Let’s Weekend #235 – American and Outraged

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about shooting of Jacob Blake and fallout both good and bad, the wild RNC, and the trailers of DC Fandome.

• Intro
• What Are We Up To?
  • P: The time-honored “site stuff”, preparing for my final Day 0 Update on Sunday
  • C: Justice League, Fall Guys, Dark Souls, RetroArch
  • T:  Ghost of Tsushima, closed-beta MMO, Rick & Morty
  • B: Bloodborne, Banner Saga, reading, anime, car shit.
• Brandon’s Random Factoid
• Assholes of the Week: Kenosha, WI cop shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back after following him while walking to his car, paralysing him from the waste down
  • During protests in Kenosha, a 17 year old kid travelled from Illinois to the protest with his AR and killed two people and seriously injured a third, finally charged
  • Kenosha PD Chief Daniel Miskinis says the shooting would not have happened if protestors weren’t out past curfew
  • Tucker Carlson supports the murder of protestors by a 17 year old with a gun
  • Jerry Falwell Jr and his wife alleged to have been fucking a pool boy for several years in a major hypocritical way for the Liberty University President
    • Your moment of zen…
• Heroes of the Week: Doc Rivers made a great speech after playoff game about Jacob Blake shooting, lack of racial justice, and the RNC’s fear-based speeches
  • NBA, WNBA, MLB, and MLS postponed games after players refused to play in the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting
  • NHL postpones two days of games
  • Naomi Osaka refuses to play her match in WTA tournament, USTA, ATP, and WTA also postpone play
  • Protesters set up a guillotine outside of Jeff Bezos’s home.
• COVID-19 Dump Truck
  • 24.6 million cases WW, 835k deaths, 5.9 million cases US, 181k deaths
  • CBS News poll finds 57% of Republicans consider 176k deaths acceptable
  • Trump accused FDA of delaying a COVID-19 vaccine until after the election
  • Trump’s new miracle cure is convalescent plasma with FDA EUA
• RNC Highlights
  • One speaker dropped hours before speech due to anti-semitic QAnon tweet
  • Trump pardoned Jon Ponder, founder of prison rehabilitation program
  • House Dems open investigation into Secretary of State Pompeo’s speech
  • A number of speakers may have violated the Hatch Act during RNC
  • Trump’s nomination speech featured 1,000 seats with no social distancing
• Kellyanne and George Conway stepping away from their gigs to focus on their family
• Japan PM Shinzo Abe resigns due to health issues
• Golden State Killer gets consecutive life sentences without parole
• New Zealand’s Christchurch shooter sentenced to life without parole
• Greenland’s ice sheet has melted more last year than any year previously recorded
• Indian Institute of Technology held a digital graduation ceremony with students’ avatars
• DC Fandome
  • New trailer for Wonder Woman 1984
  • First trailer for Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League
  • Black Adam teaser trailer
  • We got our first trailer for The Batman
  • There’s a weird sneak peak video for James Gunn’s Suicide Squad
• Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com 

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