Subj : Re: Weakling
To   : Lee Lofaso
From : Dennis Katsonis
Date : Thu Sep 03 2020 01:02 pm

-=> Lee Lofaso wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-

 LL> Hello Dennis,

 >LL> Donald J. Trump. The man with no balls.
 >
 >LL>"He may believe mouthing the words law and order makes him strong,
 >LL>but his failure to call on his own supporters to stop acting as an
 >LL>armed militia in this country shows you how weak he is."
 >LL>~ Joe Biden, 8/31/2020
 >
 >Do you want Trump to use a stronger police force then?

 LL> I want Trump to do his fucking job!

 LL> "The job of a president is to tell it straight from the shoulder, tell
 LL> the truth, to be candid, to face facts, to lead, not to insight. That's
 LL> why I'm speaking to you today. The incumbant president is incapable of
 LL> telling us the truth, incapable of facing the facts and incapable of
 LL> healing. He doesn't want to shed light, he wants to generate heat and
 LL> he's stroking violence in our cities.

 LL> "This is a tragic fact of the matter, how he's dealing with this
 LL> perilous hour in our nation. And now we have to stand against violence
 LL> in every form it takes. Violence we've seen again and again and again,
 LL> of unwarranted police shooting, excessive force, seven bullets in the
 LL> back of Jacob Blake. Knee on the neck of George Floyd, killing of
 LL> Breonna Taylor in her own apartment, violence of extremists and
 LL> opportunists, right wing militias... And to derail any hope and support
 LL> for progress, the senseless violence of looting and burning and
 LL> destruction of property. I want to make it absolutely clear, so I'm
 LL> going to be very clear about all of this, rioting is not protesting.
 LL> Looting is not protesting. Setting fires is not protesting. None of
 LL> this is protesting. It's lawlessness, plain and simple. And those who
 LL> do it should be prosecuted. Violence will not bring change, it will
 LL> only bring destruction. It's wrong in every way. It divides instead
 LL> of unites, destroys businesses, only hurts the working families that
 LL> serve the community. It makes things worse across the board, not
 LL> better."
 LL> ~ Joe Biden, 8/31/2020

 >If Trump was to come down harder on the rioters, then the Democrats would
 > say he's a fascist for doing so.  Is he supposed to just people people
 > riot, loot, murder and bully innocent people?

 LL> Joe Biden has condemned *all* acts of violence. It is time for
 LL> Donald Trump to do the same.

 >His "supporters" are defending themselves.

 LL> Two rights do not make a wrong. As Joe Biden noted so clearly
 LL> in his message. Do pay attention.

 >I've seen too many videos of "protestors" attacking and accosting people.
 > Going up to people who are just out for a meal or a drink, and DEMANDING
 > they show fealty to your beliefs is not acceptable.

 LL> Worked for Bull Connor. And his dogs. What we have today is a
 LL> new George Wallace. Only this one is in the White HOuse, rather
 LL> than the Alabama governor's mansion.

 LL> --Lee

 LL> --
 LL> Stop Workin', Start Jerkin'

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