive in that regard b/c at the end of the day the color of his skin is what caused all the division. I swear to God, this country is going to fall if decent white people like yourself don't start calling a spade a spade.
    15 points
  5. It needs to be stated that what we're witnessing now is a culmination of several years of highly-publicized racist acts from the police and average citizens in this country, and those acts being filmed and consumed by an awoken black youth on social media. It's Mr. Floyd, it's Trayvon, it's Ahmaud, it's Botham, it's Breonna Taylor, it's Tamir Rice (the worst one IMO), it's the countless Karen flare ups, it's the birtherism, it's the confederate flags that have popped up in my Dallas suburb the last few years, it's the inability to read a comment section on Youtube/Yahoo without seeing racist trolls, it's being called "nigger/monkey" on XBOX Live by trolls, it's the racial disparities in disaster relief/farm bailout, and it's all the other racist shit black people get hit with on a daily basis in this country. This is a protest about racism in America, Mr. Floyd's death was just a tipping point.
    15 points
  6. For the life of me, I will never understand how some people in this country can hold the flag or the national anthem with such reverence, and then can look the other way when authorities fail to uphold what those symbols are supposed to represent.
    14 points
  7. Here are some of my photos from protests in Houston tonight. The cops did their best to divide and disperse the crowd. I saw a couple of arrests, but not sure the context. I have never been in the middle of something like this, so it was very interesting. Hard to shoot because it was dusk/night.
    14 points
  8. I lived in Hollywood in LA during the Rodney King riots. I wrote to friends at the time that I saw what a thin veneer order provides over the surface of chaos. In that case, the disappearance of police put LA into a state of what the governor (Pete somebody, GOP) accurately described as "natural law." (I think that governor did a solid job after the disastrous local decisions put LA under a cloud of smoke.) That riot started in anger but soon turned into a dangerous celebration of lawlessness. These riots hearken back to the 60's. Righteous anger. No justice, no peace was not a tired chant in those days. No justice leads to no peace. Withhold justice and those subject to injustice will destroy the peace. No taxation without representation. Don't tread on me. A Republican is a Democrat who has never been arrested. All these phrases regain their truth and power. Is the effort always noble or uniformly restrained? No. But it's foolish to dismiss the fury of the mob because some of the mob are criminals. Certainly the establishment would consider it unfair to be identified by the criminals in their own ranks. For me, maybe the most alarming element of government/police action is the orderliness with which Floyd was murdered, reporters arrested, citizens maced, and citizens fired upon while on their own front porch. These are not mistakes made in haste or under threat. These actions are carried out calmly. The cop murdering Floyd is having a good time and seems very much to be persisting in his tormenting of Floyd to defy and enrage the citizens pleading with him to stop. That's raw fascism. Anybody trying rationalize a way to defend the action of the cop or generally condemn the reaction throughout the country are, indeed, party to the rise of fascism. This is not hyperbole. It should be hyperbole; I wish it were hyperbole, but it's not.
    13 points
  9. Ad in every race against a GOP candidate, because they ALL have sucked Trump's cock. Scene 1: candidate saying "I stand with our great president, Donald Trump!" Scene 2: Trump saying to smash suspects heads in cars. Scene 3: head of Minneapolis PD union thanking Trump for "taking the handcuffs off cops!" (need a caption labeling him as head of Minneapolis PD union) Scene 4: still of Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck, staring into the camera (caption showing "Minneapolis officer kills George Floyd") Scene 5: brief image of a city in flames. Then just "we can do better. Texas can do better. Vote for me."
    12 points
  10. MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Lt. Bob Kroll, the head of the Minneapolis police union, took the stage prior to President Donald Trump at a downtown rally Thursday night, praising the president for standing behind law enforcement. “The mayor said the President wasn’t welcome but the Police Federation of Minneapolis begs to differ,” Kroll told the rally crowd. Kroll, the president of the Minneapolis Police Federation, wore a bright red “Cops for Trump” T-shirt, and spoke at Target Center about how the president supports police departments across the country as they face scrutiny following years of high-profile police shootings. “The Obama administration and the handcuffing and oppression of police was despicable,” Kroll said. “The first thing President Trump did when he took office was turn that around … he decided to start let cops do their job, put the handcuffs on the criminals instead of (on) us.” The Minneapolis police union began selling the “Cops for Trump” shirts this week as a form of protest against a new city policy that bars officers from wearing their uniforms in support of political candidates. Kroll says the new policy, which was announced the same day as the date for the “Keep America Great” rally, was politically motivated. He says that when President Barack Obama came to town, officers were allowed to stand behind him in uniform. City leaders, on the other hand, say that the new policy takes politics out of policing. The proceeds from the “Cops for Trump” shirts are going to charity, the police union says. “Debate the facts with the left,” Kroll closed. “And when their facts don’t hold up for their debate, wait to be called a racist. That’s the easy way out, right? Label. The all-accepting left, ‘Everybody’s welcome here, if you think like we do.'” Hours later, Kroll was called back up on stage by Trump to cheers from the audience.
    12 points
  11. Start with stop doing this shit: And stop doing this shit: Right there are two incredibly blatant examples of shots that did not need to be fired by the cops, that were fired out of spite, and more importantly, it exposed a hatred of the people they are sworn to protect and serve, people who pay their fucking salaries. Those officers fired those shots, knowing they were being filmed. Those officers should be fired, outted on social media, and should not be employable elsewhere.
    11 points
  12. Thanks for this take. My family - including my wife in her clerical collar, and both of our children, will be at the capitol in a few hours. We will state our case, bear witness, and not be silent. We will do so peacefully. We will hope and encourage everyone else there to do the same. But we had a lot of conversation about this yesterday with our kids. This is their country - even though my daughter says she’s done, and has no desire to return, we reminded her that it will always be her homeland, and it will be the home of friends and family she loves. And apparently, they are going to have to fight for it. So answer the call. Their generation is going to have to fight for their country. They aren’t going to leave. They aren’t going to abandon it to simple-minded cowards. They see quite clearly the things that are so very wrong. So now, they fight.
    11 points
  13. I don't think I'll leave the place to an army of ignorant fascists who don't have the vaguest notion of what the USA once tried to be. I won't leave it intact for the pleasure of those in the process seizing something they themselves by their very ignorance are transforming into a proud racist, authoritarian state where shockingly stupid "citizens" love the taste of jackboot. So, please, come to my house and rout me out of it. I'll surely flee before your tough posturing. Oh please come and break down my door to reduce me to a sniveling pile of terror. By all means, walk your talk. You're going to have to personally displace me, fuckwad. Pray, give it a shot. When it's over, we'll go ahead and remove your name and avatar which you so keenly undermine.
    11 points
  14. Seen this reposted a few times tonight
    11 points
  15. So, I haven't kept up with this thread the last couple of days, and I probably won't go back and read I because I have a family and a life, but I just wanted to say that we attended a prayer service in front of the county courthouse for justice for Goerge Floyd. The speakers were a conglomerate of local pastors, both black and white. One of them read a letter from the wife of a police officer that was very critical of this whole ordeal. One of them was a preacher cop who channeled Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with his oratory skills. Obviously he condemned the whole situation as well. At the end they called up all the local pastors, city officials and such on the stage for support and to say a final prayer. The Chief of police (or at least his doppelganger, in uniform) was up there with them. So there is some hope. This was in Longview, TX, what most of y'all probably consider the backwoods racist part of the state (and in many ways it still is), yet the chief of police was up there calling for justice for Mr. Floyd. I would say there is hope yet. Keep fighting the fight. There is never the right time to do the wrong thing (one of the key messages from the preacher cop), but there are plenty of wrongs that need to be made right.
    11 points
  16. Fuck off with that shit. There is no teacher's union in Texas. Teachers don't collectively bargain, teachers don't get any of those protections unions provide, and they sure as fuck don't kill their students with impunity. Hell, teachers can't even have their professional organization dues taken from their check. The next time a teacher gets away with killing a student, then you can compare out of control unions, otherwise quit talking out your ass.
    10 points
  17. You mean like he was virtually silent when he flew to Dallas to speak and attend the memorial of the fallen officers? And the police blamed him for it because he had the audacity to say black lives matter? The same phrase that was pushed by the right as an only anti-police agenda.
    10 points
  18. Considering there were similar scenes all over the country, I'd say it's your boy Trump.
    10 points
  19. 10 points
  20. I swear to God, if Biden is elected one of the very first things he needs to do in his 100 days is let Elizabeth Warren go full force against Facebook. The fucking complicit fuckface needs to fucking hang.
    9 points
  21. He fucking did publicly denounce the shootings you moron. He was in Europe when it happened and held a press conference in Warsaw, Poland shortly afterwords. He left Europe early to come back to the U.S. as a direct result of the shootings. I am sorry he didn't stop by your house to have a chat afterwords and discuss next steps, but it is simply laughable to suggest that Obama didn't publicly respond to the shootings.
    9 points
  22. That’s one hell of an arm.
    8 points
  23. Hitler's last days were spent in a bunker
    8 points
  24. "Everyone who wears a mask is Antifa" "Everyone who is black is BLM" - MNLonghornFUKM I keep expecting to see a post about George Soros like is all over the Tech Rivals.com board
    8 points
  25. Super K says good recruiting news is on the way followed by two 🤫🤫
    8 points
  26. Pretty sure that quote was from the fall of the Saddam regime.
    8 points
  27. Re the cancellation.... Yes....we just saw this. We will respect the wishes of the organizers. The intent was a peaceful gathering to bear witness and demand accountability. We will not be part of something against the wishes of the community that has the most important voice in this matter. And we will not be a part of creating further confusion that cruel leaders will use to argue against a just cause. We have much to say. But most importantly, we must listen first. If my neighbor in need is asking us to stand down, that’s what we’ll do. And we’ll be ready for what comes next. We must not be silent. We must not be complicit. This is going to be a long fight.
    8 points
  28. Also NSIAP, everyone should watch Killer Mike’s comments after the mayor spoke.
    8 points
  29. Bread pudding with rye-peach sauce and toasted pecans for brunch
    8 points
  30. I’m good with that. While we’re at it let’s get a ruling to make it open season on anyone who associates with antifa.
    8 points
  31. Right now, we're seeing what it looks like when maybe 17% of the population feels disenfranchised and persecuted (they are). What does it look like when 35% of the population feels that way (who aren't)? The fact that WuLaw has to refer to the psycho who shot up the GOP baseball game (a default for both siders) as a comparable example of left-right terrorism shows the dearth of examples. Charlottesville and the torch parade somehow doesn't earn mention. The Trump rallies are another indicator of different groups of large numbers of people that form the tinderbox of Trumpist violence. Trump's rhetoric will encourage them with lies. I believe we're seeing a just demonstration against injustice at the moment. An injust and violent demonstration against a just election will, potentially, surpass the current one in violence and hate. Hell, they show up to peaceful demonstrations armed for combat. I wish I could be as sanguine as Wulaw. I'm not. Another note, family matters have brought me to Peterborough, NH. In this beautiful largely white little town, at least a hundred locals lined the main highway to support the Black Lives Matter demonstration. It was a heartening thing to see after Floyd's murder and the arrest of the CNN reporter.
    8 points
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    8 points
  33. That was from some weird incident earlier today.
    8 points
  34. Herman has had two mentors, both having won national championships, that have told him the absolute number one thing that he needs to do is avoid doing everything in the HC job because it’s burns you out. He’s still learning on the job and if he had won the last 2 one score games vs OU the talk would be about Riley and his gadget program vs Herman and serious football, that will be in the 2023 threads. I know 2019 wasn’t what we wanted to see but the gnashing of teeth over Herman has gone to extremes, and it’s a bit like BAS because it’s really OU focused. was 2019 a complete failure? Yep. Did Herman leave it alone or did he hire one of the best OCs in CFB and a DC who won a National title the last time they were coaching together? All I read during the last season was everyone claiming that Herman was a fucking blockheaded narcissist that won’t change a goddamn thing with his staff. He always thinks he’s right yada yada ... then he did exactly the opposite. Oh I know, and you can try to hate on the Ash hire and his Hermanbro status but before you do go back and watch the Utah game and see what our defense looked like with only a few changes toward the simple (remember I said before 2019 that Naivar would be an upgrade at DC) and put that against the shitty one score losses we suffered in 2019 with Orlando’s bumblefucking. Anyone think Ash won’t be, at a minimum, better than Naivar would’ve been this year and markedly better than Orlando was in 2019? I think he’s going to be more than marginally better, there will significant improvements, but I understand any trepidation. Yurcich is a huge upgrade and anyone saying otherwise is being disingenuous. I know all of this has been beaten to death so instead of leaving it alone I’ll throw some fucking gas on the fire and turn this shit up ... I think Texas is closer to winning a national title than OU, despite their multiple Heisman winners and recent playoff appearances. OU is completely uncompetitive in games where their talent mismatch is nullified because they have systemic issues. There’s lots of praise for Riley addressing the Sooner issues on defense by hiring Grinch, but dig deeper on that decision, it speaks to my point. They are installing Grinch’s SpeedD and recruiting toward it, so let’s see — a team that’s been bitchfucked and bullied over and over, that has tackled like shit — is going to address those glaring issues by getting a lot smaller across the board — esp on the DL? How do you think that’s going to play out vs Bama, LSU, tOSU, and Clemson? Not only are they getting way smaller on the DL they are doing it in concert with Bennie Wylie as S&C coach. They are doing it while not restocking the defensive roster well. They only have 38 scholarship players on defense and still their classes are overloaded with offense. Riley wants one thing from Grinch’s D - to be disruptive so that he can get his offense back on the field. Period. Because that’s all Riley cares about. The offense. Does anyone think they are going to have markedly better QB play than they have the past 4 years? WR? OL? They are already elite and are completely out of games by the 2nd qtr in the playoffs. Really, it’s not just the playoffs, OU has had a huge talent (and almost as important, depth) advantage in the Big XII and still ended up in six one score games last season despite the fucking historically elite offense. Kudos to Riley for winning those games — Herman didn’t and that’s a BIG fucking problem — but the question of why the Sooners were even in one score games remains. The further they get from Stoops evals and Schmidt’s S&C the further they get from fielding a capable defense. I don’t think 2020 will see a drastic drop — they return all five OL, etc so they will still apply a ton of pressure to opposing teams via quick scores but the systemic issues reveal themselves over time. If you look at their D classes from 2018 going forward (compare them with Stoops classes that are fading away) and then project these classes forward under Bennie Wylie ... maybe I’m wrong but I don’t see them addressing the unsmooth buttfuckings they’ve received. Do I believe in Herman? I’m not sure yet. I do know that I believe in him/his staff’s ability to identify talent. Very much so. I think the only comparable staffs are Utah and Clemson in that regard. I do believe in the offensive system (power running game with a mobile QB vertical passing attack — hellooooooo Yurcich) and I believe in his commitment to competitiveness, even if it’s often hokey or cheesy. I do believe in Yancey and his staff. I don’t think Texas would be humiliated in the playoffs under Herman. commence flames, goddamn football board posters, and mockery. you’re welcome for the march to 1,000.
    8 points
  35. Are you new here? Brisket is already doing what he does best, typing a lot of words.
    7 points
  36. We won't make great pets
    7 points
  37. smoked a 9 lbs leg of lamb a client brought me from a show lamb she raised. made a rub of olive oil, salt, pepper, lemon zest, garlic, fresh oregano and rosemary. grilled some onions and heirloom tomatoes, wife hobbled around on a broken foot and managed to contribute a killer tzatsiki and homemade sourdough pita. had lamb plenty of times in the past, but it was my first time doing lamb...that show lamb is a game changer.
    7 points
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