Had a few conversations with different Edwards Air Force peeps, who sadly all have the same mind set. See the traitors as heroes and POTUS as the Enemy.
It's always been disheartening to hear MIL, of any caliber, favor traitors.
"Do you trust the MIL?" at this point, no. Still swampy as hell.
Dem motto –When the courts take too long to litigate, just take action on your own.
Also Dem motto – Repubs have no legal standing. Ever.
Richmond City Council Takes Aim at Confederate Monuments
January 6, 2020
https://www.courthousenews.com/richmond-city-council-asks-virginia-to-allow-removal-of-confederate-monuments/
Small business owner: The looters who broke into my store weren't protesting Floyd death
My father founded our family pharmacy the year I was born, 1955. Originally, we were located near the White House until we moved to Upper Northwest Washington, D.C., right near the border of Maryland and the capital. We also expanded into groceries.
We've been doing business in this neighborhood for 55 years. Our customers are an international group and we have enjoyed knowing and seeing all our familiar customers, for so many years. We were here even when Washington, D.C., suffered from the 1968 riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. But it wasn't until the current protests and riots that our family business was attacked and looted.
The night of Sunday, May 31, was a nightmare.
It was the third night of protests in the city when someone threw a chair from the patio set outside through our shop window. My son and I found it and we tried to board up the window as best we could but the professional crews were in frantic demand. We had called for help, but so much was going on that we needed to secure the window ourselves. The police were spread very thin, driving up and down our avenue in emergency vehicles.
That night, I left just to get cleaned up and in that time the store was violated again. From our security footage, they seemed to be teenagers who didn't know what they were doing — stealing products like watches and meat hurriedly, even thyroid medication.
I stayed on guard the rest of the night. More looting would have happened if we let it. Throughout the evening hours cars pulled up to the front of our store, eyeballing it and hoping to come in. But our protection was our flashlights. We shined our lights at them, letting them know that we were inside.
We were able to open on Monday morning and we have stayed open, while obeying the Washington, D.C., curfew. But my family slept at the store for several nights following the attack.
I'm delighted the National Guard is in Washington. Since they arrived the nights have been comparatively calm and serene and thankfully there hasn't been any more trouble.
Our hearts go out for those who have not had a fair shake or who have been treated poorly. That is what happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis.
But the people who broke in and looted my store had a completely different agenda than those who were protesting about violence.
Looting is horrible for small businesses. In addition to the economic costs of lost product and destroyed property, you feel so violated. And in my neighborhood everyone has boarded up their businesses. As you drive down the street it reminds me of what the city was like after the assassination of Dr. King. It is easy for me to remember that time. The city took decades to recover. It's a shame.
Thankfully, we have a great crew. They are loyal and hardworking. And we have a nice connection with so many of our customers. They appreciate this country and they work hard. I'm proud to serve them and, despite the damage, grateful I can continue to do so.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/small-business-owner-looters-broke-071508336.html
Now that the Hype of the Floyd shit is dying down, they're dusting off the cobwebs of Covid, and blending Racism with Covid, just to keep them both 'alive."
A tale of 2 pandemics: Why people are protesting despite COVID-19 risks
he protests that started in Minneapolis at the end of May, following the death of George Floyd while in police custody, have quickly ballooned into mass demonstrations across the U.S. As the movement has grown, so too have concerns from elected officials and public health experts that the protests are fertile ground for a second wave of the deadly coronavirus pandemic that has already claimed nearly 110,000 American lives.
The number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. continues to climb, though delays in observable symptoms and testing results mean it could be weeks before we’ll see the possible effect of the protests on COVID-19 stats. But while headlines warn of the risks posed by protesting in large groups, activists say they can overlook the need to address a sickness whose roots go much deeper than COVID-19.
“The question is ‘why are people protesting during a pandemic?’ And it’s because there is not just one pandemic; there has been another pandemic that has been longer in existence,” Dr. Kali Cyrus, a psychiatrist and an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine said in an interview with Yahoo News. “And that is racism.”
It's a sentiment shared by the president of the American Psychological Association, who on May 29 released a statement saying that “'we are living in a racism pandemic.” According to the APA, racism is associated with conditions such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance use disorders, and it can contribute to the development of cardiovascular and other “physical diseases.”
Public health experts are concerned that large, congested crowds create perfect conditions for the virus to be transmitted. Shouting and singing, which are common at protests, have been shown to hasten the spread of the virus via droplets.
"There's going to be a lot of issues coming out of what's happened in the last week, but one of them is going to be that chains of transmission will have become lit from these gatherings," Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former US Food and Drug Administration commissioner, said on Face the Nation.
Black communities are already significantly more impacted by the coronavirus pandemic; and long before the COVID-19 pandemic, a health crisis existed in African-American communities, with black Americans more impacted by a myriad of health conditions than white Americans. These health crises — coupled with the fact that black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people — can lead some to conclude that the possibility of contracting COVID-19 at a protest may be a risk worth taking if systematic change is a possible outcome.
“The fact is that black lives are at risk whether or not they protest,” Dr. Uché Blackstock, an emergency medicine physician and CEO and founder of Advancing Health Equity LLC said in an interview with Yahoo News.
Though black people make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 24 percent of coronavirus deaths where race is known, meaning they are dying at a rate nearly two times higher than their population share, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
“Both racism and COVID-19 are public health issues that need to be dealt with right now and are definitely not mutually exclusive,” Blackstock said. “In fact, they are intimately linked at this point.”
“We know that even before the case of George Floyd, what was getting a lot of media attention was the racial disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic,” Blackstock continued. “And looking at the key driving force behind that, we know it is practices and policies rooted in structural racism.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/a-tale-of-2-pandemics-why-people-are-protesting-despite-covid-19-risks-100044909.html