June 1 Reads

Switzerland certainly has its priorities correct.  Men's "right" to buy and sell women is more important than dances and sports.

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Cartoon of the Day:

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Piers Morgan of all people let Trump have it.
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Trump dreams of being a fascistic dictator.  The kicker is the instigators of the violence are on the right, and not on the left:

Watching Trump preen in front of St. John’s, moments after he threatened to deploy the American military against the American people, with a bible held above his head, I remembered this quote, “when facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross”

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 1, 2020

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Since I had other things to do today such as get my brother a new washer and dryer and also go to the school and get my things out for the summer, I didn't get to the protest today in Medford:

RAW VIDEO: Protesters blocking the streets of downtown Medford were scattered when the driver of a pickup truck pushed through the crowd earlier this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/6CM52sTPZm

— NewsWatch 12 (@KDRV) June 2, 2020

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Dumb shit Trump thinks he can call in the military when in fact he cannot thanks to the Posse Comitatus Act:

THIS IS ILLEGAL. POSSE COMITATUS ACT OF 1878 DOES NOT ALLOW MILITARY TO ACT AS POLICE FORCES WITHIN THE US. https://t.co/FctYFE7E1V

— ✿ (@wxtchsapphic) June 1, 2020

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CNN's Don Lemon says this country is on the brink:


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Columnist George Will has had it with Trump and his enablers.

Those who think our unhinged president’s recent mania about a murder two decades ago that never happened represents his moral nadir have missed the lesson of his life: There is no such thing as rock bottom. So, assume that the worst is yet to come. Which implicates national security: Abroad, anti-Americanism sleeps lightly when it sleeps at all, and it is wide-awake as decent people judge our nation’s health by the character of those to whom power is entrusted. Watching, too, are indecent people in Beijing and Moscow.