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I want to make sure dear reader that you understand what I think about this.
It is insanity!
Candace Owens:
“…Everyone is pretending that this man lived a heroic lifestyle. We are embarrassing in that regard. Nobody wants to tell the truth in black America. Our biggest problem is us. . .
For whatever reason it has become fashionable over the last five or six years for us to turn criminals into heroes overnight. It is something I find despicable.
George Floyd was not an amazing person…
…Shelby Steele said that the black community is unique… our culture is unique from other communities because we are the only community that caters to the bottom denominator of our society….
You would be hard pressed to find a Jewish person who has spent five stints in prison, who commits a crime and dies while committing a crime and that the Jewish people demand justice for. You would be hard pressed to find this in white America… even in Latino America….
Not every black American is a criminal. Not every black American is committing crimes. But we are unique in that we are the only people that fight and scream and demand support for the people in our community that are up to no good…
…First and foremost George Floyd, at the time of his arrest, was high on fentanyl and methamphetamine…
Owens also mentioned a 2007 robbery that Floyd was involved in that involved a pregnant victim and Floyd holding a gun to her abdomen:
…And this was the biggest instant I had that made me realize this is a horrible human being, that I’m not going to pretend is a good person…”
Michael Barone:
“…I know how violent rioting, and that’s what we’ve been seeing, despite media attempts at hiding it, can destroy a city and ruin the lives of its residents. In the summer of 1967, I was an intern in the office of the mayor of Detroit when the city suffered a six-day riot in which 43 people died. I was at the mayor’s side in the so-called command center as radio calls came soon after nightfall. Police were abandoning 1 square mile after another.
The riot finally ended after some 12,000 federal and federalized national guard troops restored order. But most of Detroit has still never fully recovered. You can still see the abandoned commercial structures and the residential streets with burned-out houses and hauntingly empty lots.
Downtown and adjacent areas have enjoyed a revival, which I hope will continue. But the lesson is clear. Violent riots destroy people’s willingness to invest their lives and money in a city. Those most harmed are those who start off the most disadvantaged. Violence and crime are a confiscatory tax on what people would otherwise earn and accumulate over a lifetime.
The combined effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns and the last several days’ rioting threaten to destroy the efflorescence of gentrifying central cities, which has followed Rudy Giuliani’s demonstration in New York City, a quarter-century ago now, of how to reduce and nearly eliminate violent crime. The demonstration these last few days that it can be suddenly increased threatens to undo that progress for the next quarter-century.
The short-term political effects are harder to gauge. A Morning Consult poll showed a 58% to 30% majority, unusual in these polarized times, supporting “calling in the U.S. military to supplement city police forces.” Will President Trump and Republicans benefit from their calls for “law and order,” as President Richard Nixon and Republicans did in the years after the riots in Detroit and many other cities half a century ago? Maybe, and especially if folks like Healey and the Fairfax County message poster are seen as representing the Democratic Party…”
He has proven to be a disappointment. His judgement is faulty. He has overreacted to the President’s statements about using the military to help control looting and rioting. The President has not done it, he has threatened to do it.
The President does not try to unite? False. Looters, rioters, criminals, media have divided our country.
Trump has exposed the weakness and bias of the petty tyrants that inhabit the permanent bureaucracy and who seem to believe that they control the direction of government policy and not the elected leaders. The President has cleaned out many bad apples, but much work is left to do.
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POLL: 58 Percent of Americans Support Calling in Military to Assist Police.
Eric Felten:
“…COVID-19 has proved to be a crisis not only for public health but for public policy. As credentialed experts, media commentators, and elected officials have insisted that ordinary men and women heed “the science,” the statistical models cited by scientists to predict the spread of contagion and justify the lockdown of the national economy have proven to be far off-base…”
He was either complicit with the deep state plotters, willfully ignorant of their plotting, or a dunce who was bamboozled.
Protesters in Bethesda attend a woke sermon to cry about their white guilt. Note that not a single one of them is social distancing. Two weeks ago, the media would've called them terrorists. https://t.co/rOJCsmPs9v
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 2, 2020
Hopelessly lost, sick individuals
The entire narrative the media glommed onto in lockstep was that Trump was a monster who tear-gassed peaceful protesters to do something meaningless. None of that was true.
Roger Goodell Insists Martin Luther King Jr. Would Have Wanted 17-Game Football Season In Front Of Full Stadiums https://t.co/JdMZ1EAYME pic.twitter.com/79nSk9glyM
— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 2, 2020
