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Re: Portland ...
« Reply #100 on: July 26, 2020, 07:26:44 PM »
If a blue wave comes about on Nov. 3 as some are predicting, I expect to see BLM and Antifa start moving more into the suburbs.  This will be with the tacit approval of the Democrat mayors and county commissioners, of course.  It will be interesting to see if the "protesters" stick to the streets in suburbia, or if folks are "requested" to go outside their homes and kneel for the BLM activists.
Also, has anyone noted the latest change in rhetoric, with Democrats calling the US a "democratic republic"?  Various talking heads and print journalists have been sprinkling their stories with the term of late.  I wonder if they're trying to acclimate us to changes they intend to make after the elections?
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« Reply #101 on: July 26, 2020, 07:40:52 PM »
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« Reply #102 on: July 26, 2020, 07:54:13 PM »
There has got to be someone somewhere working on a killdozer right now. When he goes all Marvin on these assclowns there will be great rejoicing.

I don't see why it would turn out any better than it did for the African immigrant who hit the two white girls.
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« Reply #104 on: July 26, 2020, 10:15:16 PM »
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1287060297786654720?s=19

This guy needs to learn that blocking traffic only works if you have a mob to back you up.
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« Reply #105 on: July 26, 2020, 10:18:50 PM »
Cruz to Introduce Bill Holding Local Govs Liable to Property Owners if No Police Protection
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....Cruz said in a tweet on Sunday. “I’m introducing legislation to make local govt liable to private property owners if officials deliberately withhold police protection.”

I saw a tweet from James Woods asked about not allowing federal funds to be used to rebuild city damage from riots and Cruz replied it was in there.  We'll see if this goes anywhere.
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« Reply #106 on: July 26, 2020, 10:23:53 PM »
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1287384947616030720?s=19

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Peaceful smoke billows out of some mobile units after Peaceful Protestersâ„¢ set a peaceful fire in peaceful Seattle



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« Reply #107 on: July 26, 2020, 10:45:44 PM »
I just bought a house in Boise. So I have to be honest I am almost a little relieved that things in Portland and Seattle continue to suck. Most of our housing demand comes from Seattle so this is going to be good for my home value.
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« Reply #108 on: July 27, 2020, 12:37:01 AM »
I just bought a house in Boise. So I have to be honest I am almost a little relieved that things in Portland and Seattle continue to suck. Most of our housing demand comes from Seattle so this is going to be good for my home value.

... until the Peaceful Protesters(tm) decide that Boise is next ...
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« Reply #109 on: July 27, 2020, 02:26:44 AM »
In Colorado, someone apparently shot at thiz jeep, missed, but hit someone else.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1287213647505195010
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« Reply #110 on: July 27, 2020, 06:21:07 AM »
I see this, and I realize we have zero common ground with these morons. There are zero concessions that we could make that would make them happy. It's as if we're dealing with an alien species with completely different brain circuitry.

https://twitter.com/jc_1303/status/1287231458508234753

You want this driver arrested for not stopping for your protest?
You want this driver arrested for attempting to take a detour that would keep her away from your crowd?
You want this driver arrested because you followed her and jumped on her car and demanded she stop and she wouldn't?
You demand all people stop and obey your illegal blocking of a public roadway.
You claim that all people would have to do is detour around you - there were plenty of opportunities?
What opportunities? Is there a Google app now to let drivers know that you're spontaneously blocking roads for "justice"? And that would somehow make it the driver's fault for not knowing you'll be blocking their upcoming path?
These "rich white people" don't have kids to pick up from school? Elderly parents to get to? Or just want to go home from work, which is their absolute right?

As many of the comments indicate, people are getting fed up enough that I think running the blockades will both be more common and likely accepted by LE. If someone does to me what they did to this lady, I'm not moving forward at 2MPH like she did. I'm accelerating and leaving the scene. If you're stupid enough to try and ride along on the outside of my vehicle, that's your problem, jackass.

The propaganda wing is in full force on the internet blaming the police and us for the “random violence” that occurs at the “peaceful protests”

They ain’t gonna be happy until they get their civil war they want so bad. Simultaneously trying to
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« Reply #111 on: July 27, 2020, 08:16:21 AM »
... until the Peaceful Protesters(tm) decide that Boise is next ...


A couple of Idaho lawmakers and the GOP chair are already using the protests as a rallying cry, saying that Boise will be the next Portland or Seattle if we're not careful. In many ways, they're correct. The recently elected Boise Mayor is a jackass.

Prior to the latest protests in downtown Boise, she put out a statement about how there was going to be another peaceful BLM protest, but she already had information about "outsiders' coming in to counter-protest and start violence. Who were those "outsiders"? Other Idaho residents not from Boise. You jackass. Did you not realize that the Mayor of Boise is also the Mayor of the city housing the state capitol? Where all Idahoans go to make their voices heard? You don't get to decide whose voices can be heard in Boise and whose can't. Boise is in Idaho. Idaho is not in Boise. You're outnumbered and surrounded, lady.
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Re: Portland ...
« Reply #112 on: July 27, 2020, 09:20:09 AM »
In Colorado, someone apparently shot at thiz jeep, missed, but hit someone else.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1287213647505195010
The sound sucked on that video.  Did the people all those people run off the road because of shooting or because the jeep was coming in at speed?  They started getting off the road before the Jeep got there.
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« Reply #113 on: July 27, 2020, 09:43:22 AM »
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1287278680817823747?s=19
Earlier interview with protester shot during protest in Austin.  Note his line at the end about people not doing anything about it.


I saw some twitter post claiming this guy never fired his rifle, others say he fired 5 times and shot the driver.  Lots of misinformation going around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFJO2L_kJr4&feature=emb_logo
This is video nearby.  You can here 5 initial shots then several more shots a few seconds later.  It sounds like they were shots from different weapons, but it could just be because they moved behind cover.  It seems to back up that 5 shots were fired first by a rifle then someone fired back.  We'll see. 
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« Reply #114 on: July 27, 2020, 09:48:31 AM »
The sound sucked on that video.  Did the people all those people run off the road because of shooting or because the jeep was coming in at speed?  They started getting off the road before the Jeep got there.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Here's the police report:

https://www.auroragov.org/blog/One.aspx?portalId=2869361&postId=16915298&portletAction=viewpost

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« Reply #115 on: July 27, 2020, 09:51:22 AM »
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Here's the police report:

https://www.auroragov.org/blog/One.aspx?portalId=2869361&postId=16915298&portletAction=viewpost


https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/car-drives-mob-protesters-colorado-highway-protester-shoots-fellow-protesters-trying-shoot-driver/
This link has a couple of twitter videos embedded.  One appears to show the Jeep afterward.  It has no front end damage, but it does have a flat front tire.  Doesn't look to me like the Jeep hit anyway. 

If I saw armed people in the crowd, I don't think I am sticking around. 
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« Reply #117 on: July 27, 2020, 10:55:53 AM »
More fun in Colorado:

https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/man-allegedly-tried-to-drive-through-or-over-blue-lives-matter-protesters/
And that protest was in a park.  The guy probably justified it in his head based on people driving through protests elsewhere that were on the actual roadway.


This was in there.  "Missiles"?  Was someone throwing lawn darts?
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« Reply #118 on: July 27, 2020, 01:39:23 PM »
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1287278680817823747?s=19
Earlier interview with protester shot during protest in Austin.  Note his line at the end about people not doing anything about it.


I saw some twitter post claiming this guy never fired his rifle, others say he fired 5 times and shot the driver.  Lots of misinformation going around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFJO2L_kJr4&feature=emb_logo
This is video nearby.  You can here 5 initial shots then several more shots a few seconds later.  It sounds like they were shots from different weapons, but it could just be because they moved behind cover.  It seems to back up that 5 shots were fired first by a rifle then someone fired back.  We'll see. 

Another story with an interesting quote from the police  -
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Chief Manley says that the driver shot first, which he says came after Foster pointed his gun at the driver.
Some yahoo points a gun at me I'm extremely likely to take him seriously and act accordingly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq7SGQzeCEw

https://thepostmillennial.com/black-lives-matter-protestor-austin-shoots-driver-kill
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« Reply #119 on: July 27, 2020, 01:47:16 PM »
Some yahoo points a gun at me I'm extremely likely to take him seriously and act accordingly.

https://youtu.be/lzjSIQkXoGM?t=27
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« Reply #120 on: July 27, 2020, 02:08:27 PM »
https://youtu.be/lzjSIQkXoGM?t=27

In that same vein ...

https://youtu.be/Ho2_c_LGZfk?t=211

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This ... this bullshit ... this is gonna be on the nightly news.

Re Austin: the driver may well have been ... Justified ... but he* and his* family are in for a world of trouble when the dead loser's friends decide to turn his* life upside down with doxxing and other forms of harassment.

Ditto for the Jeep driver in Aurora.




*assuming the driver is male.
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« Reply #121 on: July 27, 2020, 02:39:33 PM »
No doubt that as soon as it is found out (leaked) the responsible news outlets will broadcast the shooters name, address, place of work or business and all their relatives they can track down in the name of responsible journalism.

I'm also seeing examples of how self defense is stigmatized by the general public. A dead rape victim is morally superior to a survivor that used deadly force to save their own life.
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« Reply #122 on: July 27, 2020, 02:52:44 PM »
Dems are starting to do an about face on the narrative today. Well, except for Jerry Nadler who says violence is a myth.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/07/27/worried-about-it-backfiring-lanny-davis-take-on-portland-rioters-shows-that-dem-narrative-is-shifting-right-in-front-of-our-eyes/
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« Reply #123 on: July 27, 2020, 03:56:34 PM »
Dems are starting to do an about face on the narrative today. Well, except for Jerry Nadler who says violence is a myth.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/07/27/worried-about-it-backfiring-lanny-davis-take-on-portland-rioters-shows-that-dem-narrative-is-shifting-right-in-front-of-our-eyes/
That sort of thing is another reason I don't think they will be a "blue wave".  If they were so confident, the news media wouldn't be trying to cover up the violence angle.  

I would honestly be a bit shocked if this stuff makes people vote FOR democrats.  The democrats in the past would cool down on the leftist rhetoric once the primaries were over.  This year, they have ramped it up and seem to be all for putting the most radical in office.  There are centrist democrats being called Right-Wing and Nazi's.  Hard for me to believe that is a winning strategy.
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« Reply #124 on: July 27, 2020, 04:02:42 PM »
Hard for me to believe that is a winning strategy.

Only in polls and according to the MSM. Just like in 2016. :)
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