Saturday Morning Coffee Break

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Mornin' Morons. Coffee time. Black and bitter like my soul.

The rules? Opine away or bloviate. Whatever trips your trigger. Just remember no running with sharp objects, don't pull the 'ettes hair and be nice to one another.

If you are in a metro area where the lawlessness is taking place. Be safe and keep your head on a swivel.

Have a great weekend!!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:15 AM

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1 Coffee is the nectar of the gods.

Posted by: Ann at June 06, 2020 10:16 AM (NDO5Q)

2 Woot!

Posted by: Gooshy at June 06, 2020 10:19 AM (DCVgi)

3 I am glad the 'ettes have hair and did not shave it off in some dumbass protest.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 06, 2020 10:19 AM (ufFY8)

4 Already on my 3rd cup...the smell and taste of victory!

Posted by: JC. IDaho bot. at June 06, 2020 10:21 AM (377Zs)

5 YAYYY COFFEE THREAD!

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 10:21 AM (7Am4g)

6 Sheesh, judging from the threads below, it looks like I picked the wrong day to sleep in.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 10:21 AM (n3UT6)

7
Saw Skip down below couldn't find The Longest Day to watch. It's on a Roku channel, Movieland TV. I'll correct that in just a bit if I'm wrong.

Posted by: Gooshy at June 06, 2020 10:21 AM (DCVgi)

8 Sips coffee. Eyes package of donuts. Morning, Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:21 AM (YbxY6)

9 On #3...

Posted by: lin-duh en fugue at June 06, 2020 10:22 AM (UUBmN)

10 COVFEFE

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 10:22 AM (7Am4g)

11 I don't drink coffee.
There, I said it.

Not too fond of tea either.

Now, off to find some more icons to clast

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at June 06, 2020 10:22 AM (d6mdH)

12 First pot of coffee drained. Intermission.

Posted by: windbag at June 06, 2020 10:23 AM (sDEZT)

13 Did the dumbasses in Minneapolis vote to defund their police?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 06, 2020 10:23 AM (ufFY8)

14 Almost time for a Saturday morning nap...

Posted by: lin-duh en fugue at June 06, 2020 10:24 AM (UUBmN)

15 Mornin', Horde. I've got a long day of chores ahead of me. Exterminators are coming out to deal with the gophers which are destroying the front yard, and the rats which infiltrated into the basement. If Arson wasn't a crime, I'd consider solving the whole problem with a few barrels of fuel oil and a road flare.

Posted by: PabloD at June 06, 2020 10:24 AM (r/iuN)

16 Still lively on krak's thread.

Posted by: m at June 06, 2020 10:24 AM (Bcbbp)

17 6 Sheesh, judging from the threads below, it looks like I picked the wrong day to sleep in.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 10:21 AM (n3UT6)

And to quit sniffing glue.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:26 AM (NWiLs)

18 So yesterday at the Farmers' Market, I was struck by the incongruity of a young Amish lass working the levers of a state of the art Gagginetti, or whatever those fancy espresso/capuccino contraptions are called.

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 10:26 AM (7Am4g)

19 Mmm...covfefe...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:26 AM (NWiLs)

20

A few days ago I asked if anyone has seen Chavez The Hugo, which was probably a dumb thing to ask -- why would CtH waste his precious time by delving into ugly Worldly events.

Anyway, I hope he is as well as he can be.

Posted by: Systemic Soothsayer at June 06, 2020 10:27 AM (qg2ac)

21 Did the dumbasses in Minneapolis vote to defund their police?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 06, 2020 10:23 AM (ufFY

Who will they send to collect the property tax if homeowners and businesses refuse to pay? Which they should, because one main reason people pay property tax is to fund emergency services.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:27 AM (YbxY6)

22 PDT was smaht to get outta Dodge today.

Posted by: m at June 06, 2020 10:27 AM (Bcbbp)

23 A very nice Saturday tradition we have is my husband makes breakfast and coffee, and I eat the breakfast he made and drink the coffee he made.

Sometimes we have covefe, too.

It's a nice tradition.

Posted by: Flyover at June 06, 2020 10:28 AM (Rbu5d)

24 Does Tea count?

Posted by: catman at June 06, 2020 10:29 AM (4HMlb)

25 It would be similar to seeing an elegant Milanesa in Prada glasses put the finishing touches on a shoofly pie.

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 10:29 AM (7Am4g)

26 Ohmmmmmmmmmmm

Posted by: FrodoB-
Former otter wrangler at June 06, 2020 10:29 AM (dQF3z)

27 Despite the lefts recent efforts to paint Trump as a racist and blame him for police brutality and the riots, Rasmussen Reports says that approval for President Trump amongst likely black voters is now over 40 percent.

Trump received 8 percent of the African American vote in 2016. In August 2019, black voter approval for Trump stood at 26 percent.

Something to chew on

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 10:29 AM (85Gof)

28 A few days ago I asked if anyone has seen Chavez The Hugo, which was probably a dumb thing to ask -- why would CtH waste his precious time by delving into ugly Worldly events.

Anyway, I hope he is as well as he can be.
Posted by: Systemic Soothsayer at June 06, 2020 10:27 AM (qg2ac)

I think he popped into the ONT. He is doing chemo, I think, and seems a little more upbeat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:29 AM (YbxY6)

29 Not letting this get willowed
oldafsarge.blogspot.com/the-6th-of-june-1944-d-day
https://tinyurl.com/yb9d9nbk

One regret I have was not questioning my FiL at all about D-day, all I know probably of his day was a very brief reading of a fellow company comrade.
Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 10:28 AM

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 10:29 AM (6f16T)

30 11 I don't drink coffee.
There, I said it.

Not too fond of tea either.

Now, off to find some more icons to clast
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at June 06, 2020 10:22 AM (d6mdH)

I don't like coffee much, either. I'll drink it once in a great while, I guess trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. I do like tea, though. Either a strong black tea or brewed chai (not that syrup or powder crap).

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 10:30 AM (OzQGF)

31 Coffee good.

Democrats bad.

Off to check pawn shops in my AO for whatever came in their doors.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 06, 2020 10:30 AM (Z+IKu)

32 Tea does count, some say its caffeine is same as coffee but not to me.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 10:30 AM (6f16T)

33 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 06, 2020 10:30 AM (arJlL)

34 Off to check pawn shops in my AO for whatever came in their doors.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 06, 2020 10:30 AM (Z+IKu)

LOL
Never thought of that. I bet there are some good deals

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 10:31 AM (85Gof)

35 One regret I have was not questioning my FiL at all about D-day, all I know probably of his day was a very brief reading of a fellow company comrade.
Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 10:28 AM
Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 10:29 AM (6f16T)

Says not available when I try to load?

Posted by: JC. IDaho bot. at June 06, 2020 10:32 AM (377Zs)

36 Senile Joe said something bizarrely incomprehensible yesterday. I guess that made it just another day.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 06, 2020 10:32 AM (Uu+Jp)

37 I agree that the cop murdered George Floyd. but that makes Floyd a "victim", not a hero and I'm tired of everyone making him out to be a saint. It's nauseating actually, and you can still hold the view that the cop had no right to kill a man who posed no threat to him--and that the man he killed was--to everyone outside his family--a worthless POS.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:32 AM (CqE5x)

38 Man I really like Black Rifle AK47 coffee!

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 06, 2020 10:33 AM (JFO2v)

39 First World Problem:

What can I do with a gallon of hand sanitizer that is now unneeded, and made from natural alcohol* and some lilac scent stuff, giving it an odor that's not terrible but not very appealing? I'm afraid to dump it down my sink; maybe I'll dump it in the storm sewer.

*The label says this stuff smells different from other hand sanitizers because it is made with natural, not chemically-made, alcohol. I guess distillers will not make tons of money with hand sanitizers!

Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2020 10:33 AM (AMIL/)

40 >I wonder how long it will take for "BLM" to be considered an acceptable anagram and won't be underlined in red. Taking bets here.
Posted by: JD

I still think Bureau of Land Management, then, 'context, man'

Posted by: DB- just DB. at June 06, 2020 10:33 AM (iTXRQ)

41
Still lively on krak's thread.

Responses best described as 'blunt.'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 06, 2020 10:33 AM (oVJmc)

42 Sir Winston Churchills statue in Parliament Square, Westminster has been vandalised on the 76th anniversary of the D-Day landings by Black Lives Matter protesters.

As if I needed another reason to hate them and the left...and i bet most of the yoots were white

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 10:33 AM (85Gof)

43 Trump received 8 percent of the African American vote in 2016. In August 2019, black voter approval for Trump stood at 26 percent.

Something to chew on
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 10:29 AM (85Gof)

running around 40% with Black men

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 06, 2020 10:34 AM (JFO2v)

44 37 I agree that the cop murdered George Floyd. but that makes Floyd a "victim", not a hero and I'm tired of everyone making him out to be a saint. It's nauseating actually, and you can still hold the view that the cop had no right to kill a man who posed no threat to him--and that the man he killed was--to everyone outside his family--a worthless POS.
Posted by: JoeF

He's the latest Mascot for the Anointed.

Posted by: Puddleglum lives in NoVA at June 06, 2020 10:34 AM (MVR7y)

45 One other point about the nooded JJ/Krakatoa threads.

Remember that this country is largely made up of people who saw their own homelands as going bad. And most seem to lack sympathy for those countries they left.

I've never been one of those, myself, but I do understand it.

Relatedly, it's a mistake to let your mind be led by your natural heartfelt reaction. At least, not as such; it can be a sign that your thinking was off somewhere. That works only if your emotions and appetites have already been so well trained as to be trustworthy. And no one meets that test, at least not until they're in heaven.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 06, 2020 10:35 AM (ZbwAu)

46 As if I needed another reason to hate them and the left...and i bet most of the yoots were white
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 10:33 AM (85Gof)

Just like the toots who painted the BLM stuff on 16th street in DC

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 10:35 AM (ONvIw)

47 Gref - my wife ordered a ton of 50% isopropyl alcohol with witch hazel when the Covid panic first gripped her.

I should've told her to order 100 proof vodka; at least it would be drinkable.

Posted by: PabloD at June 06, 2020 10:35 AM (r/iuN)

48 Guess a few local car dealerships were broken into and cars stolen...Free Cars For Floyd

Posted by: A dude in MI at June 06, 2020 10:35 AM (/6GbT)

49 I am not a coffee achiever.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 06, 2020 10:36 AM (ufFY8)

50 Skip - yotw were in Chester and you didn't call me? Harrumph.

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 10:36 AM (7Am4g)

51 Did the dumbasses in Minneapolis vote to defund their police?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 06, 2020 10:23 AM (ufFY

They're gonna form an all "Karen" force....give 'em guns, badges and arrest powers.

Posted by: BignJames at June 06, 2020 10:36 AM (X/Pw5)

52 46 Yoots, not toots

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 10:36 AM (ONvIw)

53 >I don't like coffee much, either. I'll drink it once in a great while, I guess trying to figure out what all the fuss is about

Caffeine.
It's science.

Posted by: DB- just DB. at June 06, 2020 10:37 AM (iTXRQ)

54 oh gawd, the moron on Fox just mentioned the "Boogaloo movement".

I remember my freshman year in college, at the end of the first semester there was a dorm party that ended up in a floor by floor battle fought with trash cans full of water leaned against the elevator doors - yeah, things got out of hand and of course, lots and lots of alcohol was involved. Things looked bad when the campus cops showed up and charged in, threatening to arrest everyone involved. But just at that moment, someone noticed that they had jumped out of their car but left it running, and I still remember the look on their faces (we were all in the lobby) when someone said "Hey Look! There goes your car!!" Comedy Gold!!!

So anyway, they never caught who did it (I think I found out who it was a couple years later, someone I knew) but we still wanted to mess with them, so we started to float rumors that we had heard about the BuFu Liberation Army, that was dedicated to causing all kinds of trouble. And there were some of those official clowns who just ate that shit up.

One of my (our) crowning moments in that early life was when I actually saw in print that the local police were investigating the rumors they had heard of the dangerous BuFu Liberation Army.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 10:37 AM (V2Yro)

55 I agree that the cop murdered George Floyd. but that makes Floyd a "victim", not a hero and I'm tired of everyone making him out to be a saint. It's nauseating actually, and you can still hold the view that the cop had no right to kill a man who posed no threat to him--and that the man he killed was--to everyone outside his family--a worthless POS.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:32 AM (CqE5x)

George Floyd was a thug, and the thug life is what killed him. He'd likely have never encountered that particular crooked cop had he held an honest job somewhere. He's worth far more to his family dead than he ever was alive. His family just won the Powerball.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:37 AM (YbxY6)

56 Our laboratories of freedom are creating catastrophe-inducing experiments. Defunding cops. No cash bail. Crimes for which there are no punishments. But, coffee persists.

Posted by: iandeal at June 06, 2020 10:38 AM (vgGyZ)

57 Yoots, not toots
Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 10:36 AM (ONvIw)

Well yoots do toot, especially if you feed them beans

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 10:38 AM (85Gof)

58 I could forgive George Floyd for being a mean dude with a drug problem, and probably for some of his minor crimes. But Home Invasions are extremely serious and unforgivable.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:38 AM (CqE5x)

59 Almost time for a Saturday morning nap...
Posted by: lin-duh en fugue

Good idea.....

Posted by: JT at June 06, 2020 10:38 AM (arJlL)

60

49
I am not a coffee achiever.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 06, 2020 10:36 AM (ufFY

https://tinyurl.com/ybp99duv

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 06, 2020 10:38 AM (ufFY8)

61 George Floyd was a thug, and the thug life is what killed him. He'd likely have never encountered that particular crooked cop had he held an honest job somewhere. He's worth far more to his family dead than he ever was alive. His family just won the Powerball.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:37 AM (YbxY6)

He was working until the lockdown, a bouncer, but what else could he do?

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 10:38 AM (ONvIw)

62 21 Did the dumbasses in Minneapolis vote to defund their police?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 06, 2020 10:23 AM (ufFY

Who will they send to collect the property tax if homeowners and businesses refuse to pay? Which they should, because one main reason people pay property tax is to fund emergency services.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:27 AM (YbxY6)

I believe the unions, using the courts, will erect some barricades to the police defunding and dismantling forces. Voters will then have time to weigh-in. Might not hinder the far left loons in all places, though.

Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2020 10:39 AM (AMIL/)

63 Muldoon - I read your dad's diary excerpt. Thank you for sharing.

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 10:39 AM (7Am4g)

64 Still working on #1, boss.

#5 Give myself a haircut and a shave.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2020 10:39 AM (KnJdm)

65 Please let biden and the left run on defunding the Police...please

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 10:39 AM (85Gof)

66 He's worth far more to his family dead than he ever was alive. His family just won the Powerball.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:37 AM (YbxY6)

And they know it.

As do the family lawyers, handlers, consultants and aides.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:40 AM (CqE5x)

67 41

Still lively on krak's thread.

Responses best described as 'blunt.'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 06, 2020 10:33 AM (oVJmc)

Oh ... I thought i was here too late ... some 'blunt' comments were awfully close to 'rude'. And depressing.

That reminds me ... radio derb should be up ... time to get my weekly dose of pessimism.

Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 06, 2020 10:40 AM (AHq56)

68 Sipping iced coffee on this hot muggy day.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2020 10:40 AM (Dc2NZ)

69 When pickles are outlawed . . .

Massachusetts man charged with assault after thrown pickle from moving vehicle hits highway worker and 'caused him pain'

https://bit.ly/2A9vcsD

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 06, 2020 10:40 AM (+y/Ru)

70 24 Does Tea count?
Posted by: catman at June 06, 2020 10:29 AM (4HMlb)

Only if you're a Limey poof.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:41 AM (hV60f)

71 44 37 I agree that the cop murdered George Floyd. but that makes Floyd a "victim", not a hero and I'm tired of everyone making him out to be a saint. It's nauseating actually, and you can still hold the view that the cop had no right to kill a man who posed no threat to him--and that the man he killed was--to everyone outside his family--a worthless POS.
Posted by: JoeF
He's the latest Mascot for the Anointed.
Posted by: Puddleglum lives in NoVA at June 06, 2020 10:34 AM (MVR7y)

I was noting last night that contrary to popular fiction, most crimes involve Scumbags on both sides.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 10:41 AM (V2Yro)

72 Now that the weather has turned hot, I think it only appropriate to run coffee girl again.

Posted by: pep at June 06, 2020 10:41 AM (T6t7i)

73 Massachusetts man charged with assault after thrown pickle from moving vehicle hits highway worker and 'caused him pain'

https://bit.ly/2A9vcsD
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 06, 2020 10:40 AM (+y/Ru)

But arson, totes ok

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 10:41 AM (ONvIw)

74 He was working until the lockdown, a bouncer, but what else could he do?
Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 10:38 AM (ONvIw)

Did he commit crimes and have a record BEFORE the lock down?

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:41 AM (CqE5x)

75 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 10:37 AM (V2Yro

----

Could be worse, the folks in the year ahead of me put the garbage cans full of water against the stairway doors. And yes, people got washed down to the next landing.

Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 10:41 AM (+0uDE)

76 Did he commit crimes and have a record BEFORE the lock down?
Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:41 AM (CqE5x)

MANY!

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 10:42 AM (ONvIw)

77 Only if you're a Limey poof.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:41 AM (hV60f)

Do I get an exemption for being a girl?

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 10:42 AM (OzQGF)

78 Who will they send to collect the property tax if
homeowners and businesses refuse to pay? Which they should, because one
main reason people pay property tax is to fund emergency services.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:27 AM (YbxY6)

In the US that is generally done administratively through the Sheriff's department. For city and transit taxes it is either handled through the city DA's office and state taxing authority, or Sheriff, though I believe some are handled only at the city level like parking tickets. Even then, there is a tendency to hand collection over to a third party like private collections or the state. Some polities will also move to have your driver's license pulled for debt.

If you don't pay your property taxes, the county works up a writ of sort, and sends it to you. Locally, if there is timber on it, the county will log it for you for revenue, but if you don't comply the Sheriff will seize and action the property.

As for the rest, the tax collector going around to collect money directly (except in Oregon with the Pot tax!) doesn't happen without the Sheriff showing up.

I must be feeling better, I grow prolix.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2020 10:42 AM (WyVLE)

79 73
Massachusetts man charged with assault after thrown pickle from moving vehicle hits highway worker and 'caused him pain'

I just crossed Spain off my list, now I'm not going to MA.

Posted by: Peter North at June 06, 2020 10:42 AM (ufFY8)

80 I was noting last night that contrary to popular fiction, most crimes involve Scumbags on both sides.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 10:41 AM (V2Yro)

That's a good point, but one that's always going to be a real tough sell....

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:42 AM (CqE5x)

81 He was working until the lockdown, a bouncer, but what else could he do?
Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 10:38 AM (ONvIw)

Bouncer in a skeevy nightclub is basically an "honest job" in air quotes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:43 AM (YbxY6)

82
Did he commit crimes and have a record BEFORE the lock down?

Only if you consider invading a pregnant woman's home and pointing a pistol at her belly a "crime".

Posted by: deplorable unperson -To Mars! at June 06, 2020 10:43 AM (luzVb)

83 One of my (our) crowning moments in that early life was when I actually saw in print that the local police were investigating the rumors they had heard of the dangerous BuFu Liberation Army.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 10:37 AM (V2Yro)

That is awesome. Kids nowadays don't know how to have innocent fun like that. Everything has got to be a grievance.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2020 10:44 AM (KnJdm)

84 #5 Give myself a haircut and a shave.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2020 10:39 AM (KnJdm)

You cut your own hair? I wouldn't have guessed.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 10:44 AM (OzQGF)

85 77 Only if you're a Limey poof.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:41 AM (hV60f)

Do I get an exemption for being a girl?
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 10:42 AM (OzQGF)

Women. Always asking for exemptions...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:44 AM (hV60f)

86 A Letter From Larry Correia

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=100549

Posted by: SMH at June 06, 2020 10:45 AM (RU4sa)

87 Scumbags?

"Cincinnati, police found and arrested a man who was caught on video paying protesters to riot. "

utoob imbedded in article:

http://tinyurl.com/ybf7jyjo

Posted by: Braenyard at June 06, 2020 10:45 AM (Fk2WS)

88 He's worth far more to his family dead than he ever was alive. His family just won the Powerball.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:37 AM (YbxY6)

And they know it.

As do the family lawyers, handlers, consultants and aides.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:40 AM (CqE5x)

Yup, but the lawyers and scam artists ( read that as sharpton as others ) will pick the caurcus dry. The family will be left with next to nothing in a few years.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 10:45 AM (85Gof)

89 And...just like that, the morning's gone!

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 10:46 AM (7Am4g)

90 82:Only if you consider invading a pregnant woman's home and pointing a pistol at her belly a "crime".

Shame he's dead. Planned Parenthood would have hired him.

Posted by: Puddleglum lives in NoVA at June 06, 2020 10:46 AM (MVR7y)

91 I must be feeling better, I grow prolix.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2020 10:42 AM (WyVLE)

There's a tax on that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:46 AM (YbxY6)

92
He's worth far more to his family dead than he ever was alive. His family just won the Powerball.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:37 AM (YbxY6)

And they know it.

As do the family lawyers, handlers, consultants and aides.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:40 AM (CqE5x)

----

The family lawyer is Benjamin Crump of Trayvon Martin fame. He is probably the one that invented the

"5 Day George Floyd Funeral and Racial Grievance Circus starring Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the Just Us Brothers."

Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 10:46 AM (+0uDE)

93 I was noting last night that contrary to popular fiction, most crimes involve Scumbags on both sides.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 10:41 AM (V2Yro)

That's why it's easy to cheer for the bad guy "heroes" in mob movies. The guys Vito Corleone and Tony Soprano whack are scumbags too.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:46 AM (CqE5x)

94 Thinking about the Abolish the Police idea. I think what they are really calling for is a destruction of western culture law, order, and rights.

The left has lost many arguments over the last 10 to 12 years. They realize that many people vote with the pockets and checkbooks when given the chance at a job, a home, and a life.

I think many of the left desire a no decisions, no pains, and no rules life. When given the choice of freedom and right or a big progressive government that frees them self-control required to live a productive life they choose the Big Govt.

And with this idea they also think that this Big Govt will leave THEM alone.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 06, 2020 10:46 AM (JFO2v)

95 Best laid plans or plans to be laid best?

Men hired for sexual fantasy break into wrong house

In a sex fantasy gone wrong, two men with machetes entered the wrong house in New South Wales, Australia, before quickly realising their error.

One of them has now been acquitted of entering a home armed with a weapon in July 2019, Australian media report.

They had been hired to carry out a client's fantasy of being tied up in his underwear and stroked with a broom.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 06, 2020 10:47 AM (+y/Ru)

96 Did he commit crimes and have a record BEFORE the lock down?

Only if you consider invading a pregnant woman's home and pointing a pistol at her belly a "crime".
Posted by: deplorable unperson -To Mars! at June 06, 2020 10:43 AM (luzVb)

Threatening an Abortion isn't a crime in Blie states

Posted by: Jean at June 06, 2020 10:47 AM (B7KlG)

97 27 Despite the lefts recent efforts to paint Trump as a racist and blame him for police brutality and the riots, Rasmussen Reports says that approval for President Trump amongst likely black voters is now over 40 percent.

Trump received 8 percent of the African American vote in 2016. In August 2019, black voter approval for Trump stood at 26 percent.

Something to chew on
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 10:29 AM (85Gof)

Call me racist, but black democrats in my opinion seem to be more Christian than white democrats. Most of the best arguments I've seen on twitter have been by black conservative Christians who think the entire argument of "oppressed" is bullshit. They don't want to be labeled as helpless in need of white saviors.

Obviously they are then attacked by crazed white liberals condescending to them. Talk about white privilege.

The white liberals are increasingly gross. Atheist, pro-sex, pro-drugs, pro-everything. Pro communism. Anti-America.

Republicans do better with people who have family values and black Christians believe in family values as much as anybody. They might not trust the cops, but that simply leads to a distrust in government. Trump's message matches this.

I am not surprised to see such high support. White liberals assume minorities vote 100% for democrats but it simply isn't the case and there's plenty of room to grow in terms of gaining those votes.

A poor black neighborhood in the middle of an affluent white liberal city has more in common with a backwoods white small town in Arkansas than they do with rich white Antifa terrorist wannabes.

This only deepens that divide. They are not blind.

As anecdotal evidence, in the latest Dave Chapelle special that I watched, black comedians are the only ones still willing to make jokes about how absurd gay people are, for one example. He's also pro-gun because he doesn't want crazed drug addicts breaking into his home. And he doesn't trust the cops to show up to help him and they wouldn't make it in time anyway. He's a wealthier black celebrity type but it still makes sense to me.

It's increasingly difficult to paint a pretty picture of how helpful democrats are and how evil Republicans are.

Hopefully the trend continues.

Posted by: Rorschach at June 06, 2020 10:47 AM (gqvXZ)

98 35 https://oldafsarge.blogspot.com

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 10:47 AM (6f16T)

99 I do have to warn against too much patting oneself on the back. Lack of self-awareness is just as dangerous to us, as to the left.

And I do NOT see much openness to disagreement here*. Maybe more than NRO, but less than it was. Yes, things are coming to a head, and that is one of several causes. But not the only one.

*BTW, JJ is, and long has been, one of the best. Yes, his style doesn't usually show that, and in a single given thread it may not seem so, but over time, he doesn't hold grudges.

Kind of like Trump.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 06, 2020 10:47 AM (ZbwAu)

100 My poor mom's Keurig coffee maker quit working and she's not had a cup for a couple of days while waiting for a new one to be delivered. ( basically home bound) . I sent her some instant coffee in the mail to bridge the gap.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 06, 2020 10:47 AM (2DOZq)

101 84 #5 Give myself a haircut and a shave.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2020 10:39 AM (KnJdm)

You cut your own hair? I wouldn't have guessed.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 10:44 AM (OzQGF)

For mumbledy years. Best $30 I've ever spent.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2020 10:47 AM (KnJdm)

102 he Police Chief what the hell ever they call him in Pittsburgh actually sat in the street & blocked Traffic with BLM ! You cannot make this shit up

Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at June 06, 2020 10:48 AM (uQFnR)

103 I must be feeling better, I grow prolix.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2020 10:42 AM (WyVLE)

What's the best fertilizer for that?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:48 AM (hV60f)

104 The family lawyer is Benjamin Crump of Trayvon Martin fame. He is probably the one that invented the

"5 Day George Floyd Funeral and Racial Grievance Circus starring Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the Just Us Brothers."
Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 10:46 AM (+0uDE)

Never liked Crump, but what makes him worse than just a shakedown artists is that his rhetoric is always HOT.

If he was merely seeking "justice" for the family--and a huge payout for them and himself--he would already have a very strong case to get both justice and money.

But he ain't about that.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:49 AM (CqE5x)

105 Celebrate and exercise your Bill of Rights freedoms this year. You don't know what next year will bring.

Last Florida governor's race, DeSantis (R) won by 0.4% over Gillum. It was 49.6% to 49.2%

Huge difference in outcome.

Posted by: FloridaMan at June 06, 2020 10:50 AM (Iex1l)

106 Coffee, Che Blake style: Grab coffee pod, put in single cup maker. Fill with roughly 8 OZ of water.

Put 2 oz Bailey's Irish Cream in bottom of cup.

Push "start" button on coffee maker.

Star at coffee maker like a dog waiting for supper to hit the floor.

Sigh once coffee is ready.

Drink.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 06, 2020 10:50 AM (WEBkv)

107 I mean look at the Cosby Show. Outside of Roseanne it's the last most conservative pro-family show that's made it onto a network. If liberals no longer represent religious values and families, black voters will leave them. Not to mention Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Carlton is like the poster child for the senior PGA tour. Has been for YEARS. None of the old white golf fans even bat an eye.

I'm tellin ya.

Posted by: Rorschach at June 06, 2020 10:50 AM (gqvXZ)

108 He's worth far more to his family dead than he ever was alive. His family just won the Powerball.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:37 AM (YbxY6)

Known as the ghetto lottery.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 06, 2020 10:50 AM (2DOZq)

109 To get my morning rant in; the thing that bugs me most are the universal lies. I feel like I have been transplanted to East Germany. Every newsperson, even or especially FNC, is just parroting the same lies. Are they all really fools and believe this shit? Or are they just ordered to do so and they bend the knee? The latter seems even worse to me. Stupidity is an understandable, if regrettable, fact of life but cowardice on this scale is mind boggling.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 06, 2020 10:50 AM (yQpMk)

110
Bouncer in a skeevy nightclub is basically an "honest job" in air quotes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:43 AM (YbxY6)
The cop who killed supposedly worked as a bouncer at the same side the night club.

But supposedly they had never met.

Posted by: Fox 2! at June 06, 2020 10:50 AM (koG+n)

111 105 Celebrate and exercise your Bill of Rights freedoms this year. You don't know what next year will bring.

Last Florida governor's race, DeSantis (R) won by 0.4% over Gillum. It was 49.6% to 49.2%

Huge difference in outcome.
Posted by: FloridaMan at June 06, 2020 10:50 AM (Iex1l)

Yep. I already knew Gillum was corrupt but only recently did we find out what a complete degenerate he is.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:51 AM (hV60f)

112 What's the best fertilizer for that?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:48 AM (hV60f)
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Booze?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 06, 2020 10:51 AM (WEBkv)

113 My guess is end of August until my Emperor says I can get a haircut at my usual place.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 10:51 AM (6f16T)

114 The Larry Correia letter is posted on his own website too.

https://monsterhunternation.com/2020/06/05/with-friends-like-these/

Scroll down to read about the feed back he got.

Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 10:51 AM (+0uDE)

115 Huge difference in outcome.
Posted by: FloridaMan at June 06, 2020 10:50 AM (Iex1l)

Big difference in "income", too.

Posted by: Gillum's Butthole at June 06, 2020 10:51 AM (YbxY6)

116 One of my (our) crowning moments in that early life was when I actually saw in print that the local police were investigating the rumors they had heard of the dangerous BuFu Liberation Army.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 10:37 AM (V2Yro)
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What if your joke actually brought it into being?

What is their cammo pattern?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2020 10:52 AM (Dc2NZ)

117 CNN Guest Proposes Abusing White Children in Wake of George Floyds Death, White Kids Dont Deserve Innocence (VIDEO)

Gateway Pundit

Ths scumbag was on cnn

SCUMBAG

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 10:52 AM (85Gof)

118 Posted by: Palindrome Paduan

I've been meaning to ask, PP, is your family the Italican branch of the Luap clan?

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at June 06, 2020 10:52 AM (YqED9)

119 Dollar Shave Club just played the corporate guilt-shaming card in my email.

Unsubscribed and account deleted with a shove you corporate virtue-signaling up your ass note.

. Looks like I will be growing out my beard for a while.

Posted by: deplorable unperson -To Mars! at June 06, 2020 10:52 AM (luzVb)

120 Well my hair is not worth messing with. Counting the days until June 20th.

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 10:52 AM (gLRfa)

121 They had been hired to carry out a client's fantasy of being tied up in his underwear and stroked with a broom.
____________

LOL. He fantasized about being stroked with a broom? People are weird.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 06, 2020 10:53 AM (k4dH2)

122 NN Guest Proposes Abusing White Children in Wake of George Floyds Death, White Kids Dont Deserve Innocence (VIDEO)

Gateway Pundit

Ths scumbag was on cnn

SCUMBAG
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 10:52 AM (85Gof)

Who?

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:53 AM (CqE5x)

123 I really am sick of the lockdown curfew mask-wearing bullshit. Also sick of the "predominantly peaceful" rioting, looting, burning, beating, and woker-than-though fucksticks cheering from the sidelines. Thank God for the HQ and the Horde.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:53 AM (hV60f)

124 LOL. He fantasized about being stroked with a broom? People are weird.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 06, 2020 10:53 AM (k4dH2)

His last girlfriend was a witch?

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:54 AM (CqE5x)

125 113 My guess is end of August until my Emperor says I can get a haircut at my usual place.
Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 10:51 AM (6f16T)

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Will they still be in business by then?
Five months of zero income?

By then the stylists may all be working at the grocery store.

Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 10:54 AM (+0uDE)

126 Bouncer in a skeevy nightclub is basically an "honest job" in air quotes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:43 AM (YbxY6)

Chauvin worked there too. It's up for debate if he was part of the skeeve or monitoring it, but he's donk so probably part of the problem.

With a record like Floyd's he was not going to get a bank teller job, or even a cashier. He made his life a mess and is no hero, but his death has helped his family in ways his life never would (unless he stopped with drugs, but he wasn't going to. He found a job where that was no problem).

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 10:54 AM (ONvIw)

127 Author Terry Turchie: The Democrat Party has Adopted All of the Weather Underground Strategies for Resistance Into Their Party Platform

It is WAR folks. Better get used to it

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 10:54 AM (85Gof)

128 And social distancing can suck my balls.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:54 AM (hV60f)

129 Here's an odd aspect of the George Floyd killing. Why hasn't the media told us every single detail of Derek Chauvin's life by now? That is typically part of the "create outrage" plan when white police kill minorities, or white losers shoot-up schools and malls.

Last week, I remember seeing a photo of Chauvin in a Trump-supporting t-shirt, someplace on-line. Why isn't CNN showing that 5,000 times a day?

The conspiracy part of my brain says something very odd is going on. Or maybe the Dem-Media Complex is saving-up the Chauvin info, to use it to incite a second round of Antifa crap or for when they need aother attack-angle on Trump..

Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2020 10:55 AM (AMIL/)

130 More likely paid to have his prostate stroked with a broom.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 06, 2020 10:55 AM (yQpMk)

131 41
Still lively on krak's thread.

Responses best described as 'blunt.'

My favorite kinda respones!

Posted by: Snoop Dogg at June 06, 2020 10:55 AM (hkDyM)

132 Who?
Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:53 AM (CqE5x

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 10:55 AM (85Gof)

133 I believe there "stroked" means "beaten."

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:55 AM (hV60f)

134 And forgive, as I am still waking, but thank you, for the compliment.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2020 10:55 AM (KnJdm)

135 ''CNN Guest Proposes Abusing White Children in Wake of George Floyds Death, White Kids Dont Deserve Innocence (VIDEO) ''

WTF? That sorry SOB sounds like a sadistic pedo.

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 10:56 AM (gLRfa)

136 I just found this out--my sister's best friend's mother had the Virus and it was dicey for a while, but Hydroxychlorquine did the trick.

She's a teacher and a big Lib.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:56 AM (CqE5x)

137 The cop who killed supposedly worked as a bouncer at the same side the night club.

But supposedly they had never met.
Posted by: Fox 2! at June 06, 2020 10:50 AM (koG+n)

Yeah. Likely story, hah! But suppose for a moment it is true. It's still the thug life that put him in contact with the bad cop. He was passing counterfeit money, and a storekeeper called the cops on him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:56 AM (YbxY6)

138 Last week, I remember seeing a photo of Chauvin in a Trump-supporting t-shirt, someplace on-line. Why isn't CNN showing that 5,000 times a day?

The conspiracy part of my brain says something very odd is going on. Or maybe the Dem-Media Complex is saving-up the Chauvin info, to use it to incite a second round of Antifa crap or for when they need aother attack-angle on Trump..
Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2020 10:55 AM (AMIL/)

They guy in the Trump shirt and LAw and Order sign was NOT Chauvin

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 10:57 AM (ONvIw)

139 Does ace condone Kraks post full of hatred and contempt? When mere mortals post that level of bile they get the Banhammer 3000...

Posted by: Adolf deBlasio at June 06, 2020 10:58 AM (OnOT9)

140 On the bright side, I have some goodies at my LGS to pick up today as I drive over to Florida to renew my retirement plan.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 06, 2020 10:58 AM (yQpMk)

141 128 And social distancing can suck my balls.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:54 AM (hV60f)
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They're hypocrites if they do!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2020 10:58 AM (Dc2NZ)

142 Morning all. Tuned into Amazon Movies lasat night after a great night with a coupla friends.

First screen banner : We Support Black Lives Matter: and the. A bunch of what I can only assume are white oppressor movies and documentaries. Now what? I wont go to places that require masks. Netflix is asshoe. I wont subscribe to cable. Its probably the only service I enjoy using cause I hate going shopping. They did have a Dennis Prager vid, but fuck then and every other mutherfer woke corporations. I'm just done with it.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 06, 2020 10:59 AM (XEfKE)

143 Looks like I will be growing out my beard for a while.
Posted by: deplorable unperson -To Mars! at June 06, 2020 10:52 AM (luzVb)

Old fashioned safety razor and blades. Cheaper, and fuck your corporate virtue signaling.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2020 10:59 AM (KnJdm)

144 They guy in the Trump shirt and LAw and Order sign was NOT Chauvin

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 10:57 AM (ONvIw)

Ahh, so. Thanks.

Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2020 10:59 AM (AMIL/)

145 128 And social distancing can suck my balls.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:54 AM (hV60f)

I can't believe they are still sticking with that shit with all that is going on. AYFKM? And no tear gas in Seattle because it makes people cough and that's going to spread WuFlu cooties? Give me a f*cking break already.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 10:59 AM (OzQGF)

146 Now Magnolia is virtue signaling about "systemic racism".

Et tu Chip and Joanna?

Et tu?

UNSUBSCRIBE

Posted by: deplorable unperson -To Mars! at June 06, 2020 10:59 AM (luzVb)

147 ''CNN Guest Proposes Abusing White Children in Wake of George Floyds Death, White Kids Dont Deserve Innocence (VIDEO) ''

Oh.

Posted by: Puddleglum lives in NoVA at June 06, 2020 10:59 AM (MVR7y)

148 141 128 And social distancing can suck my balls.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:54 AM (hV60f)
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They're hypocrites if they do!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2020 10:58 AM (Dc2NZ)

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 06, 2020 11:00 AM (XEfKE)

149 Old fashioned safety razor and blades. Cheaper, and fuck your corporate virtue signaling.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2020 10:59 AM (KnJdm)

This. I bought my husband a nice one last year for our anniversary and he loves it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 11:00 AM (OzQGF)

150 Watching some German soccer since that and Korean baseball are the only sports going on right now. The players are wearing Black Lives Matter arm bands.

Lots of lessons you could draw there about globalism. And also, Germans wearing arm bands should always make one concerned.

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at June 06, 2020 11:01 AM (LZ7Gl)

151 Old fashioned safety razor and blades. Cheaper, and fuck your corporate virtue signaling.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2020 10:59 AM (KnJdm)

Black Rifle Coffee ought to get into the shave business.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 11:01 AM (YbxY6)

152 ''Last week, I remember seeing a photo of Chauvin in a Trump-supporting t-shirt, someplace on-line. Why isn't CNN showing that 5,000 times a day? ''

They always hope these guys are Trump supporters but it rarely works out for them.

Speaking of PDT, is he in D.C. today? I know he doesn't run from fights so it wouldn't surprise me if he's standing tall in the White House.

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 11:01 AM (gLRfa)

153 Yeah. Likely story, hah! But suppose for a moment it is true. It's still the thug life that put him in contact with the bad cop. He was passing counterfeit money, and a storekeeper called the cops on him.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 10:56 AM (YbxY6)
Agreed. But we don't know if there had been a prior animosity.

Posted by: Fox 2! at June 06, 2020 11:02 AM (koG+n)

154 I've switched over to a dry electric and I like it.

Posted by: Rorschach at June 06, 2020 11:02 AM (gqvXZ)

155 Mornin' y'all. Everyone make sure you maintain situational awareness if you're out and about.
I'm going to get another cup of coffee.

Posted by: Bert G, new podisode at June 06, 2020 11:02 AM (OMsf+)

156 Ahh, so. Thanks.
Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2020 10:59 AM (AMIL/)

The cop in question was from the Bloomington PD and is much older

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:02 AM (ONvIw)

157 Please let biden and the left run on defunding the Police...please

I know! It IS possible, no?

Posted by: Piratepatch from the flood zone at June 06, 2020 11:02 AM (dCpPd)

158 Hopefully the trend continues.
Posted by: Rorschach at June 06, 2020 10:47 AM (gqvXZ)

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Honestly pointing out that pasty faced over educated upper class white boy Antifa led the charge to burn down all the businesses in your neighborhoods may go a long way to convincing blacks that Trump and Republicans are not their enemy. Especially if you do it as you push a broom helping them clean up their neighborhoods.

Which means I have a mission for tomorrow.

Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 11:02 AM (+0uDE)

159 CNN Guest Proposes Abusing White Children in Wake of George Floyds Death, White Kids Dont Deserve Innocence (VIDEO) ''

I assume it's okay for a parent to beat the snot out of that pervert. As preventative medicine, I mean.

When did it become okay for clearly insane people to say clearly insane things on national television?
It was CNN which means there wasn't a lot of people watching, but still.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 06, 2020 11:04 AM (Uu+Jp)

160 Lots of lessons you could draw there about globalism. And also, Germans wearing arm bands should always make one concerned.
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at June 06, 2020 11:01 AM (LZ7Gl)

A whole bunch of American cities all at the same time. Then globally with all of the corporations in lockstep. The question is who owns the soccer team. I know people hate the word conspiracy but this is obviously the opposite of organic.

Posted by: Rorschach at June 06, 2020 11:04 AM (gqvXZ)

161 And also, Germans wearing arm bands should always make one concerned.

Uh-oh...

Posted by: the rest of Europe at June 06, 2020 11:04 AM (MVR7y)

162 I had a pateint in my chair yesterday who did not know floyd had a criminal record or that he had drugs in his system...she thought he was another one of them saint gentle giants

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:05 AM (85Gof)

163 Also getting the feeling this " social distancing " will be the new normal they want.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 11:05 AM (6f16T)

164 18 So yesterday at the Farmers' Market, I was struck by the incongruity of a young Amish lass working the levers of a state of the art Gagginetti, or whatever those fancy espresso/capuccino contraptions are called.
Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 10:26 AM (7Am4g)

Expresso machine - coffee cow.

Posted by: cicero kaboomerang kid at June 06, 2020 11:05 AM (Vy7tf)

165 When did it become okay for clearly insane people to say clearly insane things on national television?
It was CNN which means there wasn't a lot of people watching, but still.
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 06, 2020 11:04 AM (Uu+Jp)

Ths is CNN

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:05 AM (85Gof)

166 DJT is not in DC.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 06, 2020 11:05 AM (MVR7y)

167 Speaking of PDT, is he in D.C. today? I know he doesn't run from fights so it wouldn't surprise me if he's standing tall in the White House.
Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 11:01 AM (gLRfa)

Trump's in Bedminster, NJ this weekend

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 11:05 AM (CqE5x)

168 Also getting the feeling this " social distancing " will be the new normal they want.
Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 11:05 AM (6f16T)

Good. I hate most people

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:06 AM (85Gof)

169 The NFL needs to rebrand games as riots, which would allow them to get back to business,

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 06, 2020 11:06 AM (Uu+Jp)

170 >> ''CNN Guest Proposes Abusing White Children in Wake of George Floyds Death, White Kids Dont Deserve Innocence (VIDEO) ''

Instead of ruining other people's children, how about you try raising your own?

Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:06 AM (lxuQd)

171 Somebody inform Poland.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2020 11:07 AM (8NNW6)

172 162 I had a pateint in my chair yesterday who did not know floyd had a criminal record or that he had drugs in his system...she thought he was another one of them saint gentle giants
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:05 AM (85Gof)

Ignorance is blissful leftist stupidity.

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:07 AM (ONvIw)

173 The more Leftists scream defund the police will make that sailboat Biden stay ahead of the wind and force him to join the mantra

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 11:07 AM (6f16T)

174 I take that back--he was due to spend the weekend in NJ, but scrapped it because of protests. I guess he didn't want to give them ammo by being shown playing golf.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 11:07 AM (CqE5x)

175 I can't believe they are still sticking with that shit with all that is going on. AYFKM? And no tear gas in Seattle because it makes people cough and that's going to spread WuFlu cooties? Give me a f*cking break already.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 10:59 AM (OzQGF)

After the first 10-14 days is was obvious that COVID-19 was not infludenguebolaids. And yet, authorities and their lickspittles demanded more and more absurd and restrictive measures. More masks, more lockdowns, more curfews, more bullshit. It's not about contagion, it's about control. It's about being made to bend the knee and feel subdued. Fuck that shit.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:07 AM (hV60f)

176 As a company, we have paused over the last few days to deeply consider how to best engage on issues of systemic racism in our country. Those internal conversations revealed the following:

We must stand: Acts of racism and injustice have no place in our society. To our Black brothers and sisters who are suffering, pleading, and grieving - unequivocally, your lives matter.

We must engage: Our Manifesto calls us to listen and learn from others, which right now means dedicating time and resources to fight widespread racism. That work begins within our own company and through the Magnolia Bridge Building initiative with the implementation of diversity and inclusion training for all employees, creation of a Race Relations listening series and participation in Racial Equity Institute workshops for all our leadership.

We must act: We believe our work must start in our own community. Magnolia is donating a total of $100,000 locally to the Waco NAACP and the Waco Community Race Relations Coalition and a total of $100,000 nationally to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Race Forward.

We invite you to join: Any gift made to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund or Race Forward will be matched by Magnolia up to $100,000 total.

There is much work to be done, and we are eager to walk forward in humility, with open hands and hearts.

- The Magnolia Family

More terrorist ransom payments.

Posted by: deplorable unperson -To Mars! at June 06, 2020 11:07 AM (luzVb)

177 I had a pateint in my chair yesterday who did not know floyd had a criminal record or that he had drugs in his system...she thought he was another one of them saint gentle giants
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:05 AM (85Gof)

Ignorance is blissful leftist stupidity.
Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:07 AM (ONvIw)

She knows now and is $750 poorer

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:07 AM (85Gof)

178 Candace Owens did a good vid on Owens and his rap sheet. He was not a good citizen. held a gun to a pregnant ladies stomach during a home invasion.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 06, 2020 11:07 AM (XEfKE)

179 CNN Guest Proposes Abusing White Children in Wake of George Floyds Death, White Kids Dont Deserve Innocence (VIDEO)

Morning all.
*types *deletes.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 06, 2020 11:08 AM (ycxIH)

180 170 >> ''CNN Guest Proposes Abusing White Children in Wake of George Floyds Death, White Kids Dont Deserve Innocence (VIDEO) ''

Instead of ruining other people's children, how about you try raising your own?
Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:06 AM (lxuQd)

This is one of the reasons I hope schools in NJ stay closed. I gladly took an NJ survey and voiced my concern that the schools couldn't protect the kids from wuflu. Wuflu is not the threat I worry about.

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:08 AM (ONvIw)

181 69 When pickles are outlawed . . .

Massachusetts man charged with assault after thrown pickle from moving vehicle hits highway worker and 'caused him pain

My cousin was cruising the dirt roads in N. Central Tennessee one day, 20 mph, drinking some suds. Threw the bottle out of his window, arching it over his vehicle. Hit the cop following him right square in the grill of his squad car! Local cop, knew my cuz, tickets him for littering.

Posted by: cicero kaboomerang kid at June 06, 2020 11:08 AM (Vy7tf)

182 Agreed. But we don't know if there had been a prior animosity.
Posted by: Fox 2! at June 06, 2020 11:02 AM (koG+n)

Yeah. We don't know that. But I am dead certain that Chauvin knew that Floyd worked at the club, and that he had a record. Cops don't shut off their cop instincts when they go moonlighting.

And the irony of it is, had there been prior animosity, a murder conviction would maybe be easier to get.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 11:08 AM (YbxY6)

183 >>She knows now and is $750 poorer

Just a cleaning, then?

Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:08 AM (lxuQd)

184 http://www.kimdutoit.com/2020/06/06/d-day/

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 11:08 AM (6f16T)

185 141 128 And social distancing can suck my balls.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 10:54 AM (hV60f)
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They're hypocrites if they do!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2020 10:58 AM (Dc2NZ)

Three cheers for hypocrisy!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:09 AM (hV60f)

186 I had a pateint in my chair yesterday who did not know floyd had a criminal record or that he had drugs in his system...she thought he was another one of them saint gentle giants
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:05 AM (85Gof)

Ignorance is blissful leftist stupidity.
Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:07 AM (ONvIw)

She knows now and is $750 poorer
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:07 AM (85Gof)

You charged her $750 for a check-up??

Or because she was a dupe??

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 11:09 AM (CqE5x)

187 She knows now and is $750 poorer
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:07 AM (85Gof)

Good for you.

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:09 AM (ONvIw)

188 Honestly pointing out that pasty faced over educated upper class white boy Antifa led the charge to burn down all the businesses in your neighborhoods may go a long way to convincing blacks that Trump and Republicans are not their enemy. Especially if you do it as you push a broom helping them clean up their neighborhoods.

Which means I have a mission for tomorrow.
Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 11:02 AM (+0uDE)

Exactly. They've gone out on TV claiming that the "family" is public enemy #1. I can absolutely see this nonsense as the reason that Trump is up to 40% with black people. I saw one black twitterer say that white guilt is like the most dangerous thing and they wish people would dial that shit back.

Posted by: Rorschach at June 06, 2020 11:09 AM (gqvXZ)

189 creation of a Race Relations listening series and participation in Racial Equity Institute workshops for all our leadership.

Ooh that sounds fun.

I'm sure that all sides will be heard from and all viewpoints appreciated in an open and accepting environment.

Posted by: deplorable unperson -To Mars! at June 06, 2020 11:10 AM (luzVb)

190 >>I am dead certain that Chauvin knew that Floyd worked at the club, and that he had a record.

I'd bet dollars to donuts that Floyd was killed for breaking a rule of (employment at) that club:

Getting caught passing bad paper.

Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:10 AM (lxuQd)

191 178 Candace Owens did a good vid on Owens and his rap sheet. He was not a good citizen. held a gun to a pregnant ladies stomach during a home invasion.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 06, 2020 11:07 AM (XEfKE)

Here's the thing though - just because he was a shitheel doesn't make Chauvin not a shitheel.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:10 AM (hV60f)

192 George the felon was positive for fentanyl in meth on his official autopsy report and I believe has eight felony arrest one in which he pistol-whipped an old lady and another one in which he held a gun to a pregnant woman's belly. Fuck him.

Posted by: Adolf deBlasio at June 06, 2020 11:11 AM (OnOT9)

193 You charged her $750 for a check-up??

Or because she was a dupe??
Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 11:09 AM (CqE5x)

No. Inserted a crown

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:11 AM (85Gof)

194 The video of the mayor of Minneapolis, kneeling and fake crying at the Floyd funereal. It's insane.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 06, 2020 11:11 AM (7Fj9P)

195 Willowed:

Eh, here's the problem.

We're all basically Middle and Working Class folks.

We have loads of self-discipline. We plan our lives to the best of our ability. We obey the law, stay out of trouble, and generally avoid those who cause trouble. We get married to have our kids and try to provide a stable home for our mates and kids to live in.

No wonder the Democrats/Commies hate us.

We absolutely do not need them. At. All.

All they can do "for" us is take our "disposable income" and our freedoms away.

They offer us less than nothing.

IMHO, anyone who is Middle or Working Class and votes Democrat is functionally insane.

However -

for the Middle and Working class lifestyle to work,

we need Law and Order.

We need a stable society and the continuity of shared cultural values.

This is why we fail.

Our lives and it's accoutrements - good jobs, good home, good family, safe streets depend on our obey the law instincts.

We are the last ones who will ever violently revolt, even when it's necessary. The dead last. Because it means throwing away the behavior which makes our lives good.

This is the reason for the current violence. It's yet another effort to break the Middle and Working Classes, most specifically the Black Middle and Working Classes.

Yep, BLM, headed by VanillaISIS, a Fake Black Man ,is burning, destroying and looting Black Businesses and Homes first...

...Imagine that.

It's simply part and parcel with Oblabla's effort to destroy the Middle and Working Classes.

If the Middle and Working Classes ever do organize to their benefit,

then miracles can happen because - we do plan, we do carry out our plans, we are deadly serious when it comes to our families and our lives.

Think of the election of Donald Trump.

That was but a mere twitch of the Middle and Working Classes organizing to protect their own interests.

And it worked.

Think what could happen if we truly worked to protect our civil society at the ballot box and locally.

Or are we going to become Venezuela?

Cuz that's all the Democrats/Commies offer us - look at the burning blue cities where they run things.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2020 11:11 AM (rTZNj)

196 193 You charged her $750 for a check-up??

Or because she was a dupe??
Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 11:09 AM (CqE5x)

No. Inserted a crown
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:11 AM (85Gof)

Where'd you insert it?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:11 AM (hV60f)

197 >>Here's the thing though - just because he was a shitheel doesn't make Chauvin not a shitheel.

Chauvin is 10X worse. He's a shitheel with a badge.

Dirty Cop? No question, imo. Fuck that guy.

Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:11 AM (lxuQd)

198 (Posted on the previous thread. Try again.)

Happy 76th Anniversary of D-Day, American cousins.

If it's any consolation, things are going to sh*t just as quickly on this side of the pond and for exactly the same reasons.

We haven't got BLM devastation in our city centres yet, but from the fifteenth of June our increasingly insane govt is going to make the wearing of masks on public transport mandatory, even if the mask is something we made at home out of "easily available household materials" (Actual quote from the Minister of Lunacy).

Yep, you can be fined if you're not wearing a mask on the train. But if it's one your six year old made out of egg cartons and scotch tape and has no preventative effect whatsoever? No problem! Carry on, Citizen! Well done!

Effing madness. Effing, blinding madness.

Hope you all have a nice Saturday, though.

All the best.

Posted by: Bobo at June 06, 2020 11:12 AM (EMk/v)

199 She was crowning and you kept her in the chair?

You monster!

Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:12 AM (lxuQd)

200 Where'd you insert it?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:11 AM (hV60f)

Good one. LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:12 AM (85Gof)

201 162 I had a pateint in my chair yesterday who did not know floyd had a criminal record or that he had drugs in his system...she thought he was another one of them saint gentle giants
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:05 AM (85Gof

The thug lifestyle raises a person's chances of being killed. I realize decent people also killed, although the chances are lower. It's interesting that the martyrs chosen by the Left are always of the thug variety and not the decent person. Why is that?

Posted by: Emmie at June 06, 2020 11:12 AM (clsJu)

202 Speaking of PDT, is he in D.C. today? I know he doesn't run from fights so it wouldn't surprise me if he's standing tall in the White House.
Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 11:01 AM (gLRfa)

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1. Getting Barron and Melania out of the line of fire is important.

2. Being there will just enrage the psychotic assholes more and make the job of the Secret Service police harder.

3. The Secret Service would lock him in the Situation Room all day and night to keep him safe from the 1:1,000,000 chance he might get hurt.

Unless someone officially calls "Weapons Free!" at the White House, and then using PDT as a goad to encourage human wave attacks, it is better if PDT is elsewhere.

Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 11:13 AM (+0uDE)

203
Where'd you insert it?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:11 AM (hV60f)

I Laughed. Good one.

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:13 AM (ONvIw)

204 PDT often goes to his golf club here in nj...nothing unusual about that

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:14 AM (85Gof)

205 Never thought I'd say it: to hell with Fox News, I've got NEWSMAX TV.

P.S. -- "Hands Up Don't Shoot" is a f*cking lie, QED: BLM is a fraud.

Time for more coffee, stay well, y'all.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at June 06, 2020 11:14 AM (W+kMI)

206 199 She was crowning and you kept her in the chair?

You monster!
Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:12 AM (lxuQd)

Conscious sedation obstetrics and dentistry. "We'll fix your smile while you birth your child!"

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:14 AM (hV60f)

207 Willowed:
452
It is the virtue signaling that is the most disgusting aspect of this.
It is like blackmail. If you don;t bow down to our demands, we will loot
and burn. All this money being donated to assuage white privelege guilt
is just stomach turning. I worked for everything I've earned in my life
time and as a woman and a Jew never thought that was according me any
special privelege and in fact that if anything were things I had to
overcome.
There are black athletes, entertainers, politicians who
are rich and influential. White privelege certainly didn;t hold them
back.
It is poverty that is the problem created by generations of
blue state politicians treating their constituents like subjects. It is a
problem in both the white and black community leading to drugs, single
parent families and joblessness. Burning down your neighborhood doesn;t
help but only makes things worse.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:14 AM (QzF6i)

208 Here's the thing though - just because he was a shitheel doesn't make Chauvin not a shitheel.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:10 AM (hV60f)

Yeah, I get that, but Im sick of having to clarify that every fucking time I talk about these thugs that are killed by cops.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 06, 2020 11:14 AM (XEfKE)

209 "systemic racism"

I have yet to hear a coherent definition of what exactly this is.

Posted by: Infidel at June 06, 2020 11:15 AM (UPF6H)

210 I'd bet dollars to donuts that Floyd was killed for breaking a rule of (employment at) that club:

Getting caught passing bad paper.
Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:10 AM (lxuQd)

Pretty sure you are right. Which means that Chauvin is a thug, too, and a murderer, not just an over-zealous cop.

Point is, you live the thug life, you die the thug life, and that ain't expiring in bed at 87, surrounded by weeping grandchildren.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 11:15 AM (YbxY6)

211 All the best.
Posted by: Bobo at June 06, 2020 11:12 AM (EMk/v

Bobo, thanks for the report. I'm sorry you are having the Great Lunacy on your side of the pond as well. May the cooler heads prevail.

Posted by: Emmie at June 06, 2020 11:15 AM (clsJu)

212 Bobo the thought by some here is its just a badge saying your a good follower of the new religion.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 11:15 AM (6f16T)

213 Now they have charge the 2 police officers in buffalo with assault?

Fuck that..ALL police officers should walk off the job

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:15 AM (85Gof)

214 P.P.S. -- Candice Owen's Facebook vid was awesome, and a Red Pill big enough to choke an elephant.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at June 06, 2020 11:15 AM (W+kMI)

215 $750?

That's cheap.

Or was it 50% on the insert?

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2020 11:16 AM (rTZNj)

216 Skip,

I had a great uncle, Hank who'd served in the Pacific in WWII. He never spoke of it. When I retired from the army and moved back home I went to visit him. He knew I'd earned a Combat Infantryman's Badge in Iraq and told me about how he earned his. He was in a flame thrower squad. I spent a few years in combat but the stories he told made my blood chill. Stuff no one in the family ever heard. We talked for hours. He's passed now, 94 when he went. I'm very grateful for the history he shared.

Posted by: Fra Filippo at June 06, 2020 11:16 AM (7MUvN)

217 194 The video of the mayor of Minneapolis, kneeling and fake crying at the Floyd funereal. It's insane.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 06, 2020 11:11 AM (7Fj9P)

He was simply trying to protect his phoney-baloney job. He knows that the political career he has mapped-out, ending way above mayor, is at serious risk from him letting police stations, post offices, and lots of small businesses be destroyed.

Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2020 11:16 AM (AMIL/)

218 NYC NOT to charge anyone for breaking curfew or any other minor things like looting..

Police: WALK OFF THE JOB

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:16 AM (85Gof)

219 >>I have yet to hear a coherent definition of what exactly this is.

Give. Me. Yo. Shit.

Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:16 AM (P3zu3)

220 His last girlfriend was a witch?

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:54 AM (CqE5x)

No, Hairy Pooter.

Posted by: Peter North at June 06, 2020 11:17 AM (ufFY8)

221 209 "systemic racism"

I have yet to hear a coherent definition of what exactly this is.
Posted by: Infidel at June 06, 2020 11:15 AM (UPF6H)

Which is the point. Much like "climate change" it give you an amorphous and loosely-defined enemy that can used to justify whatever crisis solutions you want to push.

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at June 06, 2020 11:17 AM (LZ7Gl)

222 $750?

That's cheap.

Or was it 50% on the insert?

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2020 11:16 AM (rTZNj)

I charge alot more than that. That was the final balance she had left. I do not work cheap, except for fellow Morons who I cut a very nice discount for

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:18 AM (85Gof)

223 ''Pretty sure you are right. Which means that Chauvin is a thug, too, and a murderer, not just an over-zealous cop. ''

Inconvenient truth.

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 11:18 AM (gLRfa)

224 George had a heart attack while being popo snu-snued. If he got the taxpayer relief shot we wouldn't be having this discussion.

And the cop, he's dirty filthy and should have been fired years ago if not actually charged for brutality...

Now we have ACAD being advocated by a cob no less, and St George touring the country postmortem...

Posted by: Adolf deBlasio at June 06, 2020 11:18 AM (OnOT9)

225 Floyd had a record and Chauvin did too, as a scumbag violent cop. They were made for each other, and obviously knew each other well from the security gig. Not worth rioting over low lifes.

Posted by: Winston Still Inspires at June 06, 2020 11:18 AM (NVYyb)

226 Systemic racism

I have yet to hear a coherent definition of what exactly this is.
Posted by: Infidel at June 06, 2020 11:15 AM (UPF6H)

It means they have to replace the system with a new socialist one.

Posted by: Rorschach at June 06, 2020 11:18 AM (gqvXZ)

227 FFS, *German* kickball players wearing racist, er, BLM arm-bands??

Well, perfect, I guess.

"Gleichschaltung"

Plain meaning, just "coordination".

But, I think, a very very apt, a sickeningly apt, analogy to what people here are talking about - every entity organization brand corporation etc. in a society singing the identical tune. Especially, as in this case, a dishonest, pernicious one.

In Nazi Germany, the term was used to describe how - not all at once, and not always in the same manner - all aspects of society were compelled to adopt the Nazi approach to all matters of consequence. The analogy is so sickeningly apt because, unlike the USSR or other fairly insane totalitarian states, in 1930s Germany - and 2020 America - the forced conformity to one official group-think is being applied to a fairly free and diverse society with a history and pattern of freedom of thought.

Unlike Nazi Germany, we don't have a ruthless centralized power at the top of govt. enforcing this on the society. No, almost *worse*, it's major parts of society doing it to the rest.

Floyd was a dirtbag whose death will be investigated and those involved tried in a court of law, and represents zero trend or pattern of any kind in current law enforcement - WRT "race". The only systemic racism in the the society is found in the warped power of govt. (affirmative action/similar discrimination), and in the racist animus of academia, media, pop culture - 100% of it against the white majority.

But Gleichschaltung has razor blade companies and online recipe and photo sites and elected officials and every entity you can name reciting the toxic, baseless implicit slander that racism against black Americans is widespread, and an important factor.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:19 AM (El6T/)

228 I've given up booze for the time being and I've started buying good coffee beans in a variety of origins and roasts.

Got myself a decent burr grinder -- Barazta Encore -- and a fancy "pour over" drip machine, which isn't strictly pour over quality, but it's a good beginning.

Big difference. Such a big difference.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2020 11:19 AM (+oVP5)

229 Hey if yinz are on FB or Twatter follow Mindy Robinson, Running for Congress, pro 2nd Amendment, Voter ID & is smokong Hawt

Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at June 06, 2020 11:19 AM (uQFnR)

230 I charge alot more than that. That was the final balance she had left. I do not work cheap, except for fellow Morons who I cut a very nice discount for
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:18 AM (85Gof)

Ah! Well, good. All the way around.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2020 11:19 AM (rTZNj)

231 Have the protesters defaced the Capitol building yet. And if not, why not?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 06, 2020 11:20 AM (7Fj9P)

232 >>Chauvin is 10X worse. He's a shitheel with a badge.

>>Dirty Cop? No question, imo. Fuck that guy.

You know what's going to be funny? When it comes out at his trial that the hold he had on Floyd was department approved and trained.

It will be time to loot Target again.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 06, 2020 11:20 AM (ZLI7S)

233 225 Floyd had a record and Chauvin did too, as a scumbag violent cop. They were made for each other, and obviously knew each other well from the security gig. Not worth rioting over low lifes.
Posted by: Winston Still Inspires at June 06, 2020 11:18 AM (NVYyb)

Had Chauvin been GOP, Klobuchar would have prosecuted.

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:20 AM (ONvIw)

234 Oops...

Cuz you're living in NYC. Expensive digs, no?

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2020 11:20 AM (rTZNj)

235 They haven't brought enough pain to the flyover. With the economy recovering, Dow surging, expect the DS to escalate. Not a lock, but by the election, very likely a collapse of the grid through some kind of cyber or EMP attack, or an attempt on the life of POTUS and/or family. Stock up.

Posted by: Milesdei at June 06, 2020 11:20 AM (5IBjw)

236 ''I charge alot more than that. That was the final balance she had left. I do not work cheap, except for fellow Morons who I cut a very nice discount for''

Crowns are expensive. I know cuz I've a mouthful and my dentist says I need one more to keep the others company.

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 11:21 AM (gLRfa)

237 >>Big difference. Such a big difference.

Doma and Black Coffee Roasting Company are good sources for both Single Origins and really well crafted blends that are all Roasted Fresh.

Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:21 AM (cGb9B)

238
It means they have to replace the system with a new socialist one.

And Minneapolis is about to do just that. With no change in the "elite leaders" of course.

Being a DemProg means you are never, ever accountable for anything.

Posted by: deplorable unperson -To Mars! at June 06, 2020 11:21 AM (luzVb)

239 Sidewalk evangelicals, one black, are confronted by BLM (white) woman. Excellent illustration.

http://tinyurl.com/y9s8fw7t

Posted by: Braenyard at June 06, 2020 11:22 AM (Fk2WS)

240 >>It will be time to loot Target again.

If those other Cops are guilty of Accessory to Murder...what about the crowd filming the scene?

Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:22 AM (cGb9B)

241
You know what's going to be funny? When it comes out at his trial that the hold he had on Floyd was department approved and trained.

It will be time to loot Target again.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 06, 2020 11:20 AM (ZLI7S)

Undoubtedly approved by the black chief and the donk pols and attorneys. The rioteers have the wrong target, or this has little to do with Floyd (yes, I know it's a get Trump op).

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:22 AM (ONvIw)

242 there is something about watermelons . . .

https://www.espiker.com/p/conjuntos-actualizados-de-2020

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2020 11:22 AM (WyVLE)

243 But Gleichschaltung has razor blade companies and online recipe and photo sites and elected officials and every entity you can name reciting the toxic, baseless implicit slander that racism against black Americans is widespread, and an important factor.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:19 AM (El6T/)

I think it's the pernicious effect of online culture - most people and every corp now thinks they must have an online "Presence", and anyone who deviates from the Accepted Groupthink is labeled UNLCEAN! UNCLEAN!!! by millions.

I think, and this is a shame, that the first step toward being independent, for individuals and for corporations, is to cut all Social Media contacts - save for a few closely trusted and carefully vetted friends. It means rejecting the dominant culture completely, and removing yourself from it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 11:23 AM (Kpl3J)

244 Fra Filippo, that's great, and free feel to share anything you'd like about your uncle - lots of history and WWII nuts here.

And speaking of that, and a cool aspect of America and this place, in this thread we also have the son of a U-boat crewman commenting.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:23 AM (El6T/)

245 Hey if yinz are on FB or Twatter follow Mindy Robinson, Running for Congress, pro 2nd Amendment, Voter ID & is smokong Hawt
===================
Yeah, she's a (self admitted) C movie actress, with an amazing set of DDs. Super cute too. She's getting smashed by RiNOs in NV. I follow her on Twatter.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 06, 2020 11:23 AM (7Fj9P)

246 Took 2 weeks about but grocery store has stopped wiping down between every customer the conveyor belt. Still need to wait in line until the previous customer has totally cleared the checkout.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 11:23 AM (6f16T)

247 Just read on Bongino report about a million person march in DC today? But I can't eat in a restaurant unless everyone is masked and uses hand sanitizer after every serving? WTH is going on and WTH do these protesters want?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:24 AM (QzF6i)

248 The one possible police reform I agree with: get rid of the police union.

They're the ones who protect shitty cops like Chauvin. And give money to Dem candidates.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 06, 2020 11:25 AM (HabA/)

249 Grandpa Aspirin Factory was the second wave at Omaha.

I miss him.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2020 11:25 AM (8NNW6)

250 WTH is going on and WTH do these protesters want?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:24 AM (QzF6i)

They want you to kneel if you are white.
And/or conservative.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 06, 2020 11:25 AM (ufFY8)

251 >>If those other Cops are guilty of Accessory to Murder...what about the crowd filming the scene?

I bet the number of people who actually care about Floyd's death is somewhere in the low single digits. The left just needs an excuse to riot since they can't win through a battle of ideas.

The only way the survive is through constant controversy and moving on to the newest outrage when the previous one is played out.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 06, 2020 11:26 AM (ZLI7S)

252 >>The one possible police reform I agree with: get rid of the police union.

Public Sector Unions should not be allowed to contribute to Political causes. Full Stop.

Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:26 AM (cGb9B)

253 247 Just read on Bongino report about a million person march in DC today?"

Is that million figure just leftist propaganda?

Even if it's half that - I'm so glad I don't live in DC anymore.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 06, 2020 11:26 AM (HabA/)

254 @ sharon "WTH is going on and WTH do these protesters want?"

a) an insurrection
b) the overthrow of America

Posted by: Milesdei at June 06, 2020 11:26 AM (5IBjw)

255 The thug lifestyle raises a person's chances of being killed. I realize decent people also killed, although the chances are lower. It's interesting that the martyrs chosen by the Left are always of the thug variety and not the decent person. Why is that?
Posted by: Emmie at June 06, 2020 11:12 AM (clsJu)

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I personally thought Philandro Castile was a better symbol of police brutality.

He was the black man pulled over for a tail light beef, and then shot when he produced his carry permit, and supposedly touched his carry piece. It happened in Falcon Heights, a Saint Paul Minnesota suburb that has the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Philandro worked in a cafeteria for the Saint Paul School District.

Rumor is the cop briefly saw him, and suspected he was an armed robbery suspect they were seeking. There were no body cameras in use, and the dash cam didn't show much.

The cop was suspended a brief time, and then brought back, outrage ensued and was suspended again. There were mild protests, including blocking the freeway, I-94 between the Twin Cities.

Oh, BTW, the Police officer was charged with murder, tried, and found not guilty. The defense played up the drug angle to develop reasonable doubt. Chauvin's lawyer will definitely do the same.

The other great Minnesota Police misconduct shooting was of Justine Damond, but since she was an unarmed pajama clad white woman, and the police officer was Somali, no major riots ensued.

Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 11:26 AM (+0uDE)

256 Yeah, bread and circuses while the left slowly ratchets things their way.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 06, 2020 11:27 AM (ufFY8)

257 >>The only way the survive is through constant controversy and moving on to the newest outrage when the previous one is played out.

That accusation is Outrageous, Sir!

OUTRAGEOUS!

Posted by: DNC at June 06, 2020 11:27 AM (cGb9B)

258 "systemic racism"

I have yet to hear a coherent definition of what exactly this is.

A lie. And the number prove it, which is why PROGDA will never allow the stats to be heard.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #WASTF at June 06, 2020 11:27 AM (HaL55)

259 Just read on Bongino report about a million person march in DC today? But I can't eat in a restaurant unless everyone is masked and uses hand sanitizer after every serving? WTH is going on and WTH do these protesters want?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:24 AM (QzF6i)

First of all, I doubt they get 100,000. What do they want? Anarchy. They are anarchists and communists and bad people. With a few plain old stupid people thrown in

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:27 AM (85Gof)

260 @21: "Who will they send to collect the property tax if homeowners and businesses refuse to pay? Which they should, because one main reason people pay property tax is to fund emergency services."

Interestingly enough, Minneapolis is gonna be facing a weird tax situation in the next few years. We don't have the kinda corporate and retail tax revenues that cities this size are "supposed" to have. City council president said we're a "city center" without an adequate city center.

That's only gonna get worse in the short term as old business either refuse to rebuild or drag their feet waiting rescue grants, and new business think twice about settling in Minneapolis proper.

So, tax burden is gonna slowly shift more and more towards property and sales taxes, and for all this "defund the police" nonsense, the city council really wants to expand spending in the public safety sector.

More mental health professionals to serve on scene during domestic violence and public disturbance calls. Unarmed, non-professional, but somehow official neighborhood watch types to handle non-violent complaints. They don't want a smaller police state, just a different, more "peaceful" and "just" state that necessarily requires more employees, and greater oversight.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2020 11:27 AM (+oVP5)

261 Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 11:23 AM (6f16T)

A couple of weeks ago, I was in line with just a couple of items, and there were a couple of younger folks in line ahead of me. As they were paying, I put my stuff down on the belt, then said, "whoops" and picked it back up again. They looked at me and laughed and said, "that's fine, we don't care." It's nice when you encounter sane people.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 11:27 AM (OzQGF)

262 They want you to kneel if you are white.
And/or conservative.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 06, 2020 11:25 AM (ufFY

NEVER!

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:28 AM (QzF6i)

263 You know what's going to be funny? When it comes out at his trial that the hold he had on Floyd was department approved and trained.

It will be time to loot Target again.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 06, 2020 11:20 AM (ZLI7S)

Yet they do not go after the local politicians in charge of the whole mess. They go after Macey's on 5th. (or wherever it is).

Posted by: Burnt Toast at June 06, 2020 11:29 AM (1g7ch)

264 I was checking out real estate in other states last night. For my two bedroom California home I could get a six bedroom mansion in Wyoming. The problem is it's a race against time. I don't want to leave before my daughter graduates high school in two years and by then the real estate market in California will probably have a big correction as whites flee the state.

Posted by: Max Power at June 06, 2020 11:29 AM (QCc6B)

265 You know what's going to be funny? When it comes out at his trial that the hold he had on Floyd was department approved and trained.
=======================
He does get his day in court, and I think he could walk: it's not a solid case when the tox-report shows he had drugs in his system, esp. a cocktail of Fentanyl +meth*. This assumes he could ever get anything resembling a fair trial.
*A local cop was telling me that it is a known thing when suspects w/opiates in their system spontaneously die from runaway body temps when retrained.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 06, 2020 11:29 AM (7Fj9P)

266 Kind of busy here for a Saturday morning.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Got Bad Knees, so GFY at June 06, 2020 11:29 AM (x8Wzq)

267 12 minute talk radio interview yesterday, it gives an example of AG Keith Ellison's rhetoric.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison talks with Scott about the
current state of Minnesota andhis photo with an ANTIFA book...
https://tinyurl.com/ydbob2dm

Posted by: old chick at June 06, 2020 11:29 AM (sOete)

268 Public Sector Unions should not be allowed ~~to contribute to Political causes. Full Stop.~~

Posted by: garrett
FIFY

Posted by: pep at June 06, 2020 11:29 AM (T6t7i)

269 240 >>It will be time to loot Target again.

If those other Cops are guilty of Accessory to Murder...what about the crowd filming the scene?
Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:22 AM (cGb9B)

All of them have got an out because it's against the law to interfere with a Police Officer carrying out his duties, so they were legally restricted from doing anything. The other cops, however, had a duty of care in the situation, and saying "well he was more senior" is not going to cut it with a jury, I think.

mn and I discussed this a little last night. I agree that there are some technical points to be made for Chauvin; however, I think that in today's America, it's absolutely impossible for him to get what we used to call a "fair trial" anywhere in Minnesota. All 4 of them are going to be treated to a judicial lynching, and none of them are worth sticking our necks out for. But at least we won't have to worry about any riots when they're "acquitted", because the fixx is already in on this one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 11:30 AM (Kpl3J)

270 >>I don't want to leave before my daughter graduates high school in two years and by then the real estate market in California will probably have a big correction as whites flee the state.

Go. Now.
Explain to her that she will be 10X Hotter and More Popular if she is The New Girl.

Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:30 AM (cGb9B)

271 I hope most poliice call in sick today

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:30 AM (85Gof)

272 Matt Christiansen has been hitting it out of the park lately.

https://www.mattchristiansenmedia.com/videos

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 06, 2020 11:31 AM (LxTcq)

273 251 >>If those other Cops are guilty of Accessory to Murder...what about the crowd filming the scene?

I bet the number of people who actually care about Floyd's death is somewhere in the low single digits. The left just needs an excuse to riot since they can't win through a battle of ideas.

The only way the survive is through constant controversy and moving on to the newest outrage when the previous one is played out.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 06, 2020 11:26 AM (ZLI7S)

---
I do care about his death. It never should have happened.

If that stupid idiot Chauvin had pulled his knee off of him after a minute or three, George Floyd would still be alive today. He would still be a petty criminal, but about a trillion dollars in damages and over a dozen murders would not have happened.

Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 11:31 AM (+0uDE)

274 rhomboid,
That's awesome. I toured a WWII sub once. I jumped out of airplanes to make my living but I'll be damned if I'd do that submarine shit. I also attended the launching of the USS Louisiana, an SSBN, impressive ship but I ain't goin under water in the damn thing. Lol

Posted by: Fra Filippo at June 06, 2020 11:31 AM (7MUvN)

275 Explain to her that she will be 10X Hotter and More Popular if she is The New Girl.
Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:30 AM (cGb9B)

LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 11:32 AM (OzQGF)

276 @194: "The video of the mayor of Minneapolis, kneeling and fake crying at the Floyd funereal. It's insane."

He's been roundly mocked on social media by everyone except white suburban wine moms and minority political types who've already hitched their wagon to him. The hardcore activist class is borderline pissed off about the kabuki too.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2020 11:32 AM (+oVP5)

277 WTH is going on and WTH do these protesters want?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:24 AM (QzF6i)

They want you to kneel if you are white.
And/or conservative.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 06, 2020 11:25 AM (ufFY

It's the Negan fan club.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at June 06, 2020 11:32 AM (1g7ch)

278 Go. Now.
Explain to her that she will be 10X Hotter and More Popular if she is The New Girl.
Posted by: garrett

Have her wear a par of nerd glasses the first two weeks.
Then one day in history class, take of her glasses and shake her hair in slow motion.

Works in the movies

Posted by: Bruce at June 06, 2020 11:32 AM (vd8XM)

279 Two days broke the clean cart rule. They have been wiping every cart handle down, but went back to my usual seeing a customer done putting groceries in their vehicle and asking if I can take that from them.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 11:32 AM (6f16T)

280 Rd, I knew there just had to be an incident like that! And I don't believe I've heard anything about Philandro. He sounds like an entirely decent guy.

Posted by: Emmie at June 06, 2020 11:32 AM (clsJu)

281 266
Kind of busy here for a Saturday morning.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Got Bad Knees, so GFY at June 06, 2020 11:29 AM (x8Wzq)

Don't know about you, but I literally have nothing else to do. It is really hot outside so too hot to garden and too hot to walk. I don;t need any groceries and everything else is closed. I refuse to binge watch TV while it is daylight. Any ideas that don;t involve cleaning my house?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:33 AM (QzF6i)

282 To put it bluntly, Ellison is an Al Qaeda sympathizer who should have been given the Bin Laden treatment years ago.

But there's a broader lesson here - Minnesota, you've been voting traitors, fools, and clowns into office for many years now. I don't know why, maybe you thought it was funny.

Now you get to see the price for what you've done, and you're going to keep on paying it for a long time. It's why I feel no responsibility at all for saving you. You made your bed, now lay in it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 11:33 AM (Kpl3J)

283
268 Public Sector Unions should not be allowed to contribute to Political causes. Full Stop.

Posted by: garrett
FIFY
Posted by: pep at June 06, 2020 11:29 AM (T6t7i)

Agreed.

Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 11:33 AM (+0uDE)

284 >>Have her wear a par of nerd glasses the first two weeks.
Then one day in history class, take of her glasses and shake her hair in slow motion.

This is a great plan.

Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:33 AM (cGb9B)

285 Walter, what's the "pour over machine" you have, or generally, what is that? You mean just a filter holder, the various kinds of cone-shaped ones?

And just came to me: I'll bet Black Rifle Coffee is one of the companies I can think of that *won't* be "working towards the Fuhrer" in the Nazi phrase, as in they won't be parroting this idiotic and offensive racist nonsense by which so much of society is demeaning itself.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:34 AM (El6T/)

286 "He's been roundly mocked on social media by everyone except white suburban wine moms"

But the white suburban wine moms can't vote for him.

On second thought, maybe they can.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 06, 2020 11:35 AM (HabA/)

287 Don't know about you, but I literally have nothing else to do. It is
really hot outside so too hot to garden and too hot to walk. I don;t
need any groceries and everything else is closed. I refuse to binge
watch TV while it is daylight. Any ideas that don;t involve cleaning my
house?

Heavy drinking is always an option.

Posted by: pep at June 06, 2020 11:35 AM (T6t7i)

288 But at least we won't have to worry about any riots when they're "acquitted", because the fixx is already in on this one.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 11:30 AM (Kpl3J)

Yup. When the DA upped the charge to 2nd degree murder, that's the "fix" right there.

2nd degree murder, IIRC, is is intent to murder without premeditation.

Which means the DA is going to have to prove that the cop intended to murder Floyd while using an approved by MN law takedown and restraint technique.

Unlikely, short of a judicial lynching.

3rd degree would be an easy conviction and at least the scumbag cop would be punished.

But, Democrat....so...

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2020 11:35 AM (rTZNj)

289 277 WTH is going on and WTH do these protesters want?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:24 AM (QzF6i)

They want you to kneel if you are white.
And/or conservative.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 06, 2020 11:25 AM

On the plus side for us, this is their greatest weakness. They have no idea what they want, other than to Act Out. I believe the whole "Abolish the Police!!!" idea turned up because no one had any real ideas at all, so the worst radicals popped up and said "Hey We have an Idea!!!" Which is why the entire movement is now literally insane.

That's also why this will not have anything like the staying power of the 1968 summer of protests. That year, everything was driven by the weekly death totals of the Vietnam War, and as that war dragged on and on, the riots dragged on and on. That was the fuel for that fire.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 11:36 AM (Kpl3J)

290 @237: "Doma and Black Coffee Roasting Company are good sources for both Single Origins and really well crafted blends that are all Roasted Fresh."

Thanks for the suggestions. It's kinda fun to buy from various roasters and taste what they're doing. I even bought the "World Atlas of Coffee" by James Hoffman to read up on countries of origin and how they differ. I just hope I don't turn into one of those weird obsessive coffee people in the long run.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2020 11:37 AM (+oVP5)

291 Unlikely, short of a judicial lynching.

3rd degree would be an easy conviction and at least the scumbag cop would be punished.

But, Democrat....so...
Posted by: naturalfake

If that doesn't work, they're gonna impeach the cop!

Posted by: Bruce at June 06, 2020 11:37 AM (vd8XM)

292 I was checking out real estate in other states last night. For my two bedroom California home I could get a six bedroom mansion in Wyoming. The problem is it's a race against time. I don't want to leave before my daughter graduates high school in two years and by then the real estate market in California will probably have a big correction as whites flee the state.
Posted by: Max Power at June 06, 2020 11:29 AM (QCc6B)

Kids survive relocation from one school to another all the time. And with schools having been shut down for the WuFlu Panic, there's no better time to move than now. Besides, with the money you make on the sale in CA, you could probably afford to put her in a good private school for two years, where she won't get indoctrinated in Cultural Marxism.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 11:38 AM (YbxY6)

293 I live in deep suburbia, but even here we are not immune from the rioters. I had a pot on a bench on my deck with blackberry lilies in it. I came out this morning to find it on the ground, in pieces, and the lilies lying forlornly in a heap. Sure, it MIGHT have been squirrels or raccoons, but I say why take chances. Vote Trump!

Posted by: pep at June 06, 2020 11:38 AM (T6t7i)

294 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB6K-_n0Ky4

Posted by: eleven at June 06, 2020 11:38 AM (QLPEO)

295 >>Have her wear a par of nerd glasses the first two weeks.
Then one day in history class, take of her glasses and shake her hair in slow motion.

This is a great plan.
Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:33 AM (cGb9B)

Start with hair in a bun, blouse buttoned all the way to the top.

Then the glasses, release hair undo top button.

Instant 'A'.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at June 06, 2020 11:38 AM (1g7ch)

296 Don't know about you, but I literally have nothing else to do. It is really hot outside so too hot to garden and too hot to walk. I don;t need any groceries and everything else is closed. I refuse to binge watch TV while it is daylight. Any ideas that don;t involve cleaning my house?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:33 AM (QzF6i)

unless you're in a messed up lockdown state, that's what we call swimming weather.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 11:38 AM (Kpl3J)

297 Decades old mad magazine cartoon:

(Hippie behind the wheel of a car stuck at a detour sign, yelling)

"Dammit how can I get to my anarchist meeting if the government doesn't keep up the roads!"

Posted by: Adolf deBlasio at June 06, 2020 11:39 AM (OnOT9)

298 Don't know about you, but I literally have nothing else to do. It is really hot outside so too hot to garden and too hot to walk. I don;t need any groceries and everything else is closed. I refuse to binge watch TV while it is daylight. Any ideas that don;t involve cleaning my house?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:33 AM (QzF6i)

Are you a knitter or quilter? I like making sweaters, so I always have that. Also A/C goes well with a good book.

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:39 AM (ONvIw)

299 rd, thanks - the Castile case. I remember it, based on available info seemed like a typical scared cop hair-trigger disaster (typical in its outlines, not typical as in it happens every day, because it doesn't). Didn't recall there were protests over it.

But actually, even if Floyd died just how he did, there *still* should never have been any damage, much less nation-wide chaos. Much less the sickening Gleichschaltung assault on reality and common sense. That's entirely the fault of every rioter, every looter, every person in every organization lying or going along with the lies, and of course every race-baiter (which now could reasonably be said to include many governors, mayors, etc., not just the familiar vile types like Sharpton et al).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:40 AM (El6T/)

300 >>I do care about his death. It never should have happened.

>>If that stupid idiot Chauvin had pulled his knee off of him after a minute or three, George Floyd would still be alive today. He would still be a petty criminal, but about a trillion dollars in damages and over a dozen murders would not have happened.

Since 2015, Minneapolis police have choked into unconsciousness at least 44 people. This was not an isolated incident.

https://tinyurl.com/ya2rrval

Posted by: JackStraw at June 06, 2020 11:40 AM (ZLI7S)

301 unless you're in a messed up lockdown state, that's what we call swimming weather.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 11:38 AM (Kpl3J)
Messed up lockdown state. Would love love to go swimming.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:41 AM (QzF6i)

302 More mental health professionals to serve on scene during domestic violence and public disturbance calls. Unarmed, non-professional, but somehow official neighborhood watch types to handle non-violent complaints. They don't want a smaller police state, just a different, more "peaceful" and "just" state that necessarily requires more employees, and greater oversight.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2020 11:27 AM (+oVP5)

I think you know how this story ends. I think you know that you don't want to be there when it does.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 11:41 AM (Kpl3J)

303 Tom Servo,
Every City here is Democrat. Us country f*cks vote Republican but we're outnumbered. The twin cities and other cities above 10,000 population dominate the elections. Escape from Minneapolis works for me.

Posted by: Fra Filippo at June 06, 2020 11:41 AM (7MUvN)

304 Since 2015, Minneapolis police have choked into unconsciousness at least 44 people. This was not an isolated incident.

https://tinyurl.com/ya2rrval
Posted by: JackStraw at June 06, 2020 11:40 AM (ZLI7S)

Not to be glib, but why weren't they're lives enough to stop this shit? More Bruce Chapman, less Bruce Lee.

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:42 AM (ONvIw)

305 On the plus side for us, this is their greatest weakness. They have no idea what they want, other than to Act Out. I believe the whole "Abolish the Police!!!" idea turned up because no one had any real ideas at all, so the worst radicals popped up and said "Hey We have an Idea!!!" Which is why the entire movement is now literally insane.

Apparently, the idea of enforcing the law in order to protect the innocent never occurred to them.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #WASTF at June 06, 2020 11:42 AM (HaL55)

306 Minnesota, you've been voting traitors, fools, and clowns into office for many years now. I don't know why, maybe you thought it was funny.

Now you get to see the price for what you've done, and you're going to keep on paying it for a long time. It's why I feel no responsibility at all for saving you. You made your bed, now lay in it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 11:33 AM (Kpl3J)

Exactly. Jesse Ventura, Al Franken and Keith X were statewide elections so there's no sense blaming the urban shitholes for these self fuckerations. Own it and fix it, tools.

Posted by: Captain Hate at June 06, 2020 11:43 AM (y7DUB)

307 Thanks for the suggestions. It's kinda fun to buy from various roasters and taste what they're doing. I even bought the "World Atlas of Coffee" by James Hoffman to read up on countries of origin and how they differ. I just hope I don't turn into one of those weird obsessive coffee people in the long run.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2020 11:37 AM (+oVP5)

You may enjoy home roasting. Green beans are about half the price of roasted and there's nothing like the flavor of coffee made with beans roasted within the last week or so.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 06, 2020 11:43 AM (Uu+Jp)

308 >>Apparently, the idea of enforcing the law in order to protect the innocent never occurred to them.

Well, for them the Innocent are the Guilty ones.

Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2020 11:43 AM (cGb9B)

309 In an amazing exercise of self-restraint, I put the package with the remaining jelly donut back in the cupboard. But I did pour another coffee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 11:43 AM (YbxY6)

310 . He would still be a petty criminal, but about a trillion dollars in damages and over a dozen murders would not have happened.

Interesting application of the Butterfly Effect.

Posted by: 🐧 at June 06, 2020 11:43 AM (qibYB)

311 Just got an email from the CEO of the shaving products company I have been using for the last couple of years. It contained the usual we stand against racism...blah blah stuff. Then he said the firm was going to do a complete audit of the entire supply chain and if any supplier or employee is in the "wrong side of the issue" they will no longer do business with them.
Wow.
So one company can now stand in judgement of others. Who's next? Your customer?
Sorry, I don't kneel when I shave.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2020 11:44 AM (axyOa)

312 298 Don't know about you, but I literally have nothing else to do. It is really hot outside so too hot to garden and too hot to walk. I don;t need any groceries and everything else is closed. I refuse to binge watch TV while it is daylight. Any ideas that don;t involve cleaning my house?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:33 AM (QzF6i)

Are you a knitter or quilter? I like making sweaters, so I always have that. Also A/C goes well with a good book.

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:39 AM (ONvIw)

Get a bb or pellet pistol or rifle, and a good bb and pellet target trap.

Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2020 11:44 AM (AMIL/)

313 Somewhat similar incident in Dallas, I think, a few years ago, resulting in death of (white) perp, non-white cop doing the restraining. Of course the riots and marches are things of legend.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:44 AM (El6T/)

314

Farted in Argentina, sorry...

Posted by: Surprise Anal Butterfly at June 06, 2020 11:45 AM (OnOT9)

315 @285: "Walter, what's the "pour over machine" you have, or generally, what is that? You mean just a filter holder, the various kinds of cone-shaped ones?"

I got a Cuisinart PurePrecision ($150) which is a glorified drip machine with stricter water temperature and flow rate controls. I'm happy with the coffee it makes, and it doesn't look half bad on my kitchen counter.

Breville ($300) makes the best of class in the same category. You can swap out their filter basket for any pour over hardware under the drip head, and you can program temp and flow rate with ridiculous precision.

I'll get around to doing the Chemex and Hario pour over routine eventually, but sometimes, you just don't wanna bother with that much effort in the morning, y'know?

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2020 11:45 AM (+oVP5)

316 But actually, even if Floyd died just how he did, there *still* should never have been any damage, much less nation-wide chaos. Much less the sickening Gleichschaltung assault on reality and common sense. That's entirely the fault of every rioter, every looter, every person in every organization lying or going along with the lies, and of course every race-baiter (which now could reasonably be said to include many governors, mayors, etc., not just the familiar vile types like Sharpton et al).
Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:40 AM (El6T/)

agreed, except that I wouldn't apply the word "fault" to something that the ones who carried this out have been dreaming of and planning for years and years and years. All that happened is that they all got the "go sign" that told them they could get away with it now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 11:45 AM (Kpl3J)

317 I never had the patience for fine motor hobbies like sewing or knitting. I am an avid reader but you can only do that so many hours a day. Complicating things is that I am currently in Home Inspection purgatory waiting to find out if the buyers are going to go through with the deal. Won't know til Monday. If the house is really sold, then I will have things to do while I figure out the mechanics of moving three states away. In the meantime, I am bored to tears. My philosophy has alwasy been that boredom is a product of one's own mind and therefore totally under one;s control to solve. However, never been in a position where it is literally impossible to go anywhere.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:46 AM (QzF6i)

318 229 Hey if yinz are on FB or Twatter follow Mindy Robinson, Running for Congress, pro 2nd Amendment, Voter ID & is smokong Hawt
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at June 06, 2020 11:19 AM (uQFnR)
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Mindy is a hoot. I occasionally read her Twitter feed and she tells it straight:

"Explain how me and my fellow patriots were able to have rally after rally (usually against you) with rifles and guns present and ZERO violence broke out? The Left got together for one night and it turned into the Purge."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2020 11:46 AM (Dc2NZ)

319 The video at the top of the sidebar. LOL

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 11:46 AM (gLRfa)

320 Minor technical point: state-wide elections are, um, still dominated by urban areas. Kind of the whole point about urban areas dominating elections.

And no public sector unions should exist, obviously, and few did for most of our history, and *all* of our history in which there were often pretty damn good public sector services.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:46 AM (El6T/)

321 The Choke Hold is ofcourse an issue, but lemmi, ask you a question. How is a normal size person suppose to restrain a large drug induced individual who is resisting without using a firearm?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:47 AM (85Gof)

322 That's entirely the fault of every rioter, every looter, every person in every organization lying or going along with the lies, and of course every race-baiter (which now could reasonably be said to include many governors, mayors, etc., not just the familiar vile types like Sharpton et al).

I can't fuss with that, but the Prog/Dem mayors who told their police departments to stand down on the first night of riots bear the most responsibility.

They could have nipped these riots in the bud, yet they refused to do so. This pattern of behavior is becoming all too common in blue-run cities and needs to stop immediately.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #WASTF at June 06, 2020 11:48 AM (HaL55)

323 Walter, I think home-roasting, per Northernlurker, is really the fanatical geek step you fear. It's too far for me, for now, but I haven't researched it at all. Already buy locally-roasted "fresh" beans for part of my coffee supply. Fortunately it's kind of a thing in recent years here, not as big as craft beer but still pretty vibrant.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:48 AM (El6T/)

324 311 Just got an email from the CEO of the shaving products company I have been using for the last couple of years...

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2020 11:44 AM (axyOa)

This level of self-righteous stupidity deserves commercial death. Enough of a society operating at this level will not survive, nor should it. These corporations are living off a legacy and that sort of leeching cannot go on forever.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 06, 2020 11:49 AM (H8QX8)

325 Been drinking tea all morning while cleaning in prep for a friend arriving for the weekend. Coffee break sounds like an excellent idea.

I told my husband I was considering giving up coffee for lent, you see,
and his response was to give me a bag-a-month subscription from BRCC. I'm working my way through Black Rifle's coffees, going from Silencer Smooth through Gunship, and next up in about twelve more cups is Just Black.

Apparently this was "a tactical decision to increase peace on the homefront."
May your weekend be as peaceful as you want it to be!

Posted by: Not From Around Here at June 06, 2020 11:49 AM (wrzAm)

326 Our weekly arts & culture mag has helpfully provided us with a list of black-owned businesses that "we can support as a community."

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 11:49 AM (OzQGF)

327 Identity politics is racist, Democrats are identity politics idealogues, Democrats are racist. Cities run by Democrats become increasingly racist as the racist regime continues. It has spread from the mayor to the city council to the bureaucracy to the police department.

The police are a direct reflection of their leadership.

Posted by: Fra Filippo at June 06, 2020 11:49 AM (7MUvN)

328 Backwards Boy, you're absolutely correct. I was emphasizing that none of this idiocy had to happen, you are correctly pointing out that even if it started, it should have been stopped, quickly.

Worst of all worlds.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:50 AM (El6T/)

329 326 Our weekly arts & culture mag has helpfully provided us with a list of black-owned businesses that "we can support as a community."
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 11:49 AM (OzQGF)

You mean the ones they didn't burn down?

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 06, 2020 11:50 AM (H8QX8)

330 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 11:33 AM (Kpl3J

------

If it wasn't for the Twin Cities, Minnesota would be redder than Texas.

We lost two House seats in the cities in 2018, but we picked up two out state seats to make it even. We elected a Republican on the old time Democrat Iron Range, and are electing Republicans to the state house in the same district.

If the outnumbered Republicans in the cities would get off their asses and vote in their local races, they would still lose, but we might reduce the Democrat margin enough to win the state wide races.

In Minneapolis, the Republican Party doesn't even run a candidate for mayor or most council seats, that is how dysfunctional it is.

Don't blame us in the out state areas, we almost elected Trump in 2016. Since I moved here, I helped get John Kline elected, and when I moved kept Michelle Bachmann in office and elected Tom Emmer to replace her.

Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 11:50 AM (+0uDE)

331 @307: "You may enjoy home roasting."

I could see myself getting into that somewhere down the line. Gotta pace myself though! Read and sample different origins, roast types, grinds, brewing methods, etc. So far, it's more fun than expected, and less expensive than a single malt scotch habit.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2020 11:50 AM (+oVP5)

332 Report any "CEO" letters as phishing. Every time.

If you live behind the lines, you've been behind the lines for over 10 years now. What the hell are you waiting for?

You can't snap your fingers, true, but this is a LONG time coming.

Here's a prediction: it won't be getting better.

Leave or perish. It's ugly, but it's how things are.

Posted by: RobM1981 at June 06, 2020 11:50 AM (Hbedg)

333 Then he said the firm was going to do a complete audit of the entire supply chain and if any supplier or employee is in the "wrong side of the issue" they will no longer do business with them.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2020 11:44 AM (axyOa)

WHAT the F*CK?! That is some scary shit.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 11:51 AM (OzQGF)

334 So, Grand Army of the Republic it is.

Also, on the 76th anniversary of D-Day, a missive to Fredo and the cretins who might listen to xim:

Those "antifascists" in the Higgins boats are what you now call "white supremacists." Fuck you, Fredo.

"Heavily armed and aggressive." Nice ring to it.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at June 06, 2020 11:51 AM (FM+2k)

335 I can't fuss with that, but the Prog/Dem mayors who told their police departments to stand down on the first night of riots bear the most responsibility.

They could have nipped these riots in the bud, yet they refused to do so. This pattern of behavior is becoming all too common in blue-run cities and needs to stop immediately.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #WASTF at June 06, 2020 11:48 AM (HaL55)

Here in The City Beautiful, there was a protest outside City Hall that started turning sporty - people throwing bottles and shit. So, the cops dispersed them with tear gas.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:51 AM (hV60f)

336 Dan Smoot and Fra Filippo, I associate myself completely with both of your last comments. Stealing my words.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:51 AM (El6T/)

337 Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:40 AM (El6T/)

********

There were respectful protests about the Philado Castille shooting. No riots. I too am trying to figure out why the Floyd case is different

Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 06, 2020 11:51 AM (flINI)

338 I have Drinking Death Wish Coffee and find it surprisingly mild. And it does have kick for thsoe 5PM Root Canals

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:52 AM (85Gof)

339 Big Daddy from Cincinnati has one simple demand that could END this madness.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2020 11:52 AM (Dc2NZ)

340 ''Our weekly arts & culture mag has helpfully provided us with a list of black-owned businesses that "we can support as a community."''

I suspect you'll not be using their services anytime soon.

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 11:52 AM (gLRfa)

341 >>The Choke Hold is ofcourse an issue, but lemmi, ask you a question. How is a normal size person suppose to restrain a large drug induced individual who is resisting without using a firearm?

https://tinyurl.com/y9mp25xy

Posted by: JackStraw at June 06, 2020 11:52 AM (ZLI7S)

342 Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 11:33 AM

How are you with a 10/0 paint brush?

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 11:52 AM (6f16T)

343 321 The Choke Hold is ofcourse an issue, but lemmi, ask you a question. How is a normal size person suppose to restrain a large drug induced individual who is resisting without using a firearm?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:47 AM (85Gof)

Take a look at Bruce Chapman's work. This old ette has restrained people bigger than me. And cops often go about in pairs.

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:52 AM (ONvIw)

344 Good morning!

Posted by: Scotsfury at June 06, 2020 11:52 AM (o2qR1)

345 Then he said the firm was going to do a complete audit of the entire supply chain and if any supplier or employee is in the "wrong side of the issue" they will no longer do business with them.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2020 11:44 AM (axyOa)

You should send him a fuck you letter

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:53 AM (85Gof)

346 Big Daddy from Cincinnati has one simple demand that could END this madness.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

It said watch to the end, and I thought (HOPED) he was gonna get hit with something.....

Posted by: JT at June 06, 2020 11:53 AM (arJlL)

347 KT is Nood

Posted by: Skip, the guy who says NOOD at June 06, 2020 11:53 AM (6f16T)

348 326 Our weekly arts & culture mag has helpfully provided us with a list of black-owned businesses that "we can support as a community."
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 11:49 AM (OzQGF)

Whatever. I don't give a fuck what color you are. Do you provide a quality good or service that I'm willing to spend my hard-earned cash on? That's all I care about.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:54 AM (hV60f)

349 I came out this morning to find it on the ground, in pieces, and the lilies lying forlornly in a heap. Sure, it MIGHT have been squirrels or raccoons, but I say why take chances. Vote Trump!
Posted by: pep

It was the raccoons!

Posted by: SQUIRREL LIVES MATTER at June 06, 2020 11:54 AM (786Ro)

350 LOL, protest in my burg right now. Maybe 30 protestors, most of which are overweight 20-somethings with blue or green hair.

Posted by: Bert G, new CW2 podisode at June 06, 2020 11:54 AM (OMsf+)

351 You know how they always tell you to just start your own site, if you don't like the policies of one? People left Ravelry and did that. One of the new ones, Fiberocity, has to have legal help to deal with the attacks on her new website. It's ridiculous. She should be able to start a new site. No one is forcing those people to visit.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 06, 2020 11:54 AM (Lqy/e)

352 rd - your snapshot guess on Trump's chances for MN this cycle? I've been thinking they're good, and these festivities haven't altered my guess.

Walter - what's your pour-over apparatus, if I might ask?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:54 AM (El6T/)

353 Then he said the firm was going to do a complete audit of the entire supply chain and if any supplier or employee is in the "wrong side of the issue" they will no longer do business with them.

If that was a publicly owned company, that would be a gigantic red flag with "SELL NOW" on it.

But OTOH, if that company wants to sink itself, it can.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #WASTF at June 06, 2020 11:55 AM (HaL55)

354 My few comments have not included this: My heartfelt appreciation for this blog.

Posted by: Scotsfury at June 06, 2020 11:55 AM (o2qR1)

355 The Choke Hold is ofcourse an issue, but lemmi, ask you a question. How is a normal size person suppose to restrain a large drug induced individual who is resisting without using a firearm?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:47 AM (85Go

Shoot 'em in the knee !

Posted by: Joey Biden at June 06, 2020 11:55 AM (2DOZq)

356 The reason this time is different is because the entire Antifa BLM cells were already trained funded and in place in preparation for the Democratic and Republican conventions. All of this shit was going to go down then but the conventions were canceled and they had a convenient excuse when a violent disgusting thug of the right melanin content got whacked...

Posted by: Surprise Anal Butterfly at June 06, 2020 11:55 AM (OnOT9)

357 How much would it cost to have a cop do that on vid?

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at June 06, 2020 11:57 AM (Jj+59)

358 Unarmed, non-professional, but somehow official neighborhood watch types to handle non-violent complaints.

Operator: "311 What are you whining about today?"

Karen: "I want to speak to your supervisor about the loud music and noise going on next door. Its after midnight and its only getting worse"

Narrator: [The neighbor's have left town for a week, and their 20-something simp offspring has staged a BLM party next door, lots of thugs, drugs, alcohol and obnoxious behavior]

Operator Supervisor: "This is the 311 Supervisor, sorry for the delay, I just had to fire that worthless fool who answer your call. Would you want me to do more?"

Karen: "Yes. I demand that you have someone come over here immediately, shut down that party and have everyone arrested."

Operator Supervisor: "I'm sorry we no longer perform those services for mere parties, but if the noise was due to a Bible Study, we do have outside contractors that will subdue them to your satisfaction."

Karen: "Whatever. You need to act now."

Operator Supervisor: "We will send counselors over immediately with cookies to ask them to be more considerate of others."

Narrator: [Unfortunately, the 311 Community Outreach Center sent over counselors armed with essential oils and a gender studies doctorate. A few screams and shouts were heard along with beatings and pleadings... The noise only got louder until they set Karen's house on fire in retaliation for suppressing their Rights to be Heard.]

Posted by: 🐧 at June 06, 2020 11:58 AM (qibYB)

359 Whatever. I don't give a fuck what color you are. Do you provide a quality good or service that I'm willing to spend my hard-earned cash on? That's all I care about.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:54 AM (hV60f)

Exactly. And what pisses me off the most is, when I get pushed all I want to do is push back. You are making me not want to patronize those businesses. And I don't want to be like that. Like you said, I want to be able to patronize their business based on the quality of their goods and services.

F*ck.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 11:59 AM (OzQGF)

360 Rhomboid,
We control the land they control the govt and tax the f*ck out of us for it. There isn't a single Democrat on a farm here but if there's a town above 1000 residents it's full of them. Cities breed dependency and evil.

Posted by: Fra Filippo at June 06, 2020 12:01 PM (7MUvN)

361

I can't fuss with that, but the Prog/Dem mayors who told their police departments to stand down on the first night of riots bear the most responsibility.

They could have nipped these riots in the bud, yet they refused to do so. This pattern of behavior is becoming all too common in blue-run cities and needs to stop immediately.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #WASTF at June 06, 2020 11:48 AM (HaL55)

^^^^^^^

This! See my comments in the first two posts of the day.

They had the model of how to stop this.

It is the same as what President Trump was saying, but if they wanted to stop the looting riots and arson, they could have pointed at what DEMOCRAT Governor Walz did.

Call out all the National Guard and all the State LEO, overwhelm the riots. No one died, no one got killed by the police.

They could have raised Governor Walz image nation wide, and had a great replacement for senile rapist Joe the Groper Biden.

Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 12:02 PM (+0uDE)

362 "systemic racism"

3/5s of a person, I was told.

Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 06, 2020 12:03 PM (w7KSn)

363 F*ck.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 11:59 AM (OzQGF)

We seem to be ont eh same wavelength a lot of the time. Hope we get to meet some day.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 12:04 PM (QzF6i)

364 If the outnumbered Republicans in the cities would get off their asses and vote in their local races, they would still lose, but we might reduce the Democrat margin enough to win the state wide races.

In Minneapolis, the Republican Party doesn't even run a candidate for mayor or most council seats, that is how dysfunctional it is.

Although I hate to take Failure Theater off the hook, it's kind of asymmetrical warfare in that conservatives naturally recoil from the idea of public service instead of doing something more useful where libs live for this deadbeat shit. That's why Trump is such a throwback to noblesse obligee at the end of a successful business career with tons of fuck you money. It would drive the NTs even more insane than usual to hear this but I think he's closer to the Founders ideal of a President than any of the Uniparty careerists.

Posted by: Captain Hate at June 06, 2020 12:05 PM (y7DUB)

365 "Yup. When the DA upped the charge to 2nd degree murder, that's the "fix" right there."

Exactly. Ellison wants blacks to continue to think the system is rigged against them, so he deliberately upped it to ensure more riots.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 06, 2020 12:06 PM (HabA/)

366 We seem to be ont eh same wavelength a lot of the time. Hope we get to meet some day.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2020 12:04 PM (QzF6i)

That would be lovely!

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 12:08 PM (OzQGF)

367 Something a lot of folks don't know but frequent flyer criminals always, always start complaining of this or that as they're being arrested.

Especially druggies. It's the cuffs too tight, you hurt my wrist, arm shoulder, ankle, leg, knee. I didn't do anything. What are you arresting me for, etcetera, etcetera.

Cops start to tune it out with experience. It's like a whiny child; you pretty much ignore it like a mosquito and don't pay much attention cause you're busy taking care of business.

And that's why exclamations of "I can't breathe" "get off my chest, neck, head, are ignored if they're heard at all.

During an arrest they must secure the suspect. That's MUST they can be hurt or killed or lose their job if they do not perform to the rules so they tend to focus on what they have to do. Resistance and yelling and such just make it harder and so they ignore it and suppress whatever is holding things up.

Granted some cops can be real bullies about it. Sadists a lot of them. Some are getting their own back for some injury or trouble they've had before so they take delight in making the process painful and stressful. Plus most of the folks they come in contact with are repeaters and are high on something. They act like dirtbags so they get treated like dirtbags.

Not an excuse. The problem is in the training. We should have a national training system for all cops. To be a police officer all cops should have to get a license from an accredited institute that they have been trained to a universal approved standard.

Then the individual LE org that wants to hire them can add to that with their own special requirements.

And there needs to be some weeding out of abusive people and there needs to be some attitude adjustments on how a peace officer should interact with citizens.

The first thing should be that everyone they meet is a citizen. Even suspects. The only people they can treat a little badly are escaped felons.

And that's tough considering the sewer most cops spend their day in 365. People suck.

Anyway none of what I've said will ever take place. Reasonable or rational thought and ideas are always trumped by politics and money.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 06, 2020 12:11 PM (PrJJl)

368 Donna&&&&&&&V ,
I think Ellison is throwing it. In MN 2nd degree murder requires intent to kill. The jury will find not guilty and the roots will start all over again. Then Ellison and Omar-Nur will have their Sharia law enforced by Somali vice squads.

Posted by: Fra Filippo at June 06, 2020 12:14 PM (7MUvN)

369 Exactly. Ellison wants blacks to continue to think the system is rigged against them, so he deliberately upped it to ensure more riots.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 06, 2020 12:06 PM (HabA/)

Seems to me this bastard could have instigate police reforms...but no, knee restraint remained

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 12:14 PM (ONvIw)

370 Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:54 AM (El6T

----

It is too early for any surety, but I think he will do better, and even win.

There are no Trump Voters that will vote Democrat, even for centrist and senile Joe.

There were a lot of Democrats that didn't vote for Felonia von Pantsuit last time. They did come out in 2018, and Ilhan Omar took her district by over 50 points (70 something to 20 something). They beat RINO NeverTrumper Erik Paulsen and newcomer Jason Lewis in the suburbs. But we took two Democrat House seats in the outstate area.

I think the rioters and the fumbling by the mayors and the Governor really opened eyes. I think their incompetence will hurt the Democrats. But Walz may have overcome that by his decisive actions after he got his ass handed to him by the rioters and arsonists on Friday night May 29.

If the Democrat ticket includes a Minnesotan, Trump will lose Minnesota, just like Ronald Reagan did.

Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 12:17 PM (+0uDE)

371 Don't blame us in the out state areas, we almost elected Trump in 2016. Since I moved here, I helped get John Kline elected, and when I moved kept Michelle Bachmann in office and elected Tom Emmer to replace her.
Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 11:50 AM (+0uDE)

sounds like letting Minneapolis burn could be a big net win for you, then.

There were respectful protests about the Philado Castille shooting. No riots. I too am trying to figure out why the Floyd case is different
Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 06, 2020 11:51 AM (flINI)v

The Floyd case isn't different. The Times are different. People are different.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 12:17 PM (Kpl3J)

372 If the Democrat ticket includes a Minnesotan, Trump will lose Minnesota, just like Ronald Reagan did.
Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 12:17 PM (+0uDE)

Except the only viable candidate is Klobuchar, and she let Chauvin go! HA!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 12:18 PM (Kpl3J)

373 Exactly. And what pisses me off the most is, when I get pushed all I want to do is push back. You are making me not want to patronize those businesses. And I don't want to be like that. Like you said, I want to be able to patronize their business based on the quality of their goods and services.

F*ck.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 11:59 AM (OzQGF)

In NJ, there is a fine, creative silversmith, whose work is on par with some of the best Modernists from the 50s. I was going to buy some stuff, it's sure to go up in value, but I saw the Bernie Sanders and BLM stuff and said "nope". I'll do without...too bad, too.

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 12:18 PM (ONvIw)

374 @368: " In MN 2nd degree murder requires intent to kill."

No, it doesn't.

There are two categories of 2nd degree in MN: intentional, for things like drive by shootings were targets were indiscriminate, but the act itself was deliberate; two, unintentional, meaning homicide in the commission of another felony.

Ellison is pursuing the latter based on the knee-to-neck restraint being felony assault.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2020 12:19 PM (+oVP5)

375

Diogenes - same here.
my comment @ 119 was in regard to DSC

My comment @176 was about Magnolia's virtue-signaling, knee-bending email.

Magnolia is FixerUpper Chip and Joanna Gaines' company.

I guess shiplap is racist.

Posted by: deplorable unperson -To Mars! at June 06, 2020 12:20 PM (luzVb)

376 Rd,
I fear you're right, hell we can't get rid of the damn blue dog Colin Peterson. But we've made gains. If they stopped filling the rural areas with Somali refugees wed have even more success. I still think we can pull it off this year.

Posted by: Fra Filippo at June 06, 2020 12:25 PM (7MUvN)

377 If the Democrat ticket includes a Minnesotan, Trump will lose Minnesota, just like Ronald Reagan did.
Posted by: rd at June 06, 2020 12:17 PM (+0uDE)

Except the only viable candidate is Klobuchar, and she let Chauvin go! HA!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 12:18 PM (Kpl3J)

Hello??

Posted by: Ill-hand Omar at June 06, 2020 12:27 PM (CqE5x)

378 350 LOL, protest in my burg right now. Maybe 30 protestors, most of which are overweight 20-somethings with blue or green hair.
Posted by: Bert G, new CW2 podisode at June 06, 2020 11:54 AM (OMsf+)

Trigglypuff Lives Matter!!!

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 12:28 PM (ONvIw)

379 Walter,
Nice to hear! I want that fuck to rot in prison!

Posted by: Fra Filippo at June 06, 2020 12:29 PM (7MUvN)

380 If the outnumbered Republicans in the cities would get off their asses and vote in their local races, they would still lose, but we might reduce the Democrat margin enough to win the state wide races.

In Minneapolis, the Republican Party doesn't even run a candidate for mayor or most council seats, that is how dysfunctional it is.

Although I hate to take Failure Theater off the hook, it's kind of asymmetrical warfare in that conservatives naturally recoil from the idea of public service instead of doing something more useful where libs live for this deadbeat shit. That's why Trump is such a throwback to noblesse obligee at the end of a successful business career with tons of fuck you money. It would drive the NTs even more insane than usual to hear this but I think he's closer to the Founders ideal of a President than any of the Uniparty careerists.
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 06, 2020 12:05 PM (y7DUB)

This might be a stupid idea, but I'm going to throw it out there.
In local city races--where people simply refuse to vote GOP the Republicans should re-brand themselves as another party, say The Progressive-Anti-Poverty Party or The People's Choice Family Party.

I told you it was stupid

Posted by: Ill-hand Omar at June 06, 2020 12:32 PM (CqE5x)

381 Off Illhand Omar sock....

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 12:32 PM (CqE5x)

382 Damned Ill-hand Omar sock

Posted by: Fra Filippo at June 06, 2020 12:37 PM (7MUvN)

383 ...
First of all, I doubt they get 100,000. What do they want? Anarchy. They are anarchists and communists and bad people. With a few plain old stupid people thrown in

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 11:27 AM (85Gof)

Or mostly stupid people with vacant lives.

Vacant lives all the more vacant and energetic
because they have been robbed of jobs and identity by the Chinese Plague.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 06, 2020 12:48 PM (Fk2WS)

384 Except the only viable candidate is Klobuchar, and she let Chauvin go! HA!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 12:18 PM (Kpl3J)

There is no way the Dems will pick poke salad Amy as VP.

They have to pick a black woman. I thought Tank Abrams was a laughable pick, but it just might be her.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 06, 2020 12:53 PM (HabA/)

385 380 If the outnumbered Republicans in the cities would get off their asses and vote in their local races, they would still lose, but we might reduce the Democrat margin enough to win the state wide races."

How many conservatives in blue states stay at home on election day or say they feel free to vote "their conscience" for some dickwad on the Constitionalist ticket or something, because their state's going blue anyway?

Don't want to hear that shit this year.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 06, 2020 12:58 PM (HabA/)

386 Well my to do is to done. Used the last 14 grams of Jamaican Blue Mountain to make myself double espresso, after dutifully making coffees for the wimmins. Now enjoying an impeccably-constructed cigar from Moore & Bod� in Miami.

Posted by: Regnad Kcin at June 06, 2020 02:34 PM (BNR2u)

387 So far I have progressed to item 4 on the list. But while drinking the coffee, I made a list of today's shopping (already made one purchase on Amazon, yay!)
Another achievement during the coffee drinking was to light a fire under Publius and my brother to begin the sunshade project on the back deck for my future MiL. They've already departed for Lowes. I'm still sitting here drinking my second cup and adding to my grocery shopping list. Since I'm hunting for some items that are out of stock at Publix (who knew that COVID-19 would affect ginger snap production at Nabisco? Nonetheless, Publius' daddy has to have them), I'll try a few other stores.
Then to the boozery and Home Depot for pots, potting soil and a bag of mulch.

Posted by: Miley, the ~~Duchess~~ - Hydroxy Chloro Queen and Bat Soup Nazi at June 06, 2020 03:04 PM (rCwaK)

388 jakee308 at June 06, 2020 12:11 PM

Interesting details on police procedures.

Posted by: KT at June 07, 2020 01:09 PM (BVQ+1)

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