WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR? |
- August 20, 1939
Cartoonist Clifford Berryman
"It's a good act but it's hard on the spectators..."
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(Rachel)
- "President Trump had a ringing message of solidarity on Tuesday for demonstrators in the streets. "KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!" he wrote on social media. He decried "the senseless killing of protesters," and added that those pulling the triggers "will pay a big price."
He meant the protesters in Tehran, not Minneapolis. By contrast, the people in the streets of Minnesota, he wrote just 63 minutes earlier, were "anarchists and professional agitators" trying to cover up a fraud scandal. He vowed that "THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!"
The eruption of protests on opposite sides of the planet at this moment in history has brought Mr. Trump's views of democracy and popular dissent into stark relief. The situations in Iran and Minnesota, of course, are different and complicated, but the president's rule of thumb seems simple enough: Those who take to the streets supporting a cause he favors are laudable heroes. Those who take to the streets to oppose him are illegitimate radicals."
Trump Supports the Protesters, Except Those Protesting Him (New York Times)
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