DC Mayor pokes a stick in Trump's eye

[Scooter]

The intersection in front of Lafayette Square has been officially renamed. That is St.John's Church, that Trump used as a prop for his photo op, in the background.

[BoSoxGal]

She also did this on 16th Street leading to the WH (and that intersection):

[RayThom]

“My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.” ― Joyce Carol Oates

[Bicycle Bill]

Just to stir the pot a bit — I wonder what would happen if Jacob Frey were to paint "ALL LIVES MATTER" on, say, Hennepin Avenue?

-"BB"-

[Scooter]

In what universe would Frey conceivably choose to do that? How could this ever possibly be anything but your tone-deaf wet dream?

[RayThom]

Just to stir the pot a bit — I wonder what would happen if Jacob Frey were to paint "ALL LIVES MATTER" on, say, Hennepin Avenue?

You might as well muse about Frey painting "WHITE LIVES MATTER."

There's not much difference. "All" or "white" would be synonymous considering the mood at the moment.

[Joe Guy]

Why do I wish they had misspelled one of the words?

Am I a bad person?

[BoSoxGal]

Once more, with feeling:

[Darren]

Lots of dumb assery about. DC's Mayor Bowser wasting money is one. I read they got the H St street cars running. I wonder how much she screwed that up.

Back in WV a fire chief I know is another example of dumb assery. Other than being a dumb ass he's OK. He thought posting his picture wearing the shirt was funny. The governor immediately removed him from the state fire commission for promoting violence. He may have learned something. He's still a dumb ass. Bowser too.

[RayThom]

How could someone think that message is OK?

Darren, I'm not surprised you know this guy. I bet he sold you a similar T-shirt, too.

[Crackpot]

Obviously a fan of the dipshhit who killed Heather Heyer. Fucknut is unfit for Public Service

[Darren]

How could someone think that message is OK?

Darren, I'm not surprised you know this guy. I bet he sold you a similar T-shirt, too.

That's a good question, Ray. I'm been wondering if he's done anything else that indicates he's racist. AFAIK, there was only one Black family in the county. Their house burned down. It was not arson. The community came together to support them afterwards,

I've been involved in several incidents when he was responsible for seeing that something was done and he fucked up. The fire dept. bought a new tanker that has a stainless steel tank. The builder told the dept. that a gallon of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) would have to be added to the tank each time it was filled to maintain the warranty. The reason being in some areas of the country there's a bacteria that "eats" stainless welds to the point they become porous.

All of the water for filling the trucks comes from creeks. None of the bacteria are known to be in WV. The rub is that due to oil patch operations trucks go to WV from other states including as far away as Texas. That means the bacteria can be transported in with residual water in a carbon steel tank and then infect WV water sources.

Did the chief ever have the H2O2 added as needed. NO! It's worse when you consider the builder sent two 55 gal. barrels of H2O2 with the truck.

I could bore you to tears with more stories like that. Is he a racist? I don't know. Is he a dumb ass? Absolutely.

I won't get into firefighter stories about being blocked when trying to operate at an incident or having people ignore sirens and flashing red lights when running to a scene. I suspect that was why he thought the shirt was appropriate at least from his POV.