American Silliness June 20, 2017

Dennis Rodman: ‘People Don’t See … The Good Side’ Of North Korea   "Former professional basketball player Dennis Rodman spoke out in an exclusive interview with ABC News about his recent trip to North Korea, suggesting that he is partly responsible for the reclusive nation’s release of American college student Otto Warmbier, who died last Monday, just days after being medically evacuated from a North Korean prison."

New Oakland Police Commission being created: 'Formerly incarcerated individuals encouraged to apply'   . . . "Those who seek to hobble police saw their opportunity and took it, capitalizing on voter hostility to the police at the moment and using ballot wording that obscured the worst aspects of their plan.

"Now it will become tougher to recruit cops for the Oakland P.D., and the officers on the street will hesitate more often, aware that people hostile to them may sit in judgment."

Pelosi Gives Incoherent Response To Trump Saying Her Being Dem Leader Helps GOP   . . . "Some Republican members have said that it would be good for their party if Pelosi remains the top Democrat in the House. These remarks followed heavy criticism from Democratic lawmakers of Pelosi’s leadership following Tuesday’s special election losses in Georgia and South Carolina." . . .

A Democratic Party official was booted after he allegedly wished Scalise dead

I'm glad he got shot. I'm not f**king saying that in public. I wish he was f**king dead.
—Phil Montag, former co-chair of tech committee

 

University of Georgia Socialist Group Calls for GOP Lawmakers to Be 'Guillotined'  . . . "Campus newspaper The Red & Black notes that the organization's former leader claims the tweet was a joke (because the only jokes anyone can make today must come at the expense of conservatives):" . . .

NJ Yearbook Advisor Suspended for Altering Photos of Kids Wearing Trump Shirts

NFL’s Kaepernick Compares Cops to Fugitive Slave Patrols

Everything That's Wrong With American Culture, Encapsulated in One Five Minute Music Video