This is not Portland.

This is Plano, Texas.

Texas.

Fucking Texas.

They’re showing up with block cars, baby strollers, vests, PC’s and guns and blocking traffic. If someone tries to drive through they’ll shoot and claim self defense. They’re illegally detaining people and the cops do nothing. Looks like they’re winning. pic.twitter.com/9CgJuJEkbp

— ???? ?????? (@finalprototype) May 8, 2021

The police defend Antifa, not the guy.

Look right here:

First, one guy points a pistol at the angry motorist in a blue shirt while the cop is watching. Then, the dude in the body armor threatens this guy with pepper spray, as he is walking away, right in front of the cop and the cop does nothing.

Brandishing a weapon in front of a police officer but nobody in the protest gets arrested.

In Plano, fucking, Texas.

Antifa own the streets.

Maybe not in Florida, but in much of the rest of America it is clear that Antifa can block roads, beat people, point guns at and pepper spray motorists, and the police will let them do it.

I remember reading about armed thugs blocking roads and attacking or killing people in vehicles when reading about the Rwandan genocide or the RUF taking over Sierra Leone.

Self-defense is dead and Antifa controls the public spaces in America.

We are a failed state.

This is a sequel to my post Just stay the f**k out of Portland, that city is occupied territory.

Antifa death squads march through residential streets in Portland brandishing rifles. They point them at a motorist, causing him to draw on them in return. He's beaten to the ground and his gun is stolen. He offers that he's a disabled Marine. pic.twitter.com/L0nTTKuE7t

— Alan Bings (@AlanBings) May 6, 2021

Here is the coverage at the time from a local Portland news outlet:

This is the follow-up:

Those are serious injuries.

Here is more video from the scene, grabbed and reposted:

https://twitter.com/x0OO0bbHxo0xxYY/status/1391102970801135616

They beat this man so badly they broke five of his ribs and collapsed his lung and there have been no arrests and there are not going to be.

The Portland police at the behest of the mayor have let Antifa take control of the city.

This guy is getting out of Portland, which is about the only thing he can do.

Antifa will start murdering people at roadblock soon.  This shit should have been nipped in the bud a year ago and it hasn’t.  Antifa has only been emboldened by it and now they control the streets.

I know most everybody associates Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” as the essential Miami Vice song.  But to me one song braded the series before  that one was used: This Masquerade in Season 1 Episode 2: ‘Heart of Darkness’. It is just played a bit right at the end of the episode, but it hits you like Viking axe to the chest.

Compare these bits of news.

First, from just before the pandemic:

Black and Hispanic unemployment is at a record low

The jobless rate for Hispanics hit a record low of 3.9% in September, while African Americans maintained its lowest rate ever, 5.5%.

Second, after Biden signed the American Rescue Plan:

U.S. Added 266,000 Jobs Last Month—Far Worse Than Expected, As 9.8 Million Americans Remain Unemployed

April’s report also continued to show stark differences in unemployment by race, with minority groups such as Black Americans and Hispanics facing above-average unemployment rates of 9.7% and 7.9%, respectively.

The Left is very good at playing the long game.

If you teach minority kids math, they will understand things like numbers and percents and how 5.5% unemployment under a Republican means more jobs for Black people than 9.7% unemployment under a Democrat.

But if they teach them that there is no right answer, math is racist, and critical race theory, all they will know is that the reason they are poor is white privilege and systemic racism.

You can’t have the people that your policies harm be able to comprehend or think critically about the outcomes of those policies.

There is a method to their madness.

FPOLITICO Playbook: Scarred DeSantis staffers form a support group

Good!

We talked to a dozen or so onetime aides and consultants to the Florida governor, and they all said the same thing: DeSantis treats staff like expendable widgets. He largely relies on a brain trust of two: himself and his wife, CASEY DESANTIS, a former local TV journalist. Beyond that there are few, if any, “DeSantis people,” as far as political pros are concerned.

This is something normal Americans need to know and are starting to understand:

Every single Ivy League/elite college-educated staffer/advisor/consultant/think thank expert/etc. is a useless fucking know-nothing that has zero practical experience and gets everything wrong always and should never be taken seriously ever again and forever.

It was this class of people who made sure every US response to the COVID-19 pandemic was wrong.

The biggest problem I have with Trump is that he still got suckered into listening to these people.

What should have happened is that Trump should have gone with his gut on everything and Donald Jr. and Jared Kusher should have taken the career political experts up in Marine One and played human lawn darts with them on the National Mall.

A Republican who does not listen to these professional political shit-weasels is doing it right.

A “support group” of former DeSantis staffers meets regularly to trade war stories about their hardship working for the governor. The turnover in his office and among his campaign advisers is well known among Republicans: In three of his five full years in Congress, he ranked in at least the 70th percentile in terms of highest turnover in a House office, according to data compiled by Legistorm. In the governor’s office, he has only two staffers who started with him when he was a junior member of Congress.

Neutron Jack Welsh was famous for purging shit managers to save GE.  Given what DeSantis has accomplished in Florida it seems he has no problem purging useless shit staffers.

“Throughout my time as Chief of Staff, the Governor empowered me to make sure that everyone who worked for him had the best interests of the state at heart,” Strum wrote. “We didn’t tolerate leakers, and we didn’t tolerate grifters. Fortunately, aside from some individuals we had to part with early in the administration, the Governor has had a strong and loyal team, who he appreciates.”

But many former DeSantis aides we spoke with told a different story. They did not want to be quoted by name because of potential professional repercussions.

“Loyalty and trust, that is not a currency he deals in,” one said. “It’s him and Casey. But everyone else is like a disposable piece of garbage.”

Let that sink in.  The governor fires leakers and grifters.  A staffer says “that’s not true” as he airs the dirty laundry to Politico, demonstrating exactly why it was a good judge of character that he got fired.

Say this much for DeSantis: Whatever he’s doing has worked for him so far. In eight years, he’s risen from 34-year-old freshman congressman to governor of a powerhouse state and potential heir apparent to Trump as leader of the Republican Party.

Rep. MATT GAETZ (R-Fla.), who led his gubernatorial transition, put it this way: “To date, he’s risen in part due to his willingness to bet on himself over the political-industrial complex.”

And it’s worked for the State of Florida, which is kicking the shit out of New York and California, one governor is getting recalled and the other should be going to prison.

This is a bunch of career political dingleberries, the little pieces of shit that hang onto the assess of politicians, pissing and moaning that they got fired for being worthless to the most effective governor in the county today.

For the career political dingleberry class in DC, this is a horror show.  For the rest of us, the news that a possible President will flush away the career political dingleberries is a ringing endorsement.