Law and order: Trump makes a speech and walks to church
President Trump said Monday he would deploy the military against protesters if local officials cannot stop violence that has erupted in some areas. “I will fight to protect you — I am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters,” Mr. Trump said.
While only states can activate the National Guard, Mr. Trump said he would deploy “thousands and thousands” of heavily armed soldiers to Washington D.C. About 200 troops were moved out of Fort Bragg to deploy to the Washington area to be ready on short notice if needed, CBS News’ David Martin reported.
“If a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,” Mr. Trump said. “I am also taking swift and decisive action to protect our great capital, Washington, D.C. What happened in the city last night was a total disgrace. As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults and the wanton destruction of property.”
Seems to me that, in a sane world, no one but criminals would argue with that. But of course either I’m wrong, or the world isn’t sane, or there are an awful lot of criminals.
Here’s what two of our stalwart members of Congress had to say, fighting for us all:
“The fascist speech Donald Trump just delivered verged on a declaration of war against American citizens. I fear for our country tonight and will not stop defending America against Trump’s assault,” Democratic Senator Ron Wyden tweeted.
“These are not the words of a president. They are the words of a dictator,” Democratic Senator Kamala Harris wrote on Twitter.
Somehow I don’t think most people (of any race, creed, or color), looking at the looters and arsonists allowed to roam major blue cities at will, are inclined to see it that way. But again, maybe I’m wrong.
And modern-day Episcopalian leader Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of D.C. said she was “outraged” by Mr. Trump’s visit to St. John’s church near the White House after the speech.
Of course she was – and I’m sure her outrage was not the least bit political, only spiritual. How dare he come to a church in which a fire had been set, and say he would protect Americans from such mayhem!
What a sacrilege! Bishop Budde would like to have dictated to him the proper message to deliver:
“The president just used a Bible … and one of the churches of my diocese without permission as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything our churches stand for … I am outraged,” she told CNN afterward.
“The president did not pray when he came to St. John’s … nor did he acknowledge the agony of our country right now and in particular, the people of color in our nation who wonder if anyone in public power will ever acknowledge their sacred worth,” she added
Yeah, no one in public power has ever acknowledged the “sacred worth” of “people of color.” Right, got it.
And I didn’t realize a church was a private club, by invitation only, nor did I know that protection of the innocent victims of violence was “a message antithetical to the teaching of Jesus and everything Episcopal churches stand for.” I now consider myself educated.
And the MSM, of course, has found its angle: Trump tear-gasses unarmed protestors in order to have his photo op. It’s everywhere, the meme du jour. Apparently they were asked to leave by police, given every opportunity to do so, and the ones who didn’t leave were tear-gassed. The area had been the scene of violent protests for days, although nothing violent was happening at that very moment.
[ADDENDUM: Apparently it wasn’t even tear gas; it was smoke canisters. And it is also reported that the use of the canisters by police had nothing to do with Trump’s visit, it had to do with the fact that the crowd was getting “rowdy” and police were being pelted with water bottles. Smoke canisters were used elsewhere in DC, for similar reasons.
Who cares? Not the MSM.]
“Yeah, no one in public power has ever acknowledged the “sacred worth” of “people of color.” Right, got it.” – Neo
And Lincoln never existed.
Smoke canisters are similar, but not quite tear-gas. Fake News.
Who cares? Not the Dem Tump-haters.
When you call them “the Left”, you empower the Democrats.
Democrats, not the “Left”, are on the ballots.
Trump should be calling them the Floyd protests, and the Democrat Riots.
And he should send in the Army, to detain rioters / make arrests. (Can’t the Army make arrests when acting to keep the peace?)
Arrest and document who the rioters are.
There should be dozens, maybe hundreds, of drones with cameras taking pictures of the rioters.
The Army should mostly have paint-ball weapons, shooting paintballs. Hurt less than rubber bullets, but leave worse paint stains on the clothes, and identify those that flee more clearly.
“They can’t arrest us all” — the gov’t has the resources to arrest hundreds, and they should start with that.
The internal death of American civilization.
So sad.
The single most important fact concerning the political situation of our beleaguered republic is that leftists control all the commanding heights of the culture, from the MSM to Hollywood to Silicon Valley to professional sports to Wall Street and corporate America, not to mention K-12 and the universities and the publishing industry, but also including almost every major religious denomination. There is no center of power in our cultural life in which progressive ideology is not dominant.
Bishop Budd left Christ long ago. Hell, the head of the church in England doesn’t even believe in God.
And the MSM really does care — Trump trashed their meme about hiding in the White House.
So they fall back on the old tool, most clearly illustrated by the “Fine People” Hoax.
Twist the facts to match their Narrative. As Slow Joe said, “Fight the facts with truth”, i.e. THEIR truth.
The president can under the law seize command of any state’s National Guard. Your source is in error.
Tom – I like the paintball idea.
Anyone else notice that when the President DIDN”T immediately commandeer all the executive power that belongs to governors and mayors he was a coward hiding in the White House, but as soon as he activates established legal procedures for protecting citizens he is a tyrant.
If you can’t win with the DemLeft either way, then do what’s right.
They literally live in an alternate reality. I am witnessing conversations like this on FB, between people I know in real life.
There are people who are still absolutely welded to the idea that any action taken that is nominally undertaken for the stated purpose of something they agree with is justifiable.
Nobody is against lawful protest. It’s one of the planks of our country. Bashing up stores, stealing stuff and beating store owners who attempt to hamper them is not “protesting.” They have words for that, like, assault and battery, and burglary, and felony vandalism. If you tied these “oh, the poor protesters” people to a chair and said, “Would you be OK with someone ‘protesting’ by smashing out your front window and beating you unconscious if you tried to stop them, because their upset feelings give them moral justification to rampage through your neighborhood,” they would equivocate. “Well, my house isn’t an insured business,” or something inane based on the idea that because they think correctly, they are immune. I honestly do not know what it will take, short of an angry mob with bats and bricks in their living room, to even reconsider.
On the flip side, anything Trump says is something-ist. If he got in front of a camera and said that he believes in breathing air, or that he puts on pants one leg at a time, something completely different would be attributed as the entire leftosphere tells itself, “Racist Trump divides America.”
This post makes the same point I did (because it’s obvious), and includes a huge long list of links to riot stories, just in case anyone missed some of them.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2020/06/02/the-morning-briefing-trump-holds-bible-in-front-of-church-libs-everywhere-are-triggered-n479705
As for ‘Bishop’ Budde, she’s a contemporary clergyman. For the most part, seminaries and divinity schools attract silly people nowadays. In Bp. Budde’s denomination, you have to scrounge to find people ordained after 1960 who are worth talking to.
One Tweet I saw on the WH account, a reply to the Walk, buttressed my point about Trump’s no-win situation – it was by someone who would have screeched his head off if the President had immediately declared martial law to shut down the riots in the beginning.
https://twitter.com/lesleyabravanel/status/1267651450601160706
Kruiser, who I referenced above, embedded the Tweet below, and called it out as the lie it is, but a post at Red State today shows that Rhodes is, as always, twisting truth into his preferred narrative.
https://www.redstate.com/smoosieq/2020/06/02/in-st.-louis-chaos-takes-over-4-officers-shot
The irony of calling Trump a tyrant for threatening to send in the military to quell riots while New York is currently locked down to everything but rioters is lost on democrats!
https://babylonbee.com/news/episcopalians-confused-by-strange-book-trump-brought-to-church
Yeah, it’s not my father’s Episcopal Church any more, or his father’s. Good to know that Budde’s version of Jesus is opposed to law and order and in favor of riots. Preach it, sister. That’ll really fill the pews.
im sorry “Bishop Budde” but its my people who penned the book not yours and the President can use it
Bishop Budde is a small part of the reasons The Episcopal Church, once a blueblood church, is literally disappearing, with its sexual and social justice hangups.
The church has split, the old, still Episcopal, responsive to the Archbishop of Canterbury, remains the state religion of England. One of the British regent’s titles is “Defender of the Faith”.
The new church is the Anglican Church, which adheres to non-revisionist Christianity headed by an African bishop, a continent where Christianity is growing by evangelical bounds.
Division into two sects was a bit of a struggle since building and land titles were at issue. A congregation might wish to go Anglican, but the Episcopal Church owned building and land.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. The Left is committed, not just to watch it burn down with joy, but forever set fires to ensure its destruction. These sinners deserve their own destruction, which is death.
“Yes, Prime Minister” was an astute, hilarious political comedy show back in 80s England — back when the absurdities of liberalism could be laughed at and weren’t a noose around the collective neck.
Today those shows are still brilliant, but don’t feel so funny.
In case someone misses the connection, the Episcopal Church is what the Church of England in America became after the Revolutionary War.
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James Hacker:
Humphrey, what’s a Modernist in the Church of England?
Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Ah, well, the word “Modernist” is code for non-believer.
James Hacker:
You mean an atheist?
Sir Humphrey Appleby:
No, Prime Minister. An atheist clergyman couldn’t continue to draw his stipend. So, when they stop believing in God, they call themselves “Modernists”.
James Hacker:
How could the Church of England suggest an atheist as Bishop of Bury St Edmunds?
Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Well, very easily. The Church of England is primarily a social organization, not a religious one.
James Hacker:
Is it?
Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Oh yes. It’s part of the rich social fabric of this country. So bishops need to be the sorts of chaps who speak properly and know which knife and fork to use. The sort of people one can look up to.
“Yes, Prime Minister” (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUSTKisEgTo
A quick question: Are we still under a declared National State of Emergency? As far as I can tell, Trump has declared a State of Emergency for COVID-related concerns, under the Stafford Act, the Public Health Service Act, and the National Emergencies Act. Are those still in effect? Doesn’t he have special authorities under those? I wonder how they’re being used.
huxley left out my favorite line, “It usually comes down to a choice between a knave and a queen.”
I think that’s also the one where the PM says to a diplomat “You said it was impossible.” The reply: “It should have been, and if you’d left it to us, it would have been.”
I was baptized and confirmed Episcopalian, and defended them until the late 70s. Then I realized it was hopeless. The line from Richard Hooker to Lewis and Eliot is dead. Except maybe in Africa.
Eeyore: There were so many lines from “Yes, Minister” and “Yes, Prime Minister.”
And, mirabile dictu, the shows were run on the BBC!
Which even then was plenty liberal, but liberals of that era could laugh at themselves.
Not today.
The bottom line for the left is orangemanbad to the tune of Russia, Russia,Russia do da, do da. Beyond that they got squat. Unfortunately, 48% sing along in harmony out of key.
AesopFan on June 2, 2020 at 5:26 pm said:
One Tweet I saw on the WH account, a reply to the Walk, buttressed my point about Trump’s no-win situation – it was by someone who would have screeched his head off if the President had immediately declared martial law to shut down the riots in the beginning.
https://twitter.com/lesleyabravanel/status/1267651450601160706
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I bring this up because I found a reference later that claims the picture of the darkened White House is — I’m sure you are all surprised — a photoshop of a picture taken during Obama’s tenure.
I’ll take Arama’s word for it, since pretty much all of the “damaging” photos produced by the Democrats and leftists to tar Republicans and conservatives have been faked or mislabeled.
There is another photoshop going around as well, relating to the Bible being so outrageously politicized by Mr. Trump.
https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/06/03/debra-messing-spreads-fake-image-to-attack-trump-and-compare-him-to-hitler-the-backlash-is-swift/
Of course, no one under the age of 60 has any understanding of history.
Even if Hitler had been holding a Bible, it would have been for the purpose of throwing it into a fire. He was notoriously and rabidly anti-Christian.
As for detachment from reality, well, compare the media treatment of a Democrat in church —
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/02/biden-takes-a-knee-media-ignore-photo-op-narrative/
The rest of sundance’s post is a very informative essay on the generational split of black Democrats into two major organizations that service different populations, but come together if there is any genuine threat to their ultimate goal: power over everyone in the country.
JFTR, IMO, Trump really was blowing a dog whistle this time — to Christians.
Although some have questioned his own religious piety and commitment, I don’t have any doubt that he knows where his base lives.
The continued hypocrisy of the Democrats over essential businesses and lockdowns is not inducing many Christians to jump ship, and Trump is reaffirming his position as their protector.
From John Roberts, if necessary.