riot re-analysis

The new insight to come from the nationwide riots in the US is that many of them are planned. The left has, of course, gone the usual route of suggesting that it's white supremacists and Russia who are behind the riots, despite the fact that the rioters show every evidence of being pawns of the left itself. Did you see the Black Lives Matter banner at CNN HQ in Atlanta? Whoever did that wasn't a Trump supporter, given Trump's stance that all lives matter—an attitude construed as racist by people who sloppily psychologize their opponents, foolishly believing themselves to have special telepathic insight into the minds of their enemies.

Opportunism is the new buzzword. What may have started off as a protest against the injustice of the murder of George Floyd quickly morphed into something altogether different. Opportunists with a desire to "watch the world burn" jumped into the fray, gleefully sowing chaos and destruction everywhere they've gone. That's what the riots are about now: they're a roiling sea of random, undirected impulses—a monster of id raging out of control and having nothing to do with the murder of a peaceable man. Do you think I'm psychologizing now? I'd be psychologizing if I didn't have good, rational reasons to think this way. To wit:

Floyd Protests Transform Into Opportunistic Riots.

Here's a quote from two rightie talking heads:

"One of the ironies of post-Great Awokening politics is that white, lefty politicians facing violence from leftists within their own jurisdictions now have to reinterpret the violence as right-wing in order to assert the legitimacy of public order," NRO's Peter Spiliakos tweets.

"It seems like the looting of the CNN headquarters was the turning point that led pundits, political advisers, and govt officials to say 'actually, this is a white-nationalist psyop,' which is hilarious," Joe Gabriel Simonson of the Washington Examiner adds.

And here's a quote from a leftie expert:

Saagar Enjeti of the Hudson Institute sums it up: "Timeline of events so far: Dems cheered on riots and looting until they realized how bad those things actually are, and now they are desperate to blame phantom Russians and White Nationalists so they don't have to own the responsibility for the chaos they allowed."

Here's liberal Tim Pool:


People on the right and the left are sifting through the evidence and concluding the same thing: there's something manufactured about these riots. Tim Pool's video shows footage of a large stack of bricks that had ben quietly deposited in an area where no construction was going on. What might those bricks be for, if not for throwing through windows? Feel free to argue, in the comments, that the bricks were put there for perfectly innocuous reasons.

And yet the left keeps saying it's the right that's violent.

If you want to find the root causes of nationwide trouble, just look left. As Sarah Hoyt writes in all-caps: "REMEMBER THAT THE LEFT DOESN’T VIEW SETTING THE WEST ON FIRE AND CRASHING THE WORLD ECONOMY AS A PRICE TO PAY TO GET ORANGEMANBAD OUT OF OFFICE. THEY REGARD TAKING WESTERN CIVILIZATION DOWN AS AN UNALLOYED GOOD IN AND OF ITSELF."

Or is she psychologizing?