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CHOP gets chopped and CHAZ gets chastized: I guess the crocodile coming to Durkan’s house was a bridge too far — 24 Comments

1. See? When the locals want to clean up the mess, it gets cleaned up.
   Why is this Trump’s problem again?

2. Before I forget with the holiday coming up and all, here is a more or less relevant link to the observation a commenter made the other day regarding a shooting in Provo.

   https://kutv.com/news/local/suspect-arrested-in-connection-with-provo-shooting-woman-booked-for-rioting

3. Nit: it’s Durkan, not Durgan.

4. neo: I’m sure the personal threats on Durkan were a factor, but I also think the Dem brain trust, as such, was already pivoting on CHOP because it looked increasingly bad for the 2020 elections.

   As I’ve said, I don’t believe the Democrats have as good a hand this year as the party and the media make out.
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   This ain’t the garden of eden
   There ain’t no angels above
   And things ain’t like what they used to be
   And this ain’t the summer of love<

   –Blue Oyster Cult, "This Ain't the Summer of Love
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T72-ccjq5wE

5. The self-centered wench lives in a 5,000 sq. foot mansion she occupies with one other woman. Some mix of law and biotechnology have allocated to them two hapless males the media insists on referring to as their ‘sons’.

6. Eric:

   Thanks. Will fix.

7. I’m still waiting for Napoleon. Napoleon gave the order to use grapeshot against the Paris mob in 1795. This action ended the power of the Paris mob, a driving force of the French Revolution, and, in effect, ended the French Revolution.

8. Too bad the CHOP demonstrators at Mayor Durkan’s home did hot burn it to the ground.
   This way, she would have experienced up close and personal the “summer of love” she had previously announced.

   It is almost impossible to believe that Durkan, and other politicians like her, can be so incredibly stupid and ignorant. You would think they have never read a history book and/or live in a make believe utopian fantasy land in another solar system.

   Let’s hope the Occupy fanatic radicals at NYC’s city hall burn down – literally – Gracie Mansion (the “home” of the NYC mayor) and then do likewise at the the Soros’s residence as well.

   Unless these fanatic radical leftist politicians and supporters experience real harm and real destruction to their persons or personal property, they will never decide, albeit temporarily, to finally defend the common citizen held hostage and/or harmed by the fanatic, Stalinist leftist radicals that they support .

9. I have no doubts that the tigers the left has set loose have not been caged. They’ll be back angrier, more dangerous, and well funded by Soros.

10. “who would have ever thought things would come to this in Beverly Hills?”

    https://spectator.org/fear-in-my-own-backyard-black-lives-matter-beverly-hills-ben-stein/

    Fear in My Own Backyard | The American Spectator

11. Now seeing his name here, I believe that it was Edward, who first alerted us to the Provo shooting.

12. Another example of liberals get the bullet too.

    The current Dem mayor of Seattle is a former US Attorney. My classmate, John McKay, is also a former US Attorney in Seattle. He’s a liberal Republican and an anti-Trumper but he would be a great mayor. He could win if he ran. I hope he does.

13. Why would anyone want to be a mayor of a Leftist city unless that person is also Leftist? Cornhead’s “liberal”(??) Republican friend might make a great mayor in normal times, but the times are not normal. Why would he want the City Council at his throat night and day for 4 years? Unless he is one of them!

    The days of Frank Rizzo are long behind us.

    Law and order will come to us via the Left enforcing its will against us. Equal justice under law is dead.

    I personally do not want to see Seattle do well. It has been Prog-sick for so long that it deserves the same outcome as SF. The Seattle School Board long ago defined racism as something objectionable done only by whites. Seattle expends more than $100,000 on each officially-counted homeless person per year.

    I want the social termites to destroy Seattle. Lessons must be taught in order to be learned.

    It is a mistake to underestimate the present forces of chaos. They are multi-city (remember the simultaneous “spontaneity” of the riots?) and well-organized. No one will fire grapeshot at them, no one. Poor babies; one got hit in the eye by a rubber bullet, another “lost” a testicle to similar injury, and both made (sympathetic) news.
    Who funds Antifa and BLM? BLM’s founders are trained Marxists, and I would not doubt that yuan are in their metaphorical wallets.

    China sees all this with great satisfaction. It is well on its way to ruling the planet.

14. For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an` Chuck him out, the brute! ”
    But it’s ” Saviour of ‘is country ” when the guns begin to shoot;

15. From the Diplomiad:
    “‘We have before us quite possibly the most pampered, ill-mannered, ignorant, and arrogant generation in Western history. Notice how many “protestors” seem to have no problem festooning themselves with costly tattoos and gym clothing, and nesting in highly expensive and tony metropolises such as New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and London. Many, if not most, seem to engage in no-known labor, but have the time and resources to flap around, preening and playing at revolution, while, as noted, recording themselves on their pricey “smart phones.” Not the grubby sans-culottes of 1780s France–not even close–these mobsters are well-fed, nicely clothed, healthy and wealthy cretins–better said, highly privileged and violence-prone cretins, bird brains, you know, ravens.

    These ravens repeat empty-headed slogans, and screech about oppression from their perches of privilege down to working-class cops, many black or hispanic, and other ordinary folk who seek to go to work to feed their families. Indeed, the majority of those squawking about white racism and tearing down “white privilege” and “supremacy,” and feigning offense over statues, road names, and Aunt Jemima syrup labels are, well-off white kids–most notably white women full of inchoate feminist resentment and rage. They have had their heads filled with a crude cultural Marxism; they live in a world almost devoid of facts and historical knowledge and context. Violent emotion rules.”
    https://thediplomad.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-west-breeding-ravens.html

16. Eric Brown: I think it’s actually Ding-Dong

17. BLM leaders were trained Marxists, and not just funded by Soros, but Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, and a convicted communist terrorist board member of the also funding Thousand Currents Foundation, Susan Rosenberg. In November, 1984, Rosenberg was arrested with 740 pounds of dynamite. But Clinton commuted her sentence in 2001:

    Rosenberg, who started out as a member of the 1960s revolutionary group Weather Underground, graduated into even more violent, and arguably successful, forms of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s—including bombings at an FBI field office in Staten Island, the Navy Yard Officers’ Club in Washington, DC, and even the U.S. Capitol building, where she damaged a representation of the greatest of the Democrat defenders of slavery, John C. Calhoun. She currently serves as human and prisoner rights advocate and a vice chair of the board of directors of Thousand Currents.

    As my colleague Robert Stilson explains here, BLM Global Network Foundation has been a fiscally sponsored project of Thousand Currents, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, since 2016. That means the BLM group, which runs the BlackLivesMatter.com website, does not have its own IRS tax-exempt status but is operating as a “project” of an organization that does. In the case of 501(c)(3) fiscally sponsored projects, this allows tax-deductible donations to be made to the project.

    Marxist Connections

    When “Black Lives Matter” is used to refer to an organization, it typically means the BLM Global Network Foundation that traces its beginnings to “three radical Black organizers — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi.” Cullors recently went viral online when she admitted that she and others in the group were “trained Marxists.”

    This leads to confusion when people express their support for “Black Lives,” because they may not realize this organization is ideologically tied—to the point of having Rosenberg on the board of the central group—with trained Marxists with a history of extremism and violence. In fact, Rosenberg was a member of the May 19th Communist Organization (M19). It was, according to this NY Post article from January 2020, “the nation’s only woman-run terror group,” as recounted by William Rosenau in his book Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol….

    See Scott Walter of the Capitol Research Center, here
    https://capitalresearch.org/article/a-terrorists-ties-to-a-leading-black-lives-matter-group/

18. I hope some media bigwigs will soon get a chance to attend the class in “Chickens Returning to Roost 101” that Seattle Mayor Durkan just attended!

19. Essay by Dyer.
    https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/07/01/seattle-police-descend-en-masse-to-retake-chop/

    If you want to see “white privilege” in action – more accurately, elite privilege (as witness the many white residents of Capitol Hill who were just as discommoded and ignored by their mayor as everyone else) – this is it. If you want to see more of it, elect radical-left Democrats. They’re the ones who, systematically and as a party, repeatedly demonstrate willingness to sacrifice other people’s property, livelihoods, and even lives to “woke” politics.

    They empower agitators to “afflict the comfortable.” The “comfortable” always turn out to be the ordinary middle class, the people of all races and backgrounds who work every day for a living, pay taxes for police because they can’t afford private security (and don’t have paid security as a perk, as elected officials do), and have little or no cushion when disaster strikes.

    But the same radical-left Democrats do whatever it takes to protect themselves.

    We all know this, and some others are learning it, but the hard-core leftists will never admit it (and will try to prevent the evidence from being seen) and far too many of their dupes will either not see the facts, or will deny the conclusion.

20. Disturbingly, in the case of the Missouri couple who awkwardly defended their home, 38 of their neighbors signed a letter denouncing them. Maybe the crocodile will eat them last?

    There appears to be a full court campaign to destroy and ridicule them. Such as by my snobby artsy Brooklyn ‘friends’ on Facebook who want the couple disbarred as civil rights attorneys— for exercising their civil right to bear arms —and their taste in fashion and home remodeling.

    Am I required to throw bricks at my own windows if confronted with a similar situation?

21. Esther:

    I wonder what percentage of the neighbors that 38 represents. How many didn’t sign? Was it a majority or a minority? Have any neighbors spoken up for them?

    The willingness of people in the US (where we should know better) to betray the rights of others has been increasing for a long time. Now it seems it has reached major, and probably majority, proportions.

    Very depressing if true.

22. What swell Friends. Everyone’s out for themselves.
    So no one told you life was going to be this way
    Your civil rights are a joke
    You’re insufficiently woke
    The armed zombie mob is on its waaaay
    It’s like you’re always stuck in second gear
    When it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month, or even your year
    Well, I won’t be there for yoooooou
    (And you’re probably not there for me, too)

23. Neo,

    From what I can find, the Missouri private neighborhood in question consists of two streets and about 94 expensive historic homes. So seems to be a lot of their neighbors — all without sin, no doubt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_and_Westmoreland_Places

24. When I was a boy, my father and I viewed the damage done in Denver by the Platte River flood of ’65. Dad told me to “keep your hands in your pockets” because the Governor had announced that looters would be shot on sight. A return to this policy would be beneficial.

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