“We’re going to Memphis. Memphis is deeply troubled. The mayor is happy, he’s a Democrat, and the governor of Tennessee,” Trump said. “Deeply troubled. We’re going to fix that just like Washington.”

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    4 months ago

    Why is there a next target? Are we at war? We used to declare war on everything, drugs, poverty, crime, but we didn’t send in the Marines.

    This can’t be the new normal.

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      3 months ago

      Some people feel that an internal state conflict that results in more than 1000 deaths per year qualifies as a state of civil war. By that metric, the numbers of people in the USA killed by the police has meant that the USA has been in a state of civil war for many years now.