Biden returned to Pennsylvania on Monday to offer his most comprehensive response yet to Trump's claims that he's weak on rioters and looters https://t.co/o0tartwCmu— POLITICO (@politico) September 1, 2020
It should not have actually shocked anyone that former Vice-President Joe Biden strongly condemned violence and and vandalism in Pittsburgh yesterday, because he had strongly condemned them in Philadelphia back in June:
But there is no place for violence.It also isn't that shocking that the Trump Campaign (and the White House, since heaven knows there is no barrier between them anymore) misrepresented Biden's words--as departed White House Counsel KellyAnne Conway said quite out loud and in front of cameras, TrumpWorld thinks that violent images work for them.
No place for looting or destroying property or burning churches, or destroying businesses — many of them built by people of color who for the first time were beginning to realize their dreams and build wealth for their families.
Nor is it acceptable for our police — sworn to protect and serve all people — to escalate tensions or resort to excessive violence.
We need to distinguish between legitimate peaceful protest — and opportunistic violent destruction.
It is a bit shocking, however, how nakedly Trump can't even decry an actual case of murder, using a White House press briefing to promulgate a self-defense case for Kyle Rittenhouse.
What is beyond shocking, however, is that in what anyone would consider a friendly interview with Laura Ingraham, Trump compared police shootings to a bad day on the links, dabbled in batshit conspiracy theory (it must have killed him not to use the name "Soros"), and insinuated that America's suburbs were in danger from....Cory Booker. Basically, he made it pretty clear he was going to actually double-down on racially divisive and inflammatory rhetoric, and that he was A-OK with violence he considered to be "on his side".
The difference couldn't be more stark.
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Like VietNam, it's all on tee vee, all in the court of public opinion, and it doesn't matter how the bimbo bobble heading bottle-blondes of the mainstream multi-millionaire media spin it, it's there for all to see. I like the 'Nam analogy because though too few remember these day's it wasn't the "hippies", the rich white college kids protesting on tee vee that ended that war, it was poor and working class parents watching their kids get blown away far away for no good reason. In hindsight, damned hippies did more harm than good.
We dropped the ball.
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