As Biden hunkers down and mumbles "peaceful protestors" - the voters in swing states are changing sides to vote for Trump. Let's start with a look at Kenosha.... In pivotal battleground, Kenosha residents consider changing sides https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-...-consider-changing-sides-20200901-p55r4v.html Kenosha, Wisconsin: Chris Bernhardt is staring in disbelief at what used to be the Danish Brotherhood Lodge in Kenosha. For 110 years the lodge served as the fulcrum of the city’s Danish-American community, hosting regular bingo nights and breakfasts featuring traditional pancakes and sausages. "A lot of people had their weddings and bridal showers here," says Bernhardt, whose family has been involved with the lodge for several generations. "There was a century’s worth of memorabilia in the basement bar." Now the lodge is nothing more than a pile of charred bricks and sheets of metal. Rioters set fire to the building last week during protests that erupted after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, a black man, seven times leaving him paralysed. An elderly employee who tried to protect the mattress store next door was taken to hospital with a broken jaw after looters attacked him. A nearby used-car lot was set aflame: the resulting scene of burnt-out vehicles conjures up images of TS Eliot's The Wasteland. "It’s just horrible, there’s no reason for it," Bernhardt says of the destruction. "I know people are angry but this is no way to show your anger." This normally tranquil town of 100,000 people in Wisconsin has shot to national prominence as the latest flashpoint in America’s months-long reckoning over policing and race relations. US President Donald Trump has announced he will visit Kenosha on Wednesday (AEST), citing it as an example of the chaos he warns will flourish if Joe Biden is elected on November 3. With tens of millions of Americans out of work and 180,000 dead after contracting COVID-19, Trump has leapt upon law and order as a potential game-changer that could deliver him four more years in the White House. Unlike the violence playing out in other American cities, Kenosha sits inside a pivotal battleground state, giving the unrest here added political potency. Robert Nelson, a former president of the Danish Brotherhood Lodge, says the destruction over recent days has caused a lot of locals who planned to vote against Trump to think again. "The Democrats are losing ground," Nelson says. "A lot of Democrats aren't really denouncing this or trying to prevent violence from flaring up." A handgun sits in a holster attached to his belt, reflecting Wisconsin's status as a firearm-friendly "open carry" state. Dan Frankel, who spent most of his life working at a car manufacturing plant in Kenosha, says he voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Now, after seeing so many businesses in his hometown destroyed, he is considering voting for Trump in November. "His logic seems to make sense in situations like this," Frankel says, surveying the damage to properties in the city's downtown. "He says, 'Boom! You’ve got to take action right away before it gets out of control'." He holds the city’s Democratic mayor and the state’s Democratic governor primarily responsible for letting the violence get out of control rather than Trump. Ashley Knight, who is handing out a petition for Wisconsin's governor to be recalled, says: "I absolutely think it will move a lot of votes over to Trump." Almost all the businesses in downtown Kenosha are boarded up to prevent damage. In a bid to project a sense of optimism, locals have painted over the plywood with colourful artwork and hopeful slogans ("United we stand, together we grow"). But the sense of fear is unavoidable. The city goes under curfew each night at 7pm, with residents banned from leaving their homes until 7am. Camouflaged trucks carrying soldiers from the National Guard roll through city streets. In an effort to avoid being targeted by looters, building owners have put up signs saying "children live here", "animals live here" and "the elderly live here". Gun dealers in the area have struggled to keep up with demand as frightened locals rush to stock up on firearms and ammunition. "The demand in Kenosha since the riots has been unprecedented," says gun seller Joseph LaJoy. "I've been fielding between 100 and 150 calls a day." Laurel Paschke, who runs a lingerie store in downtown Kenosha, says: "It’s been very unsettling. This kind of thing doesn’t happen here. It’s heartbreaking." She believes the looting and property damage has undermined support for the Black Lives Matter movement. "Many people don't differentiate between the peaceful protesters and the opportunistic people who are taking advantage of the situation to create chaos," she says. Polls have already shown a softening in support for Black Lives Matter in recent months after a spike in popularity following the killing of George Floyd in late May. A Marquette Law School Poll in June found 61 per cent of Wisconsin residents approved of the Black Lives Matter protests, with just 36 per cent disapproving. Two months later, the same poll showed 48 per cent approving and 48 per cent disapproving, a change attributable to a big drop in support from white residents. A YouGov poll released in recent days found that more Americans blame protesters than the police for the violence in Kenosha. A majority of respondents said the protests had gone too far. But that same poll showed more respondents believe Biden would do a better job handling violent crime and the protests than Trump, complicating Trump's belief the issue will prove to be a political slam dunk for him. In a speech in Pennsylvania on Tuesday (AEST) Biden sought to get on the front foot, accusing Trump of "stoking violence in our cities". "Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is re-elected?" Biden asked. "He can’t stop the violence because for years he has fomented it." Biden denounced those who have engaged in violent protests, saying: "Rioting is not protesting, looting is not protesting, setting fires is not protesting. None of this is protesting: it’s lawlessness, plain and simple." It's a message Democrats hope will cut through with wavering voters like Frankel, who are drawn to the President's tough-on-crime rhetoric but question whether he is capable of restoring calm to America's cities. Asked if he is glad Trump is visiting Kenosha this week, Frankel says: "Hell no! I think it will fan the flames." Resident Bob Krummel, 95, agrees: "He's just going to bring more turmoil here". Krummel voted for Trump in 2016, drawn to his image as a businessman and political outsider. He now regards that decision as a "fatal mistake". Unlike Frankel, he's made up his mind and is going to vote for Biden. "We can't have four more years of this," he says.
There's no doubt this is backfiring on the Democrats - as anyone with any modicum of intelligence could have predicted. The question is whether they can stop on it in the next 60 days and tone it down enough. The American people have a notoriously short memory when it comes to issues like this, and another one could easily take its place. The half-life of these events is getting shorter and shorter.
Karma is paying Joe Biden a little visit of late. You will recall that Biden says he entered the race as a result of Charlotte. No one believes that but just play along a little. Biden began then to cast Trump as a white supremacist. He couched it by saying repeatedly that even if Trump himself is not a white supremacist, that it is a fact that the white supremacists are supporting Trump, not the democrats. The left-tards here are smiling because they love that argument. But now the Joe Biden is in the uncomfortable position of arguing that even though he allegedly does not support violence and looting (because it is no longer getting him votes) that it is clear that the looters and that mentality are supporting the democrats and Joe Biden. Have fun with that Joe. LOOTERS FOR BIDEN. Let's see if that turns out to be a winning campaign strategy.
Fear (and rigging) will cause Biden to lose the election. Good luck with your hopes of riots ending on a Trump win of 2021 and beyond America.
White independents are leaving the extreme liberal Democrats. Not everyone is stupid even in the extreme liberal Lalaland. At some point, they would figure out their lives and that of their families are more important. With President Donald Trump, there is law and order. With Democrat governors and mayors, BLM and Antifa thugs, have free rein to loot, destroy, burn businesses to the ground. A number of these extreme liberals learned the hard way that be careful what you ask for, you might just get it. When, they called for the police to be defunded and prosecuted for practically, every shooting out there, they opened the Pandora's box to total lawlessness. Would any police officer risk his live needlessly, to get shot or shoot anyone in self-defense and get charged for it? More police officers leaving in droves, retiring, filing disability, etc. Just recently, 4 more police officers have been shot and one has already died. Democrat politicians can police their own cities after all, all they need are social workers to handle the crime situation? Right, extreme liberals?
Oh, most of us believe that your ilk will double or triple down on destroying America if Trump is elected. I do think that that the era of just standing by and watching cities and neighborhoods burn without responding will end. The response will probably result in even more rioting and burning. That's how it goes with insurrections. Where are you, in Ontario or something? You have a snakey, weasel-ey demeanor that bespeaks a lack of sincerity on any issue. It falls below that of a liberal.
If Trump is re-elected, you can bet your bippy he isn't going to give a shit about politics when he considers using the full force of the US Government to end the riots.
I am hoping that Trump will give New Jersey back to the Brits just to help them with their trade problems from Bexit. Maybe he will have to throw in a few hundred kegs of rum to sweeten the deal a little to get them to take New Jersey but that's fine.
As I explained in a lengthy post yesterday - if Biden is elected I expect the riots will continue to go on for a couple of years until they reach the point where Biden must use federal force to crack down otherwise he would lose the 2014 election. If Trump is elected the riots will probably get more violent for a period of time but the voters would have given him a mandate to crack down with the full force of the federal government. The riots would end sooner if Trump is elected but probably involve greater violence. Voters ins swing states are moving to the position that the riots are the top issue and they want to see them ended sooner.