Gun Free Zone

Watch this clip:

https://twitter.com/after_theaction/status/1298210964018429952

Lesson Number 1: If you are going to defend yourself, use an effective weapon.  A dry chemical fire extinguisher didn’t incapacitate the looters so one of the offenders punched his lights out.

Lesson Number 2: Watch your six.  While the man was hosing down looters, another assailant blindsided him.

He lost badly.  Don’t let that happen to you.

This is what going out to eat in Blue parts of America has become.

https://twitter.com/rawsmedia/status/1298078919527202816

White silence is violence.

Conservative speech is violence.

Antifa/BLM violence is free speech.

If it weren’t for double standards they’d have no standards at all.

Also, real big tough guys there, standing over a woman, leaning into her and screaming into her face while she is sitting down.  Real manly-men they are.

It gets annoying to deal with the idiots. This is why I screen-cap and save videos to upload directly to my site. I still will need a service to do the Youtube job when they get stupid like this.

Recommendations? It needs to be easy to embed or at least generate the code so it can be embedded in the post.

“F*** you, you ain’t with us” woman yells at armed man who is attempting to stop the mob from looting and vandalizing #Kenosha businesses pic.twitter.com/FkDlqz9w4N

— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) August 25, 2020

I love it when they cannot help but show their true colors.

Last week, the New York Post published a great OpEd:

New York City is dead forever
By James Altucher

In it, Mr. Altucher lays out a very compelling case of why NYC is headed the way of Detroit.

No matter what happened to me, NYC was a net I could fall back on and bounce back up.

NYC residents ramp up mass exodus out of Big Apple
Now it’s completely dead. “But NYC always always bounces back.” No. Not this time. “But NYC is the center of the financial universe. Opportunities will flourish here again.” Not this time.

“NYC has experienced worse.” No, it hasn’t.

Unlike other dips in NYC history, the New York City Government never played an active role in killing the city.  Crime went up, quality of life went down, the economy sucked, but never before had the government actually shut things down.

On top of this, technological improvements in digital and wireless communications have made telework easier than ever.

The average middle-class American can easily afford enough bandwidth and cell phone data to connect to the office with a VPN and host a video conference.   That wasn’t possible as little as ten years ago.

Consequently:

Midtown Manhattan, the center of business in NYC, is empty. Even though people can go back to work, famous office buildings like the Time Life skyscraper are still 90% empty. Businesses realized that they don’t need their employees at the office.

In fact, they realize they are even more productive without everyone back to the office. The Time Life building can handle 8,000 workers. Now it maybe has 500 workers back.

“What do you mean?” a friend of mine said to me when I told him, “Midtown should be called ‘Ghost Town’!”

Another friend of mine works at a major investment bank as a managing director. Before the pandemic he was at the office every day, sometimes working from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Now he lives in Phoenix, Arizona. “As of June,” he told me, “I had never even been to Phoenix.” And then he moved there. He does all his meetings on Zoom.

The deliberate shut down of NYC killed the one thing that NYC had going for it.  The NYC culture.

We had a show in May. An outdoor show. Everyone social distanced. But we were shut down by the police. I guess we were super-spreading humor during a very serious time. The club is doing something fun: They are doing shows outside in Central Park. This is a great idea.

In a time like this, businesses need to give to the community, not complain and not take. That said, we have no idea when we will open. Nobody has any idea. And the longer we close, the less chance we will ever reopen profitably.

Broadway is closed until at least the spring. Lincoln Center is closed. All the museums are closed.

My favorite restaurant is closed for good. OK, let’s go to my second favorite. Closed for good. Third favorite, closed for good.

What kept New York City going was the argument: “Where else but NYC do you have the best restaurants, theaters, museums, and shopping in the world all in one place.”

That may have been true.

Now, by order of Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, the restaurants, theaters, and museums are closed or limited capacity in perpetuity, and the storefronts are all closed and boarded up from riots.

That’s gone.  The people who supported them are gone.

The taxes are high, the crime is high, and the anchor that kept people in or coming back to NYC is gone.

There is no compelling reason to stay, beyond the mantra “New York City is the greatest city on earth,” and that is nothing but empty hubris.

Like a Greek tragedy, that hubris has caused it to die.

Jerry Seinfeld read this OpEd, and knowing as much about economics as his shitty show was about, i.e., nothing, he wrote his own OpEd.

Yes, I think Seinfeld was a shit show, that was never funny.  I find no humor in losers losing at everything in a nihilistic setting where no human growth ever occurs.

“The last thing we need in the thick of so many challenges is some putz on LinkedIn wailing and whimpering, ‘Everyone’s gone! I want 2019 back! ‘ Oh, shut up. Imagine being in a real war with this guy by your side.”

That’s not an argument against his points, that’s an ad hominem.

“He says he knows people who have left New York for Maine, Vermont, Tennessee, Indiana. I have been to all of these places many, many, many times over many decades. And with all due respect and affection, Are .. You .. Kidding .. Me?!”

That is just the contempt for anyone who is not from NYC that is a hallmark of the born and bred New Yorker.

“You found a place in Florida? Fine. We know the sharp focus and restless, resilient creative spirit that Florida is all about. You think Rome is going away too? London? Tokyo? The East Village? They’re not. They change. They mutate. They re-form. Because greatness is rare. And the true greatness that is New York City is beyond rare.”

As a Florida boy, fuck Jerry Seinfeld.  You want resilience.  We lived through Hurricane Andrew and bounced back.  Andrew did (not including body count) much more damage to Miami than 9/11 did to NYC.  Half the city was stripped down to the concrete slab.  We rebuilt.  We did it again and again, coming back stronger after each hurricane, until the point where anything short of a Cat4 is “just a little wind.”

Miami has become a food and art capital of America.  Miami is a pop culture and entertainment influencer.  To ignore that is just arrogance.

Also, Rome did fall.  The Roman Empire collapsed in the 4th Century and didn’t come back until the Renaissance a thousand years later.

London is dying.  Young people in Tokyo are not fucking.  So yes, once-great cities fall.  So will New York City.

“I have been onstage at your comedy club Stand Up N.Y. quite a few times.  It could use a little sprucing up, if you don’t mind my saying. I wouldn’t worry about it. You can do it from Miami.”

Why spruce up a club that cannot be opened by order of the Mayor.

Seinfeld’s “argument” is nothing more than bloviating arrogance.  The same arrogance that killed the city in the first place.

Seinfeld can say that he will never abandon NYC, which means he will be the last entertainer standing outside of a boarded-up comedy club doing his routine for a bunch of drugged-up vagrants shitting in the streets.

One media source has to follow the guidelines of the Biden Campaign and the other dares to point out what happened against the Narrative (By sheer accident, I am sure)

The WaPo should still be trying to figure out how to blame on Trump that another Democrat-Controlled city is burning and could only come up with diluting the biggest news overnight.

I was up till about one in the morning watching a young man streaming the little purview he could muster with his camera. What happen in Kenosha was just barbarians doing what they wanted because they could. Car dealerships and parking lots were again a target because they make such pretty fires that are hard to control. That one of those fires was next to an apartment building were people was forced to evacuate in the middle of the night was not even a consideration for the “peaceful protesters.” They did target at least one public building: The offices of the Department of Corrections and if I understood tight, that is where the parole officers work which made me think if there was another deeper reason why target that place. Maybe lose records of felons on parole? I am just speculating here.

But for the most part, the “peaceful protesters” targeted private business. From the above-mentioned dealerships to a furniture store to a shop (possibly car repair or similar) that the young streamer commented “had been there since he could remember.”

The “peaceful protesters” did not attack corporate USA, they went after the backbone of the city, people that invested they had on a business that bettered their community.

And they were Black Owned too.

Burn Loot Murder.

(Update) Just found this video in Twitter and I figured it fits with the post.

Looters assault an older business owner trying to defend his business in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 24, 2020. pic.twitter.com/LdlLnOpvfJ

— After Action Report (@after_theaction) August 25, 2020

I was jus reading the article that J. Kb linked in his post and saw this:

The worst nights follow the same script: A large group takes to the streets calling for an end to police violence and systemic racism. A small fraction commits low-level crimes — often lighting small fires, graffiti-ing buildings and throwing fireworks or water bottles at officers. The police respond with force against the entire crowd.

Portland’s protests: 3 months in, no end in sight

A small fraction commits the crimes (sorry, arson is not a low-level crime) and the crowd supports them. They do not stop them and they even allow them to hide and disperse among them. That is being complicit in the crimes they commit. Let me make it clearer: If you are either giving them support or allowing them to do their crimes, you are an accomplice and guilty just as them.

There is no way that a couple of dozen Antifa assholes would have survived a beating by a thousand protesters from day one. After 3 or 4 days of such ministrations, there would be no Antifa willing to go forward and risk blood and limb to go set capitalist stuff on fire for the revolution. Mom’s basement is cool, ICU is not and the morgue even less.

So no, there is no minority doing bad things and a majority suffering for it. They all are guilty and deserve no pity or commiseration.