The attempts by protesters/rioters/radical to attack drivers in their cars has escalated prompting one person in Portland to draw and fire a gun.

https://twitter.com/Villain_Phoenix/status/1281202255627120641

From KGW8:

Driver fires gunshots into the air after confrontation with demonstrators in downtown Portland

Video shows a driver firing six gunshots into the air during a confrontation with demonstrators in downtown Portland early Thursday morning.

The videos shared on social media show a white car in the middle of a group of people. The group was near the base of the now-removed Thompson Elk statue on Southwest Main Street just after 1 a.m. when the driver slowly moved away from the group, held up a handgun and fired five shots into the air.

This is where the driver is going to get fucked: warning shots.

Warning shots are not protected by the law.

Nevertheless, notice how once he drives away, having fired a gun, the mob does not chase after him the way they have in virtually every other mob vs. protesters video we’ve posted.

This is not a good scenario for the driver, but it clearly shows how this is getting worse.

The OK sign a “secret” signal of the white supremacist movement? Really? Do the snowflakes realize they are empowering racists by allowing them to co-opt a positive hand gesture that has been a part of American culture since the early 1800s?  It means different things elsewhere. To some of my ancestors, I’m told, it signified the Evil Eye: “A curse on you and your children and the camel you rode in on.”  Teaching in Latin America, I discovered the hard way that it was the sign of the maricon, and was definitely not taken as a sign of approval when I flashed it to the macho men I was there to teach.

THE PRICE OF POLITICAL IDENTITY IS GOING UP

He is 100% right on the money. The circle made by the thumb and forefinger represents a very worn out anal sphincter because you are not only a maricon, but one who is a whore and bends over for anybody anytime.

The problem with the self-appointed guardians of the new political morality is that by far they are a bunch of ignorant idiots who are unaware of customs from other cultures.

Let me give you another. This is Hook ’em Horns, the very well known sign of the University Of Texas’ football.

In Italy that same sign means you are a cuckold and that is very insulting, specially if used against the males. In Venezuela, it meant “Zape gato” or “Zape” (Saah-peh) for short and you use it when you are witnessing or told a bad situation and you  use the sign and the expression to ward off bad luck or even Evil Eye. Now, with the heavy Italian immigration to South America post WWII, you can imagine there were more than a couple of incidents where confusion led to fistfights. But by the time I was a kid, Italians were either ignoring the sign understanding it was not aimed at them or doing it themselves which was more hygienic that doing the spitting three times thing against bad luck.

The new political moral commissars are just desperate to feel insulted so they can use their little Twitter power. But since I was lucky to grow up among different cultures and learned a bit about them, I leave this message to the  Social Justice Commissars.

Vai propiamente fanculo

The Left hates the right to self-defense.  They want you disarmed so that you cannot fight back when they come for you.

The McCloskeys were armed and did defend themselves, successfully, without firing a shot.  For that, they must be punished.

Miguel already covered how the extremely partisan, politically motivated Circuit Attorney confiscated their weapons.

Now the St. Louis media is out to drag them and poison the jury pool if the McCloskeys are ever arrested and prosecuted criminally.

Portland Place couple who confronted protesters have a long history of not backing down

When Black Lives Matter protesters marched up Kingshighway on June 28 and turned through an iron gate into the magnificent private street of Portland Place, they encountered a couple who have for years, nearly constantly, sued other people and ordered people off their property.

Broke down the iron gate.  The protesters ripped the gate out of the stone arch in the fence around the gated community.  Start with that fact.

Personal-injury attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey became instant national figures when they intercepted protesters marching past their marble-faced palazzo at One Portland Place, aimed guns at them and demanded they get out.

Americans saw the story they wanted to see. Some saw respected professionals fearing for their safety, reasonably exercising their Second Amendment rights to defend their home from violent trespassers. Others saw an overwrought, older affluent couple, recklessly pointing their weapons and asserting their white privilege.

I cannot wait for a well-off black family to come out with AR-15’s to face down some Klansmen burning a cross on their yard.  I hope the media accuses the armed black family of having white privilege because clearly that’s what they believe the right to self-defense is.

But public records and interviews reveal a fuller picture than emerged two weeks ago. They show the McCloskeys are almost always in conflict with others, typically over control of private property, what people can do on that property, and whose job it is to make sure they do it.

Holy shit.  Property owners having a right to control their own property.  What a fucking concept.  What else can we expect from the media who clearly sides with the Marxists in BLM but a hatred of the idea of private property?

After this intro, the article goes on to list all the dick moves that the McCloskeys have done that makes them litigious assholes.

At the McCloskeys’ property in Franklin County, they have sued neighbors for making changes to a gravel road and twice in just over two years evicted tenants from a modular home on their property.

Doesn’t matter.

The McCloskeys have filed at least two “quiet title” suits asserting squatter’s rights on land they’ve occupied openly and hostilely — their terms — and claimed as their own.

Doesn’t matter.

They sued a man who sold them a Maserati they claimed was supposed to come with a box of hard-to-find parts.

If the parts were part of the contract and no delivered, the lawsuit was valid.  Also, doesn’t matter.

In one trip to the courthouse in November 1996, Mark McCloskey filed two lawsuits, one against a dog breeder whom he said sold him a German shepherd without papers and the other against the Central West End Association for using a photo of their house in a brochure for a house tour after the McCloskeys had told them not to.

I’d sue if someone published a picture of my house in their ad after I explicitly told them not to.  Also, doesn’t matter.

In 2013, he destroyed bee hives placed just outside of the mansion’s northern wall by the neighboring Jewish Central Reform Congregation and left a note saying he did it, and if the mess wasn’t cleaned up quickly he would seek a restraining order and attorneys fees. The congregation had planned to harvest the honey and pick apples from trees on its property for Rosh Hashanah.

So he’s a fucking asshole.  Destroying beehives that are not on his property is criminal, but not enough to make him a prohibited person.  Also, since I’m a man of principle, it doesn’t matter.

They filed a lawsuit in St. Louis circuit court to try to force the trustees to enforce the neighborhood rules as written.  One of the rules prohibited unmarried people from living together. Several neighbors said it was because the McCloskeys didn’t want gay couples living on the block. The trustees voted to impeach Patricia McCloskey as a trustee in 1992 when she fought an effort to change the trust indenture, accusing her of being anti-gay.

Mark McCloskey clarified in a deposition much later that the trust agreement barred unmarried people living together, regardless of their sexuality.

I’ve been the victim of rules like that as a straight person.  I thought it was moralizing against unmarried people living in sin, but when I became a landlord my property manager explained to me it’s often the case of preventing problems with roommates breaking leases.  Even if Patricia McCloskey did have an anti-gay bias in wanting to keep that rule in place, it doesn’t matter.

By filing so many lawsuits, the McCloskeys opened a large window onto their values and ambitions. Their lawsuits center on obtaining land, keeping people off of it, and forcing people to follow rules or make good on agreements.

Holy fucking shit, what a concept.  Maybe they are litigious dicks but obtaining land, keeping strangers off your land, and forcing other people to follow the rules and make good on agreements are sort of the foundational principles of our economic system.  If we don’t force people to follow rules or make good on agreements we end up in Mogadishu.

The rest of the article from here is just a muckraking through the sewer of the McCloskey’s personal life.

All of it is irrelevant.  All of it.

These people were legal gun owners.  They felt threatened on their land by a mob, in a city that had suffered millions of dollars in damage and lost several lives in mob violence in the days prior, and the police were nowhere to be seen.  They had every right to bear arms to defend themselves.

Being an asshole does not preclude you from your right to self-defense.

Being a contemptible dick who likes to sue people does not preclude you from your right to self-defense.

There is nothing in this article that explains why the McCloskey’s didn’t have a legitimate fear of the mob threatening them after breaking down a gate to enter their private property.

The purpose of this article is simple:

To embarrass the McCloskeys and ruin their reputation.

To poison a jury so that they are convicted, not because of the facts in the case, but because they are greedy assholes who like to sue people over petty bullshit.

Lastly, it is a warning to everyone else who might stand up to the mob that if they do, the media will dig through their entire lives and splash every sordid detail across the internet to shame them.

Let the mob kill you or the media will ruin your life.

Welcome to the woke mafia.

The news is that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has turned the Hagia Sophia from a museum back into a mosque, in defiance of the wishes of the rest of the non-Islamic world.  In doing so, non-Muslims will no longer be able to visit the Hagia Sophia.

Keep in mind that the Hagia Sophia was a Byzantine Christian Cathedral from 537 to 1054, Greek Orthodox Cathedral from 1054 to 1204, Roman Catholic Cathedral from 1204 to 1261, and a Greek Orthodox Cathedral from 1261 to 1453.  After 1453 is was a mosque until 1935 under the Ottoman Empire.

I think it is time that we repatriate the lands east of the Straight of Bosphorus back to Christendom, make Istanbul Constantinople again, and make the Hagia Sophia a church and museum for the world to enjoy.

Europe could do with a little bit of reconquista.

Yesterday around noon, Detroit police stopped in front of a group of young men to fulfill a federal arrest warrant against one of them. It ended up in a shooting with one of the other males present dead.

Once again the community raised in furor and the uncle of the dead man had this to say.

“We hear one thing from the police, and another thing from the community. The community told us that the police pulled up, told (him) to get on the ground. He put his hands up, and these mother f—— shot him in the back of the head,” said Amen-Ra, adding his sister had been to the hospital and saw his nephew’s body. “He has got two shots in back of his head, plus other bullet wounds.”

Amen-Ra said the time for peaceful protesting is over.

Amen-Ra identified the victim as 20-year-old Hakim Littleton, whom he described as a “typical young kid” who worked all the time and was “doing his thing.”

Tensions rise over Detroit police killing of man they say fired first at officers

But there is this thing called body worn videos that show what really happened: The suspect with the warrant surrendered without an issue, but a friend produced a gun and shot at a cop’s head and continued shooting till he was finally stopped.

Notice one detail? He shot at a black officer. Thank God his aim sucked and missed him.

Now, evidence is present, did the protests end? Were apologies issued to the PD and the community for the error?

(insert laugh track here)

Nope, it is still the cops/society’s fault. Watch the whole thing, but the good stuff begins at 01:55.

Wai, wait: You pull out a gun, shoot at cops but you are tagged as an innocent bystander but a WHITE Black Lives Matter operative? Are you out of your frigging Liberal/Socialist mind?

There is no reasoning with this people. Common sense cannot be applied. De-escalation may no longer apply.

Prepare accordingly.

The number of children getting vaccinated in Florida is declining and COVID-19 may be to blame.
Numerous doctors and even the state health department have noticed an alarming trend of parents not bringing their children in to get vaccinated due to coronavirus fears.
…

In May, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a study reporting that routine vaccinations for children across the country have declined as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, as compared to the same time period in 2019.
Most notably, up-to-date vaccines for children aged 5 months went from approximately two-thirds of children being vaccinated from 2016-2019, to fewer than half — 49.7 percent — in May 2020, well into the pandemic, according to the CDC’s May 22, 2020, Morbidity and Mortality Report.

‘Recipe for disaster’: COVID-19 leads to kids’ vaccine rates falling, risking other outbreaks

Lemme see if I got this right, you spend months screaming something like:

YOU ARE GONNA DIE IF YOU GO OUT!
YOUR CHILDREN ARE GONNA DIE IF YOU LET THEM OUT FRONT TO PLAY.
MOTHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING KIDS TO PARK
YOUR UPROTECTED CHILDREN WILL KILL THEIR GRANDMOTHER.
LITTLE KID DIES OF CORONA. DOOM IS HERE! ( ignore the 4 conditions he had prior to getting infected)

And now the Bird Poop Catcher of South Florida wonders why parents are not doing their duty taking the kids to the doctor’s office and have them inoculated against future and deadly diseases.

I’ll be glad when this propaganda organization finally ends up moving to a strip mall and sharers the space with a check cashing store and a tag renewal office.