Hadn’t been paying much attention but shit happening in Salt Lake City rn. Protest at Capitol with cops keeping protesters away from the entrance. Very close to me. May walk over and post a pic.
The Salt Lake City Police Department headquarters building was vandalized with spray-painted messages, and an unoccupied SLCPD vehicle has been overturned, smashed and set on fire.
SMH. transportation infrastructure
Screenshots from my phone of the coverage. This is La Mesa just now. Looks like they shut the freeway and are just letting them walk.
Good title change. No one really insists on this meaning anymore, but a Greek tragedy is typically a story where the hero dies at the end due to his own poor choices. Not a good connotation!
Stay safe everyone. Gonna catch up to the upcoming 500+ posts in a few hours 
I can see some smoke from Center City Philadelphia from my balcony. Going to be a long night here in Philadelphia, I think.
I hope so.
Generally a politician is waiting for an event like this that primes the constituency’s emotions. It happened after 9/11 when American fear and resentment was stoked so high that Bush rode a wave of national approval for retaliation, America America rah rah rah.
Trump could have turned any one of these catastrophies into a chance for unity and fawning adoration, but it’s hard to imagine him fucking this up much worse.
I only lurked once a month or less, but I thought that thread title started as sincere when the GOP nominated Trump and everyone thought Jesus, they’re just handing the election to Hillary. Did that thread really start as a joke? I feel like you’re taking one of the few positive pieces of 2+2 propaganda away from me.
Police line on bridge adjacent to Trump Tower seems to holding, this is probably the only option to flank them. Don’t know whether they want to:
https://twitter.com/JustTweetin80/status/1266858603195105282?s=19
Curfew in LA 8pm-5am
ETA: LA as in downtown LA, not city wide.
I can imagine that some commercial landlords have in their lease the requirement that the tenant carry liability insurance.
Wow. If demonstrations can happen in Salt Lake City, they can happen anywhere.
I thought it was after the ham rove meltdown and the republicans said they had to be less racist and shit upon reflection. Well, here we are.
I think you’re getting confused a little. The sarcasm was operating on ‘tragic’, not ‘death’, like people did think the Reps were screwed but thought it was good. I thought the TDotRP thread pre-dated Trump, too, thought it was on that demographics-are-destiny kick, could be wrong though.
Please post streams if you find any.
Sigh. Ty good idea for me to check on my favorite aunt and uncle in the area :(
Ohhhhh.
You’re correct. I just woke up from a nap and was feeling more verbose than coherent. Appreciate the assist.
As of now, for that’s just downtown. The protest/situation currently taking place is in Hollywood. LA is huge, would be shocked if they do it for the whole city.
Pretty glad I left early. I am not down for my kid being in danger of harm or arrest.
I was there for a while and the crowd was all typical LA people. Lots of kids. Very surprised there was any violence.
The one black dude has had enough.
someone up thread mentioned that the cops should just let the protesters through, etc. Seems that’s what they’re doing/did in La Mesa. They knew it was coming, shut down the freeway, and just let them march. There’s nothing to loot or destroy, and the cops successfully steered the protest/march into areas they could “control” without violence.
https://twitter.com/bennlacy/status/1266861354427674624?s=20
