Donald Trump's End Game: American cities in flames

[crazytown]

Last edited Tue Aug 6, 2019, 03:07 AM - Edit history (1)

Donald Trump well remembers the race riots that followed the assassination of MLK. Some cities never recovered. By painting targets on African America leaders like Elijah Cummings, and this morning, Al Sharpton, it is ever clearer that he is looking for a match that will set our cities ablaze. He wants ride in on a white horse to restore (new) order.

EDIT: I posted this on July 29. I stand by it. Trump wants mass violence by Whites, Blacks, Latinos - anyone who will take his bait.

[wasupaloopa]

1. Who is going to start the blazes?

The “riots” were part of the struggle for civil rights.


What is the issue today?

I think your ideas have no basis in reality.

[crazytown]

2. The riots followed MLK's assassination.

Do I really have to spell it out?

[wasupaloopa]

8. Where you there? Yes spell it out because I think you don't know what you are talking about.

The "riots" happened before and after Dr King was assassinated.

[crazytown]

11. A prominent AA leader is assassinated by a MAGAt

following a Trump hate tirade. Trumps double down, repeats the leaders 'faults', calls out the inner cities.


Ferguson

A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination
https://www.amazon.com/Nation-Fire-America-Wake-Assassination/dp/0470177101

[wasupaloopa]

13. I asked you to tell me who is going to do the burning? I think what you want is to say AA's will

riot because of trump's tweets.

If so you should delete this thread.

[crazytown]

14. And I posted a photo of the Ferguson riot,

following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.

Perhaps you would prefer a video

Baltimore, 2015, following the death of Freddie Gray.

[wasupaloopa]

17. I prefer you say what you are infering.

The only people who are reacting violently to trump's tweets are white men with black guns.

[crazytown]

19. I will. Protests get out of hand.

Champs Elysees, 2019, Yellow Vest Protests

Things like setting cars and barricades alight can start wider fires. If you want me to say African American men are more violent than other people around the world in desperate, incendary situations, I will not.

[wasupaloopa]

21. So you are saying African American men will riot because of something trump has done or will do

correct?

[crazytown]

23. I am saying he wants them to riot.

[wasupaloopa]

24. OK

[crazytown]

25. "he is looking for the match that will set our cities ablaze"

This OP was about trump's motivations for his increasingly horrible stuff. It's hard to believe he wants cities to burn, but I don't think he would be 'all that unhappy' at the prospect. (I've added a question mark which might make it clearer I am not making predictions. Only a psychopath would want such a thing to happen. I was alive in 1968: MLK, the riots, RFK, Tet offensive, Nixon, worst year ever)

[SWBTATTReg]

28. And I was around too back then, and also, I was in STLMO when all of the recent unrest ...

occurred recently ...and it was a terrible thing for all involved. This will not happen again (we hope that it won't, a lot of us are working to ensure that it doesn't). Cooler heads ultimately prevailed over all and the situation calmed down significantly, and better yet, legislative changes occurred in the Ferguson that perhaps promise better representation to those communities and so forth.

If people think a scumbag can say something that incites people to do things such as rioting and such, they're wrong. Cooler heads will prevail.

Every city has its fair share of issues, every city. It's unfair to pick on the larger cities.

[customerserviceguy]

29. Look at the history

Riots in the cities started in 1965, and continued on until after the ones following MLK's death. While his murder was on the minds of the rioters in 1968, that wasn't the case from 1965-1967, when Dr. King was trying to stop the riots.

[GoCubsGo]

3. Nah His end game is to keep his filhy ass out of prison.

Everything he does is to keep his base motivated, and to further the cheating that got him into office in the first place. He knows he's screwed once he leaves office, so he's doing everything he can to make sure he doesn't ever leave. If it means starting a race war and burning down American cities in the process, he won't think twice about it. These attacks on minorities are just a distraction from things like impeachment, and the reports that the economy is a house of cards.

[crazytown]

4. Same thing.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Not really.

You state that his goal is to burn down American cities. I'm saying that is just a means to another end--as in his staying out of prison.

[crazytown]

7. Hollering "new order"

Obviously I am talking about a political strategy. The goal is to get re-elected.

[Cosmocat]

10. YYEEEPP

nm

[uponit7771]

5. K&R, Red Don is a restrained genocidal racist no doubt he'd light crap up before he leaves

[pecosbob]

9. No question that the GOP would attempt to take advantage of any unrest

to further restrict civil liberties, free speech and the right to lawfully assemble and protest. My personal thoughts are that 'they' have been hoping for this to happen for some time.

[crazytown]

12. The 'Law and Order' campaign that won Richard Nixon the White House

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/11/05/law-order-campaign-that-won-richard-nixon-white-house-years-ago/

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. Building justification for defunding programs that benefit cities?

When ReThugs want to defund something, they always start with a blitz of derogatory criticisms and lies about that program, just like they do with all Federal welfare programs.

Look for further budget cuts in housing and urban renewal, for example......

When tRump says things about Rep. Cummings suggesting he has not worked for his district, someone needs to look him square in the eye and ask "what have you done for that district?".

KY.......

[wasupaloopa]

16. Why don't we stop giving trump what he wants? If the media would not cover his tweets there would

be no effect. Trump is controlling the news cycle.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. Trump has trashed all norms regarding executive communications.

He does not give a shit what we think and official presidential paper statements and press conferences be damned.

I agree that we should somehow pressure the MSM to stop giving credence to any government posts on social media. Who would have dreamed 10-years ago that these cute little phone aps like Facebook and Twitter could wind up being a substantial part of our society's downfall?

[wasupaloopa]

18. The only people reacting violently to trump's tweets are white men with black guns.

[Initech]

22. He thinks he's only president of Fox News viewers and AM radio talk show hosts.

I'm glad that at least for a few years, we got to see what it was like when we gave those assholes the heave ho that they very much deserved.

Now they're running the White House and they're angrier than that ever.

[rzemanfl]

26. Fuck him and that horse. n/t

[crazytown]

27. A white supremacist favorite

[crazytown]

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