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"Willie Brown's Cum Dumpster" <kamala-harris-the-whore@latimes.com>: Jan 02 02:46AM +0100

Vicky Osterweil, the author of "In Defense of Looting: A Riotous
History of Uncivil Action," is getting her 15 minutes of fame
thanks to a segment on NPR in which she said some really mind-
bogglingly dumb, indefensibly evil and fascinatingly reactionary
things.
 
We'll come back to her in a moment.
 
One of my weird mental pastimes is to look at the world as if I
were a visitor from the past. But rather than think of how a
time traveler might marvel at the new technology and tall
buildings, I like to wonder: What would someone from 500 or
1,000 years ago recognize as familiar?
 
Some things are obvious: a mother breastfeeding a baby or an old
man tending a garden. "We do that too!" a time traveler might
say on first sight.
 
But if you were a sophisticated and knowledgeable time traveler,
you might recognize some deeper similarities.
 
My favorite example is North Korea, which is often called a
"communist" or "Marxist" regime but would be instantly
recognizable to a temporal tourist as an absolutist monarchy,
even though the regime doesn't use the word "king." Divine power
is passed down to the male heir of the previous ruler. Every de
facto monarch is said to be of quasi-supernatural origin and
endowed with superhuman abilities and wisdom. North Korea also
has a hereditary aristocracy that lives off the hereditary
peasant class, which is born into de facto serfdom.
 
I bring this up because sometimes we get too hung up on words
and lose sight of the things underneath. And that brings me back
to Osterweil.
 
"Looting is a highly racialized word from its very inception in
the English language," Osterweil said in the NPR interview.
"It's taken from Hindi, lút, which means 'goods' or 'spoils.' "
 
How this is relevant, or even evidence that the word is
"racialized," is a mystery, given that maybe two in 10 million
people know its etymology. Other words with Hindi origins:
pundit, guru, khaki, cashmere and pajamas. The horror.
 
This is a good example of confusing words and things. Looting —
mobs grabbing stuff that doesn't belong to them — is an ancient
practice dating back hundreds of thousands of years, before we
even had the concept of dates. Pillaging, ransacking, theft —
call it what you like — is how tribes acquired stuff before the
invention of trade.
 
In short: Osterweil thinks she's making some powerful neo-
Marxist argument on the bleeding edge of theory, but what she's
discovered is tribal barbarism and put a fresh coat of paint on
it.
 
She is fluent in all the latest buzzwords and campus jargon. The
"so-called" United States of America, she writes in her book,
was founded in "cisheteropatriarchal racial capitalist"
violence. (I'm getting my quotes from Graeme Wood's excellent
review in The Atlantic, as I have no desire to saddle Osterweil
with the guilt of profiting from her work.)
 
Destroying businesses is an "experience of pleasure, joy and
freedom," she writes. Osterweil also insists it's a form of
"queer birth," and that "riots are violent, extreme and femme as
f – – -." Looting isn't wrong, she claims, but rather a form of
"proletarian shopping."
 
"Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of
the police," Osterweil explained on NPR. "The very basis of
property in the US is derived through whiteness and through
Black oppression, through the history of slavery and settler
domination of the country."
 
Nope. Notions of private property can be found in ancient China,
the Islamic world and, well, everywhere.
 
Even the Korean grocers targeted by looting have it coming,
according to Osterweil, because they're working in the white
man's system of "ownership." And ownership is "innately,
structurally white supremacist."
 
What Osterweil is really describing is revenge based on
collective guilt. A Viking or Gaul from the past would instantly
recognize it. So would countless non-white barbarians of yore,
because that's what humans used to believe. "Your ancestors did
something to my ancestors, and so you have this coming."
 
Books could be written about how wrong — historically, morally,
logically — Osterweil is. But there is one place where she's
right. Rioting and looting are fun, which is why young people do
it from time to time. Mobs are thrilling, which is why they're
so dangerous and evil. (Presumably rapists and murderers feel
"joy" too, that doesn't make them good; it illuminates their
evilness.) That's why civilized societies try to prevent them.
Barbarians come up with clever word salads to defend them.
 
Twitter: @JonahDispatch
 
https://nypost.com/2020/09/06/the-evil-idiocy-of-in-defense-of-
looting/
"Dead Biden 2021" <dead-biden2021@gmail.com>: Jan 02 02:46AM +0100

Shit is a pile of ashes now.
"Dr. Honkey" <dr.honkey@cnn.com>: Jan 02 02:51AM +0100

Activist Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at age 87.
 
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-justice-
ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead-at-87-92096581812
"Marcus" <marcus@gmail.com>: Jan 02 02:41AM +0100

And Biden is the bitch.
"hamilton" <nigger-lovers@disney.com>: Jan 02 02:23AM +0100

The shooting death this week of a black 18-year-old in
Washington, D.C., is by no means an open-and-shut case of police
brutality.
 
The American Civil Liberties Union, however, believes otherwise.
 
The alleged pro-civil-rights group tried Thursday to incite a
mob against law enforcement officials in the nation's capital
following the shooting death of Deon Kay.
 
"DC police murdered Deon Kay yesterday," the ACLU said on Sept.
3 in a since-deleted tweet to its nearly two million followers.
"He was just 18 years old. His death is yet another painful
reminder that violence and racism is endemic to policing in this
nation."
 
The ACLU added, "We demand justice for Deon, and every life
taken by DC police."
 
What is going on here?
 
A police officer killed Kay on Wednesday, that is true. But the
18-year-old died under unclear and yet-to-be-determined
circumstances. We simply do not have enough information to
declare Kay's death a "murder." Not even close.
 
Police officers were dispatched to southeast Washington
Wednesday afternoon after receiving a call about a man with a
gun. When they arrived, they saw a small crowd gathering around
one car. Two people then fled from the car, prompting officers
to give chase. Kay was reportedly in the passenger seat of said
car. As law enforcement officials pursued, the two suspects
split up. A couple of officers went after Kay, corralling him
outside an apartment complex, where he was then shot and killed.
Body camera footage of the incident shows Kay had a firearm in
his hand at the moment he was shot. It appears Kay may have also
tried to drop his weapon just before he was killed. The footage
also shows that Kay was shot in the chest while running toward
one of the police officers.
 
Black Lives Matter activists and even the District's own anti-
Semitic council member Trayon White, speculated that Kay was
unarmed and shot in the back.
 
Officers rendered first aid and rushed Kay to a hospital, where
he was pronounced dead.
 
Even with the body camera footage, it is difficult to make out
what, exactly, happened that evening. It is difficult to tell
whether Kay "brandished" his firearm, though it appears he was
indeed holding one when he was shot. It is difficult to tell
whether Kay attempted to drop his firearm as an officer shouted
repeatedly, "Don't move!"
 
The point is that the circumstances surrounding Kay's death are
unclear, and we will not know what happened until there is at
least a preliminary investigation.
 
But try telling that to the ACLU, which claimed Thursday that
the police had "murdered" the black 18-year-old.
 
How could anyone make that determination sans a formal (or even
an informal) investigation? What would possess a normal, right-
minded person to jump to that very specific conclusion without
first observing more evidence or waiting to hear the conclusions
of at least a preliminary investigation? What would possess a
100-year-old institution whose entire purpose is to know and
defend the law to do the same?
 
All is not right at the ACLU, which has for decades prided
itself on its defenses of due process. It has been obvious for
some time now that the alleged pro-civil-liberties organization
is suffering from a serious illiberal rot. At this point,
though, it appears the rot is institutional.
 
The ACLU used to act as a defense against mobs. Now, it incites
them.
 
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/aclu-accuses-
washington-police-of-murder-and-tries-to-incite-race-mob
"Whore Harris Is Silent" <whore-kamala-harris@nytimes.com>: Jan 02 02:18AM +0100

Michael Forest Reinoehl, a self-described anti-fascist who
provided security for Portland racial justice protests, appears
to have targeted a participant in a pro-Trump rally, emerging
from an alcove of a parking garage before firing two gunshots,
one that hit the man's bear spray can and the other that proved
fatal, according to a police affidavit unsealed Friday.
 
Police found a single Winchester .380-caliber bullet casing on
the street, a metal canister of "Bear Attack Detector" that had
a "large defect" in it and a collapsible metal baton just north
of Aaron "Jay" Danielson's body, a detective said in the
affidavit.
 
Danielson, 39, was pronounced dead at 8:55 p.m. last Saturday on
Southwest Third Avenue, about 10 minutes after the shooting was
reported. He died from a single bullet to the upper right chest,
an autopsy found. The bullet was found lodged in his back.
 
During a search of Reinoehl's basement rental unit in a
Northeast Portland house on 92nd Avenue, police found ammunition
of the same caliber used in Danielson's shooting and clothing
Reinoehl wore that night, prosecutors said. The search didn't
appear to have turned up the gun used.
 
Portland police obtained a warrant Thursday afternoon charging
Reinoehl with second-degree murder with a weapon and unlawful
use of a weapon. That night, four officers from three different
Washington agencies shot at Reinoehl after he walked out of an
apartment outside Lacey, Washington, and tried to flee as they
moved in to arrest him. Reinoehl was hit multiple times and died
at the scene. He had a handgun but Washington investigators said
it's not clear yet whether he fired it.
 
On Friday afternoon, a judge unsealed the affidavits for his
arrest warrant and a warrant for the search of Reinoehl's
residence. The documents offer new details of the deadly
encounter between Reinoehl and Danielson shortly after a car
caravan in support of President Trump had left Portland's
downtown last weekend.
 
Several witnesses told police they saw Danielson holding a can
of mace or bear spray and then heard two shots, the affidavit
said.
 
Police found damage to the bear spray canister that was
retrieved from the street, leading investigators to believe it
was struck by the first of two bullets fired by Reinoehl.
 
Police slowed down video captured by a livestreamer of the
shooting and said it appeared that a shot was fired, followed by
an explosion of the chemical and then a quick second gunshot,
the affidavit said. Danielson stumbled two or three steps before
collapsing in the street.
 
Detectives found a loaded 9mm handgun on Danielson's waistband
and three magazines of 9mm red-tip ammunition in his right cargo
pants pocket, the affidavit said. Surveillance video from the
nearby Third Avenue parking garage showed Danielson holding a
baton in his left hand and the bear spray in his right hand
before the shooting, according to police.
 
Reinoehl is seen hiding in an alcove of the garage and reaching
into a pouch or waistband as Danielson and a friend, Chandler
Pappas, walk south on Third Avenue.
 
Homicide Detective Rico Beniga wrote that Reinoehl "conceals
himself, waits and watches" as Danielson and Pappas pass him.
 
After the two men go by, Reinoehl followed them, walking west
across the street moments before the gunshots were fired, police
said.
 
Investigators said it appeared as if Reinoehl stood holding his
gun with both hands extended when he fired. After the shots, his
right hand remained extended and pointed at Danielson before he
turned to run away, police said.
 
Both Danielson and Pappas were wearing Patriot Prayer hats,
signifying their support of the right-wing group based in
Vancouver.
 
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/09/arrest-warrant-against-
michael-reinoehl-for-2nd-degree-murder-unlawful-use-of-a-firearm-
unsealed.html
Ryan <farr82@gmail.com>: Jan 02 02:18AM +0100

Best thing that could happen to the Pacific Northwest.
 
Burn that racist snotty gay conclave to the nothing it deserves.
"Willie Brown's Cum Dumpster" <kamala-harris-the-whore@latimes.com>: Jan 02 02:18AM +0100

We often hear that what this country needs is an honest
conversation about race. Here's a whole lot of "honesty" for
you, from an unexpected place:
 
Black people are less likely than white people to be self-
reliant. Black people are less likely to emphasize "rational
linear" and "quantitative" thinking. They are less likely to
think that "hard work is the key to success." They believe in
punctuality less, and instant gratification more, than whites
do. Black people aren't as likely to believe in a Christian God
and more inclined to be tolerant of pagan or polytheistic
religions.
 
Given that we are living in the age of cancel culture, I'd
better explain what I'm doing lest anyone think I believe this
nonsense.
 
All of this stuff — the bigotry, the stereotypes and the
outright falsehoods — isn't my view. Nor did I get it from some
white supremacist Web site. Nope, it comes from a graphic
sourced and linked to by the ­National Museum of African-
American History and Culture.
 
The museum's site has a whole "Talking About Race" section. An
article on "whiteness" cites a graphic titled "Aspects and
Assumptions of Whiteness and White Culture in the United
States." Much of the stuff from the graphic can be read as an
insult to black people if one simply assumes that black people
believe in these things less than white people.
 
For instance, with the graphic indicating that whiteness and
white culture are defined by "respect for authority," an
appreciation for "delayed gratification," the tendency to
"follow rigid time schedules" and the belief that "hard work is
the key to success," the implication is that black people are
less defined by these values.
 
I'm pretty sure I'd be called a racist if I were to take my cues
from this list and say, "Unlike white people, black people don't
believe that hard work is key to success."
 
Some of the other race-based ­assertions from 30-year-old
research by Judith Katz, a white diversity consultant, aren't
merely bigoted by implication, they're just wrong. Sure,
"Christianity is the norm" for white Americans, though less so
every year. But do you know for whom the faith is even more of a
norm? Black Americans. And Hispanics.
 
According to the Pew Research Center, blacks and Hispanics are
more likely than whites to attend church — Christian church —
regularly. As for the notion that whites are disproportionately
biased against multi-god faiths, I can't find any evidence for
it. Indeed, from what I can tell, most forms of ­paganism and
polytheism in America tend to be almost exclusively white
phenomena, though data here is pretty hard to come by.
 
There is a lot in this that makes me angry, but the worst thing
is that this garbage is almost designed to make race relations
worse. For instance, Katz's cheat sheet informs us that a
defining norm of white communication is the notion that one
should "be polite."
 
First, I only wish that were more true of white culture. But
more ­important, what in the world is this woman talking about?
 
Are good manners not a valuable norm for everybody? After all,
manners are simply modes of conduct to show others respect. Good
manners and mutual respect reduce the chances for conflict,
including violent conflict, in every society — which is why
every society has norms of politeness. Is that really just a
white norm that we need less of today? Should white people, in
order to shed their privilege, be less polite to anyone? To
black people? To immigrants?
 
If I were to say to a black friend, never mind a black stranger
or co-worker, "Look, I understand your culture doesn't value
punctuality or hard work the way mine does," would that be
better? It would be impolite, to say the least.
 
This nonsense works on the assumption that mainstream, bourgeois
norms — hard work, delayed gratification, punctuality, etc. —
have no intrinsic or extrinsic value separate and apart from
white culture and white privilege. That's not only insane, it's
harmful, because it gives people permission to reject these
norms as "structures of oppression" or some similar balderdash.
 
Why on earth would you want to tell black people such a thing?
Why would you want to tell anybody this stuff, even if it were
true?
 
I'm all for changing any norms of politeness that make black
Americans (or Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, etc.) feel
­oppressed or excluded. But I can't fathom how putting these
ideas into action helps do anything of the sort.
 
https://nypost.com/2020/07/19/this-anti-racism-education-sure-
looks-awfully-racist/
"Willie Brown's Cum Dumpster" <kamala-harris-the-whore@latimes.com>: Jan 02 02:18AM +0100

A new, exhaustive study by Gallup and the Knight Foundation
found that Americans across the board are losing trust in the
media. Some people might be shocked by this finding, but I
suspect more people will be shocked to learn that the media had
any trust left to lose.
 
Either way, I think a separate poll conducted by Gallup might
illuminate the problem.
 
If you've paid any attention to the news, particularly cable
news, over the last couple of months since George Floyd's
killing by police in Minneapolis, you might think "defunding" or
"abolishing" the police is a widely held and even somewhat
mainstream desire.
 
Gallup suggests this is untrue. The vast majority of Americans
of all races and ethnicities don't want the police to leave
their communities.
 
Respondents were asked: "Would you rather the police spend more
time, the same amount of time or less time as they currently
spend in your area?" Sixty-one percent of black respondents said
they wanted the same amount of time; 20 percent said more.
Hispanics had similar numbers (59 percent same, 24 percent more).
 
Has anything close to that reality been reflected in the
"national conversation" about race and policing? How many
softball interviews did CNN or MSNBC conduct with ­activists
claiming to speak for "communities of color," in which
"defunding the police" was not only taken seriously but
sympathetically?
 
My point isn't that all is great with policing in America. But
"defund the police" or "abolish the police" — slogans that got
wide traction in the elite media for much of the summer, buoyed
by polished academics and activists with ready-made talking
points — was always an absurd idea, politically and practically.
Politically, because even the most victimized populations don't
want to get rid of the police, and practically, because a police-
free modern society is simply unworkable. (Just ask the former
denizens of that "autonomous zone" in Seattle.)
 
The Gallup/Knight study found that nearly 8 in 10 Americans
think the media is trying to convince people "to adopt a certain
opinion." Well, for much of this year, skepticism toward "defund-
the-police" rhetoric has been quickly dismissed as just another
manifestation of white privilege. Except, as the Gallup poll
suggests, black people don't view police the same way the
activists and journalists who dominate the debate do.
 
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than 50
million Americans have at least one interaction with police in a
given year. Most of those were traffic stops of one kind or
another. Eighty-five percent of black people reported that
traffic stops they were involved in were conducted properly.
 
Again, my point isn't that all is fine with race and policing in
America. Any unjustified killing by a police officer should be
condemned and prosecuted for all of the obvious reasons. And the
evidence that black people are disproportionately and unfairly
singled out for traffic stops seems compelling to me.
 
But the narrative pushed by the media is almost allegorical when
held up against reality. I lost track of the number of times
reporters and interviewers said, or allowed people to get away
with saying, that policing originated as "slave patrols."
­Policing is thousands of years old, and while some police
departments in slave states had antecedents in such patrols,
those in, say, Boston and Minneapolis didn't.
 
More important, the purpose of this talking point is to buttress
an almost biblical narrative of some original sin that
supposedly animates police departments today. I would bet that
not one cop in 10,000 had ever heard that policing was the
legacy of slave patrols until this year.
 
The debate over policing is just one facet of this complex
problem. For instance, journalists at elite outlets often use
"Latinx" to describe a diverse Hispanic or Latino population to
avoid gendered or colonial connotations. Never mind that 98
percent of American Latinos told pollsters at ThinkNow ­Research
that they don't like, know or use the term.
 
This isn't just about liberal media bias. (The right-wing media
has biases, too). It reflects a tendency for American media
outlets to speak to audiences that are unrepresentative of
America as a whole. Why they do it can't be reduced to a single
explanation. That they do it is obvious to a lot of Americans.
 
https://nypost.com/2020/08/09/defund-the-police-is-a-media-
fantasy/
"Bradley K. Sherman" <bksherman@loser.piece.of.shit>: Jan 02 02:18AM +0100

Just quit it, Madam Speaker: This "I was framed" stuff isn't
flying. You, Nancy Pelosi, have been insistent that everyone
needs to comply with pandemic restrictions, which makes your
salon visit the rankest of hypocrisy.
 
Businesses across America are at, or over, death's edge because
of the politicians' rules. The least that you and other leaders
can do is comply.
 
San Francisco salons weren't even allowed to offer outdoor
service until Tuesday. How is anyone supposed to believe you
really thought there was some exception that kosherized your
indoor visit on Monday?
 
The city also requires masks whenever social distancing is
impossible, which clearly covers your unmasked stroll through
the salon premises after your wash.
 
Yes, your stylist now backs up your story: She wants to keep
working in lefty 'Frisco, after all. (The salon owner, who
released the damning security tape, expects she'll have to leave
town after all the threats on her life and business.)
 
Lots of people will understand: After months of lockdown, you
wanted to get out for a minor indulgence. Lots of people are
cheating, and you didn't think anyone else would ever know.
 
But you got caught, and with no real excuse. And rather than
offer an apology to the public, you're demanding one. It doesn't
get more imperious.
 
Stop trying to play the victim: Admit you did wrong, and then
help the rest of us go back to having salon services and indoor
dining and in-person school, legally.
 
https://nypost.com/2020/09/04/nancy-pelosi-must-apologize-for-
salon-violations/
"Ray" <dirtnaps@gmail.com>: Jan 02 02:13AM +0100

Fuck you. Burn in Hell you murdering lying son of a bitch. May
your dysfunctional knuckle-dragging Democrat family rot in there
with you.
 
Law enforcement agents killed Michael Forest Reinoehl while
trying to arrest him, four officials said. He was being
investigated in the fatal shooting of a supporter of a far-right
group.
 
LACEY, Wash. — Law enforcement agents shot and killed an antifa
supporter on Thursday as they moved to arrest him in the fatal
shooting of a right-wing activist who was part of a pro-Trump
caravan in Portland, Ore., officials said.
 
The suspect, Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, was shot by officers
from a federally led fugitive task force during the encounter in
Lacey, Wash., southwest of Seattle, according to four law
enforcement officials familiar with the investigation.
 
Lt. Ray Brady of the Thurston County Sheriff's Office said in an
interview that the suspect being sought by the law enforcement
team had exited an apartment and got into a vehicle.
 
"As they attempted to apprehend him, there was gunfire,"
Lieutenant Brady said. He said four law enforcement officers
fired their weapons.
 
Lieutenant Brady said that the officers at the scene reported
that the suspect was armed, but that investigators had not
confirmed that as of early Friday morning.
 
An arrest warrant had been issued by the Portland police earlier
Thursday, on the same day that Vice News published an interview
with Mr. Reinoehl in which he appeared to admit to the Aug. 29
shooting, saying, "I had no choice."
 
The Portland police had been investigating Saturday's shooting
death of Aaron J. Danielson, one of the supporters of President
Trump who came into downtown Portland and clashed with
protesters demonstrating against racial injustice and police
brutality.
 
Mr. Reinoehl, who lived in the Portland area, had been a
persistent presence at the city's demonstrations over recent
weeks, helping the protesters with security and suggesting on
social media that the struggle was becoming a war where "there
will be casualties."
 
"I am 100% ANTIFA all the way!" he posted on Instagram in June,
referring to a loose collection of activists who have mobilized
to oppose groups they see as fascist or racist. "I am willing to
fight for my brothers and sisters! Even if some of them are too
ignorant to realize what antifa truly stands for. We do not want
violence but we will not run from it either!"
 
In the Vice interview, Mr. Reinoehl said he had acted in self-
defense, believing that he and a friend were about to be
stabbed. "I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend
of mine of color, but I wasn't going to do that," he said.
 
An hour before his fatal encounter with law enforcement, Mr.
Reinoehl was on the telephone with Tiffanie Wickwire, who was
helping him set up a GoFundMe page, Ms. Wickwire said in an
interview.
 
"We were talking about his kids and what to do for them if
anything happened to him," she said, referring to his 17-year-
old son and 11-year-old daughter.
 
"Stay safe," they told each other at the end of the call, she
said.
 
The task force that attempted to arrest Mr. Reinoehl included
members of the U.S. Marshals Service, the Lakewood Police
Department, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department and the
Washington State Department of Corrections.
 
The officers closed in on Mr. Reinoehl on a residential street
lined with townhomes and single-family houses in an
unincorporated area adjacent to Lacey, not far from the
Washington State capital of Olympia and about two hours north of
Portland.
 
Chad Smith, 29, who lives next door to the apartment where the
shooting occurred, said he was standing outside at about 6:45
p.m. when he saw two S.U.V.s race toward the complex. He heard
about a minute and a half of gunshots, he said, then saw a man
walking backward next to a white pickup truck, holding what
appeared to be a gun, and officers firing in his direction.
 
Trevor Brown, 24, who lives in a townhouse nearby, said he heard
several shots fired and saw as many as four police officers in
the road, who fired three or four times. He said he then saw Mr.
Reinoehl lying on the ground.
 
Jashon Spencer, who also lives not far away, also heard the
gunshots. "I just heard a whole bunch of pops," Mr. Spencer
said. "I ducked. I thought they were shooting in my yard."
 
He said that he went out and saw a bloodied man in the street,
and a video he took showed a law enforcement officer attempting
CPR.
 
After the shooting, several hundred protesters in Portland
gathered in front of a police station in a residential
neighborhood, chanting racial justice slogans as they have on
most nights since May, although the mood shortly before midnight
was relatively calm.
 
"There's blood on your hands. You murdered Michael Reinoehl,"
someone had posted in the street outside a law enforcement
building. "Michael was murdered," said another posting.
 
Later in the evening, police officers charged the crowd and took
one person into custody.
 
As part of the protesters' security team during the
demonstrations, Mr. Reinoehl's role included intercepting
potential agitators and helping calm conflicts, fellow
protesters said.
 
"Nightly, he would break up fights," said Randal McCorkle, a
regular at the demonstrations who said he became close friends
with Mr. Reinoehl as they wore on.
 
"He wanted change so badly," he said. His death, he said, would
likely inspire others to continue the movement for police
reform. "I was going to say radicalize, but galvanize is a
better word," he said. "Honestly, I'm going to try to step into
his shoes."
 
Reese Monson, a leader in the local protest movement who also
helps organize security, said all the people who helped with
security in Portland, including Mr. Reinoehl, were trained on de-
escalation.
 
"He was excellent at that," Mr. Monson said.
 
Mr. Monson said the security designees have been trained to
approach potential agitators and politely ask them to leave.
They have also been trained on how to conduct physical removals
but are cautioned to try to avoid such measures because they can
cause things to escalate. Mr. Monson said Mr. Reinoehl would
often come over to discuss how to appropriately handle potential
agitators.
 
He sometimes ran into trouble, though. On July 5 during the
protests, Mr. Reinoehl was charged with resisting arrest and
possession of a loaded firearm in a case that was later dropped.
At the end of July, he showed a bloodied arm to a journalist
with Bloomberg QuickTake News and said he had been shot while
intervening in a fight.
 
The night when Mr. Danielson was shot began with a large crowd
of supporters of Mr. Trump gathering in the suburbs. They
planned to drive hundreds of vehicles carrying flags around the
highways of Portland, but many of them eventually drove
downtown, where protesters have been congregating regularly.
Once there, some Trump supporters shot paintballs into the
crowd, while people on the streets threw objects back at them.
Some fistfights broke out.
 
As evening turned into night, video appears to show Mr.
Danielson, who was wearing a hat with the insignia of the far-
right group Patriot Prayer, and Mr. Reinoehl on a street along
with a few other people. One person was shouting, "We've got a
couple right here."
 
The man who captured video of the shooting, Justin Dunlap, said
it appeared that Mr. Danielson reached to his hip.
 
"He pulled from his side, just like he was pulling a gun," Mr.
Dunlap said.
 
But in other video shot during the encounter, someone can be
heard flagging that Mr. Danielson was pulling out a can of mace.
"He's macing you, he's pulling it out," the person warned.
 
It appeared from the video that Mr. Danielson sprayed mace just
as two gunshots could be heard, and Mr. Danielson went down.
 
Portland has seen escalating conflicts involving guns over the
past few weeks. On Aug. 15, a person allied with right-wing
demonstrators fired two shots from his vehicle, the authorities
said. A week later, during open clashes on the streets, another
right-wing demonstrator pulled out a gun.
 
Mr. Reinoehl said in his social media posts that he was once in
the Army, and hated it, although an Army official said no record
of service could be found under his name. In the Bloomberg
interview, Mr. Reinoehl described himself as a professional
snowboarder and a contractor.
 
His daughter was with him during the July interview, and he said
she had also been present during the encounter that left his arm
bloodied.
 
"The fact is that she is going to be contributing to running
this new country that we're fighting for," Mr. Reinoehl said.
"And she's going to learn everything on the street, not by what
people have said."
 
Mr. Reinoehl's sister, who asked to remain anonymous because the
family has received numerous threatening phone calls in recent
days, said police officers asked if screenshots from videos from
the night of the shooting looked like her brother. She said they
did, but she said she had not seen him since three years ago,
when she said family members broke off contact with Mr. Reinoehl
after escalating conflicts.
 
At the beginning of June, in the days after George Floyd's death
in Minneapolis triggered nationwide protests, Mr. Reinoehl began
posting about the need for change.
 
"Things are bad right now and they can only get worse," he
posted on June 3. "But that is how a radical change comes about."
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/michael-reinoehl-arrest-
portland-shooting.html
"ANTIFA - LIARS" <antifa-liars@gmail.com>: Jan 02 02:13AM +0100

John Malkovich's son was arrested at a violent Black Lives
Matter rally in Portland, Oregon, where marchers attacked cops
trying to protect their union building amid chants of "burn it
down," according to authorities.
 
The actor's Portland-based software engineer son Loewy
Malkovich, 38, was listed as one of 27 people arrested Friday
night — the 100th consecutive night of protests in the whitest
major city in the US.
 
He was busted on charges of interfering with a peace officer,
and second-degree disorderly conduct, according to a release by
the Portland Police Bureau.
 
No details were given as to what he was personally accused of
doing during the night of violence that was ruled an unlawful
assembly as police say they were attacked with rocks and bottles
while protecting the building previously attacked by arsonists.
 
His low-level charges fall into the category that Multnomah
County District Attorney Mike Schmidt said his office will not
even prosecute.
 
However, some of the Oregon State Police making arrests have
been federally deputized, which means protesters like Malkovich
could face federal charges, Willamette Week noted.
 
Malkovich did not follow his "Being John Malkovich" star dad
into acting, and his LinkedIn profile says he is a Junior
Software Engineer at Chainstarters Inc in the City of Roses.
 
He also presumably didn't get his political activism from his
father either, with the 66-year-old actor admitting to The
Guardian in May that he can't stand politics and hasn't voted
since 1972's US presidential election, when he cast his ballot
for the Democrat, George McGovern.
 
"I guess I think the system is pretty corrupt," he told the UK
paper.
 
He also has a reputation as a "warmongering neo-con," the paper
noted, supporting the invasion of Iraq and the death penalty, of
which he once said: "I would have no problem pushing the switch
while having dinner."
 
While his son moved to Portland, his daughter, Amandine, works
in a grocery store while living with her parents in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, the actor said at the time. Their mother —
Malkovich's partner of more than 30 years, Nicoletta Peyran — is
an academic, he said.
 
https://nypost.com/2020/09/06/john-malkovichs-son-arrested-at-
violent-blm-rally-in-portland/
"hamilton" <nigger-lovers@disney.com>: Jan 02 02:08AM +0100

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced on Sunday
that his office has received the FBI's ballistics report for the
shooting of Breonna Taylor.
 
Speaking on CBS' "Face The Nation," Cameron said his office will
be working with the FBI to review the information and will
"conduct a fair and through investigation" into the death of
Taylor.
 
"There is still some witness testimony in interviews that have
to be conducted. But we do have that ballistics report," Cameron
said. "We will be meeting with the FBI at the beginning of this
upcoming week to have a painstaking review of that information."
 
He added: "We took this case because we have the resources
internally to conduct a fair and thorough investigation."
 
AUTHORITIES TAKE BREONNA TAYLOR'S EX-BOYFRIEND INTO CUSTODY DAYS
AFTER WARRANTS WERE ISSUED FOR HIS ARREST
 
Taylor, an EMT and aspiring nurse, was killed earlier this year
when Louisville police allegedly carried out a no-knock warrant
on her home. Taylor was shot eight times after Louisville police
let off more than 20 shots inside her home, according to local
reports.
 
The officers who stormed Taylor's house were executing a drug
warrant in search of a male suspect who didn't live in her
apartment complex, the reports said. It turned out he had
already been detained by authorities before the warrant was
executed.
 
Taylor's ex-boyfriend said she didn't have any involvement in
illegal activities and the information police used to obtain the
no-knock search warrant was false.
 
The police who stormed Taylor's home in March were executing a
drug warrant in search of Jamarcus Glover, 30, who didn't live
in her apartment complex. It turned out he already had been
detained by authorities before the warrant was executed.
 
No drugs were found in the house.
 
"The police are trying to make it out to be my fault," Glover
told the (Louisville) Courier-Journal, "making it look like I
brought this to Breonna's door."
 
"At the end of the day, they went about it the wrong way and
lied on that search warrant and shot that girl," he said.
 
The Courier-Journal previously reported on verified phone calls,
including one on the day she died, where Glover told Taylor she
had "$8K for him" and "that she had been "handling all my money."
 
CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP
 
Glover denied that Taylor had any money for him and said she was
not involved in any drug activities.
 
Authorities investigating Glover prior to Taylor's death had
seen packages delivered to her residence addressed to Glover,
and Glover was seen leaving her house with parcels that he took
back to his alleged drug house, according to the arrest
affidavit.
 
Kentucky AG weighs possible charges in Breonna Taylor case, 5
months after her deathVideo
"Getting shoes and clothes coming through the mail is not
illegal," Glover said. "Nothing illegal at all." Glover said he
used Taylor's address because he didn't want personal items
stolen at his own house.
 
Glover was rearrested Thursday by police, nearly 15 hours after
his interview with the news outlet, for failing to post $50,000
bail on previous drug and trafficking charges. He admitted to
the outlet he would sell drugs to make money for his livelihood.
 
Fox News' Vandana Rambaran contributed to this report.
 
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kentucky-ag-says-his-office-has-
received-in-fbi-ballistics-report-from-breonna-taylor-shooting
"hamilton" <nigger-lovers@disney.com>: Jan 02 02:08AM +0100

That's rich.
 
One of the Black Lives Matter protesters now facing felony
rioting and misdemeanor graffiti charges — after a window-
smashing free-for-all in Manhattan — is a wealthy Upper East
Sider whose mother is an architect and whose father is a child
psychiatrist.
 
Clara Kraebber, 20, is one of eight people arrested Friday night
after a roiling, three-hour rampage that police say caused at
least $100,000 in damage from Foley Square up to 24th Street.
 
"Every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground!" the
group chanted as it moved up Lafayette Street while busting the
plate glass facades of banks, Starbucks and Duane-Reades.
 
The protest was organized by groups calling themselves the "New
Afrikan Black Panther Party" and the "Revolutionary Abolitionist
Movement."
 
Given her privileged upbringing, Kraebber might seem an unlikely
alleged revolutionary in those ranks.
 
Kraebber's mother, Virginia Kindred, runs Kindred Arch.Works, a
Manhattan architect firm that has designed spaces for Columbia
University and NYU, and worked on numerous school and business
spaces throughout the city.
 
Her father is Markus Kraebber, an Upper East Side child and
adolescent psychiatrist who teaches at the Columbia University
Department of Psychiatry.
 
In 2016 the family paid $1.8 million for their 16th-floor
apartment on East End Avenue. The family also owns a 1730 home —
featuring four fireplaces, according to property listings — in
tony Litchfield County, Conn.
 
But Kraebber has joined in street protests for years before
allegedly taking part in Friday night's march.
 
She is now facing a maximum of four years prison on her top
charge of first-degree riot.
 
"We don't have much political power right now, being youths, but
this is something we can do," she told The New York Times in
2014, explaining why she joined a Manhattan rally on behalf of
Ferguson, Mo., police-brutality casualty Michael Brown.
 
She was a 14-year-old student at the elite Hunter College HS at
the time.
 
Now, she is a history undergrad at Rice University in Houston,
according to her Facebook page — where the most recent photo,
from June, shows her grinning ear to ear while holding a goat.
 
As a member of the Rice Young Democrats, she helped work on Beto
O'Rourke's 2018 failed bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz.
 
She donated $121 to the Rice Young Democrats PAC.
 
"Does Beto make you feel this way too??? THEN GO VOTE!!!" she
captioned a Facebook photo showing her looking up, earnestly, at
the candidate.
 
Clara Kraebber didn't have much to say when reached by phone at
her second home in Connecticut Friday night.
 
"No — not right now — I don't want to talk about it," she said
of her arrest.
 
"This is the height of hypocrisy," one law enforcement source
who was at the protest told The Post.
"This girl should be the poster child for white privilege,
growing up on the Upper East Side and another home in
Connecticut.
 
"I wonder how her rich parents feel about their daughter. How
would they feel if they graffitied their townhouse?"
 
Additional reporting by Alex Taylor, Margot Judge and Laura
Italiano
 
https://nypost.com/2020/09/05/wealthy-nyc-woman-busted-in-blm-
rampage/
"Democrats, Fruits & Nuts" <clown-party@gmail.com>: Jan 02 01:58AM +0100

After most of the businesses in the city have been destroyed.
 
Way to go Democrats.
"Sholly" <sholly@gmail.com>: Jan 02 01:48AM +0100

The mayor of Portland ordered the city's police to stop using
tear gas for crowd control during protests that have rocked the
city for more than 100 days in the wake of the police killing of
George Floyd in Minneapolis.
 
Mayor Ted Wheeler said Thursday the ban is effective immediately
and will last until further notice. Wheeler, who was tear gassed
by federal officers along with a large group of protesters in
July, also serves as the city's police commissioner.
 
"During the last hundred days, Portland, Multnomah County and
State Police have all relied on CS gas where there is a threat
to life safety," Wheeler said in a statement. "We need something
different. We need it now."
 
CS gas is a common form of tear gas that can immediately cause
irritation to the eyes, nose, mouth, lungs and skin, according
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prolonged
exposure to the gas, which is forbidden to use in war but legal
for use on civilians, can cause severe health effects such as
blindness, glaucoma, respiratory failure and death due to severe
chemical burns to the throat and lungs, according to the CDC.
 
Wheeler's announcement comes after months of criticism leveled
at police across the country for using tear gas to control
crowds at Black Lives Matter protests.
 
In June, Wheeler ordered police to curb the use of tear gas
shortly after the American Civil Liberties Union Oregon sent a
letter to Oregon's mayors, city managers and police chiefs
urging them to ban the use of tear gas and flash bang devices.
 
At the time, Wheeler said he directed Portland Police Chief Jami
Resch to only use tear gas if "there is a serious and immediate
threat to life safety, and there is no other viable alternative
for dispersal."
 
Protesters in Oregon's largest city have sometimes clashed with
law enforcement during the nightly demonstrations. The
protesters want city officials to slash the police budget and
reallocate that money to Black residents and businesses. Some
are also demanding Wheeler's resignation.
 
https://news.yahoo.com/portland-mayor-bans-cops-using-
132937186.html
 
Ted Wheeler will go down in history as the Democrat Mayor who
destroyed Portland while the dumbshits who live there stood by
and watched.
 
Did the residents protest about Wheeler destroying their city?
No. They elected this Democrat asshole. Let them deal with it.
"Dead Witch" <dead-witch@gmail.com>: Jan 02 01:28AM +0100

Deer Roger Goodell,
 
You let #MeToo cunts fuck you up the ass - You compromised what
little integrity you had and handed them money.
 
You bent over and took it up the ass from the NFPLA.
 
As Black Lies Matter and their little white terrorist
supportewrs buid down cities and taunt cops, you ate their shit
and handed them money.
 
But the worst thing you did, you air-headed Democrat cocksucker,
was agree to pipe meaningless crowd noise into EMPTY FUCKING
STADIUMS, drowning out the broadcasts.
 
STUPID ROGER GOODELL.
 
TAGS: NBC, CBS, ABC, ESPN, NFL, BLM, ANTIFA, FELON, COMMUNISM,
TERRORISM, FRAUD, BUSINESS ADVERTISING, CRIME, STUPID PEOPLE,
BOYCOTT, BOYCOTT THESE DUMB FUCKS
"Bradley K. Sherman" <bksherman@trump2020.com>: Jan 02 01:07AM +0100

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given us a unique opportunity to
perfectly understand the modern Democrats' belief in
aristocratic superiority.
 
Her recent hypocrisy in going to her hair salon, which was
supposed to be shut down due to San Francisco's stringent (and
Pelosi-supported) COVID-19 rules, is just one more example of
Democratic members of the political aristocracy believing they
are superior to citizens (the opposite of the Founding premise
of America).
 
The American people have long resented the hypocrisy and
arrogance by which a political aristocracy believes one set of
rules applies to the public and a totally different set of rules
applies to its interests and its family members.
 
We knew that this double standard deeply offended most Americans
in 1994, and that is why the first commitment of the Contract
with America was to "require all laws that apply to the rest of
the country also apply equally to the Congress."
 
Newsweek subscription offers >
 
In a year when the political aristocrats have been imposing
ruthless rules on the rest of us, there have been numerous
examples of these same politicians breaking the rules—or
allowing their family members to break them.
 
Speaker Pelosi's hair salon visit may be one of those rare
sparks that sets off a huge fire.
 
The outrage that the salon owner, Erica Kious, felt at being
closed for months and then having Pelosi blatantly break the
rules led to a video ambush that will become one of the major
events of 2020.
 
Of course, Pelosi is trying to deflect the focus from her
hypocrisy by claiming that she was "set up." Now—in addition to
struggling to keep her business open due to the
restrictions—Kious has been receiving death threats from
Pelosi's radical mob. Even CNN's Don Lemon has called out Pelosi
for her "set up" claim.
 
Newsweek subscription offers >
 
The arrogance of Pelosi's rule-breaking is understandable to
every person who gets a haircut—and every small business owner
who is facing bankruptcy because of cumbersome, overbearing
rules imposed by the political class.
 
This same arrogance is being exercised across the country by
other political elites.
 
In addition to Pelosi, we've seen other Democratic leaders
ignore or exempt themselves from onerous pandemic rules.
 
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered 19 Central
Valley counties to disallow indoor operations at restaurants,
wineries and a host of other businesses. Curiously, he did not
include Madera County, where he and his wife own stock in a
winery consortium, despite it bordering several other counties
on the list. His winery only closed after Newsom's hypocrisy and
arrogance were called out.
 
As most of his constituents in Arizona were quarantined and
advised to stay home—and after Democrats pushed to allow remote
voting in Congress because they said travel was too
dangerous—Congressman Greg Stanton traveled with his family to
Utah to vacation. He even called into a House Transportation
Committee hearing while he was on a boat. The message was clear:
Regular Americans are supposed to remain locked down in their
homes, but members of Congress get to go on vacation.
 
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney disallowed indoor dining in the
city he runs, but he was fine traveling to Maryland to have a
meal inside. Americans stay home. Aristocrats dine out.
 
As millions of Americans have been forced to forego traditional,
in-person funerals for their loved ones, more than 50 members of
the political elite (including Pelosi, numerous members of
Congress and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser) attended the
large indoor funeral for the late Rep. John Lewis of Georgia—and
Bowser exempted attendees from D.C.'s quarantine travel rules
afterward. Again, normal Americans have to limit their grieving
rites. The political elite do not.
 
Normal New Yorkers are told they must limit social interactions
and public activities, while Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio
goes to the gym.
 
After lecturing Virginians to wear masks everywhere they go,
Gov. Ralph Northam strolls the Virginia Beach boardwalk taking
unmasked selfies with his supporters. Again, do as we say—not as
we do.
 
But this hypocrisy goes beyond coronavirus rules.
 
As violence, looting and riots pour through Chicago, Mayor Lori
Lightfoot ordered a police detail to her neighborhood to protect
her home and her family. In addition to this, she banned
protests outside her home. Everyday Chicagoans have to cope with
violence and a gutted police department. Lightfoot does not.
 
Similarly, Minneapolis Councilmembers Andrea Jenkins, Phillipe
Cunningham and Alondra Cano all started receiving taxpayer-
funded private security ($63,000-worth) after violence broke out
in their city. They all support defunding the city's police
department. The same goes for anti-police Los Angeles City
Council President Nury Martinez. She had two L.A. police
officers as personal security for herself and her home for two
months, while at the same time calling to defund the department.
 
So, the political class deserves security, while normal citizens
do not.
 
Finally, a host of members of the political aristocracy oppose
school choice for normal Americans but send their own children
to expensive private schools.
 
Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and many other Senate
Democrats derided and mocked U.S. Education Secretary Betsy
DeVos for supporting school choice programs during her
confirmation hearings. Meanwhile, Whitehouse himself and his
children attended elite private boarding schools. In his own
words, Whitehouse chose to send his kids to private schools to
offer "the best education that I can for them, and I felt that,
in their circumstances, the places that I chose to send them
were the best schools for them." Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA) also
opposed DeVos and school choice, yet sent his children to elite
private schools.
 
These examples of aristocratic arrogance are exactly what
President Donald Trump was referencing during his nomination
speech at the Republican National Convention:
 
"[Biden] takes his marching orders from liberal hypocrites who
drive their cities into the ground while fleeing far from the
scene of the wreckage. These same liberals want to eliminate
school choice while they enroll their children in the finest
private schools in the land. They want to open our borders while
living in walled-off compounds and communities in the best
neighborhoods in the world. They want to defund the police while
they have armed guards for themselves."
 
These double standards should form the basis for a privileged
resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives. It should state
that Pelosi's breaking the rules brought dishonor on the U.S.
House.
 
Vice President Joe Biden should be challenged to condemn
Pelosi's violation (by the way, his children went to a private
school while he also opposes choice for the rest of us). And
every Democratic House and Senate candidate should be challenged
on whether they approve of Pelosi and others' aristocratic rule-
breaking and arrogance.
 
This could have a profound impact on federal, state and local
elections across the country this November. It can also force
governments in Democratic-run states to realign and return to
working for the People, not the political class.
 
To read, hear and watch more of Newt's commentary, visit
Gingrich360.com.
 
The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.
 
https://www.newsweek.com/nancys-blowout-could-lead-blowout-
election-opinion-1529563
"Shade" <external@dont-email.me>: Jan 02 12:29AM +0100

Along came COVID-19 and shoved that right up Alex Padilla's ass.
"Depends Nancy" <depends-nancy@sacbee.com>: Jan 02 12:19AM +0100

Erica Kious, the owner of the e Salon SF, said she has received
death threats in the wake of exposing the House Speaker's trip
to her business on Monday
Pelosi said Wednesday she fell for a 'set up' by the salon and
is owed an apology
But Kious said it was Pelosi's staff who called to make the
appointment
San Francisco beauty parlors weren't supposed to open until
September 1
Additionally face masks are required to be worn in public indoor
places
 
The owner of the salon where Nancy Pelosi was filmed getting a
blow dry without a mask in defiance of COVID lockdown rules has
denied setting the Democrat up.
 
Erica Kious, the owner of the e Salon SF, told Tucker Carlson
she has received death threats in the wake of exposing the House
Speaker's trip to her business on Monday.
 
She said: '[Pelosi] had called the stylist, or her assistant
did, and had made the appointment so the appointment was already
booked so there was no way I could have set that up.
 
'And I've had a camera system in there for five years, I mean I
didn't go in there and turn cameras on as soon as she walked in
and set her up so that's absolutely false.'
 
Speaker Pelosi said Wednesday that she fell for a 'set up' by
the salon and added the salon owes her an apology.
 
San Francisco beauty parlors weren't supposed to open until
September 1, the day after the speaker had her treatment.
Additionally, the California Department of Public Health
requires face masks to be worn in public indoor places.
 
Speaking Wednesday Kious added: 'For the past six months, we are
pretty much done. We have lost at least 60 per cent of our
clients, I've lost the majority of my staff. So six months is a
long time to be closed down.
 
'Just to see her come in, especially her not wearing a mask,
that's what really got to me. This isn't political, it's the
fact she came in and didn't have a mask on.
 
'If she is in there comfortably then why are we shut down?'
 
Kious, who rents out chairs to different stylists, said since
the release of the footage Tuesday evening she has received
threats to burn down her salon.
 
<https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/09/03/04/32695704-8692011-
Fox_News_broke_the_story_Tuesday_that_the_House_speaker_had_infu-
a-56_1599104239418.jpg>
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8692011/Salon-owner-
denies-setting-Pelosi-says-business-receiving-death-threats.html
"Tony" <tony@2020trump.com>: Jan 02 12:19AM +0100

Let's get the hat trick.
"Bradley K. Sherman" <bksherman@oakland.wrecked.rectum>: Jan 02 12:14AM +0100

The San Francisco hair salon owner that was accused of "setting
up" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week thanked supporters for
their "outpouring" of support in a letter on Tuesday. A
crowdfunding effort for Erica Kious surpassed its $300,000 goal
on Monday, just six days after it began.
 
"I wish I could personally thank every person who sent me their
prayers, words of encouragement and support, especially at a
time when so many are struggling to make ends meet in their own
lives," Kious wrote in a letter posted Tuesday by the host of
the GoFundMe. She thanked her daughters, their "loving dad," and
her family and friends.
 
The GoFundMe page claims to be set up by a friend of Kious and
her family. It states, "At the conclusion of this fundraiser,
ALL donations will go directly to Erica to pay off any debts
from the business that she is forced to shut down, expenses to
relocate and reopen in a new location."
 
Last week, Pelosi faced criticism after surveillance video
surfaced of her visit to eSalon on Union Street in San
Francisco, where she was seen inside without a mask on – which
violated health guidelines in the city during the coronavirus
pandemic. Pelosi responded to the video, calling the visit a
"setup."
 
Kious denied the claim, while Pelosi's hairstylist backed it.
The video was widely shared on social media, where Pelosi
received backlash.
 
Salons in San Francisco were allowed to start reopening a day
after Pelosi's visit for outdoor service, according to the
city's health department. Face masks are always required during
approved services and more generally required citywide when
social distancing can't be maintained.
 
After Pelosi said the salon owed her "an apology for setting
[me] up," Kious said the accusation was "absolutely false,"
claiming she has had her surveillance cameras for five years and
adding that Pelosi's stylist is an independent contractor
renting space in the salon. Kious received support after saying
she had been getting threats and is thinking of relocating her
business.
 
"I am very humbled and grateful to have received such an
outpouring of kindness, empathy and generosity from people I
don't even know, and from all walks of life and all sides of the
political spectrum," she said in the letter. "It's a powerful
reminder that the common things that bind us all together as
Americans are far more meaningful and lasting than political and
ideological differences that get so much attention and focus."
 
"Today, on Labor Day, we should all focus on celebrating the
efforts and achievements of hard-working people everywhere," she
continued. "They deserve our respect and appreciation, and they
definitely all deserve an opportunity to get back to work safely
and responsibly. That is all this ever was about."
 
https://news.yahoo.com/300-000-raised-salon-owner-162908253.html
"Bradley K. Sherman" <slime@nytimes.com>: Jan 02 12:14AM +0100

During the visit, Harris urged supporters to vote in large
numbers, stressing the struggles of the middle class due to the
coronavirus pandemic and what she said was the president stoking
racial tensions.
 
In her remarks, Harris also overstated the U.S. death toll of
the virus, saying it had killed "over 220 million" Americans
instead of the actual tally of around 224,000.
 
Michael J. McDonald - Text TRUMP to 88022
@McDonaldNV
Ooops, she did it again. Kamala Harris again claims that two-
thirds of the U.S Population has died in the last several
months. #BidenBrain
 
https://twitter.com/McDonaldNV/status/1320102555855155200
"Bradley K. Sherman" <bksherman@loser.piece.of.shit>: Jan 02 12:03AM +0100

Along the Bagnell Dam Strip in the heart of the Lake of the
Ozarks, thousands of motorcycles are tightly parked in the
middle of a two-lane highway.
 
Tourists from across the country have been cutting loose along
the historic stretch, known as the "main party hub" of the
Missouri resort area, for months—but over the last three days,
the highway lined with bars, hotels, and concert venues has been
home to one of the largest motorcycle rallies in the Midwest:
Lake of the Ozarks' Bikefest.
 
Tens of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts have flooded the
area for the annual rally, which started Wednesday,
participating in five days of rides, fairs, music concerts, and
coordinated stops at local bars and restaurants.
 
In one video from Thursday night, hundreds of patrons—most
maskless—could be seen crowding into the strip's bars and
restaurants, clearly flouting federal social distancing
recommendations. And Bikefest is not the only gathering at the
lake this weekend. Hundreds are expected to show their support
for President Trump at a boat parade taking place across the 92-
mile-long lake.
 
"There are thousands of bikes here. A lot of people here—this
weekend there will be even more people," Dan Ousley, a 51-year-
old local who has participated in Bikefest for years, told The
Daily Beast. "It's great to see. Honestly, I think that the
COVID-19 thing is a little overblown, to be honest. We made
national news for having large crowds, but we just want to live
our life."
 
Ousley, who is hosting a 15-mile "Bikefest-Trump parade" ride on
Saturday that is expected to attract a couple hundred
participants, admitted that local residents are "not real big on
masks here," because they don't want to "infringe on anyone's
rights."
 
"Around here, if people don't want to go out and want to stay
home, that's totally fine. We're all about freedom here," he
said. "We did the whole stay-at-home order thing and enough's
enough. People have to live and feed their families and life
goes on."
 
Health experts, however, are concerned that Bikefest, which was
attended by 125,000 bikers last year, and the Trump boat parade
will lead to a surge in the already fast-growing number of COVID-
19 cases in Missouri, a state that even the White House has
deemed in danger.
 
"For mass gatherings like this bike rally, it is very unlikely
people are going to social distance. People are going to
congregate from all over the country, and it will likely spur a
chain of transmissions that has impacts in various different
states," Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins
Center for Health Security who specializes in infectious
diseases, told The Daily Beast. "It will be a major task for
public health officials because it is very difficult to track
this mobile population."
 
The rally comes just weeks after the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in
South Dakota, a 10-day event that attracted nearly a half-
million visitors. The August gathering has since been deemed a
coronavirus "super-spreader" event that infected hundreds and
killed at least one biker.
 
But several participants of Bikefest told The Daily Beast
they're not at all worried about the rally becoming the next
Sturgis, with one rider insisting that participants "are
thinking and acting responsibly as it relates to spreading a
virus."
 
For Greg Surdyke, the 54-year-old owner of Surdyke Yamaha, whose
store is participating in Bikefest this weekend, the ongoing
pandemic—which has already killed nearly 200,000
Americans—shouldn't get in the way of an annual tradition.
 
Surdyke's store is just one of the 24 bars and restaurants
participating in Bikefest's passport system. Each participating
rider must get their "passport stamped" at all the participating
venues to be entered in a raffle for a Harley-Davidson
motorcycle. Surdyke's store is also handing out free "beer n'
brats" to bikers as they go on a ride that spans three counties.
 
"Motorcycle riders have one thing in common. They all thrive on
freedom, thrills, and camaraderie," Surdyke told The Daily
Beast, adding that he will be participating in the festival on
Saturday. "I can assure you 10 times more good will come out of
this showing of freedom than will arise from COVID-19."
 
Since the state lifted its coronavirus restrictions in June,
Missouri has seen COVID-19 cases climb. According to the
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, 1,780
residents have died from the coronavirus and 110,129 more have
been infected.
 
Now among the top 10 states for cases per capita, Missouri is
currently battling a daily positive COVID-19 test rate of about
11 percent and an average of 1,000 new cases each day. The
state, which does not have a mask mandate and has left all
public health decisions up to local officials, has also seen
record daily hospitalizations over the last week, according to
data from the Missouri Hospital Association.
 
"As the number of COVID-19 cases in our community continues to
climb, we again face a stark truth: This pandemic is not just
happening somewhere else—it's happening here," CEO Dane Henry of
Lake Regional Health System wrote in a July letter.
 
"Although many are wary of the national coverage and political
debate about COVID-19, the fact is there are things you can and
should do to protect yourself, your family, and others. Here's
why—we are now seeing widespread COVID-19 cases in each of the
counties Lake Regional serves, as well as a recent uptick in the
number of patients hospitalized with, and dying from, this
illness."
 
The rising number of cases has also put Missouri on the White
House's radar, according to a September report by the
administration's Coronavirus Task Force. The task force
recommended that bars and some dining establishments be
restricted in counties marked as "yellow" or "red" zones," where
there are higher rates of transmission.
 
The White House also recommended a mask mandate for
Missouri—which Gov. Mike Parson publicly rejected.
 
Among the counties in the "red zones" are Camden and Miller,
which cover the Lake of the Ozarks. Combined, the two counties
have 1,187 active COVID-19 cases. While local leaders have not
yet instituted any official restrictions, the Camden County
Health Department has posted over a dozen guidelines for
residents, including avoiding gatherings of over 50 people and
eating and drinking in bars.
 
Similar concerns were also raised before the Sturgis Motorcycle
Rally. Since the August rally, cases in North Dakota and South
Dakota have surged, and experts are still trying to determine
the full extent of the event's nationwide impact.
 
"The lessons from Sturgis are that this chain of transmission
will happen in any mass gatherings and it will have mass
consequences," Adalja said. "So in this case, social distancing,
mask-wearing, and screen people entering the bike even would be
beneficial. At the very least, anyone that attends a mass
gathering should get tested a couple of days after the event."
 
But despite pleas for public health officials to beef up
coronavirus measures in Missouri, local leaders in the Ozarks
have refused to take a hardline approach. In an interview with
the Kansas City Star, Lake Ozark Mayor Gerry Murawski admitted
that he has been concerned about the ongoing pandemic for
months, but does not expect Bikefest participants to wear masks
or adhere to other coronavirus prevention guidelines.
 
"But this is our last event of the year and I keep thinking,
'Let's just get through this,' and then we can quite frankly go
to sleep for a few months," Murawski said. "And hopefully by
next year, it's gone. Probably not, though."
 
Murawski and the governor's office did not respond to The Daily
Beast's requests for comment. Organizers for Bikefest also did
not respond to multiple requests for comment.
 
Julie Fowler, a local who has gone to Bikefest for the last
decade, thinks this year's rally is "going to be bigger" than
ever before because "people are desperate to get out."
 
"It won't be as big as Sturgis—it never has been. Though I think
the organizers would like it to be," Fowler told The Daily
Beast. "But I think people are desperate to get out and also
Missouri just passed a no-helmet law and that's huge for a lot
of these bikers. Also, we don't have a mask mandate at the lake
area."
 
The 56-year-old is eager to participate in the Trump boat rally
with hundreds of other residents clad in presidential
paraphernalia. Fowler insisted that since everyone will be in
their own boats, "absolutely no one is worried at all about
COVID-19."
 
"We're not scared of COVID-19 around here," said Fowler, adding
that she still practices social distancing and wears a mask in
public. "Trump supporters, whenever we get together, we just
have a good time. We want to live our life. We don't have to
live in fear, we don't want to fear corona."
 
But not all residents in the Lake of the Ozarks are unconcerned
about the potential consequences of these dual events.
 
Kim Flynt, a 58-year-old who has lived near the Ozarks for about
six years, is very anxious about the huge event—telling The
Daily Beast that while Bikefest has been a great way to generate
local business in the past, it "seems nuts" to hold it during
the pandemic.
 
"Most of the residents that live here are older adults that
can't afford to get sick," Flynt said. "If our governor would
have taken some initiative and had a mask mandate, we wouldn't
be where we are."
 
Flynt said she and her husband will stay home this weekend to
avoid the crowds.
 
"I truly have never seen it so packed," she said, adding that
her biggest concern is what will happen to her home after
"everyone goes on their merry way." "They will leave behind the
virus at our restaurants, bars, and even grocery stores."
 
"The only saving grace is most of the bars will close soon for
winter."
 
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tens-of-thousands-of-motorcyclists-
pack-lake-of-the-ozarks-for-bike-rally
"Kamala Le Mattress" <harlot.harris@nytimes.com>: Jan 01 11:52PM +0100

https://twitter.com/McDonaldNV/status/1320102555855155200
 
This dumb slut said 220 million Americans died of COVID.
 
We cannot have someone this stupid in public office.
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