64 Days (if we can hold this country together that long)
“These are not my words. I have lost my ability to speak, but not my agency or my thoughts. You and your team have doctored my words for your own political gain.”
—ALS victim Ady Barkan, responding to a video produced by Rep. Steve Scalise which altered his electronically assisted voice in an interview to make it appear that Joe Biden supported defunding the police. [This is a particularly reprehensible, despicable and unethical tactic – even for someone as reprehensible, despicable and unethical as Steve Scalise. To understand what “defunding the police” actually means, read Saturday’s post on LouisianaVoice.]
“We must not become a country at war with ourselves; a country that accepts the killing of fellow Americans who do not agree with you; a country that vows vengeance toward one another.”
—Joe Biden, on the escalating violence in Portland, Oregon and Kenosha, Wisconsin.
“The only people to blame for the violence and riots in our streets are liberal politicians and their incompetent policies that have failed to get control of these destructive situations. This President has condemned violence in all its forms.”
—White House spokesman Judd Deere. [No, Mr. Deere, he most certainly has not “condemned violence in all its forms.” In fact, quite the opposite is the case; he has encouraged it from suggesting that the 2nd Amendment take care of Hillary to encouraging his faithful to “beat the hell” out of a protester at one of his rallies to calling white supremacists “very fine people.”. Please don’t take us for fools, Mr. Deere. There is plenty of blame to go around – from robo cops to looters to white supremacists who infiltrate protest groups to vigilantes to the Tucker Carlsons of the world all the way up to the White House steps and its occupant who dog whistles his fringe element faithful to action.]
Louisiana Voice 
The first item would be beyond the pale if anything was in these times – sadly, nothing is.
So now tRump wants to see cities in flames so he can inflame his base and hope his law and order theme will resonate with the fence riders. That’s about it folks. That’s all he’s got to hang on to until November in his quest for ultimate power. Crown me he crows. I will take care of all your problems. I am the chosen one. Look at all the problems I have solved in three and half years. I have made a list. I will show it to you in two weeks. Trust me, it’s coming. And, of course, there will be no list because he has only created problems, continues to do so, and has solved zilch.
If Trump (or any president) has such legal powers to quash the rioting in the streets, then why has this current administration failed to properly use them to quash the rioting in the streets?
Take a few steps back and then look. Several tactics (Portland – unidentified military personnel—authorized by POTUS) attacks against civilians purportedly executed as riot control could be defined as the preface to national martial law, depending on the response on how these forays are tolerated by the public-at-large. Good practice for any riots that might occur when Trump loses the election, but refuses to leave office. A perfect excuse to declare martial law. This very thing has happened in countries on this continent already.