Wonder when the shit’s gonna break out in the Villages.
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Mob sets upon 3 separated officers before protesters rescued them.
https://twitter.com/iamrobdevon/status/1266866796809904129?s=19
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The Tragedy of Republican Decline was perhaps my worst call in a long line of bad calls. That said, it wasn’t entirely off the mark, IMO.
As much as I love pointing and laughing at the GOP, I think it is wildly destructive for the country to have them implode to this degree. Dominant political parties are bad news, period. And within the next 10 years or so I think we’re going to see a permanent Democratic majority at the federal level, including and especially in the executive branch:
The GOP presidential primary process ensures that no moderate or even semi-reasonable candidate can ever be the nominee, and there is no indication that this is going to change.
Demographics. People who vote Republican are either dying or having fewer children than people who vote Democratic.
Echo chamber. Of course you have the Jeb Bushes who see the nuttery, but within gerrymandered districts and in the pockets of idiocy like Utah, there is absolutely no understanding of just how much the GOP is turning off non-nuts.
Incentives. There is no incentive for any powerful party to change, which one possible exception, the ultra wealthy, who don’t seem to want to. Republitard wingnut congresspeople are going to keep getting elected, what do they care. Wingnut media members rake in the dough the nuttier people get - they aren’t moderating. Think tank types are necessarily partisan and are driven by the politicians and donors, not the opposite. You could say the incentive is ‘winning the presidency,’ but that’s the wrong way to look at it. To get nominated a moderate has to court the people with the wrong incentives.
So what is the result? The best the Republican Party can do at the federal level over the next 10-15 years is to block stuff. Now that’s not all bad, gridlock and be really productive. But if the Democrats ever take the House I think there are some real potential problems on the horizon.
I hate the GOP, but any real spending restraint will come from the right. To fix spending you have to fix Medicare and SS, and the Democrats simply refuse to touch them. Hell, they won’t even agree to calculate inflation properly.
Dems will internalize the Obama lesson that they have to stay very hawkish on foreign policy so as to keep from getting swiftboated / labeled as pussies / whatever. They will come to see it as the only threat to their dominance, and our FP will continue to be a disaster. This concept also applies to the drug war (sigh).
Continued Keynesian fiscal policies. Obviously we can debate whether or not it works, I happen to think ‘stimulus’ is usually (but not always) bad policy. The point here, though, is that Keynesianism will be used as cover to financially reward political allies.
General patronage. In a one-party town, it will get worse.
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Wow.
“The mob” is better at policing than the police are. Abolish the police.
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Gtfo
Policed ourselves for nearly 50 years and counting… No one calls the Cops here, I repeat No One.
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6am tomorrow 
ABC News has pretty good helicopter coverage of multiple cities.
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Left over two decades ago. Can barely stand going back there to visit family.
Cleveland sports fan 'till I die tho.
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Reports of people breaking police lines and multiple officers down 1 block east of Trump Tower.
In what city?
Chicago again. Just saw CNN video of an intact line at that location, breakthroughs seem to be isolated.
What part of Philly are they in?
The article doesn’t load for me, though.
https://twitter.com/AJInvestigates/status/1266861165864517633
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Please let trump tower burn
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Cops are getting braver. Last time it was a 110lb girl.
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Yeah, we need powerful images to get through to people that night change is needed. Something striking including the Trump logo would be useful.
Wow, Chicago’s gettin’ crazy. Cop cars just plowing through protesters.
Pretty much a constant brawl right now.