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I saw this tweet from Chris Hayes about the Democratic debate last night:

One the central message of the Dem nominee could be: the Trump economy actually sucks. He thinks it's great because he's given all his rich buddies and his family corrupt giveaways, but he's screwed you.

I mean, a GM plant just closed 10 miles away. Maybe talk about that?

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 1, 2019

I want to focus on the last two sentences.  I have seen several pundits bring up the fact that the debate was in Detroit and none of the candidates brought up the GM Plant closure.

It is probably a good idea for them to not bring that up.

Where I live in north Alabama, we have a Toyota engine plant, and soon to be a Toyota-Mazda joint plant.  There is a Mercedez-Benz plant south of me in Tuscaloosa.

We also have a Polaris Industries plant here, which draws from the same pool of workers.

Then there is Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Blue Origin, Orbital Systems ATK, General Dynamic, and most of the rest of the aerospace sector here.

South Carolina is another huge manufacturing state, BMW and Mercedes-Benz have plants there.  So does Boeing.

I used to live in Indiana, which is where Toyota and Subaru both have plants.

Toyota assembles the Tundra in San Antonio, Texas.

So it makes me wonder, why is it that Toyota, Mazda, Subaru, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW can be profitable assembling in mostly southern, Right To Work states, hiring American workers and paying them good wages, while GM had to shut down in Detroit and offshore jobs?

I highly suspect three letters.  U.  A.  W.

A similar issue was the cause for Boeing assembly to expand to South Carolina.

Manufacturing is growing in the United States.  It’s just doing it in Right to Work states, often south of the Mason-Dixon.

That is a hard circle to square for Democrats.  The unions that support them are the ones driving the jobs away and the Red states are sucking them up.

It’s easier for the Democrats to ignore that and look the other way than tackle that, so they won’t talk about it.

Miguel’s last post was correct, in the United States.

Congresswoman AOC did a radio interview with hip-hop program “Ebro in the Morning” with Ebro Darden.  He brought up Israel and she opined.

The young Jews who hate Netanyahu are Leftist idiots who either don’t know or don’t truly grok the situation with the Palestinians.  They have been brainwashed and their opinions are crap.

The lack of food and water, jobs and money in the Palestinian territories has nothing to do with Israeli oppression, but the fact that the Palestinian government wants it that way.

Yasser Arafat died a multi-millionaire in a chateau in Paris.  He stole all his money from the Palestinians.  The government takes money from foreign aid and uses it in the Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund, to pay the families of people who die as martyrs to kill Israelis.  Palestinian schools teach nothing but the Koran and Jew-hatred.

The leaders keep the people poor and miserable then blame Israel to incite them into becoming terrorists.  Hamas hates the Jews and wants to wipe them all out and so raises Palestinian children to want to be warriors against the Jews.

It is ideological antisemitism driving this.  This is what makes grown men reak into homes and murder small children in their beds.

When Leftists like AOC or brainwashed young Jews try to reduce this to “the Israelis are oppressing the Palestinians and the Palestinians have no choice but to riot (burn homes, bomb cafes and shopping centers, murder children, etc.)” they are denying the reality of the situation to make the narrative fit their ideological world view.

So when Hamas, or Iran, or ISIS, or some other Islamist group calls for the total extermination of Israel and the Jewish people, these Lefts stand up and say “they don’t really mean that they are just angry.”

No, they really mean that.  Whether they get it or not, these Leftists are supporting Islamist desire for Jewish genocide.

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said certain communities, including ones within the United States, have no other option that to riot if they are marginalized.

Ocasio Cortez made the comments during a radio interview with New York’s Hot 97 Tuesday, several weeks after an armed, self-described “Antifa” man attacked an ICE detention facility in Washington state using similar language to hers in his manifesto

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said some US communities ‘have no choice but to riot’ if marginalized

AOC was around two and a half years old when the L.A. Riots happened, so at best it was something she saw a video about in the Discovery Channel. And growing her sheltered life, she does not realize the immense damage a riot does to the “marginalized” community that starts it. It took well over a decade for L.A to recover from that evens and I believe that the epicenter of the riot is not quite healed.

Unless it is a very organized event with money backing them up, community rioters do form caravans nor take public transportation to go to but prey their own neighborhood. so there is no damage done to the Evil Capitalists (unless you burn down the local fast food restaurant or Dollar store) but to the locally owned mom and pop places that may have been in the community for decades or new places created by their own neighbors with much sacrifice.

And the problem is that the neighborhood may not be as receptive and take umbrage at the idea that you being pissed off somehow makes you think you can partake with my property and set the rest on fire. And they may do something about it.

So AOC is transitioning from being a clueless dumbass and becoming a dangerous clueless dumbass who will get people killed. But for the Left, having people killed is not a bug but a feature.

Hat Tip Sarah C

This week, several far Left-Wing groups, some aligned with Antifa, are engaged in “border resistance” training.

From Facebook: Border Resistance Tour (screen capture for proof and posterity)

Details:

Join us for a week long tour of discussions, panels, fundraisers and dance parties with revolutionary autonomous organizers working on the borderlands.

We will be giving first hand accounts from local grassroots organizers about the last 8 months of Direct Action and Mutual Aide in the Border towns of Juarez/El Paso and Tijuana/SanDiego.

We hope to collaborate with local migrant justice organizers from each city to create a broad and strategic discussion on how folks can plug into work that is actually working towards dismantling concentration camps and US-funded genocide.

AND we will be talking about and inviting you to our upcoming Border Resistance Convergence happening in El Paso Sept 1-10th. Borderresistance.com

This is the flyer from Borderresistance:

That is solid Socialist/Antifa imagery.

It’s Going Down “ is a digital community center for anarchist, anti-fascist, autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial movements.”

They are promoting a Call To Action: Border Resistance Tour and Convergence.

Local and national organizers are working together to build 10 days of trainings and direct actions for the Border Resistance Convergence in El Paso, TX – September 1-10th. We are calling on affinity groups everywhere to come together and help us address US-funded genocide and local concentration camps.

When you come to this convergence you will be in Tigua, Raramuri, Piro, Suma and Manso territory. This convergence is being run by Indigenous & QTPOC (Queer, trans, people of color) leadership and anyone who passively or aggressively disrespects that will be asked to leave.

They are already eating each other in the announcements.

Housing: There are two locations that can house around 20 people each for the time span of the convergence. There are also local organizers who will be opening their houses. These spaces will be used to host QTPOC folks that are traveling to El Paso. We are very much relying on white comrades to donate money and throw down on renting temporary spaces for our more vulnerable friends as camping can affect us all in different ways. There is very nice camping within the “city limits” of El Paso.

Travel Funds: There are travel funds available but limited for POC, trainers and collectives offering specific skills. Please indicate on the registration form if this is you.

They even engage in racial and sexual grievance grifting from each other.  You can’t be a white person concerned about the conditions on the border if you are not footing the bill for your fellow queer, trans, people of color protesters to stay in an AirBNB while you sleep in the mud outside.

They are training right now, or supposedly are.  I can’t find any local news coverage of this.

Then in September they are going to be kicking off their “Direct Action” against ICE in border facilities in Texas.

I can’t wait to cover that.  Texas is not like Portland.  The police are not going to stand idly by while Antifa creates a open-air-sewer tent city around an ICE facility that looks like the worst parts of Bangladesh.

This blog has covered the firebombing of one ICE facility and how that jackass was turned into a martyr.  So it makes me wonder what is being taught at this resistance training.

We’ll find out in a month.

Ban223.com which I won’t even dignify with a direct link.

The Majority of Americans believe .223 ammo should not be available to the public.
Those of us who feel this way want to do something about it.  What if we could remove all the
.223 ammo from the shelves of many big box retail stores, like WalMart?

On the 24th of  Februrary 2018, I purchased two 20 round boxes of Russian made, TulAmmo .223* for $4.99 per box or 25 cents per cartridge.
I do not own a firearm which uses this ammo. I bought it to remove it from circulation.
I bought it because I know those 40 bullets will NEVER be used to shoot me, you, your chilcren, their teachers and their friends.  You might laugh and argue this was a bad idea, but when I walked out of Academy Sports and Outdoors in Bastrop, Texas,……..I felt good.  My wife and I passed a young couple with two small children. I held up my bag and shouted
“These 40 223 bullets won’t kill you or your kids.”

So go to Walmart, Academy or other store, buy a box or two and take it to the local  police department. Tell the manager why you are buying them. Tell your local police department why to.
Vic Vreeland    Cedar Creek, Texas 78612

I checked the name and appears to be a real person suffering also with an extreme case of Trump Derangement Syndrome by what I found by the website sporting his name vicvreeland.com

Nothing much you can do with that level of mental discombobulation, but I did told him about Brownells selling the .223 by the frigging barrel. What can I tell you? I am a prick sometimes

Watch two burglars steal 48 guns from a Florida gun shop

The attitude of Portland seems to be that if you are a Leftist and you don’t like the law, you have free reign to break it at will without consequence.

We’ve seen this when the mayor allowed Antifa to go unmolested by police as they took over the streets of the city.

Now, we are seeing it from Portland Senator Ron Wyden.

Yes, I know that Wyden is a Democratic Senator from Oregon, but clearly, his heart resides in Portland.  Before he was Senator he was the Congressman from Oregon’s 3rd District, which includes most of Portland.

He decided to travel down to Mexico and engage in some human trafficking.

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and his team helps a pregnant women with potentially fatal health complications get into US pic.twitter.com/tG9qqhTqa9

— Michael Galimanis (@Cougphotog) July 29, 2019

This is the kind of ridiculous shit that shows how insane the Left has become.

Portland is in the middle of a homelessness crisis, driven by opioid addiction.

It is so bad that the city has to have squads that go around picking up needles and power-washing human shit off city streets.

Did Senator Wyden find one homeless Oregonian having a medical crisis and drive him to a hospital?

Did Senator Wyden find one poor Oregonian woman with pregnancy complications that needed to go to the hospital?

No, because fuck American citizens the Donor class American Left don’t give a shit about them.

He has to find some foreign national to transport across the border and make the American taxpayer foot the bill for her healthcare.

To be clear, this is pure human trafficking.  I’ve read the US Constitution and nowhere does it give a US Senator the authority to do this.  I have a feeling that the only reason Border Patrol let him in is that they didn’t want to be caught on camera detaining a sitting Senator.

Which, frankly, is what should happen.

This is one of those moments where I want Trump to be maximum “don’t give a fuck Trump,” but I know he won’t be, and that’s disappointing.

ICE should go to Senator Wyden’s office and drag that piece of shit out in handcuffs for human smuggling.  But they won’t.

And the radical Portland Left will once again learn that they are free to break every law that they disagree with.