Double Feature: Southern People and their dogs plus Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.

Bonus feature: Proper Shot Placement.

The wife came in and saw me looking on eBay at a big pair of Truck Nutz.

Her (firmly): “No, you cannot put Truck Nutz on your truck.”

Me: “I agree.”

Her: “Then why do you want them.”

Me: *Grins sheepishly.*

Her: “Tell me now.”

Me: “I want to make a flail.”

Her (very firmly): “NO!”

She won’t let me have any fun.

Must watch. Not very long but so amazing.

Last weekend Patrick K. Kimmons was shot by police in Portland.

On Monday afternoon, police identified the man as 27-year-old Patrick K. Kimmons.

The shooting happened early Sunday morning in a parking lot near the intersection of SW 4th Avenue and Harvey Milk Street.

Of course Portland has a Harvey Milk street.  Every city should name a street after a socialist who had sexual relationships with underage boys?  That’s right, the sexual foibles of Lefties don’t matter.

According to police, the officers arrived at the scene and ultimately fired at Kimmons. No word on his role in the initial incident, or what led up to the officer-involved shooting.

Kimmons was also taken to a hospital where he was later pronounced deceased.  Investigators said they recovered multiple guns at the scene, including a firearm that was reportedly found near Kimmons.

The police said nothing, so the media turns to the next most reliable source of information.

Family told KATU Kimmons was shot in the back several times while running away from police.

But they didn’t see it happen.

Family told KATU that Kimmons was a father of three. He has a criminal history and was involved with a gang, but family say he was turning his life around.

They are always “turning their life around,” about ten seconds before they get shot.

“He was trying to make something for his kids. He knew how important his kids were to him. He loved them, he cherished them,” said Sherri Norman, the mother of Kimmons’ long-time girlfriend.

She needs a new script.  She’s missing the part about volunteering at church and going to college.

Being Portland, the predictable response to this was massive anti-police protests.  Being a city that has less than half the national average of black people, the anti-police protests took on a decidedly upper-middle-class, white Progressive hue, with a strong Antifa presence.

This is where this post takes a turn from the predictably Portland to the surreal.

Before we go any further into this story, let us take a walk down memory lane to July of this year and the anti-ICE protests in Portland.  These protests turned into an occupation of public land outside the Portland ICE headquarters.

The occupation turned into an open air sewer, needle strewn drug den, and tent city of radical Leftists.

During the time of the protest, the Mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler prohibited Portland Police from working with or protecting ICE from these radical protesters.  ICE sent a letter to the Mayor clearly stating how what he did was illegal.

“Your current policy forbidding Portland law enforcement agencies from assisting employees of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency who request law enforcement assistance while at or away from work is a violation of the United States Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause,” the letter says.

So Portland has an established history of letting radical Leftist groups go unchecked in their harassment and law breaking.

So back to the Kimmons protest.

These lily white Antifa gathered at the street corner where the shooting occurred and proceeded to block and direct traffic, although that does not describe the enormity of what they were doing.

Here they are cursing and yelling at people and accusing them of being racists and KKK.

Here they are attacking an old man in a car who turned right against their orders.  The proceed to chase him, assault him, and do $3,000 in damage his car.

At the 30 second mark, you can see the Antifa in the foreground threatening the man with an expandable baton, then he strikes the car with it.

This is not a protester, this is an armed attacker.

Where were the police when this was happening?  At the end of the street, just watching but not intervening.

You can hear in the video that some people were screaming “get his license plate” because they were going to (and did) doxx the old man for not cowering to their abuse.

This old man didn’t want to suffer Antifa abuse so that makes him a racist and therefore he should life the rest of his life in fear.

Do you need anymore proof that these people are terrorists.

While the city and the police do nothing to stop it.

The media piled on the old man with this Tweet.

No, he didn’t plow through the protesters.  After being dragged on Twitter, KATU News at least changed the headline to “Driver pushes through protesters in downtown Portland,” but the URL still contains the original “https://katu.com/news/local/driver-plows-through-protesters-in-downtown-portland.”

So it’s not just the Police, or the Mayor’s Office, but even the local media are on the side of an Antifa takeover of the city that torments regular, working, tax paying residents.

Portland has been lost to the #Resistance.

If you want to understand why this is so bad, just search one name: Reginald Denny.

This is why you do not stop or get out of your car for protesters blocking traffic:

Clearly, the first lesson here is never go to Portland.  The city is lost.

Now that Antifa has a foothold in America, it sends a message that this kind of behavior will be tolerated in other cities.  Expect this to come to San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles, maybe Minneapolis or Madison, Wisconsin, too.

I am not a lawyer, so if I have to go through an area that is under protest like that, it is because there is a compelling reason to.  Like maybe my wife and/or kids are in occupied territory.  My wife is a librarian so is more likely to work in a down town than I am.

What I do know is that I do not want to become a Reginald Denny.

I have a 7,000 lbs truck with a 410 horsepower engine and a brush guard.  I am not stopping.

I also have my Reginald Denny gun in the driver’s side door pocket.  Do not swing a baton at me.

Part of the problem here is that these Antifa assholes are abusing people who are easily intimidated.

If the police won’t stop Antifa from bashing cars (and presumably soon, faces) the people in those cars will.

But not in Portland.

Today, we watch leftist mobs scream profanities at professors and deans, and shut down conservative and pro-Israel speakers at colleges. We routinely witness left-wing protesters block highways and bridges, scream in front of the homes of conservative business and political leaders, and surround conservatives’ tables at restaurants while shouting and chanting at them.
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Why do leftists feel entitled do all these things? Because they have thoroughly rejected middle-class, bourgeois, and Judeo-Christian religious values.

Why Leftists Feel Entitled to Block Highways, Shut Down Speakers, and Harass Public Officials

The answer is so much simpler: Because they do not face consequences.

As long as they keep getting away with it, they will keep doing it and increasing it. And that includes only spending a couple of hours in jail after being booked which in their book is a badge of honor, specially since their low bails are being posted by somebody else.

They incur in no risk when they do their political deeds. Restaurant owners are terrified they will be harassed if they stand up to these morons and they rather be forcefully woke than being a target. Interestingly enough, this kind of behavior has been seen but is never productive in one locale: Night Clubs. It must be because the second you go stupid, several huge bouncers will engage in teaching you the different flavors of the pavement outside the place.

If you make them bleed, (either by blood or cash) they will suddenly find out that is cheaper, safer and polite to engage in a peaceful redress of grievances.

You may have seen videos of this event where a group of idiots took over an intersection in Portland and started to redirect traffic as they saw fit including threatening drivers.

So, why didn’t police stopped this? The answer is they went Baltimore:

“The Police Bureau respects the rights of community members to practice their First Amendment Right to free speech as well the desire of community members to remain safe while traveling and living in the area where free speech events occur,” Portland Police Department Public Information Officer Sergeant Chris Burley told Blue Lives Matter on Monday afternoon.