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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump 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?
Turbineguy
(38,210 posts)And he's well out of his league.
Bullshit and intimidation are his forte.
Loge23
(3,922 posts)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)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,590 posts)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
(4,484 posts)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.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)a person in the area. St Paul Cop. Picture on the Web.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,203 posts)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.
gibraltar72
(7,621 posts)malaise
(276,960 posts)Covid-19 is not being discussed but it won't help - those 103,000+ dead people aren't going away
malaise
(276,960 posts)I got a hunch something very fishy is going on?
Alacritous Crier
(4,060 posts)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)that their customary ratfucking isn't going to work this time. Let's make sure that this is the way it plays out...