“You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel” – Jesus in Matthew 23:24
Donald Trump did himself few favors during his first Presidential debate with Joe Biden in Cleveland, Ohio on September 30, 2020. I disapprove of his demeanor by excessively butting-in and talking-over Biden during the latter’s allotted speaking time. It is on those grounds that his sympathizers will surely charge Trump with acting like a bully. Indeed, the attacks have already begun. By contrast, Biden is generally celebrated as “an all-around nice guy.”
Nevertheless, “bullying” can be
easily achieved second-hand or indirectly, either by command or tacit approval. At this debate, Biden distanced himself from
one issue in particular by denying he had authority to speak on the matter because
he was not at that time an elected governmental official. The circum-stance he was addressing was the
100 consecutive days of rioting which resulted in not only a billion-dollar
loss of residential and business property,[1]
but also brutal thuggery on numerous innocent bystanders (some to the point of
murder) and, with lethal “weapons,” taunting police officers (also issuing in
murder in some cases) whose hands were “tied behind their backs” because of direct
orders by the municipal officials. These
events happened on scores of Democrat-con-trolled urban areas across our land. Any suggestion that the cause of these episodes
was simple failure in communication is easily refutable due to the fact that
they continued not merely just a few days, but over a hundred consecutive nightmarish
evenings. The adulterous Democrat’s “bed-sharing”
with the news media (“all-except-Fox”), gives inescapable indicators that they share
in the culpability of the devastation—the former by their failure to protect, while
the latter by their virtual refusal to broadcast the gross misdeeds. As for Biden’s appeal to his non-elected
status, every other citizen with an ounce of common-sense has cried in anguish
over the extent of destruction of life and property.
[1] That is, a thousand million dollars. (https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html).
[2] That is, only on Fox News for the reason that
every other network habitually refused to broadcast the videos.
[3] By “them” I mean an organized party anarchistic
assembly as opposed to, in the words of Biden, “Antifa” being merely “an
idea; not an organization.” As
Donald Trump correctly stated, the rioters “have radios, bats, and bricks.
They are an organization” (Fox News, 10/01/20). Indeed, televised videos
record packages of goods being unloaded from U-Haul trucks by rioters. Further,
Biden’s own campaign committee members have financially funded the release of
violent rioters from jail.
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