• Pushes voting before debate concludes
• Builds in opportunities for fraud, intimidation and vote harvesting
• Too bad Paul Pate was not primaried

This captioned image, adapting a quote attributed to V.I. Lenin regarding capitalists, is further adapted from ThePeoplesCube.com graphic. It pretty much sums up the stupefying actions of Iowa Republican Secretary of State Paul Pate and to a considerable extent the Iowa House of Representatives and our Republican Governor  in promoting absentee voting and vote by mail.

The use of state funds to promote primary voting, which is and ought to be primarily  a function of  the political parties, is in our judgement an improper use of taxpayer dollars and, on at least superficial initial analysis, may be constitutionally suspect, more likely in particular if it evolves into what was proposed in Democrat controlled California, actually sending vote by mail ballots to every “registered” voter.

The thing is that while only request forms were sent by Pate TO EVERY REGISTERED VOTER WITH POSTAGE PAID RETURN ENVELOPES, for a PRIMARY, the justification for doing so is easily extended to universal vote by mail in the general, pandemic or not.   The Republican Senate to a limited extent voted to stop the practice for good reasons, but the Republican House has “compromised” to make the rope softer. It was a pathetic display in the House.

We will have more to say about this, and lost opportunities at the Republican State Virtual Convention today, in a coming post.

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Where are the objective historians, the church defenders the culture champions in residence?

We bet they would take a walk if ANTIFA/BLM decided to TEAR DOWN THAT SYMBOL OF REPRESSION

They have already sold ANTIFA the rope* to pull down the statue of St Ambrose

The one and only good thing about COVID  19 is that it has presented  an opportunity to defund the education establishment, particular a large part of the liberal arts delivery system – lecture halls

With the recent, even more intense anarchist (ANTIFA/BLM) rioting – more so than the spate a few years ago ,”back in ’17” we are “surprised” (not) that the rioters have neglected the St Ambrose statue prominent on the Locust Street main campus  in Davenport.

We are not all that surprised because 1) the killing, shootings and damage done here was the result of thugs taking the opportunity of political hyperventilating as cover for an unfocused wilding, and perhaps some good old looting, not legitimate racism angst  2) even the legitimate marchers were intellectually vacuous and inconsistent *** 3) what fun is defacing or tearing down a statue not known to be seriously honored by the owners

Our sentiment in that later regard might be understood from a few commentaries we posted in the past, including this one from ‘back in ’17”:

Bishop Zinkula, President Lescinski — Tear Down that Statue!!*

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• In for a dime in for a dollar

Los Angeles Reparations Mint announced

Recently Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti gave a figure that maybe ’bout $250 mil will do it to buy “an end to racism” in his town. And, as he notes, $150 million would be easy to get by just drastically cutting the police department budget for L.A.

However, Bob Johnson* , the founder of BET, the Black Entertainment Television network, has a bigger idea… as he outlined it to Bret Baier recently on Fox.

Bob’s idea, apparently to buy ‘peace’, if not to ‘end racism’ in America, is quite a bit bolder than the ‘well intentioned’ mayor of Los Angeles.

The self-made billionaire, Johnson, thinks, instead of Garcetti’s ‘miserly’ $250 million for America’s second largest city, pocket change per black Angelino, a figure more like $350,000, as an outright cash grant for every African-American in America would do the trick.

As he told Bret Baier, while the cost of that might run around $14 trillion for the whole country, it would sure pay for a lot of “reparations” that white folks owe to their black fellow countrypersons!

Presumably that $14 trillion would also buy that desperately sought after ‘peace’ we all want.
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*Miller, Matthew (May 6, 2009). “The Wealthiest Black Americans”. Forbes Magazine. Retrieved September 21, 2013. “… Robert Johnson became the first African American billionaire in 2000 after he sold the network to Viacom for $3 billion in stock and assumed swag. Since then, sagging Viacom and CBS stock, plus investments in real estate, hotels and banks … have dragged Johnson’s net worth to $550 million, we estimate.”
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“What you are talking about here, this proposal that you have put forward today, is reparations for (40 million) African-Americans, at the sum of about $14 trillion, with a T., dollars.”

Full transcript, via FOX News:

Figure that’s about $70 G’s per African -American  Angelino. That’s a tidy sum to give each black citizen, if that’s the mayor’s intent.

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• Smack-down comes to the DC Archbishop
• Archbishop Viganò response to counter Archbishop Gregory

Here at Veritaspac.com we have been very critical of the current Pope in particular for his pronouncements that condemn market freedoms (instead of encouraging them for the reduction in real poverty they produce), his extolling of features of one-world government, his hostility toward borders, his palpable disdain for our elected President Trump, his anti-science hysterical views about climate change, and more.

But we do not believe the Pope is the church.  If that is heretical so be it, but we do not claim infallibility on anything.  Lest we be misunderstood there are prelates within the Church and many priests we have known over the years, that we much admire for their pastoral effectiveness and their, in our opinion, more authentic Catholic Christian witness.

The link below explains the reaction from the usual suspects regarding President Trump’s and the First Lady’s visit to two churches near the White House that were damaged by ANTIFA rioting. The uncharitable, unpastoral, ignorant ingrate comments of Archbishop Wilton Gregory needed responding to by one of the cloth. Archbishop Viganò did the Church proud.

Statement by CV President on Trump Visit to JPII Shrine

Trinity Sunday letter by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America to President Trump

June 7, 2020     Holy Trinity Sunday

Mr. President,

In recent months we have been witnessing the formation of two opposing sides that I would call Biblical: the children of light and the children of darkness. The children of light constitute the most conspicuous part of humanity, while the children of darkness represent an absolute minority. And yet the former are the object of a sort of discrimination which places them in a situation of moral inferiority with respect to their adversaries, who often hold strategic positions in government, in politics, in the economy and in the media. In an apparently inexplicable way, the good are held hostage by the wicked and by those who help them either out of self-interest or fearfulness.

These two sides, which have a Biblical nature, follow the clear separation between the offspring of the Woman and the offspring of the Serpent. On the one hand there are those who, although they have a thousand defects and weaknesses, are motivated by the desire to do good, to be honest, to raise a family, to engage in work, to give prosperity to their homeland, to help the needy, and, in obedience to the Law of God, to merit the Kingdom of Heaven. On the other hand, there are those who serve themselves, who do not hold any moral principles, who want to demolish the family and the nation, exploit workers to make themselves unduly wealthy, foment internal divisions and wars, and accumulate power and money: for them the fallacious illusion of temporal well-being will one day – if they do not repent – yield to the terrible fate that awaits them, far from God, in eternal damnation.

In society, Mr. President, these two opposing realities co-exist as eternal enemies, just as God and Satan are eternal enemies. And it appears that the children of darkness – whom we may easily identify with the deep state which you wisely oppose and which is fiercely waging war against you in these days – have decided to show their cards, so to speak, by now revealing their plans. They seem to be so certain of already having everything under control that they have laid aside that circumspection that until now had at least partially concealed their true intentions. The investigations already under way will reveal the true responsibility of those who managed the Covid emergency not only in the area of health care but also in politics, the economy, and the media. We will probably find that in this colossal operation of social engineering there are people who have decided the fate of humanity, arrogating to themselves the right to act against the will of citizens and their representatives in the governments of nations.

We will also discover that the riots in these days were provoked by those who, seeing that the virus is inevitably fading and that the social alarm of the pandemic is waning, necessarily have had to provoke civil disturbances, because they would be followed by repression which, although legitimate, could be condemned as an unjustified aggression against the population. The same thing is also happening in Europe, in perfect synchrony. It is quite clear that the use of street protests is instrumental to the purposes of those who would like to see someone elected in the upcoming presidential elections who embodies the goals of the deep state and who expresses those goals faithfully and with conviction. It will not be surprising if, in a few months, we learn once again that hidden behind these acts of vandalism and violence there are those who hope to profit from the dissolution of the social order so as to build a world without freedom: Solve et Coagula, as the Masonic adage teaches.

Although it may seem disconcerting, the opposing alignments I have described are also found in religious circles. There are faithful Shepherds who care for the flock of Christ, but there are also mercenary infidels who seek to scatter the flock and hand the sheep over to be devoured by ravenous wolves. It is not surprising that these mercenaries are allies of the children of darkness and hate the children of light: just as there is a deep state, there is also a deep churchthat betrays its duties and forswears its proper commitments before God. Thus the Invisible Enemy, whom good rulers fight against in public affairs, is also fought against by good shepherds in the ecclesiastical sphere. It is a spiritual battle, which I spoke about in my recent Appeal which was published on May 8.

For the first time, the United States has in you a President who courageously defends the right to life, who is not ashamed to denounce the persecution of Christians throughout the world, who speaks of Jesus Christ and the right of citizens to freedom of worship. Your participation in the March for Life, and more recently your proclamation of the month of April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month, are actions that confirm which side you wish to fight on. And I dare to believe that both of us are on the same side in this battle, albeit with different weapons.

For this reason, I believe that the attack to which you were subjected after your visit to the National Shrine of Saint John Paul II is part of the orchestrated media narrative which seeks not to fight racism and bring social order, but to aggravate dispositions; not to bring justice, but to legitimize violence and crime; not to serve the truth, but to favor one political faction. And it is disconcerting that there are Bishops – such as those whom I recently denounced – who, by their words, prove that they are aligned on the opposing side. They are subservient to the deep state, to globalism, to aligned thought, to the New World Order which they invoke ever more frequently in the name of a universal brotherhood which has nothing Christian about it, but which evokes the Masonic ideals of those want to dominate the world by driving God out of the courts, out of schools, out of families, and perhaps even out of churches.

The American people are mature and have now understood how much the mainstream media does not want to spread the truth but seeks to silence and distort it, spreading the lie that is useful for the purposes of their masters. However, it is important that the good – who are the majority – wake up from their sluggishness and do not accept being deceived by a minority of dishonest people with unavowable purposes. It is necessary that the good, the children of light, come together and make their voices heard. What more effective way is there to do this, Mr. President, than by prayer, asking the Lord to protect you, the United States, and all of humanity from this enormous attack of the Enemy? Before the power of prayer, the deceptions of the children of darkness will collapse, their plots will be revealed, their betrayal will be shown, their frightening power will end in nothing, brought to light and exposed for what it is: an infernal deception.

Mr. President, my prayer is constantly turned to the beloved American nation, where I had the privilege and honor of being sent by Pope Benedict XVI as Apostolic Nuncio. In this dramatic and decisive hour for all of humanity, I am praying for you and also for all those who are at your side in the government of the United States. I trust that the American people are united with me and you in prayer to Almighty God.

United against the Invisible Enemy of all humanity, I bless you and the First Lady, the beloved American nation, and all men and women of good will.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò

Titular Archbishop of Ulpiana

Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America

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Obianuju Ekeocha @obianuju:
There is more Kente fabric in this picture than at a Ghanaian traditional wedding.

In a video of this ‘photo op’ (wasn’t Trump recently criticized for a “photo op”?), poor Nancy needed a lot of help to get up from this exhibition. Dumpy Jerry Nadler didn’t even kneel…surprise! And old Chuckie did his best three point stance, waiting for Nancy to snap her bra strap.

We note that Pudge Nadler seems to have put the weight back on having done so well to prep himself for the cameras during the impeachment circus.

And the poor lady behind Nancy , try as she might, as shown in various video clips, was unsuccessful in hiding her black underpants.

The delicious quotes we led with are from Obianuju Ekeocha, hers and commenters to her Twitter site.

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For those who might be critical of my distaste for “Mad Mutt” Mattis, I ‘ll take Sebastian Gorka’s views any time. D.    (pic and meme not in original)

Great America
General Mattis Has Betrayed the Marines and America  

Marine legend Maj. Gen. “Chesty” Puller

Yes, Mattis is wrong. But more than that, he is a moral coward.

I’m not a Marine, but I know the Marines. With 12-and-a-half years teaching the U.S. military under my belt, I can sincerely say, hand on heart, that the two-and-a-half years I spent at the “Crossroads of the Corps,” teaching at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, were the most meaningful and fulfilling of all. What I learned there leads me to the ineluctable conclusion: Jim Mattis is no Marine.

“Mad Dog” may have worn the uniform of a leatherneck for more years than most, but he has betrayed the values of the Corps by his recent statements about the sitting commander-in-chief. He is no longer one of “the Few, the Proud,” having accused President Trump of somehow violating “the Constitutional rights of . . . fellow citizens” by walking to St. John’s Episcopal Church the day after “peaceful” protestors tried to burn the church to the ground. It’s the same church that every incoming president of the United States has stopped to pray in and show his respects on the morning of his inauguration.

Do I have a right to criticize a man like Mattis? A man allegedly called “Mad Dog” and “Chaos” by his peers? No, I never served in the U.S. military. My only military experience is a few years in the British Army reserves. Once I came to America, however, I twice took the oath of service to my new nation. Once when I joined the Defense Department as a civilian, and then again in 2017 when I joined the White House as a strategist to President Trump.

And even if none of that were true, I would still feel a duty publicly to censure Mattis for a personal reason: because of what I learned from the Marines I have worked for and with over the years. Their love of America and their respect for the truth demand that we react to such reprehensible behavior from a retired general officer who knows better.

Mattis gave his holier-than-thou “statement” to the rabidly anti-Trump platform The Atlantic, which in and of itself is more than strange given that he was a sworn officer of the Trump Administration—a member of his cabinet—as President Trump’s secretary of defense. Did he not know who he was going to work for when he agreed to be his secretary of defense? And why did the condemnation of his former superior, the commander-in-chief appear now, exactly at a time which is so advantageous for the political forces that wish to see the president weakened just months before the election?

Here I could devote paragraphs to my experience of the general and flag officer corps during my time in the Department of Defense and White House. I might tell you how the Clinton, Obama, and even Bush Jr. years fostered an environment of political generals and admirals driven more by groupthink and Beltway conformity than a duty to professional standards of conduct and the truth. But Mattis’s sin is far more egregious than just being a politically motivated “yes man.” He has betrayed the ethos of the Corps.

“We must reject any thinking of our cities as a ‘battlespace’ that our uniformed military is called upon to ‘dominate,’” Mattis said. Why? Is it because he doesn’t like the president? It is because Mattis is on the side of the rioters?

Shouldn’t a general, retired or otherwise, know that a president’s primary responsibility is the security of the citizens of our nation? It is possible that Mattis is unaware of the dozens of times U.S. presidents—Democrat and Republican—have used the military domestically to keep us all safe, from quelling rioters to responding to disasters?

From Woodrow Wilson, who sent units to 20 cities to end anarchist violence, to Herbert Hoover, who used the military to disperse protestors on the Washington Mall? If he does know of this history, then why is this emergency with violence spreading across the country any different? Is it because of who the president happens to be? Have the streets not become a “battlespace” when at least 13 innocent Americans have been slaughtered in less than 13 days—five of them black, by the way—including a 77-year-old retired police captain?

Yes, Mattis is wrong. But more than that, he is a coward. No, not in any sense related to his military service. I have no evidence to the effect that in a firefight with real bullets he wouldn’t acquit himself like a man. No, I am not referring to physical courage, but moral courage.

Instead of staying in his professional lane, and for example, extolling the men and women of the National Guard who have been deployed across Democrat-run cities to protect Americans of all hues, or decrying rioters who taunt them and call them “fascist pigs,” Mattis chooses to attack the president, calling his actions an “abuse of executive authority,” and calling for Americans to “reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.” How interesting.

Mattis is not young. He has been a public figure for several years. In all those years, he chooses only now to be concerned with “abuses of executive authority” and officials who make a “mockery of our Constitution.” Well, sir, America would like to know where your “public statements” of concern for both were when the last occupant of the White House used his executive powers to have the IRS target Conservative organizations associated with the Tea Party? Where was your outrage, General, with those who mocked the Constitution by reneging on the president’s duty to protect Americans at home and abroad as Ambassador Chris Stevens was tortured and killed in Benghazi with three other Americans and then afterward would blame that Jihadist attack on “spontaneous rioters” reacting to a YouTube video?

Where were you, Mad Dog, when your previous employer, Barack Obama, used the full might of his “executive authority” to “make a mockery of our Constitution” by targeting a retired three-star general with all the tools available to the FBI and Department of Justice, an innocent man who had served his nation in uniform for almost as many decades as you? Why no lengthy diatribes to The Atlantic then? Did you only find your conscience after President Trump fired you?

How convenient. How unlike a Marine. How distinctly a rejection of Semper Fidelis.

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. . .  AND FORGET WHY THEY WERE ONCE ADMIRED

POWELL: TRUMP IS DANGEROUS TO OUR COUNTRY 

“On Biden Powell added, “I’m very close to Joe Biden in a social manner and political manner. I’ve worked with him for 35, 40 years, and he is now the candidate and I will be voting for him.”

Says More About Colin Powell Than About Donald Trump

This is what happens when a once true hero starts missing the ‘limelight’, and grossly misjudges what Americans admired him for.

Colin Powell was never an erudite political observer. Outside of his military experience and expertise, there is rather strong evidence that Powell is neither all that bright and perceptive, nor a very admirable character when he is no longer a ‘center of attention’.

dlh

At some point, oh 12 years ago or longer,  Powell became a Democrat for all practical purposes (if he wasn’t always for all practical purposes) so who gives a nickel if he is endorsing Joe Biden against Trump other than in the particular case he unavoidably “shares” the corruption, buffoonery and incompetence of Biden.  The media pretends this guy is still a Republican. He preferred the globalist corruption of Hillary to Trump’s blue collar appeal.  He shared her indifference to national security regarding e-mails

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• Goodell spikes the fans

dlh — Capitulation that makes Neville Chamberlain look like a “Profile in Courage”

“We the National Football League condemn racism and the systematic oppression of black people,” Goodell continued. “We the National Football League admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. We the National Football League believe Black Lives Matter.” Roger Goodell

So if all peaceful protests are acceptable, using NFL auspices, even if the display offends many, then what about joyful celebration, say for a play or touchdown???

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Poster originated as a parody of conservative views, but campuses today are a parody, and not unlike this.  Expand or zoom to make more readable

THE GOOD IDEAS JUST KEEP COMING!

BLACK “GRADUATES” FROM THIS ‘INSTITUTION’ WOULD BE GREAT “HIRES” IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR SOCIAL ACTIVISTS…PROBABLY NOT MUCH ELSE; U OF WASHINGTON ISN’T DOING ITS TRUE STUDENTS ANY FAVORS.
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Students call for laxed grading for black students. University goes along with it.

Students at the University of Washington are demanding that black students be given leniency on finals because they are too “busy fighting for [their] rights to sit down and study.” The university is advising professors to do just that.

An online petition calls for laxed grading and accommodations, specifically for Black students. So far, the petition has amassed more than 26,000 signatures.

“…be especially responsive to the needs that your students, especially those who are members of the Black community, may have for accommodations as we conclude the school year.” Tweet This

“…give Black students a break! We are already DISPROPORTIONATELY impacted by this pandemic in terms of health care access and financial hardship. Now add state-sanctioned violence, how do you expect us to enter finals in this headspace?!” reads the petition.

“You need to encourage and demand professors to accommodate their black students during this time. If UW truly understands our pain, UW will be a part of alleviating it,” the petition continues. “We can’t sit back and watch as injustices unfold before our eyes.

We don’t have the privilege that white and non-black students do to ignore what’s happening and stay at home to study for finals,” the petition added.

“We are busy fighting for our rights and for the rights of future black children and students to sit down and study. The least UW could do is demand professors to accommodate us during this time”

“I recognize that this institution and others across the country were not built to serve marginalized students, specifically Black students. Still to this day, institutions such as UW, do not serve Black students to the same capacity that white students benefit from,” student government president Kelty Pierce told The Daily.

A template to help professors announce these accommodations has been circulating on social media, reading “Dear Students, I am writing to you to offer accommodations for black students in this class during the end of this class and finals.”

“Many black students are not just using this time to cope emotionally, but to fight on the front lines of these protests and actively work and take action on what has been happening to the black community.” it continues.

Nicole McNichols, UW Psychology Professor provided Campus Reform with a copy of the email she sent to her own students.

“I sent this on Sunday before I knew about the petition,” McNichols said. “Obviously, I support the petition and absolutely believe the accommodations it requests should be honored by all faculty. Students need all of the support and compassion we can afford to give them right now.”

The email sent by McNichols to her students reads, “I wanted to reach out and acknowledge the incredible grief, fear, and loneliness that I know many of you are experiencing in light of recent (and not so recent) events. These are frightening times and I know that many of you are struggling emotionally as our country suffers not only from a pandemic but also from abhorrent racism, overwhelming violence, and palpable rage. These events are terrible and it is completely understandable to feel scared and alone right now.”

“Last, I think we all could use a break right now as these times certainly call for compassion. Given this, there will be a following change to the course policies. First, the remaining homework chapters are being put into review mode. Everyone will receive full points. Second, I have decided to drop everyone’s lowest exam score. This means that you may opt-out of taking Exam 3 if you just don’t feel up to it, (or if you [are] happy with your scores from exam 1 and 2), the email added.”

(read more at link)

One wonders, maybe if they made the course work more relevant to exigent needs . . . something like:

• Riot Logistics — Beginner Intermediate and Advanced
• Better Anarchy Through Chemistry — Design of Accelerants and Delivery Systems
• Sticks and Stones Will Break Bones But Marksmanship is Better
• Rule of Law is for Suckers
• Media 101 – Combining Thumb-sucking and Tantrums for Most Effect
• Reap What You Sow CANCELED

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Wow, helmets and rifles

Regarding General (retired)  “Mad Dog” Mattes comments criticizing President Trump for holding out the possibility of using troops if governors  and mayors won’t protect their citizens (see earlier post) and also regarding Trump’s own Defense Secretary Esper who seems to have sandbagged the president with insufficiently undeveloped comments about the same (see below).

Via WGN — Esper told reporters the Insurrection Act, which would allow Trump to use active-duty military for law enforcement in containing street protests, should be invoked in the United States “only in the most urgent and dire of situations.” He declared, “We are not in one of those situations now.”

For a week now leftists, looters, thugs and Black Lives Matter have destroyed and torched businesses and government buildings across the country.

Now this…

Secretary Esper ordered the National Guard troops sent to Washington DC to NOT carry any guns or ammunition.

Esper also ordered all active-duty troops out of Washington DC.

Esper reportedly made this order without consulting the White House.

Secretary Esper is now putting National Guardsmen in danger.

Related reading:
Esper now putting Guardsmen in dangerhttps://t.co/YsvX4HBEeO
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) June 6, 2020

thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/without-consulting-trump-white-house-defense-secretary-esper-orders-national-guard-not-carry-guns-ammunition-washington-dc/

It was a “racial time”

Esper is too young to remember Dwight Eisenhower federalizing  the Arkansas National Guard in order to take them out of the hands of the Arkansas governor in order to insure they were not used to thwart the rule of law in that state. He then sent in regular Army troops to protect the rule of law and citizens.

It was a transitional racial time in the fifties and the Democrat Arkansas governor was interested in protecting racist laws even with the military. He ran the state after all. Republican President Eisenhower would have none of the use of the color of law and order to deny civil rights to people of color. The violence and threat of violence against the exercise of civil rights of all citizens would be stopped if local leaders would not, or indeed were part of the problem.

Now we have ANTIFA militants and garden variety looters using charges of racism where color blind law is working* to deny the rule of law with their rioting, arson, murder and pillaging. Local Democrat leadership in the effected areas when not weak are complicit with the anarchists for their own political purposes, just as Arkansas Democrat Governor Orval Faubus was in protecting segregation for his own political purposes. If current political leadership won’t put a stop to the  anarchy President Trump will use his legitimate powers to do so.

Veterans what say you?

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