Maybe a bit long, but worth listening to.  About the protests and about the results that may or may not happen.

Protests and Results

And this one is even better, I think. About the white woman who called the police on a man in the park.

Trevor Noah

That seems to be the question, according to an article in today’s New York Times On Politics newsletter.  It says young people are questioning the value of voting, and thinking protesting is a better way to go, because most politicians do not share any of the same experiences as they do, so nothing changes. But one person says this:

Normally, I have been in favor of unions.  My dad was in the steelworker’s union, forget what it was called, and it helped us a lot, with striking for better wages, etc.  But unions can be evil, as well.  Read this: from The New York Times Morning Briefing email.

Seriously, you can be as brutal as you want, you can lie and lie and lie, and the people who you work for can’t do anything about that?  Anything meaningful, like fire you? So your union just gives you a ‘get away free’ card?

I can’t be the only person who sees something wrong here.

From here from last October: https://alphanewsmn.com/minneapolis-police-union-rolls-out-cops-for-trump-t-shirts-in-wake-of-uniform-policy-change/

And have already forgotten where.  It’s about the orange man:

Referencing the video of the older man being shoved down by police, who then lied about it.

“Police in Buffalo, New York released a statement on Thursday claiming that an elderly man who was protesting police brutality had “tripped and fell” in front of Buffalo City Hall before being taken to the hospital. But that all changed when video went viral on social media showing the 75-year-old man had been pushed by police. The unnamed man, who appeared to be bleeding from his ear, is reportedly in “serious but stable condition.”

“Presumably, the police statement is written in the third person so that local news outlets can just copy and paste their claims without attribution.”  Because this is what reporting is now.  Journalists, not news readers, seem to have gone the way of many things we still need but no longer have.  A long time ago, Roone Arledge, head af ABC Sports if I remember correctly, took over and decided that news belonged in the ‘entertainment’ division, which is when we got idiots banter instead of responsible people telling us what happened today. Commenting on what may or may not have happened, joking about it, this is what we got instead, because entertainment requires ratings to succeed.  Now we have ‘races’ in politics, and sound bites, and no one telling what has gone on and who said what and reporting on if what they said was accurate or not.  We aren’t told what happened or who said what, we are told what to THINK about what happened or what was said.  A big reason I do not have cable or antenna tv any more.

Here’s the video.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFeewU0HhNE

It occurs to me, I may not have said how to do that.

You have to go to a post and click the edit button then

1. Click on the button (with 3 dots ) on the top right of the post you are editing.
2. Scroll down to the very bottom and you will find an option which says “Switch to Classic Editor”. Click that and you are done.

It carries over to new posts, thank goodness.

From Here: https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/revert-back-to-classic-editor/

I am at a loss. How can this country survive like this? Does this administration even want it to survive? They seem to be trying to create their own little replica of a place we fought a war against. It is getting scarier and scarier, and no one is doing anything to stop it. What are all those senators for, anyway? Or congressmen?