It is optics, I keep telling you.
OK, audio helps.
Joe Biden is heckled as he delivers pizza to Pittsburgh first responders.
Heckler: “Hey Joe! You finally got out of the basement!” pic.twitter.com/R1J8sRh4Sp
— The Hill (@thehill) August 31, 2020
He did not like the heckler and reacted poorly. He sounded like the grumpy old neighbor telling the kids next door to pipe down.
It is what? 9 weeks till the elections?
Do you really see energized Democrats anywhere? I am not even getting mailers or door hangers which used to be a staple down here. I am getting texts an pics by the Republicans not constantly, but 2 or 3 short of becoming an annoyance.
Maybe I am biased, but I see much more energy from the Republicans and I am in a Blue County.
On brand
From the New Orleans Saints:
UNIFORMITY: Every Saints player had the name “Jacob Blake” on the front his helmet, where his last name usually would be, to continue spotlighting Blake, who was shot in the back seven times by police on Tuesday in Kenosha, Wis. Players and Coach Sean Payton collectively came up with the idea Wednesday night and said while there was no discussion of canceling practice, there is ongoing discussion as to what players – individually or collectively – will do to continue shedding light on systemic racism, police brutality, social justice and several other initiatives that are areas of heightened concern.
Putting the name of a girlfriend beating rapist and sex offender on their helmets is in brand for the NFL since they also put the names of girlfriend beating rapists and sex offenders on the backs of their jerseys too.
All of the newly minted Internet Lawyers who just got their Use of Force Degree from the University of Facebook – Larry Correia
And now, a word (or several) from Larry Correia.
All of the newly minted Internet Lawyers who just got their Use of Force Degree from the University of Facebook really should slow their roll and read the statement from the Kenosha kid’s lawyers… Because holy shit.
And keep in mind this comes from MEGA LAWYER, who now has Fuck You Money courtesy of CNN and the WaPo.
As a guy who taught this stuff for a living, I rarely comment on actual shooting because most of the info available to the public is crap, and I’ve never once in my entire life seen the news get the facts even sort of accurate about a violent encounter.
However, in this case, I will comment, and that comment is daaaaaaaaamn. Some DA is about to get force fed a shit sandwich.
That wasn’t a statement, that was a warning shot. That was very much a Dear Fuckface, we’ve got everything on video, all day, documented, in triplicate, and now we’re going to make you choke on it. Good luck getting a Wisconsin jury to root for the wife-beating, pedophile, arsonists who just burned their town down because the local cops shot a rapist who wouldn’t drop his knife…
VERSUS the local lifeguard. Who had such premeditated murderous intent that he’s on video giving first aid to the protesters right before, but he suddenly morphed into a white supremacist when he extinguished the fire the “mostly peaceful” mostly imported hooliganry set to the place with the massive gas tanks.
Oh yeah, and his “fled the state” sounds like he ran for Mexico, but in reality it means that after the Kenosha PD told him to keep moving, he drove a shorter distance than it takes the average American to get to the grocery store to turn himself in to the cops there that same night. So either the kid is the worst fugitive ever, or your narrative is trash.
If this makes it to trial, that DA is going to experience whole new levels of rectal discomfort, the likes of which the world has never seen before.
And that’s before the law suits begin.
This shit is complicated. I keep seeing morons posting their meme level hot takes about situations they know fuck all about. No facts. No context. Just team sports.
As for the shooting which started it all, which has NFL players wearing the name of a sex offender on their helmets, the memes everybody is regurgitating thoughtlessly are that he was innocent and just minding his own business, unarmed! but got shot by the cops seven times! in the back! in front of his children! Why didn’t the cops do something else! OUTRAGE!!! HURRY AND LOOT AND BURN THESE BUSINESSES THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!!!!
Except… if the statement from the police union is even a tiny bit accurate, the memes are horseshit. He wasn’t some innocent guy standing on the corner minding his own business. There was a 911 call, apparently from the woman he’d allegedly raped, how he was harassing her, had just stolen her car keys, and she thought he was going to steal her car. He wasn’t unarmed. He had a knife. (and it was a karambit, which anybody who knows anything about knives can tell you, is designed to slash arteries and tendons, and can fuck you up). He had a warrant anyway. He didn’t comply with the cops at all. They tased him and it didn’t work (because in real life tasers aren’t magic). Apparently they wrestled him even and at one point he got a cop in a headlock(?) (I’ve not seen that myself, just going off the statement today). AND they finally shot him when he reached into his car, because they thought he was going for a gun, and up to this point the guy hadn’t exactly demonstrated himself to be a calm and rational sort.
Seven shots sounds like a lot. It ain’t. Handguns suck. And that’s basically a second and a half of adrenalinized OH SHIT HE’S GOING FOR A GUN!
But that’s cool. Hash tag METOO goes right out the window, whenever its convenient for leftist narratives. So just assume all cops are racist murderers and put the sex offender’s name on your helmets, you fucking heroes.
But what do I know? I’m not in the NFL or a movie star!
That’s all, folks!
Time for some seizure
From the Star Tribune:
Dozens of owners whose Twin Cities properties were severely damaged in the May riots have been stunned to discover that the money they would collect from their insurance company for demolition won’t come close to the actual costs of doing the job. https://t.co/eWg6iHodjD
— Star Tribune (@StarTribune) August 31, 2020
Seems that insurance caps demolition at $25,000 to $50,0000. Due to the number of damaged properties from the riots, bids are five to ten times that.
Remember that the Left – including some elected officials – said the riots were fine because these people had insurance.
So I think there is a remedy for this: seizure.
Seize the bail fund for the rioters, including the bail money they already paid (which forces those out on bail to be remanded) and disburse that money to small business that need money for demolition and to rebuild.
Only seems fair that the Leftists who raised money for the rioters – including the VP Candidate Kamala Harris herself- can have that money put to good use.
Is Harris threatening us?
Listen for yourselves:
“They are not going to stop” and “they should not.”
Is this an endorsement of the riots?
If we don’t elect Biden then the mob will continue to burn and lost and murder after the election because “it’s a movement.”
This sound like a threat to me.
There are rules for normal CCW and rules for Urban Unrest.
If you do find yourself in the riot zone after sundown, don’t get separated from your platoon. That’s why Rittenhouse got in the sh!t, and this guy looked solo, too, before the shots.
I am going to go ahead and suggest that the counter-protesters went to Portland with a CCW mentality that is fine for everyday peaceful working, but sucks in the battle zone.
And Portland is a battle zone.
So, I have to go and start you guys with two of the other rules for a gunfight:
1. Have a gun.
1.1 Preferably, have at least two guns.All additional rules are supplemental to that first rule.
2. Bring all of your friends who have guns.
2.1 Preferably, they will all have at least two guns.
There is a reason that cops and soldiers go out in numbers. And even snipers travel with a spotter in charge of security: No matter how much, you cannot cover 360 degrees 24/7.
If you choose to exercise your First Amendment rights in an enemy or contested zone, do so smartly and in company.