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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:

Curious to me, Pelosi and such upper crust liberals always have hired guns to protect themselves.

It isn't curious at all to me. Libs don't hate guns, per se, they hate CITIZENS outside their control owning guns. They don't hate police; they want their own police to protect them, but not us.

charlie rangle, years ago, was talking about gun control, and why citizens should not be able to possess guns. Somebody pointed out to him that they still have a Capitol Police force that is very heavily armed. From the Daily Caller, rangel stated:

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“Law-abiding citizens just shouldn’t have to carry a gun. You’re not gonna push me in that direction,” he said, standing just five feet from a Capitol Police officer, who stood at his post by the House Speaker’s Lobby.

TheDC noted to Rangel he and other members of Congress are protected by armed members of the U.S. Capitol Police.

“Well that’s a little different. I think we deserve–I think we need to be protected down here.” Rangel laughingly insisted.

https://dailycaller.com/2016/0...ce-protection-audio/

He basically said that he, as a congressman, DESERVED gun protection, but We, The People, do not. This is the very privileged entitled 'let them eat cake' attitude that I despise. He isn't against guns. He thinks he deserves people with guns to protect his entitled butt, but he thinks I should not have that same right. Just like the governor lately who said she had a right to protect her home and property from rioters, but doesn't extend that same privilege to us. . .

^^As discussed many, many times, this is the way it has been for a loooooong time.

If step 1. of 'gun control' was all security details of the privileged/elite turning in their firearms, standard capacity mags, etc., you'd never hear about it again.

$.02 worth.

Boss

OH NOES!!!

Poor Don Lemon is panicking over Joe Biden's polling because, GODDAMIT, this rioting and looting is HELPING TRUMP and we can't have that!

"It's Showing Up In The Polling": CNN's Lemon Says Biden Needs To Stop Ignoring Riots Because They're Helping Trump

Donny wants Biden to blame Trump for the riots, what do they want him to do? Send in troops? Those offers have been turned down over and over

I listen when I can to Erick Erickson, I don't always agree with him but he is a smart fella. He has been pointing out that crime is high on the list of concerns in polling, where it hasn't been in the top ten concerns for a long time. The dems are applauding the lawlessness, not going to go well for them at the voting booth



https://theresurgent.com/2020/...g-crime-and-the-rnc/

Pay attention to the latest Pew poll. It provides an interesting path forward for Donald Trump and the GOP.

The economy, healthcare, and the Supreme Court are three big drivers in the election, but they always are. Go beyond those and look at the next two of the top five. Suddenly, entering the top five for the first time this cycle, “violent crime” is on the rise. It is only a few points behind the coronavirus.

Notice how the Democrats’ shifted their talking in the past few weeks from denying there was any violence in the protests to condemning the violence. Now we know why. But the Democrats were not responsive to that issue at their convention. They neither denounced the violence nor addressed it at all

It provides an opening for the GOP.

Interestingly, gun control is another issue where the GOP has a potential in with voters. As more and more non-gun owners become gun owners, the GOP now has an advantage in the polling on the issue of gun control. As I have said before, what is another name for a gun owner? Republican.

The GOP also has an advantage on the economy, with more Americans preferring the GOP approach to the Democrat approach.

Now, let’s expand this a bit.

Donald Trump continues to be an anchor for the GOP with a lot of voters having a more positive view of the party than the President. CBS News finds that independent voters gave President Trump a five-point bounce out of the Democrat convention, but independent voters are Republicans too embarrassed to admit it. That suggests the President is consolidating the right ahead of the election, but still has work to do.

However, by making this week’s RNC all about the Trump family, that provides the GOP some ability to distance from the President. The RNC has highlighted that 50% of prime time speakers will be women. But also, 50% will have the last name Trump. This will not be a Republican National Convention so much as it will be a Trump National Convention and every speech will be about what Donald Trump has done and will do, not what the GOP has done or will do.

Ironically, this helps the GOP. As the President rises and falls, insulating the GOP from him helps in suburbia. In Georgia where I am, in Texas, and in several other key GOP states, the GOP brand has better favorability than the President’s own brand. Whether strategic or accident, having a convention that is all about Trump provides some brand separation that can help innoculate Republican candidates from any voter disdain for the President.

It will be interesting to see this convention unfold this week. The GOP is signaling it’ll have a live audience for speeches and a more traditional feel than the Democrats’ Zoom call. The President has taken an active roll in planning the convention. We’re about to see what Donald Trump does best — stage productions.

Oh it won't be long before Sleepy Joe tries to leverage the pain suffering of others and channel the chaos swirling around places like Kenosha to help his campaign, he just has to wait for his handlers to script how to do it for him.

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Originally posted by PASig:
OH NOES!!!

Poor Don Lemon is panicking over Joe Biden's polling because, GODDAMIT, this rioting and looting is HELPING TRUMP and we can't have that!

"It's Showing Up In The Polling": CNN's Lemon Says Biden Needs To Stop Ignoring Riots Because They're Helping Trump

It's not hard to find images of those four with their mouths open...

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:

If he was wearing a mask AND a helmet, how do you know it was Joe?

The training wheels were a giveaway.

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Originally posted by Muddflap:

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:

If he was wearing a mask AND a helmet, how do you know it was Joe?

The training wheels were a giveaway.

Oh, so he borrowed Barry's bike ...

A comparison of DNC and RNC fireworks

video at

https://twitter.com/BillyNRA/s.../1299196993894572033

from Billy McLaughlin

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reply tweet to Billy:

David Shafer -

"In fairness, Billy, the Democrats had depleted their fireworks stockpile setting fire to police stations."

Biden clearly reading from a prompter

https://twitter.com/JusticeTri.../1299059399219011585

video at link

^^^
That is encouraging that he can read instructions from those in charge.

^^^ Biden actually said Trump is rooting for violence.

Ignore any network news, including fox. The President doesn't even like what fox has become.

Watch One America News Network (OAN) for news. Owned by the Herring family with no affiliation to main stream liberal media.

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:
If he was wearing a mask AND a helmet, how do you know it was Joe?

If the bike was unstable and continually heading left, definitely Biden.

a reminder of how we got here

https://www.foxnews.com/opinio...gain-tom-del-beccaro



Let’s recall that heading into the Democrat primary season of 2019, former Vice President Biden was the presumed nominee

Joe Biden did poorly in the Democrat debates and on the campaign trail and soon Sen. Elizabeth Warren was leading in the polls

She fell and then Democrats looked to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

He faltered and then Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., looked like he would take the nomination in February of 2020.

The Democrats then did something unprecedented. They panicked and brokered the nomination in broad daylight , by convincing candidates to drop out of the race, to stop Bernie Sanders from becoming the nominee. Then they resuscitated Biden’s dying candidacy and made him the party nominee.

If we fast forward to today, the Democrats are panicking again, and their panic started right after the end of the Democrat Convention.

The day after, the leaders of the Democrats’ far left base declared the convention did not go far enough to the left. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said “that the target audience for the Democratic National Convention this week was `white moderates’ and that the Democratic Party could have done more to cater to the party’s base.” She also panned potential moderation in spending by Biden advisers.

Sanders agreed with her by stating “They should have had more progressives speaking.”

Then Hillary Clinton chimed in.

During the middle of the Republican Convention, Clinton admonished Biden to “not concede under any circumstances.”

Then it was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s turn to panic.

Pelosi, D-Calif., declared, “out of the blue,” that “I don’t think that there should be any debates,” in a clear attempt to protect Biden from losing to President Trump.

Their convention failed to deliver. Indeed, it looks like their convention scared away Independents. In a poll taken by CBS/YouGov, after the Democrat Convention, President Trump raced to a 10% lead among Independents.

no modern campaign has seen a candidate campaign less or be less accessible than Biden or his campaign.

The plain truth is: Biden has never been a good presidential candidate. He is even worse now. The Democrats revived him once, and their panic now indicates they are trying to find a way to do it again.

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no modern campaign has seen a candidate campaign less or be less accessible than Biden or his campaign.

Biden has nothing to mount a positive campaign about or mental agility to campaign with.

Ah, in the olden days (like the '70s or '80s), one of the foremost truisms in American electoral politics was that you cannot possibly win without a positive campaign - it was vitally necessary to actually offer something new and better rather than merely promise to do away with whatever your speechwriters were willing to define as a social evil. Even where the means were negative (cutting taxes, cutting spending) the promise was to deliver something good (more money in the monthly household budget).

I think the Donkeys don't have any positive ideas this season that don't get phrased as vaguely and generally as possible. "We need to seek social justice for the working class" doesn't tell the working class how, specifically, the Dems are going to make their lives better in concrete terms. Then again, all of their promises this election cycle are almost purely theoretical anyway and it's hard to translate pure theory into specifics that make sense in the context of everyday life.

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the Democratic Party could have done more to cater to the party’s base.” She also panned potential moderation in spending by Biden advisers.

Ah, winning the battle by defining the terms. Is AOC's faction in the Democratic Party actually the "base" of the party? Or are the lefties now demanding that, as a concession, they be defined as the "base" of the party by fiat? 'Cause, see, there's these whole crowds of other people in the Democratic Party, right? Like, you know, working class whites, African Americans who are relatively conservative in some aspects of social policy and seniors of all descriptions.

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. . .Pelosi, D-Calif., declared, “out of the blue,” that “I don’t think that there should be any debates,” in a clear attempt to protect Biden from losing to President Trump. . .

I read that Pelosi said no debates as such would give Trump "legitimacy", also no debates because "people wouldn't listen to Trump".

To me it's clear the Dems know a straight up debate would guarantee a loss for Biden. The Dem's only hope is some combination of vote fraud and brainwashing.

WILMINGTON, DE—Joe Biden conceded today that the Republican Convention was "alright," "pretty inspiring, to be honest," and "a real gas."

But Biden says the Democratic Convention is going to be "even better."

CREDIT to the Babylon Bee.