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Politico wonders: Why won’t Biden “get woke” and embrace the entire Black Lives Matter agenda?
hotair.com ^ | 6/26/2020 | Ed Morrisey

Posted on 06/28/2020 8:46:29 AM PDT by rktman

Does the BLM agenda have majority support, or just the slogan? After all, their premise is that Biden’s risking everything by only embracing the movement and not the “boldest proposals” of BLM. That might include items like reparations, stripping Confederate names from military bases, and defunding the police.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: 2020election; clintonnonnews; clowncar; cnn; delaware; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; politico; pollutico; presstitutes; smearmachine; typicallibs
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Biden is still the same POS he's been all along. Promise big, deliver not. So, rip van biden, what have you done since 1973 to better the alleged plight of POC? Crickets......................
1 posted on 06/28/2020 8:46:29 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Because he’s better off in his Hobbit Hole. His trouble starts when he comes out and open his pie hole.


2 posted on 06/28/2020 8:49:46 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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Why won’t Biden “get woke” and embrace the entire Black Lives Matter agenda?

First of all, "Biden", or what's left of him, isn't making any decisions and therefore won't be "embracing" or "deciding" anything.

Whatever the entity behind Biden is hasn't decided if being EXPLICITLY "woke" as opposed to being "wink and nod woke" will help beat Trump or not.

When they make up their minds, and if Biden doesn't have a feeding tube by then, he will announce whatever they've decided.

3 posted on 06/28/2020 8:51:03 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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To: rktman

Biden might be just a mud puddle compared the following:

A Terrorist’s Ties to a Leading Black Lives Matter Group
by Scott Walter
JUNE 24, 2020

Some conservatives have begun speculating the unrest in American cities—even as late as Monday night in Washington, DC, as “protestors” unsuccessfully worked to tear down a statue of Andrew Jackson and set up an autonomous zone across the street from the White House—may in part be an attempt to affect the upcoming presidential election, with the chaos and violence intended to make it as difficult as possible for Donald Trump to win a second term.

Lending credence to this idea is the fact that at least one board member of Thousand Currents—the group fiscally sponsoring the most organized part of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, who have been involved in most of the activity surrounding the current unrest—tried the same thing almost 40 years ago during Ronald Reagan’s reelection campaign. And it landed her in federal prison for 16 years.

If there were any question whether Black Lives Matter has ideological ties to the Communist terrorists of the 1960s, the story of Susan Rosenberg [archived here] should put that issue to bed.

[Editor’s note: The webpage for Thousand Current’s board of directors was taken down within hours of this post’s publication. Fortunately, the board of directors webpage is archived here.]

Susan Rosenberg and Thousand Currents

Rosenberg, who started out as a member of the 1960s revolutionary group Weather Underground, graduated into even more violent, and arguably successful, forms of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s—including bombings at an FBI field office in Staten Island, the Navy Yard Officers’ Club in Washington, DC, and even the U.S. Capitol building, where she damaged a representation of the greatest of the Democrat defenders of slavery, John C. Calhoun. She currently serves as human and prisoner rights advocate and a vice chair of the board of directors of Thousand Currents.

As my colleague Robert Stilson explains here, BLM Global Network Foundation has been a fiscally sponsored project of Thousand Currents, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, since 2016. That means the BLM group, which runs the BlackLivesMatter.com website, does not have its own IRS tax-exempt status but is operating as a “project” of an organization that does. In the case of 501(c)(3) fiscally sponsored projects, this allows tax-deductible donations to be made to the project.

Marxist Connections:

When “Black Lives Matter” is used to refer to an organization, it typically means the BLM Global Network Foundation that traces its beginnings to “three radical Black organizers — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi.” Cullors recently went viral online when she admitted that she and others in the group were “trained Marxists.”

This leads to confusion when people express their support for “Black Lives,” because they may not realize this organization is ideologically tied—to the point of having Rosenberg on the board of the central group—with trained Marxists with a history of extremism and violence. In fact, Rosenberg was a member of the May 19th Communist Organization (M19). It was, according to this NY Post article from January 2020, “the nation’s only woman-run terror group,” as recounted by William Rosenau in his book Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol.

According to the Post, M19 spent two years engaged in bombings in New York and Washington, DC, that were meant “to cast a cloud over what President Ronald Reagan’s re-election campaign was promising: a sunny, prosperous ‘Morning in America.’ Reagan’s election in 1980 told the remnants of America’s radical left that the country had rejected their call to revolution.”

Middle-class and college-educated, M19’s members shared a disdain for their own whiteness. To prove they weren’t merely “mouthing revolution,” they allied with the Black Liberation Army to break cop-killer Joanne Chesimard (aka Assata Shakur) out of prison in 1979. Two years later they assisted in the notorious Brink’s robbery of 1981, which killed two Nyack police officers and a bank guard.

In an eerily familiar incident on November 7, 1983, they even managed to pose as tourists at the U.S. Capitol building, planting a duffel bag with a bomb under a bench outside the Senate chamber, and cratering a wall and shattering chandeliers that ultimately damaged a portrait of 19th-century Sen. John C. Calhoun.

Rosenberg and another M19 member, Tim Blunk, were arrested in November 1984 in Cherry Hill, NJ, in front of a storage unit containing 740 pounds of unstable dynamite stolen from a Texas construction firm four years earlier. Rosenberg was also wanted in connection with the 1981 Brink’s robbery. She was never charged in those crimes.

After 16 years in prison, she was released in 2001 when President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence, an act that outraged even the left-leaning New York Times.

Rosenberg’s Revolutionary Ideology

National Review columnist and former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy described her trial this way in a 2008 column:

Rosenberg turned her New Jersey terrorism trial into a circus, posturing as a political prisoner. At her sentencing, she urged her supporters to continue their war against the United States. (“When we were first captured we said, we’re caught, we’re not defeated, long live the armed struggle. We’d like to take this moment to rededicate ourselves to our revolutionary principles, to our commitment to continue to fight for the defeat of U.S. imperialism.”) She expressed remorse about only one thing: she hadn’t had the courage to shoot it out with the police who’d apprehended her.

Rosenberg has written a book about her exploits in which she justifies her actions this way:

I pursued a path that seemed to me a logical step beyond legal protest: the use of political violence. Did that make me a terrorist? In my mind, then and now, the answer is no. I say this because no act in which I was involved ever had violence against persons as its object or consequence.

The “Protestors”

Would the “protestors” destroying statues say the same about their behavior over the last several weeks? It’s a fair bet they would. In fact, Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the factually erroneous New York Times “1619 Project” proudly claims her project served as inspiration for the current iconoclastic destruction happening around the nation.

The long and the short of Rosenberg’s involvement with Thousand Currents is that numerous Black Lives Matter organizers have ties to extremist movements of the past, and are not some brand new movement simply fighting for marginalized people today. And that the goal of destruction and violence is more of a political tool than a reaction to injustice.

https://capitalresearch.org/article/a-terrorists-ties-to-a-leading-black-lives-matter-group/

https://capitalresearch.org/article/a-terrorists-ties-to-a-leading-black-lives-matter-group/


4 posted on 06/28/2020 8:55:17 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Can I trust that you and I will take the red pill and vote for Trump, this November!y)
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To: Jim Noble

Biden is already being run by committee. FNC actually ran the details of this last week. It not just hyperbole there is an actual committee that decides everything. There will be no actual debates.


5 posted on 06/28/2020 8:56:36 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: rktman

He doesn’t have to, hes got their vote regardless.


6 posted on 06/28/2020 8:58:04 AM PDT by Husker24
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To: Grampa Dave

The rabbit hole runs all the way to Moscow.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/the_russian_origins_of_black_neomarxism.html


7 posted on 06/28/2020 9:00:23 AM PDT by datura
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They should call it “BLMBOIAWCII: Black lives matter but only if a white cop is involved.

Utter hoax organization. 102 blacks shot 14 killed memorial day weekend in Shitcago and not a single solitary peep from them.


8 posted on 06/28/2020 9:03:28 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Jim Noble

Exactly. Good analysis.


9 posted on 06/28/2020 9:03:55 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Like I said, killing ourselves is okay but the popo better not do it.


10 posted on 06/28/2020 9:04:41 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Texas Eagle

He will. He will have to endorse BLM. Right now his support among blacks is an astonishingly low 74%.

Meanwhile Trump over four years across six polls has averaged between 15% and 25% approval among blacks. This is very significant.


11 posted on 06/28/2020 9:09:11 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS
Meanwhile Trump over four years across six polls has averaged between 15% and 25% approval among blacks. This is very significant.

Two questions for you:

1) Do you believe Trump will exceed 5% of the black vote in an actual election?

2) If he does, how many white votes (by percent) will be lost for every +1% of the black vote?

12 posted on 06/28/2020 9:11:56 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills update.


13 posted on 06/28/2020 9:15:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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BLM agenda isn’t about black lives it’s a front for a power grab look at their demands.
It’s why all the left is in full support of them.

Follow the money trail


14 posted on 06/28/2020 9:22:45 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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Bidens main talking points are only what he’s told to talk about. Everything word that comes out of his mouth that’s not scripted (learning about roaches, go you know the thing, corn pop, leg hair, voting for biden, biden for senate, my daughter..no my wife, etc, etc...)

Seems that this BLM thing is yet another backfire for the dems that will get PDJT more reelection votes and they’re pi$$ing their pants even more.


15 posted on 06/28/2020 9:26:27 AM PDT by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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16 posted on 06/28/2020 9:32:13 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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Why won’t Biden “get woke” and embrace the entire Black Lives Matter agenda?

He won't "get woke" because he and his handlers don't want to lose the votes of Democrats who don't "embrace the entire Black Lives Matter agenda", which is probably a significant number of votes.

I'm surprised the question even needed to be asked.

17 posted on 06/28/2020 9:52:04 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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18 posted on 06/28/2020 9:53:35 AM PDT by yoe (Want to HELP the Slave Trade and Drug Cartels in USA? Vote for a democrat........)
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To: rktman

The only reason he is running is to pardon every single person involved in any wrong-doing in the O administration. Heck, they’ll just print the forms ahead of time and he will sign them the minute he becomes POTUS.


19 posted on 06/28/2020 9:57:00 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: rktman
Joe Biden in his cellar


20 posted on 06/28/2020 10:01:18 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sen9t COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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