9/1/2020 The Pivot

When the riots started in the end of May, then through June, July, and most of August, and while the Antifa and BLM riots destroyed businesses and cities, toppled monuments, threatened, harassed and bullied city workers and urban dwellers in the streets, Democrats and the media were all on the same page: "What violence? These are peaceful protests.", "Mostly peaceful protests." "Peaceful." Tortured logic reigned supreme. Police who confronted the rioters were spit on, cursed at, pushed, shoved, and bombarded with everything from bricks and glass to urine and fecal matter. "Defund the police!" "Reallocate police funding to social programs!" Offers to send in federal officers to help restore order were mostly rejected out of hand by liberal city mayors fearful of alienating their constituencies. When federal law enforcement went in to protect federal courthouses and other federal buildings and facilities in Portland, OR, those operations were criticized and rejected as provocative, even as they were only embarked upon because of the violence and destruction that was occurring. Democratic politicians, among them notably Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Kamala (pronounced "comma la", lest you be criticized as a bigot because you didn't know how to pronounce it) Harris intimated it would and should continue.

As recently as this past Sunday, CNN was still arguing the violence and destruction weren't "riots".

In August all the Democrats' internal (and everyone else's) polling said: "The American people are more concerned with the violence, arson, and anarchists destroying our cities than anything else." It reached an apex when a 17 year old kid armed with an AR-15 went to Kenosha to help defend a used car lot was attacked and responded by shooting three men, killing two of them. A caravan of citizens in Portland, OR, brazenly drove into Portland to signify to the rioters who've bullied the city of Portland their rejection of Antifa and BLM occupying and destroying the city. A Trump supporter was murdered in cold blood for having the audacity to be a Trump supporter and to be there. But he's the fascist? My ass he is! Rest in Peace.

"All at once, PIVOT!" September 1st is here and Biden, Democrats, and the media all pivot in unison and in perfect three part harmony, and they sing:  "All of the violence is Donald Trump's fault, Trump's fault, Trump's fault! All of the violence is Donald Trump's fault, Trump's fault, Trump's fault! Until he goes away!" The Democratic Party's Presidential Nominee's statement on it yesterday reminded me of a mafia thug shaking down a pizza joint in Jersey: "You need protection. If you don't elect Joe Biden, this stuff's gonna get worse!" If we don't elect Biden, it surely will get worse! What is more disappointing than the predictable pivot in the face of a groundswell of public opinion vehemently objecting to the violence and destruction, is that many who get their news only from CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times, and or The Washington Post will not only buy into the blatantly dishonest narrative, no, worse than that. Nope. The dishonest or stupid lefties will join in the singing: "All of the violence is Donald Trump's fault, Trump's fault, Trump's fault! All of the violence is Donald Trump's fault, Trump's fault, Trump's fault! Until he goes away!"

One last tangentially related point: This past weekend, President Trump said he was going to Kenosha to see the situation firsthand. The Wisconsin Governor urged him not to. I'm glad he's going for two reasons: first, to show the victims of the destruction, looting, and violence that he is in support and solidarity with them and against the liberal authorities who rejected federal assistance to deal with it and second, in going there the President will force networks to show the devastation that's taken place in Kenosha, which the media has largely hidden from view as best they can to avoid being exposed for the dishonest "mostly peaceful" narrative they've pushed all summer.