Sunday 21 June 2020

Observations Over Trump, Riots, Seattle, Biden, and Direction

1.  Politicians or regular people capable of delivering of 130-minutes-plus of speaking and have the crowd 'charmed'?  Right now alive today, I'd put the number at fewer than two.  Maybe since the 1950s, you might have forty total. 

It is amazing that Trump steps up and delivers to the crowd, and they were hyped up from beginning to end.  If you count those at home, or listening via radio....it probably gets up to thirty-million, and over the next week....another twenty-odd million will review it via YouTube.

2.  Joe Biden?  He can talk for maybe 75 minutes, but in that time period....there's at least a dozen gaffes.  I tried to find gaffes in Trump's speech....they simply weren't any. 

Joe is not the guy.  He needs to be heart-attacked 'out' and the VP brought quickly in.  If Trump delivers another five of these epic speeches....before the Democratic place-holder even starts up....there is no chance of them carrying the election.

3.  I sat this week and listened to a 15-minute talk by AOC.  Over and over in my mind, I had to keep reminding myself she graduated from high school, and actually spent four years in college. 

I'm to the point where I consider her speaking and knowledge level that....of a ninth-grade kid. 

4.  I watched a brief clip out of Seattle.  In the 'zone'....car pulls up, and this 'lady' walks up to the trunk, opens it, and hands a AR-15 to some young gal accompanying her.  Based on the way that she accepted the weapon and handled it....I'd say she's never held a gun in her life.  I should note, based on the video angle....I didn't think the gun had a magazine in it.    So the 'lady' pulls out the 2nd one and handle it herself, and seems to know something about rifles.  Then you could see at least two clips handled by the 'lady'. 

What bothers me here....you hand some AR-15 over to a 19-year old person....never having messed with one or fired it.  Then you try to spend half-an-hour going over the weapon, the safety, or clearing it. 

This is simply an unsafe behavior by the older 'lady' and inviting disaster in the end.

5.  Shootings in Minneapolis yesterday?  What the cops say is that one is dead, and eleven wounded. 

Cops are saying that two groups had some argument, and shots were fired between them.  Intent of the discussion? Unknown.  May have been a territory dispute with a gang, or some business group protecting their store. 

6.  At this point, any suggestion that Biden or his replacement....can bring peace....is more or less taken as a joke.  Just to frame this type of suggestion....you'd have to look like some 5-year old kid.

7.  Sixty shot in Chicago so far this weekend.....nine dead.

When BLM Doesn't Matter

From the Saturday morning situation, what can be said is that two black dudes in the Seattle 'Chop' area....were shot.  One is dead, the other guy appears to be doing Ok. 

Ambulance crews got the call....arrived at the barriers, and told the Chop security folks....they would not enter without police protection accompanying them.  This discussion went on, and the worried folks from Chop then realized their 'buddy' would die without help, so they loaded the guy in a vehicle (like you'd see in the civil war area of Syria), and toted the guy off to a hospital. 

Cops?  So far, no one cooperates, no reports, no suspects, and just big open question over how the two guys got shot.

So you sit and ponder over this.

Normally....black lives matter.  In this case, no one wants to talk about the situation. 

The odds that they shot each other?  That's a curious scenario.  Maybe there was an argument over a woman, or drugs, or sports.  Maybe both were lit-up on some drug and thought the other guy was a zombie. 

You can't even assume that they knew each other.

Shot by a white dude to enforce discipline?  Well, that's a wild scenario, but it's possible.  You'd think that BLM people within Chop would be asking serious questions and rioting over Chop....burning the place to the ground.  Yet you don't see that type of reaction.

Cops today?  Somewhere in the US.....some car is pulling up to some mother's house and will provide information on her son being dead.  She's going to ask questions and the response will be....'this is Seattle, and only Seattle police can answer these questions'. 

As each day passes, the internal management crew of Chop have to be standing there and wondering.....all that education they got, and they seem to be missing a lot on civilization, handling large groups of undisciplined people, and simple falling behind on building 'something' out of 'nothing'. 

But here's the real 'cherry' to wonder about.  This black dude in the hospital didn't die, and he remembers precisely what went down.  If some white idiot teenage kids shot him and his buddy.....then some revenge process will kick in and he's coming back with friends to settle this mess.  If I were the Seattle police, I'd move the boundary back another 300 feet and just wait for the real action to occur.