You now know what you would do for your country if your country was ever in this much danger. It's whatever it is you're doing right now.
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) September 24, 2020
What you're doing now, what you're planning to do for the next six weeks, that's what you're made of. pic.twitter.com/w5aruK4Gqd
Gulp
With the help of the police unions our police agencies have become little more then militarized, para-military organizations answerable to nobody.
Most union contracts contain language which, in effect, makes any action taken by a cop legal. Hold harmless.
The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and dozens of others over the past year make that perfectly clear.
We have a serious policing problem in this country which demands a solution.
Giving the police more money for retraining or for hiring additional officers has proven to be a failed solution.
We need a new approach.
If that means dismantling our police departments and rebuilding them from the ground up then that’s what should be done.
I think it is indeed looking dire, but I won’t capitulate just yet. Being poor, disabled and living out in the sticks (which are actually on fire just now) there’s not that much I can do to fight this.
Not that much, though, does not mean nothing.
Yesterday I donated ten more dollars to the part of Indivisible that is on the ground fighting this bullshit.
I am registered to vote and have a plan to get my mail in ballots counted before November third.
I remain hopeful that there will still be a government for the weak-tea Democrat I plan to vote for as my congresswoman to serve in.
After all of those years of getting to vote for Barbara Lee every other year, finding out I had a goddamn Republican congressman was jarring, and I fully intend to do whatever I can to get rid of him, like we did with all of the Orange County Republicans last time around.