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!

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.

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.

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.

Man… – NEW JOVIAN THUNDERBOLT

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.

2017 was the year when “punch a Nazi” was endorsed by the media.

Now in 2020 its “attack a white person with a brick because White lives do not matter” pic.twitter.com/wdP2U4Hi3x

— ????? ????????? #FightBack (@CommiesLmao) August 31, 2020

I can’t simply stomach this new normal. This video hit me in the sense that there were people knowing it was going to happen, but staying silent; no warnings, not even a lamentation for what was about to occur. And then it was cheering and celebration for the deadly force attack to an innocent & unsuspecting person. They wanted it, supported it and enjoyed it. They were accomplices. Maybe not in the legal sense, but morally.

And probably is the same people that is calling us “sick” because we are happy the Kyle Rittenhouse was able to defend himself from several attackers.

Portland has had 90 consecutive days of protests and civil disturbances, as of last week more than 13 of those events were declared to be riots by Portland Police.

Mayor Ted Wheeler has totally lost control of his city.

Antifa has on multiple occasions tried to burn down the federal courthouse, generating a response from the federal government that Wheeler blamed for the violence in the city.

President Trump offered Portland assistance dealing with the mob that now controls downtown Portland and is attacking residential areas and Wheeler made a big show of telling Trump to piss off on city letterhead.

Then the mob went to Wheeler’s condo and started shit in the lobby.

Then on Saturday, Portland had the dishonor of having the first explicitly politically motivated murder of the 2020 election cycle.

There may have been other incidents of political violence, and murder has gone up in Democrat-run cities where the police are defunded and hamstrung, but this is the first murder in this election cycle were one person was shot and killed due to their political affiliation by someone from the opposing political affiliation.

That is some shit that is not supposed to happen in this country.  We’ll cuss and scream at each other.  Recently there’s been pepper spray.  But in America, we do not shoot each other over politics.  That is a line we do not cross.  The last time we crossed it any significant way, it ended with over 600,000 Americans being killed.

Finally, this forced Mayor Wheeler’s hand.  He had to do something about it, so today he hosted a press conference.  It was a fucking embarrassment.

He repeatedly blames Trump and Trump supporters for the violence and social unrest in the city.  He claims that Trump tacitly and openly supports political violence.  The violence that has been overwhelmingly and almost exclusively from the radical Left.  The violence that Trump has condemned and offered to send federal law enforcement to help quell.

If you watch this press conference, you’d think that a convoy of Trump supporters drove through Portland randomly shooting at minorities, when it was, in fact, a Leftist who shot a Trump supporter and Leftists who have set fires and smashed businesses.

The mayor blames Trump and national level politics for the violence in Portland, taking no responsibility whatsoever for anything that goes on within his city.

Then he states his  ultimatum: “I’d appreciate that either the president support us or he stay the hell out of the way.”

I’m not sure what that even means.  After blaming Trump for Leftist violence he belligerently asks for Trump’s support, but only in the way that Wheeler wants.  My guess would be that Wheeler wants federal law enforcement to only go after Trump supporters and ignore Antifa.

This was a ridiculous show from a mayor who is clearly resentful that Mayor de Blasio is the worst mayor in America and wants to claim that mantle for himself.

The city’s least worst option for mayor is a dickless shit-weasel who lets radical Leftist anarchists and Communist Revolution LARPers destroy his city for months on end because his is ideologically sympathetic to them, then blames the President when one of the President’s supporters is murdered by one of the mayor’s ideological compatriots.

I know faithful reader Ish lives in Portland, and Kershaw knives is based out of that city and I am a huge fan of their made in Amerca blades (it’s been a dream of mine to go to their annual warehouse sale), and I’m sorry for this, but after this shameful display, Portland can go straight to hell.

From Business Insider:

Why celebrity chef Tunde Wey wants to charge white people $100 for salt

Because he’s a God damn racist piece of shit.  It’s that simple.  But because his racism is directed at white people it’s going to get justified in the name of Wokeness.

How much are white people willing to pay for reparations?

That’s the question celebrity chef, writer, and provocateur Tunde Wey asks with his new venture launched August 14, A Lot of Salt, which sells premium salt to white people for $100 a box.

“Now, you’re prolly thinking: “$100 for salt? that is outrageous!” Lot’s website reads. That’s exactly the point.

I’m not sure exactly how much of this salt he’s going to sell.  Maybe a few boxes to some very rich Progressive celebrities to show off how woke they are.  I doubt much more than that.

What worries me is that some Woke corporate executive is going to buy some using company money, at which point he should be sued for breach of fiduciary duty for deliberately and unjustifiably overpaying on materials.

“The folks who interpret value are the folks who have money,” Wey told Business Insider in a phone interview. “The question isn’t, “Is that too expensive?” The question is: do people value reparations? Do people value Black lives?”

No, the market determines value, not a cabal of white people.  If this guy decides that the value of black lives is $100 for a 9 oz box of salt, he’s going to be very disappointed.

According to the Lot website, “Every time you add a dash of our delicious sea salt to your under seasoned dishes, we hope you contemplate your many privileges and the disparities they create.”

Insulting the people you are demanding pay reparations pricing for salt is… actually Progressives are racial masochists.  The more abuse they take the better they feel.  Progressivism is like a medieval religion, they love nothing more to be flagellated in public to atone for their race’s sins.

In May, as most high-profile chefs were pleading for aid to save the sinking restaurant industry, Wey wrote an essay, titled “Let it Die,” making the opposite case. “It” refers to the restaurant industry in its pre-pandemic form — an industry that Wey says is rife with inequality and largely segregated along race lines when it comes to rank and income. It’s also an industry that is emblematic of American capitalism in the way that it values profit over lives, Wey said.

I bet he made a lot of friends in the restaurant industry with that statement.

How did this guy become a celebrity chef anyway?

Time Magazine will tell us.

Here is the despicable part. Time has this guy listed in their Next Generation Leaders category.

From his columns in the San Francisco Chronicle, to essays in The Boston Globe, and the Oxford American that interrogate the passivity and hypocrisy of American food culture, to performance-art inspired experiments that aim to challenge (mostly white) individuals to pinpoint their role in systemic oppression, Wey is always thinking about the debt owed to black people. Food, with its wide lens, is the perfect malleable prop.

So he’s half Al Sharpton and half Jamie Oliver.

Wey invited food activists, professors, writers and artists to engage guests from varied backgrounds on racism from the perspective of black people — a topic white America tends to avoid. He served Nigerian dishes like egusi stew and fried plantain and watched repeatedly as black diners did most of the emotional grunt work of explaining the personal effects of oppression; meanwhile he found white people mostly felt awkward, responded defensively, and sought patchwork solutions without dealing with the impact of a system they benefited from.

He’d used the term “discomfort food” to describe what he was trying to get at — that food was not always a salve or an escape, that communal dining spaces could be used confront injustices, to prompt meaningful action.

Instead of the time-honored tradition of food being used to bring people together, he uses food to drive people apart and torment them.

In 2018, he opened SAARTJ, a pop-up food stall in New Orleans where black visitors were charged $12 for dishes like isi ewu, a goat stew, while white visitors were asked to pay $30. 

Also last year in Nashville, Wey explored the root causes of gentrification in an event called Hot Chicken Shit. As part of the project, white diners were asked to pledge $100 for one piece of chicken, $1,000 for four pieces, or to sign over a property deed in North Nashville in exchange for a whole chicken with sides. For black people, the meal was free. 

He is sure to call these events “performance art” because if he just did this it would be very illegal.

If you wonder how this guy makes money, it’s not with his cooking.  He has a book advance for a book on a topic yet to be determined.

As I have learned, book advances are one of the more popular ways for Progressives to bankroll activists who are not qualified (connected) enough to get a talking head or think thank sinecure.

This guy is a flat out fucking racist.

This topic really gets under my skin because my family was in the restaurant business.    We were a kosher deli but we served everyone.  In Miami, it wasn’t uncommon to cater a breakfast of bagels and lox to Catholic groups for Easter or Christmas brunch.

In the Jewish tradition, fish is parve so can be served with milk, which makes smoked salmon and cream cheese Kosher.  It also makes a good meatless breakfast for Catholics who don’t eat meat during Lent and Eastertide.  Also, the Jewish caterers were usually the only ones open for Easter and Christmas.

There was no discrimination in the food.

Good food brings people together.  The breaking of bread is an ancient tradition of unification.

This asshole uses food to harm people, to pick open wounds, and browbeat people over grievances they have no control over.

This attacks an institution I hold near and dear to my heart.

And it is truly disgusting that what Time considers our next generation of leaders.

We have gone from “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”

To, ‘I’m going to charge white people who sit at my table exorbitant prices for food to punish them and extort them with guilt.’