Your Post-Riot Scoreboard

The recent riots in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles and so on were another battle in a 5-way, blue-on-blue civil war. Now that things have mostly calmed down, how did the teams fare? Here's my take on who won and who lost.

Winners

1. The media. Living in their protected suburbs, well-paid for reading teleprompters, the media came out the big winners. It's all about ratings, man, and riots are good for ratings. For CNN, MSNBC and all the people paid to bloviate as "experts," this was a massive victory. Outside of a few, intrepid souls who tried to report from the riots themselves, the media were warm and safe while they pushed their blue narratives. They coated themselves in smug, faux-virtue at no risk to themselves.
   
   
2. Black Lives Matter. Dude, was this a windfall or what? Heck, we've now got ignorant, little San Diego high school kids spending hours standing on our sidewalks holding promotional signs for BLM and no one has to pay them! Sure, BLM suffered a little downside as some people managed to get past the media's news blackout and saw BLM looting the blue cities, but all in all, this was a massive win at very small cost.
   
   
3. The Universities and ANTIFA. What a great day for postmodernism! Finally, a chance to spread their wings and fly. And then dive down on civilians like Luftwaffe JU-87 Stukas bombing and strafing refugees. It was everything they ever wanted and they took full advantage of it. Their allies in the media provided cover. While standing in front of burning buildings, the ANTIFA public affairs arm told us the protests were mostly peaceful.
   
   
4. Hollywood. The airheads in our entertainment industry were only peripheral to this one, but they managed to score a few points by supporting the rioters, pledging to bail out any of them that got arrested. It was a small gain, but they paid no price for it at all.

Losers

1. Democrat political leaders. These guys just got crushed. Unlike the four groups above, they actually have to do something real - maintain a vaguely-functioning society in their blue cities. While the media and the rest have no stake in whether or not Taniqua can walk to a CVS for her prescriptions, living in the untouched suburbs as they do, the Ds do have a stake in it.
   
   Further, even they have to understand, at some dim level, that they can't do this without a police force to maintain some amount of order. Oh, sure, you can pull the cops out of black neighborhoods and close your eyes as the murder rates skyrocket, but you still need stores with stuff in order for your citizens to survive.
   
   Not only did they take a massive beating from the riots and looting, but their future looks very dim. BLM is establishing a militia to fight the Ds' cops while the University loons are pushing to reduce the number of cops through their Defund the Police madness. That's hardly a recipe for stability. If you're CVS or Walmart, you'd have to have rocks in your head to return to your burned-out locations in the blue cities. Who will take the blame for that? The D political leaders. Way to go, guys. You forgot that if you decide to ride a tiger, you must never fall off.

Always Losers

1. Average black Americans. As always, normal blacks lost. This time, they lost enormously. See, they actually have to try to live in the ruins created by the five groups above. You know, like shopping and working and going to school and stuff. They started out without intact families and they ended up without them. Not only that, the riots and protests further cemented the idiotic notion that racism is the cause of their problems. The media now has what they love more than anything else, a way to push the racism narrative and drown out any calls for a return to traditional families. That's why the media scored the highest and normal blacks ended up where they always do in these blue civil wars, at the bottom.

Black Lives Matter, but normal blacks being able to shop does not.