[funfan]

Are there any businesses left intact to open?

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Because opening stores doesn’t fit the political agenda. Everything has to lead to economic destruction to cause the electorate to vote the way the subversives want them to vote. Is that the right answer, teacher?

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Because democrats want to destroy this country

[BenLurkin]

The Democrat Party is doing all it can to undermine America.

Seriously. The phony “impeachment”, the shamdemic lockdowns, and now their looters and arsonists. All directed towards a single goal.

They are deadly serious about taking the USA apart so they can cobble together a one-party political system with command and control economy.

The gloves are off and they are playing to win.

[Dilbert San Diego]

My ongoing question about all of this, is if public gatherings of more than a small number of people are banned, why are these protests, even peaceful protests of thousands of people allowed?

I have not heard anyone in the media address this specific point

[Democrats hate too much]

and churches

[Steely Tom]

Cuomo, DeBlasio, Murphy, and other blue state governors and mayors have obviously sided with the rioters.

Several reasons:

1. They think this will reverse gains PDJT has made with African-American voters.
2. They think it will further stretch out the CCP-virus recession.
3. They think they can shift blame for the damage onto PDJT
4. They think they can shift blame for George Floyd murder onto PDJT.
5. They don't have to take strong action against the rioters, which may lead to mistakes in judgment or tactics, which they are inept at anyway.
6. Perhaps most importantly, they see no downside for themselves in pursuing this strategy.

[dragnet2]

Because the law abiding are too stupid and went along with these liberal AHs.

[GSWarrior]

The supply chain is very tenuous right now. Can’t reopen if you don’t have any goods.

[Buttons12]

Business people tend to be law-abiding, and even if they were not inclined to obey authority, they have something to lose.

[Pollster1]

Small businesses can be opened by rioters and by looters, but not by their owners. After all, their owners "didn't build that".

[keats5]

I think you can open your business if you dress in black from head to foot, including your mask, of course.

[preacher]

L8r

[freedumb2003]

bc COVID avoids rioters, silly! /liberal “science”

[Fiji Hill]

"While we greatly, greatly respect the right of people to protest, there should not be protests taking place in the middle of a pandemic by gathering outside and putting people at risk."--Dermot Shea, New York Police Department Commissioner, May 4, 2020

"People who want to make their voices heard there are plenty of ways to do it without gathering in person. The question is always whoever has whatever cause they want to speak to are they interested in protecting other people's lives? If they are, use all the other tools you have to get your point across but avoid anything that might put other people in harm's way."--Bill Di Blasio, May 4,2020

[Lurker]

Shut up and kneel, prole.

L

[CPT Clay]

Good Question.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Either there will be a 10,000 fold increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the next two weeks, or the shutdown was entirely pointless. Want to guess which it will be?

[gogeo]

Several told me they’re afraid of retaliation by a government that has full control of their fate.

Smart. They should be with that thin skinned mafioso in the governor's mansion.

[mewzilla]

If protestees can march, why can’t we have our 4th of July celebrations?

Every locale in my Upstate NY neck of the woods has canceled their fireworks shows.

But all are allowing protests.