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Donald Trump faced a seemingly insurmountable problem. Again.
After having gone through a fake impeachment, the CCP virus pandemic — which was coupled with a never-before-attempted economic shutdown — the Trump administration was suddenly faced with an escalating series of simultaneous riots in cities across the nation.
Peaceful protests across the country following the death in police custody of a black man named George Floyd in Minneapolis quickly turned into a series of violent nationwide riots.
It turned out much of this rioting seen across America was orchestrated by anarchist groups that are loosely referred to by the name "Antifa."Trump and Attorney General William Barr on May 31 announced that the U.S. government would be designating Antifa as a terrorist group and that all federal law enforcement agencies were now coordinating their efforts through the 56 FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces to "identify criminal organizers and instigators."While the Democrats and the media anticipated getting the optics they so desperately craved — of Trump sending in soldiers with bayonets fixed, charging at the "peaceful protesters" — what they got instead was the sudden appearance of a bunch of federal tactical units from the FBI, the Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Prisons, and other agencies, in full gear, many with no rifles, and certainly no bayonets.
As the entire nation is about to belatedly discover,
federal agents don't need the permission of governors or mayors before they can enter a state or a city to enforce federal laws and arrest those who are breaking them.
And it happens to be a federal crime to conduct terror attacks against American communities.
It seems the play among some Democrat governors and mayors was to refuse to call in the National Guard while also making their police departments stand down and give the rioters "space to destroy," which would cause the situation to become so bad that Trump would be forced to act.
And the action they anticipated the president to take was to seize control from the governors and send in the active-duty military to restore order. That would have allowed them to play their "Trump the Dictator" narrative all the way to the election.But Trump didn't do what they expected.If I could clearly see what the progressive left was attempting to bait Trump into doing from here in South Texas, then of course the president could see this for himself.
So Trump didn't send the active-duty military in and
the left isn't going to get their desired optics of regular military units chasing down rioters in the streets.
Just as he did with his CCP virus response, Trump avoided the trap set for him while cutting the Gordian Knot that was presented to him.
Recall that Democrats and the media spent months trying to browbeat this chief executive into seizing control from the Democratic governors and handling the virus response on a federal level. When they weren't trying to bait him into doing that, they were trying to bait him into nationalizing various key industries.
Trump refused to do that either.
Instead of doing what they eagerly hoped he would do, Trump's enemies complained impotently as he forged an unprecedented alliance between federal agencies and private industry, the likes of which had not been seen since World War II.
While "experts" stroked their chins for TV cameras and opined it would take months, if not years, to solve the four biggest needs — ventilators, virus testing, production of personal protective equipment, and a vaccine — Trump and his handpicked team tackled these problems with innovative creativity. They cut massive amounts of red tape and got results in a matter of days and weeks — not the predicted months and years.
Because Trump had successfully navigated the huge black swan event of a CCP virus pandemic, and as the new jobs report for May demonstrated, he's also successfully navigated the economic shutdown, Democrats immediately moved to try to turn nationwide rioting to their political advantage.
But Trump is simply too smart for these people. He sent in the feds, who spent the past week quietly taking down Antifa behind the scenes. And now it's mostly over.
Once again, they lose, he wins.
Reader Comments
I'd love to believe Trump is doing anything but reality again comes up with a nothingburger. He lets Fauci and his hundreds of lying scumbag buddies at the CDC remain.
Remember....what you suspect of others is a reflection of what lives inside you! Maybe you are acting your life???
As it seems you pay attention to what is behind the curtain, could you tell us what it is please?
Google Blackrock. Also listen to James Corbett's video analyses of economics, and CV (The Corbett Report).
Although there isn't sufficient space on the WH grounds to accommodate all those who are deserving, I'd be perfectly happy to see the display area expanded into Lafayette Park and even the entire Capital Mall and beyond.
Masks to get in the door, then walk to a table where they may be removed. No social distancing. Tables sprayed with who knows what between customers. Then one person must give a name and phone number, in case something happens. Then watch as those lemmings sign their checks and in unison, reapply their masks…to walk out. An unthinking habit already. Used to say they were dumber than a box of rocks but rocks deserve way more respect.
Trump is still one of them, no matter what anyone thinks, believes or wants to believe. He wouldn’t be where he is without higher approval, period. There is and has not been a leader in this country who wasn’t one of them, since the beginning. Trump is so far outpolling Biden, it isn’t even a race. Yet the media is pushing his demise. There is nothing in any narrative that even comes close to being real.
When biking around my new town yesterday, saw this sign on a still closed business, hand lettered it said; “It won’t always be this way.” Yup. It will be worse. We who use our heads for something more than a mask or hat rack, are now the outcast class. Our numbers shrink more everyday as the lemmings think things are “back on track” with a few minor inconveniences.
Dark days….
I used to try to wake people up but for the exact reason of your story, I now think the world might improve if the obedient lemmings do as they are told and get injected with killer poisons.
Considering the lack of ANY meaningful accomplishments (when compared to the pre-election hype and promises*****), he has simply been an office-occupier who tweets a lot - something that any retarded twelve-year-old could have done just as well from his mom's basement.
*****Just a few of the more important ones:
Stop the invasion by illegals
Get rid of the illegals already here
Clean up the DC swamp
Extricate ourselves from meaningless foreign wars/occupations
Clean up the medical/pharma/insurance scams
Read this list of accomplishments. [Link]
IMO, most of that list falls squarely into the BS and propaganda category. Most items on it are either inaccurate (e.g., employment stats look great if the counting methods are flawed), increase already overblown gov't spending, increase already excessive gov't overreach/control, take credit for others' accomplishments (e.g., destruction if ISIS et al was primarily a Russian/Syrian accomplishment - we and our cronies actually funded, supplied, and protected them), actually harmful to world peace/security/etc. (e.g, accommodating/supporting Israel's belligerence and expansionism), intentionally misleading (e.g., stock market value does NOT equal the health of the overall economy), illustrate fairly inconsequential tinkering around the edges of real problems that he refused to fix (e.g., easier access to Canadian drugs), and/or etc., etc., etc., etc. If you were actually a critical thinker, you would see that for yourself.
You and other Trump "schwantz-gobblers" are almost as disgusting as those who hate him just because of "feels".