i am actually quite radical and in my heart i would have been out on the street long ago. the guy is criminal, ignores the constitution, robs and steals from the american people. we need him out of there and we may not be able to wait until november/january.

now as for police brutality i have a slightly different take. i am grateful that i know the police in this area and consider them my friends. i think we need police until we have a better system in place and we need them to be cooperative and friendly and hold themselves to standards of equality.

but here's the thing: i think most do that just fine, and they even do it in places like here where it's ultraconservative and the racist trump voters wouldn't mind them beating on a few people of color. police know that it's their job to treat people equally, and it's their job to maintain good community relations, and they by and large want to do their job well.

so you have one cop that murders someone, and three other that watch, and a city explodes in anger against the cops? actually to be more accurate a nation explodes in anger against the cops. my sense is that they sense a little racial hostility on the part of the police - now this could vary from one city to another, and as I say, doesn't seem to be true for here, out in the mountains. every place is different. but was police racism actually getting worse? my sense was that it was getting better, at least until trump came along.

so it could be, trump gave racists permission to be mean, and that included a lot of police, and people couldn't take it any more. or it could be, trump gave all the bailout money to his rich friends and people got hungry and couldn't take it any more. or it could be that police are by and large fair, but people took advantage of a blatant murder to just go out and break stuff and steal. and itould be a combination, and it could have turned out differently depending on your location.

anyway i process this stuff with pop art, so here goes: