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redstateblues

(10,565 posts)
Sun May 31, 2020, 04:46 PM May 2020

Are these riots and looting going to hand the election to Trump?

Will the Proud Boys/White Premacists be exposed for stoking the fires or have we already lost the high ground with Trump's raising the scepter of the boogieman Antifa

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Are these riots and looting going to hand the election to Trump? (Original Post) redstateblues May 2020 OP
NO. Stuart G May 2020 #1
NO DanieRains May 2020 #2
I hope someone is out there registering every young person to vote! OrlandoDem2 May 2020 #3
no uppityperson May 2020 #4
I doubt it. Every day Trump looks more and more incompetent. Karadeniz May 2020 #5
Thought that read 'incontinent'... sprinkleeninow May 2020 #6
That, too!!! Karadeniz May 2020 #15
Ha ha gopiscrap May 2020 #17
See, I'm still present! 😆 sprinkleeninow May 2020 #21
Hopefully the media will keep the truth in the forefront redstateblues May 2020 #7
Not likely but nevergiveup May 2020 #8
How so? redstateblues May 2020 #9
I'm sure that Trump and his backers will exploit the situation to try and make it happen. jalan48 May 2020 #10
Very possible. Missn-Hitch May 2020 #11
he won't win the election.. stillcool May 2020 #12
Getting more likely by the day 4139 May 2020 #13
I don't see how he can run on a "law and order" platform if he lets US cities burn. meadowlander May 2020 #14
The Nazi proud boys have already been exposed.. Some are in jail rockfordfile May 2020 #16
Hell no vercetti2021 May 2020 #18
Absolutely NOT budkin May 2020 #19
It wouldn't surprise me. nt Raine May 2020 #20

sprinkleeninow

(20,197 posts)
6. Thought that read 'incontinent'...
Sun May 31, 2020, 04:57 PM
May 2020

Last edited Sun May 31, 2020, 07:45 PM - Edit history (1)

Dumb auto select. 'Thought', not That that...

redstateblues

(10,565 posts)
7. Hopefully the media will keep the truth in the forefront
Sun May 31, 2020, 04:57 PM
May 2020

The cops have been targeting reporters. The pen is mightier than the sword.

Missn-Hitch

(1,383 posts)
11. Very possible.
Sun May 31, 2020, 05:13 PM
May 2020

I am pulling this out of my ass but I think the protesters are being infiltrated by the fascist scum. Attacking journalists is just getting rid of the video evidence.

There is no reason that the government has not recorded the actual firestarting and vandalism. If we can blow people up from the comfort of a chair and a computer, we can record and identify the real culprits. I bet a significant number are right wingers.

AND YES!! THE THREE REMAINING OFFICERS NEED TO BE ARRESTED. Spare me the lecture about that.

Cheers!

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
12. he won't win the election..
Sun May 31, 2020, 05:24 PM
May 2020

but the GOP with a little help from their friends will try very hard to put that perception in peoples minds. I've seen several posts asking the same question, and I can't help but think there's something afoot. Have they started already? They want to make it seem the election is close enough so they can steal it with relative ease. The perception that it could happen legitimately is dead wrong.

meadowlander

(4,386 posts)
14. I don't see how he can run on a "law and order" platform if he lets US cities burn.
Sun May 31, 2020, 05:32 PM
May 2020

If he wasn't the incumbent he could make political hay out of them but if he runs on a message of "elect me and I'll restore order" it begs the question "well WTF have you been doing for the past nine months then"?

vercetti2021

(10,155 posts)
18. Hell no
Sun May 31, 2020, 06:43 PM
May 2020

It's hurting him more or less because he is stoking the fire more and more with his proud boys and boogaloo morons. They are exposed.

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