Althouse: Trump started a new craze — Bible-clutching for the camera.

June 4, 2020

Trump started a new craze — Bible-clutching for the camera.

Nancy Pelosi is doing it.

127 comments:

cubanbob said...: Communists are atheist. It's just a prop in her agitprop. If she was a beliving Roman Catholic should wouldn't vote to fund abortions.; 6/4/20, 3:19 PM
Automatic_Wing said...: New?; 6/4/20, 3:21 PM
Drago said...: Pelosi enjoys MS13 "spark of divinity" machete murderers and "spark of divinity" abortions which lead to "spark of divinity" sale of baby parts.; 6/4/20, 3:22 PM
Inga said...: “It is incumbent upon all of us as Americans — regardless of race, religion, region, faith — that we recognize that this is an American problem, and not just a black problem or a brown problem or a Native American problem," Pelosi said. "This is an American problem."”

Indeed it is.

Hold up your bibles fellow Americans, hopefully we won’t be seeing lighting from the heavens striking millions of places at once.; 6/4/20, 3:22 PM
gspencer said...: Clutching it is one thing, and it's a start.

Now if they'll start reading it.; 6/4/20, 3:31 PM
tcrosse said...: Keith Ellison could hold up his Koran.; 6/4/20, 3:31 PM
Leland said...: Based on social media posts of Bill Clinton clutching a bible; I don't think you can give credit to Trump for the craze. Then again, I feel certain you can go back even further. Alas, I do accept that those whining that Trump probably never read the book can now say the same about Pelosi. Let their voices be heard! Umm, you guys may be speaking but the microphone is on mute.; 6/4/20, 3:32 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: What's wrong with her right arm? She's not using it and her right hand is a claw shape. Google images show her signing bills and things with her right hand.

Did she have a stroke?; 6/4/20, 3:33 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: Hold up your bibles fellow Americans,

Once again Trump leads the way.; 6/4/20, 3:34 PM
Drago said...: Perhaps Inga can use her well honed mind reading abilities to let us know what David Dorn was thinking when Howard's Heroes executed him in St Louis.; 6/4/20, 3:36 PM
Drago said...: I wonder if Nancy Pelosi approves of the pedophilia protection tactics employed by Arch Bishop Wilton Gregory that Inga was praising so highly.; 6/4/20, 3:37 PM
Gregory said...: Hypocrisy is the compliment that vice pays to virtue.

I don't agree with Nancy Pelosi on much, and I have no idea if she believes what's in that bible. But I'm glad to see her holding it, and we're all hypocrites anyway.; 6/4/20, 3:38 PM
buwaya said...: Clutching the bible is absolutely not a Catholic thing.
Someone who actually is Catholic may try to make this point with a rosary, maybe.

Pelosi is pathetically deracinated.; 6/4/20, 3:43 PM
wendybar said...: Both Nancy and Andrew Cuomo. Right after both of them criticized Trump for using it as a photo op. They both decided to use it as a photo op, with Prayful Nancy saying how much work she does for the Lord as opposed to Trump....You know, like voting for late term abortion laws and prayful things like that.; 6/4/20, 3:48 PM
effinayright said...: The fact that they had to use the brain-addled Al Sharpton to give the Eulogy tells me that Jizzy Jackson is non compos mentis.

Man, I'd like to be a fly on the wall listening to him and Slow Joe reminiscing.

"From the poorhouse, to the courthouse, to the HO house, to the White House...."; 6/4/20, 3:52 PM
Wince said...: "This is not a single incident; We know that it's a pattern of behavior," she said. "We also know the history that takes us to this sad place."

Yes, exactly in those places where Democrat have ruled for the last two generations.; 6/4/20, 3:53 PM
mikee said...: Trump did something almost two decades after those shifty grifters Bill & Hill Clinton did the same thing, and now it is Trump who is the originator of something you deem unseemly? Ben Rhodes probably thinks you're 27 and know no history at all.; 6/4/20, 3:54 PM
AustinRoth said...: Sorry, but that is an old tradition for politicians. Only went out of vogue as atheism became the official religion of the Left.; 6/4/20, 3:55 PM
Unknown said...: It's surprising it didn't burn her hands.; 6/4/20, 3:55 PM
Eric said...: Did Nancy sanitize her mind after touching a Bible?; 6/4/20, 3:55 PM
Temujin said...: Pelosi should know Ecclesiastes. It was written in her day.; 6/4/20, 3:58 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Yeah, it’s new. When’s the last time you remember a American politician posing with a Bible?

A fad can be something that happened years ago and becomes big again.

Like, for example, platform shoes.; 6/4/20, 3:59 PM
mikee said...: https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/president-bill-clinton-waves-his-bible-followinn-a-church-news-photo/51550362?adppopup=true

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/21/secret-service-agents-saw-bill-clinton-making-out-with-monica-le/

So technically, Hillary did once hold a Bible for something other than a swearing-in ceremony.; 6/4/20, 3:59 PM
Mary Beth said...: If she was a beliving Roman Catholic should wouldn't vote to fund abortions.

Considering the disproportionate number of black infants that are aborted, it seems especially ironic for her to be lecturing us on anything regarding race. I guess preventing a significant portion of the next generation from being born isn't genocide if you claim to mean well.; 6/4/20, 4:08 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: The party of late term abortions says what?; 6/4/20, 4:09 PM
Automatic_Wing said...: Bill Clinton, I guess. Is that long enough ago for this to qualify as "new"?; 6/4/20, 4:12 PM
Wince said...: "I can feel myself rotting."; 6/4/20, 4:15 PM
madAsHell said...: Did she tear the pages ahead of time?

Maybe she can have some transitioning person of color tear the Bible like a phone book.; 6/4/20, 4:17 PM
gspencer said...: Rev. Al (Reginald Bacon) at George Floyd's service, "We will not allow you [meaning Trump] to use George as a prop," as Huckster Al proceeds to use George as a prop.; 6/4/20, 4:17 PM
YoungHegelian said...: I'd pay good money to see SotH Pelosi extend her Bible clutching hand over the assembled House Of Representatives & give us all a good ol' Ernest Angley Heeeee - Aaaaaaalll!

It's not like it would hurt.; 6/4/20, 4:23 PM
whitney said...: She is catholic that supports abortion. She's going to hell unless she repents; 6/4/20, 4:23 PM
Michael K said...: When’s the last time you remember a American politician posing with a Bible?

Bill Clinton when Monica was the topic de jure.; 6/4/20, 4:24 PM
RNB said...: “It is incumbent upon all of us as Americans — regardless of race, religion, region, faith — that we recognize that this is an American problem, and not just a black problem or a brown problem or a Native American problem," Pelosi said. "This is an American problem."

So she's saying -- All Lives Matter?; 6/4/20, 4:28 PM
Achilles said...: Ann Althouse said...
Yeah, it’s new. When’s the last time you remember a American politician posing with a Bible?

A fad can be something that happened years ago and becomes big again.

Like, for example, platform shoes.

People recognize that Christians are good people.

My wife and I were talking about where to go.

I told her we need to go to a place with a lot of Christians in the community. She is a devout protestant and she agrees.

The democrats see the symbolism. It is a threat to their power. But ever opportunistic shitheads like Nancy Pelosi try to steal the symbolism.; 6/4/20, 4:29 PM
Sprezzatura said...: https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1268164036790759424; 6/4/20, 4:29 PM
jaydub said...: "... this is an American problem, and not just a black problem or a brown problem or a Native American problem," Pelosi said. "This is an American problem."

Inga, you racist twit!! Say it after me: "Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter." Brown people and Native Americans don't matter. White people and Yellow people don't matter. Police don't matter. Firemen don't matter. Some old Honky from San Francisco don't matter. Other people's lives just don't matter. This one be about Black folk. Black folk did the heavy lifting on these riots (except for the brick staging part,) and the lesser races can just get their own scam going.; 6/4/20, 4:30 PM
Achilles said...: Inga said...

Indeed it is.

Hold up your bibles fellow Americans, hopefully we won’t be seeing lighting from the heavens striking millions of places at once.

You are just a disgusting piece of shit.

I hope people go "protest" at your house. I will not shed a tear for these leftist shitheads to have the violence they wish upon others inflicted on them.; 6/4/20, 4:31 PM
Fernandinande said...: Pelosi says a president of the United States “has the responsibility to heal,”

What a dorkette. Words not in Constitution: "heal".; 6/4/20, 4:33 PM
TheOne Who Is Not Obeyed said...: It's probably better than all the pearl clutching Nasty Nancy and her ilk perform each time Trump tweets something that gives them the vapors. At lease if she bothered to open and read the Bible she might be convinced of something more noble than gaining political power on the backs of minorities.; 6/4/20, 4:42 PM
TD said...: It's ok if Nancy does it, because we know she does not mean it.; 6/4/20, 4:43 PM
clint said...: Bill Clinton held up a Bible in front of that same church, back when the vast right-wing conspiracy was daring to accuse him of sexual improprieties with "that woman".; 6/4/20, 4:46 PM
John henry said...: This happened Tuesday.

But it's different when she does it.

John Henry; 6/4/20, 4:50 PM
Tyrone Slothrop said...: Biggest bible, maybe ever.; 6/4/20, 4:58 PM
The Vault Dweller said...: The Democrats must be worried about Trump holding the Bible specifically and the protests/riots generally if they are staging events like this. I didn't watch Trump's walk to the Church and subsequent holding of a Bible as he makes an address. Trump doesn't strike me as a particularly religious person, so I assumed that it was done probably entirely for symbolism and persuasion. I didn't think it would be particularly effective.

If Democrats are now planning similar staged events, they must be worried that Trump's specific action was effective. They must be worried that Trump is looking like he has the moral high ground. And Democrats are generally incapable of campaigning as the Super Ego party. They basically can only do Republicans are icky and evil, and mean and racist bad guys and we're the nice good guys.

That high rated comment on the NYTimes article Althouse linked a few days ago that basically came down strongly in favor of law and order seemed fairly telling. It probably scared a lot of Democratic pols.; 6/4/20, 5:04 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: DC must be having one heck of a toilet paper shortage!; 6/4/20, 5:10 PM
Big Mike said...: To clear the area around St. John's, including the expansive Lafayette Square Park, federal law enforcers had attacked peaceful protestors with a curtain of tear gas and smoke bombs, sending demonstrators scurrying out of the park.

The above is excerpted from the linked article. The Park Service says it never happened -- the protestors were not peaceful, nor was tear gas used. Should I believe Pelosi and "The Hill," or the National Park Service and Donald Trump. Since Democrats lie as an automatic reflex, I choose the NPS and Trump.; 6/4/20, 5:20 PM
Inga said...: “Perhaps Inga can use her well honed mind reading abilities to let us know what David Dorn was thinking...”

Stop using David Dorn as your prop. It doesn’t help your cause or reflect well on you.; 6/4/20, 5:21 PM
Mike said...: I think George Floyd started it...; 6/4/20, 5:22 PM
Big Mike said...: @Althouse, I view you as being fairly far left of center (though not by Madison standards, apparently). Is there ever going to come a point where lefties like you realize that perhaps unity needs to be achieve by you moving towards us, instead of us always needing to move towards ever-crazier lefties?

The question has to be asked, though I fear I know the answer.; 6/4/20, 5:23 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Good catch buwaya. Catholics use rosaries, baptists use bibles. She has been denied Communion on the basis of her support for infanticide. She's even more corrupt than her father. Yet, again, Trump is three moves ahead of her.; 6/4/20, 5:23 PM
mezzrow said...: A fad can be something that happened years ago and becomes big again.

Like, for example, platform shoes.

The next time I see a pair of platform shoes being worn, I suppose I'll be thinking of the book of Deuteronomy. I'll probably be clutching a beer, though.; 6/4/20, 5:31 PM
chickelit said...: Inga said...Stop using David Dorn as your prop. It doesn’t help your cause or reflect well on you.

Shorter Inga: "STFU, I'm not going o address that."; 6/4/20, 5:39 PM
Francisco D said...: Bill Clinton is the King of the Bible Clutch.

During the Lewinsky drama, he went to church with Hillary and a hugely oversized bible in his right hand. It was an excellent and quite obvious photo op.; 6/4/20, 5:40 PM
Big Mike said...: @Drago, keep referring to David Dorn. Inga doesn’t like it.; 6/4/20, 5:42 PM
Drago said...: The Very Forgetful Inga: "Stop using David Dorn as your prop. It doesn’t help your cause or reflect well on you."

Inga gets very very very angry when you mention the names of victims of her beloved antifa murdering pals.

And, mind you, this is after repeatedly using Heather Heyer's name for the last 3+ years over and over and over again.

But that's different because reasons.; 6/4/20, 5:45 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: Inga said...
“Perhaps Inga can use her well honed mind reading abilities to let us know what David Dorn was thinking...”

Stop using David Dorn as your prop. It doesn’t help your cause or reflect well on you.

6/4/20, 5:21 PM

He's not a prop. He's someone you want to forget about - because you don't give a shit about black lives when your allies murder them.; 6/4/20, 5:49 PM
Drago said...: I wonder if Inga can explain why it is perfectly acceptable for her to raise the name of Heather Heyer over and over again for 3+ years but unacceptable to reference the african american retired sheriff gunned down by her antifa allies just days ago?

This is, of course, on top of Inga coming out in full support of a catholic archbishop who protected pedophiles and stole money from his own church ($2.2 million in fact).

To this day, Inga has refused to even reference the names of the 2 african american school girls who were murdered by Pelosi's and Inga's "spark of divinity" MS13 heroes....just because Trump invited the victims parents to sit in on a State of the Union.....and the dems never even recognized those parents.

When seeing that, its hard to forget how Inga's hollywood heroes gave child sodomizer Roman Polanski a standing ovation on national TV.

So many "strange" inconsistencies in Inga's "faith".; 6/4/20, 5:55 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: Inga gets angry when we remind her that she sides with David Dorn's murderers.; 6/4/20, 5:56 PM
Skeptical Voter said...: I really had to laugh at Nancy here. She's a day late and a dollar short. Last night or early this morning--and certainly before La Pelosi picked up that Bible, the satirical newspaper Babylon Bee ran a story showing Nancy ripping up a Bible. I mean Nancy loathes anything that Trump does, so if he holds a Bible up, she'll rip one up. And indeed she did, although her assistants had to pre-rip it for her.

And the Bee went on to note that in a "genius move" Trump had appeared in front of a mosque holding a Koran for a photo op.

But calls for racial healing from a long standing Democrat politician like Nancy--or Joe Biden, are the rhetorical equivalent of a man telling a woman that he'll "still respect her in the morning". Somebody has been abused.; 6/4/20, 6:02 PM
Achilles said...: Inga said...
“Perhaps Inga can use her well honed mind reading abilities to let us know what David Dorn was thinking...”

Stop using David Dorn as your prop. It doesn’t help your cause or reflect well on you.

Democrats were in control of every institution that lead to the killing of George Floyd for 50 years.

Every single one.

And yet you use him as a prop. And you are completely shameless about it.

I hope the protesters figure this out and start hunting democrats down as a "protest."

Now that Antifa is officially a terrorist organization I look forward to the militant wing of hte democrat party being jailed in mass.; 6/4/20, 6:15 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: the BJ Clinton and his 'Bobble' pic; 6/4/20, 6:15 PM
Michael K said...: Stop using David Dorn as your prop. It doesn’t help your cause or reflect well on you.

Says the crazy leftists about a black man murdered by looters.

Your mother would be proud of you.; 6/4/20, 6:20 PM
Big Mike said...: I have to say that based on everything I have learned about the two men, it would take thousand George Floyds to make one David Dorn. And no doubt a million of the men who murdered David Dorn to be equal to one of him.; 6/4/20, 6:20 PM
cubanbob said...: Inga said...
“Perhaps Inga can use her well honed mind reading abilities to let us know what David Dorn was thinking...”

Stop using David Dorn as your prop. It doesn’t help your cause or reflect well on you."

Apparently when you look in the mirror you can't see yourself.; 6/4/20, 6:20 PM
FullMoon said...: Like, for example, platform shoes.
Platform shoes were encouraged by the man in order to slow brothers down in foot chase.

Baggy pants the platform shoes of the '20s; 6/4/20, 6:25 PM
Bob Smith said...: https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-one-ups-pelosi-with-30-foot-tall-bible; 6/4/20, 6:26 PM
cubanbob said...: "... this is an American problem, and not just a black problem or a brown problem or a Native American problem," Pelosi said. "This is an American problem."

There is me and there is you. But there is no we. As far as I am concerned, criminal live's are less worthy than ordinary law abiding people's life. So the cops who broke the law by killing George Floyd deserve a fair trial and the proper sentence. As for Floyd, when his family sues, unless they show W2's or 1099's they are enitled to nothing. A jury and a court of law should not compensate those who were benefiting from illegal incomes.; 6/4/20, 6:28 PM
The Vault Dweller said...: I'm going to assume that the average Black Democratic voter is more religiously active than the average Democratic voter. Also given the history of America, I'm going to assume that a burned out church is a very ugly scene to most Black Democratic voters. Trump standing in front of a burned out church in defiance of the act holding a Bible is a powerful symbol. I don't think this is going to win over huge swaths of Black voter onto Team Trump. But I think what it does do is make the looting and the riots seem incredibly ugly, and by extension the protests get emotionally tainted as well. Obviously, logically it is easy separate peaceful protests from non-peaceful riots and looting. But humans are not completely logical creatures. And I think emotionally this takes some wind out of the sails of the protests. It makes the entire incident seem less like an easy win for the Democrats politically. A converted Democratic voter who now votes Republican is obviously the best outcome for Trump, but a Democratic voter, who now merely abstains from voting for Democrats because he doesn't like what he sees on 'that side' is still a pretty good outcome.; 6/4/20, 6:32 PM
Matt Harris said...: And she didn't mutter "It burns us! It burns us!"?; 6/4/20, 6:34 PM
Big Mike said...: The next time I see a pair of platform shoes being worn, I suppose I'll be thinking of the book of Deuteronomy.

@mezzrow, you mean like Deuteronomy in "Cats"?; 6/4/20, 6:38 PM
Big Mike said...: @mezzrow, but did you mean Ecclesiastes 3:1-8?; 6/4/20, 6:42 PM
Big Mike said...: Yeah, I know. Atheists like me are not supposed to know about Ecclesiastes, or any other part of the Bible.; 6/4/20, 6:44 PM
Achilles said...: There is another craze starting.

Businesses moving out of communities run by democrats.

There are a lot of people living in areas where the local grocery store was looted by animals.

Many of those grocery stores will never open again.

"Mayor Lightfoot said she was on a conference call with Walmart and other major retailers that had stores looted or heavily damaged during the unrest in Chicago. She said she pleaded with them to not abandon Chicago."

LOL Get Fucked.; 6/4/20, 6:53 PM
Rick said...: Inga said...Stop using David Dorn as your prop.

If you an ten others have to die so the IngaFreders can grandstand just know your sacrifice is one she's willing to make.; 6/4/20, 7:14 PM
RMc said...: Stop using David Dorn as your prop.

Truth hurts.; 6/4/20, 7:18 PM
Brian said...: Every Perseus needs their shield.; 6/4/20, 7:21 PM
Nichevo said...: Inga said...
“Perhaps Inga can use her well honed mind reading abilities to let us know what David Dorn was thinking...”

Stop using David Dorn as your prop. It doesn’t help your cause or reflect well on you.

Inga, when was the last time you ever took such a, not advice but an order really, to do something, or not do something? Wasn't it a waste of breath for your interlocutor?

So do you in turn think it will work better when you do it?; 6/4/20, 7:23 PM
iowan2 said...: Inga said...
“Perhaps Inga can use her well honed mind reading abilities to let us know what David Dorn was thinking...”

Stop using David Dorn as your prop. It doesn’t help your cause or reflect well on you.

Inga's got her fingers in her ears and his humming.

Saw a video of a Black grandma after she had spent all night cleaning up the bakery in which she is part owner. She says BLM is strangling her. She is the abused. She says "Black Lives Matter" is a lie. A liberal that just got mugged, is going to vote for leaders that demand government, by an overwhelming show of force, dominate the streets and protect grandmothers that just want to run a bakery. That would President Trump, Senator Cotton, not Senator Schummer, who is on record saying how proud he is of the protesters/rioters.

A Lie...no shit.; 6/4/20, 7:24 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: “Perhaps Inga can use her well honed mind reading abilities to let us know what David Dorn was thinking...”

Damn, that right-wing agitator narrative fell apart faster than the Left could construct it. It’s incredible how these people are wrong (or flat-out lying) about absolutely everything. And, make no mistake, the White virtue signaling on social media has a definite sell-by date as well. Very soon it will be called out as the condescending, patronizing jive it is.; 6/4/20, 7:49 PM
Yancey Ward said...: I just laughed my ass off at this story inSalon.

Read that story and see if you, like me, have run out of fucks to give. And if that one doesn't do it, try this one.

Lori Lightfoot and Greg Fischer, two mayors that couldn't find their own asses if you gave them a flashlight and a map.; 6/4/20, 7:54 PM
Jon Ericson said...: So tonight's the night some black doofus gets killed at the White House?; 6/4/20, 7:58 PM
Yancey Ward said...: I have news for you, Inga- all the dead black males are being used as props in this event- all of them.; 6/4/20, 7:58 PM
Yancey Ward said...: You want to know why food and other retail deserts form? They form in areas where the law against theft isn't enforced. This past week saw a sudden increase in such areas, and when you listen to the mayors' pleas to stay, note what is missing- any promise to change their own fucking behavior and policies. These people shit in their beds, and expect the rest of us to clean it up.; 6/4/20, 8:03 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: Achilles said...
There is another craze starting.

Businesses moving out of communities run by democrats.

There are a lot of people living in areas where the local grocery store was looted by animals.

Many of those grocery stores will never open again.

"Mayor Lightfoot said she was on a conference call with Walmart and other major retailers that had stores looted or heavily damaged during the unrest in Chicago. She said she pleaded with them to not abandon Chicago."

Yeah, and in a year or so, the Trib will be running stories about how the lack of decent grocery stores in the 'hood forces residents to rely on fast and junk food.

And of course, it will be the fault of white racists.; 6/4/20, 8:08 PM
Jon Ericson said...: A video about Inger's heros.
“Practice things like an eye gouge...injure someone's eyes"; 6/4/20, 8:15 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: So many "strange" inconsistencies in Inga's "faith".

6/4/20, 5:55 PM

Inga: These rioters are boogaloo right wing crazies!

Sane person with reasoning ability: Why would boogaloo right wing crazies vandalize WWII and veteran's memorials?

Inga: The rioters have their reasons! They're angry about racism!

Sane person with reasoning ability: Why did they murder David Dorn, a retired black cop?

Inga: Stop using him as a prop! And look, over there, at all those beautiful murals painted on boarded up storefronts! Aren't they lovely? You Trumpists are so mean and hateful!; 6/4/20, 8:18 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: Stop using David Dorn and/or George Floyd as your prop. It doesn’t help your cause or reflect well on you.

Fixed It For All You.; 6/4/20, 8:22 PM
Chris Lopes said...: "Stop using David Dorn as your prop."

He's not a prop, he's a human being who was killed by people who were supposedly angry about the death of another black man. His death apparently doesn't mean anything to anyone since he was not killed by a dirt bag racist cop while his dirt bag racist cop friends looked on. Nor do the lives of other black people in other inner cities who were killed by gang violence matter, as again no dirt bag racist cop was involved. Black lives only seem to matter under a very narrow set of circumstances.

BTW, I think the racist cop and his buddies in this case should be doing time.; 6/4/20, 8:24 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: New Undercover Video Blows Lid Off Antifa Domestic Terrorists

Antifa infiltrates peaceful protests to turn them violent

Antifa is well-trained and acts in coordination to start violent riots. A protester at a Black Lives Matter rally took this incredible video of antifa destroying a police car and setting it on fire in under a minute and then disappearing into the crowd to let the protesters take the heat. That’s not easy to do without a lot of practice. These are expert provocateurs, not amateurs.

Cifuni trains antifa recruits on eye-gouging as a tactic of terror.

“Practice things like an eye gouge. It takes very little pressure to injure someone’s eyes,” Cifuni instructed in a recon and tactics class.

President Trump declared antifa a domestic terror group after reports and video showed organized anarchists setting fire to American cities and starting violence after the death of George Floyd by police.

what you really need to worry about is the boogaloo.; 6/4/20, 8:25 PM
stevew said...: We're all in this together. It's just that "this" has changed.

Try saying, Stop using George Floyd as your prop, you'll get "RACIST" in reply.

David Dorn is one of the good guys, trying to help some friends and neighbors. Do we know who killed him? Are there protests in his name? I didn't think so.; 6/4/20, 8:26 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Isn't it funny how the democrat party collective (media and The Party) won't denounce Antifa.

Doesn't that make the media brown-shirts? or just terror exploiting, lying, treasonous terror excusing assholes?; 6/4/20, 8:30 PM
Drago said...: Inga the Perpetual Mentioner of Heather Heyer: "Stop using David Dorn as your prop."

David Dorn's life honored by St Louis police and others.

Which greatly angers Inga who despises this story and demands no one ever mention David Dorn's name again.

That's right, white chick from Milwaukee demands name of african american never be uttered again.........gee, nothing racist about that at all.

https://www.kmov.com/news/march-held-to-honor-police-captain-david-dorn-who-was-killed-by-looters/article_dde8548c-a6a7-11ea-8b9b-4f295af97ab2.html; 6/4/20, 8:32 PM
Inga said...: “Truth hurts.”

The truth is that looters killed David Dorn, not protestors, there is a difference.; 6/4/20, 8:36 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: The Left: Only cops should have guns!

The Left: Defund the police!; 6/4/20, 8:44 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: Here's some news that will make Inga happy.

A NYC police officer was stabbed in the neck tonight.; 6/4/20, 8:51 PM
n.n said...: He's Christian, not Jewish, not Muslim, not Buddhist, not Pro-Choice, etc. Next!; 6/4/20, 8:53 PM
Bob Loblaw said...: People recognize that Christians are good people.

As individuals Christians are good and bad people, but Christians make good neighbors. It's a good culture for creating a safe place to raise your kids and apply yourself. I'm an atheist myself, but I'd rather live among Christians than other atheists.; 6/4/20, 9:04 PM
Bilwick said...: Again, I'm a non-believer; but as long as Pelosi and other "liberals" (by which I mean f course "tax-happy, coercion-addicted, power-tripping State fellators") are holding Bibles, I wish they'd at least glance at the commandments "Thou Shalt Not Steal" and "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods." And then communicate those commandments to their rioting shock-troops in the streets.; 6/4/20, 9:11 PM
Bruce Hayden said...: “I'm going to assume that the average Black Democratic voter is more religiously active than the average Democratic voter. Also given the history of America, I'm going to assume that a burned out church is a very ugly scene to most Black Democratic voters. Trump standing in front of a burned out church in defiance of the act holding a Bible is a powerful symbol. I don't think this is going to win over huge swaths of Black voter onto Team Trump. But I think what it does do is make the looting and the riots seem incredibly ugly, and by extension the protests get emotionally tainted as well. Obviously, logically it is easy separate peaceful protests from non-peaceful riots and looting”

What must be remembered I’d that Blacks are more religious than many Whites, and for the most part they are Protestants, which means that they are very used to their leaders prominently carrying Bibles. Not Crucifixes. That is an RC thing (that Protestants find odd). But Bibles. Many of their leaders are clergy, who almost invariably carry Bibles, very prominently.

So no, carrying a Bible to the bombed out church isn’t going to hurt Trump. He is forcing his opposition to swing the other way, against showing symbols of Christianity.; 6/4/20, 9:14 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "Mayor Lightfoot said she was on a conference call with Walmart and other major retailers that had stores looted or heavily damaged during the unrest in Chicago. She said she pleaded with them to not abandon Chicago."

If Walmart didn’t sell stuff made in China or other non-US countries, what would be left on the shelves? They should probably shutdown all the stores everywhere. Replace them with Filson stores and such. For American jobs. For MAGA.

Also, is Walmart a big thing in Chicago?

None of my urban houses are close to Walmarts. It’s even very hard to find normal fast food places in my cities. But, my sub-places (and even some of my country places, considering that 30 miles means only thirty minutes) are thick w/ fast food and ChiComResaleMarts.

Anywho, I don’t like going to Walmart because doing so makes me think about despair, as I see it. But, I try to tell myself that the seemingly pitiful staff and customers are actually fulfilled w/ what they gots. What more can a person ask for?

P.S. Today it doesn’t help that I saw the WaPo piece re the Walmart family giving zero dough re all this stuff going on. They didn’t even do the Rupert weasel act. It seems sorta gross to become rich by selling foreign made crap at the same time you’re also creating a substantial mass of poorly compensated and cared for American staff. It is also uncomfortable for me when I see that it seems like a fair number of the Walmart customers are gluttonous and/or unsuccessful.

P.S. I have seen on the Tok that Walmart is replacing humans w/ robots. There are videos of folks who strategically place four small boxes on the floor space around one of these robots such that the robot can’t move. If Walmart can overcome this sorta problem and eventually get rid of all the staff w/ sad lives, I’d be more comfortable going to the stores.

IMHO.; 6/4/20, 9:25 PM
Rick said...: Inga said...
The truth is that looters killed David Dorn, not protestors, there is a difference.

You can identify which left wingers are propagandists by noting they bounce back and forth between making this distinction when it protects left wingers and erasing the same distinction to attack anyone else.; 6/4/20, 9:26 PM
Big Mike said...: The truth is that looters killed David Dorn, not protestors, there is a difference.

@Inga, prove it!; 6/4/20, 9:32 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: "The truth is that looters killed David Dorn, not protestors, there is a difference."

True. Looters are looters and protesters are their enablers. So just an accessory to murder.; 6/4/20, 9:34 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: "The truth is that looters killed David Dorn, not protestors, there is a difference."

True. Looters are looters and protesters are their enablers. So just an accessory to murder.; 6/4/20, 9:34 PM
Narr said...: So the victimized retailers and restaurants, large and small, get out of Dodge. That's just a given now.

But on the issue that Tucker keeps harping on, 'defunding the police'? Some places seem on the verge of it and though I doubt it will ever actually happen to any extent, it makes me wonder what the police in those places do? The unionized will strike--that will be interesting; others will just quit and leave the cities entirely.

Narr
Radicals should be careful what they wish for.; 6/4/20, 9:56 PM
Michael K said...: What we are seeing here is the return of segregation. No white person is going to want to live near blacks. It was a noble experiment for 60 years but it is over. Blacks are still figuring this out. The billionaire BET founder wants $14 trillion in "reparations." He is crazy. Nobody wants to risk this again. Why should we? They have delusions that slavery built America. Fuck you, Go build it again. Juan Williams, who got his job when white people felt sorry for him, when PBS fired him, still doesn't get it. Trillions and trillions in welfare and this is what we get.; 6/4/20, 10:00 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: Here's a clip of the heavily armed townspeople of Coeur d’ Alene turning out to protect their city en masse when they heard those "peaceful protesters" were rolling into their town. Any Antifa shit - or as I like to call them, Vanilla ISIS - who showed up took one look at those streets and decided to go loot and rob someplace else.

https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1267978871187615750

Warms my heart, although I have to wonder why those good folks showed up to protect their town from right wing boogaloos. Maybe Inga can explain things for us.

Coeur d’ Alene: where people can sit outside at a restaurant on a beautiful day - without masks - and enjoy their meals and drinks, secure in the knowledge that thugs will not smash up their cars and loot their property. Looks far more civilized that NYC or Madison.; 6/4/20, 10:04 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: It's not the first time Inga has carried water for terrorists.; 6/4/20, 10:05 PM
Jeff said...: The truth is that looters killed David Dorn, not protestors, there is a difference.
If you're a protester and you discover that looters are using your protest as cover for their crimes, what should you do? Stand around with your iPhone hoping to get an exciting video? Maybe scream at the police who try to stop the looters? Maybe heave a brick or two their way?

No, unless you're armed and willing to start shooting the looters yourself, the only moral thing you can do is stop protesting and go home. Anything less makes you complicit in the looting and the concomitant destruction of the lives of the people on whose behalf you purport to be protesting. And the same applies to supporters of the protests. Once the protests have been hijacked to serve the ends of the looters, it is time for you to grow the fuck up and shut up. Anything less is lending your support to the looters. You would understand this if you were not blinded by your hatred of all things Trump.; 6/4/20, 10:05 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: George Floyd rioters deface 16 Boston statues, including memorial honoring black Civil War regiment

I'm sure Antifa had nothing to do with it.; 6/4/20, 10:18 PM
Drago said...: Inga: "The truth is that looters killed David Dorn, not protestors, there is a difference."

Oh. Thats the "truth".

Is that "truth" like your Carter Page is a russian spy "truth"? Or is it a different kind of "truth"?; 6/4/20, 10:36 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Now I know how my comments have recently been able to get through the deletion filter.

Fake Crack double commented, and both got through.

If the process is that much on autopilot why not just open the comments?; 6/4/20, 10:37 PM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: FUCK THA POLICE!

BRING THE BOOGALOO!!!; 6/4/20, 11:37 PM
Clyde said...: The old gray mare she ain't what she used to be: Pelosi Suffers 10-Second Mental Lapse On-Camera During Press Conference; 6/5/20, 12:26 AM
Chris Lopes said...: "The truth is that looters killed David Dorn, not protestors, there is a difference."

The truth is David Dorn's death doesn't mean shit to you or anyone else because he wasn't killed by a dirt bag racist cop. He can't be used as a political prop by your side, so he doesn't count. His life doesn't matter.; 6/5/20, 1:53 AM
Ray - SoCal said...: Trump is definitely inside their OODA Loop.; 6/5/20, 2:03 AM
traditionalguy said...: Holding up a Bible is a political proclamation that the sovereign authority of the newly Independent Continental Revolutionary Government was the Creator of all men. The European Kings said that Devine authority was theirs. But the Jeffersonian/Washingtonian/Madisonian rebels said it was theirs by The providence of God and they would bear arms in battle to prove it.

So the Bible always has been the foundation for the sovereignty claim of the Continental Congress (now called the USA )in 1776. It remained for Andrew Jackson’s victory to affirm it’s existence again in 1815. And finally for Abraham Lincoln’s general U S Grant to affirm it’s existence again 50 years later. So the President of that sovereign power has every right to waive it around today. It is a winner.; 6/5/20, 3:26 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: @ anti-de Sitter space

How arrogant. The house that we just left in PHX was a couple blocks from a Walmart. Used to be a 24 hour one. That was phenomenal for us. Whatever we needed, 5 minutes away. Unfortunately the neighborhood deteriorated a bit, as it filled in, and the security costs didn’t justiy the extra costs. So, they now run 6am to midnight. Good prices still on most of what we needed on a day by day basis.

I didn’t see the despair that you talk about there. Got to know a number of the employees a little, and they were just fine. Sure, they weren’t getting rich. But we’re, for the most part reasonably happy. Got to know esp one of the greeters, a black man about my age, who talked to all the kids, and knew all their mothers. We would bring him our bread loaves from Olive Garden, which aren’t on my diet (not his either, but...)

Here, in rural MT, the minimal requirement for us staying anywhere overnight is a Walmart (Costco’s are nice, despite their absurd PC masking requirements, but Walmart’s are the requirement). We have five of them within two hours, the closest (Sandpoint ID) is 80 miles away. Amazing how often we run into people we know there, also from our town in MT. I remember running into a gay guy I know there in the gun section before they went PC and quit selling self defense ammunition), right after the Pulse Nightclub killings. Long talk about why gays needed to arm up, without, of course, him ever admitting that he was gay. Which is the way it is there - no one cares, as long as you don’t make it a big thing.

Another thing though about Walmart’s failure to properly virtue signal. They are already probably the biggest employer of Blacks, outside governments, in this country. Plenty of Blacks and Hispanics sure worked at the one by our old house. The employees there corresponded well to the demographics of their clientele and the surrounding community - about 60% non White - mostly either Black or Hispanic. Moreover, their rural, and much of their suburban, clientele would have little patience with them pandering to BLM and AntiFA terrorists. There are very good reasons why the terrorists are sticking to downtown areas - because their life expectancies would plummet if they ventured out too far. (Rumors the other night what the terrorists tearing up Spokane would branch out into nearby Coeur d’Alene brought out dozens of armed residents, to patrol the area. Reportably the AntiFA types driving by to check it out turned around and left, not finding easy pickings).; 6/5/20, 4:19 AM
Big Mike said...: If the protestors genuinely wanted the looting and rioting to stop, they would make an effort to stop it.; 6/5/20, 5:51 AM
Mark said...: Michael K has gone full on racist. Quite the place you run here, Ann.

"What we are seeing here is the return of segregation. No white person is going to want to live near blacks."

Michael K proving your can take the boy out of where he grew up, but you cannot take racism out of the boy ... just hide it for a qhole.; 6/5/20, 6:28 AM
Birkel said...: ... and she was promptly struck dumb for 10 seconds.; 6/5/20, 7:44 AM
Nichevo said...: anti-de Sitter space said...
Now I know how my comments have recently been able to get through the deletion filter.

Meadehouse is censoring you? What excellent judgment and good taste! If true, I will be sure to buy my next AMZN order through the portal.

Your

None of my urban houses are close to Walmarts. It’s even very hard to find normal fast food places in my cities. But, my sub-places (and even some of my country places, considering that 30 miles means only thirty minutes) are thick w/ fast food and ChiComResaleMarts.

Anywho, I don’t like going to Walmart because doing so makes me think about despair, as I see it. But, I try to tell myself that the seemingly pitiful staff and customers are actually fulfilled w/ what they gots. What more can a person ask for?

What's your game, anyway? A performance piece, to wit: I am rich, I am a slumlord high and low; I am a toad who despises blacks and the poor or any who are lesser than me; therefore the rich and property owners are toads?

I'm not saying that it doesn't work. I certainly believe that you are a toad.; 6/5/20, 8:09 AM
Nichevo said...: Blogger Mark said...
Michael K has gone full on racist. Quite the place you run here, Ann.

"What we are seeing here is the return of segregation. No white person is going to want to live near blacks."

Michael K proving your can take the boy out of where he grew up, but you cannot take racism out of the boy ... just hide it for a qhole.

Let's go step by step, Evil Mark. Define racism.; 6/5/20, 8:11 AM
buwaya said...: "No white person is going to want to live near blacks."

This has never stopped being (mostly) true. And to that we should add Asian and Hispanic and Middle Eastern persons, all of which also avoid blacks, unless they have no other options, per my observations over thirty-four years in your country. There are an extreme few exceptions, and A FEW black people in any given place are apparently acceptable, but a black neighborhood is a turn-off. These are just facts.; 6/5/20, 8:33 AM
mikee said...: I feel like General Disarray on South Park, declaiming again and again to Professor Chaos that "Simpsons did it!" to every idea presented as new and exciting.

Slick Willie Clinton did the clutching of Bible thing in the 1990s. I know Althouse was alive then, she 'members that, doesn't she? And between Clinton and Trump, whose hand was more likely to burst into flame while doing the clutching?; 6/5/20, 10:53 AM
Aggie said...: That must mean another impeachment is coming, if Nancy's a-prayin'. Does that mean that Trump isn't 'impeached forever' anymore?; 6/5/20, 11:54 AM
Robin Goodfellow said...: Didn't Nancy start the new craze of pearl-clutching for the cameras?; 6/5/20, 10:36 PM