The internet tells me that as of 2019, there are 19,500 cities in America. Using any definition you want, how many of them are currently “burning every night”?
Too many. And no one wants to be next.
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Thanks. What I’m looking for is a number. Do you have one? Or No?
I have to say, this was bloody effective. This knocks the socks off of most of the stuff I saw from the DNC.
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In this environment, numbers don’t matter.
To damn many! None of them should be burning. There should not be riots, looting, murder and arson in any of them, but there are. Portland, Chicago, Kenosha,Seattle, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, etc. Too many to name? How many need to burn? 32 people dead because of the riots. How many more need to die?
This is the bottom line for me. There are cities in America constantly burning. People’s lives are being destroyed, businesses destroyed, even big businesses are leaving, jobs are leaving these cities are collapsing. How much is enough?
Don Lemon finally addressed the unrest, saying that democrats need to pay attention now. Why? Because they are affecting the polls and the focus groups.
Affecting the polls, that’s why democrats need to pay attention, because it makes them look bad in the polls.
In democrat led cities, it’s chaos and yet they call it peaceful. Democrats have constantly called these people peaceful. These are right-wing protesters they are on the left. So that makes it ok.
For Democrats:
- Silence is violence.
- Riots are peaceful protest.
- Peaceful protests for reopening though, is violent and dangerous.
- If you want to open you are a racist and a murderer.
- If you don’t bend you knee and raise your fist in support of BLM you will be assaulted and those assaults are just and right. How fucking dare you eat lunch! Raise your fist, bend your knee or you’re a racist.
Enough! Every Democrat run city and state is a shit hole, hellscape. There is violence and death. Open your gym, you go to jail, but if you want to riot, well that’s okay.
You can see the stark contrast between democrat and republican run cities. Where there is looting, arson and violence, you can bet your sweet ass, the democrats are in charge. We can see through the lies of the mainstream media. “Peaceful protest!”, “Peaceful Protest!” , “Peaceful Protest!”
Peaceful? Who supports the violence? Democrats. Who is killing our big cities? Democrats. Name a democrat run city that isn’t falling apart and I will show you a republican governor making sure it doesn’t.
We can see, with our own eyes, no spin, no media narrative necessary, what is happening and where.
It has simply become a choice:
- Vote Domocrat, get violence.
- Vote Republican, at least you have law and order. At least legal peaceful forum to address your grievances.
Democrats in these states and cities won’t let the fed help and it has been offered, that’s telling… That is very telling. The president can stop it, but he will be labeled a fascist. He can let the governor’s handle it, which he has and they say it happening on his watch… Do you want the 10th amendment respected, or the insurrection act enacted?
Biden is a stroke victim, a coward and a complete moron. Trump may be a bully, but he’s my bully and he isn’t a coward. I detest cowards.
That’s all I have to say, I am done on this thread for a while.
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Yes, they do. Because while no city “burning” is good, there has to be a fair assessment of whether this is a larger trend/problem. If it’s not, and it’s more isolated, then no, engaging in hyperbole about it being a national problem or “out of control” is dishonest and irresponsible.
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If you look REALLY closely you can see that Seattle is definitely still burning as of late last week. If you cant see it, you just have to believe it.
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Huh…“white supremacy”, anyone?
When the numbers don’t back up the mass slaughter of innocent, unarmed black men by police, yet they still cause riots, numbers don’t matter.
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I’m currently reporting in from a “Democrat run city” and literally none of those things are true.
This is why I - and no one - should take this hyperbole seriously. None of this is to say what is happening in Portland, etc. is ok - it’s that it’s not representative of some larger issue in cities across the nation. Trying to pretend it is is dishonest and preposterous.
This is the problem with radicals - on both the right and left - they see a problem and their first (and only) reaction is to metastasize it and claim “it’s everywhere, all the time, and the solution is to get rid of the whole thing!!!”
Thats what the radicals in the left are doing with police departments and what the right is doing with rioting.
Protesters don’t like water.
No idea what that means, but I’ll use an analogy: you learn five people have broken toes out of a group of 500 people. Do you have a broken toe “epidemic”? Hell no. Doesn’t mean the distress and pain of the individuals with broken toes should be minimized or discounted…but it does mean you don’t have a widespread broken toe problem.
Get it now?
Very droll.
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But many do. And the people who worry about this don’t necessarily want Trump for president they just want democrats to denounce the violence as it appears they support it. I mean, CNN still labels all protesters as BLM protesters.
Ok, but if so, they do so primarily because of nonsense propganada from the Right.
I’m good with that and Democrats should denounce it, it’s a political layup to do so - my issue is that it’s been driven by the mendacity of the Right, which should be challenged, not simply responded to.
Damn. What a speech. I’m still not voting for Trump, but that is a powerful story. An actual powerful story.
I hate elections because there’s so much blatant posturing, but guys like Maximo have been through more and I can tell he is 100% sincere.
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Nor am I as it happens 
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Other side of the pond and all that.
However, based on what I’m seeing, I might bet on Trump while he’s still out of the money.
‘There is nowhere else to go’ is a helluva sound bite, and Maximo is the type of chap that any nation should be happy to host as a refugee.
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Here, I’ll help.
Glad we agree. And this is relevant because it is what all of the riots/protests are predicated on.
Well, let’s not lose focus - looks like you conceded my point, which is “burning cities” aren’t the looming national problem the propagandists try to pretend they are…
As for your analogy - that’s not why cities are “burning”, it’s because you have a bunch of young idiot radicals who want to cause trouble.
EDIT: and as for your analogy, police disparity in treatment of minority groups (not limited to killing) is a legit problem. The problem with your analogy is white supremacy =/= racial bias in policing. The latter is a broader problem in meed of addressing.