Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2020 - 12:44 pm:
Your First Amendment rights apply EVERYWHERE. {Not on private property, the owner may ask you to leave. refusal will escalate the situation, if the owner feels threatened, force [including lethal if warranted] may be used, granted 911 should be called perhaps a social worker may help} Until you strike another person. Or damage property. Or refuse lawful orders to let traffic pass. Or abuse restaurant patrons in the middle of their meals. SPEAK, don't touch, don't abuse. Or refuse a lawfull order to leave by the property owner or business manager/owner. I totally agree with your premise except for tress pass. }
So, I see Pelosi finally spent...oh...eight seconds in the House, saying "looting and burning and rioting is bad, and should be prosecuted".
Literally, that's all she said about it.
In the middle of a speech supporting BLM "protests", because "protest is the cornerstone of change" or some bullshit...
Meanwhile, congressman Chip Roy called her out. Big time. I don't do facebook so I can't link to the video, but check it out. "She ignores the 43 law enforcement officers who have been killed, while praising murderers and criminals. We need to vacate the Speaker's seat. She needs to GO."
Posted on Saturday, September 19, 2020 - 08:17 am:
Precisely.
I think things like this risk assuring a Biden/Harris landslide.
Unfortunately . . . some folks seem to aspire to be all the terrible things the media would like to ascribe to President Trump . . . thus appearing to prove their point about him.
Posted on Saturday, September 19, 2020 - 10:42 am:
Fact check ---Check.
When I get snowed in this winter, remind me to do a statistical study on Politifact bias. Too busy right now.
Fact. Hitler DID NOT defund the police. He used them. Corrupted the system, just like the D Mayors and police Chiefs of today have done, allowed his thugs to riot and beat people in the streets, drag them from their homes and burn minority businesses.
Just like Portland and Minneapolis this year. Ideology is similar. ( but not identical, just as national Socialists and International Communists are from the same root cult. Enemies and competition. )
So, yeah, the rest of the meme is correct, the Brown Shirts and Antifa are action arms of the Party, looting and killing, but the Defund thing is incorrect.
>>>The results are the same, regardless of the method.
Perhaps.
But the emergence of so many folks acquiring their "intellect" from Facebook, Instagram and Memes has yielded an unprecedented abundance of stupid people pontificating on policy and current events.
I remember when photos, not lives, were photoshopped.
Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 05:52 pm:
Or get our President re-elected, at which point he can simply say "you have 12 hours before I send in the National Guard - fix it, or I'LL fix it for you!"
The Police want to work.
The Democrats are tying their hands.
And THIS is the party who wants to run our nation.
Downtown Louisville has been mostly boarded up for MONTHS. I've driven through it a dozen times since March, because I refuse to use a toll bridge when there is a free bridge literally right next to it.
Posted on Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 08:05 am:
Yup, looks like we're no longer allowed to defend ourselves, our families, or our businesses/properties.
"Pursuit of happiness"? Gone.
The Louisville thing is a tragedy, sure, but rioting? Bullshit.
They HAD a "no-knock" warrant.
They KNOCKED.
They IDENTIFIED themselves.
And...they got SHOT AT.
"Oh, I'm sorry, you must not want us here...our bad..." <exit,>
Right.
Shoot at a cop? You get shot at in return. Simple math. Bullets aren't black. Or white. Dark apartments don't reveal the color of the attacker. Cops don't care WHO shoots at them - they're gonna shoot back. ANYONE would.
Hide in front of your sleeping girlfriend while you shoot at cops? YOU got your girlfriend killed, not the cops.
And the one officer who did get convicted, was because he "fired an excessive number of rounds" (ten).
Um.
What's an ACCEPTABLE number of rounds to fire, when you're being shot at? Personally? I'll stop when either a) incoming fire stops, or b) I'm completely empty.
(and, to poke the bear with a stick...ten rounds is still under the "high capacity" magazine rule...so where's the problem?)
This is all such bullshit. Keep your powder dry, folks...
Posted on Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 11:35 am:
"Rioters in Louisville had a U-Haul on standby loaded up with supplies, and immediately geared up as soon as the Breonna Taylor decision was announced.
People pretend these riots happen out of nowhere. They don't. They're well-coordinated and prepared."
The Nation comment that DHS "hasn't come clean" on this is propaganda speak for "we are lying to you" aka they make it seem like shady evil when they know they won't get answers during an ongoing criminal investigation.
An investigation That may get them in hot water, if the staff at The Nation are conspirators in sedition acts, rioting, looting, arson, assault, & murder.
Posted on Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 12:57 pm:
Update on my buddy's daughter Escape from Portland. ( Portland's bedroom community exurbs )
Settling in, and getting more old neighbors moving in nearby in Oklahoma. ( their old village was burned by Communists ) Now wears MAGA hat. American flag on pole. I think the children will get Red Riders for Christmas.
My buddy is planning a visit and may build a range. ( retired Marine )
If you promise the riots will continue until you win, aren't you taking responsibility for them? Sure, there's a slight weasel words "you will force the protesters to escalate" but I hope most of the planet sees that as the " I'm having a tantrum and everything you do, say, or I pretend you might do or say is justification for me the peaceful protesters to burn your city"