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kentuck

(111,098 posts)
Fri May 29, 2020, 11:54 AM May 2020

Trump is looking for political opportunity.

Some may think these riots in Minneapolis are exactly what he has been waiting on?

There is nothing he would like more than to call out the military to quell social unrest.

He likes the idea of being the "law and order" candidate in the next election.

I got a hunch something very fishy is going on?

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Trump is looking for political opportunity. (Original Post) kentuck May 2020 OP
It's a dangerous game. Turbineguy May 2020 #1
He's the drunk at the end of the bar Loge23 May 2020 #2
He's giddy that 40M unemployed and 100K deaths are not the leading headlines now, he will milk it Baclava May 2020 #3
Waiting for tRump to say "only I can fix this". KY_EnviroGuy May 2020 #4
Could that be why that white cop was smashing windows? raging moderate May 2020 #5
Yup,the dude was unmasked by Wellstone ruled May 2020 #11
His base loves this tough talk and bluster TheCowsCameHome May 2020 #6
Yes MSM don't forget 33% unemployment and 103,000 plus deaths. gibraltar72 May 2020 #7
The Con is laughing malaise May 2020 #9
You too? malaise May 2020 #8
Agent provocateurs... Alacritous Crier May 2020 #10
tRUMP, reTHUGS and cultists have ALWAYS been in the minority. They are still and now worried abqtommy May 2020 #12

Loge23

(3,922 posts)
2. He's the drunk at the end of the bar
Fri May 29, 2020, 11:57 AM
May 2020

Don't think that there's a grand plan here - he acts a whim, and there's no bottom to his evil.

 

Baclava

(12,047 posts)
3. He's giddy that 40M unemployed and 100K deaths are not the leading headlines now, he will milk it
Fri May 29, 2020, 11:59 AM
May 2020

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,491 posts)
4. Waiting for tRump to say "only I can fix this".
Fri May 29, 2020, 12:06 PM
May 2020

My bets are that just like in 2015/2016, Russian bots and trolls are pushing violent reaction and divisiveness on both sides on social media.


KY......... .........

raging moderate

(4,305 posts)
5. Could that be why that white cop was smashing windows?
Fri May 29, 2020, 12:11 PM
May 2020

There was a thread about this earlier this morning, with some film of a very well-equipped white man striding along smashing windows. There was also somebody saying they had identified an undercover cop as the perpetrator.

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)
6. His base loves this tough talk and bluster
Fri May 29, 2020, 12:17 PM
May 2020

They lap it up like kittens at a bowl of milk.

Anyone that thinks he'll lose support from this mess is whistling past the graveyard.

malaise

(269,020 posts)
9. The Con is laughing
Fri May 29, 2020, 12:19 PM
May 2020

Covid-19 is not being discussed but it won't help - those 103,000+ dead people aren't going away

Alacritous Crier

(3,816 posts)
10. Agent provocateurs...
Fri May 29, 2020, 12:30 PM
May 2020

working the area, (and being captured on video.... VERY SLOPPY,) police arresting media, Boogaloo bros. showing up???

Yes, I would say very, very fishy.

Add to that the refusal of the city govt. to arrest the murderers and this stinks to high heaven.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
12. tRUMP, reTHUGS and cultists have ALWAYS been in the minority. They are still and now worried
Fri May 29, 2020, 01:52 PM
May 2020

that their customary ratfucking isn't going to work this time. Let's make sure that this is the way it plays out...

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