So what’s next?

[GMDino]

(06-05-2020, 09:18 AM)hollodero Wrote: I think hardly anyone blames Trump for police violence against blacks or for the rioting. Both are not his fault. The problem with Trump though is that he does nothing to calm the situation, and this is a failing in leadership that is not "just like Obama" really.

Obama or any reasonable POTUS really would not have teargassed protesters to clear the path to a photo opportunity. He would not have mused about sending the military to the states against those states' will. He would not have used a Wallace saying of when the looting starts the shooting starts. And then some. Trump is responsible for the escalatory (or at least distinctly not deescalatory) words and actions he chooses to handle this situation. And these deserve some critizism, or at least those that critisize them do not deserve to be compared to looters.

Trump has told police to be "tougher" with criminals.

Here are some of the things Trump has said as president about policing. pic.twitter.com/17S8Xl2R8b

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 4, 2020

AND he has done absolutely zero to try and calm the current situation.  In face he has doubled down on being "tougher" with protesters.


He is absolutely to blame for at least some of this.  He is, after all, President of the US.  A job he actively went after because he wanted it.  And several people, bfine at the head around here, kept saying he'd "learn on the job".  Well DJT must have a learning disability OR he was never going to be capable to handle even showing empathy and talking to the nation.


And the CONTINUED pleas to stop "politicizing" falls on deaf ears when the rest is filled with trying ONLY to shift blame from Trump, his words and his policies and actions to literally ANYONE else.