I’m backkkkkk! Took a few days off from ramblin’, but it’s too hot to work outside this afternoon, so I’ll take a nice, cool break and write a few thoughts. I’ll start off with what is happening in Portland, which seems to be the talk across the country. I think we are on day 62 of the protests in PDX and my feeling right now is “enough is enough.” What started out as peaceful demonstrations following the murder of George Floyd and the cause for “Black Lives Matter,” has morphed to rioting and destruction of property that is playing right into Trump’s hands. The videos that people across the country are seeing in the media are not the peaceful protestors, but the people that are in it “for the party,” as they tear down fences, set fires, throw molotov cocktails, shine laser lights in the eyes of the police, and so on. This is not going to end well, I’m afraid. It seems that two weeks ago things started simmering down and it looked like it might move to the next phase of leaders of local government and leaders of the movement sitting down to talk about reform across the table from each other. Trump and Barr, however, wanted to have a showcase for “law and order,” so in came the “Secret Police” and their paramilitary tactics, which caused the more extremist folks to ramp up their tactics, resulting in violent and destructive actions that Trump couldn’t be happier to tweet about. The people we see on television who come out after midnight and start the violent and destructive behavior probably don’t understand how their actions are helping Trump. They have created a campaign platform that he didn’t have before. As Senator Nadler said this morning to Barr, “The president has made clear that he wants conflict between protesters and police as a central theme of his campaign.” The longer this goes on in Portland, more and more people are going to get tired of the violence, disorder and chaos, and will begin to side with the guy who is going to bring law and order to the streets of cities across the nation. I believe the majority of people who have been downtown for 62 days are nonviolent and have carried their message in an appropriate manner, but now need to try to move their efforts to the conference room and sit across the table from government and police leaders to begin the next phase. Leave the few Antifa’s and “party participants” for the Fed’s to deal with. Let’s not give Trump any more campaign ammunition.
OMG, it looks like tRump has found himself a new coronavirus doctor in Dr. Stella Immanuel from Houston, Texas. She is a hydroxychloroquine advocate, says you don’t need to wear a mask to prevent the spread of the virus, claims that certain medical issues like endometriosis, cysts, infertility and impotence are the result of sex with “spirit husbands” and “spirit wives,” which Immanuel described as having sex in dreams with witches and demons, and is a minister with Fire Power Ministries. Donnie Jr. got booted from Twitter for 12 hours this morning after posting a video of her misinformation. Daddy Trump thinks this doctor’s statements were “spectacular.” Wow.
Stay cool, wear your mask, and wash your hands frequently. Have a great evening.
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