Wow. Just... wow.

I thought this would be the GOP's one chance to win.

I guess they decided to go in another direction.

I mean it could just be coincidence and I don't think Trump is that well-read, but he was also around in the late 60s soooo.

Right, I mean it's probably not a conscious and intentional quote, but it's still kind of amazing. There's so much to be horrified by today, really.

It's freaking crazy, man. I keep thinking about that Chapelle skit where he compares Trump to Carolyn Bryant, who's crime sparked the Civil Rights movement.

He just might have been right.

Here it is for those who haven't seen it.

polls drop max 2% and probably only a short term change

That tweet violated Twitter rules and was flagged for glorifying violence.

They let it remain accessible though.

These social media companies are getting really involved in politics. Definitely taking sides.

Hopefully the situation calms down. Arresting these guys would be a good start.

If this doesn't end his chances of winning in November, nothing will. He just advocated murdering US citizens for looting. This is intolerable.

As much as I want to believe you're right, I'm going with: nothing will. He's completely captured his base and the Republican Party. All of the people who could oppose him are too cowardly at this point to do so. Senators will be Very Concerned, just tremendous levels of concern, and they're all still going to endorse him in November, sans one or two in swing states whose strong opposition to Trump's garbage will be voiced by...not endorsing anyone.

@Jack twitter-slapping Trump lololol he's going to RAGE today.

this is a big factor, but it's also too far out to make a big dent in his chances. there will be backlash, furrowed brows, maybe even a denouncement, but give it two weeks and all the measurables will be = to now. if this tweet happened a week before election time, there's substantial turnout effects

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52846679

I went to check out what suzzer's Midwestern buddies at ChiefsPlanet think about all this:

This is your Republican base.

Obviously we all agree the biggest problem with the police constantly murdering black people is the media.

Way to nail the bullseye.

Totally. His tweets have very impact, good or bad. I used to think the same thing at first when I saw one of his tweets. I was omg did he really tweet that. That’s insane. After 100 tweets, you realize he is good. Everything keeps buried. It all becomes forgotten. He will create another fire that will take away from this one.

Ruh roh...

What happens when the weird protester smashing out all the windows at the Autozone that people speculated may be a Minn PD turns out really may be Minn PD?

Other evidence = murder victim was black.

Can not wait to hear what earned this “thug” the death penalty.

The US is so ****ing ****ed. We have made no real progress from before the civil rights movement. Instead the racists were just forced to sublimate their racist impulses most of the time.

Trump’s election was the greatest thing to happen to American racists in 60 plus years. He set them free to race and race hard. We don’t just have racist cops murdering people, we have tens of millions of people who rush to mitigate or defend any such behavior. It is disgusting. It is gross. It is wrong.

If one thing can happen on this forum, it would be great if people took a beat to rush to defend every racist thing that happens. That would be cool.

Dent?

“Why can’t these uppity African Americans be more civilized in response to police murdering them!”

High five my man!

Probably just a coincidence that none of his murder victims were white.

Apparently Floyd and Chauvin both worked security at the same nightclub. If they knew each other that could be what we call "a motive".

And as a Minnesotan I have to say "riots bad, blah blah" but seeing a major city burned to the ground should be a hell of an incentive for other cities to clean up their police departments.

A good solution for Minneapolis: fire the entire police department tomorrow. Eliminate that part of the city government. Then start over with something completely different.

A model for that is Mexico City. In 2011 they fired all their traffic cops and replaced them with women because of corruption. It worked at least for a while.

“Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they always made me glad.”

Is that not used in merican english?

Yeah he was being cheeky in a way I have yet to understand