The temps here have cooled off to 109. I may have to break out my down jacket. But on the bright side, we have very hardy rioters, so the heat isn’t slowing them down. It is, however, making me rethink some of my life choices…
And there’s no shortage of birthdays, including a guy who was a good egg; a vastly underrated director; a brilliant comic whose talent was subsumed to other aspects; the male June Foray; a pretty decent fellow with a clarinet; a physicist beloved of anti-Big Bang cranks but actually a solid and creative guy; a guy who uttered one of the most memorable lines in movie history; and a guy who became a grup, then died.
There is also no shortage of news. After all, I’m not Brett. But there may be a theme. Like, the Wuhan panic may be coming to a close.
This gives me an erection. I mean, really, a quivering one.
The kind of erection that could put someone’s eye out.
“There better not be any Mexican in that riot!”
You have to be really, really hardy to riot in this heat.
To quote Martin Yan, “You cut it up, cut it up,cut it up. Isn’t that mahvelous?”
Look, she’s already dead, why are we keeping this up? OUCH, THAT STAPLER HURT!
You’ve heard of Speed Metal? Old Guy Music is Speed Jazz, featuring a birthday boy. Holy shit, it’s almost exhausting to listen to.
a guy who uttered one of the most memorable lines in movie history;
Didn’t Douglas Rain utter the memorable lines in that movie?
(Unless you were talking about Bunny Lake Is Missing, in which case I apologize.)
AFI would like to have a word with you.
I’m sorry, AFI, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
They also put Vertigo near the top of the all-time list, which is one of Hitchcock’s most overrated, tedious films.
That list sucks.
This should be at the top.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D9_5Qiik9c
I have to say, “My god, it’s full of stars” haunted me as a 6 year old for years. I didn’t get any of that movie when I was that young. I certainly didn’t pay any attention with as slow as it was. But I looked up from my legos during that end scene, and it stuck with me for a long time.
Have some “sorry, not sorry” from an elected NYC functionary.
I’m guessing it’s not the politicians and cops that they’re aiming to afflict, but the pawn shop owner down the street.
The politicians and cops are just slaves to the comfortable private citizens. So yeah they need to hurt them before the politicans can change.
Public Advocate sounds like a well paid, no show, job.
IOW, “Jumaane” (if that’s his real name) sound pretty fucking comfortable. The kind of person who should be afflicted, I suppose.
I would have guessed “Jumaane” is a woman.
Could go either way. Depends on whether it’s pronounced more like “Jermaine” or “Jumanji.”
No idea. I assumed a gender.
Wonder if the name is pronounced more like “Jew money” or “you(r) money”.
I was thinking along the lines of GT’s “Jumanji”.
::praying Jumaane’s middle initial actually is “G.”::
$185K plus benefits
First in line to replace the mayor
I’d say he’s part of the system.
Yep, it’s a do-nothing position specifically created for that purpose.
What did Amy Cooper do that’s illegal?
C. J. Pollard penned the line “the low spark of high heeled boys” which Traffic ran with.
Goddamn hailstorm. The gardennis fucked. And the cherries were just gettin ripe
So sorry to hear that, Pie. I hope some of the cherries survive.
Well it stopped. 10 minutes.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tXF6CZSt8fwBe1YaM-HZRrL_sTHGLy3b/view?usp=drivesdk
Lovely except for the layer of hail.
What a great garden. Mrs. Pi is looking for a nice bench.
You are living the high life, Pie, beautiful garden.
The lake is steaming probably due to the sudden cold air and ice. You americans and your SUVs
Sorry to hear about the cherries, Pie. I was asking people in the chat if cherries were coming back into season.
Because cherries. (Note: serious comment – I love cherries)
Good clarinetist, but not much of an actor.
Garret Wang?
Good one. He was better than John Frakes on the trombone.
Floyd protests are happening here in Ohio as well. So far it looks like it’s been directed at police and state buildings. Mass gatherings are still banned through July 1st here.
Down in Cincy, apparently some of the protestors blocked traffic on the interstate. There are plans for one in Dayton today. I hope maybe having it in daylight (and in pleasantly cool weather) keeps the violence down or out.
Did people run them over?
Sadly, no.
There’s a protest planned for Cleveland today as well. I’ll give the mayor credit for trying to get in front of it. Looks like instead of rib cook outs, fireworks, cookouts, it’s going to be protest season.
Which is why Im headed the opposite direction- to Urbana !
Yhe wrong conclusion will be reached there as well
II Nice town, Atlanta is. When I heard about the festivities, I texted my cousin who lives on Peachtree St to check in.
Me: Are you OK? Looks pretty ugly there.
Her: My building is locked down, I’m safe. And armed.
Me: Cool. Lock and load.
Her: Exactly!
She is a treasure. Also available if you can handle crazy Baptist women.
Do crazy Baptist women come with green cards?
They don’t come with dance cards.
There are few things i hate more than dancing.
The True Baptist issue is the wine and whiskey. Do they whine about wine is the question
Never go fishing with one Baptist, he’ll drink all your beer. Go fishing with two Baptists, then you keep all the beer for yourself.
Should’ve asked if the whine about whiskey.
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
Wine is fine but brandy is dandy
Phrasing?
“who lives on Peachtree St” — well hell, that only narrows it down to half the streets in Hotlanta and surrounding environs… 😉
Downtown hi-rise. “Movin’ on up”.
Pics? Of the, um, firearms.
Alfven was the modern king of vector calculus and differential equations. Magnetohydrodynamics are mathematically brainbreaking.
I mastered that at 14 myself
You put magnets on your junk?
That Benny fella is good but he needs more double bass drumming if he wants to make it.
Also, more cowbell.
Gene Krupa should know better. Is that him. I can’t tell on my small screen.
Yes, Krupa. The Keith Moon of jazz.
Several metal drummers I know have watched him in awe at his speed.
The problem with Krupa is that the old film formats can’t do him justice. He’s moving faster than the framerate.
It rained its ass off here yesterday. My yard is amudhole.
No ice is still something
I couple of weeks ago we had some nights below freezing. Killed a flowering plant I had planted for my wife and shocked a couple of our Japanese maples. A larger one lost pretty much all it’s leaves. I hope it recovers.
Those protestors went from hero to evil anti-media white supremacists in CNNs eyes.
What a coincidence, Our Esteemed Governor said the same thing.
White supremacists, drug cartels add to George Floyd chaos: governor
That’s why they need the Federal Funding
Killer Mike has a new album coming out next week.
Im sorry son i don’t listen to hip hop
including a guy who was a good egg
Booo!!! That is a terrible yolk.
Scrambled my brain, it did.
Sounds like when he died, he was but a shell of a man.
You people crack me up.
Castro Jr weighs in on the riots.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/29/justin-trudeau-george-floyd-reaction-racism
Why should US pols have all the fun groveling and stoking tension.
Uh-oh, somebody get Festus his blood pressure medication.
*pours a glass of Canadian whiskey*
At what point will CNN call riots riots I wonder although I give them credit for maintaining the narrative even when it’s their own ox being gored. Marching and carrying signs and yelling is a protest, breaking shit and vandalizing property isn’t.
If the protesters start peacefully calling for they’re civil liberties to be respected while carrying, they then become rioters, and dangerous domestic terrorists.
I watched some of the riots late last night on various YouTube outlets but couldn’t really find anything good. One of the major MSM outlets in Oakland was having a meltdown about the protesters not practicing social distancing. Then they interviewed the head of African American Chamber of Business in Oakland.
First question: Are you out there with the protesters?
Paraphrased response: “No, of course not. We’re in the middle of a pandemic and protesting violates social distancing and stay at home guidelines”
The rest of the interview was about how coronavirus is destroying the black community and we will need to rebuild society to account for the inequities of the virus among blacks combined with heavy condemnation of protesters across the country for failing to abide by stay at home and social distancing rules.
It was surreal. Even in the midst of violent riots across the country breaking out after watching MPD slowly execute a man on camera, the Progs still can’t let go of their talking points on coronavirus.
And they call us libertarians autistic.
“Please stay at least six feet apart while breaking windows and setting fires.”
::facepalm, headdesk::
For the children.
That pretty much sums up most of the outlets I was watching. “We can see that the protesters are not maintaining six feet of distance between them, as recommended by social distancing guidelines, but at least most are wearing masks.”
Yeah, no shit they are wearing masks.
So… in areas where mask wearing is an enhancement (or a crime in and of itself), how does that square with Covid theater?
The credit union where I work (in the back office) has this procedure in place for the branch lobbies that we’ve reopened:
I did some banking yesterday, and commented to the teller that a few months ago anyone walking into a bank with their face covered would immediately be suspicious. Now its encouraged.
Yes, it doesn’t.
Because they think they have a better chance of getting some of that free money that way.
And I’d say they’re right, Congress has gone full MAKE IT RAIN over the coronavirus.
One of the major MSM outlets in Oakland was having a meltdown about the protesters not practicing social distancing.
One of the local news channels out of Albany NY made it a point to call the protest there a socially-distanced protest.
The interviewed the same fucking activist they’d had at the front of their rolodex for probably 40 years now.
I don’t suppose it has occurred to them that the pent-up frustration from lockdown might eventually find an outlet. It’s not as if this sort of cop behavior never happened before, I wonder why this time it led to violence.
This is what happens when you keep striking your flint next to a tinderbox. Eventually a spark catches and creates an ember.
You can’t expect them to violate their programming until some new code is introduced. If they get an update they’ll do a 180 if that’s what they’re told to do.
The rest of the interview was about how coronavirus is destroying the black community and we will need to rebuild society to account for the inequities of the virus among blacks combined with heavy condemnation of protesters across the country for failing to abide by stay at home and social distancing rules.
This is the angle NPR is taking this morning: “most of the essential workers are minority, minorities are hit hardest by the vid, cops kill minorities the most……….ect’
So. Damn. Tedious.
I had to turn it off. Can only watch the country commit suicide for so long.
We had actual protests here. No riots.
I bet we had some too. I wonder why some of them turn into riots. My guess is that simply it is the presence of a few people who want to riot, and that it starts with a small catalyst.
All you need are a few rabble rousers to take the first step and the others will follow.
I gather Minneapolis has an antifa presence. I’d lay money they started the looting, arson, etc.
My son has a number of college friends/acquaintances who are live-streaming and posting. Antifa is there along with a heavy young male thrill-seeker element and in at-least some cases they are casting the first stone.
It does. We aren’t Portland or San Fran, but we’ve got some. Maybe you know of this guy? He’s our attorney general.
People protested in Baltimore last night and, surprisingly, nothing else happened.
An in depth look at Trump’s EO viv a vis social media from the Epoch Times guy for anyone interested (about 21 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9keS0ffzS-k
Speaking of the clarinet…
https://youtu.be/kkxqcWhym9U
Best use of the clarinet by a rock band?
Best use of an oboe in a rock song. (Yes, I posted this earlier this week, but relevance)
My bad. All those things with reeds are basically the same right? Real men play the French horn.
Best use of a bassoon.
One of my very favorite bands.
An old flame was a bassoonist, she played this incessantly:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tears+of+a+clown&t=brave&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZaMX0Cs5Bc4
Too bad she was not a flute aficionado.
I should’ve said “modern pop” song instead of rock
Letters to the Local Rag: Come At Me Bro
If a person sincerely believed anyone within 6-ft/unmasked was a threat they wouldn’t venture out.
I’m not going to make any jokes about your height, but if you stood next to your husband (or me, for that matter), we’d still have our breathing apparatus 6 feet apart.
You keep your breathing apparatus away from me!
That’s what all the kids say.
Superstition as science and moral indignation. Super.
Imagine that. HEALTHY people are the enemy now. Yesterday I was listening to doctors and they were saying even if you have no symptoms you can spread Covid.
Um. Isn’t that, like, the case with the common cold? We’re all asymptomatic of something no?
These people are bananas.
You aren’t wearing a mask to stop the spread of a disease. You wear a mask to show solidarity with all the people who hid in their bathtubs for the last 3 months. We all know there are two types of people- the folks who took this disease seriously, and sacrificed on their staycation, and then there were the people trying their best to kill grandma. If things go back to normal, not only will we be unable to tell who tried to kill grandma, but we will also be unable to recognize the folks who tried their damndest to put our country in cryo-sleep to protect the old.
By the way- this is why a vaccine doesn’t matter. A vaccine doesn’t prove that you are sufficiently penitent. What we need is a bracelet or pin that proves that you are rich enough to have suffered through the whole thing in the proper ways- a red band, with maybe a yellow star for every month you sheltered in place? And a sickle if you are a subscriber to zoom? A hammer if you have ordered at least 20 meals from door dash, in solidarity with the workers?
Did anyone play the vid is MSNBC reported getting called out for playing mask theater in Wisconsin?
Yes. Several times.
I am sincerely hoping that these riots will actually effect some change in the way cops operate. Dear “Good Cops”, if you exist, speak the fuck up, willya?
/nosarc
/naive little git
Policing is filled with people who only respond to violence. They won’t change until they are made to suffer the consequences of their actions. Abolish QI and automatic death sentence to any cop found guilty of commiting a capital crime. No appeal.
Qualified immunity is a big problem and is the root of a lot of the police issues. The SC might restrict it a bit but it’ll never be eliminated.
Yeah. I don’t trust the SCOTUS to do anything about it. But I bet you could get a state legislature to abolish it.
One of those deplorable, economically-obsessed, grandma-killing Nazi states, maybe.
Recruiting, training, incentives, management, and discipline would all have to be overhauled. Some county sheriffs departments are probably close to that idea but no big American city I’ve ever visited.
Abolishing QI will do very little unless the police are actually made liable in the first place. Even if you abolish QI, the taxpayers, not the police, will be the ones footing the bills.
Abolish QI and make it so that payments from lawsuits come from the police budget and the pension fund.
Without QI, the police need to answer to a power even greater than the tax payer.
In Insurance Agency.
Yes. And the state legislature should take back the decision to indemnify only those they agree to indemnify.
And money. Eliminate public sector unions and this all changes. As it is now, public sector unions have entirely changed the way the engine of government is driven. That along with QI is the chain that binds all of us, but particularly low-income neighborhoods. It’s well and truly fucked.
This time it will be different!
Presto!
Letters to the Local Rag: I Have A Question?
/shoves table spoon of pablum into mouth.
I first read that as “shoves tablespoon of opium into mouth.”
I like my version better.
Shut up, hippie.
At least they aren’t dragging people out of their cars…. yet
https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-nw-black-lives-matter-757-protests-20200530-cxmrvw3b3jhs3dkcnbs6y7atta-story.html
Funny story (well not for HRBT commuters), my wife’s car somehow caught fire right after getting through the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel just before rush hour started. She made it out okay, but they shut down the tunnel for a couple hours as the car burned. It actually reignited after being placed on the tow truck. I forgot exactly how many miles and how many hours the backup was but she easily beat these protesters.
The tunnel causes engines to fail, cars to ignite, tires to blow, this is known…
Seal off the entrances to the tunnel.
I don’t get it. There are safer ways to loose support for your cause.
Pew did a poll asking Dem voters if it bothered then If their candidate was an old white man. The largest group to say yes was…. White voters. Particularly affluent educated white voters.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/reason.com/2020/04/22/poll-50-percent-of-white-democrats-are-bothered-biden-is-an-old-white-man-most-black-and-hispanic-democrats-dont-care/%3famp
It’s hilarious because the one time the Democrats ran a black candidate, he wasn’t an actual American black man. He was raised overseas, the son of a Kenyan Communist and a white American red diaper baby. He went to a private school in Hawaii and then on to the Ivy League. I’m blacker than Barack Obama. Lived my whole life in a majority black American city. Attended that cities public school system. Never sniffed an Ivy or a Wall Street job.
White Democratic voters would never ever vote for an actual black American man who grew up in an actual American inner city, or who grew up on a farm in the Black Belt, or was from a prosperous black family, went to a HBCU Divine Nine type guy. They want the same old Ivy League/elite progressive background, just with a mocha dusting on top. Like, just for starters, the average American black man’s attitude towards the LGBTQ crowd is a complete non starter for the Democratic Party.
A well-spoken black man they want. Eh?
Well spoken isn’t it. It’s about being a proggie. Take Douglas Wilder, a VA politician. He grew up in Richmond, the son of a salesman and a maid, the grandson of slaves. He waited tables and shined shoes to put himself through a bachelors in chemistry at a VUU, a HBCU. Served in combat in Korea, awarded a Bronze Star at Porkchop Hill, leaving the Army as a sergeant. Law degree from Howard University, another HBCU. First black man to win a VA Senate Seat, then the first black man to win a statewide election as Lt Governor. He spent two months going all over Old Virginny, winning the support of actual backwoods racists. Then elected governor. Later on decided to be Richmond’s first elected mayor in decades.
Wilder is a liberal, not a progressive. He’s got a STEM degree. He served his country in combat. He’s 20 times the man Coonman is. I’m truly regretful that he didn’t enter the 1992 election, I think he would have been a much better President than Clinton. I remember he came to my high school and made a speech, and a student questioned him on a development project he’d backed along the river front, she was talking about the environmental aspects. To which he said “Young lady, people need jobs.” that he was here for the people of the city, not the park service. No one wanted a dirty river, but the point of government was to advance opportunity and growth.
Can you imagine a Democrat saying that now?
Wilder also balanced the state budget without raising taxes. He was far from perfect – terrible on guns, one handgun a month was his bill – but he was one of the very rare Democrats I would be OK with.
I found the perfect woman for Q
Wow. Not to my personal tastes, but she’s a very well-put-together lady, and a great choice of outfit for the talk she’s giving.
Well, we didn’t get lockdown riots, but the riots we are getting now are really showing how ineffective these Democrat mayors are.
You mean HOW RAYYCISSS Minnesotans are.
The news this morning told me these protestor crowds include white supremacists. So that checks out.
Now that more jobs have been destroyed, unless the Broken Window Theory really is the New Economics Stimulus, this is going to require another round of Personal Financial Enhancement.
“Unemployed? Due to Protests? You may be entitled to an additional $600 a week besides the $600 a week and Unemployment Income check you had previously been receiving. Call 1-800 Same as Downtown for more information”
“If you received a free TV, tires or liquor during this period your first check may reflect that bonus as a deduction”
/Not a real offer, yet
WHO and CDC Differ on Mask Guidelines
I’ve been informed by reliable sources that the WHO is infallible. Now I’m confused.
In light of conflicting information, isn’t the prudent thing to do nothing? I.e., no mask wearing?
In light of the looming depression and economic catastrophe, the prudent thing to do is drop all this nonsense and get what is left of our businesses running again.
THIS and THIS
[insert Bart Simpson “At least you tried” cake meme here]
Didn’t Fauci recently say it’s mostly symbolic at this point?
He’s right but what will Julia Roberts and all the dimwits who staked their hero worshipping tokens into Fauci do?
Somebody asked yesterday if the killer cop’s wife would stand by him. Guess that’s a no.
Wait, he was married to the Laotian Mrs. Minnesota?
Was. Another bizarre aspect to this bizarre case.
TRY READING THE LINKS.
You trying to start more shit in Minnesoda?
Laotions !== Hmongs
If aren’t gonna take the time to learn the difference between Cambodians, Laotians, Vietnamese and Hmong just call them “slants”. Truth be told, they’d all be happier with that slur than to be identified with any of their other historical enemies.
In Memphis, there were so few Asians, that everyone just called all Asians “Chinese” and it made my wife and her Korean friends bug shit crazy mad.
Bets on him being abusive?
Wow. Just last night I was wondering what she was thinking. Usually we hear ‘he’s a good father’ and all that.
But this dude has literally no support. Wonder what his lawyers will do.
Wear masks.
Go to jail, get charged with murder, have divorce papers served on you–
All he did was kill a dude. WTF?! /cop
No one’s asking the real question here. Why is MN crowning a 40 something Y/O Miss MN? Ya’ll ain’t got no good looking 20 somethings or what?
https://www.nj.com/essex/2020/05/george-floyd-protest-coming-to-nj-city-this-weekend.html
This will end well, no doubt. The organizers have taken these precautions to ensure a peaceful protest:
Guaranteeing there will not be a repeat of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Newark_riots
Burn it down. If the morons running the state get distracted enough, they may not notice if the rest of the state opens up.
Not much left to burn there, I guess that’s a silver lining.
Godspeed, commies.
Viva la revolucion camaradas!
Sounds like something out of Atlas Shrugged
POP goes the weasel’s.
“The People’s Organization for Progress”
I see.
So, they proclaim Lincoln was a racist and tear down his statue? Because that’s probably the only sort of progress you can expect from another group of morons.
“ The People’s Organization for Progress”
I am highly skeptical of any group whose name starts with “The People’s…”
Or has the word ‘progress’ in it.
They are the ones whi stand for The People and ar iften disapointed in the actual people
‘People’s’ and ‘Progress’ in the same phrase = Marxism or communism.
“RED HOT LINKS”
When it’s been in the 50s-60s for 2 months and all of the sudden it’s low 80s with north of 80% humidity, it sure feels hot. I had to close all the windows and patio doors yesterday and turn the AC on, I was just sitting at my desk sweating.
What in the fuck is this?
https://mobile.twitter.com/dontgivashirt/status/1266655244945063936
Nsfe i guess
What, you’ve never seen a stairway made of jizz before?
Stairway to Heaven, is what I think you meant
There’s no construction around here. Maybe Paul Krugman sent them.
https://twitter.com/mel_faith1/status/1266685722469306369?s=19
question is: does Paul Krugman have a phobia of glass, or does the sound of a breaking window arouse him?
You’d have to ask Winston’s Mom.
Not the Waffle House! No!
https://twitter.com/The_Real_Fly/status/1266573510006226944?s=09
Waffle House has some serious juju. Hurricanes, riots… When your government bases a danger index on your restaurant, you are officially bad-ass.
Silicone Saturday is back once again to save your ass.
http://archive.li/8WELw
Some thicc AF women there. Mmm.
Just a reminder / happier note in case it slipped folks mind. Space-X is going to try again with the Demo-2 launch this morning/afternoon (evening, Pie?)
Thanks for reminding me!
And the forecast looks a lot better today, to the point where I might be able to see it from south Florida.
Night more like… 22 30 ish
They yelled “GET ME THE FUCK OFF THIS PLANET, NOW!!”
“First Hmong Mrs. Minnesota”
So does this mean he’s only racist against blacks, or does it mean that he’s just drunk on power and likes killing? Or both?
I don’t know, but I do know when she rode in parades it was in the back of a Gran Torino.
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1266523040831209475
I like Crowder’s take: If you’re a police officer violently abusing your power, you’re a THUG. If you’re a citizen looting local businesses for personal profit, you’re a THUG. Any questions?.
Sometimes I think the Powerline guys might be lurking here.
They seem to share some prejudices
Other good ones at the Week in Pictures
As long as you do the duck test it’s not a NAP violation.
This is a good one.
Good morning, Old Man!
Wow, Minne-heavy lynx this morning. I’ve been deliberately avoiding the news, as I am rioted out.
Amy is, was, and always will be a piece of shit. I hope nothing but bad things for her career.
The Hmong hottie is not standing by her man. This guy’s scumbag quotient was pretty high to begin with. Doesn’t speak well for her judgement…
Old Guy Music is incredible! My percussionist daughter watched it twice – she was astonished at the speed of the vibe player. Cool stuff!
I hope y’all have a great day! My city is under curfew again tonight after 8. A suburb. 25 minutes away from the incident.
*shakes head*
So Walz rolled in with only 500 Nat Guard (probably would have been more, but a bunch of them retired when they got orders to deploy) and it did nothing, so he is going to add another 1000? Yeah, the time has come to roll out all your Nat Guard. No more incrementalism.
Am I wrong for hoping that when the city comes begging for money to rebuild, they get told to go pound sand? You burnt it, you replace it.
Especially ultra-woke restaurant owner.
To be fair, the restaurant owner might never have said that at all and it is just something his stupid daughter said.
To be fair, that quote from the restaurant owner is obvious horseshit.
It was on FB! Are you saying everything I see on there hasn’t been 100% fact checked?
Don’t hold back on us… you’re planning to help yourself to another TV or stereo tonight, aren’t you?
White Supremist are leading BLM protests? So they’re heroes then right?
I actually need a new vacuum packer, so I may be waiting my opportunity.
What a clown show the local pols have shown themselves to be. They refuse to drop the hammer and quell this crap, and then try to pretend that all those rioters we see are white supremacists?
Uffda.
The first day or so, all the pols were far more worried about the rioters not social distancing from each other than anything else.
Minnesoda Man: Someone hold my blunt….
Classic line from a video that our own AG is tweeting out to support conspiracy theories that the riots were started by the cops.
He also was the person who spray painted in the door Free shit inside for everyone.
Almost certainly an outside provocateur but almost certainly not a cop.
Yep. As I mentioned earlier, antifa shitbags are using the protests to camouflage their violence, violence that doesn’t have a fucking thing to do with George Floyd – see here.
They’re absolute scum.
I’d be all for some investigation into the funding of the Antifa twats as they’re obviously being systematically funded from somewhere. At this point it’s domestic terrorism plain and simple and they fuck up everything they touch.
yeah I think he’s trying to deflect and cover for antifa that he’s sympathetic too.
Minneapolis Governor says lacks of arrests and response is about “math” – they arrested less than 20 people in Minne. and ~20 in St. Paul.
And what 3 or 4 of those arrests were of a CNN news crew?
“Just a few weeks ago, 75 or so protestors at the Michigan capitol were going to get everyone killed; now hundreds of often tightly packed protestors gather in cities around the country and no one even mentions social distancing anymore”
https://twitter.com/RichLowry/status/1266572355419152384
There is a large gray heron who is just sitting on the edge of the lake looking at me. It is up ti something.
It wants cake.
Looks like mostly white people protesting downtown Columbus. Probably from OSU.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/peaceful-protests-taking-place-at-ohio-statehouse
Instigators getting lectured
https://twitter.com/theangiestanton/status/1266481829592399872?s=09
Antifa is a component of the ultra-right wing. – sounds legit
I guess NASA’s launching some spaceship guys into orbit? I don’t know if I agree with that. We’ve got plenty of problems here on earth, I don’t know why anyone should get to escape them.
Rocket Crabs!
Great band name!
I’m assuming that someone covered the fact that the local medical examiner’s report said George Floyd wasn’t asphyxiated?
Uffda.
Dr. Baden of Eric Garner fame is heading to MN for an independent autopsy.
In a sane world, I don’t think it should matter. The cop clearly used too much force. He’s guilty of Floyd’s death no matter whether it was asphyxiation or because his heart gave out due to the stress.
But now we can have a really good shit flinging argument between the copsuckers and BLM.
Yeah, this is the least important part to me. Its like saying “You killed him with your gun” “yeah but I put it in a pillow case and beat him to death with it, I didn’t shoot him!!”
You doing OK in your neck in the woods?
Yep, all quiet on my shady and quiet street. Kids are watching space shuttle stuff, then we are going to do some model painting this afternoon in the back yard.
And the car’s full of gas and I know nine different ways to get to the highway from here.
Maybe that’s like how Epstein hung himself, even though he had three neck fractures, including they hyoid bone, and the ligature wound didn’t match the noose he supposedly used.
Stolen base here … “potential intoxicants”.
It’s a good thing it was the black cop that laid her out.
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1266587860947394560?s=19
From what I’ve seen, the cops have been showing amazing restraint this week.
But I’m still not going to talk back much less punch one..
Police brutality is one thing. You go slapping someone in the face unprovoked like that is another thing. She deserved it.
The best part of the Mrs. Chauvin article is in the picture where she is holding the dog, the dog has clearly pee’d on her leg.
So I can’t go to work, have guests in my apartment, get a haircut, or shoot some pool, but I can go the march/protest/riot at city hall in Philly shortly with a few thousand (tens of tbousands?) of my closest friends.
One other weird thing is I can now openly drink in the street or park. The bars/restaurants are selling drinks to go. The cops are turning a blind eye to the public drinking, I assume on orders from above.
Strange times.
This is what we get for electing people who hate us.
But just think about how the virus numbers will jump after those
oh, we’re not tracking that, well, just think about how Georgia is awash in the blood of the infected dead.
“the infected dead”
Sick Band!
I tried to market Bend the Curve featuring
I don’t actually know bands or go to musics so I’m lost here.
Maybe the real CV vector was store receipts? People didn’t get infected because they looted their stuff and didn’t come in contact with those deadly receipts? It is all a plot by the evil Capitalists to kill us all! Receipts are the new small pox blankets.
All these protests should be in front of the Democratic headquarters in whatever shithole Democratic city is turning a blind eye to cops out of control.
You mean city hall?
No, the actual Dem hq. It makes the point better if the media would cover it. Specially if the hq is burning down.
You know what is really going to be a nut punch for our gov?
When two weeks from now there is no spike in CV infections/deaths. All this rioting and lack of social distancing better juke his CV numbers or people might start asking some tough questions about the effectiveness of lockdowns.
It’ll all be handwaved away.
They will just continue to post the increased positive tests due to increased testing. If that doesn’t happen they’ll just ignore it and pivot to whatever. Maybe we’ll get another impeachment show over the people trump murdered by playing golf and drinking bleach
Good thread:
“We are witnessing glimpses of the full insurrection the far-left has been working on for decades. Within hours, militant antifa cells across the country mobilized to aid BLM rioters. The first broken window is the blood in the water for looters to move in. The fires come next…”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1266582447195488258
If the cops just have to kill people, antifa is right there. Just sayin’.
I just heard on CNN that it’s the Russians who are doing the instigating. I’m not making this up. There’s a panel and I believe it was a black professor from Harvard who said it.
Everyone on tv is blaming outside agitators and no one has mentioned Soros as far as I’ve seen, not even Fox.
Oh, now it’s white supremacists causing the riots. CNN is better than the Bee