Posted on 08/28/2020 3:43:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
Democrats can try but won't succeed at distancing themselves from the violence they have enabled on American streets. People surely know where the Democrats have stood on this, and that they're now backpedaling only because of polling data.
Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg outright blamed this anarchy on President Donald Trump. "The simple reality is that we are seeing more and more chaos and violence under the Trump presidency, and there's no reason to expect that it would get any different or better if he were reelected," said Buttigieg. "This is very much characteristic of living in Donald Trump's America, and I think we're going to see more and more of it as long as he's in charge."
To blame this violence on Trump because he's in office is like blaming him for the border wall not being erected fast enough. It's like blaming him for the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus when, in fact, he has persistently tried, over strenuous Democratic obstruction, to sensibly and safely reopen our economy. It would be like blaming him for abortions because they have persisted during his first term despite his valiant efforts for the innocent unborn.
It is inconceivable that Buttigieg is unaware Democratic mayors and governors have all but encouraged this mayhem. Many have consistently rejected Trump's offer of federal law enforcement assistance to quell the riots. Many have cavalierly misrepresented the violence as peaceful protests. Democratic CNN has called the Kenosha riots "fiery but mostly peaceful," and the Democratic Virginia Senate just passed a bill allowing assaults on police officers to be mere misdemeanors, for crying out loud.
If Joe Biden or any other Democrat at the Democratic National Convention denounced the violence, I sincerely missed it.
Then, something happened. No, Democrats didn't all of a sudden become outraged at the criminal assaults and property destruction against people whose only sin was to own businesses in a convenient location for Marxist arsonists and opportunistic looters.
Democrats apparently discovered through internal polling and focus groups that most Americans are appalled by this leftist orchestrated breakdown of law and order, and that they actually care about safe streets. Shocker.
CNN's Don Lemon seems to have changed his mind on the riots -- but not because he has had a law and order epiphany. "The rioting has to stop," Lemon said. "It's showing up in the polling. It's showing up in focus groups...it is the only thing right now that is sticking."
"The problem is not gonna be fixed by then" -- the election -- "but what they can do -- and I think ... Joe Biden may be afraid to do it. I'm not sure. Maybe he won't; maybe he is -- he's got to address it," said Lemon. "He's got to come out and talk about it."
Lemon must be too obtuse to understand what he is telegraphing about Biden when he speculates that Biden might be afraid to address the violence. What possible reason could he have to be afraid to condemn it? What justification could there be for such wanton lawlessness?
One of Biden's handlers must have seen the polling data, too, though, for after months of silence on the matter, Biden finally faintheartedly denounced the chaos, saying: "Needless violence won't heal us. We need to end the violence now -- and peacefully come together to demand justice."
Well, Mr. Biden, why haven't you urged Democratic governors to take charge of this madness? Why haven't you encouraged them to accept President Trump's offers of federal assistance? And just what do you mean that we ought to all come together to demand justice? You know that Trump condemned the George Floyd killing within hours of its occurrence, yet some of your Democratic friends are acting like he kneeled on Floyd's neck himself.
It's not just Pete Buttigieg trying to pin the violence on Trump. I heard Fox News' Juan Williams make the same argument. Indeed, the entire Democratic Party apparatus, now that it has strategically decided it better shift gears and publicly oppose the violence, is poised to blame the anarchy on Trump, not just because it is happening during his presidency but also because Democrats claim he is an evil racist who engenders an atmosphere of racism in the country.
This cynical slander of Trump and his supporters as racists has got to stop. But it won't, because it still works for Democrats politically.
The Democrats' enabling of street violence is another matter. They obviously miscalculated and are now paying a steep price.
Republicans are the party of law and order, and Democrats are the party of lawlessness and disorder. Democrats own these riots. They own this endless leftist drumbeat of hatred toward America and everything it stands for.
Unhappily for them, people have awakened to just how far left Democratic leaders are willing to go, and it's not playing well for them, including in the precious swing states they need to win back the presidency.
They can now pretend to oppose the violence until they are as blue in the face as the uniforms of the cops they demonize, but it's too late. They chose the wrong time to side with criminals torching our cities -- a time when Americans are feeling particularly unsafe and insecure. No one is going to believe they didn't know exactly what they were doing, and few will buy that they've had a genuine change of heart.
Karma.
The sad thing 5o me is 5hat the entire Democrat Party is so amoral that it takes polls and focus groups for them to realize Burning Looting and Murder is a bad thing.
It takes a psychopath to have so little empathy to not care for their constituents being destroyed so that they might gain a vote.
Every last one of them belongs in a mental institution.
IF a person wishes to cast blame for the RIOTING & SENSELESS VIOLENCE upon ANYONE other than the rioters/criminals/creeps who are directly involved, the blame must be laid directly at the feet of the RADICAL LEFTIST “leadership” of the so-called “modern” DIMocRATS Party.
The DIMocRATS are grasping FOOLISHLY at straws to try to blame DJT for THEIR own RACISM/BIGOTRY/HATE/STUPIDITY.
Yours, TMN78247
IF a person wishes to cast blame for the ROTING & SENSELESS VIOLENCE upon ANYONE other than the rioters/criminals/creeps who are directly involved, the blame must be laid directly at the feet of the RADICAL LEFTIST “leadership” of the so-called “modern” DIMocRATS Party.
The DIMocRATS are grasping FOOLISHLY at straws to try to blame DJT for THEIR own RACISM/BIGOTRY/HATE/STUPIDITY.
Yours, TMN78247
IF a person wishes to cast blame for the ROTING & SENSELESS VIOLENCE upon ANYONE other than the rioters/criminals/creeps who are directly involved, the blame must be laid directly at the feet of the RADICAL LEFTIST “leadership” of the so-called “modern” DIMocRATS Party.
The DIMocRATS are grasping FOOLISHLY at straws to try to blame DJT for THEIR own RACISM/BIGOTRY/HATE/STUPIDITY.
Yours, TMN78247
We’ll see if this talking point begins to stick against President Trump.
Knowing that most Americans have the attention span of a gnat, I can easily see millions of people start to believe that after hearing it non-stop 24/7 on the marxist networks.
Kenosha riots are the turning point in these paid rent-a-mob riots. Sure, there are a lot of useful idiots there, but the hard core (Marxist BLM/Communist Antifa) Leftists have been fully exposed and it was caught on camera by a few street reporters that filmed the attempt to murder. And the deaths brought out the FACT that the leaders of the riots were bused in. Traveling from Chicago to DC? And Federal Law Enforcement knows who they are.
Expose em All.
Remember in November
Vote em all Out (ComDem Mayors and Governors)
Then put the criminals who are driving the street rioting, arson and destruction of public and private property. Identify these criminals, charge them with federal crimes, put them away for a long time.
It is TIME.
The democrats, working in close coordination with antifa/blm, planned and implemented the riots so as to create a crisis for Trump.
They are EVIL. It is no accident that the riot agitators that Kyle Rittenhouse shot were all convicted felons. Not an accident. This is a backwash from the Obama Administration who made the rioters and demonstrators feel that nothing restrained them. That they were protected and immune to prosecution. (and they were, in some places still are) But now that it is clearly exposed they are an interstate terrorist group, it is suddenly a Federal crime. The Soros agitator money will now cover 10-20 year prison terms or loss of a limb or death. It is TIME for this to be exposed fully and ended.
I see way too many people believe this all is Trump fault. All over the net they blame Trump for the riots, the Covid deaths and whatever else they can twist around.
Remember we are not dealing with normal, logical, common sense people here. They are brain washed through the public schools and the lies on the media.
A large part of the comments like that on the web, especially on Twitter are Paid Trolls. I have a list of them that I have blocked over the past 11 years that is HUGE.
The ComDem base is in the large cities, especially in the NE and CA. They are collapsing under their own insanity. People are voting with their feet and leaving. Game is about over.
God Bless the USA, God Bless President Trump.
More than that, they made sure law-abiding Americans were “locked-down” to make things more convenient for the rioters, who were of course exempted from the “lock-down” rules.
Butt-humper is actually being honest, if you listen to what he is saying.
This violence is happening because Trump is in charge. The poor Dems are FORCED into destroying cities because they can’t make Trump go away.
He’s wrong to say that this will continue if Trump is re-elected. The Dems will lose the power to do this. Trump WILL stop the violence when he is in a position to stop those causing it.
You should note also that he is NOT promising that the violence will go away under Dems. It looks amazingly well-organzed, nationally, and appears to be a tool the Dems will want to use, again and again.
In other words, if America doesn't want to be raped, it shouldn't be dressing all sexy-like.
It's always been plain to see that the Dem run cities are where the violence is. The Dem run states are the ones still in unreasonable lockdowns.
People are blaming the Dems otherwise Lemon and Cuomo wouldn't have been calling for it to end.
Yeah, and if you don’t agree with me, I’ll kill you, or get you fired from your job, or burn your house/business down, or have you SWATed by police at 6 am. Whose America is that?
Democrats knew the misery - they didn't care because they thought it could be blamed on Trump - AND would help get Biden elected. The term 'psychopath' is the right one to describe Democrats of our time.
“Mayor Pete Buttigieg”
When faggotry is tolerated you get this.
The Democrats mantra is: If you tell a lie often enough, people will accept it as truth.
I'll wait.
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