August 31, 2020

They prefer to live somewhere that has died.

113 comments:

Michael K said...

"Suicide of the West."

PM said...

Isn't that culturally-appropriating Iran?

boatbuilder said...


Mostly peaceful America-haters. So there's that.








Larry J said...

The Democrats just recently were claiming there were no riots and violence. Today, they've seen the poll results and are claiming that it's all Trump's fault. However, there's this pesky thing called video.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1300290897922453504

I guess they'll channel their inner Richard Pryor and ask, "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"

Achilles said...

The time for talking is about over.

It is time for the Democrats who do not like capitalism and freedom to leave.

WK said...

Underpants Gnomes
Phase 1: Death to America
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Utopia

Todd said...

GoFundMe for antifa one-way tickets to Venezuela? Sounds like a plan!

Bay Area Guy said...

The Federal Courthouse in downtown Oakland on Clay St. is pretty ugly. The mob have vandalized nearly all small businesses (mostly Asian owned shops) in Broadway. The grafiti on the courthouse and surrounding shops is ugly ("Kill the cops!", "ACAB" or "FTP").

There's still bullet holes in the windows where Patrick Underwood, Federal security guard was shot and killed. I read somewhere that they tried to burn down the courthouse (ironically named for black Democrat Congressman Ron Dellums), but have not been as persistent as the mob in Portland.

The Democrat Party supports mob violence.

Achilles said...

Let us compare Kyle Rittenhouse, who was protecting property and friends businesses and providing first aid to people injured by rioting animals the night he defended himself to the alleged leftist shooter and Democrat hero in Portland Michael Reinoehl:

"Reinoehl has stolen their mother’s seizure medication and owes a lot of debt, often giving his relatives’ addresses as his own to avoid responsibility, she said."

"He was stopped driving a 2005 Cadillac STS with his 11-year-old daughter as a passenger, police said. Inside the car, police said they found marijuana, “unidentified prescription pills” and a loaded Glock pistol for which Reinoehl didn’t have a concealed handgun license."


Those are just the best parts. BLM/Antifa protestor and Democrat hero Michael Reinhoehl has a long criminal history and has been a blight to society.

Our country will be better off without a lot of these parasites.

Ken B said...

Isn’t this what Farmer has been saying all along?

Temujin said...

Well, to be accurate, Oakland has not been a part of the US since 1971.

Mary Beth said...

It wasn't last night, it was several days ago. There were posts on reddit, claiming it was faked - audio from Iran or some place edited over the Oakland video, but here's a record of the live stream from that night.

Not Sure said...

Taking them at their word, shooting a few arsonists would be self-defense by America.

Let's roll!

Unknown said...

It makes sense. The Soviet Union (the USSR) replaced Russia and then, 70 years later, changed back again. They want the first part. What could they call it? The 'union of socialist American republics' - USAR - LOL.

Rick said...

Now that they're admitting what they really want I suspect the public reaction will be even stronger.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Trump's fault. Trump loves America and that makes Nazi leftwingers lose their minds.

Biden agrees - It's all Trumps fault. Vote for Biden and mom's basement boys will go home and resume their video games.

cubanbob said...

A bit of cleansing automatic weapons fire is needed to eliminate the cancer. The only good Commie is a dead Commie, make them all good Commies.

Rob said...

Give them some credit for candor.

Lexington Green said...

When Trump won, protesters near my office were chanting:

No borders!
No wall!
No USA at all!

These people have been clear about what they hate and want to get rid of.

Iman said...

I had a colleague - an American of Chinese descent - tell me of growing up in Oakland in late’60s/early ‘70s and regularly marching in a parade led by one of her high school teachers who had them waving their copies of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book as they marched and shouted slogans.

Fertile ground for decades of asshattery.

gahrie said...

They're parasites who want to feast off America's rotting flesh.

Kevin said...

Antifa is the new ISIS.

MikeR said...

Just don't question their patriotism.

Ampersand said...

Imagine if the Democrats had a realistic set of policy proposals, and a candidate with the smarts and integrity to implement them. They have neither of these things.

Those things being so, why is the race so close?

alanc709 said...

DC Court of Appeals wants America dead also. No other way to explain their ludicrous ruling on the Flynn case.

Birkel said...

I find I need to comment less these days, as so many of you have drifted to my long-beld positions.

Stephen said...

Checking in from Oakland folks. I know these kinds of people and they are not Joe Biden's base. They won't be voting at all--they think that there is no hope in the political system. Of course Trump wants to pretend that they are part of Biden's base. But it is BS. Funny that Althouse didn't point that out--a neutral would have.

Sebastian said...

"They want another country to take over?"

Well, yes. A country to replace the U.S., controlled by them

Todd said...

Unknown said...

Imagine if the Democrats had a realistic set of policy proposals, and a candidate with the smarts and integrity to implement them. They have neither of these things.

Those things being so, why is the race so close?

8/31/20, 1:49 PM


Few are willing to tell poll takers the truth. (a) some are afraid of being "outed" and personally/financially suffering for it and (b) why make it easier on the left to commit fraud, the less they know the real gap the less they know how many fake votes to make.

Larry J said...

cubanbob said...

A bit of cleansing automatic weapons fire is needed to eliminate the cancer. The only good Commie is a dead Commie, make them all good Commies.


That would work, as would the proper utilization of lampposts and rope.

Roughcoat said...

Those things being so, why is the race so close?

Indeed. A question with very disturbing implications.

cubanbob said...

Unknown said...
Imagine if the Democrats had a realistic set of policy proposals, and a candidate with the smarts and integrity to implement them. They have neither of these things.

Those things being so, why is the race so close?"

Is it really that close?

mandrewa said...

"Imagine if the Democrats had a realistic set of policy proposals, and a candidate with the smarts and integrity to implement them. They have neither of these things.

Those things being so, why is the race so close?"


Yes, I know. It's just insane. It shouldn't be close. But don't blame Trump, I think he is a good candidate all things considered. But still, it feels like we are doomed.

TJM said...

Unknown,

Corrupt, evil, national media

Yancey Ward said...

I just finished watching Biden's "campaign stop". What a pathetic display and speech.

JB71-AZ said...

Unknown @1:49

"Imagine if the Democrats had a realistic set of policy proposals, and a candidate with the smarts and integrity to implement them. They have neither of these things.

Those things being so, why is the race so close?"

Who's saying it is? Polling is getting notoriously inaccurate due to people refusing to tell what they're actually thinking. A lot of people are seeing for themselves (thanks to the Internet) EXACTLY what's going on without massive media spin. At a certain point, those who don't have a lot of 'sunk cost' in their ideological political affiliations are going "WTF? I can't support this - but I don't dare tell my spouse/SO/friends I'm not voting for Biden." So they maintain the fiction.

There's others who won't care - they're die-hards who'll vote for the D because they've always voted for the D and they're good team supporters. They don't care about the ideology or the results thereof, they're Ds because they've always been Ds, and that's it.

And there's folks for whom results matter. They see what's going on and are changeable in their political affiliations, they'll go for whoever promises the best results long-term. Dems have shown that results don't matter. They're promising a LOT of pain, hate and discontent if they get elected. Who would willingly vote for a metaphorical kick in the nuts, continuing for 4-8 years?

So - I'm cautiously optimistic that Trump's got an edge, not reported in the polls. But we'll see in November.

Qwinn said...

1) If one of these people were your employee, and you found out they participated in that chant, do you think it would be immoral to fire them for it?

2) If one of these people were your employer, and they found out you were a conservative, do you think they'd hesitate even a moment before firing you?

Yancey Ward said...

Seriously, the only people in the room with Biden appear to have been the security people and the guy cleaning the podium before Biden came in. No applause at all. I don't see how this qualifies as a campaign stop in any way.

As for the content- just one lie after another. He basically gave a pass to all the rioters and looters by saying there is an epidemic of violence by the police that got it started. He also doubled down on trying the ridiculous ploy of blaming Trump and right-wing militia for the violence.

Basil Duke said...

American Democrats have twirled the batshit crazy dial up to 14 or 15 with nary a blush. We're talking WAY past "11." Their pathetic kabuki theater performances during the Kavanaugh hearings were but a mere wetting of the beak. The decomposing carcass that is the modern left has belly flopped into Crazy Lake and wants to drag us in with them. And if we don't go peacefully, they'll burn down our homes and bust a few caps in our white asses when we bolt into view.

So just go quietly, folks. It'll all be over soon. And it's not like we don't deserve it, because of system racism and trannie denialism or some such.

Jupiter said...

"A bit of cleansing automatic weapons fire is needed to eliminate the cancer. The only good Commie is a dead Commie, make them all good Commies."

Never go full auto.

FullMoon said...
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Yancey Ward said...

I will have to wait until I find a transcript from the video, but one point Biden said something like "Covid, just since the beginning of this year has taken 100 years.....more lives than in the last 100 years." Can anyone make sense of that?

Yancey Ward said...

"Checking in from Oakland folks. I know these kinds of people and they are not Joe Biden's base. They won't be voting at all--they think that there is no hope in the political system. Of course Trump wants to pretend that they are part of Biden's base. But it is BS. Funny that Althouse didn't point that out--a neutral would have."

Ah, we get it Lefty Stephen- another No True Democrat Fallacy.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

wherever it is they'd rather be, it doesnt seem like 'local'

102 of 175 rioters arrested in Kenosha were from out of town
Of the 175 people arrested in connection with the Jacob Blake riots, 102 of them were from out of town, hailing from 44 other municipalities.

https://thepostmillennial.com/kenosha-police-arrests-show-that-102-of-175

wendybar said...

It's now or never. You must pick a side. Choose wisely!!

Goetz von Berlichingen said...

...why is the race so close?

The polls early in the race always favor Democrats. That's because so many polling orgs are de facto Dem operatives and their role is to generate enthusiasm for the Dems and suppress enthusiasm for the Republicans . As Election Day approaches margins tighten a bit so as to appear to comport with reality on the ground. Then, in the final week to 10 days they drop their shackles and perform more legitimate test so that they'll be able to claim "We predicted it!"

2016 was a surprise win because we conservatives figured this out: Don't tell political pollsters the truth if you talk to them at all.

It's now in our Secret Handbook...available through the Althouse portal.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

"They prefer to live somewhere that has died."

The thing is, a post-apocalypse America could go like in the movie The Book of Eli, when religion makes a comeback. I don't believe the people advocating for the end of America, as currently constituted, would like that one bit. Not to mention going without the necessities, like 5G signal.

To live somewhere that has died, you do what any other sane person like Jim Jones would do; gather your like minded people and go start a commune, preferably offshore.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

maybe they would like to live here

Video: “White Lives Don’t Matter” User Posts Video Of Brick Attack In Baltimore…Instagram Does Not Remove It

An Instagram User By The Name Of “@traysavage_” Uploaded A Vicious Video Of Attempted Murder Which He Celebrated With Heartless Hashtags Applauding The Assault

graphic video

JB71-AZ said...

What country do they want to take over?

None, of course.

Like toddlers, they seek to destroy that pretty thing they could never hope to build. Why? Because they think that someone's going to give them some else shiny and wonderful if they just show how unhappy they are by breaking things.

Earnest Prole said...

Why it's almost as though these Maoists and Leninists hate America and want to see it destroyed. If only they'd sit for an interview with the New York Times we could know for sure.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

"Nihilist's Lives Matter!"

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Their cause is a joke
Your town's up in smoke

...but there's someplace that they'd rather be


(apologies to Billy Jowls)

Jupiter said...

Like most people, I had never investigated the law of defense of property in any detail, until I saw what was happening in Portland, 100 miles North of here. I then discovered that if a mob with a vanload of Molotov cocktails is coming down your street, lobbing a few into each house as they pass, you are not justified in using lethal force to stop them unless you have good reason to believe that the houses they are about to burn are occupied. Not, mind you, the houses they have already burned. What's done is done, and the screams of your neighbors being burned alive in their homes don't justify you getting all huffy and brandishing a weapon.

I have slowly come to believe, that this is, in fact, the law. But it is no part of any social contract to which I am signatory.

Inga said...

“There's still bullet holes in the windows where Patrick Underwood, Federal security guard was shot and killed. I read somewhere that they tried to burn down the courthouse (ironically named for black Democrat Congressman Ron Dellums), but have not been as persistent as the mob in Portland.”

Who has been indicted in the murder of Patrick Underwood?

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan denounced Vice President Mike Pence Thursday, a day after his remarks on the killing of federal officer Patrick Underwood that omitted any mention of the suspect being linked to the alt-right “Boogaloo” movement associated with white supremacy.

At the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, Pence falsely connected the killing of Underwood outside a federal courthouse in Oakland to the George Floyd protests happening elsewhere in the city on the evening of May 29.




Achilles said...

Jupiter said...


Never go full auto.

Just to be pedantic...

Never go cyclic.

Burst fire auto is good for suppression and covering movement.

Jamie said...

they are not Joe Biden's base. They won't be voting at all--they think that there is no hope in the political system.

Not the point. The point is, if Biden is elected, it will be a sign that Americans - enough of them to elect a president - are just dandy with letting rioting mobs dictate public policy. How do we convince Biden voters (or, more accurately, anti-Trump voters) that this is a freaking perilous path to set us all on? That Trump is far less dangerous?

Inga said...

“There's still bullet holes in the windows where Patrick Underwood, Federal security guard was shot and killed. I read somewhere that they tried to burn down the courthouse (ironically named for black Democrat Congressman Ron Dellums), but have not been as persistent as the mob in Portland.”

Who has been indicted in the murder of Patrick Underwood?

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan denounced Vice President Mike Pence Thursday, a day after his remarks on the killing of federal officer Patrick Underwood that omitted any mention of the suspect being linked to the alt-right “Boogaloo” movement associated with white supremacy.

At the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, Pence falsely connected the killing of Underwood outside a federal courthouse in Oakland to the George Floyd protests happening elsewhere in the city on the evening of May 29.

Earnest Prole said...

There's still bullet holes in the windows where Patrick Underwood, Federal security guard was shot and killed.

Federal authorities have charged Steve Carrillo, an Air Force sergeant with links to right-wing extremist groups, with Patrick Underwood’s murder.

Doug said...

Those things being so, why is the race so close?"

It's close because that is the result the pollsters get paid to deliver. Worry not. Trump wins 40 states.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

"Stay strong, be safe be dangerous"

mostly peaceful danger? Is this why the Trump guy is dead?

video (h/t posobiec)
Be Dangerous???

Mary Beth said...

Checking in from Oakland folks. I know these kinds of people and they are not Joe Biden's base.

It's not a matter of whether they want Biden or not. In any election, there are going to be people who voice support for a candidate and the candidate wants nothing to do with those people. The problem here is that until it began polling poorly, Biden and Harris supported the rioters.

Ken B said...

It’s true these people are not Biden’s base. They hate Biden. But the dingdongs watching and nodding and clapping and oooo-ing about them ARE Biden’s base.

The implication is that Democrats admire rioters more than rioters admire Democrats.

Rick said...

Stephen said...
Checking in from Oakland folks. I know these kinds of people and they are not Joe Biden's base.


Biden doesn't have a base. The question is whether this group is the left-activist base which controls Dem politics, and of course the answer is yes.

Earnest Prole said...

Ah, we get it Lefty Stephen- another No True Democrat Fallacy.

Anyone with a passing familiarity with the hard left knows they believe there's no substantive difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, except that Trump is slightly preferable because he "heightens the contradictions of capitalism."

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Riots dont exist

...but they're Trump's fault

Phil 314 said...

Well it wasn't violent ( at least in that clip).

Bay Area Guy said...

Slow Joe Biden today - "Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? Really?"

No, you look like a demented coward who enables the radical socialists to run wild.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Pressure mounts on Barr DOJ to identify funders, organizers of violent riots

https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/pressure-mounts-barr-doj-identify-funders-organizers-violent-riots?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Bay Area Guy said...

@Stephen:

"Checking in from Oakland folks. I know these kinds of people and they are not Joe Biden's base. They won't be voting at all--they think that there is no hope in the political system. Of course Trump wants to pretend that they are part of Biden's base. But it is BS. Funny that Althouse didn't point that out--a neutral would have."

Yeah, allow me to check in from Oakland, too. You are a confused liberal. These rioters probably aren't Biden's base per se - they are more violent leftists who hate America, hate Trump, and have no qualms about destroying public & private property. They are the shock troops for Figurehead Biden's Democrat handlers.

How come Slow Joe hasn't denounced Antifa violence, yet?


traditionalguy said...

The ChiComs are just angry enough at Trump now to send In all the weapons the Antifa Operation needs to slaughter the American middle class that wants their industrial jobs back. They offered to accept a surrender, but Trump outwitting them calls for extreme measures. Look for military attacks after Trump wins.

Michael said...

Fingers crossed that they keep this up another two months.

gadfly said...

Sharyl Attkisson, Obama Conspiracy Theorist

“I would say I may not be one of the first victims, but I am one of the first people who was able to identify myself as a target of illegal spying under the Obama administration. I believe many, many others were spied on but do not know. It was only thanks to help from intelligence contacts that I even learned that government agents were spying on me. Otherwise, I never suspected it or would have known.”

Attkisson has long asserted that the feds wrongfully surveilled her electronic devices from 2011-14, part of an operation tied to her reporting on the Justice Department’s botched “Fast and Furious” gun-running scheme and, later, on the 2012 attack on the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya. A three-judge panel voted last year to dismiss a lawsuit she had filed over the issue, but in January, Attkisson moved to reopen the case, telling the court that a whistleblower had provided new information.

That information implicated five specific individuals, according to court filings — including Rod Rosenstein, a familiar target of Trump’s grievances. Court filings allege Rosenstein, who served as the Obama administration’s U.S. attorney for Maryland, “ordered the unlawful surveillance and hacking” of Attkisson’s devices.

Rosenstein has denied the charges, arguing that the case should not be allowed to proceed based on information from an anonymous informant. “Nowhere do the Attkissons provide any more information to credit their accusations based on this supposed anonymous source,” Rosenstein’s attorneys wrote in an April motion to dismiss the case. “Not who communicated with the individual, how the plaintiffs received information from that person, where that person worked … or what that person knows about the alleged ‘incursions’ into the plaintiffs’ electronic devices.”

todd galle said...

These folks are nuts. Just got back from the range (the weathermen were off by 2 hours and the rain came down sooner than expected). Even with my horrible eyes (corrected of course by spectacles), I was able to lay sub 3" 100 yard groups from a Winchester P-14 (a 100 year old rifle), standing offhand, shooting both handloads and 75 year old surplus ammo - also the first time I fired it. Recoil was mild for those interested, it is a hefty weapon, designed to kill Squareheads in trenches, plus the 5 round .303 chargers work. Have to find a bayonet, basically a short sword really.

How do these rioting mobs think normal people will eventually respond? Really, I'm asking, because I have no clue. Believe me, I'd rather sit in my lounge chair and read Althouse comment lines, but some groups seem intent in forcing a decision that I would rather not have thrust on me or my family.

gadfly said...

"Kyle Rittenhouse, ... was protecting property and friends businesses and providing first aid to people"??

No, Rittenhouse declared it was his "job" to protect businesses but he had no identified friends in Kenosha. What the Antioch, IL resident did was shoot and kill two unarmed demonstrators and wound a third person who were objecting to Kenosha city police shooting a suspect in custody in the back (count em) seven times from point-blank range.

Rabel said...

Too forgivingly passive, Althouse.

They prefer to live somewhere that has been killed. By them.

DavidUW said...

They vote Democrat and they get their votes harvested. Look at the numbers

FullMoon said...

A humorous video of politicians, celebrities and news people calling for violence against normal people. Includes, Pelosi, Maxine, Johnny Depp, De Caprio, DeNiro, Madonna and a bevy of others. Pass it on to lefty facebook friends, for fun.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1300316660583206914

Mr. O. Possum said...

Trump should pair that footage with video of Harris talking about how the protests aren't going to end and laughing and smiling, and you have the 2020 equivalent of LBJ's "Daisy" commercial.

Game over.

Jim at said...

The enemy within. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Michael K said...

andrewa said...
"Imagine if the Democrats had a realistic set of policy proposals, and a candidate with the smarts and integrity to implement them. They have neither of these things.

Those things being so, why is the race so close?"


The corporate Media has bet the farm on this election. They are all out to convince the public that black is white and good is bad. This is advertising run amok. Goebbles would be very interested in the result.

Clues? said...
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gilbar said...

those of you (igna? Arm? Chuck?) that say you are voting for the democrats...
Why are you voting for the democrats?

effinayright said...

Jupiter said...
Like most people, I had never investigated the law of defense of property in any detail, until I saw what was happening in Portland, 100 miles North of here. I then discovered that if a mob with a vanload of Molotov cocktails is coming down your street, lobbing a few into each house as they pass, you are not justified in using lethal force to stop them unless you have good reason to believe that the houses they are about to burn are occupied. Not, mind you, the houses they have already burned. What's done is done, and the screams of your neighbors being burned alive in their homes don't justify you getting all huffy and brandishing a weapon.

I have slowly come to believe, that this is, in fact, the law. But it is no part of any social contract to which I am signatory.
***********

If you have Oregon statutes or case law to support your point, please do so.

But unless I miss my guess, if you have a well-founded belief that the mob is now coming for *you* and *your* property, based upon what they just did to your neighbors, you don't have to sit there with your thumb up your butt and let them attack you and your property.

So you could brandish your weapon, and use it if you believed you were in mortal peril.

Shoot-to warn, then shoot-to-wound, and then---if they coming after you personally--shoot-to-kill.

Jim at said...

I know these kinds of people and they are not Joe Biden's base.

Whether they're Biden's base or not, they're leftists. Just like you.
Own it.

effinayright said...

gadfly said...
"Kyle Rittenhouse, ... was protecting property and friends businesses and providing first aid to people"??

No, Rittenhouse declared it was his "job" to protect businesses but he had no identified friends in Kenosha. What the Antioch, IL resident did was shoot and kill two unarmed demonstrators and wound a third person who were objecting to Kenosha city police shooting a suspect in custody in the back (count em) seven times from point-blank range.
**************

Jeebus, what a goddamn nitwit you are. Rittenhouse shot a guy who had taunted him previously and later chased him and threw something at him, and wasn't about to stop. He ran away, and was pursued by one guy who tried to brain him with a skateboard, and a second guy who pulled a pistol and was about to shoot him.

If brains were dynamite, you couldn't blow your own nose.

Gahrie said...

Why are you voting for the democrats?

Orange man bad.

Drago said...

gilbar: "those of you (igna? Arm? Chuck?) that say you are voting for the democrats...
Why are you voting for the democrats?"

Because like our Poor Man's LLR-lefty C**** gadfly, they truly do want the Death of America.

Drago said...

gadfly: "What the Antioch, IL resident did was shoot and kill two unarmed demonstrators and wound a third person who were objecting to Kenosha city police shooting a suspect in custody in the back...."

Think about how much of a liar you'd have to be to write the lie that gadfly wrote there.

Discuss.

Drago said...

As predicted, Russia Collusion Dead Ender Inga really is going to go with the new narrative that its the right wing burning down cities.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Inga really does believe the rest of the nation is as dumb as she is.

Dunning-Kruger in real time....

n.n said...

Federal authorities have charged Steve Carrillo, an Air Force sergeant with links to right-wing extremist groups

Libertarian? Anarchist (i.e. left-right leftist)?

Francisco D said...

gadfly said...
What the Antioch, IL resident did was shoot and kill two unarmed demonstrators and wound a third person who were objecting to Kenosha city police shooting a suspect in custody in the back (count em) seven times from point-blank range.

You forgot a few things:

1. That third person had a gun

2. The two "demonstrators" were attacking Rittenhouse although you would call them peaceful protestors

3. Blake was not in custody. he was resisting arrest with a knife in his hand and trying to get to his car.

I am wondering if you are either stupid, a liar or both. The audience can decide.

Calypso Facto said...

gadfly said ... a bunch of uninformed stuff, apparently because of willful ignorance since statements of charges, defenses, and coroners reports are widely available.

"Rittenhouse declared it was his "job" to protect businesses but he had no identified friends in Kenosha."
Rittenhouse's "job" is in Kenosha, and he got the rifle from a friend there. Read his defense's statement confirming that he works as a lifeguard in Kenosha and the rifle's ownership.
...shoot and kill two unarmed demonstrators and wound a third person who were objecting to Kenosha city police
No, he defensively shot 3 of the 5 people who physically attacked him as he peacefully attempted to leave the area. Read the witness statements in the statement of charges.
...shooting a suspect in custody in the back (count em) seven times from point-blank range.
Called by Blake's ex-girlfriend because he violated his restraining order, police shot the armed suspect with a warrant for his arrest and pending charges for sexual assault, auto theft, and theft of money, who refused to comply with police instructions, had successfully resisted both physical restraint and taser deployment, and was reaching under his car seat, 4 times (read the coroners report).

Clues? said...

Unknown said...
Those things being so, why is the race so close?


It’s not close

https://democracyinstitute.org/new-democracy-institute-sunday-express-poll-trump-ahead

[html tag newbie here; learning to crawl]

Jupiter said...

Glad you sorted that out for us, gadfly. Just watching the videos, of all four shootings, I had gotten the impression that Jake Blake was not actually "in custody", but rather was resisting arrest, and that Kyle Rittenhouse was being chased by a mob shouting "Get his ass!". It's good to have you show up with some fresh talking points/lies to set me straight. Where do you get that stuff, anyway?

MadisonMan said...

102 of 175 rioters arrested in Kenosha were from out of town
What, Racine? Pleasant Prairie? Cudahy?
Some of the looters arrested in Madison were from Waunakee. I wonder if they're related to Titus ;)

DanTheMan said...

>>Just don't question their patriotism.

Thread winner.

ccscientist said...

It is funny that in Hong Kong, where they are losing their freedoms to a brutal dictatorship, they wave the US flag during protests. These rioters are delusional. If they got what they want the country would be all in ashes and they would also starve along with the rest of us.

Goetz von Berlichingen said...

Why does Antifa.com go to Biden's campaign page? That's too good to be true. Right?
Gotta be a moby,right?
Right?

ccscientist said...

Polls: I never talk to them. Don't trust who is calling.

The US is the richest, most free, most creative and innovative, most tolerant country in the world and in history. No wonder the Left hates it. Please show me a country that fought a war to free the slaves besides us. Show me a country that helped the countries we defeated in war to recover besides us. We give more foreign aid that all other countries combined.

Banjo said...

Why has "Death to Great Satan" not been used as a mob chant? It's got a record of proven results.

Earnest Prole said...

Libertarian? Anarchist (i.e. left-right leftist)?

He looks to be the kind of libertarian whose biggest hard-on comes from fantasizing about a second civil war.

Michael K said...

gadfly is another lunatic. I understand that the cop only hit Blake with 4 of the 7 shots. The kid was a better shot. Practice, practice, practice.

gpm said...

>>Those things being so

Wow, that instantly sent me back 50 years to high school Latin class. Took a couple of minutes before I remembered the exact locution: Quae cum ita sint.

--gpm

Larry J said...

“ Shoot-to warn, then shoot-to-wound, and then---if they coming after you personally--shoot-to-kill.”

No. A warning shot has to land somewhere. You might be endangering your neighbors by firing a warning shot. You’re also wasting ammo.

If things are so bad that you have to shoot, go for center of mass. Shoot to kill, always, with well aimed shots.

Sally327 said...

What we lose in the fire they will find in the ashes.

I don't think it's a surprise that there are protester / rioters who aren't interested in just tweaking things a bit and instead want to tear the whole thing down. I think they may confuse Joe Biden, though, chanting "Death to America", he may think it's 1980 and start talking about how his opponent is a danger to the country and can't be trusted. Oh, wait...well, as long as he doesn't mention the Shah or "voodoo economics" nobody should know the difference.

walter said...

John Kerry assures us that's just a harmless colloquialism.
By the way, Crack, you there in that crowd?

Anonymous said...

@Stephen: Checking in from Oakland folks. I know these kinds of people and they are not Joe Biden's base. They won't be voting at all--they think that there is no hope in the political system. Of course Trump wants to pretend that they are part of Biden's base. But it is BS. Funny that Althouse didn't point that out--a neutral would have.

So if No True Democrat would ever stand for this chaos, and the Republicans are hopping mad about it too, when can we expect the Democratic mayors of these shitholes to turn their cops loose and put a stop to the lawlessness? The riots could be permanently halted in 90 minutes or so, if what you say is true. But here we are after 3 months of this shit, and the Democratic mayors are doing absolutely nothing but blaming Donald Trump for it.

James Pawlak said...

I suggest that they move OR be exiled to The Sudan or North Korea.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

They are not his base. They are allies, though.

If not, why aren't they rioting in Wilmington? Why didn't they riot in Milwaukee during the DNC convention? I know few Dems were actually there, but, as pitiful as the convention was, you'd think right-wing boogaloos would have shown up to trash things anyway.

Bruce Hayden said...

“ No, Rittenhouse declared it was his "job" to protect businesses but he had no identified friends in Kenosha. What the Antioch, IL resident did was shoot and kill two unarmed demonstrators and wound a third person who were objecting to Kenosha city police shooting a suspect in custody in the back (count em) seven times from point-blank range.”

Total BS. He was the one being attacked, and he was not just retreating, but actually running away. The guy who he shot in the arm was pointing a handgun at him. The other one had attacked him from behind and was trying to kill him. They were a bunch of people trying to catch him and kill him. That was what they were yelling. And now they are trying to figure out his cell, so that they can kill him in jail.

MalaiseLongue said...

Inga, the article you linked to incorrectly identifies the so-called Boogaloo as "a right-wing extremist group." But even the New York Times doesn't say that; the times says that the Boogalo "does not represent a cohesive or singular ideology" and that "the movement attracts both far-right white supremacists and some armed men who joined the Black Lives Matter protests because of their anger at the police and other symbols of government authority." Most of the sources I've seen regarding Carillo describe the Boogaloo phenomenon as "extremist," with qualifiers that include "libertarian."

It's not surprising, though, that Rebecca Kaplan would characterize the Boogaloo the way she did -- "without evidence," as they say. Kaplan is a far-left shrieking lunatic, as I know from my personal acquaintance with her (speaking of checking in from Oakland, though I moved away last year).

Earnest Prole said...

Why these Oakland Antifa folk are so radical they won’t stop until Jill Biden is First Lady.

Robert Cook said...

"Joe Biden's base?!" HAHAHAHAHAHA! Trump's propaganda writers have no fear of revealing how stupid they think Trump's base to be, do they?