I can't believe anybody ever took this seriously.

Were they taking it seriously?

Dude, I swear to God, I swear they were.

All right.

Right.

Poor Ellen Foley, ruined her career. Oh, This is hell.

Another end of the world is possible.

This is hell and this time. The end of the world we may be facing is the end of whatever democracy

We still have here in the United States

Which ain't much considering our conversation yesterday with Carrie Lee merit on what the pandemic revealed about the lack of real actual democracy in the U.S.

The brutal killing of Tyree Nichols by a special Memphis police force revealed not only that there's a crisis of democracy in the

United States.

It also showed us that the Pentagon funded militarized special forces within police departments

across the country are growing more deadly and imposing a far better armed police state upon all of us in a few minutes we will speak with scholar, educator,

ethnographer, human rights activist,

sociologist, artist, and award-winning writer

Dr. Michael Gold,

where Tofsky, who wrote the Tom Dispatch article,

Welcome to the Predator State, where the Scorpions on the corner just might kill you,

which is about the killing of Tyree Nichols by a Memphis police unit called Scorpion.

Michael is a scholar of the far right and left,

race and class, policing and protest.

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