New York Times: ‘vexed’ and ‘incendiary’

“Joseph R. Biden Jr. will travel to Kenosha, Wis., on Thursday and his campaign has unveiled a new television ad condemning the rioters and looters that have vexed some American cities...” Vexed. As in “I’ll vex you with a baseball bat and a flaming bottle of gasoline!” Vexed? “...Mr. Trump...countered Mr. Biden’s moves with two new ads seeking to leverage civil unrest in incendiary fashion as a wedge to divide the Democratic coalition....” ‘In INCENDIARY fashion’? After three months of the Democrat shock troops burning down cities with encouragement and explicit support of Democratic mayors, Democratic prosecutors who turn arrestees loose without their ever seeing the inside of a cell and refusing to prosecute them, and Biden campaign committee members contributing money to bail funds so those who are briefly locked up can be released the same night so they can vex cities with some more flaming bottles of gasoline, Trump acts in INCENDIARY fashion? “ Mr. Trump is trying to prosecute those arguments and persuade voters to see threats to public safety...” Uh, ‘persuade’? As in ‘perceive vexatious firebombings encouraged by Democrats‘ as a threat? ‘...which so far have been limited to sporadic violence in some cities...” The Blitz was limited to sporadic violence in some English cities, of course. The Civil War was limited to sporadic violence in some states. The Russian pogroms against Jews were limited to sporadic violence in some places. The Lebanese Civil War was limited to sporadic violence for fifteen years. I’ll bet the the whole lot of them didn’t realize they were vexed, though. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/us/politics/biden-ads-trump.html