George Floyd - America so f**ked up

They are both a far cry from moderate and their support seems to be very hard right/hard left simply because of the total vacuum in American politics of any sort of middle ground in the debate. Biden in particular is promising the world to the woke left as evidenced by his support of the American women football team which shows that he doesn’t have a clue what their recent court case was about- he’s just fishing for woke points which will be just as dangerous a way to run a country as Trump’s divisive rhetoric

Also I think it’s desperately sad when you can tell who is a politician representing which party just by looking at them, eg Republican, white haired older male or hard faced woman, Democrat: minority ethnic and/or female. In some ways some might say it’s good for the voters to be able to so easily identify with which side is which but for me it dumbs the whole thing down and shouts out their agenda before anyone has even opened their mouths. Biden == woke hipster cynical box ticker, Trump == establishment racist. America desperately needs a third party so their elections can get away from this “least worst option” cycle of despair that began when you had Trump vs Clinton and now continues with Trump vs Biden.

I’ll make a note of that book- sounds interesting.

Wrt to the female soccer players I have no objection to helping out the deservedly under-represented but the devil is in the detail of the football team issue, the judgement made it reasonably clear that the women had signed a guaranteed pay contract whilst the men chose the performance related one, the women then won the World Cup And decided they were entitled to the performance related pay aspect. To award them performance related pay would throw the men under the bus for not doing the same as the women.
Biden then wades in and threatens The company that administrates the US national soccer teams with defunding unless they pay the women- he’s not doing what’s fair, he’s doing what the woke-ists want to hear and there were other similar ridiculously unfair promises that he has made to certain sections of society in order to earn work points. He’s a complete charlatan and on any normal planet would not get anywhere near the White House....but then in the strange world of 2020 his opponent happens to be Donald Trump 🙄 Honestly if that’s the best America can do it makes BoJo look like the statesman of our time. What a depressing state world politics is in. Two clowns battling it out for the White House, a clown hiding in Downing Street, Russia being run as one man’s personal fiefdom and a despot with a load of missiles at his disposal in North Korea.

Yep.
I honestly cannot get excited about the woman's American national team pay issue. American professional sport is horrific in its self indulgent greed, regardless of gender.
The bigger picture is the degree of misogyny in all aspects of American life, bar perhaps music. Now the head of misogyny occupies the White House.
Like I contend, Biden is a holding pattern whilst progressive politics works on an agenda and platform that will convince the American electorate and neuter the rather ridiculous accusations of being "left wing".
Starter for ten. Harris to as VP, Elizabeth Warren at the Treasury and Susan Rice as Sec State.

2024 sees Harris as President.
Bring it on.

The problem is that almost immediately after the shooting the headlines scream out “unarmed black man shot in back by cops”, the media make no effort to investigate or present any other aspects of the case. You then get the community leaders and politicians jumping on the bandwagon without full knowledge of the facts - all of which helps fuel rioting.

When I first saw the headlines I thought what the f**k has gone on there, this is a disgrace. I wondered what the background was and spent 10 minutes googling for more info. It is very difficult to find anything other than what the mainstream media are presenting, I guess it’s difficult for any journalist to write anything off script? I did find reference to the guy having a history of domestic violence, a sexual offence, being arrested waving a gun around in a bar whilst drunk and assaulting a police officer. There was also reference to an outstanding arrest warrant(?). Perhaps this is why the cops were heavy handed? The other video reportedly shows him wrestling on the ground with two cops before freeing himself and going for his car - the rest as they say is history. It is hard to corroborate these reports if the majority of media are choosing to keep that stuff hidden, we’ll have to see what comes out in the investigation.

For the life of me I don’t understand why people just don’t do what they are told by the police. Regardless of what people think of them they have to be obeyed, resisting, running etc just fuel the situation. Even more relevant when the cops are carrying guns. 

They will have been on the scene almost immediately questioning bystanders and locals. They will have learned quite quickly what went on, what occurred in the build up, the character of the individual involved and probably info from some unofficial police sources. They chose to present a very one sided story as that is what everyone wants to hear, the media presentation of what occurred and the disgraceful comments from the Governor (who seems to have already acted as judge, jury and executioner) directly led to the disgusting mobs taking to the streets. I’m not sure what setting fire to 140 cars of a local business or wiping the shelves of a local jeweller and phone shop does to aid the BAME cause. 

The problem is that almost immediately after the shooting the headlines scream out “unarmed black man shot in back by cops”, the media make no effort to investigate or present any other aspects of the case. You then get the community leaders and politicians jumping on the bandwagon without full knowledge of the facts - all of which helps fuel rioting.

When I first saw the headlines I thought what the f**k has gone on there, this is a disgrace. I wondered what the background was and spent 10 minutes googling for more info. It is very difficult to find anything other than what the mainstream media are presenting, I guess it’s difficult for any journalist to write anything off script? I did find reference to the guy having a history of domestic violence, a sexual offence, being arrested waving a gun around in a bar whilst drunk and assaulting a police officer. There was also reference to an outstanding arrest warrant(?). Perhaps this is why the cops were heavy handed? The other video reportedly shows him wrestling on the ground with two cops before freeing himself and going for his car - the rest as they say is history. It is hard to corroborate these reports if the majority of media are choosing to keep that stuff hidden, we’ll have to see what comes out in the investigation.

For the life of me I don’t understand why people just don’t do what they are told by the police. Regardless of what people think of them they have to be obeyed, resisting, running etc just fuel the situation. Even more relevant when the cops are carrying guns. 

The fact it is being treated as normal says everything really.