AP reads these days like a blog on Salon. Believe it or not there was a time when it was pretty dry and did just circulate news stories without prejudice.

A free speech demonstration staged by conservative activists quickly fell apart in downtown San Francisco on Saturday after several hundred counterprotesters surged the area, outnumbering and attacking those gathered, including knocking one in the mouth.

That one paragraph is so insane that it feels like I'm looking into the eyes of Cthulu reading it.

Members of the group wore red “Make America Great Again” Trump campaign hats and carried pro-police “Thin Blue Line” flags and U.S. flags.

Sometimes you just want to grab normie cons and shake them. Why do you campaign for a group of people who are actively indifferent and sometimes even hostile to you? Where were these hero cops when you and others all over the country have been getting the shit beat out of them?