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Democrats, why do you want to reelect Trump?

Sandy Shanks

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Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot!

In cities across America they are urging in both signage and speech that police departments be defunded, although the lead Democrat, Joe Biden, is opposed to such a horrific idea.

It is all well and good for protesting Democrats to make signs and speeches proclaiming that all police departments are racist and should be disbanded. They are not in positions of power, and they don't have to come with alternatives to law enforcement to protect the citizenry.

And they don't because there isn't any alternative. After all, they are just protesters. They don't have to come up real solutions.

That task falls to politicians who are power.

Such as for example, the Minneapolis city council.

Nine members (veto proof) of the Minneapolis City Council on Sunday announced they intend to defund and dismantle the city's police department following the police killing of George Floyd.

"We committed to dismantling policing as we know it in the city of Minneapolis and to rebuild with our community a new model of public safety that actually keeps our community safe," Council President Lisa Bender told CNN. Minneapolis police: City Council members announce intent to defund the police department - CNN

The mayor has full control over the Mpls. P.D., not the city council, and the mayor has a powerful role in the budget in Mpls.

Lisa and the city council veep appeared on CNN and made complete fools of themselves when Wolf Blitzer insisted on answers to his questions. He asked, absent law enforcement, who will protect the citizens of Minneapolis? What is your alternative to the police department? Eventually the two settled on an answer because Blitzer was being very persistent. Their answer: Minneapolis still had a police department.

While Trump continues to make a fool of himself (suggesting injecting disinfectant to kill the virus), and he refuses to answer questions from reporters since last Monday's comical photo op (see humorous 2 1/2 video: YouTube), the Democrats have given the White House, Fox News, and other Trump Republican outlets extremely critical talking points.

In fact, while ignoring what Trump is actually doing, saying, and tweeting, thanks to the Democrats and the obliging liberal media, that is all they are talking about.

While Trump's numbers are seeking a new bottom, Democrats, meaning protesters, Mpls city council members, and other politicians who have lost their minds and their common sense, have to ask themselves a question.

Why in the world are we snatching defeat from the jaws of victory ... again? 2016 redux.
 
Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot!

In cities across America they are urging in both signage and speech that police departments be defunded, although the lead Democrat, Joe Biden, is opposed to such a horrific idea.

It is all well and good for protesting Democrats to make signs and speeches proclaiming that all police departments are racist and should be disbanded. They are not in positions of power, and they don't have to come with alternatives to law enforcement to protect the citizenry.

And they don't because there isn't any alternative. After all, they are just protesters. They don't have to come up real solutions.

That task falls to politicians who are power.

Such as for example, the Minneapolis city council.

Nine members (veto proof) of the Minneapolis City Council on Sunday announced they intend to defund and dismantle the city's police department following the police killing of George Floyd.

"We committed to dismantling policing as we know it in the city of Minneapolis and to rebuild with our community a new model of public safety that actually keeps our community safe," Council President Lisa Bender told CNN. Minneapolis police: City Council members announce intent to defund the police department - CNN

The mayor has full control over the Mpls. P.D., not the city council, and the mayor has a powerful role in the budget in Mpls.

Lisa and the city council veep appeared on CNN and made complete fools of themselves when Wolf Blitzer insisted on answers to his questions. He asked, absent law enforcement, who will protect the citizens of Minneapolis? What is your alternative to the police department? Eventually the two settled on an answer because Blitzer was being very persistent. Their answer: Minneapolis still had a police department.

While Trump continues to make a fool of himself (suggesting injecting disinfectant to kill the virus), and he refuses to answer questions from reporters since last Monday's comical photo op (see humorous 2 1/2 video: YouTube), the Democrats have given the White House, Fox News, and other Trump Republican outlets extremely critical talking points.

In fact, while ignoring what Trump is actually doing, saying, and tweeting, thanks to the Democrats and the obliging liberal media, that is all they are talking about.

While Trump's numbers are seeking a new bottom, Democrats, meaning protesters, Mpls city council members, and other politicians who have lost their minds and their common sense, have to ask themselves a question.


Why in the world are we snatching defeat from the jaws of victory ... again? 2016 redux.

It's what dems do.
 
Trump and his supporters use the same dumb tactic over and over again. The tactic assumes Americans are stupid.

They invent an argument supposedly made by the opposition; then they criticize the opposition based on what they created. It works to some degree because his gullible cult will believe it.

The Times reports, "Attorney General William P. Barr said on Sunday that he did not believe racism was a systemic problem in policing, echoing other top administration officials’ defense of an important part of President Trump’s base as protests against police killings of unarmed black people continued across the nation.

“I don’t think that the law enforcement system is systemically racist,” Mr. Barr said in an interview with the CBS program “Face the Nation.''

"Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, made similar remarks on Sunday in an interview with “This Week” on ABC, saying that “systemic racism” was not an issue for law enforcement.

"Their defense mirrored comments made last week by the national security adviser, Robert C. O’Brien."

There is only one problem. No one in a position of authority is saying that.

It is being said by some peaceful protesters who often make provocative speeches and signs to draw attention to themselves and their causes.

Is the Trump government now being led around by the nose by a few peaceful protesters? It would seem so. They are the only ones saying police in general are racist, and three powerful members of the Trump government are reacting to the charge along with the press secretary and Trump himself.

Trump and his sycophants often create issues consisting only of thin air.
 
Weren’t Democrats supposed to be “shooting themselves in the foot” when they impeached Trump? And yet Biden is about 12 points over Trump and is leading in enough states to give him an electoral victory.

I’ve seen this movie play out for twenty years. Republicans do something awful, and the talking head say how Democrats pointing out that awful thing is them shooting themselves in the foot.

“Trump rapes a bus full of Girl Scouts and Democrats say that’s bad. Why do Democrats insist on shooting themselves in the foot?”
 
Weren’t Democrats supposed to be “shooting themselves in the foot” when they impeached Trump?

Nope. Trump Republicans in the Senate shot themselves in the foot when they ignored all the evidence and exonerated Trump. Trump has been out of control ever since. Now he is virtually ignoring the White House press corps, denying Americans the ability to ask their President questions about what he is doing and saying. Thanks to Trump Republicans in the Senate.

If the Democrats persist in this defunding police nonsense, they will cause the initiative to swing back to Trump at a crucial time.

As the pres and veep of the Mpls ciy council proved yesterday, defunding police departments is a really stupid idea.

Which explains why the lead Democrat and the Democrats' choice for President, Biden, does not endorse the self-defeating idea.
 
That's rather cryptic. Do you care to explain what you meant by that remark?

You've heard the saying Democrats can govern but republicans can campaign" haven't you?
 
Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot!

Why in the world are we snatching defeat from the jaws of victory ... again? 2016 redux.

What are voters watching right now.

Floyd was murdered and 4 cops were jailed and charged.

2 weeks later this is where we are

1. Civilians and cops are murdered and robbed in the street with no call from Democrats about their deaths

2. The Biden campaign officials providing money to bail out rioters in Minneapolis

3. de Blasio releasing ALL criminal rioters arrested during the attacks on its citizens so they can do it again.

4. Democrats pandering to BLM with African grab for photo ops

5. Democrats on their knees apologizing for their whiteness

6. Democrats washing the feet of BLM on camera

7. Democrat government voting to disbanding their own police department

8. Dozens of Democrat mayors and Governors refusing to put down the rioting

This is what voters are watching.
 
Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot!

In cities across America they are urging in both signage and speech that police departments be defunded, although the lead Democrat, Joe Biden, is opposed to such a horrific idea.

It is all well and good for protesting Democrats to make signs and speeches proclaiming that all police departments are racist and should be disbanded. They are not in positions of power, and they don't have to come with alternatives to law enforcement to protect the citizenry.

And they don't because there isn't any alternative. After all, they are just protesters. They don't have to come up real solutions.

That task falls to politicians who are power.

Such as for example, the Minneapolis city council.

Nine members (veto proof) of the Minneapolis City Council on Sunday announced they intend to defund and dismantle the city's police department following the police killing of George Floyd.

"We committed to dismantling policing as we know it in the city of Minneapolis and to rebuild with our community a new model of public safety that actually keeps our community safe," Council President Lisa Bender told CNN. Minneapolis police: City Council members announce intent to defund the police department - CNN

The mayor has full control over the Mpls. P.D., not the city council, and the mayor has a powerful role in the budget in Mpls.

Lisa and the city council veep appeared on CNN and made complete fools of themselves when Wolf Blitzer insisted on answers to his questions. He asked, absent law enforcement, who will protect the citizens of Minneapolis? What is your alternative to the police department? Eventually the two settled on an answer because Blitzer was being very persistent. Their answer: Minneapolis still had a police department.

While Trump continues to make a fool of himself (suggesting injecting disinfectant to kill the virus), and he refuses to answer questions from reporters since last Monday's comical photo op (see humorous 2 1/2 video: YouTube), the Democrats have given the White House, Fox News, and other Trump Republican outlets extremely critical talking points.

In fact, while ignoring what Trump is actually doing, saying, and tweeting, thanks to the Democrats and the obliging liberal media, that is all they are talking about.

While Trump's numbers are seeking a new bottom, Democrats, meaning protesters, Mpls city council members, and other politicians who have lost their minds and their common sense, have to ask themselves a question.

Why in the world are we snatching defeat from the jaws of victory ... again? 2016 redux.

First off, what is the political make-up of each Minneapolis City Council member? Are they Dems, Repubs, mix.

Secondly, emotions are winning the day, Democrat leaders are against defunding talk as you mentioned. The others calling for defunding, will fizzle out within a couple weeks.
 
First off, what is the political make-up of each Minneapolis City Council member? Are they Dems, Repubs, mix.

Secondly, emotions are winning the day, Democrat leaders are against defunding talk as you mentioned. The others calling for defunding, will fizzle out within a couple weeks.

As for the political makeup of the Mpls. city council, I have no idea. However, it is safe to assume that the nine members who voted for defunding the police are Democrats. I don't know of any Republicans who want to defund police departments.

Your second point is well taken. Democrats will soon realize all they are doing is helping Trump.

Which is exactly my point.
 
The GOP has horrendous P.R. problem with Trump.

In the two weeks since George Floyd's death, Trump's advisers have worked to prepare him to meet the moment. A major part of the problem is that Trump simply won't listen and his intelligence capability is an issue.

In the two weeks since national protests began, Trump has sought to stamp out unrest using overwhelming police and military force, shown little interest in addressing questions of systemic racism at the heart of the protests and renewed his criticism of NFL players kneeling during the national anthem as a form of peaceful protest. As his aides prepared to present him with potential police reforms, Trump seized on an incident of police force that had been widely condemned, accusing a 75-year-old Buffalo protester who was seriously injured after police pushed him to the ground of being part of an Antifa "set up."

"A speech, lacking genuine compassion, at any point would not help," one Trump adviser said. "He's just not genuinely compassionate."

Trump lacks compassion because he is a sociopath. He has proven that time and again, and he just did.

This source helped with this report: CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

I watched an hour or so of the Trump Network, er, Fox News, this morning. There was not one word about what Trump has actually been doing, saying, and tweeting, and certainly nothing about his ludicrous accusation about a 75-year old white male protester or the fact that he has not allowed questions from reporters in nine days, cutting himself off from the American people.

What did they talk about? Despite the fact that no responsible Democrat -- with the exception of the nutty Mpls. city council -- has endorsed defunding police departments, the Democratic urge to defund the police was the high point of the Fox discussions.

Talk about political suicide, that is what grassroots Democrats are doing to themselves.
 
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