It’s delightful that, at the company I work for, the owner/president offered a shooting class for all the female employees. As I walked past the Accounts Receivable office, I noticed that the women there had hung up their targets from the previous evening’s session, along with… commentary. Stuff like that is what makes the high stress, high pressure environment there worthwhile.
The amusement that the world provides me makes everything else worthwhile, too, starting with the usual random assortment of birthdays. Those include the greatest contributor to equality; an artist with a definite kink; a hottie who definitely had an edge to her; one of the greatest animators to walk this earth, and another argument for immigration’s contribution to the greatness of America; one of the last of the Team Red Brahmans; a guy who managed to make Richard Nixon look good; another major contributor to equality among men; and one of my favorite comedians and here’s a clip of why I love the guy.
Now here’s some news for you to ignore.
Want to know what tyranny is? This is tyranny.
Your daily dose of Chicago’s fine culture.
Your daily dose of New York’s fine culture.
TERRIFYING! Never change, Guardian, never change.
Organ damage is the worst damage.
Old Guy Music was inspired by the thought, “How could I make things even more depressing?” And the answer to that question is always the same- Leonard Cohen.
PhD in Firstology from the University of Firstness, coming my way?
I wonder how old man Glock feels about the current output. Never seize as a lapping paste so it wears itself in with use?
Being a non-gun glib I’m at the mercy of the gun glibs when asking stupid questions.
There are some parts which might benefit from a very limited application of lapping compound for a very short period but you would really have to know a lot of detail about the gun which is not generally broadcast. And there are other places where you really don’t want to apply this stuff for any amount of time.
I would only use lapping compound on a gun which I was building from off the shelf parts which had never been built and used on a gun – and only on very specific surfaces.
Glocks have been shipped with copper-based anti-seize since the first one came out of the factory. I have a sneaking suspicion that the creator of this video doesn’t actually know what he’s talking about.
Watch more of his videos. I’m pretty sure he knows exactly what he is doing 😉
*buys shares in French cathedral-spec fire suppression systems*
Pipe organs don’t really care for water either.
Halon.
Hench “French-cathedral spec fire suppression”. I make know assumptions about what that comprises. That’s for the eggheads to figure out.
no? holy homophones
Are you shirking your French cathedral spec fire suppression specification duties?
Something something division of labor something specialization is a wonderful thing/enact my labor, fire suppression people!
Frank Zappa would like a word.
I’m on my own here.
That’s the sort of thing I’d link to. 😉
More fabulous 80s hair
Nice. Lisa Lisa going with not only the two first names, but the same one twice. It nicely balances out all the Americans with two surnames instead of first name, surname.
FWIW I thought Patti Labelle was a bit too obvious there for full Ted’S status. I’m flattered.
You’re on your own.
*has a sad; a big beautiful sad*
Have a love melody instead.
Or even a love song.
Morning, JD. Or g’daftanoon.
an artist with a definite kink
Ray Davies’ birthday was a month ago.
Now, see??? I’ve said (essentially) that here, and people said I was crazy!! (I put him in my quartet of “Worst Singers to Actually Have Had a Non-Novelty Recording Career” along with Neil Young, Yoko Ono, and Macy Gray.) Dude, keep writing songs, but hand ’em off to someone else to sing!
Thank you for backing me up, Old Man!
I am inclined to agree. How’d you feel about Tim Buckley?
Jeff’s dad, right? (The Jeff who famously recorded Cohen’s “Hallelujah?) Not really familiar with his work. Care to link a good example or recommend one for me to find?
Yeah, that’s right. I’m not hugely familiar with his ouvre. He’s a bit flower-child for my tastes, but a hell of a voice.
Magnificent voice indeed! Thanks!
No Bob Dylan?
A strong contender, and sometimes included. (I try to stick to a 2 XY, 2 XX format.)
This is why Yahweh created Jennifer Warnes.
::adds name to list of Alternates::
Hate lifts you up where you belong
His songwriting output has really dropped off lately.
He’s no less productive than Lou Reed.
Yoko Ono has a non-novelty recording career? I don’t think I’ve ever heard a song of hers outside of someone playing it as a lark.
I think in that song in particular (which is a work of genius btw) Cohen’s voice is spot on.
The bitterness when he shifts from “everybody knows” meaning common knowledge to “everybody knows” meaning “you’re a slut and so indiscreet about it that you shamed me” is magic.
Leaving Geddy Lee off that list is a serious oversight.
““We fully understand that the true cause of violence is poverty and desperation,” Newsome said. “They are playing into the white racist narrative by pointing fingers at the community. The true cause of our pain is this shrewd capitalist society that leaves us living in unsafe housing conditions. We are under employed. The zip codes with the highest rates of poverty have the highest rates of violence.”
There’s a lot of dumb in there to unwrap.
Only the poor can be violent.
“We fully understand that the true cause of violence is poverty and desperation,” Newsome said.
Even if this is true, it completely ignores the impoverishment and desperation caused by the lockdowns.
it also ignores the fact that the poverty mostly isn’t externally imposed, but is the cumulative effect of their actions.
Across generations
There is an argument that since the Great Society, government has incentivized poverty among a great number of people.
You mean the Great Poverty and War on Society.
“understand” is a factive term. “I understand ‘x'” can be true only if “x” is true. So, Newsome is an idiot.
“A Bronx man at the center of New York City’s Black Lives Matter movement came after the Rev. Al Sharpton with both barrels over remarks the minister made last week about black-on-black violence amid a rash of shootings across the city.”
When Sharpton is the voice of reason….
I assume Freddy’s Fashion Mart was not one of those locations.
They should have cleaned up this mess a long time ago. Why hasn’t he started a stop the violence program?
Gee, I wonder why Sharpton hasn’t done that.
I was working in downtown Brooklyn in the ’90’s, when Sharpton was orchestrating his “Days of Rage” demonstrations. So I walk over to the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge to see what’s up. And they’re marching, marching, maybe about 100. When I get home I turn on the teevee and am assaulted with descriptions of mass demonstrations, complete with footage. Amazing what close-ups and camera angles can do.
Rev. Al is and always was a self-promoting grifter, but would be a cipher without the fawning media which enables him.
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I saw the media do the same thing in Baltimore. In fact, the news reporters directed the crowd for maximum effect.
“Reality is merely a template for creating our vision.” – media
Re: the mask discussions last night (just read this morning). DoD kinda mandates a lot of things – whether you’re active duty or contracting. I had some cheesecake masks from @artofcoop (delivered 2 months late – thanks USPS), but doesn’t look like I’ll be able to wear them even as a contractor. The local CO mandated solid color masks (for service members…?) but I think I can keep wearing my plaid masks (my mom made) for the time being.
At the same time, they do have a fairly detailed list of rules/implementation guidelines that vary by HPCON (Health Protection Condition). Where I am in VA, it’s HPCON-B – so I’m allowed (I say allowed – technically if I broke the rules on the document I signed stating that I would abide by these regulations, my company could fire me or if I was still on active orders, I could get NJP/UCMJ/etc) to go to restaurants, church, etc without too much trouble.
However, my drilling unit is in Norfolk – still HPCON-C so I’m still waiting to find out if I’m going to be able to go down there this next weekend for reserve stuff or not.
The one thing that bugs me the most is that the base gym is still only open from 7-4 and only for active folks. It’s pretty confusing from the guidelines trying to figure out if I (as a contractor) can go to a local gym (if I’m not on orders). That said…I don’t really want to pay for a new membership since the base gym (eventually) will be open all day and free…..not sure when though.
Seriously though…our facility is a high-volume training facility that’s never left 24/5 operations. I’ve interacted with hundreds of people daily the last 4 months – and still no sign of any outbreak (rumors that a few folks had to self-isolate, and folks coming from other countries have to do the 14 day isolation, but nothing else. It’s not as though we don’t all pull our masks off our faces to give discussions/training/etc every few minutes.
“I’ve interacted with hundreds of people daily the last 4 months – and still no sign of any outbreak”
Yes, that is the story of this entire Pandemic. For every 500 deaths, there are another 11,500 people who contract this virus, and there are 988,000 who do not. There is a high likelihood that when you go to work, and stop at the gas station, and come home, you were never within 20 feet of someone with the virus.
This is why it is almost impossible to draw conclusions about things like the effectiveness of Masks, or the spread through [protests/churches/bars/riots]. For every event with the potential to spread, there are 10 where no one there has covid, and one event where someone DOES have COVID. So anyone can look at this data and conclude whatever they want.
Meanwhile the nervous Nancy’s walk around assuming that the virus is just waiting in the aether, ready to strike out at the first uncovered face it sees.
She said she refused to sign the documents because of how they were worded, not because she refused to quarantine.
Sign it this way:
But because I have been enjoined, by this Holy Office, altogether to abandon the false opinion which maintains that the Sun…uh, I mean government is the centre and immovable, and forbidden to hold, defend, or teach, the said false doctrine in any manner
I was thinking along the lines of:
“I am going to quarantine because it’s the responsible thing to do but I am not going to sign what will be held as a binding contract under duress.” and then sign your own statement. Even that’s none of their fucking business but it beats the fuzz or whoever showing up at the house and clamping an ankle bracelet on you.
I’m thinking a lawsuit is called for – incarceration for disobeying an executive order? That shit needs to be slapped down.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-woman-shot-brooklyn-fireworks-asking-man-to-stop-police
A news organization is reporting a woman shot dead and the perpetrator still at large and what do these geniuses not do? They don’t give a description of the suspect!
Hmmmm…. why won’t they do that?
He’s a man, there you go.
Our worst fears are being realized. Slowly we march….
Makes the claim ‘libertarian moment’ seem dead now.
People don’t realize they’re in the fog of hysteria now.
Makes the claim ‘libertarian moment’ seem dead now.
*turns on the Winston light*
The libertarian moment must have coincided with Winston’s mom’s virtue.
Talking about the Guardian article? From that: Such statements by Trump have encouraged unfavorable comparisons of the US pandemic response with those in countries such as Italy, which recorded just 169 new cases on Monday after a horrific spring, and South Korea, which has kept cases in the low double-digits since April.
I’m assuming Covid took out all the low hanging fruit (healthwise) and so their numbers dropped. And why are we not talking about Japan where there was no lockdown and the death rates have been flat for over a month? Cherry pickers gonna cherry pick.
Look man, a toddler died this weekend from it.
Therefore we cannot emerge from our caves, ever…
That’s what I keep trying to drive into my wife’s head. She has Mensa IQ level and she says, ‘well, they reported it can lead to strokes!’
Outliers. How do you condition people to consider them?
By comparison.
How many toddlers died from the flu last year? How many drowned in pools? How many were beaten to death by their parents?
For adults: Car accidents. Heart and stroke.
Just to give you an idea who people aren’t contextualizing, I told a friend (who is like us about all this) about the accidents and he was all ‘Come again? Dude, that has to be drilled into people!’
Point is, he didn’t even think to do that.
I show my wife, ‘Ok. Look at this claim. ‘Sweden death rates higher than neighbours’. The average person just swallows it. And that’s where the problem lies. No one takes the time to go explore that further.’
Another buddy, after seeing his business locked down and depressed, is back into ‘I’ve got no time’ mode.
I tried to explain to him if you can’t find time to keep informed in these circumstances (especially since they’re going to likely end up locking us down again – Quebec copies California).
It blows my mind. That’s what it means to be vigilant.
My sister is the same way. Slowly she’s been beaten down. She immerses herself into the business and doesn’t want to hear it. This is music to the ear’s of would be dictators like Legault. This guy is itching and twitching to become a demagogue.. He relishes the opportunity.
People who are prone to strokes are going to stroke out more often under any systematic stressor, Covid just being one of any number of those.
I just don’t like Fauci making hand shadows on the cave wall to inform us.
Truly the Plato of our times.
“Slowly we march…”
Gad Saad fan?
“to topple the city’s Christopher Columbus statue”
Nice little turnout with 15 minutes notice. We truly are living in an age of high tech.
It’s gonna be interesting to see what the conventions bring, like protestors won’t show up ’cause it’ll be virtual for the attendees. The election results may bring a lot more than mere disappointment for some.
As good boy scouts, “Be Prepared”
We’re at the stage where criminal acts like the one against the Church in France should be dealt with in a public manner.
If they’re confident to go after national symbols that way, you have to put that down.
The biggest mistake the West ever did – pansy Americans – was to not publicly execute Nazis and filming it. Then you convert the executions into digital files and send copies to your population every year with a note, ‘Just a reminder’.
I exaggerate of course but you get the point. A strong message or signal should be sent. For example, a stiffer than usual sentence. The sentences are notoriously light in Europe for crimes.
What happened to the church in France?
TRICK QUESTION!
Woman Quits Job To Earn Six Figures A Month Pretending To Be A Dog
So many kinks so little money.
Black Women, Grillz, and the Reclamation of Power
Hood lyfe
I’m a fan of au naturel beauty myself.
Heard this Hawk character from BLM on Kilmeade.
Dude is straight up retarded.
Ah, good old Hawk, god rest his soul
“and one of my favorite comedians”
Norton’s garbage, and I am glad Chip is finally taking over.
Uncle Paul rules.
Max Fleischer is an (((inspiration))). Up! Up! And away!
In my beautiful balloon, of course
LOVE Fleischer’s Superman. It captures the essence like no other. When I think Superman I see those animations.
101 degrees and 80% humidity today.
Good day for streaking.
Some guy streaked at an Australian football game on Friday. He’ll get a $50k fine for breaching a bio-containment zone.
The reporter made sure to note that the security people who tackled him were wearing masks and protective clothing.
While people destroying property here go legally unscathed.
What a fucked up world.
“Trump Considers Afghan War Critic For Ambassador To Afghanistan: Wants “Full & Speedy Withdrawal”“
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-considers-afghan-war-critic-ambassador-afghanistan-full-speedy-withdrawal
Good on Trump although critics will say he’s just doing what Putin wants here.
Because the Russians did so well in Afghanistan.
Two Scoops is just trying to save Putin from having to pay out all of those bounties.
How much of this pandemic is really left?
It will be with us for quite a while.
It’ll be with us until the first Wednesday of November, then it will magically disappear and no longer be a threat.
I think you’re wrong. If Trump wins it’ll recede in importance, if not it’ll be used to keep various levels of lockdowns in perpetuity by federal directive. It’s the gift that keeps on giving for the left, allowing appeasement of the hysterical fools and the government’s picking and choosing what speech is acceptable under the guise of public health. Why would they give that up?
Then we’re goosed. Either governments just reach a natural fatigue point with the measures and things recede, or they keep piling on and on.
Will people eventually come around and just say ‘fuck it?’ or can they really be conditioned to be in a state of fear? Can Stockholm Syndrome be on a national scale?
I’m more concerned with the simultaneous takeover of the Democrats by the full blown commies.
If they win, you can be guaranteed that the GOP will never win a presidential election again and probably not the House or Senate. They’re aiming to bring big city machine politics to DC and I think they’ll be successful.
God.
That’s depressing.
“If they win, you can be guaranteed that the GOP will never win a presidential election again and probably not the House or Senate. ”
This is the real scary thing for me, because the Democrats have figured out how to create a totalitarianism that smothers, rather than chokes. Look at California- they have an iron grip on the state, but it is in velvet gloves. They squeeze tight enough to keep the votes coming in, but not enough to create a revolt.
I experience this in silicon valley all day. You aren’t afraid of being beat to death or shipped to Siberia. You are merely afraid of your entire family getting kicked out of school and losing their jobs because you dared to disagree with the official narrative.
The problem with this form of totalitarianism is it is hard to see that point where people are willing to violently push back. Because ultimately this totalitarianism *is* backed by the violence of the government, no matter how distantly. The only people who will push back hard are the nutjobs- the hyper nationalists- and thus any resistance will be linked to those nutjobs.
Get ready for the long death of western culture. Not at the end of a gun barrel, but underneath a patchouli-scented pillow.
This has been the modus operandi of the progressive left for a century. Fabian socialism writ large. The recipe is straightforward:
– Establish an ideological foothold by using the West’s liberal values as a weapon against them
– Infiltrate the cultural touchstones
– indoctrinate the mentally weak and the young
– infiltrate the enforcement mechanisms of the culture
– soft purges by tying right think to socialism and wrong think to capitalism.
– hard purges
We’re firmly stationed in the second to last step, with a sky full of trial balloons flying for the last step.
It’s going to be endemic from here on out so the relevant question is what we do or don’t do to address it. I’m quite confident that the various levels of government will manage to fuck it up in ways we can only dream of right now.
Best bet. Newton’s first law is coming into play. What’s gonna stop the hysteria?
I tend to take people at their word. They keep saying this is the “new normal” (even typing that makes my skin crawl) and I believe them. Our betters are in a permanent state of power orgasm right now and they’re not going to give it up. Even if a 100% effective vaccine is created, there will always be some other crisis. It’s never going to stop, this is the beginning of the boot on the human face. Forget about the Constitution, the legislature or the judiciary. The former is nullified, the middle is useless and the latter only exists to rubber stamp the diktats of our elected monarchs (governors and the president).
The 50% effective vaccine with major side effects is going to be mandatory.
Your going to need proof you’ve had it in order to travel. Mark my words.
Certainly that’ll be the case for overseas travel but I don’t know if that’ll pass constitutional muster for domestic travel. Ah, who the hell am I kidding? Of course it‘ll be required and legally justified because public health.
Thanks Stinky. I needed a good belly laugh this morning.
Wear the mask. What the big deal? It’s just a mask.
Sign the quarantine papers. What’s the big deal? They’re just papers for something you were doing anyway.
Take the vaccine. What’s the big deal? We’ve all had vaccines before.
Get the “Verified Clean” ID so you can travel. What’s the big deal? It’s no different than a driver’s license.
*flips back to Ozy’s series on the Anthrax vaccine in the military*
When was that?
https://www.glibertarians.com/the-untold-story-of-the-dods-anthrax-vaccine-program-serialized/
“there will always be some other crisis.”
You will know you are right when people pivot to the Flu. Remember how we all said that this is no worse than a bad flu? Don’t worry, the despots were paying attention. It is inconvenient now, but in a year, you will start seeing “Public Service” announcements…
“Did you know influenza is 30 times more dangerous to 2 year olds than COVID-19? If you don’t install our contact tracing app on your phone, it could be your child next.”
“Its the economy, Stupid”
The masks will truly come off when the printing presses wear out.
When there’s no money or it has no value. A few more days and the bonus unemployment checks stop. Whatever is done will be wrong and the attempts to buy voters won’t be enough. The Dismal Science will win but pols will be trying to bail out, either the boat or themselves.
They’re ignoring the economy as much as possible, but they can only do that for so long. We’re in bona fide depression territory, and yet nobody is talking about it. The chickens are marching back home, and will be roosting shortly.
Ankle monitor lady: would.
Ankle monitor lady: would.
Twice even.
I’d be looking for the judge who signed that order
Slutty Sunday’s got some birthin’ hips.
http://archive.li/G23KZ
1 and done.
Not the best way to dispel the stereotype, dude.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1284841114118193152
The romper is definitely the best option.
So I have been gathering info on Portland, and didn’t realize that there has been protests/riots for something like 2 months. I know there are glibs there, can we get some confirmation?
Also, I see that the AG of Oregon is suing DHS. I don’t know the exact details, but I could see them prevailing.
Finally, this seems to be exactly what the left wanted two months ago. And that they have jumped on the Trump is a third world dictator mantra.
Let Portland burn. The Feds should stay out of it until the local governments beg for help.
They have contained their activity to protecting the area around the Federal Courthouse and employees.
” protecting the area around the Federal Courthouse”
Not according to everything I read. True or not, as far as everyone on social media is concerned, DHS agents in black vans are just grabbing people off the streets.
Who knows. “Journalists” have ignored the riots in Portland for weeks to cover for their masters. Now I’m supposed to believe feds are roaming the city snatching random people?
the kernel in there is apparently federal agents are grabbing people who allegedly commit federal crimes on conditions favorable to them rather than trying to pull one out of a mob in the middle of a riot.
“Finally, this seems to be exactly what the left wanted two months ago. And that they have jumped on the Trump is a third world dictator mantra.”
Getting involved was idiotic. They were trying to bait him into it and, though he did resist, he eventually fell for it. Let them burn that shithole to the ground then point and say “this is what Leftist leadership brings”.
He played it OK in my view as long as he doesn’t get carried away. Sending in the feds at the outset would have been seen as being a jackboot but sending them in when the local authorities refuse to do anything says to most reasonable people that it was done as a last resort. Not only that but his reticence to act was hurting him with the law and order part of his base.
Yes that is correct.
The state AG is suing the feds for making arrests without probable cause. She’s also opening a criminal investigation into an incident where federal agents shot a protester, causing substantial injury.
Biased local media story here https://youtu.be/qd9hBPfEd9c
Note that she never called for the same when state troopers murdered Lavoy Finicum (including one with a history of questionable killings) and used unlawful lethal force.
Well I’m sufficiently pissed off now. I should go do something else.
Good time for a caption contest,
“Carrot Top, after years of fighting against public sentiment, finally decides to acquiescence and cover up his ugly fucking face for the good of us all.”
Good thing I cut a hole in this mask large enough for a penis.
I’ll see your hat-n-hair and raise you a mask-n-hair.
Killjoy was here.
Got a chuckle out of me.
^ Winner
Meanwhile the White House has attacked Dr Anthony Fauci, the country’s foremost expert on infectious diseases whose refusal to lie to the public has enraged Trump, by publishing an op-ed signed by one of the president’s top aides titled “Anthony Fauci has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on” and by releasing a file of opposition research to the Washington Post.
If that’s actually true, we’re fucked.
Foremost expert by virtue of knowing how to advance his bureaucratic career.
“the Black community has to work to fix its own problems. ‘Yes, we’re going to deal with policing,’ Sharpton said in his eulogy. ‘But we also have to deal with our communities. We can’t do anything until we learn to respect everyone one of us. The way to teach America that Black lives matter is to teach it to each other first.'”
Demons must be buying ice skates because Sharpton just made sense.
This is why I’m not altogether despairing. I think that the hard left moved too soon. Two weeks of righteous rage immediately before the election would have really helped them. Five months of baby murders? Not so much. When your movement’s leaders are reduced to calling Al Sharpton – Al Sharpton! – an Uncle Tom, you’ve out kicked your coverage.
wut
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-west-announces-first-campaign-rally-in-south-carolina-seriously
I thought he “dropped out”.
A man can’t drop out and then drop back in?
I think he’s working with Trump on this to peel off some of the black vote. Just a very small shift to Kanye would be disaster for the Dems and hand Trump victory.
This has crossed my mind too.
He’s stumping for Trump. He’ll garner some support and publicity and then withdraw and support Trump.
Score!
Did you clean them out like you said and buy every jar ?
Yes, but they only had one jar, I even went across town to the ghetto Kroger but they only had the “Bread and Butter Chips”
I’m glad you’re alive! we thought the ‘vid had claimed another victim
At least Neph has the courtesy to mute his cam during his ‘nap’ on the zoom call
If you people were more interesting I wouldn’t have
passed outnodded off.And that is what makes Neph weak. You know Hype would spend an hour laughing at one of us if we fell asleep in front of a camera.
“I would expect Al Sharpton to talk about that, but he is full of crap, and he’s an ineffective leader,” Newsome said. “Instead of pointing fingers and chasing news cameras, he should be doing the real work in our community.”
I hate to agree with the guy, but…..
Newton’s first law is coming into play. What’s gonna stop the hysteria?
Exactly. It’s easier to start a stampede than to stop one. This constant drumbeat of PANIC PANIC PANIC rattling and clanging in the empty heads of a vast number of credulous, feckless, ahistorical excreta of the government’s industrial/educational complex is going to be nigh unto irreversible.
If President Joe Biden (Help us, Zod!) suddenly says allie-allie-in-free, will any of the faithful followers of SCIENCE will believe him?
Oh they won’t mind, because “science” is thinly veiled excuses to do whatever progressive leaders say.
Now here is some real limited bandwith. https://www-cleveland-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cleveland.com/opinion/2020/07/we-need-to-re-close-ohios-economy-our-brains-cant-handle-the-reopening-tina-d-bhargava.html?amp_js_v=a3&_gsa=1&outputType=amp&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASDYAQE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cleveland.com%2Fopinion%2F2020%2F07%2Fwe-need-to-re-close-ohios-economy-our-brains-cant-handle-the-reopening-tina-d-bhargava.html
Now here is some real limited bandwith. https://www-cleveland-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cleveland.com/opinion/2020/07/we-need-to-re-close-ohios-economy-our-brains-cant-handle-the-reopening-tina-d-bhargava.html?amp_js_v=a3&_gsa=1&outputType=amp&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASDYAQE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cleveland.com%2Fopinion%2F2020%2F07%2Fwe-need-to-re-close-ohios-economy-our-brains-cant-handle-the-reopening-tina-d-bhargava.html
so nice you said it twice
OMFG.
“The reality is that the virus sets the rules. Re-closing is the way we free bandwidth within those rules, because it limits the decisions we have to make amid day-to-day, inevitable uncertainty.”
She’s EVIL.
Wtf?
ANTIPOPE!
Pimpin’ ain’t easy.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/12143641/my-fellas-seeing-three-other-women/
I’m not sure I’m tough enough to watch Meet the Press, this morning.
The propaganda machine is running full steam ahead. “Character assault” on Foochy. Oh, good. Do the interview with a mask on, fucko. Now it’s off. But you sent your signal, loud and clear.
Let’s say things that bring us together.
Isn’t this all Trump’s fault?
Trump killed my dead grandmas because you didn’t wear a mask!
For those of you who are history buffs and have already had their fill of news about SHITSTORM: 2020 for the day, a new Fall of Civilizations podcast was released earlier this week.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HvzoAfpCvbw
SHITSTORM: 1453, Byzantium-Last of the Romans
We need guinea pigs. Sign up for the vaccine test. Don’t be a scaredy cat. Signal your love for your fellow man. It’ll be fun.
Take the vaccine, snowflake.
Steve Bullock must be weeping into his Cheerios, right now. Jared Polis is on Meet the Press, and he’s not.
“Orders no governor ever wants to do.” Fuck you, you crypto-Stalinist.
Isn’t polis just a dreamy libertarian? He’s much more libertarian than those icky Amash, Rand, and Massie.
“Why do you make me hit you, baby?”
Thanks for the anecdote. I love that little story. It would be great if more of the country was like that.
“Collection department.
Any questions.”
No questions. But an observation…. someone in collections can’t shoot for s…. well, they just don’t shoot very good.
I fail to see why a Jew would need a gun.
With all the great and affordable (((pistols))) out there, I am dismayed by the cover pic.
::scribbles note for credit union employer’s suggestion box:: Hey, it works for the IRS, amirite?
That was her first time out. Not bad, considering.
Reminds me of that reality TV show about the Broward County Sheriff’s office from about 12 years back. They had a couple of hot lady cops that they followed around. One was a hispanic lady who was in to boxing. And the other was a blond. They took the blond to the range. In order to fill out the roster they brought along a couple of other lady cops. The one we were following was pretty hard core. They brought along another who clearly was not an “in the field” type of police officer. They gave her an AR and she couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with the thing. I suspected that it was her first time at the range, watching the video. Her target looked a lot like that one…. and she was shooting a rifle.
It helped explain the video from the Jose Guereno shooting – dozens of rounds into the walls and ceiling from 25 feet. I don’t know how much training it takes to prepare people to have proper discipline and aim in serving a search warrant… but whatever that amount is, they didn’t reach it.
But for a lady from collections on her first try… I’m glad she had fun.
Chuck Todd logic:
Wouldn’t it be simpler to just have a single one-size-straitjackets-all rule, so people won’t be confused? So they won’t have to think?
SEND MORE MONEY!
How do we emerge from this crisis?
Impeach!
Now here’s some news for you to ignore.
I wish I could.
Lord grant me the strength to ignore the news that should be ignored, the will power to struggle out of the derp, and the wisdom to stay drunk enough to not care.
America’s foremost authority
Good Lord it is humid out. Shoulda gotten up earlier to cut the grass. Luckily my yard isn’t that big so it doesn’t take more than 45 minutes to cut/trim but I look and feel like I was in a sauna while fully clothed. Currently taking a break and debating whether or not it is worth it to try to kill the weeds and grass that are taking over the gravel drive (I failed to get ahead of it this year). Because of course grass grows where I don’t want it to and not where I want it to (need better coverage in the yard). *Chugs water* On the plus side I sweated out a mild hangover.
Just got back from an 8 mile circuit around the canals. Already 100° at 0745, 30% humidity (which is high here). Fuck summer.
It is 70 with 34% humidity. There is a slight breeze coming through the window. My nipples are hard.
The targets bring up a question.
When I was a kid, everyone shot bb guns. Everyone. It was just a thing you did. Most of us could hit a glass insulator on the power line shooting from the hip with our daisy springloaded bb air rifles, calculating the arc of that short-range weapon and still hitting our target.
I didn’t shoot real guns very often. My father had to hunt if the family was going to eat meat when he was a kid. So he always viewed hunting as a reminder of his childhood poverty. Just like he wouldn’t eat chicken feet or other scrap cuts, he wasn’t interested in recreational hunting. But I had a friend in grad school who liked to go shooting, so I picked it up again while we were friends. We’d shoot mostly .22 because it was cheap, and save the 9mm and .44 for just a few choice shots.
Then I dropped it again for many years as I was building my life.
Then I worked for a guy who liked guns. He went to the range frequently. So I tagged along once. I had not shot a weapon in 15 years. I had never been to a shooting range. Country boys shoot tin cans and logs, not targets hanging from a line. “See if you can hit the O in Coca Cola on that soda can!” So I was surprised at how we did. We took turns with his guns. I had never fired a glock. It wasn’t as precise as a little .22, that’s for sure. But at 25 feet, I was going for groups – shoot the left shoulder… now the right. Now the forehead…. now the nose…
My groups were about 4″ in diameter for the most part, maybe with a couple of outliers now and again. My friend who went shooting all the time… well, he kinda had groups.
He was from NYC. I think he went shooting with his dad as a kid, but it was in this format – a rare event at a business. Like me going bowling. Not something you just did all the time as a kid, whenever you managed to score a tube of bb’s.
I always just assumed that shooting wasn’t that hard. You line the sights up and you squeeze the trigger. How hard is that? If you can’t hold still, use a tree or the ground for support.
So here’s the question… how does that match with your experience? Are some people just naturally good at shooting, or is it something that requires learning early to be good at?
I noticed that several of the guys in our group were not very good shooters. We went to the local skeet range and despite having never shot skeet and only having fired a 4-10 once, I did reasonably well. Just track and intuit when to pull the trigger. Then be pleasantly surprised when the thing explodes. How good we were didn’t seem to track all that directly with experience. A couple of the guys had been quite a few times, and a couple of us had never gone before. It didn’t seem to track all closely with the results. (well, one dude had never shot before. He was terrible, but that’s to be expected on your first try with anything)
My instinct is “anyone can shoot”. But those experiences tell me that there is more to it than that. Is it nurture or nature? Both? Are some people just naturally not able to hold on a target? Or is early experience key? My small sample size experiment tells me that early experience will outperform a similar amount of practice later in life by wide margins. Is that just an outlier, or is that how this skill works?
I’m a terrible shot because I have a hard time being steady.
I got a BB gun when I was ten. Red Ryder. Still have it. Never was in to hunting and didn’t start shooting real guns until my late teens but I was always on the pro-2A side philosophically.
All of the above.
I am a crap precision shot. I lack the patience, discipline and tranquility. In a decent-sized boy scout troop in Eastern OK, I was at or near the bottom of the pack in that style of shooting.
However, up here I am considered decent with a pistol, precision or practical. Middle to upper part of the pack. National organizations show the truth: I still suck (second from the bottom tier in USPSA, third from the bottom in IDPA, bottom tier in NRA National Match). And even in National Match, I’m consistently in the top half of the local matches.
Evil Sheldon actually knows what it takes to be a good shooter. I am just having fun and trying (with some effect) to get better.
I would suspect that if you are persistent enough to have knowledge of your national and local rankings, you are well into the upper tier of “all people firing a weapon”.
Kind of like having knowledge of your handicap puts you into a different category of golfer from the average duffer. (although golf is probably a pretty good analogy. It seems that there is a ceiling to most of us in golf. And I do know avid golfers that are worse than the once-a -year duffer.)
Nah, when I got my pistol license last year, I jumped into organized shooting with both feet. The people at the clubs are very sociable and friendly trying to get you into their disciplines. If it didn’t involve getting up so early, I’d probably be shooting five stand too.
At my fist match, I was in a squad with a USPSA Master who also was the VP in a club I eventually got into, so I shoot with/against him all the time. At that first match, my score was triple his (lower is better). At the end of last year, I was only double. I’m assuming I got better, though it’s possible he got worse.
Aw, thanks, Not Adahn! *blushing*
Short answer – good shooting is maybe 5% natural ability, 95% practice.
Long answer – like almost anything else, you are going to find prodigies in the field of shooting. They are super rare, and probably should be discounted from the discussion. It’s interesting to look at the career of Jacob Aldolphus ‘Jelly’ Bryce, the FBI special agent and exhibition shooter. Although Jelly was a phenomenal shot, capable of such feats as a sub-0.6 second fast draw, and shooting a tossed coin out of the air, he was an abject failure as a marksmanship instructor. The techniques that he used simply couldn’t be replicated by the FBI agents that lacked his particular mental wiring.
In my experience, natural ability and immutable physical characteristics play a small but measurable role in marksmanship and gun handling skill. Two big pieces of the puzzle are that you need to have decent corrected eyesight, and you need to have a certain base level of grip strength. Both of these characteristics need to be trained, as well, but if you’re legally blind or you can’t exert 50 lbs. of grip pressure between both hands, you’re probably going to run into a performance ceiling pretty quick.
The important thing is training and practice, both quantity (total number of hours put in) and recency (taking a five-day 40-hour shooting course then sitting on the couch for the rest of the year, is not nearly as good as doing an hour-and-a-half range session twice a week for a year.)
My experience both as a shooter and instructor has shown me that absent a *severe* physical handicap, anyone can shoot at a high level if they are willing to put the time in.
I kind of grew up with guns but we didn’t shoot too much because of the ammo problem. I started shooting skeet/trap at about 30 and within a year or so was a 22-23 (out of 25) guy. It was learned, a fair coach and practice, practice and then a little more. A friend coach is very helpful.
Rifle I was OK, pistol never very good. As the years have rolled by and the glasses get thicker and thicker the holes tend to stray a bit on the target. I rarely miss a deer though, the shooting is close, deer are relatively big. Last year was a 1 shot about 50-60 yards. That’s a long shot around these parts, more at 20-30 yards, take a rest off the deer stand. Usually only seconds to get off a shot because of the brush. Reaction time is important, skill not so important.
It’s both. Lots of practice gives you good eye-hand coordination.
A certain amount of near-sightedness also helps.
Laughs up sleeve
Anti-cop protesters in Portland, Oregon, torched the city’s police union headquarters Saturday night as local law enforcement officials declared a riot, according to reports.
Portland police declared the riot at around 10:50 p.m. after demonstrators barricaded the North Portland offices of the Portland Police Association, which reps the city’s cops, The Oregonian reported.
Despite an order to disperse, vigilantes proceeded to break into the building and set fires.
“People have broken into the Portland Police Association office and lit the building on fire,” the Portland Police Bureau said on Twitter at 10:51.
Cops extinguished the fires and “restored order in the neighborhood,” the agency said in an update posted at 11:43.
Saturday marked Portland’s 52nd straight night of anti-cop protests, which began in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Better than looting neighborhood businesses.
52 straight nights of protests in a city that is not Minneapolis, has a woke and progressive leadership, does not appear to have an issue with an oppressed black population (2.9% black population)…… uh, why?
The city government has been openly supporting the protests and pulling police back from enforcing the law against looters, etc. I wonder if that plays into the reasons for the 52 straight nights of anti-police protests against a police department that really doesn’t have the opportunity to shoot black people very often, even if they wanted to.
Opportunity to gain more power and the spoils that go along with it, on the establishment side. The kids doing most of the leg work get the thrill of being in a war against fascists (particularly since Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys wouldn’t escalate into the violence they craved).
Not to worry, the state was built on racism so the only way to remove it is to go full Cambodia and year zero.
*checks definition of the word vigilante.
Meh, guess it loosely fits. TWSS!
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has called the demonstrations a “violent mob” and said local leaders “refuse to restore order.”
Oregon officials in turn accuse Wolf of sending masked, camouflaged agents to detain and seize protesters without probable cause.
On Saturday, House Speak Nancy Pelosi said federal police were “kidnapping” protesters, and likened the arrests to a “banana republic.”
Federal officials have called the accusations “outrageous.”
Banana republic? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Wait ’til Kamala Harris is head of DHS.
Apropos of nothing in particular: just went and bought a bunch of masks off of RedBubble.com, designed by our very own SP (one design of which I humbly suggested). Purchases of these help support Glibertarians.com and allow you to express your dismay at the coming (or already arrived) government-mandated mask fascism.
Thanks, SP!
Speaking of coming mask mandates: the province of Quebec has already established a mandate, and the spousal unit’s watching a local Sunday-morning news program that’s been running mask mandate stories almost constantly.
Yeah, we’re being “prepped.” **HEAVY SIGH**
Haz sad no one touches my redbubble…euphemisms, am I right?!
Evil Sheldon actually knows what it takes to be a good shooter. I am just having fun and trying (with some effect) to get better.
That’s pretty much where I am. It doesn’t help that I jump from gun to gun to gun; if I practiced with the same gun all the time, my groups would probably tighten significantly.
I had the Sig .22 out, the other day, working on my initial double action trigger pull. I got better, but that long hard pull really lets me wobble off the target. I need to do more dry fire, and actually focus on the gun itself, to see what it’s doing. Need to work on a smoother but more forceful pull, too.
Got back from the range. It was closed 🙁
There was a Cowboy match going on, and although they don’t use the pistol range for that even, they closed it to maximize the people that could be involved in the match.
Dude was twice convicted of touching kids’ backs?
What fresh hell is this?
It says he slid his hand under their shirt while rubbing their back…
Now, I can see where that might be a weird and perverted thing. It also can be a fairly normal interaction with a child. Are you comforting a kid who is upset or hurt? Or are you spanking your monkey while rubbing their back? Context matters.
That’s an odd one. I volunteer with kids all the time… Stuff like this makes me extremely circumspect about anything more touchy than a high-five.
This one might be a case where we have both lost our mind and simultaneously been hideously incompetent about our vetting process.
I worked with kids for a decade. When I started hugs and throwing them around the swimming pool was perfectly normal and encouraged. When I finished, anything more than a high five was a firing offense.
So we, as a society, sent the mothers to the workforce, and handed our kids over to teachers, day care workers, summer camp counselors and then banned them from hugging them or flipping them in the swimming pool.
Way to minimize kids’ interactions with men. Make divorce easier, favor mothers for custody afterward, discourage men from serving as role models. Bug or feature?
Yep. Oh, and even as you legalize abortion and hand out birth control to teenage girls, make sure you keep the child support laws working under the premise that the only way women get pregnant is because of caddish men. “But she told me she was on the Pill, she has a good job, she told me she didn’t want kids and would get an abortion.” Tough shit bud, she lied, open your wallet up. The child support laws are written like it’s 1950 and the only way to get in a girls pants is pretend you will marry her.
The splits in women are enormous. Married women tend to vote Republican, slightly. Like, 53/46 in 2012. But unmarried women break huge for Dems, two thirds voted for Obama. Because unmarried women, as a group, is where the welfare money goes. Unmarried women with bastard children is the way the system funnels the cash. The “end to welfare as we know it” basically made childless men and women considered to be able bodied workers, eligible only for a few months of welfare every year. But if you pop out a couple kids thats where the money is. So you try to get a dude who’s got at least some kind of job, have him knock you up, but don’t marry him. If he stays, fine, if he doesn’t, you can still garnish his check. But she’s a “strong independent single mother” whos kids have a “deadbeat dad” because it gives her more money to be an unmarried single mother collecting SNAP, TANF, Section 8, WIC, etc etc and child support.
It’s working
The Black Lives Matter street mural in front of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan has been vandalized three times in one week, according to the New York Police Department.
“It is absolutely unacceptable that the mural to commemorate the Black Lives Matter movement was vandalized, and we will absolutely fix it,” Julia Arredondo, a spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, said in an email.
The latest incident occurred Saturday afternoon when two women from Staten Island, ages 39 and 29, were arrested after they were seen pouring paint on the mural, the department said.
When an officer attempted to approach one of the women, the officer slipped and injured his head and arm. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital and is in stable condition, the NYPD said.
The two women were charged with criminal mischief and were released with desk appearance tickets, according to the NYPD.
The mural was first vandalized Monday when an unnamed suspect dumped red paint on the V in “Lives.” The department said it was investigating the vandalism.
On Friday, surveillance video captured three individuals “pouring and smearing paint on the mural and one female spreading flyers at the scene,” according to the NYPD.
“Our carefully choreographed provocation has led to multiple confrontations, which we can use to prove how evil people who don’t agree with us are. Why are they so angry all the time? What’s wrong with them?”
“Mural”. It’s words painted on a city street, not Michelangelo putting up something inside city hall.
unnamed suspect dumped red paint on the V
I really hope we’re being drama queens about all these measures and where they’ll end up.
French Canadians
That’s day one of the mandate.
Those are Quebec cops, amirite? They’re renowned for being unable to successfully de-escalate minor situations like this.
The story goes: He went into the store without a mask. Tim Hortons (they all seem to happen in a Timmy’s) called the cops. The cops come and ask him to leave if he doesn’t wear a mask. He refuses. To leave. Then he resists arrest and then you get a girl cop hanging off his arm like a child on her father’s arm and another cop without his mask tackle him while two of the cops are wearing medical masks the CDC and the WHO say shouldn’t be for public use. All this while the guy’s girlfriend is filming and coughing a lung who then gets berated by a black girl (sure, why not? Let’s add race to this) for not wearing a mask. Girlfriends tells black girl to fuck off because racism and then the cop throws the girlfriend out of the store because there’s been a suspension of civil liberties.
All it was missing was the cashier saying, ‘Sir! Your Timbits!’
And what do the sheep respond? ‘It’s the law! Just put the mask!’ It’s not the law you fucken idiot. It’s an edict passed by the Premier under the premise of expanded powers for a health crisis. It’s like a King issuing a Royal Decree.A law, if you ever read a fucken book, is when it a bill is tabled and ratified by a legislature to be encoded in law. Ta-dah! Which means, any tickets issued probably can be contested I reckon. Not sure.
But he had choices! Just go use the drive-thru or simply not go! Yes, this is true but again, SUSPENSION OF CIVIL LIBERTIES. What don’t you grasp?
Enjoy the new normal and friction Quebec you idiots.
No one. And I mean no one comes out looking good here. The guy comes out ahead though if you operate from the premise the mandates are illegitimate. Which I think they are.
I don’t know if he would have gotten a ticket.
Hypocritical Orange Man is hypocritical
Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law school professor, said Republicans “have shown no consistency” between their refusal to give Garland a hearing and their insistence it would be proper to move forward on a vacancy during the waning days of a potentially lame-duck presidency.
Tobias said Trump and Republicans are calculating that playing up their commitment to adding another conservative justice is such an attractive pitch to base voters that it’s worth risking being labeled hypocrites by their opponents.
“Potential” lame duck appointment. I’m surprised they even admitted that. Last time, Obama was a lame duck, no matter what.
That makes a difference, to me.
Shut the fuck up lib
ertariantard!Oh the horror of being accused of hypocrisy by political opponents! Which one is the kettle?
Precisely. They wanted political war, and have zero compunctions about using exactly the same tactics when they’ve got the power to do so. Me today, you tomorrow.
Welcome to tomorrow, lefties.
It’s not even hypocrisy. It’s just plain old partisan politics.
McConnell, a Republican, opposed letting a Democrat pick a SCOTUS justice.
McConnell, a Republican, would be thrilled to help a Republican pick another SCOTUS justice.
Elections, as a Wise and Benevolent Great President said, have consequences.
This is the old bullshit “HE FIRED THE US ATTORNEYS” thing they level at GOP Presidents, when the first thing Clinton did when he got in office was fire the US Attorneys who had risen over 12 years of Republican Presidents. Because he wanted his partisans in control. Which is another example of how the GOP is controlled opposition. They come in, leave Democrats in power at every level outside of the White House, and are amazed when they can’t get their agenda passed.
Article II, Section 2:
The former President didn’t get what he wanted and the current President did. When any President does this same thing to bills passed by the legislature, it is called a pocket veto and nobody wails and gnashes their teeth over it. There is no constitutional crisis and there is no hypocrisy. Obama did not seek the Senate’s advice and he did not obtain the Senate’s consent to appoint Garland. That is the end of it. The current President, no doubt aided by the fact that he shares a party with the majority of the Senate, did seek their advice and did obtain their consent.
Get the fuck over yourselves.
The “hoist by their own petard” moment here was when the Democrats invented the “nuclear option” of eliminating the filibuster in the Senate to avoid working with republicans. Oops. How’d that work out for ya?
*sharpens stick to poke Gustave Lytton with*
Will the Portland city government declare the BLM/anarchist “mural” on the federal building a protected piece of Public Art?
It’s a fucking World Heritage site! This is where the resistance started! The bold stood here and said ‘No more!’.
A Clown World Heritage Site!
Only after complaining that the feds aren’t removing the graffiti fast enough?
Needz moar overwhelming force
At a news conference on Saturday, activists demanded the immediate defunding of the police department.
“We have a right to freedom of assembly. We have a right to protest. What happened yesterday was a travesty. That’s what happens in dictatorships,” Aislinn Pulley with Black Lives Matter Chicago said, adding she saw people beaten by police and officers using tear gas.
Amika Tendaji, another member of Black Lives Matter Chicago, said, “We cannot bodycam our way out of this. We cannot do any kind of reforms to get those people to act with humanity. They must be defunded.”
State Sen. Robert Peters also called for reform at the news conference.
“We must get police out of our communities and invest in housing, schools, social services, grocery stores,” he said. “That is what lifts up our communities.”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot confirmed there were “several reports of excessive force by the police,” adding that the Civilian Office of Police Accountability would address the complaints.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) confirmed Saturday in a statement that it is investigating “numerous complaints” of police misconduct.
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A veteran Chicago Police officer said Saturday some police officers felt they weren’t ready for Friday’s protest.
“I have 17 years on this job. Last night was another example of how our leaders have let the radicals take over,” the officer said. “We were outnumbered and unprepared once again. The initial officers on scene had no helmets or shields. Coppers were getting pelted with rocks, sticks, bottles and then shot with fireworks.”
The officer fears the growing violence puts officers lives in danger.
“The lack of leadership has already gotten dozens of officers hurt….if the police aren’t allowed to do what is needed we will be burying one of our own,” the veteran officer told CNN.
Outnumbered and outgunned. What’s a selfrespecting jackbooted thug to do? Bring in the dogs and firehoses.
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1284546170874998784
I do think they should use the firehoses there honestly. Not the dogs though. Making a dog bite a filthy commie is animal abuse.
Like, this is the problem here: the media, the culture, the education system have spent 50 years indoctrinating people that a “protest” is peaceful black people marching for their God given civil rights. So they just keep repeating peaceful protest, show the images and video that support that, and bury videos like that.
That’s a compelling piece of information, it’s dramatic, it’s interesting. If the media really was nonpartisan, interested only in sensational images and interesting stories, that would be a story worth writing. Talk to the black cop that’s having bottles thrown at him by white people in the name of ending racism.
Meanwhile, there’s people at the Portland riots saying “there’s no such thing as a peaceful protest” to defend criminal behavior, while ignoring that there have been many many many peaceful protests and the organizers failure to do so in Portland is a deliberate choice.
https://old.reddit.com/r/SocialistRA/comments/guy6vj/spread_this_to_other_protest_groups_this_is_how/
Notice “light mage” and “fire mage”.
Making a dog bite a filthy commie is animal abuse.
*chuckles warmly*
That’s kind of the double-edged sword of a free country: there’s a cascading effect when rights get disrespected. Police disrespect rights, civilians respond with further disrespect of rights of others (rioting, looting, tearing down statues, etc.), the authorities escalate and so on.
But when only one side gets condemned for those actions, one side is guaranteed not to stop. So ultimately neither will the other. Police will stand there and get hit with bricks for only so long, before retaliating. Whether that retaliation is justified or not is irrelevant. The retaliation is inevitable regardless.
Talk to the black cop that’s having bottles thrown at him by white people in the name of ending racism.
That’s just whataboutism. And deflection. Stay on topic. And besides, that hardly ever happens.