Posted on 09/02/2020 3:55:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Monday, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was finally forced to confront the left-wing violence that has been plaguing America's major cities for months on end: riots in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and Seattle, among other cities. For a full week, the Democratic National Convention ignored that ongoing violence, driven by members of the Black Lives Matter and Antifa movements. The media went right along with the narrative that violent riots have been "mostly peaceful," that conservatives were "pouncing" on occasional violence for political purposes and that the true threat to American safety could be found in Donald Trump's Twitter feed.
The only solution to America's ills, Biden held, could be found in repeating pernicious slogans about supposed systemic American racism. On Aug. 9, Biden tweeted: "It's been six years since Michael Brown's life was taken in Ferguson -- reigniting a movement. We must continue the work of tackling systemic racism and reforming policing." Never mind that two state investigations and the Obama Department of Justice found that Brown was justifiably shot; no facts are necessary to continue repeating mantras.
Then, a small Wisconsin town, Kenosha, burst into flames.
At first, the media tried to excuse the burning, rioting and looting. After all, they proclaimed, this was justified rage at the systemic racism of American policing. It simply didn't matter that Jacob Blake, who was shot by police, had resisted arrest, bucked police officers off of him, ignored their orders and then reached into his vehicle, where a knife was later found on the driver's side floorboards. It also didn't matter that Blake has faced vicious criminal charges and had an open warrant for sexual assault and domestic violence -- and that the police reportedly arrived only after being called by a woman who alleged that Blake digitally raped her in front of one of her children. The police were the problem.
And Biden went right along with that generalized narrative, excoriating the police for the shooting of Jacob Blake. Sure, Biden may have softly tut-tutted violence. But the real problem was the American system. On Aug. 28, Biden tweeted that George Floyd and Blake can't become "just another pair of hashtags," and that instead, it was time to "reverse systemic racism."
But Americans didn't see the riots and looting in Kenosha as indicative of a reaction to American racism. They saw it for what it was: horrific behavior. And so, Biden was forced to leave his basement -- to fly to Pennsylvania, of all places, and deliver a 12-minute address denouncing violence.
The media did their dutiful best to characterize that address as a groundbreaking call for peace. It was no such thing. Instead, Biden blamed the police, Trump and white supremacists for the violence. He name-checked "right-wing militias" and "white supremacists." He made no mention of Black Lives Matter or Antifa, the actual sources of rioting and looting in American cities. And the same media that excoriated Trump for condemning violence "on many sides" in Charlottesville suddenly found it in their hearts to pretend that Biden's radically unspecific rhetoric actually covered the evils of BLM and Antifa.
Biden simply cannot condemn Antifa or BLM by name, because to do so would be to recognize two simple truths: first, that Trump isn't the chief source of violence in American cities; second, that in spite of his "return to normalcy" message, Biden's "systemic racism" narrative provides the ideological groundwork for those who seek to tear down the system. Democrats have spent months denying the violence, calling Trump a fascist for offering federal help and decrying the American system. The fruits are on full display for everyone to see. And so, Biden must bluff, and the media must cover for him.
Perhaps Biden will get away with it. Americans should hope he doesn't.
Spot on. Glad to see that Ben now fully understands the magnitude of the Trump phenomenon in human history.
“Bern”?
Shapiro was a never Trumper in 2016. So much so that I couldn’t stand him. I’m still not liking him. Although I’ll tolerate him and listen to him if I can get past his adolescent voice.
I’m assuming it’s a Ben Shapiro typo.
He won’t condemn the violence because he will not/cannot condemn his own supporters.
BLM was created in the Obama/Biden White House in 2013 after the George Zimmerman acquittal. The Trayvon Martin case was created by Obama/Biden’s DOJ, feeding the media a false narrative....something they would repeat with Michael Brown.
ISIS was an offshoot of Al Qaeda in 2004, but it languished until 2011 when it received direct support from the Obama/Biden Administration.
ANTIFA was started in 1932 and faded mostly out of existence after World War II. In 2011, the Obama/Biden Administration supported Occupy Wall Street. Occupy Wall Street transformed into ANTIFA after the 2011 protests with the help of the Obama/Biden White House and university professors. The professors linked wealth to fascism.
They are kindred spirits.
He is Funding the violence!
The only violence that Joe was condemning during his speech, was resistance to blm and antifa, that becomes violent..., so the only people he’s condemning, are people who won’t vote for him.
"Condemn BLM?""Why eat all those prunes if you're just gonna complain about your BLMs?"
"Come on, Man."
INFOBUMP! Thanks.
Joementia the Zombie likes it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts
Even John Wayne Gacy, the serial “Killer Clown” was a Democratic precinct captain in the Chicago suburbs in the 1970s.
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/john-wayne-gacy?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-biography
What does Lori the Zombie Lightfoot say?
From the ME to Pre-Planned EXTERMINATION centers they’re all about DEATH and DESTRUCTION...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlz3-OzcExI
...and POWER...and MONEY
BLM is bernies army, antifa is either the CIA and FBI ops or soros china and the globalists baby
See there?
problem solved, wasn't that just simple?
Simple answer...Biden would be condemning his own supporters.
He would rather condemn Trump supporters than his own. After all Trump supporters are burning down the cities in his demented world.
Ben Shapiro - quisling enabler never Trumper. Wrong about the major election of his life. And he is a political commentator. Ever wonder why the people who are constantly wrong about things still are given credibility. Especially this little backstabbing publicity whore
My biggest question has been, why hasn’t President Trump designated / declared that Antifa, BLM, and all the other mobs of murdering, destroying and pillaging monsters (including the Demoncratic Party) are Terrorist Organizations / Groups?
Would that not free his hands to override every Demoncratic Governor (Minister of Truth), so as to muster and send every Constitutional and Amendment - backed civilian and U.S. National Guard force to every single place where even a hint of these dastardly vile creatures begin another round of terrorism and war?
What do you believe is possibly holding back our President from taking this such badly-needed and pertinent move? Is it the upcoming elections, the threat of this erupting into Civil War III, or the historic (although what I believe completely castistrophic wrong, but completely prophetically Biblically directed) Middle East goings on, as to the “Abraham Accords” and pushing Binyamin Netanyahu not to apply Israel’s sovereignty over all lands indeed shown to Abraham by The LORD GOD Himself?
GOD IS, and IS in control, always and eternally. AMEN.
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