Armed Trump thugs terrorize Breonna Taylor protesters in Louisville before Kentucky Derby

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Though Saturday evening's 146th Kentucky Derby will lack spectators, the horses, jockeys and trainers will be far from alone in Louisville.

On Saturday afternoon, armed demonstrators organized by Dylan Stevens – an online personality known as "The Angry Viking" – confronted protesters who were demanding justice for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor during a police raid. The Taylor protesters are calling for the Derby to be canceled.

As Taylor activists chanted, "Say her name: Breonna Taylor," the armed group, which had convened earlier at a downtown park, responded by chanting: "All lives matter," "U-S-A" and "Back the blue," referring to police. Groups exchanged heated words with one another, but there were no major physical altercations.

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Stevens told protesters he does not oppose them. He said the group was there because, in July, the leader of "Not F*cking Around Coalition" said he would "burn the city to the ground" if justice was not delivered for Taylor.

Video taken by Courier-Journal reporters at the scene showed dozens of predominantly white men, women and children with Stevens' group marching through downtown Louisville, clad in helmets and face masks. They were openly carrying firearms and holding "Trump 2020" and American flags.

There appeared to be little police presence, reporters said.

Meanwhile, Churchill Downs was taking safety precautions following a police situation in the area, according to Louisville Metro Police Department spokesman Lamont Washington said.

"There is an active police situation near the backside to the track," Washington said. "Because of that, Churchill is taking additional precautions."

Washington declined to provide further detail.

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer warned people Saturday not to believe everything they hear when it comes to protests, saying there has been a plethora of "rumors" and "misinformation."

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"Since protests began, we've seen rumors & misinformation circulating on social media, causing unnecessary worry," Fischer said on Twitter. "@LMPD has a plan and is ready for Kentucky Derby day," he said, referring to the Louisville police department.

Fischer linked to a web page titled "Information about the Kentucky Derby and protests." The release says the city "fully supports First Amendment rights and expects peaceful protests."

"If activities become unlawful, LMPD has plans in place and is prepared to handle the situation," the page said.

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Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron took to Twitter Saturday morning to say he recognizes protesters want "answers in the investigation into the death of Breonna Taylor."

"Today, while we honor a KY tradition with the running of the Derby, we remain cognizant of the community’s desire for answers in the investigation into the death of Ms. Breonna Taylor," Cameron wrote in a tweet. "We continue to move forward with our investigation, reviewing each fact to reach the truth."

For 101-straight days, protesters have been demanding that Cameron criminally charge the three officers involved in the fatal shooting of Taylor, a Black woman shot to death inside her own apartment on March 13.

Contributing: Grace Hauck, USA TODAY

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This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Kentucky Derby 2020: Protests by Breonna Taylor activists, armed march

Under Stand Your Ground Could Spit Spewing Anti-Maskers Legally Be Shot?

OpEd: According to the Trump Whitehouse, by January 2021 COVID-19 will kill 400,000+ Americans. COVID-19 is a killer. There's no arguing that. Bullets kill around 30,000 Americans each year. Clearly the COVID-19 virus is deadlier than bullets fired from guns and bullets only kill the people they strike. The COVID-19 virus spreads like wildfire and continues to kill. Is it moral or prudent not to shoot spit spewing anti-maskers?

Under self-defense laws citizens are allowed to use deadly force to protect themselves from death and grievous bodily harm. COVID-19 in addition to causing death causes permanent injuries. 

Would I kill a filthy anti-masker who was slobbering in my face? Maybe. Would I acquit a normal human of killing some spit spewing MAGAt? Absolutely!

It’s been over six months since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S., and transmission continues across the country as communities open up and schools start class.

Making things worse, according to one doctor, is because of the lack of a federal policy on masks.

“It is going through the country because there's no mask mandate,” Dr. Andre Campbell, a trauma surgeon at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, said on Yahoo Finance’s The Ticker (video above). “And there should be, in my opinion, a universal mask mandate, because data shows that we can save 70,000 lives if we mask everybody up right now. Because we're going to be, by the election and the end of the year, we're going to be north of 300,000 deaths, because about 1,000 people are dying a day from this terrible pandemic.”

There are more 6 million confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. and over 184,000 deaths. Those numbers are expected to keep growing, at least until there is a COVID-19 vaccine widely available.

Confirmed coronavirus cases. (David Foster/Yahoo Finance)

Saving 70,000 lives

A model from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) found that if 95% of people in the U.S. began wearing masks every time they were outside their homes, the number of projected deaths from coronavirus by December would drop 49%. That would save nearly 70,000 lives.

Mask use could save 70,000 lives. (Chart: IHME)

The lack of a federal mask mandate is one of the criticisms that the Trump administration has received regarding their response to the pandemic as the president largely left it up to the states to decide how to approach the virus. (President Trump has also opted out of wearing a face mask in most public settings.)

“I'm a surgeon,” Campbell said. “I wear a mask all the time. And I don't like wearing a mask outside, but we have to do it now. And people are getting tired of it, and when they do, they let their guard down, and that's when people become infected.”

Campbell reiterated that the primary issue “is you don't know if you can get a mild case or you're going to get a severe case or you're going to die, and you don't know that. It could be young people. It could be old people. They said first, older people over 65, but now, people are teenagers, younger kids, 20's, 30's, who get the infection and they actually die.”

Death deserving MAGAts protest against mandates to wear masks amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Austin, Texas, U.S., June 28, 2020. REUTERS/Sergio Flores TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

‘The epidemic is changing’

Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning about younger people becoming spreaders of the virus.

“People in their 20s, 30s and 40s are increasingly driving the spread,” Takeshi Kasai, the WHO’s Western Pacific regional director, said. “The epidemic is changing.”

Part of it has to do with college students returning to campus and not adhering to social distancing or face mask guidelines. There are reportedly more than 20,000 cases of coronavirus among college students and staff across the country. The University of Iowa alone has over 1,000 confirmed cases.

This whore walks to her dorm as her belongings are being brought in by professional movers in Medford, MA on Aug. 27, 2020. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

“Now, what has happened is those outbreaks in Arizona and Texas and Iowa over the weekend were 79% of the tests that were done in Iowa, right, were positive,” Campbell said. “Now, when you have, when the virus is going crazy like it is in Iowa right now, right? That's what you got, and that's where we're not even testing enough people. It should be more people we should be testing.”

According to Campbell, it comes down to three things that have become clear throughout this pandemic.

“It's the masking, the social distancing, we're watching as that actually works,” he said. “And what has happened in the country is that at first there was an outbreak in New York and New Jersey and the Northeast and then on the West Coast and then everything got shut down, the numbers went down. But what happened was as the country started opening up, the things started happening and the virus started doing what it does. It spreads.”

Adriana is a reporter and editor covering politics and health care policy for Yahoo Finance. Follow her on Twitter @adrianambells.

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Cadet Bone-Spurs reports for duty: Trump Says America's war dead are "losers"

Fox News on Friday became the latest publication to confirm President Donald Trump's contempt for Americans who serve in our armed forces.

Cadet Bone-Spurs reports for duty: He thinks America's war dead are "losers"

Trailing in the polls and sneering at fallen warriors, Donald Trump dreams of a new civil war, fought by buffoons

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Conald Trump is surrounded by suckers and losers. Every night when he goes to bed in the White House, they're all around him. There is a hillside full of "losers" a couple of miles away across the Potomac River, buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The names of 58,000 "losers" are engraved into the black marble wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial only a mile away down Constitution Avenue. 

There are memorials to more suckers and losers on the Mall. The Korean War Memorial is just across the reflecting pool near the Lincoln Memorial. It pays homage to the 36,000 "losers" and "suckers" who died and the tens of thousands more who served in that conflict. The World War II Memorial is a short distance away, just off 17th Street, not far from the South Lawn of the White House where Trump spoke on the last night of his convention last week. The World War II memorial commemorates the 405,000 "losers" who gave their lives in the fight against Nazism and the millions more who served that cause. 

The Vietnam Women's Memorial on the Mall depicts three uniformed women with a wounded soldier, another of Trump's "losers," the kind of disabled soldier Trump has said he doesn't want to participate in any of his parades because seeing such a "loser" might make people uncomfortable. 

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic did us the favor this week of reminding us what Donald Trump really thinks of the active duty men and women currently serving in our armed forces, and of the veterans who served before them. "Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers," he quotes Trump as saying in 2018 when he refused to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris. Trump blamed rain that day for the cancellation of his visit, claiming that his "helicopter couldn't fly." He claimed that the Secret Service agents who protect him wouldn't drive him to the ceremony at the cemetery. "Neither claim was true," Goldberg reminds us in The Atlantic. "In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as 'suckers' for getting killed," Goldberg reports.

"Losers" and "suckers." That's what Trump calls the men and women who have given their lives in war defending this country and fighting against the forces which would destroy us. He's done it before. 

"We're not going to support that loser's funeral," Trump told aides when Sen. John McCain died in August of 2018. "He became furious," Goldberg reports, "when he saw flags lowered to half-staff. 'What the fuck are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking loser,' the president told aides." McCain served as a pilot in Vietnam and was shot down by enemy fire. He spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam before being released along with 108 other prisoners in 1973. McCain is "not a war hero," Trump said in 2015 during his campaign for the Republican nomination for president. "I like people who weren't captured."

According to Goldberg's report, Trump has referred at least twice to former President George H.W. Bush as a "loser" for being shot down when he was a Navy pilot in World War II. In 2017 while on a Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery with John Kelly, who was then secretary of homeland security, Trump turned to Kelly — at the grave of Kelly's son, Lt. Robert Kelly, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010 — and said, "I don't get it. What was in it for them?"

"He can't fathom the idea of doing something for someone other than himself," a retired general and friend of Kelly told Goldberg. "He just thinks that anyone who does anything when there's no direct personal gain to be had is a sucker. There's no money in serving the nation." 

Donald Trump is, shall we say, less than impressed by the soldiers and sailors and Marines and airmen and women who have served their country in the United States military. But he gave us an idea of who he is impressed by: Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old Illinois resident who shot and killed two protesters and wounded one at a Black Lives Matter demonstration last week in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse was captured on cell phone video doing all three shootings and has been charged with multiple felonies, including intentional homicide and attempted homicide.

Asked at a White House press conference on Monday if he would "condemn the actions of vigilantes like Kyle Rittenhouse," Trump instead slammed "left-wing violence" as "out of control" and "terrible." 

"You saw the same tape as I saw," Trump said, referring to the cell phone video that has appeared all over the internet. Referring to Rittenhouse in the videos, Trump claimed, "He was trying to get away from them, I guess; it looks like. And he fell, and then they very violently attacked him. And it was something that we're looking at right now and it's under investigation. But I guess he was in very big trouble. He would have been — I — he probably would have been killed." The "violent" protesters Trump is referring to were unarmed.  

Rittenhouse was part of a group of self-proclaimed armed militia that claimed to be protecting businesses during the protests which had previously burned and damaged some buildings in downtown Kenosha. Trump has previously praised armed militias that occupied the Michigan State Capitol during protests in favor of reopening the economy after shutdown orders had closed businesses and schools during the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in the spring. Trump tweeted "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" "LIBERATE MINNESOTA!" and "LIBERATE VIRGINIA!" in support of demonstrations in three states whose governors had issued shutdown orders. 

So while Trump cheers on ragtag groups of heavily armed civilians garbed in make-believe camo uniforms and Kevlar helmets and other surplus gear like bulletproof vests and pretend "tactical" gloves, the real soldiers wearing government-issued uniforms, carrying government-issued rifles, serving in harm's way overseas, risking their lives for their country — they are Trump's "losers" and "suckers."

Unfortunately for Cadet Bone-Spurs, he's losing the suckers and losers. A poll released this week by Military Times found that 50 percent of active duty military members have an unfavorable view of Trump, with only 38 percent approving of him. The military supports Joe Biden for president over Trump by four percentage points. Hillary Clinton, by comparison, lost to Trump in 2016 among service members by nearly two to one. 

If the suckers and losers who surround the White House could vote, I think I know which way they would go.

One Image Explain Why Japan Had So Few COVID-19 Cases And Deaths Compared To The US

American, especially those in the Bible Belt are filthy selfish pigs. American women are particularly grotesque. What's even more grotesque is there are men who would actually put their dicks in these women. Any man who is able to fuck a pig like Mama June is probably fucking animals.

Hillary right when she said Trump supporters are deplorable. They prove it again and again. Along with Trump, they are the reason why most of the US is still in some form of lock down. The bad news is, the Whitehouse model predicts over 400,000 COVID-19 deaths by January. The good news is, from here on out, most of the deaths will be Trump supporters.

WARNING!!! Before you read any further grab a barf bag.

Why Are Tiffany And Ivanka Protecting Their Pedophile Father? Narcissistic Fathers Who Sexually Molest their Daughters

Narcissistic Fathers Who Sexually Molest their Daughters 

I am speaking specifically about the narcissistic father like Trump who sexually molests his daughter(s). (There are fathers who sexually molest their daughters who are not narcissists.) 

These narcissistic fathers have no sense of boundaries; they can do whatever they want. If they have the impulse to violate their daughters sexually that is perfectly all right with them. Action follows impulse as night follows day. They feel no shame or guilt. Narcissistic fathers have an extreme sense of self entitlement. With some of them, this includes sexual possession of their daughter. In some instances the narcissistic father obtains full custody of the daughter and continues the sexual molestation unabated by the law or the ex-wife. Everyone, including the courts, have been convinced by his superb acting skills and his army of lawyers believe that he has the right to full custody. Often the mother doesn't have the financial resources to fight for her child and no one believes that the daughter is being abused because the narcissistic father is a master of cover up. A daughter subjected to these crimes is severely injured psychologically. In some cases the daughter aligns herself with the father because she has been brainwashed. In other instances the narcissistic father is so subtle with the sexual abuse that it goes unnoticed by other family members or they have learned to normalize it. Talking about these matters is an absolute taboo in most families. The patriarchal narcissistic father is feared by his spouse and  children. There are horrid situations in which the narcissistic father and son participate in these crimes together. People outside are viewing a perfect family tableau. Mother and father appear to be devoted parents, even ideal.

Look beneath the surface and you will  perceive heinous acts perpetrated by the narcissistic father upon his daughter(s). Some mothers turn a blind eye because they are unwilling to buck this powerful male figure or give up the lifestyle. This is often a narcissistic mother who is incapable of loving or protecting her children.

Years later therapists, including myself, hear these tragic life stories of heinous crimes committed within the home over years, even decades. These narcissistic criminals must be exposed and brought to justice. Their children must be rescued and the work of healing will begin. Become informed by learning about the narcissistic personality disorder in depth and about sociopathic narcissists like Trump on my blog. 

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Social Media Censorship The Slipperiest Of Slippery Slopes

It has been said repeatedly, the only speech that requires protection is the unpopular type. Mark Twain is quoted as saying, "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes".

Any form of censorship is tyranny but on Reddit and other similar platforms, anonymous mechanized tyrannical censorship is deployed under the guise of "keeping communities safe". Safe from what? Words? On social media, lying and spreading dangerous disinformation is permitted like in the case of traitorous criminals such as Trump and his mob. If you respond with honest anger to a liar by telling the truth or telling them you'd like to slam your fist down their lie hole you will be silenced by the thought and feelings police. Their justification for silencing you will be, a false charge of inciting violence or the catch-all accusation of "hate speech" Meanwhile, the lying by Trump and his flying monkeys continues. Jack Dorsey, Twitter's top weasel, has allowed Trump to tweet dangerous disinformation and actually incite violence that resulted in deaths of Americans from  the spread of COVID-19 and at the hands of his disciples. Instead of banning Trump, his MAGAts, and bootlickers for their constant lies and rule breaking, Dorsey turned a blind eye to it. Only recently did Twitter place a caveat on Trump's and other Republican's lie filled tweets.

Steve Huffman's Reddit with its anonymous censor bots is a magnet for liars, Russian propagandists, censors, agenda trolls, echo chambers and various other liars.

Traitorous criminal Mark Zuckerberg profited by selling ads to Putin's disinformation campaign to destroy Western democracy. Then he lied to congress about it. 

Trump, Zuckerberg, Huffman, Dorsey and their mob members should be treated like the enemies that they are.

The only speech that requires banning is dishonest speech. As for the snowflakes who feign offence so that they can express their phony moral outrage, they have an ignore button.

More Reddit Censorship

Reddit bans 2,000 communities in major censorship action

By Kevin Reed 
2 July 2020

In a major act of social media censorship, the news aggregation site Reddit banned more than 2,000 communities, known as subreddits, on Monday, claiming they were in violation of the platform’s new content policy against “hate speech.”

The most prominent of the terminated subreddits was a right-wing forum called r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump group that was a notorious online gathering place for sharing racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic memes, videos and other content. The subreddit had approximately 790,000 active members.

Reddit executives, including CEO Steve Huffman, also a founder of the platform, argued that the group had regularly broken platform rules by allowing its members to target and harass others with hate speech. Huffman told reporters on Monday, “Reddit is a place for community and belonging, not for attacking people. ‘The_Donald’ has been in violation of that.”

In an official statement on its content policy, Reddit wrote: “All communities on Reddit must abide by our content policy in good faith. We banned r/The_Donald because it has not done so, despite every opportunity. The community has consistently hosted and upvoted more rule-breaking content than average (Rule 1), antagonized us and other communities (Rules 2 and 8), and its mods have refused to meet our most basic expectations.” The full eight point content policy can found here: Reddit Content Policy.

However, according to a report in the Washington Post, by the time Reddit shut down r/The_Donald, “there was little sign of recent activity. The most popular posts were several months old.”

Meanwhile, hiding behind the banning of the widely despised subreddit r/The_Donald, Reddit executives also took action to shut down some 2,000 other groups, including a popular left-radical forum called r/ChapoTrapHouse, named after a popular podcast, which had approximately 160,000 users in its community.

Screen capture of Reddit announcement that the subreddit r/ChapoTrapHouse has been banned

Although the subreddit is not officially sponsored by the Chapo Trap House podcast, it is associated with something called the “dirtbag left,” a political tendency that eschews civility and uses vulgarity to advance its ideas, which can be characterized as hostile to neo-liberalism and political correctness. The group emerged during the 2016 presidential primaries and campaigned aggressively for the nomination of Bernie Sanders against Hillary Clinton, and Joseph Biden in 2020.

The Reddit banning of r/ChapoTrapHouse was based, according to the platform statement, on the fact that it “consistently host rule-breaking content and their mods have demonstrated no intention of reining in their community.” Mods are volunteer moderators responsible for managing and monitoring the activity in subreddit communities.

Among the hundreds of other subreddits banned by the platform, Reddit claimed that 90 percent of them had less than 10 users. The company published a list of all 200 banned subreddits with 10 or more users, but provided no explanation as to why those had been deleted.

The censorship moves by Reddit represent a departure from the company’s previous posture, which has been hands-off since its founding in 2005, allowing moderators to determine what content is permitted within subreddit communities.

With the conversion of the site—which has called itself “The Front Page of the Internet”—into a property of the Newhouse publishing empire Condé Nast/Advance Publications, and the adoption of an advertising revenue model, the demands of sponsors and the American political establishment have forced policy changes.

The censorship at Reddit is part of a broader campaign on all social media platforms against “hate speech,” driven by the demands of advertisers in the wake of the mass protests against police violence following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day.

As reported by the Washington Post on Monday, Facebook “is facing a growing advertiser boycott over its refusal to remove a Trump post that many saw as encouraging violence during the George Floyd protests.” The article added, “Twitter hid the post with a warning label, noting that the post broke the company’s policies against encouraging violence.”

It has been reported that Ford, Unilever, Starbucks and Verizon are boycotting putting ads on Facebook for the month of July in an effort to force the platform to submit to an audit of how it controls hate speech. On June 18, Facebook deactivated dozens of President Trump’s campaign ads for their inclusion of a symbol associated with a Nazi designation for political prisoners in World War II.

The Amazon-owned live-streaming site Twitch also temporarily suspended the Trump campaign account for violating its rules of conduct against hate speech, and Google-affiliated YouTube shut down the video channels of white supremacists such as David Duke.

It is becoming increasingly clear that financial and corporate interests, along with the entire political establishment and intelligence apparatus of US imperialism, are moving rapidly to gain control over the information and political discussions taking place on social media platforms accessed daily by billions of people around the world.

While the coronavirus pandemic continues to expand throughout the world, the same corporations that are withholding advertising from the social media platforms on the pretext of concern over hate speech are demanding that workers everywhere in the world return to their jobs and risk becoming sick and dying or infecting their family members.

The latest censorship moves by Reddit confirm the analysis made here on the World Socialist Web Site last April, when moderators for the subreddit r/coronavirus banned the domain wsws.org from sharing articles in that community of over 2 million users. The moderators banned our articles on the grounds that they constituted “off-topic political discussion” and that the wsws.org was not a “reliable” source.

In response, we wrote: “Given that references to ‘reliable’ and ‘recognized’ sources are well-known euphemisms for the corporate media and our article had already received a widespread response on r/coronavirus, the banning of the WSWS by subreddit moderators is unmistakably an act of political censorship designed to block our analysis of the unfolding crisis from reaching the public.”