OK, I lied. SP and I enjoyed a nice warm day, a toasty 111°. Well, not “enjoyed,” exactly, more like “screamed in continual pain.” Satan’s Pit of Fire no longer scares us- “Meh, is that all ya got?” Downtown is even worse, what with the fires. It’s sick fun, though, to watch the rioters’ feet sink into the melting asphalt, trapping them like flies on flypaper. I shouldn’t make fun of them, though, they’re acting out of principle. Mostly the principle of “I’m fucking tired of being cooped up and ignored, I have a pretext now, LOOK AT ME!” Or maybe it’s something else, something very familiar… Whatev. We’re under an “Excessive Heat Warning” which is due to be lifted in November. Last night, things were held down a bit as we got a massive duststorm with gale-force winds. If you took off your mask, you got a free dermabrasion.
But as ev, there’s birthdays, including a guy with a beard who jacked off excessively; a guy who tried to make clowns respectable, which is like trying to exceed the speed of light; possibly my favorite comedian and comic actor (WC Fields is the only thing keeping me from being unequivocal; a guy whom I always wished would have a bad day; everyone’s favorite bad cop; the only Nobel Laureate that I ever knew personally who ended up in jail (and I’ve known more than a few…); a major figure in the Mormon church who just happens to be the son and brother of my PhD advisors; a brilliant cartoonist and major influence on me; a hilarious comic actress whose character SP aspires to be; and another terrific comic actor, whose megaflop TV show was delightfully surreal (explaining the floppiness).
Before the news, let me drop in an amusing classic.
“We’re not the Judean People’s Front, we’re the People’s Front of Judea!”
“We brought some hot dish. The real kind, don’t ya know, with Tater Tots!”
St. Paul’s mayor beclowns himself. This won’t hurt his career.
I’m gonna bet the headline gets changed by the time this goes up. I’ve screenshot the old one just in case.
Difference this time is that white people have taken over. Hijinx ensue. And around here, we only have the classiest looters.
Off topic: one more reason I despise Bush. Putting this guy on the court.
Steelers fans will not be denied.
Old Guy Music one of those HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK deals, and it’s so great that I have the urge to kill whoever cut it short. HOLY FUCK.
“Downtown is even worse, what with the fires.”
I wasn’t expecting that in a red state such as AZ.
Arizona is in no sense a Red state.
Reddish purple?
its very red except for the big cities, just like everywhere,
I’m cold right now, it’s 67
Bluish purple. Our two senators are Sinema (deep blue) and McSally (Red, but an appointee, who is getting crushed in the polls and will be certainly replaced by “I Married A Half Wit” Kelly). The huge increase in population here has been dominated by people from places like CA and IL (who, me?), who tend to continue their former voting patterns.
I may just have to vote this time, just to stand my ground one last time, if we get that far,
I was under the impression all the unrest would make the non-blue voters stay home.
Sadly, this. Flipping McSally’s seat could well flip the Senate. Which would IMO be a Bad Thing.
There are agitators and assholes in the red states too. There won’t be days and days without a reaction though.
Arkansas is very much a red state and we had protests (riots) last night in Little Rock with broken windows, tear gas and blocking traffic on the interstate. And they should be ashamed because, from what I saw, there was very little social distancing.
“PHOENIX – Police officials in Scottsdale have declared an unlawful assembly Saturday night amid unrest that saw looting and property damages.
According to Scottsdale Police officials, damages were reported at businesses in the area of the Scottsdale Fashion Square, and various roads in the area, including Scottsdale Road, have been closed to traffic.
Video taken by SkyFOX show people targeting the Apple Store at Scottsdale Fashion Square, managing to break in. Some of the people who broke into the store were seen throwing out what appears to be merchandise from inside the store.
Others were also seen entering Scottsdale Fashion Square, via another entrance near the Apple Store. Some were also seen running out with what appears to be merchandise from stores inside the shopping center.”
Scottsdale?
“As of the census of 2010…the racial makeup of the city was 89.3% White”
If you’re going to loot, loot in a rich area. That’s where most of the rioters are from anyway.
Pampered white kids LARPing and instigating clashes with the police. I suggest they go to West Baltimore and try it there.
“NYPD sergeant’s union shoots back at de Blasio after mayor asks for ‘light touch’ with protesters”
Unfortunately, they couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn.
Anyway, they are rioters, not protesters.
Deblasio’s keeping mostly quiet because everybody knows he’s on the rioters’ side.
The sad part of all this is that there’s a significant number of Democrats and media sitting back and thinking “Mission Accomplished”
By burning their own cities down? All they have done is tell the rest of America that even more force is needed to maintain order, any chance of reform from this is dead, and we will just get an even more militarized police.
Yes. Exactly.
Need to resurrect Nixon. That guy knew law and order. That’s the bizarre outcome. Damage done and get more calls for more power. Police budget increases, more laws, more protests/rioting. Win/win
Won’t be anything left to gentrify. Detroit all over again.
The thing is the police are already militarized and still didn’t do anything to stop this shit.
To be fair they were also in most instances ordered to use a light touch, I don’t disagree, I am simply saying what I would bet many people think.
It’s the only solution people who aren’t anarchist/libertarians have to the problem of maintaining order.
Send in Meal Team Six!
Stopping this shit is hard. Arresting the press, shooting bean-bags at people on their porch looking to protect their property is easy, so they do that instead. They didn’t start arresting rioters until about 1:00 here in MSP as far as I can tell, but they were doing the press-arresting and home-owner-bean-bagging starting at curfew.
Low-hanging fruit
It’s hard when the elected manager of the city government is in agreement with the people destroying your city.
It becomes another Detroit or Baltimore. A lot of impoverished people who vote for democrats. WIN!
“any chance of reform from this is dead”
Well the, mission accomplished. That’s exactly what democrats and the media wanted.
If social distancing is over, can we reopen the fucking bars and restaurants here?
This is all so stupid, I can’t even.
Only if you’re going to burn them down, otherwise you’ll be arrested.
You can come across the border into Ohio now. DeWine signed an order that rescinded the order to ban out of state liquor sales to PA residents. We have bars and restaurants open, with idiotic (and in several instance I’ve seen… ignored) restrictions here.
Good morning, Old Man.
I don’t even know where to start. I guess I’m glad other cities are getting a taste of the insanity, but this is ridiculous. The ‘outside agitators’ story is being flogged mercilessly in the press here, despite doses of reality.
Really fucked up. My kid works at the local Fleet Farm and yesterday he fielded calls about paintball masks, gun purchase procedures and other fun stuff. He said the line to buy guns was about 100 people long. Bizarre.
Not remotely surprising that the Supreme Cunts found yet another asterisk in the BoR. I guess it really is just a piece of paper, huh?
Chet Atkins is absurd. Your video rolled into a clip of him explaining his unique fingerpicking style. Amazing.
Well, I hope all of you find something positive to do today. It’s a beautiful morning here, so I’m gonna hit the trails and try to hike off my rage.
Make it a great day, y’all!
John Roberts is doing us proud, isn’t he?
He’s just doing what he’s told by whoever has the dirt on him.
12 hours before shit started, I placed an order to be delivered to a local government-mandated-intermediary-for-a-particular-type-of-constitutional-protected-item-hint-it-isn’t-a-printing-press because I found a good sale. I think I need to bring in a gift basket and an “I’m sorry” card when I go to pick it up this week…
Today I’m going to be driving between the suburbs and downtown bringing in food and building supplies though.
Stay safe man.
I’m rehydrating, and getting ready to head out to a spin class this afternoon (it’s unseasonable cold here, in the 50’s), and trying to decide which (it should be if, but I’m being honest here) local restaurant I should support after the ride.
https://existentialterror.tumblr.com/post/613213047605100544/historieofbeafts-at-this-point-its-been-pretty
SEA SMITH?
One of his victims.
Someone should put together a montage of all of the pearl-clutching at CNN, MSNBC and elsewhere about the “end the lockdown” protesters not wearing masks and gathering in groups… then contrast with the almost religious coverage of the “protests” taking place now.
Bonus round – all of the panic over “armed assaults on the capital” by people not causing any actual harm, versus the celebratory tone covering people violently attacking police in completely unrelated districts.
Boy, this is really going to make Joe Biden’s choice of running mate difficult.
He could bring in a military expert like Gov. Walz’s daughter
She’s not lying but maybe that’s something she needs to keep under her hat.
Nah, Bait and Switch. Hope is luring all the protesters/rioters and the NG will swoop down upon them like white on rice, oops can’t say that. Anyway Hope brings hope to the protesters.
Meanwhile business in Chicago goes on as usual, 10 murders on Fri-Sat but now can be attributed to protest although most or all are inhouse kills.
He should pick Kellie Chauvin.
“Boy, this is really going to make Joe Biden’s choice of running mate difficult.”
No, no it isn’t. It’s already been made by the DNC and it’s Warren. Biden can’t actually make any choices, since he doesn’t even remember who he was going to choose from.
By the way, our very own Huge Warty Man recently became the second Glib* to get retweeted by Michael Malice.
https://mobile.twitter.com/wartyhugeman/status/1266822768164773894
*The first was Player From Manhattan.
*The first was Player From Manhattan.
FYI
Playa, del Rey
Manhattan, Beach
get it
Yes, people keep correcting my lame joke. I was trying to emulate Tonio, who once hilariously called Swiss Servator “Swedish Waiter”.
That’s funny 🙂
Ha. Thanks.
“Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four liberals in an unsigned order that denied the church’s application for a stay of the statewide restrictions imposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. They limit attendance at 25 percent of capacity or a maximum of 100 people.
“Although California’s guidelines place restrictions on places of worship, those restrictions appear consistent with the free exercise clause of the First Amendment,” Roberts wrote in concurring with the order.”
CWAA
There is probably an exception for places of worship that engage in human sacrifice.
What is CWAA??? Did the Chicano Writers and Artists Association influence this court decision? Is the church affiliated with the Children of the World Adoption Agency?
Christ, what an Atanrjuat!
Thank you! I’d been wondering that myself. I thought maybe it was a Twelve Step program in Clown World.
Christian Women’s Anal Anonymous
/runs away sniggering
The Fast Runner thanks you.
“those restrictions appear consistent with the free exercise clause of the First Amendment,” Roberts wrote in concurring with the order.”
It’s a tax.
Let’s ignore the fact that “free exercise “ and “restrictions “ are contradictory.
Dragon is getting ready to dock with the ISS,
SpaceX link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZsnKGV8TE
Thanks for the reminder. So cool that USA has manned launch capability again, not that we should have ever had a gap…
In the dark right now….. draco thrusters firing, making for some really cool visuals.
That was cool. Looks like docking in about an hour.
They are about to do the manual control test/demo. If it happens in the next 10 minutes it will be in the dark.. so lots of draco fire.
I have it on, they’re still depressurizing that entry space, or something like that…
I started watching the HBO series the Watchmen a few days before this rioting stuff started.
For those who have not watched it…. it takes place in an alternate history of the US where the Klan is much more prevalent and powerful. There are race-riots and police killings…
One plot point is that the Klan stand-in group is creating violent outbreaks in the black community by using mind-control projectors to force them to assault each other, and programming white people to attack black people using those same mesmer devices.
Strange timing
I read the premise, rolled my eyes, and didn’t bother. Twenty or thirty years ago there would have been enough people with the historical knowledge to pull it off, though the special effects wouldn’t have been as good. But today? I don’t think anyone anywhere near a television production knows anything about history other than racism, and even that they have an extremely shallow understanding of.
Racial justice protesters torch United Daughters of the Confederacy HQ in Richmond.
I’m getting a broken link but I’ll take your word for it.
Fixed.
Thanks.
I hate to do this cliche but: remember but 4 months ago when the gun rights protestors portended a “second Charlottesville” seems to me that this and Charlottesville have AntiFa in common.
They also have Profa/BLM* violence in common.
*On that I sometimes wonder if black lives actually matter to BLM. I maintain that they don’t.
On one hand, I don’t want to venture forth, on the other, I need to resupply.
At least the heat wave broke and the temperature is down to a comfortable 53.
Better yet, the humidity is way down and it’s no longer soup for air.
If you need to resupply then do so before things go completely into the ditch.
Yeah I suspect if you get to the store before 11 or so you’ll be fine because most yahoos, miscreants, googans and ne’er-do-wells are still sleeping it off.
Or you could just wait until the protesters open the store for you and get a nice discount….
Heh. Luckily I live in the burbs. So far so good.
Sigh. The news coverage of the riot in SLC constantly talked about how restrained the cops were and patient. Fuck. This all started with a cop murdering someone and now the news is praising the profession because they handled the rioters in a semi-competent way.
Fuck the antifa guys instigating this shit. Wrong means, wrong ends.
And fuck the people claiming the rioters are white supremacists.
I just saw a funny tweet, “Why are celebrities donating bail money to white supremacists?”
Competent? I suppose they are competently not doing there jobs as they let people riot and loot. Business owners and other taxpayers are definitely getting their money’s worth…
My God Roberts.
No. Shit. Worst Justice in living memory. What an asshole.
Water break. I am taking advantage of a relatively cool morning to cut grass. Back later.
yup. At least you know how RBG et al will rule. This asshole doesn’t care about the law, but making the SCOTUS appear neutral, which ends up undermining it even further
Here’s an article from The Atlantic in 2007 (before it turned into a leftist pile of shit) where Roberts is interviewed. I remember reading this when it came out and thought “This guy is an idiot.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/01/robertss-rules/305559/
He [Roberts] is the kind you have to wind up on Sunday.
He and the leftist justices must have a super secret copy of the constitution that has things in it that my copy does not.
Slutty Sunday thinks looters are undocumented shoppers and rioters are performance artists.
http://archive.li/ZGjgh
I’d swive #12.
I ❤️ you so much.
?
Archaic word meaning copulate. Huh, I honestly assumed it meant “make her into a sister wife” at first glance. Who am I kidding, I’d swive any one of them.
I used it in my latest book. A lot.
#1 does PAWG right, tho maybe a Latina with dyed hair.
Well, I spoke too soon in the zoomy last night. Kansas City got violent last night, in the most expensive part of town. There was talk of the national guard.
Right now on the news, people are picking up the decorative rocks in the medians to take away ammunition. Backdrop is a store completely boarded up, all its windows broken.
Black sheriff being i terviewed speaking much sense, but how much of it does he really believe once the military gear goes on? Dunno.
The Plaza?
Yeup. That’s where all protests go by default, fueled by the long-time animosity of its curfew for “undesirables” (read: black).
Rioters favorite Mexican restaurant?
“I’m not anti riot but I’m very wearisome and tired of white people who over step during times of protest by black organizers and are the first ones to escalate to live out their punk riot wet dreams as if it won’t only reflect poorly on black orgs n organizers”
This might be the most sensible tweet I’ve ever seen on a BLM and/or Far Left twatter account.
You must be high on tits because it makes no sense to me.
“Antifa is Asshole” would make a lot more sense.
“high on tits”
Always.
Yeah, I’ve been waiting for the public schism between Antifa and BLM.
Reminiscent of the Black Panther Party and the various white leftist groups of the late 60’s.
Some things never change.
Leftists inevitably eat their own. Collectivism kills.
“I’m not anti riotL
I’m out. Being pro riot is irredeemable.
I don’t know. It all seems less spontaneous and more orchestrated. For it to be the former, it would mean civil unrest is constantly present with people ready to explode at every perceived injustice. To constantly react in this manner means nihilism prevails and for nihilism to manifest itself like we see with the riots you need critical mass to make it happen. Is this really the case? Are black really so violent and angry to the point of destroying their own neighbourhoods?
And for it to happen and spread across the country so quick is also surreal to the point it looks like it is indeed coordinated.
How does law enforcement investigate this? Is there grounds to look into this ‘George Soros’ conspiracy? The other day I saw a black guy in his town filming a pallet full of bricks asking any sane person would ask: Who has pallets of bricks and moves them around so quick?
It’s funny how pandemics and riots tend to seemingly happen in election years.
The news keeps announcing where and when the spontaneous protests are planned to be.
A note: If you see that riots keep breaking out at these protests…. why is your little group in “not Minneapolis” planning a protest at this time? Is it your donor from some moveon.org associated group that keeps suggesting it?
You’re right about the nihilism. At the time I didn’t know the exact word, but I grew up in a rapidly declining neighborhood and that is the best word for a significant portion of the inhabitants. Police departments are loaded with it, too. Add in the cynicism of elected officials that exploits and foments the nihilism and you have a toxic brew.
Then Mad Max has arrived.
It doesn’t seem organic but these are unusual times. When’s the last time hundreds of millions of people were forced to mostly stay in their homes and mostly not socialize. This was a powder keg waiting to explode and it’s done exploded.
Echoing what others have said, I think it’s a combination. I do think there’s significant nihilism in blighted, urban neighborhoods that is typically simmering beneath the surface. The media’s also been whipping people into a frenzy nonstop for 3+ years and people have been locked in their houses for 3 months. It was a tinderbox ready to ignite.
However, I completely agree that the proximate cause is orchestrated agitation. It’s Leftist NGOs and associated groups exploiting a current event and a general atmosphere of despair to enact revolutionary fantasies and destabilization of society. Whenever these things happen, I don’t doubt there is some deep-pocketed Lefty org behind it. Who’s paying to bus these people in? Who’s bailing them out and defending them when they get arrested? Who’s providing them with equipment? It’s not tinfoil hat stuff; we know there are anti-American, quasi-Communist organizations flush with cash with plans and agendas. This is just the “direct action” part of their portfolios. They have legislative lobbyists, “educational” non-profits and armies of lawyers. It’s highly organized and not exactly a secret.
That’s, erm, kinda problematic no?
Verkhovensky and Stavroglin are envious they didn’t have NGOs.
It’s a huge problem because the DoJ and the Judiciary itself are largely sympathetic to these orgs. It would be a simple matter for a team of competent, dedicated investigators to follow the money and start dismantling these orgs, but none of them have any interest in doing so because they agree with the goals and don’t much care about the means.
While there is no shortage of domestic money to fund it, I would not be all that surprised to find out some of the money is coming from the Chinese Communist Party. They stoke the racial fires with their official mouthpieces and they want international attention off of what’s happening in Western China with the Uighurs and in Hong Kong. They also want to “remind” their own people that their system is better.
^This
“And for it to happen and spread across the country so quick is also surreal to the point it looks like it is indeed coordinated.”
It’s coordinated, and the media is encouraging and defending it.
Imagine how different it would be if CNN/MSNBC attacked antifa for being a bunch of racist thugs and incel losers?
“So let’s go to Dr. Richard Wang from the Beaver Falls School of Urology. Doctor, we’ve heard reports the rioters have unusually small penises?”
“Thank you, for having me. While it’s difficult to measure anything that small, one theory is that it’s from a lack of Vitamin D from never leaving their mom’s basement.”
“And what about the women who are destroying the neighborhoods of innocent black people?”
“Well, based on our research, we believe they also have unusually small penises.”
“Well, based on our research, we believe they also have unusually small penises.”
STOP SHAMING THEM FOR THEIR UNUSUALLY LARGE CLITS
Obligatory:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrCY6Gko_u4
Bingo. The local newspaper did a picture round up of the protests.
The protesters are all photogenic people, and they are all peacefully protesting. They managed to find a couple waving American flags. They cropped out any commie or violent signs. They found a picture of two protesters standing in front of the cops trying to get the mob to stop throwing rocks and bottles. But didn’t show the mob throwing rocks. The only pictures of damages are burned out cop cars and the MN PD station, and the broken window at CNN. Not a single picture of the dozens (or is it hundreds?) of stores burned and looted.
https://www.richmond.com/news/national/photos-what-protests-against-police-looked-like-yesterday-in-cities-across-us/collection_996d13e3-379a-5b69-8fd4-4fa8aab8cd9a.html#5
This is just straight up propaganda, and the RTD is actually, as papers go, not particularly leftist.
I’m about one beer away from setting up a corkboard and grabbing some red string.
So, riots hit Western New York last night. Rochester fared far worse than Buffalo. I started tracking twitter accounts that were posting live updates. Mostly young, white kids living off mommy and daddy’s money. There were some reoccurring tweets offering bail money for protesters. All of them listed the same telephone number. That’s a red flag. I started tracking down those accounts. Most had names sounding like legitimate activist groups….except all of them were accounts that had only been set up in the same week. More importantly, ALL of them were groups that either didn’t have a website, or had one that had just been registered this week. Most of the websites had the same wordpress template I found on similar accounts in other cities.
Started rounding up the usual suspects. 4chan, proud boy sites, antifa, etc. It’s not a /pol operation. Not an op by anyone on the right. There’s too much serious money at play for this kind of organized, yet very secretive, funding. I have no proof (like the pre-printed signs that Soros backed groups had for various protests in the past), but I strongly suspect some sort of leftist money at play in all this.
Buffalo was spared the worst. Few broken windows. Scattered looting of convenience stores. Most footage I saw indicated that all physical actions were instigated by a young white person. The black community delivered their message, and most of them left before it got dark.
I’m going to see if I can follow any leads that will get me in the door of at least a front organization for the protesters. I still have an alt social media account that leans left.
Thanks, gbob – looking forward to learning what you find out.
Irondequoit Town Supervisor Dave Seeley tweeted around 7 p.m. that looting had begun along East Ridge Road.
Crazy. Though that area has been a dump for a long time. (Remember Irondequoit Mall?)
I think it is something in between. Antifa has been training little Ches for the past 4 years. They don’t need to be coordinated. They have been pumped full of revolutionary fantasy, where they think that they will be the one to come out on top of the fires. (Note that like TEOTWAWKI preppers, it is still a bit of lottery to decide whether or not they will survive.)
If this were coordinated, I would have expected to see several ambushes of cops. You would then see the police either going nuts or retreating, enflaming or emboldening the protesters.
It’s coordinated. Antifa “direct action” directions have been leaked.
For a bunch of self-proclaimed anarchists they sure have a lot of strict rules.
And nothing will change …
“Minneapolis police said shots had been fired at law enforcement officers during the protests but no one was injured.”
I’m skeptical, but if true could represent a significant turning point from random property destruction to combat-like conditions.
Some retard fired a paintball gun at a cop here yesterday
One cop has been stabbed in the neck. Escalating to gun play doesn’t seem like a big leap, sadly. Overwhelmingly likely to be someone who was already a felon.
Hey man, leave me out of this!
/monotone
“We are all in this togther.”
Then how did he/she get a gun? 0_o
Clearly we need more gun laws.
They’re throwing Molotov cocktails into police cars in NYC.
Two upstate white girls.
I’m really really skeptical of that. Cops are body cammed up now. If they had a clear camera shot of a protester shooting at cops, the PD would have spread it all over the
There’s video (possibly staged, so grain of salt) of a bystander playing gunshot sound effects from his phone. Honestly, this doesn’t seem all that implausible.
Plausible. Also stupid.
At least he press has something to instigate, now that the Wu Flu death rates aren’t living up to their expectations.
I feel like we’re back in the 60’s. A space launch, riots, and a flu outbreak. We just don’t have a decent soundtrack this time.
Internet porn makes up for it.
I hope all these rioters and looters are wearing masks and social distancing. Wouldn’t want to kill grandma. That’s Cuomo’s job.
Got a nice thick ribeye thawing out a bit. Need to salt and rest it, should be able to have steak and eggs brunch in an hour or so.
Just in time for GlibFit ?.
Ain’t no GlibFit going on in my house. All four of us are stress eating.
Low carb! (Unlike the customary waffles at Chez GT/TT…)
I tend to go for savory food for my Sunday brunch type stuff. If I do a big carb dish, it’s more likely to be biscuits and gravy then waffles or pancakes.
Steak and eggs, black coffee, bloody mary is my order about 8 of 10 brunches out. When we could go out for brunch.
All you’re missing is a violin and Silence of the Lambs playing in the background as everything burns around you.
Rioter: Soros is my god….burn this bitch down!
Viking1865 (takes bite of steak. Gleams in silent ecstasy): You were saying?
Cops are so useless. In the bad old days, they’d crack heads individually or en masse. Now they’ll murder handcuffed prisoners, but stand by and allow rampaging mobs to burn, loot, and destroy.
Worse than that, they stoke violence and then arrest people when they defend their property:
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/pawn-shop-owner-arrested-after-shooting-suspected-looter/
Absolutely fucking worthless…
Yup. Cops are complete cowards. Have no problem murdering a handcuffed man, but best we just let these riots burn themselves out
The whole concept of “duty to retreat” is pure authoritarianism. The State has decided that you have no right whatsoever to defend your property and if you try and do so, you will be held criminally liable.
It’d be less egregious if the state would make a good faith attempt to defend it but they’ve essentially said we won’t help you and you better not try to help yourself either.
“duty to retreat” is complete horseshit. I have a right to defend myself if someone aggresses on me, period.
I have a right to defend myself if someone aggresses on
Not in minniesoda
Nope. My carry instructor had a great many examples of how bad it ends up for people who fail to retreat. Even in your own fucking house.
Judged by 12 > carried by 6
The one thing a cop can indisputably get fired for, and the courts won’t demand rehire with back pay, is disobeying the chain of command. The cops stand down because they’re told to. It really is staggering how thoroughly the courts have upended the Peelian principles. Consent and cooperation of the public has turned into only and exactly consent and cooperation of the politicians. Beat a plebe (especially one of the same skin color as yourself)? No problem, you’ve got “qualified” immunity. Fail to defend life and property? No problem, the government has no duty to uphold its end of any bargains (except pensions, of course). Steal from people? No problem, just call it “asset forfeiture” and let them spend more money than you took trying to get it back. Follow a mayor’s order to punish the generally law-abiding while letting general lawlessness break out? No problem, that’s just the political system at work.
MEM: Protest here continue peaceful with more violent urges actively shouted down.
Last night’s throng got within 1000 feet of the bridge to my island, within two miles of our place. Nothing will happen to us (hundreds of other, ablative, houses between us and the madding crowd), but thank doG I don’t need to rely on the children and ninnies that comprise my neighbors.
A close friend works in Denver and the building she works in got destroyed by Antifa shitstains. They were set to go back to work on Monday; no longer.
Hijinx ensue.
LOL @ little white girl walking away with the, “big black man is scary” look on her face. Made my morning seeing him bitch out a bunch of punk kids.
Later that day she furiously masturbated thinking about it.
+1 bean jingler
Target closes 175 stores nationwide.
https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2020/05/an-update-on-temporary-target-store-closures-due-t
Ah, yes. That sounds like Target, aka “Walmart for Democrats”.
Some roguish activist should get in Targets face and ask exactly what criteria they used to pick those stores.
Please show us using the new crayon box.
They’re out of inventory at those locations.
Interesting they are closing one miles away from the action in Brooklyn and not the one that is steps away.
I wonder how much that has to do with which ones have those metal mesh curtains across the front windows and entrances?
Also, to be fair, the one that is in the middle of the action is inside a shopping mall. Though it does have entrances on the street too.
And as its’s NYC, the mall is probably closed for Wuhan Flu except for the Target, so the street entrances are probably the only entrances operating presently.
Maybe “Target” wasn’t a good name choice. They should change it to “Mess With Us and We Will Fucking Kill You”
You belong in the marketing department .
The Texas closures are all in Austin. Kinda convinces me Antifa is behind most of the shit.
Richmond, Virginia:
Nightly curfew beginning tonight, extended indefinitely.
Man suffers life-threatening injuries after being shot in car during Richmond protests. From the phrasing you’d think it was shot by the cops, but it was actually “protesters.” Stay classy, RTD.
Will they investigate and prosecute as vigorously as they did with the Charlottesville driver?
Don’t bother answering, it’s rhetorical.
Like I said above, there’s a common denominator here between the Charlottesville incident and the rioters. It’s the commies
“he was shot while riding in a car that came into contact with protesters in downtown Richmond early Sunday morning, police report
Possibly he drove through the crowd. That’s an interesting question. If theres a crowd in the road, and you roll through it, do people in that crowd have the right to fire in self defense?
Can you instigate a confrontation and then shoot someone when they respond to the instigation? I’d argue that’s just baiting someone so you can murder them.
IANAL but I think you can if it’s a labor dispute.
but it requires the presence of the big inflatable rat
“Can you instigate a confrontation and then shoot someone when they respond to the instigation? I’d argue that’s just baiting someone so you can murder them.”
This is an interesting question. Let’s say I block your freedom of movement into some area, like a restaurant. Does that justify shooting me, in order to restore that right?
If I try to move past you and you and your buddies initiate violence against me such that I reasonably perceive danger to my life, I can respond with deadly force.
The phrasing, and the picture is a cop holding a carbine.
Yep, I’m sure plenty of people just saw the headline and the picture and assumed the cops shot someone.
The CEO of Twitter re-tweeted this:
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1266741567961825284
You saying the CEO of Twitter needs a fact check disclaimer on his tweets?
I love all the claims that the rioters are white supremacists and connected to Trump. No evidence necessary.
If you say it and it fits the narrative then it is true, comrade.
I love that Dragon has port and starboard bow lights.
Of course, how else can oncoming spaceships determine the direction of travel and turn to avoid collision?
Remember always give way to the vessel on the starboard course!
The rule of gross tonnage always rules the
seawaysspace.The difference between the “rules” and reality on the seas.
He was dead right
What’s this about Floyd and Chauvin having worked to together at a night club?
Without looking, I think I’ve read that they both worked security at a large club – the cop when he was off-duty, and Floyd possibly as a bouncer? Last I knew, there was no confirmation that they actually knew each other.
I read they both did porn, albeit separately. I found the Floyd porn (go search “Kimberly Brinks” the tattoos match), but not Chauvin’s.
Wait…you are serious?
This story gets weirder and weirder. Talk about smell a rat….
“building where Twitter’s DC office is located is getting smashed up”
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1266944901490540547
https://twitter.com/tkerssen/status/1266921821653385225
Minnesota nice?
According to the actual curfew, she may have a nice case against the governor if she chooses.
“Qualified Immunity”
Holy fuck. Is that real?
That’s not the Guard, that’s the cops. The Guard would probably make the common sense determination that that people standing on their porch in a quiet residential neighborhood are not in violation of a curfew.
Glib Lawyers: does your porch count as your home? Has SCOTUS addressed that?
According to their own FAQs, your porch should be OK:
I don’t care if it wasn’t allowed. You’re on your own property. Fucking Stasi yelling at people to follow unlawful commands. And then using force without justification. That paintball gun will cause damage to soft tissue such as eyes.
Assholes just lost any remaining sympathy.
^This. They won’t even follow their own stated “rules,” much less respect your rights.
That is insane. Why do they go out of their way to make me want to root for the people wanting to kill police.
Makes me ponder the question “will 308 penetrate standard issue riot gear?”.
No shit. Being an asshole is one thing, but once they opened up with the paintball gun without hesitation to enforce their unlawful commands, I wouldn’t bat an eye if someone popped them.
Riot and loot.
Cops: Meh
Peacefully stand and film on your porch.
Cops: light ’em up!
Safer to go after the ones less prepared to fight back.
Yup. It’s three hours of paperwork just the same, might as well take the easiest route to get back to the office. And the judge will throw them all out anyway so you might as well do one you WANT the judge to throw out.
“California’s SAT Mistake
Last week, the University of California system’s Board of Regents unanimously ruled that the most prominent higher education system in the country will continue its suspension of SAT testing for admission. (It first suspended them this year because of COVID-19.) This follows an 18-month process in which a thorough study was conducted by UC itself into whether the SAT was being unfair to what they call “under-represented minority students,” a term that includes black and Latino students but excludes Asian-Americans, a group once brutally discriminated against in California in particular. The study found that scrapping the test could actually worsen the chances of smart black and Latino kids from poor backgrounds getting into UC.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/andrew-sullivan-larry-kramers-secret.html#sat
“”The SAT — according to UC itself — finds poor black and Latino kids who really will succeed in college, and who won’t drop out, better than any other measure. So they scrapped it.”
https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1266442050238582784
who cares how the state of California operates a university system that it shouldn’t be operating at all?
serious question
What my son has decided after taking ConLaw is that 90% of the nonsense and lawsuits in the US are about the how of to do things than whether they should be done by the governmet at all. It’s thrilling: his mere reading of the unambiguous truths in the Constitution have emptied him of any interest in most American hubbub.
I’m not a big fan of the fedgov, to say the least.
But it’s time that they step in and put an end to antifa. And I mean now, not next week. This bullshit is way out of hand. Declare them a terrorist organization, start arresting them and then go after everyone funding them. this shit has to stop now, we have an internal organization with the full intent of destroying the country. How the fuck are we even putting up with this shit? If China starts sending troops over our border tomorrow are we just going to sit back and do nothing while the left and the media cheer them on?
Antifa has the support of the left and the deep state, so they will remain unmolested.
How the fuck are we even putting up with this shit?
Dude, most of the nation just sat inside for over a month when the Government told them to.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266895821083234304
Remember, every member of the Chicago Seven (8) was acquitted.
I’m not a fan of the government generally, to say the least. But the reason we have it is, ostensibly, to defend the innocent and prosecute those that violate the rights of others. So yes, they need to put an end to Profa.
Yep, exactly this.
“Antifa’s American insurgency
The far-left has perfected the art of rioting
We are witnessing glimmers of the full insurrection the far-left has been working toward for decades. The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis was merely a pre-text for radicals to push their ambitious insurgency. In a matter of hours, after the video of Floyd began circulating the internet, militant antifa cells across the country mobilized to Minnesota to aid Black Lives Matter rioters. Law enforcement and even the state National Guard have struggled to respond in Minnesota.”
https://spectator.us/andy-ngo-antifa-american-insurgency/
“At its core, BLM is a revolutionary Marxist ideology. Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, BLM’s founders, are self-identified Marxists who make no secret of their worship of communist terrorists and fugitives, like Assata Shakur. They want the abolishment of law enforcement and capitalism. They want regime change and the end of the rule of law. Antifa have partnered with them, for now, to help accelerate the break down of society.
The US is getting a small preview of the anarchy antifa has been agitating, training and preparing for. Ending law enforcement is a pre-condition for antifa and BLM’s success in monopolizing violence. Those who are harmed first are the weak and vulnerable, the people who cannot protect themselves. Small business owners in Minnesota pleaded for mercy, even putting up signs and messages in support of the rioters, but to no avail.”
“The destruction of businesses we’re witnessing across the US is not mere opportunism by looters. It plays a critical role in antifa and BLM ideology. Their stated goal is to abolish capitalism. To do that, they have to make economic recovery impossible. Antifa sees a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to exploit an economically weakened America during the coronavirus pandemic. It’s Going Down, one of the most popular antifa blogs in North America, tweeted on Friday:
’10 years from now, people won’t look back and ask: “Why did it explode in 2020?” Massive unemployment while the rich rake in billions from tax-cuts + bailouts, the earth on the brink of collapse + police murdering people daily. Instead they’ll ask: “Why didn’t it happen sooner?”‘”
“The far-left has perfected the art of rioting”
One of these days, after they’ve declared victory, having looted and burned down the large cities, with leftist democrats and the media cheering them on, they’ll get emboldened and decide to venture out into the countryside. Where they will promptly be shot dead by armed citizens defending their homes and family.
There’s a reason this shit doesn’t happen in the burbs.
The looting and destruction has effectively sealed Trump’s reelection.
Consider: Coronavirus lockdown isn’t sexy. It’s dispiriting and it “feels” like a natural disaster, with no one taking the government to account with language that excludes the government from responsibility. Businesses destroyed, livelihoods lost, but Trumpbux and $600/week unemployment till the end of July.
And just when everything’s finally getting some air to breathe, here comes this to destroy businesses for good, even the big ones like Target. But you know what? Looting and rioting is sexy. The voters will remember this as the thing that killed commerce, not the government shutting down businesses for some bullshit boogeyman (even if they realize it was a bullshit boogeyman).
Two things will be remembered: Trumpbux and the hooligans who set fire to a nation.
Trump in a landslide.
Which is why they are furiously trying to spin the riots into actions of white supremacists egged on by Trump’s rhetoric.
There’s two reasons the democrats want this to be all about racism.
1. They want nothing to be done about it.
2. They have reached the point of desperation in getting rid of Trump, because they know Biden will lose, and anyone they replace him with, will lose by a wider margin. And they’re not getting their pony on mail in ballot voting.
Yeah, I’d be cautious predicting a win much less a landslide this far out.
People see the same events thru vastly different filters.
I will say this, those people rioting are not likely to voting in November. The people voting will be the one’s watching it on TV. They are scared by all of this and will vote for the guy who talks tough about it. Just like last time. The ’92 LA riots gave us the last (R) mayor we had. His platform was more cops and law and order.
Well, antifa cannot vote out capitalism. They have to destroy it though violence and intimidation. Of course, they keep it up and they’re all either going to wind up in prison, death by cop, or death by armed citizen.
So yeah, anyone running soon on a platform of sympathy for the rioters and looters, is going to lose.
So I guess I need more ammo.
Me too.
Federal AE or private label SG Ammo, both made by lake city in same weight/specs/price. Which one to buy?
I purposely not read much news since Friday. You guys are really killing my buzz.
OTH, the SpaceX launch has been fun to watch, ignoring the subsidies. It’s fun to look at the difference between NASA and SpaceX employees and facilities.
The astronauts are probably thinking it feels good to be up there, right about now.
I follow the weather daily, looking at rain, sun, temps, look ahead at the 10 day forecast. We’ve been having some days into the 80s, like summer time. Had the garden all in, generally was looking good.
Last night was supposed to be in lows 40s. Out to the garden this morning. Melons,cukes, squash froze and went to heaven. Melons had been raised inside for about 5 weeks or so, were looking handsome this year, had started to grow. Tomatoes and peppers burned on the tops but should recover, just set back a couple weeks. Corn really hadn’t germinated so I’m replanting that too.
The cool weather stuff was OK, beets/radishes/cabbage, etc. I’ll replant the melons and cukes but they’ll be 2-3 weeks later than expected.
After 2 weeks of generally nice weather, a warm next 10 days I thought I was home free.
Global warming sucks, climate change going in the wrong direction.
It’s absolutely gorgeous here today. 75 F and 37% humidity. Only a few few fluffy clouds floating around, slight breeze.
“First riots gave voice to the voiceless. Then riots were actually started by white supremacists and Russians. Now riots were started by police (I think this one will be the most popular) ->”
https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1267067876617465858
“Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide
The ongoing protests following the killing of George Floyd were caught up in violence again on Saturday, as police all over the country tear-gassed protesters, drove vehicles through crowds, opened fire with nonlethal rounds on journalists or people on their own property, and in at least one instance, pushed over an elderly man who was walking away with a cane. Here are some of the ways law enforcement officers escalated the national unrest. ”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/george-floyd-protests-police-violence.html
Good job assholes. You’re less restrained than the mainland cops and military wearing HK police uniforms.
Yup. Assholes all around. I really am without words.