From the New York Times that came with the papers today, on the civilian MOBS occupied the Capitol of the U.S….written by T. Gabriel
The sight of a violent mob inspired by President Donald Trump smashing its way into the Capitol was more than just a shocking spectacle. It also highlighted one of the most dangerous parts of Trump’s legacy: the4 disbelief in democracy that has metastasized among many of his supporters.
While the turmoil has divided the Republican officials, there are few signs of division among these voters who fervently back Trump. In interviews earlier this month, they expressed sympathy with what they said were the motives of the mob: to stop the4 counting of Electoral College results in Congress, under the false premise that widespread fraud had deprived the president of reelection.
and here’s a YouTube video on that…
Trump Mob Takes Over U.S. Capitol: Joe Biden, Cardi B. and More React – YouTube
(and yes, the link works!!!)
The adherence of Trump’s base to his groundless claims of a “sacred landslide’ victory and their rejection of a routine constitutional process——a position abetted by 147 congressional Republicans who objected to certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s election—suggest that a core part of the Republican Party is dead=set on rejecting the legitimacy of any politics or party but their own.
In the interviews, Trump supporters adamantly clung to what they called evidence of a fraudulent election, engaged in so-called whataboutism to play down the scenes of destruction in Washington and accused the news media of being overly melodramatic in describing events as a historical inflection.
Since Trump first ran for president, his critics have been predicting that one of his norm-shattering acts would send droves of his supporters fleeing. It has never happened.
For these voters, the lack of allegiance to democratic values seemed to stem, in part, from the shift among many Republicans to imbibing information from sources that offer propaganda rather than news and facts.
Another likely factor that leads to delegitimizing political opponents among Trump supporters is the scorched-earth attacks on Democratic candidates during elections.
Some members of the president’s base said they would view Biden as illegitimately occupying the Oval Office, a further polarization of Americans after years when some Democrats questioned or denied Trump’s legitimacy. In the view of many Trump supporters, the president was never given a chance to govern; he was besieged from day one by claims of Russian collusion, fierce obstruction of his priorities and, ultimately, an impeachment.
Wow, all those TRUMP supporters surely ARE, fanatics, like those who’d followed a CULT, following the LEADER, as s/he drive down that sharpened CLIFF somewhere, and that, is what was happening, with these supporters of Trump, still living in the MIRAGE of Trump’s claims of “MAKE AMERICA GREAT again!” well, you know what? America is NOT great, nor had it, ever been, “great” and it’s because of people like YOU guys (angry MOBS!), who’d destroyed the DEMOCRATIC voting process of AMERICA there! And that’s still??? Oh yeah my T-A-K-E, those of you won’t don’t like it, yeah like I give a SHIT!
This was what DEMOCRACY in AMERICA looked like, now, maybe??? How the hell should I know when the occupying of the Capitol started, and if it’d, ended yet???
A School without the Fences…Would We Still Be Safe the Next Time?
Commentaries, translated…
An elementary school was broken in by a stranger man, not only did he managed to beat up the school teacher, he’d also took a male student to the roof of the school. The police came to help out after they got a call, and managed to subdue the man, and the students, as well as the instructors were all very scared by this event.
This rare-to-come-by incident posed the issue of school safety, in order to help keep the campuses safe, the teachers, as well as the students must have the sense of danger, and they should NOT ignore the signs of danger that easily, in order to ensure the safety of the students, as well as the school instructors.
For now, there’s a lax in the number of security officers at the elementary schools across the city of Taipei, the originally two members of the security officers that were assigned to each of the schools, due to the simplifying plan of personnel by the city governments, there was NO one to fill the posts, and the schools started hiring from the private sectors, causing the varied income problem, and it’d affected how well the schools and the hired security guards worked together. The government, in order to save the cash, had sacrificed the safety of the schools, it’s really not worth it.
And, recently, the janitors had been reduced in numbers in the schools, for a school with one-thousand students, there were only two janitor, and, the janitors also had to be responsible for the cooking in the kindergarten levels, along with being the correspondences to the government, and, the number of employees is NOT even half of what the schools had hired.
And the schools, in order to make sure the schools worked well, would have the two guards work at the same time frames, and, had one of these security guards help with the paper works at the offices of the schools.
And so, walking around the school to make sure that it’s safe was deeply affected, and there was a HUGE hole in the security, thus, allow the bad guys to squeeze in.
Lastly, in recent years, the schools across the nations had gotten away with the fences, and, a LOT of schools had fought for lowering the fences, or do away with them completely, and used plants as the fences, but, without the fences, the schools would be in danger, of intruders from the outside.
In order to safeguard the safety of the students and the teachers, the educational managers from the cities, along with the school’s executive officials MUST work together.
The school must give education as it becomes necessary, to up the level of awareness of the students and the teachers, and instill the idea of “keeping the schools safe is everybody’s responsibilities”, to keep a close eye on strangers that show up, and to have the students and the teachers report if they see someone who’s awkward in the schools, and must hold safety conferences regularly, along with have drills.
The increase of safety on campuses, other than the schools that must work hard, there’s also a need for care and concerns from the systems, for instance, the funding, and the personnel, to allow the schools to have the extra money to install surveillance cameras, security equipments, and increase manpower on campus, to reduced the spare time where there would be no one there, to keep the schools safe, and this would up the safety of the schools.
And so, we need more guards to keep our schools safe, but, where DOES the funding come from? Taxes? We’re already paying a WHOLE lot, and, this article only poses the problem, without giving a viable solution, and, you still have to admit, that school safety IS a very important matter, I mean, after all, who would feel safe, if the kids’ schools can be entered by just about anyone?
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