The protests are clearly bigger than George Floyd at this point. They have become an excuse for the militarized police to go to war against anyone who isn’t police (attacks against journalists and photographers, against people randomly walking home from the grocery store, against people on their own front porches and stoops, etc. have been documented on social media). Add the craziness of right-wing and white supremacists jumping in with the looting and destruction because of their own hopes for a race war or a civil war, and the utter lack of leadership of the president of 40% of voters, all in the middle of a pandemic that is bound to get worse in the coming weeks, and it is hard to see how the result will be anything other than complete anarchy or the vicious dictatorship said president has been itching for. This situation is a dream come true for Putin, except that the pandemic is out of control in Russia right now, they can no longer pretend that it is a few extra cases of lethal pneumonia, so Putin can’t even properly take advantage of it.
I’ve never had any desire to go to space, but I can’t help but think that those two astronauts who docked at the space station today are very fortunate to be able to escape Earth right now.