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jwhop
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posted June 01, 2020 11:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nolte: You Get What You Vote For and in Democrat-Run Cities You Get Riots
John Nolte
June 2020

Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Fayetteville, Atlanta, New York, Nashville, Seattle, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago, Milwaukee, Salt Lake, Washington DC, Detroit, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Kansas City, Houston, Charlotte, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Denver, Dallas, Phoenix, Tampa, Baltimore, Oakland, Louisville…

What do all those American cities have in common?

They’re all run by Democrats, many for generations.
They’ve all been looted and burned by left-wing Antifa terrorists and other anarchist groups over the past few nights.

That’s no coincidence.

What’s more, these riots are not America’s problem….

These riots are not President Trump’s problem…

Nope, these riots are wholly owned by the Democrat Party and the fools who continue to vote for them.

With Keith Ellison you get Antifa, and when you’re stupid enough to vote for a Louis Farrakhan-hugging, Antifa-embracing radical like Keith Ellison to be your attorney general, your state’s top law enforcement officer… Enjoy the bed you made.

You voted for Keith Ellison and now Antifa burnt down your job. Huh? How about that?

You vote for a Democrat Party that has led your city to ruin for decades and decades and decades, and now Antifa’s destroyed your neighborhood. Huh? How about that?

I’m not happy about these riots. Of course not. The feeling is more along the lines of overwhelming indifference with a side of TOLDJASO. I’m not proud of the TOLDJASO part, but I’m also not going to lie about it.

And when Antifa attacked CNNLOL’s headquarters in Atlanta, I was reminded of something CNN staffer Chris Cuomo once said about Antifa: “[F]ighting hate is right. And in a clash between hate and those who oppose it, those who oppose it are on the side of right.”

Power to the people!

Let me put it this way…

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change…

And God did grant me that serenity safe in the knowledge I can’t fix stupid, and people who vote for Democrats are stupid, and I’ve spent 16 years and countless hours on these here InterWebDotNets warning you about Democrats, so my conscience is now clean with the serenity of indifference.

Yes, the Republican Party sucks. But it’s a binary choice and if you’re not stupid, you’ll always go with the pro-gun, anti-Antifa sucky party.

And we did tell you so… We did. For decades, we’ve been warning you about the increased radicalization of the Democrat Party, a radicalization that started right here and has not only openly embraced left-wing terrorists groups like Antifa, but has bred these monsters.

After all, what is Antifa if not the unholy spawn of a Democrat Party and its nihilistic, left-wing religion that preaches you into the spiritual void of loveless sex, massive tuition debt, hating America, despising free enterprise, smoking weed, and the sacrament of killing the unborn. By Democrat design, the marauders in Black Lives Matter and Antifa have no stake in America — their womyn studies degree ensures they have no job, no future, no family, and $150,000 in debt. Hell, why not riot?

To begin with, your pals in the left-wing media regularly encourage Antifa to riot in your city. Your pals in the left-wing media adore the terrorists who destroy your neighborhoods and livelihoods. Your pals in the left-wing media excuse and justify Antifa’s violence, and then write glowing profiles about them.

Antifa burns down your backyard and gets great press. So why not riot?

And of course Antifa and its unholy brethren of anarchist groups are going to target your Democrat-run city for a night of the ol’ ultra-violence…Where else are they going to riot? First off, monsters always seek to kill their creators. But there is also the reality of the logistics of the situation: Antifa knows Democrats are cucks who will allow them to riot. Antifa knows Democrat-run cities have gun control laws that ensure you remain defenseless.

Now seems like a good time to tell you about my weekend…

Out here in the sticks — you know, Rural America, that place you oh-so sophisticated Blue State Dwellers call the hinterlands, it was — no joke — the most beautiful weekend of the year. It was just perfect, and everyone in my neighborhood mowed their lawns and grilled meat while the kids rode bikes… I topped my Saturday night with a good book and a Pabst Blue Ribbon tallboy on the porch followed by a Western on my 60-inch plasma. I then went to bed with the windows open so my wife and I could fall asleep to the sound of crickets and the smell of freshly cut grass. And I did it all again on Sunday (except I watched a war movie instead of a Western)…

Now, I’m no idiot. There are always two loaded firearms within reach of my bed. But that’s about preparation, not fear, and if Antifa (or anyone) is ever stupid enough to move their marauding to my neck of the woods, all they’re going to discover are alert dogs, security lights, and patriots who believe in the Second Amendment.

But Antifa knows that, which is why they don’t come here…

Antifa’s not stupid. You are.

Woke is weak, and weakness invites aggression, and inviting aggression is stupid… And Antifa knows you’re stupid; Antifa knows you’re stupid enough to vote for the same Democrats who coddle them, who fund them, who aid and abet them by looking the other way. Antifa knows you’re stupid enough to vote for Democrats who disarm you so you cannot defend your family or business. Antifa know you’re stupid enough to vote for Democrats who arrest people who go to church in their car but not the predominantly white left-wing Antifa thugs who loot and burn black neighborhoods (because white Democrats have been looting and burning black America since Reconstruction).

Yes, a couple Republican-run cities saw some violent protests, but those are exceptions that prove a rule that ensured Antifa would burn dozens — dozens — of Democrat-run cities. It was inevitable, it was predictable, and you voted for it, and we toldjaso.

Let me ask you… How did it feel the other night when the same Democrat-led (for 48 years) Minneapolis police department that did what it did to George Floyd abandoned you… Did you feel like you were owning the Orange Bad Man?

Let me ask you… While you were cowering in a home lit only by the nearby fires… As you cradled your family and inhaled smoke coming from your job burning down… As you prayed to Gaia that no one would come because you had no way to defend yourself… Did you feel like you were owning the NRA?

Last question… As you were sitting terrified at home watching Antifa screamed “**** Trump” and burn your neighborhood down on CNNLOL while CNNLOL spread the lie that blamed the violence on the Russians and white supremacists… Did you feel like you were owning Fox News?

I’m sorry there are riots in your neighborhood, I really am. And I’m sorry there will be more.

And I’m sorry you’re stupid, I really am.

But you get what you vote for, and you voted for this….

http://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/01/nolte-you-g et-what-you-vote-for-and-in-democrat-run-cities-you-get-riots/

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posted June 02, 2020 12:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Pollak: The Riots Began With Obama’s Embrace of Occupy Wall Street
Joel B. Pollak
31 May 2020

Politico declared Friday that President Donald Trump faced “a culture war of his own making” in the riots following George Floyd’s death.

There is no doubt that Trump has fought back in that culture war — but he did not start it.

The chaos currently running amok on America’s streets began with President Barack Obama’s embrace of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the fall of 2011, shared by then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other Democrats.

Occupy Wall Street was the left’s response to the Tea Party movement, which had carried Republicans back to power in the House in the 2010 midterm elections, abruptly ending what Democrats believed would be 40 years of dominance after Obama’s sweeping victory in 2008.

But whereas the Tea Party was law-abiding and grounded in constitutional principles. Occupy Wall Street proudly violated the law and called for the destruction of the entire economic system.

Obama and the Democrats embraced the fringe Occupy movement and elevated it to the mainstream of American politics. So, too, did the media, which had focused on every perceived flaw — real and imagined — in the Tea Party but covered up hundreds of crimes, many of them serious, committed in the Occupy encampments around the world.

The Occupy movement’s legacy persists today in Antifa, the self-styled “anti-fascists” who attack journalists and police.

In between, Obama found other radical causes to embrace. In 2012, he supported the protests around the death of Trayvon Martin, the black teenager killed in a fight with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.

Those protests had been encouraged by Al Sharpton — an unofficial White House adviser at the time — partly based on false, media-driven claims that Zimmerman was white and that he had used racial slurs during his encounter with Martin.

In 2014, Obama supported the Black Lives Matter movement, which emerged from protests over the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Democrats and the media falsely claimed that Brown had been murdered — shot in the back with his hands over his head in a gesture of surrender. (Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) continued to proclaim that lie on the campaign trail last year.) In fact, he was shot while charging police, whom he had attacked moments before.

The Black Lives Matter movement resulted in widespread protests, many of them violent, across the country. Police departments began to pull back from ordinary patrols in many of America’s most vulnerable cities, lest they encounter confrontations that could later serve as the basis for accusations of racism.

A Gallup poll shows that race relations, which had been good for decades, suffered a precipitous decline from 2014 forward — likely due to Black Lives Matter.

In the 2016 campaign, radical left-wing activists unleashed violence in the streets against Trump supporters — in full view of the media. They rioted in San Jose, and shut down a Trump rally in Chicago. Instead of blaming the left, the Democrats — and Trump’s Republican opponents, shamefully — blamed him.

After Trump was elected, the so-called “Resistance” continued protesting — sometimes violently — with support from Democrats and the mainstream media.

That is the true story of how we arrived at this moment.

President Trump sided with the Floyd family and called on the FBI and the Department of Justice to investigate. Local prosecutors arrested the officer responsible and charged him with murder.

But the riots erupted anyway, because for nearly a decade, Democrats and the media elevated the radical left and their riots above the non-violent traditions of the civil rights movement. This is a culture war they started.
http://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/31/pollak-the-riots-began-with-obamas-embrace-of-occupy/

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posted June 02, 2020 12:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
June 1, 2020
Trump declared Antifa a terrorist organization, and Democrats are worried
Andrea Widburg


On Sunday, President Trump took aim at Antifa, which apparently has driven the violent side of the protests ripping through America's Democrat-run cities. With full-throated support from Attorney General Barr, Trump is designating Antifa as a terrorist organization. This is an extremely important announcement because Antifa is more than just a terrorist group. It is, in fact, the paramilitary arm of the Democrat Party.

As is often the case, Trump made his consequential announcement via Twitter:

The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2020

John Solomon provides some context:

National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that the rioting in most cities was being instigated by outsiders aligned with Antifa.

"The reports we're receiving is that this is Antifa. They're crossing state lines," O'Brien said. "And we've seen this happen before. We saw it in Portland. We saw it in Seattle. We saw it in Berkeley. So, look, we'll keep our eyes open for anyone else that wants to take advantage of the situation, whether it's domestic or foreign.

Some of the group's tactics include throwing bricks, crowbars, metal chains, water bottles, and balloons filled with urine and feces, according to the Anti- Defamation League.

This is Antifa:

(Twitter has since suspended the account.)

This is also Antifa, attacking Andy Ngo, a citizen journalist, in Portland last year. Ngo sustained a brain bleed because of the attack:

Many people believe that George Soros is funding Antifa and pulling its strings. While he may be funding the organization, its radical ties put it squarely within the new Democrat party. Indeed, the moment Minnesota A.G. Keith Ellison's son heard about Trump's announcement, he proudly declared fealty to the group:

I hereby declare, officially, my support for ANTIFA

Unless someone can prove to me ANTIFA is behind the burning of black and immigrant owned businesses in my ward, I’ll keep focusing on stopping the white power terrorist THEY ARE ACTUALLY ATTACKING US! https://t.co/m6jxtDYmTi
— Jeremiah Ellison (@jeremiah4north) May 31, 2020

Antifa claims to be anti-fascist, so people think it's a good organization. It's not.

When fascism appeared in the 1930s, its biggest enemy was communism. This was not because fascism and communism were antithetical ideologies. It was because they were sister totalitarian ideologies, both arising out of socialism, with both competing for the same voters. The Antifa of the 1920s and 1930s in Germany, therefore, wasn't a peaceful democratic movement seeking to stand against all forms of totalitarian socialism; it was, instead, a violent communist group engaged in bloody internecine warfare with Hitler's fascists.

Lest you have any doubt that today's Antifa is the direct descendant of the violent communist group in Hitler's Germany, just compare the logos. Here's the original Antifa logo:

And here's the American Antifa logo:

For those who say Antifa is obviously communist, so it has nothing to do with the Democrat Party, think again. Over the past few years, Antifa has been operating freely in Democrat-run cities such as Berkeley and Portland, attacking anything or anybody it thinks is conservative. In those cities, the mayors have explicitly told their police forces to stand down. This means that the mayors are treating Antifa as a Democrat paramilitary organization that uses violence to suspend citizens' First Amendment rights to free speech.

The easiest way to think about Antifa is to view it as the 21st-century version of the Ku Klux Klan. Back in the day, the KKK was the Democrat party's terrorist arm. Now it's Antifa, which is the Democrat Party's brownshirts. In the media and in the halls of Congress, Democrats talk the language of politics while on the streets their black-clad, masked girls and boys smash heads.

Kurt Schlichter argues compellingly that, if Bill Barr is able to put pressure on Antifa (as he has promised to do), Barr can end that vile organization's existence. Just as importantly, prosecuting Antifa will force Democrat politicians out into the open, as they defend their street fighters:

Memo to @realDonaldTrump:

The pressure point for the Antifa terrorists is federal law-enforcement.

Federal law criminalizes their use of interstate organizational activities.

If the FBI balks, Wray must be fired

Fed LE is not under the control of leftist DAs, police chiefs & mayors. For too long you had Democrat cities pulling back police & releasing rioters immediately w/o serious charges.

By reviewing arrest records, the FBI can determine potential candidates for federal charges. And @realDonaldTrump can score huge political victories by highlighting Democrat politicians who obstruct his prosecutions.

People will not tolerate covering for rioters who may have committed federal crimes.

Make the Dems side with the thugs or alienate their base. What Antifa fears is federal prosecution.

When the first of these little trust fund sissies figures out he's not walking out of his cell after 20 minutes with a $50 fine but looking at five years in Leavenworth on a Fed rap, he'll squeal on his comrades. This is an opportunity to destroy Antifa root and branch, and to eliminate the armed wing of the Democrat party. Forever

They miscalculated and overstepped - America is absolutely against them and this is the time for @realDonaldTrump to strike a fatal blow against them.

Trump's decision to turn federal law enforcement on Antifa is a disaster for Democrats. No wonder Susan Rice is already trying to blame the Russians for the riots. Expect to see a lot more deflecting from Democrats in the coming months.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/trump_declared_antifa_a_terrorist_organization_and_democrats_are_worried.html

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posted June 02, 2020 10:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PhoenixRising     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Antifas are the extreme leftist liberals against fascism. Most looked like eunuchs to me on videos -- i will definitely fear them. They do have courage.

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posted June 02, 2020 01:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Seven Thoughts on the Civil War the Other Side Wants So Badly
None of them is a winner for Democrats.
Scott McKay
June 2, 2020

As a columnist and pundit, it’s usually a lot easier to hammer out good content on small, self-contained items. Some politician says something stupid. Some economic study pops out and either destroys or reinforces some narrative. And so forth.

But the events of the last week, in which a bad Minneapolis cop killed an arrestee by kneeling on his neck — which practically everybody in America agrees was a criminal act deserving criminal charges, and those charges came to Derek Chauvin by the end of last week — and then almost three dozen cities erupted in violence purportedly as a result, make it a lot more difficult to offer punditry.

This is too big, and it’s moving too fast. It’s hard to draw conclusions and be correct.

That said, certain things are both obvious and haven’t been said quite enough, and so I’ll offer them for the perusal of our readers.

1. It’s Antifa. It’s not Black Lives Matter.

Black Lives Matter doesn’t matter anymore. And you have to have the IQ of trouser lint to think it’s “white supremacists” destroying those cities.

Sure, sure, if you look at those “protests” you’ll see the usual suspects from the Black Lives Matter gang, and yes, yes, there are the looters who generally speaking don’t look much like Antifa — though the people breaking those store windows to start the looting look a bit more like Antifa than Black Lives Matter in an awful lot of cases.

But there are lots of examples out there, circulating on social media, where some of the protesters who are legitimately motivated into the streets by what happened to George Floyd have begun to realize what’s happening. Namely, that their protests are being used by a sinister gang of communist thugs to try to start a revolution.

You don’t have riots in 30 cities without somebody organizing them. You don’t have mysterious pallets of bricks showing up out of nowhere unless there is money behind this insurrection.

And the one thing nobody really reported on was that after Ferguson, the Black Lives Matter crowd started to realize their methods were counterproductive. Particularly after unhinged lunatics slaughtered police in Dallas and Baton Rouge, particularly after Trump won the 2016 election, and particularly after those areas they torched in their riots stayed torched.

Those areas were black areas, after all. And when the businesses destroyed in Ferguson and Baltimore and other places weren’t replaced with new businesses, things got worse there while other areas, even other black areas, started to see economic growth by last year.

There are enough Black Lives Matter people seeing that incontrovertible evidence that their passion for violence cooled some.

But not Antifa. Antifa has never been properly punished for anything it has done. Maybe now that will change with Trump calling a spade a spade and branding them a domestic terror group; Antifa needs to be rolled up in a major way.

But do you think a bunch of gender-bent white twenty-something communist revolutionaries from middle-class families have any compunction about starting riots that trash black neighborhoods? Think again. They’re communist revolutionaries, which means their entire motivation is to rile up the proles to start Karl Marx’s revolution.

And they see blacks in the cities as the proles. Ergo, they show up at the racial protests and try to turn them into riots and mayhem. Quite successfully, as it turns out.

This isn’t complicated. What also isn’t complicated is the abject stupidity of some in the media parroting the insane statements of Minnesota’s failed governor, Tim Walz, to the effect that there were “white supremacists” starting these riots. Well, if that was the case, then why aren’t Tim Walz and the rest of these panty-waist governors and mayors not cracking skulls from Seattle to Tampa? Nobody will miss a bunch of real-life white supremacist Trump supporters, right, Tim? Get those lead bullets out and clean up the streets!

They don’t even bother to check their own statements for brazen stupidity. It’s insulting.

2. Tom Cotton’s sentiments are spot on, but his methods are off.

I’m a fan of Tom Cotton, but when he tweeted over the weekend that the rioters ought to come face to face with the 101st Airborne, or the 10th Mountain Division, I’ve got to admit I wasn’t crazy about it.

Trust me, I agree with Cotton’s sentiments. The visceral reaction to a bunch of losers indoctrinated in pinko grievance in schools paid for with our tax dollars running around setting fires and looting and throwing Molotov cocktails at police ought to be that we’d like to see the Bradleys and M1A1s rolling through the streets and mowing them down. Part of us roots for that.

But part of us doesn’t, because we really don’t need Tiananmen Square here. We really don’t need that visual when the country might have the choice of putting a crooked, senile pervert like Joe Biden as a figurehead president for … Lord knows what nefarious ******** might actually run the country should Biden win. It’s one thing to muse about the results of a battle between sexually confused comparative lit majors in black sweatshirts throwing bricks in the streets on one side and hardened troops fresh out of the killing fields of Afghanistan on the other. It’s another thing to actually let that fly.

Most importantly, we don’t need it.

The police can handle these rioters if they’re allowed to. If the police can’t, in some circumstances, the National Guard certainly can. This isn’t some invading army; it’s the dregs of society who have been induced into the streets for free air fryers from Target. The slightest application of law enforcement muscle will put this rioting down.

Which brings us to …

3. The Democrats refuse to condemn the terror on our streets, but what’s more important they refuse to put a stop to it.

This was the message Trump delivered to the nation’s governors in a call on Monday, the meat of which was immediately leaked to the legacy media by the Gretchen Whitmers of the world.

It doesn’t appear any of them pushed back on Trump’s statements that they ought to be seeking to dominate their own streets and getting those riots in hand. Instead, they ran to their own friendly media and talked about Trump like he was unhinged when he told them what is obvious to the majority of the country.

And this comes after a full week of rioting, during which it should have become obvious to them that gaining control of their streets was their job well before Trump even got involved.

But what’s even more obvious at this point is the current batch of Democrats doesn’t want to put a stop to the rioting. They won’t even verbally condemn it, Atlanta’s mayor, Keisha Bottoms, being one of very few exceptions. Engaging in any real action to end the lawlessness before it results in millions or even billions of dollars in economic losses, or even more dead bodies, certainly isn’t in the cards. Some of these clowns have even resurrected the comic stylings of former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who talked about giving the rioters in her city a few years ago the “space to destroy” the place.

4. The parts of those cities that have burned won’t come back. And they shouldn’t.

And after all of those businesses burn, guess what happens?

Nothing. That’s what.

They don’t come back. Why would they come back? These are not the businesses located in the high-rent commercial districts. Those are in the really nice parts of town or in the suburbs. You aren’t allowed to riot and loot there. No, these are in the marginal and struggling parts of town, where crime is already at unacceptable levels and the merchants have half a foot out the door anyway.

When those commercial areas go up in smoke, the business owners don’t come back. If they’re not ruined, since their insurance doesn’t cover damage suffered in riots, they’re going to start over somewhere else.

So that burned-out building stays burned out. Or even if it doesn’t, it surely stays vacant.

Sure, you can do opportunity zones and you can try to use tax credits to induce commerce back into those areas. That generates marginal success at best. Because at the end of the day, everybody figures this is an area where the locals were so stupid and so disrespectful that they looted and burned down the very shops that kept the neighborhood going. And who wants to do business with such people?

Even the Black Lives Matter people, who don’t set records for their problem-solving skills, are starting to understand that. That Antifa comes into those neighborhoods and starts riots is doubly, if not triply evil, and there is literally no punishment too severe for it.

5. Virtually every one of the police departments the Left is screeching about is governed by Democrats. Where is their accountability? And what does that teach us?

An obvious point, to be sure. And one we all know. But let’s not ignore it, because it should be thrown in, for example, Jacob Frey‘s face every time he whines about “400 years of oppression.” Hey jackass, your party has controlled Minneapolis for 60 years. You don’t bear responsibility for its hideously unprofessional police force?

Enough on this one. You all know it by heart.

6. The suburbs aren’t burning despite all the calls to burn them. It isn’t hard to understand why.

Brandon Morse has a great piece at RedState warning the Antifa clowns that if they actually follow through on their threats to invade the suburbs, they won’t like the result.

“Suburbanites have a lot more to lose and are going to be a lot more apt to go to extremes to make sure no harm befalls what they’re protecting,” he says. “Too much rides on it. In the city, you were the pack of lions seeking whom you may devour. In the burbs, you’re the gazelle.”

That’s certainly true, and the rioters know it. Some of the Antifa clowns have been trying to rally their people to descend on the suburbs, and so far it hasn’t panned out.

Morse’s warning is one reason why. Know what the other one is?

Because the pasty honkies in the black sweatshirts live in the suburbs. Where do you think mom’s basement is, Watts? They’re not going to burn down their own neighborhoods; that’s for the proles to do, not the Marxist vanguard.

But sure — let’s have an attempted riot in the suburbs. Go ask Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd, and he’ll tell you what’ll happen.

7. Today’s Democrats are too stupid to understand history, and they’re reelecting Trump with every building that burns.

You don’t have to go any further back than 1968 to know that when America gets its fill of domestic violence and insurrection, it votes for the most conservative candidate it can find. How do you think Richard Nixon, who was the political version of a broken-down claiming horse who had lost an election for the governorship of California just a few years earlier, rolled into the White House like a tsunami? Nixon was the law-and-order candidate. It didn’t really matter what else he was; the Silent Majority gave him the job and a mandate to put an end to The Sixties.

Democrats have been trying to recreate The Sixties ever since, and the public has been trying to tell them The Sixties weren’t all that awesome.

It’s not a surprise that the animating force in that party is a gaggle of poorly educated, horrendously anti-intellectual twenty-somethings who couldn’t even tell you the Democrats’ nominee in 1968 (Hubert Humphrey, who was far more lucid than Joe Biden), much less recognize the lessons of that cycle.

Instead, they think this will be 1992, when Bill Clinton beat George H. W. Bush after the L.A. riots.

Except Bush 41 didn’t present himself as the law-and-order candidate. If anybody was that in 1992, it was Ross Perot. Bush 41 was the “kinder, gentler” guy who couldn’t stand up for himself. And he still probably would have won if Perot hadn’t gotten into the race and stolen a quarter of his base.

Trump is going to law-and-order this all the way home. It’s an easy play for him. This is a guy who walked to the burned-out church across the street from the White House after the Park police, after 50 Secret Service agents had been injured by rioters over the weekend at that locale, doused a crowd of protesters in Lafayette Park with tear gas to pave the way for his photo op (EDIT: The Park Police denies tear gas was used).

Sure, that was obnoxious. Do you think Trump cares? Why should he? Less than 72 hours before, he and his family had to be moved to the White House bunker, those 50 Secret Service people got hurt and the church was burned, and yet the protesters were back in Lafayette Park? Talk about obnoxious.

Trump’s response hasn’t been perfect, but he’s going to dominate the discussion the longer this goes. Do Democrats really think they’re going to beat him without even denouncing the riots? Are they that stupid?

Of course they are. Of course they are.

http://spectator.org/seven-thoughts-on-the-civil-war-the-other-side-wants-so-badly/

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^^^ I don't disagree with the gist of the latest article. I do feel that if the riots continue with the meek response from the Democratic Majors/governors, even sympathetic democrats will secretly vote Trump on the ballot.


What I would like to see is how they suggest police departments take out their own trash. Yes there are good cops, but if these good cops are tolerating in their ranks the Chauvin types whose conducts sully the entire brotherhood, they cannot complain if people are angry at them. Law and Order is a great principle, but when the ones in charge of law and order are acting lawlessly, Law and Order suffers on all levels.

That to me is the narrative that is missing from this side of the divide.
Restoring law and order can happen by force. But restoring public confidence and respect for law enforcement will require something other than force.

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Steve King was just defeated in Iowa.
http://www.axios.com/steve-king-iowa-primary-0f573843-c5e3-4246-a92c-1c0ce72efcdf.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100BREAKING&fbclid=Iw AR04SQZ3qKDy_wDsFi5zbkH0_ud7HfxFes3NB-0SnAPayyFoP14pUZefzHo

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posted June 03, 2020 12:28 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
http://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157575422089624&id=530944623


And a military adviser quit: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-adviser-resigns-after-trump-photo-op-at-church-2020-6?utm_campaign=sf-bi-tipresents&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR 0QxCPd4BupnnUVEZkAbT3KOltsfeG2hNX_WaieDCvwccoPc3eVGupWCKU

So, I wouldn’t be so sure that it’s all going to be great for trump in November.

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posted June 03, 2020 02:03 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I wouldn't bet the farm on it if I were you.

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Business Insider, just another leftist mouthpiece which can't..or won't get the story right.

No tear gas was fired to clear Pennsylvania Ave of protesters/rioters.

No bullets, rubber or otherwise was fired at protesters/rioters to make way for the President's walk.

It takes a special type of crash dummy intellect to continue to believe the lying political propaganda put out by the leftist press and their useful idiots on Twitter and Facebook.

Rational people would say they must want to believe...or pretend they believe the lying propaganda because a simple internet search puts the lie to the leftist propaganda they consume every day.

More, More, give us more lying propaganda!

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posted June 03, 2020 12:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The crash test dummy is in the White House.

I don’t count on anything. I’m just saying, he’s ****** a lot of people off.

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posted June 03, 2020 01:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
http://truthout.org/articles/as-trump-threatens-to-send-military-into-cities-some-gis-refuse-to-comply/

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posted June 03, 2020 01:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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The crash test dummy is in the White House.

I don’t count on anything. I’m just saying, he’s ****** a lot of people off.


President Trump is the most successful President in every metric of Presidential governance going all the way back to Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s.

Trump has the 'magic wand' the bungling, incompetent boob, Obama couldn't find.

I seriously doubt President Trump gives a rat's a$$ about pi$$ing off the cadres of the perpetually aggrieved leftists.

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The only person President Trump has angered are the ones who don’t vote for him anyway. No loss there.

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Did Teasel day something about President Trump hiding in the White House? He walked across that street like he owned it. Are those crickets I hear?

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posted June 03, 2020 03:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for StubbornVirgo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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http://truthout.org/articles/as-trump-threatens-to-send-military-into-c ities-some-gis-refuse-to-comply/

And this is a bad thing? The rioting has to stop. I don’t agree with much of his presidency, but we cannot let our country be destroyed because of this.

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posted June 03, 2020 03:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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And this is a bad thing? The rioting has to stop. I don’t agree with much of his presidency, but we cannot let our country be destroyed because of this.

Most of the protesters are peaceful. We don't need trump to have absolute authority over every single State. He's already shown that he's willing to tear gas and shoot peaceful protesters (100% peaceful, on Monday evening), just to try to look like a big man for a photo opportunity. Yes, it would be a bad thing.

The man who couldn't organize for a pandemic, to help the people of his country, seems to be doing just fine when it comes to attacking them.

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"Ahead of Trump Bible photo op, police forcibly expel priest from St. John’s church near White House"
http://religionnews.com/2020/06/02/ahead-of-trump-bible-photo-op-police-forcibly-expel-priest-from-st-johns-church-near-white-house/

They quote the woman I linked to above.

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The protestors in my city were not peaceful last night. Over a dozen were arrested for disobeying the curfew and throwing objects at police. The police were aided by the NG. As someone who personally knows several MPs, I can assure that there is no one more professional than an MP. They know the law and have an utmost respect for it. I would rather see an increased police/military presence in my town and know that I’m safe, that my family is safe, from the violence and riots of these so called peaceful protestors. If you’re a law abiding citizen, you have no reason to fear the NG. Plain and simple.

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Yeah and I also heard that they asked the crowds to move back several times and they refused. What else do you expect to happen when you disobey the law?? They had every right to push the angry mob back.

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The protestors in my city were not peaceful last night. Over a dozen were arrested for disobeying the curfew and throwing objects at police. The police were aided by the NG. As someone who personally knows several MPs, I can assure that there is no one more professional than an MP. They know the law and have an utmost respect for it. I would rather see an increased police/military presence in my town and know that I’m safe, that my family is safe, from the violence and riots of these so called peaceful protestors. If you’re a law abiding citizen, you have no reason to fear the NG. Plain and simple.

The law-abiding cizitens who were exercising their first amendment right that republicans were going on about a few weeks ago - they ended up fearing the National Guard, because they were tear-gassed and hit with rubber bullets for a photo opportunity for this man who has done nothing to try to calm anything. He threatened to have people *shot*.

Why didn't he threaten his supporters who were after Whitmer, and Amy Acton? Why did he call them "good people" and advise her to talk to them, and give them what they wanted? They had a group in which they talked about everything they wanted to do, and some said that things would remain peaceful "for now". He did *nothing* to them. He called them good people. Because they will vote for him. That's the big difference.

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Yeah and I also heard that they asked the crowds to move back several times and they refused. What else do you expect to happen when you disobey the law?? They had every right to push the angry mob back.

Like the people in the church, who were quoted in an article above? How about the people who were treating protesters, who were also attacked? What about those hiding in someone's house, where they tried to shoot tear gas inside, and tried to get them out of the house? Does any of that sound in line with their duty?

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Posted by a friend, who is in the comments there: http://www.facebook.com/chris.stone.videowarrior/videos/10157610266419538/

Another person saying, "A lack of riot gear is a good thing."

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"because they were tear-gassed and hit with rubber bullets for a photo opportunity for this man who has done nothing to try to calm anything. He threatened to have people *shot*."

More absolute lies from the 'usual suspect' when lies are spread on this forum.

No one was tear gassed to clear a path to the church.

No one was shot with bullets of any kind to clear a path to the church.

President Trump didn't threaten to shoot anyone.

Stupid..or insane for spreading lies which have already been debunked?

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posted June 03, 2020 04:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
http://www.facebook.com/Redfishstream/posts/975546312889200

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Footage of brutal police violence against protesters in Los Angeles. ⁠

A peaceful protest organized by Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles and BUILD POWER was violently repressed by the police. ⁠

"Ya know it’s really hard to see which ones are the “good cops” because I can’t really see how friendly their faces are through the riot gear and baton swinging. I’m sure any one of them, had they been in a situation like with #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaylor or #TonyMcDade , would have stopped the other officers from murdering Black people. I know I’ve never seen a video of that EVER happening, but I’m sure one of these cops would have been the first “good cop” ever in that moment." (via Matt McGorry)

Who is going to tell me that this is media spin?

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