These swing state people who voted for Trump in the previous election?
I think this may be the single largest driver of voters to the republican party in November
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06-02-2020, 04:41 AM #1
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06-02-2020, 04:49 AM #2
It’s teaching the very important lesson that the internet isn’t real life. If you go on these social media platforms, you would get the impression that the vast majority of the country approve of the rioting and looting. But if you go outside and ask 20 people, 19 are going to tell you the same thing-what happened to George Floyd shouldn’t happen, but the rioting and looting is making things worse.
Between this and the coronavirus knee-jerk reaction of the left, it’s going to be a glorious November for republicans.
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06-02-2020, 04:57 AM #3
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06-02-2020, 07:01 AM #13
I can tell you how I view them - I view them as pretty disconnected from Biden or Trump or the next election. This sort of thing has been happening for decades. There was a laundry list of similar (or worse) incidences under Obama. Didn't have anything to do with Obama. It has MUCH more to do with local police departments and their policies than the White House. With Obama and with Trump. It also has to do with putting guns in the hands of $15/hour high school drop-outs and letting them arrest people.
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06-02-2020, 07:10 AM #14
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06-02-2020, 07:17 AM #15
As a moderate I find it kind of silly. Rioting and looting destroys any leverage the protestors have. The riots and stuff should've been used as a threat in order for them to get their point heard.
Instead they should have come to the table with the things that they want addressed. Which they still haven't clearly stated. But I feel as if their main point should be eliminating internal affairs for police and having a 3rd party that oversees police action when a police citizen encounter becomes violent.
But with that said. I can understand the black peoples frustration. However the BLM movement is clearly lacking leadership.
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06-02-2020, 07:38 AM #16
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06-02-2020, 07:41 AM #17
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06-02-2020, 07:41 AM #18
You are making this strange anti-Trump assumption that his first response will be to take one of the most extreme measures possible and not some kind of measured approach to first let them know he's serious and only use maximum force if necessary.
We simply don't know what he'll do, although assuming it's going to be disastrous and unmeasured is pretty wacky. Although, to your credit, I kind of get it. You're wrong, but you see Trump using exaggerated extreme rhetoric all the time and then just assume that's how he always acts, which historically throughout this presidency has not been the case.
I guess I'm more optimistic here because I've always looked at Trump's rhetoric as intentionally extreme or over-the-top and not to be taken 100% literally. He's a New York yank, he's a negotiator, he talks big on one end but has always shown the flexibility to back off and make a deal. He'll call KJU 'Little Rocket Man' one day and then flower him with praise the next.
When Trump sends in the NG, he'll let the commanders on the ground do their thing and probably direct them to use as little force as necessary, which I think is far more likely a prediction than he just snaps and starts firebombing entire city blocks with Apache helicopters.
Meanwhile, I hope and pray he goes after the real culprits, the Antifa wackjobs and their funders who are inciting all these mobs.All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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06-02-2020, 07:43 AM #19
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06-02-2020, 07:48 AM #24
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06-02-2020, 07:49 AM #25
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06-02-2020, 07:54 AM #26
I'm pretty moderate, voted twice for Obama and so did the entire fam. People know I criticize both parties on here and walk the fence on many issues. However after all this, GOP and Trump all day. It is not because of the protests as much as it is about how CNN and the media incited people against regular police officers. These idiots are playing with peoples lives just so that they can get their people into power. It is because Trump was right about China all along and the media did nothing but attack him opposed to the CCP. It is because Trump was right about gun ownership too, as we now seeing people resorting to protecting their own shops since government is unable to. So essentially, these past 4 months or so have not discredited him, they proved him correct.
With that said, I'm voting red and voting red in the battleground state of Florida.
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06-02-2020, 07:56 AM #27
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06-02-2020, 07:57 AM #28
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06-02-2020, 07:58 AM #29
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06-02-2020, 07:58 AM #30
It's not a statement of fact because it hasn't happened. You went straight to the nuclear option as Trump's first move. I'm simply taking your post at face value, which comes off as partisan and disingenuous as Trump doesn't go to the nuclear option despite his wild pressers and tweets. You seem like a rational dude in many of your posts so i'll assume maybe the post doesn't accurately express your feelings on the matter.
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