I'm currently just trying to wrap my head around the concept of a member of the fourth estate that
wouldn't be throwing themselves at a story like that like a shark pit at a twenty pound pile of chum. At least three, four different local sources have reported on the protest walkabout, and not a one have mentioned anything involving the flag, and, like. The setup for this would require them to
not be doing something that would gain significant brownie points with their local consumers, rile up all sorts of the shit the media loves 'cause it makes them money, and for... what, exactly?
Somehow the media decided to about face and clam up in complete defiance of literally everything they've done over the last, like, 50 years. Some of those local sources were spreading the bloody nazi shits' response to what kicked this all off, but not mentioning their own area's flag being burnt in front of city hall? What the blazes am I supposed to be seeing, here?
Add on that apparently an anti-fascist bunch had the balls to replace and burn the county flag in the middle of the day, right outside the minneapolis city hall, in front of cops and firefighters (who put out the effigy that the flag was claimed to be burned with, for bonus points!), and seem to have
not both recorded that and immediately posted on the internet, and you got something that, if nothing else, makes you wonder what the hell is supposed to be going on, here.
'Cause the local ground game being this quiet, for this long after the proposed fact, in relation to the event being claimed, is what can accurately called hypnotoad kegger shit.
Just... shit. It's 20 goddamn 17. Anything's possible. But this is doing its damnedest to twist my suspension of disbelief in knots and set
it on fire.
E: And in the latest update of 2017's possible events, in this corner we have the POTUS, after a barrage of accusations of entanglements with white supremacists,
publicly announcing he's seriously considering pardoning joe arpaio. Known best for his history of farcical caricatures of racism and police malevolence, all made worse by none of it being intended to be a caricature.