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It’s a Straight Line from Biden to BLM. Black Lives Matter is not a reaction to Donald Trump.
National Review ^ | September 5, 2020 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 09/05/2020 7:02:22 AM PDT by karpov

‘The devil made me do it!” That was how funnyman Flip Wilson explained away his rogue moves in 1970s comedy bits. In 2020, it is Joe Biden’s rationalization of the Black Lives Matter revolution, with Baal taking on a decidedly orange cast.

An unmistakable correlation between the radical Left’s extortionate violence and the sudden tightening of polls has stirred the Democrats’ senescent standard-bearer to bolt the basement. He’d hoped to wait another week or so before emerging to read short speeches about President Trump’s erratic handling of COVID-19 (the government’s missteps during the Obama-era swine flu pandemic having apparently slipped Biden’s mind). But he’s got a tiger by the tail in the radical Left, which is turning electoral battlegrounds into smoldering battlefields. So now he’s hustling into the hustings with a narrative about what’s motivating his fellow travelers — who have just added murder to the mayhem they’ve wrought on America’s streets for the past three months.

Here’s the punchline: Trump made them do it!

That was the upshot of the former vice president’s speech in Pittsburgh on Monday. “Are you safe in Trump’s America?” His argument lays at the incumbent president’s feet the upheaval instigated by Democratic supporters in Democrat-run cities. In a weekend warm-up as the flames continued to rise in Portland, Minneapolis, and Kenosha, Biden claimed it is Trump who is “fanning the flames of hate.” By Monday, Biden was roaring about how, on Trump’s watch, the murder rate is up 26 percent in the nation’s cities this year (a shift from Democratic messaging of five minutes ago, which said surging crime was nothing to be concerned about because crime is still historically low — thanks to policing policies Democrats oppose, because, you know, racism).

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1st; biden; blm; civilunrest; freespeech; riots; violence
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1 posted on 09/05/2020 7:02:22 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

BLM is the DNC’s Sturmabteilung.


2 posted on 09/05/2020 7:03:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: karpov

Yeah. Whatever, National Review.


3 posted on 09/05/2020 7:12:56 AM PDT by madison10
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To: karpov

If anything, a case can be made that President Trump’s election was a reaction to BLM; that “whitelash” that Van Jones was gibbering about. The other way around is ridiculous. Antifa and BLM were around before Trump was a candidate.


4 posted on 09/05/2020 7:15:58 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Biden has dementia.)
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To: karpov

gropey joe is indebted to blm, antifa, bearded savages and the chicoms. They are major donors and supporters, and will expect big favors in return.
Feel-em-up joe will not be looking out for us, but for the interests of the “death to America” groups.
Come on man!


5 posted on 09/05/2020 7:18:50 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: karpov

Donations via ActBlue.com are a straight line to the DNC, BLM, and NARAL.


6 posted on 09/05/2020 7:21:51 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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7 posted on 09/05/2020 7:29:18 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: karpov

Another stellar analysis by McCarthy. Of note, he didn’t bash Trump even once this time. I suspect Andy is finally clear on the whole program of the left, and has come to see that, whatever he finds abrasive or indelicate about Trump, Trump isn’t the problem. So, let’s be good to Andy.


8 posted on 09/05/2020 7:37:25 AM PDT by eens (beware the errors of Russia)
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To: Travis McGee

How far is it—from keying your car—to burning your house down?


9 posted on 09/05/2020 7:48:14 AM PDT by Does so (KYLE Rittenhouse neutralized three FELONS! ("Lefty" included).)
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10 posted on 09/05/2020 7:49:37 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Does so
About this far.


11 posted on 09/05/2020 7:52:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: karpov

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12 posted on 09/05/2020 7:53:30 AM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: madison10

National Review—warmed over gruel for people who want the real food....

They do not have our back.


13 posted on 09/05/2020 8:04:02 AM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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I detest national review. In the era of Trump they have become the Romney of conservative journalism (albeit the neo-con Chamber of Commerce wing).

However, this is a VERY good opinion piece. Probably the best one that I have ever seen from McCarthy and it is worth reading and genuflection.

He makes some very good points and draws some important lines for those who are having trouble connecting the dots on what we are witnessing, what its origins were (Obama), and why it is so dangerous.

Kudos to Mr. McCarthy for writing this. Like a brilliant doctor he has diagnosed the disease that has caused the symptoms most have focused on.


14 posted on 09/05/2020 8:18:09 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: karpov

....I THINK Texas ultimately will need to secede just to keep LIBERALS out. Personally, I would rather let the poorest Mexican immigrant in to Texas than one LIBERAL Google employee!

With secession, Texas controls it’s own borders and simply outlaws LIBERALS via background checks rather similar to the instant background checks performed against gun purchasers.


15 posted on 09/05/2020 8:22:59 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: karpov
No, this is what's going on:

The Great Reset:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9jRqgDOJ8&feature=youtu.be

16 posted on 09/05/2020 9:33:51 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, loving God, America, and the American People, is on the Side of GOD and the Angels!)
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FTA: For years, the Left has been trying to reinterpret incitement (and if you can reinterpret jihad and reproductive health, how hard can incitement be?). How? By erasing the intent part. On this construction, monstrous in a free society that depends on accurate information to govern itself, I incite you not just by exhorting you to carry out violence and crimes, but by saying things that offend you.

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Consider the following observation: There is a causative nexus between the commands to violence in Islamic scripture, the mediating influence of sharia-supremacist scholars, and the bombings of Western targets carried out by young Muslim men. When I made that observation in a courtroom in the mid Nineties, I was enforcing the law by marshaling evidence. If I made the same observation today, though, then according to Resolution 16/18, I would be violating the law by inciting hostility. The facts I’d be uttering would be as true as ever, but now, rather than informing you, I’d be framed as engaging in hate speech.

17 posted on 09/05/2020 9:46:42 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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Biden’s big campaign finance haul was almost all money laundered through BLM. Name them a terrorist group and confiscate the money.


18 posted on 09/05/2020 1:02:17 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: skimbell

I’ll take a Big Mac and fries please!


19 posted on 09/05/2020 6:05:18 PM PDT by nhbob1
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

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20 posted on 09/05/2020 7:59:59 PM PDT by bitt (Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it)
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