I'm going to defer laughing me ass off until I see if BillJohnson issues a sincere mea culpa, or not...

The ignorance and arrogance just drips off of you with most every post.

He's nothing but tedious mendacity.

#49 - fuck off.

If he was white, ya dumbass, this wouldn't have happened.
Where do you stupid f**ks come from?

Trump destroyed race relations, as your chart clearly indicates, though he managed a slight bump (historically still below normal) with his election. That clearly didn't last. Or are you unable to read the years on the bottom axis?

What happened between 2013 and 2015, of course, was the increased attention on the killings of black men by police, and the number that were captured on video. That resulted in protests and that woke up some white folk. "Oh gee. I guess things aren't as good as we thought!"

I'm middle class and I am not a deplorable racist. I sure as hell am not a poor aggrieved white dude looking to blame someone else for my problems or lot in life. I own my life, my decisions, and the results, and I am quite pleased.

"On Monday, one of four IT staffers who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 died, according to Hopes. A fifth IT staffer who went to the doctor on Wednesday, died at home Thursday from COVID-19....One staffer in the department who worked closely with the other five and didn't contract the coronavirus was vaccinated."

So 4 out of 5 were hospitalized, 2 of them died, the one that didn't get get sick at all was vaccinated. Let's dig into this a bit more:

""These were not elderly employees," Hopes said."
Uh-oh.

"Several weeks ago the county commission voted to lift the mask requirements inside the building."
Of course they did. This is Florida. My company did the same because Governor -------- mandated no masks.

""When the building reopens on Monday, COVID-19 safety measures, including a mask requirement, will be in place again...Effective immediately, we went back to the COVID-19 protocols until we know that this outbreak is behind us in the facility," Hopes said."
What will Gov DeathSentence have to say about that?

"On Friday, however, one commissioner who hadn't been interested in the vaccine left Hopes' office and immediately went to get vaccinated, according to Hopes...County staff are now being encouraged to receive the vaccine."
Now? Finally? Reality got a little too warm, did it?

Republicans: We're going to ban teaching it completely! Uppity Negro, No Month For You.

Exactly. Belringer doesn't get he destroyed his own argument and undercut the entire GOP's tactic.

Pretty awesome job, actually.

#124 - Facts already in evidence, Counsellor.

You're bringing up a 2005 interview with Morgan Freeman? From a different time, place, and context to rationalize these abhorrent actions of Republicans? You're really trying to equate Freeman's comment with the cancelling of the white-washing of our history as a Nation?

Good lord, you are making Freeman's argument even more clear, and in doing so showing how unacceptable the erasure culture of the GOP is.

Waiting on an irrelevant point that isn't germane to any legitimate argument about what happened?

Here's some tweezers.
Hold your dick while you wait.

One:
DOJ release new bodycam video from Jan 6. Former NYPD Cop and Marine Veteran attacking Officer with a Marine Corps flag, knocks him to the ground, then pummeling the officer.

Two:
"Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (R-Ga.), who voted against awarding police officers the Congressional Gold Medal for their bravery in protecting the U.S. Capitol against violent, pro-Trump rioters on Jan. 6, refused to shake hands Wednesday with a D.C. police officer who responded to the violence...

Officer Michael Fanone was beaten unconscious after he voluntarily rushed to the Capitol in January to help defend it from those who breached the building. He suffered a concussion and a mild heart attack."

21 House Republicans voted NO to the resolution acknowledging the Capitol Police's work and suffering during the January 6th insurrection.

A threat implies it has a chance of succeeding. You think that was possible in Jan 6?

A threat implies intent, not capability.
Success or failure in carrying out that threat doesn't make it legal or illegal.
Success adds on to the charges.
The question isn't whether they could but that they believed they could cancel the electoral vote process.
Belief doesn't make it legal. It doesn't make those that died less dead. It doesn't make the threat less real.
There was intent.
The news was filled with Flynn advising Trump (and encouraging his supporters) to declare Martial Law.
Two pipe bombs were placed for a specific reason. This speaks to intent and a plan.
Pence and Pelosi, the next two in line were targeted for execution.
Two elections were still in play that would determine who held the Senate.
Republicans were objecting to certifying Biden as the clear winner.
Gosar and Cruz object to AZ's electoral college votes.
Mitch McConnell warns that overturning Biden's election would push democracy into a "death spiral."
(is he in on it, too?)
The idiot that got shot and killed deserved it. Funny how you disagree on the defense of our Nation. Did you feel the same way about the Federal building in PDX? Oh. Here's the exposure of the truth coming in: You supported these traitors!
Meanwhile, the same type of scum as these pieces of ---- are setting up gallows at the AZ capitol yelling for Ducey to come out.
and it went on - but for you, nothing to see. Just a bunch of teenagers blowing off a little steam. No one was actually in danger.

You're doing you best to gaslight, but you're doing the opposite. You're exposing a ridiculous attempt as spin and revisionism to justify this attack on our institutions of democracy.

All you are is a traitorous, lying, anti-American piece of ----.

#17 - you're just phoning it in now? Not even a creative name or info in your profile. Let me guess who it is...
JeezLouise you are pathetic.

I remember that presentation in Congress!

Always a pleasure to see your name, Alexandrite!

I'm still waiting on the GoP plan that's so much better. /s

Their (Rapid Response Team use of force has led to multiple civil lawsuits in state and federal court, sanctions from a judge and now an indictment. Aside from Oregon State Police, few outside police agencies in the past year were willing to assist Portland in protest coverage.

So this "team" has a history of creating trouble. So bad that even police agencies outside Portland wouldn't assist them.

(Cody) Budworth marked the first Rapid Response Team officer to face criminal prosecution stemming from force used during a protest. He's accused of striking a woman, Teri Jacobs, in the face with a baton after knocking her to the ground on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard after a riot was declared near the Multnomah Building on Aug. 18.

I see. So when she was no threat, knocked to the ground, then he comes in a clubs her in the face?

The union criticized Budworth's prosecution as politically driven, and it contends Budworth's baton strike was "accidental," not criminal.

Oh, the Police Union says it was just an accident! Right...

Not once, but twice!
Oh good god! Gracie's posting articles written by people with dementia!

If you think "cracker" is anywhere near the same thing as the n word you're assuming a lot.

I did watch all the way to the end this time, and he does appear to be mocking as JPW said.

I'm surrounded by people that believe what he put out in this dialog.

Hitting 600,000 dead I just wasn't in the frame of mind for this.

I watched the episode on youtube. I have to confess, it was hard to watch. Stewart was ranting and unhinged, and unmoored from fact. I quit 3/4 of the way. If Colbert pulled that s**tshow together again, good for him, but I'm not interested in sticking around to see that happen.

I had hoped Stewart had based his opinion on something based in fact, not shoddy rationalization overrun by his amygdala. Something without jumping to such dangerous and speculative conclusions based on no facts. For instance, had he said that the virus may have escaped form the lab and left it at that, fine. But saying it was engineered and created deliberately in a facility whose sole function is coronavirus creation went too far.

I'm being way too kind.

F**k. He was a lunatic.

It looks like the white supremacy within the GOP has taken a firm hold, with Fox News as the cheerleader....

Key point.

Nice irrelevant "whataboutism" with a ridiculous false equivalence, there, Sentinel. Please tell me you're not that stupid. Just pretend if you have to.

#16 - there ain't gonna be much power at the end of that extension cord! LMAO!

Good news. I like it!

#15 - Actually no. That's just more paraphrasing with the bias from the personal offense you've taken from Deggans' essay. I read the entire thing and I found it instructive. It's an Opinion piece. It's good to hear a different perspective and consider new information and reexamine a premise that you may not even realize you hold.

It was a good Opinion piece.

What's funny is how bent out of shape some are over this, and how dismally stupid Sentinel's comparison of NPR is to Fox "---- it, we're 100% propaganda" News.