"Black votes matter to many politicians — more so than black lives. That is why such politicians must try to keep black voters fearful, angry and resentful. Racial harmony would be a political disaster for such politicians." Thomas Sowell (and an oft-cited tenet of Rebane Doctrine)
George Rebane
Well, given what we see in the streets, we can safely conclude that the pandemic lockdowns are over, and all business are open except those that have been boarded up or burned down.
Starting with local police departments, all fielded LE units/agencies are now conducting defensive operations to preserve themselves. They are no longer out there to protect persons or property. The compelling explanation for this kind of CYA behavior is that they don’t see support from their political leaders, the law-abiding public, and most certainly not from the protesters and rioters. Law enforcement today stands politically abandoned. They are indicted by a long history of law enforcement ‘mistakes’ that recently have culminated in the outrageous public murder (execution?) of George Floyd, a black petty criminal, by the Minneapolis police, and the killing of Breonna Taylor, an innocent black woman gunned down in her own home by Louisville Metro Police mistakenly raiding her house in the middle of the night. Both should be seen as preventable crimes by institutions that have lost sight of their reason for being.
No one has really determined the make-up of the legitimate protesters in the streets, nor if they are the same ones who turn into destructive rioters after the peaceful phase of their demonstrations are concluded. Does the non-violent cohort then go home to be replaced by the violent ones who mostly conduct themselves as Antifa members? (To my knowledge, Antifa is still a distributed national protest movement that shares literature, values, dress, street tactics, …, but having no common leadership, managed funding, or central control.) From the reports from the media and police on the scene, the non-violent protesters appear to morph into violent rioters at some point, mostly after the sun goes down. Today the violent are all masked (perhaps because of the pandemic) and therefore act with impunity because their anonymity is secure. In the meantime, the cities’ progressive political leaders are desperately looking for the illusive out-of-town white supremacists who are really the instigators of looting and burning.
Today’s street conflicts are also culturally confused and confusing. There is no common social contract in evidence among the street borne polyglot. Everyone is doing their own thing, milling from here to there or just idly standing by and watching the show. Some have come with prepared signs with the usual slogans demanding justice and change. But when interviewed, no one has a clue as to what exactly needs to be done to bring about the change and the new age of justice. Moreover, no one even thinks that there need be some deeper thought behind the demands on the displayed placards – their histrionics are sufficient unto themselves.
If really pressed for specifics, black leadership in the media can drill down no deeper than spout the Democratic Party talking points – ‘Shut down white supremacy and white privilege.’ This is the closest that any leftwinger can come to specifying what needs to be done to bring about the “change” that the protesters are demanding. What white supremacy should be shut down how? Which white privileges should be legislated into criminality? And their political party and political leadership are equally clueless as to what specific and feasible programs should be implemented across the land to prevent future Floyds and Taylors being killed at the hands of various law enforcement agencies.
In the meantime, there is political hay to be made in this election year that has already given our Left so much ammo against President Trump and the Republicans. For a party without a single viable idea of how to better respond to the virus, let alone how to revive the economy, all they have to offer is solution-free partisan vituperation to convince their constituents and light-thinking lackies that a new glorious age will spontaneously start if we can only get Trump out of the White House, Republicans out of Congress, and pack SCOTUS with an enlarged bench of progressive justices. The rest will miraculously take care of itself under a distended government that will redistribute the country’s wealth, hire more of the unemployable incompetents, pay everyone regardless, and become the major player in our economy – i.e. socialism on steroids.
When the dust settles, what will the gutless politicians do with police departments that are becoming more insular and frustrated as they are charged with keeping the peace in public environments ever more conflicted in values, mores, attitudes, perceived pasts, fearful futures, …, all existing under a shroud of confusing, contradictory, unknown, and variously interpreted and randomly enforced laws, regulations, and codes that become more impenetrable by the day? The cop on the beat can no longer reliably predict anyone’s behavior, and must therefore become a programmed automaton who survives his shift by avoiding conflicts and strife whenever possible, and when not, then apply one-size-fits-all rules in the most self-defensive and often ruthless manner possible.
[update] We just finished watching the evening news that covered the ongoing demonstrations from several big cities across the country. The President made a ‘law and order’ speech in which he separated those lawful protesters from the thugs, looters, arsonists, and now killers on our streets. We hear people of all ranks, starting with the Floyd family, calling for the violence to stop, that such behavior is not serving the memory of their murdered son George, nor anything good that hopefully would come out of this after the dust settles. The politicians calling for calm and calling out the rioters are all from the Right. The only political leader voices from the Left are using this ongoing national tragedy to attack the administration, and to further divide us and convince all that there is no hope of unity in the future. They realize more than any of us that those on the streets are their imperturbable constituents, loyal voters, and their very political lifeblood – they can do no wrong.
If a progressive wanted to counter any of this shameful behavior by their political leaders, one need only ask, ‘Where are the Pelosis, Schumers, Obamas, Bidens, Jacksons, Sharptons… with their messages of peace and calm, calling for the protesters to abide by the law and rioters to stand down?’ The only words from their and their lamestream lackies’ mouths do nothing but throw fuel on a raging partisan fire, and give their imprimaturs to the lawlessness on the streets by pledging their solidarities from which are absent any condemnation of the riotous mobs. Even the word ‘riot’ is not in their vocabulary when they occasionally stray from lauding the “just protests” on our cities’ streets. In Democrats’ eyes, it is all one homogeneous nationwide protest against Republican racism and social injustice. For them this indeed is one helluva crisis not to let go waste.
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131 responses to “Riot Reflections – 1jun20 (updated)”
You are on your own so thank the 2nd –
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/06/01/santa-monica-owner-defends-his-store-with-guns-amid-looting/
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 01 June 2020 at 01:27 PM
Roof mounted Korean shopkeeper time!
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DonB 127pm – Well, that goes a long way to answering my third question in the last ‘Riot Reflections’.
Can we all pause to contemplate a fundamentally transformed America in which it is unlawful to defend your person or property bearing arms? Are we there yet?
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Chart o’ the day (hopefully this come through fine):
http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/images/line_graph.jpg/image-full;size$500,383.ImageHandler
Interestingly, the black:white ratio for killings by police is quote a lot lower than the black:white ratio for the killing of police. Make yer own conclusions.
It’s just best to view this all as a negotiation. You give the Left what they want, or their street soldiers will burn down the country. The game is played at all levels from corporate propaganda to individual beat downs. You can (temporarily) pay them off or respond in kind. It’s unclear to me what the practical answer is.
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“Can we all pause to contemplate a fundamentally transformed America in which it is unlawful to defend your person or property bearing arms?”
It’s easy to contemplate and a commonly stated goal by quite a few people. Basically, it changes the power relationship between the various underclasses, rootless young people, petty criminals vs. the middle class. The rich, of course, can always look after themselves.
It’s interesting that a segment of the middle class can’t see that, but they seem to be deprived of reality in a number of ways.
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Somewhat on topic.
https://twitter.com/FOX13News/status/1267539936401592320
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Enough is enough –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/01/trump-fully-activates-the-d-c-national-guard-may-be-armed-for-personal-protection/
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Fuck antifa –
https://www.breitbart.com/local/2020/06/01/police-rioters-set-fire-home-child-inside-block-firefighters/
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Plenty of Lefties that still demant your “duty to flee”.
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The riots through a LIBS perspective
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/01/democrat-gov-tom-wolf-claims-protesters-gathering-peacefully-riots-burn-pennsylvania-cities/
“Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf Claims Protesters Gathering ‘Peacefully’ as Riots Burn Pennsylvania Cities”
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Scenes @ 3:46 pm
Welcome back. I have refrained from posting figures of police shootings and articles like this in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd’s death out of respect for the grieving and the enraged. Seemed insensitive and pointless. That was for the last few days, this is now.
WHAT THE RIOTS TELL US ABOUT POLICING IN AMERICA
According to the Washington Post, 19 unarmed African-American males were killed by police in 2017, and 17 in 2016 — an average of 18 per year. It’s unlikely that all 18 were unjustified, but let’s assume they were.
That’s 18 too many. But measured against the number of police interactions during the year with the kind of people who are rioting, and recognizing that there will always be some bad cops and some inexperienced ones, it’s a small number.
If American police forces were populated with an appreciable number of genocidal racists, or even just trigger-happy cops, the number of unarmed black males killed by police in a year would be much larger than 18. Indeed, if American police forces were populated with an appreciable number of out-of-control cops, we would be seeing a more violent response by the police to the rioting that’s plaguing our cities night after night.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/what-the-riots-tell-us-about-policing-in-america.php
Mark Levin just ran some numbers of police interactions with people and police shootings and it comes out that if you are a Black man, chances are 0.012% you will be killed by LE, and most likely from a black or brown cop.
But, that is not really the point of it all, now is it?
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Make that an unarmed Black Male.
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“Scenes @ 3:46 pm
Welcome back.”
Heus amice.
I’ve been studying our current travails, mostly pouring over news, posted videos, social media all local for the cities in the thick of it. Building an opinion is tough when your only context is a keyboard and a screen.
I noticed moderate tagging in the area (ACAB!) and the occasional politically woke children but nothing worth noting really. All the real action is miles away and requires thought.
I admit that Idaho is looking better but I intend to check out Wyoming.
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@ 5:12 pm
Seeing the big picture when you are in it is difficult. I see the rioting and looting and massive ginned up civil unrest as the continuation of the coup.
Meanwhile, it’s easy to post events caught on camera. Not so easy to post on the end game. The battle lines have been drawn, the Great Divide marches past the tipping point.
WATCH: Florida Sheriff Tells Looters His Message To Residents: ‘I’m Highly Recommending They Blow You Back Out Of The House With Their Guns’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-florida-sheriff-tells-looters-his-message-to-residents-im-highly-recommending-they-blow-you-back-out-of-the-house-with-their-guns?
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‘KCPD finds stashes of bricks and rocks around Plaza and Westport during protests Sunday afternoon’
https://fox4kc.com/news/kcpd-finds-stashes-of-bricks-and-rocks-around-plaza-and-westport-during-protests-sunday-afternoon/
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Dan Bongino sees it the same way I do. They are highly organized and funded, on payroll, waiting for the call to roll. Just like an Islamic sleeper cell. How else could they get people to arrive within an hour of Trump declaring a travel ban at major airports across the land in early 2017? They have not gone anywhere. They have been prepared and ready for this moment for a long time. It ain’t about George Floyd anymore. It’s all about ‘Burn, baby, burn’, IMHO. And now they have attacked the WH.
3 minutes long.
https://www.facebook.com/dan.bongino/videos/571375563809765/
*One does not need to be designated a terrorist organization for the FBI to spy on you. One only needs to be deemed a terrorist….or someone participating in domestic terrorist activity to start surveillance., which is also IMHO.
Need to destroy it all and topple the government to fundamentally transform America. Yep, WY looks good.
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Sexton Says Unrest Will ‘Get Uglier’ Thanks to Media, ‘Feckless’ Celebs
https://www.bucksexton.com/content/2020-06-01-sexton-says-unrest-will-get-uglier-thanks-to-media-feckless-celebs/
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Minnesota, New York Officials Say Evidence Shows Weekend Riots Were Planned, Chicago Demands Fed Investigation Into ‘Organized’ Violence
https://www.dailywire.com/news/minnesota-new-york-officials-say-evidence-shows-weekend-riots-were-planned-chicago-demands-fed-investigation-into-organized-violence
You know, I was wondering how they got so many buildings to catch fire and burn to a shell. Minneapolis had 170 buildings on one stretch alone destroyed by fire. The average guy on the street could start a small fire with a Molotov cocktail, but would not know the exact placement or use the proper accelerant to bring a building to full engulfment. But, what do I know.
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Beware oh Robespierre, the Jacobins cometh for you. Nothing personal, the guillotine awaits.
YOU CAN’T LOOT US, WE’RE PROGRESSIVES!
“There is nothing good about rioting, looting and burning, but these evils sometimes provide clarifying moments. Such as when progressives realize that the looters are coming for them, too. It shouldn’t be a news flash, but progressives are often surprised to learn that their support for left-wing causes, including criminal activity, doesn’t accord them any special status.“
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/you-cant-loot-us-were-progressives.php
I find this eerily similar to the Occupy Oakland protests we had here in CA that did much damage to Starbucks and bank windows. The daylight had “peaceful marches.” When darkness fell, the mostly young males appeared and the fireworks and carnage began. Would it be a stretch to call them Children of the Darkness? Certainly not Children of the Light.
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The party parrots working overtime –
PBS reporter faces backlash for telling Trump there’s ‘no evidence’ that anarchists appeared at protests
https://www.foxnews.com/media/pbs-yamiche-alcindor-trump-no-evidence-anarchists
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The talking heads got it wrong –
“If a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,” Trump said during a Rose Garden address as cities across the country grappled with property destruction, looting and violent police clashes in the week since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Legal experts say the president does indeed have the authority under the Insurrection Act of 1807 to dispatch the military in states that are unable to put down an insurrection or are defying federal law.
In the last half-century, presidents have sent the military to Southern states to ensure desegregation of schools there in the 1950s and 1960s, and to Los Angeles after the California governor sought federal help during the 1992 riots.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/presidents-leeway-military-domestic-purposes-023958456.html
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Walnut creek now! I would be interested to know where those arrested live. –
Bay Area protest updates: Tear gas fired in Oakland, Walnut Creek
https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/Bay-Area-protests-George-Floyd-updates-video-15309595.php
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Tonight FN reported that Soros money was flowing to Antifa cells through one of the organizations that he funds. It did not mention that the money went to some central HQ or controlling unit, but implied that the Soros organization distributed the money to individual Antifa cells to finance their purchase of riot materiel – e.g. brick, tools, flares, … . Has anyone else any more definite information that supports the administration’s assertion that Antifa is a nationally coordinated organization?
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The TDS sets heads exploded over a factual headline –
The New York Times faced an overwhelming backlash from Democratic lawmakers and liberal members of the media over its front-page headline that may have been too favorable towards President Trump.
During a Rose Garden address on Monday, Trump threatened to use military force to quell the riots that have broken out following the death of George Floyd if governors and mayors don’t take enough action.
The Times print editor Tom Jolly previewed the front of Tuesday’s paper attempting to summarize the day’s events.
“As Chaos Spreads, Trump Vows to ‘End It Now,’” the top headline read with various images from the protests.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dems-trash-ny-times-over-front-page-headline-as-chaos-spreads-trump-vows-to-end-it-now
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@916 The occupier alum are putting the band back together, they didn’t lose their contact lists.
While doing work for the court reformers at the NC courthouse I watched their terror tactics up close and personal.
Those asshats didn’t give a shit about scaring the battered mommies and their terrified little kids waiting in line for the security check who could not flee the area.
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The Salono Mall is being looted right now.
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A tale of two cities –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/01/d-c-mass-riots-end-as-trump-military-restore-order-in-nations-capital/
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/06/01/anarchy-breaks-out-in-new-york-city/
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This’ll definitely stir them up a bit.
BREAKING: A trooper and an officer were hit by a car that blew through a line of officers at the protest on Bailey Avenue according to PBA President John Evans. They were taken to ECMC.
https://twitter.com/StephenMarth/status/1267643079881904130
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“The Solano Mall is being looted right now.”
The forklift is a nice touch.
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plus, an extra added bonus, some guy is gathering up live facebook videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAqw_HEO7IY
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this one appears to be The Looting Channel so far, maybe highlights from the Blue Mob Putsch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaIOvsa12_Q
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Don @ 10:16 pm, second link.
Midtown? What a coincidence. That’s where young Buck is holed up in his overpriced tiny apartment doing his shelter in place, aka, broadcasting from the Freedom Hut. Let’s see what is happening out his window, shall we?
https://twitter.com/bucksexton
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New York
https://www.facebook.com/101924144838626/videos/2916153098510132/
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GR: “They realize more than any of us that those on the streets are their imperturbable constituents, loyal voters, and their very political lifeblood – they can do no wrong.”
Well, that there’s the thing, isn’t it. In the case of CNN, it’s gone well beyond Stockholm Syndrome.
Political mobs are a powerful tool if you can aim them to some extent. Like Goebbels mentioned once (Godwin alert!) concerning a different glass-breaking fandango:
““the Führer has decided that … demonstrations should not be prepared or organized by the Party, but insofar as they erupt spontaneously, they are not to be hampered.”
My guess is that the police in the beleaguered cities will tend to go on a soft strike as their management gets to kneelin’. It’s all rather ironic as the Left’s dreams of self-defense restrictions and diversity enhancement, this last with it’s attendant decline in community trust, really does imply more state force to keep the peace. Oh well.
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And to think people like this run govenmnent.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/02/seattle-councilmember-tammy-morales-why-looting-bothers-people-minneapolis-george-floyd-riots-protests/
“Seattle Councilmember Says She Can’t Figure Out Why ‘Looting Bothers People’ When People Are ‘Dying Every Day’”
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Walt@7:15
You gotta hand it to Blue Mob politicians, they can go with the flow.
https://twitter.com/RepBrendanBoyle/status/1267637218904072192
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I’m sure Mommy and Daddy just LOVED the damage the cops did when they came looking for their little angel.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/01/mommy-daddy-antifa-kid-george-floyd-riot/
They got a taste of wht Jr. was out doing to others.
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GR: “Starting with local police departments, all fielded LE units/agencies are now conducting defensive operations to preserve themselves.”
Given current rules of engagement, it’s really the only answer. Obviously the police, at least as currently constructed, are unable to contain a full-blown Blue Mob outbreak. This isn’t any sort of full blown insurrection, but is constructed more like the Tet Offensive as an attempt to destroy the morale of the political opposition.
Dunno how it’s gonna play in the suburbs though.
https://twitter.com/itsbellagomez/status/1267617850220560385
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Here Emery, look who from “O”‘s band of criminals is trying to fan the flames.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/06/02/left-rips-new-york-times-over-front-page-full-on-endorsement-of-fascism-chaos/
“For example, former Democratic Party presidential candidate Julián Castro, who served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet, called the Times‘ headline a “fail” because it failed to describe Trump as a “budding dictator”: ”
Now… can you point to how Trump has acted “dictator” like?
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It appears that the 420th Volunteers aren’t appreciated by all POC.
https://twitter.com/JaValle/status/1267250753422241792?s=20
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Some news from Idaho.
https://twitter.com/5hazbot/status/1267703072895102976
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The peaceful protestors in various locations are all beginning to look and feel the same. Like days running together after weeks of COVID-19 lock down. Is today Wednesday or Thursday? It’s that Nashville or Richmond?
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Oh no, not the Pulse Bus! Mass transit is good, you idiots. Stop eating your own. Bad peaceful protestors, berry berry bad.
“2:10 a.m. update: A GRTC Pulse bus was set on fire at West Broad and Belvidere streets early Saturday. GRTC bus service is likely to be delayed Saturday morning.
“No GRTC injuries. Pulse bus 2004 is a total loss, but all other buses that were in service are home safely,” GRTC Transit System spokeswoman Carrie Rose Pace wrote in an email.
Pace added: “As of right now, GRTC plans to delay the start of Saturday morning service. If rioting continues Saturday, it may be necessary to cancel Saturday service entirely.”
https://www.richmond.com/news/local/crime/watch-now-richmond-protest-turns-violent-va-police-criticize-death-of-george-floyd-in-minneapolis/article_60f2dba0-39c1-59b2-8e06-6d7947fdae6f.html?
https://www.facebook.com/TAPTheAmericanPatriot/photos/a.587495917980159/3186187391444319/?type=3&theater
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Oh no! Not City Hall and the courthouse. Government is here to help, you idiots.
‘Nashville’s historic courthouse and city hall set on fire’
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/george-floyd-death-nationwide-protests-live-updates-n1219376/ncrd1219906#blogHeader
Yep, seen one, you have seen them all.
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Scenes 758am – ‘Rules of Engagement’, agreed and that’s my point. It’s the timid politicians who impose the ‘Implied’ rules of engagement through their mealy-mouthed public statements. I maintain that the rules of engagement are wrong, and do nothing but invite escalation by the declared destroyers of our civilization. They are equivalent to advance echelons of thugs employed by both the communists and fascists on their road to revolutionary power. Any of them could have been stopped in the streets at this stage of the game.
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Random sighting. Store owner vs. The Blue Mob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqrnwdq3grE
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SCENES FROM THE MN APOCALYPSE
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/scenes-from-the-mn-apocalypse.php
Ok, I couldn’t resist the headline. Liked the Medic Van
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Nashville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX7K_dcOCJk
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‘Medic Van’.
ooh, I like the маскировка there.
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Go to church, go to jail. Riot in the streets,, “it’s all good”.
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Emery and Mary will be SO upset.
“A Florida sheriff warned would-be looters and home intruders Monday by encouraging residents to fire upon anyone attempting to pillage their homes, following heated protests in the Lakeland area.
“The people in Polk County like guns, they have guns, I encourage them to own guns,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a press briefing Monday, according to Fox 13.”
https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/01/florida-polk-county-sheriff-grady-judd-shoot-looters/
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@ 9:04
Aha. Proof positive that Scenes is a Russian bot. So am I! Let’s do lunch sometime.
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Morning Walt. I don’t think Slap Happy and Mt. Menopause will get upset.
First, The Polk County sheriff was just relating Shotgun Joe’s advice to his wife. If someone comes to the door and you don’t know who they are, just take the shotgun and blast it through the door and send the stranger to Kingdom Come, man.
Second, Slap Happy rarely ventures out of Sandbox to places where issues of importance are discussed. Call it our “Punchy Free Zone”. Our safe place. 🙂
Hmmm. If the police and civic leaders would just post up signs reading “Protest Free Zone” around various small businesses and government buildings, then the problem would be solved.
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Scenes @ 7:58- Interesting comparison to Tet; LE should be the same towards Antifa. Leave 30,000 of them dead in the streets like the GIs did. That put a effective end to the Viet Cong, this would put an end to Soros nasty children.
For those who don’t remember (or were rooting for the wrong side then as today) the final fall of the South was at the hands of the NVA, the VC had ceased to exist.
Come to think of it, why don’t we deport Soros back to Hungary to stand trial as a Nazi collaborator/war crimminal (which he certainly was)? And who let that filthy spawn of Satan into the US in the first place?
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Solutions starting to emerge.
America hater Ilhan Omar says we should defund the police (and ICE) and now another sheet stain says we should arrest the police. All the police.
Far-Left Activist Tamika Mallory On How To Handle Looters: ‘Arrest The Cops’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/far-left-activist-tamika-mallory-on-how-to-handle-looters-arrest-the-cops
Hey, wasn’t it Mallory who along with that racist Linda Sarsour who got the boot from the Women March organization for excluding all Jewish women (and all white women) from leadership positions at the organization….along with her (Mallory) praise for Louis Farrakhan and numerous anti-Semitic remarks? Yep, we should listen to her and Dumb Lemon.
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