I thought that sending in the military against rioters would be popular, so I'm surprised that people seem to overwhelmingly hate his response on this.)
Local officials appear to have decided to not enforce their laws against rioting and related violence. Sending the violence will inevitably lead to deaths given how violent these rioters are. My guess is Democrats are hoping to force Trump to send in troops who end up killing Americans (who are presenting an immediate danger to other Americans via the use of frozen water bottles, guns, explosives, or otherwise) that will be described in the media as "peaceful protestors".
The protests and riots are clearly being organized and funded by outside group(s) (probably foreign), there is just no other way that there were "protests" in 13 US cities 4 days after an event that
all turned into riots on the first night. Trump had said that Democrat governors and mayors needed to take control over their cities and that other countries were laughing at us and within 2 days protests popped up in other Western countries.
The even bigger issue is that the Trump campaign has seemingly abandoned reality and prefers to live in a comfortable fantasy-land. Rather than acknowledge polls they don't like, they call them fake news.
One thing that has stuck out to me about the Trump Presidency is the number of institutions that have managed to thoroughly discredit themselves. For example, a NY Times article that W Bush will not vote for Trump was apparently
completly made up. This makes it difficult to trust some of these polls. Calling negative polls 'fake news' may also be a strategy to keep his base enthused.
There is also BLM propaganda that is telling people to basically disown any friends or family members who will not be "anti-racist" which is going to cause some people to be afraid to admit to being a Trump supporter.
Rather than deal with the fact that 13% unemployment is both terrible on its face and probably a big underestimate due to various counting issues, they tout the unexpectedly-low number as a rocket-ship recovery and act as though the Fed-inflated stock market means anything to the average person. The average person is likely to increasingly be suffering economically as time goes on, regardless of what the numbers say.
Normally, unemployment benefits will only pay for about enough to pay for basic necessities and maybe enough to pay for gas to go to job interviews. The enhanced unemployment benefits have
resulted in over 2/3 of people who lost their jobs making more on unemployment than they were making, softening the blow of losing their jobs. Last month, the economy added ~2.5 million jobs, when the expectation was nearly 8.5 million jobs lost, a swing of nearly 11 million jobs. Those that have a government-insured mortgage are able to receive 12 months of forbearance. I think most of the economic pain is going to be kicked past the election; I think this was probably by design.
It's likely that the Floyd issue will be forgotten by then.
I am uncomfortable with the Floyd situation. The video spread far more quickly than I would have expected, and there was another video, that of the woman with her dog in NY from the same day that also went viral. The four officers involved were fired before any of the protests started.
Biden is a truly terrible candidate, and maybe he'll totally fall apart with Trump's help. But in November Trump is definitely going to be in a much worse position than he was throughout most of his presidency
Whoever Biden chooses to be VP will effectively be the president on Feb 1 2021 if Biden is elected. They will probably have the title of President by the end of 2024. I would reserve judgment until Biden announces his VP pick, however since effectively winning the nomination, Biden has been pulled further to the left by Bernie Bros, so who knows what kind of presidency a Biden administration would be.
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