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Let The Great Retraction Begin

There must have been a poll showing that voters don’t, in fact, thing of “Anti”-Fa / the “Black Bloc” as anything but a bunch of pampered snowflakes; the left is starting to distance themselves from them.

The mayor of Berkeley – which has all but packed box lunches for the Blackshirts in recent months – is suddenly talking…well, as tough as a Democrat is allowed to talk about the children of his pals:

“I think we should classify them as a gang,” said Arreguin. “They come dressed in uniforms. They have weapons, almost like a militia and I think we need to think about that in terms of our law enforcement approach.”

Arreguin said that while he does not support the far right, it was time to draw the line on the left as well, especially on the black-clad activists who showed up in force and took over both the protests and the park, and played a part in Sunday’s violent clashes.

Word has it the Blackshirts plan on “demonstrating” this Sunday at/around the State Fair.  It’ll be interesting to see if the City of Saint Paul – which has, in the past, “stood down” for the children of their political superiors – will do anything.

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34 responses to “Let The Great Retraction Begin”

  1. Jay Dee Avatar
    Jay Dee

    I think the proper classification would be a Klan of a different color.

  2. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    If the blackshirts show up at the Fair, and wimp ass Chris Coleman tells the police to stand down, I hope that every GOP candidate for governor, beats the shit out him for it.

  3. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    Last week, when President Trump condemned violence on both sides, Liberals lost their minds. This week, when Nancy Pelosi is condemning violence on both sides, Liberals can’t find their tongues.

    It’s as if they had to wait for the focus groups to tell them what their core beliefs would be . . . this week.

  4. Alt-Good Swiftee Avatar
    Alt-Good Swiftee

    Antifa was doomed to failure for the same reasons their earlier incarnation (Occupy)…they are (literally filthy) animals, not fit for civilized society. Even the dysgenic reprobates that support them in the MSM and Democrat party find them repulsive; it was always just a matter of time before they “got some on ’em” and threw them under the bus.

    IMO, we need to expand this effort to include the SPLC, which is increasingly being admitted as a hate group. There are several lawsuits in progress, and we need to help it along in social media, television and (coff) radio.

  5. Alt-Good Swiftee Avatar
    Alt-Good Swiftee

    Hoss, if I’m not mistaken the fair grounds are in Falcon Heights. Coleman is out of the loop.

  6. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    What if the police were to suddenly become afraid for their safety at the next Antifa pot-luck?

  7. MacArthur Wheeler Avatar
    MacArthur Wheeler

    AGS
    it looks like the SPLC has an idea what way the wind is blowing and like any criminal organization is taking steps to protect itself
    Southern Poverty Law Center Transfers Millions in Cash to Offshore Entities
    http://freebeacon.com/issues/southern-poverty-law-center-transfers-millions-in-cash-to-offshore-entities/

  8. Girdermen Avatar
    Girdermen

    I am guessing based on the recent about-face that the Democratic Party internal polling shows that Antifa is getting killed, and by extension, any Democratic Party politician that supports them.

  9. Bill C Avatar
    Bill C

    Oh it must be such a bitter pill to swallow, for the mayor to have to distance himself from his fellow travelers: http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/21/berkeley-mayor-publicly-belongs-to-violent-leftist-group/

    (note: Wikipedia, in an article written with very discernible bias, says that he merely liked and followed BAMN on FB and later unliked the group when it became widespread knowledge of his like/follow.)

    Cue the schadenfreude. Yesssssss…it feels gooooooooood.

  10. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    and by extension, any Democratic Party and GOP politician that supports them.

    There, fixed it for you. Sure hope Ryan and Rubio are toast. As in burned to a crisp and taken out to the trash heap on election day, like used charcoal.

  11. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    Aa few years ago I ran across the SPLC’s web page about homosexuality and hate crime. The writer (a female lawyer) did not understand that an inherited condition and a congenital condition are different things.

  12. Penigma Avatar
    Penigma

    Does that mean that readers of Brietbart, members of The John Birch Society, the whackadoodles who showed up at Cliven Bundy’s ranch (including Cliven Bundy) are also Snowflakes? And when are you going to distance yourself from them?

    Also, on a related note, some 40% of the GOP in Texas believe Texas should secede from the Union, are they snowflakes too? You guys on the right seem to love that word, it’s a little funny since you all take up the mantle of being “special-er” than the rest, people who won’t misuse firearms or break any laws or anything else, but want tough laws for everyone else. People who rail against the government, but want it’s support when you have trouble… for example. do you think most Texans STILL think the Federal Gov’mint as Ronnie Rayguns used to call it, is ALL bad? Is always the problem? Given Texas is a net receiver of tax funds overall at the federal level, it’s a pretty funny stance those GOP-flakes take, especially when FEMA, and the partly federally funded Texas National Guard, and the Cajun (from Louisiana for those of you who don’t do geography) come in and rescue them in their time of need. It’s the lesson you GOP-flakes just don’t ever seem to learn, we have a shared fate, some problems are bigger than you can fix with your monkey-wrench or threaten away with your trusty six-shooter…some problems, like retirement savings, or health care, are large enough that they require economies of scale, some problems, like natural disasters, require organization and a national effort from the REST of the US to deal with. But hey, you GOP-flakes you’re not special, nope nope, you just want your own little country so that the rest of us stop picking on you. ROFLMAO.

  13. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    Does that mean that readers of Brietbart,

    Dog whistle much?

    members of The John Birch Society, K

    All ten of them? Seriously – the last I heard anything about the JBS was 2006.

    the whackadoodles who showed up at Cliven Bundy’s ranch (including Cliven Bundy) are also Snowflakes?

    You do know what a snowflake is, right? Upper middle class college kid/grad who’s never had to see “cognitive dissonance” as anything but a threat, awash in social justice and identity politics?

    I’m gonna go out on a limb and say “no, the Bundy demonstrators aren’t them”.

    And when are you going to distance yourself from them?

    Pen, do me a favor; go back and read my reply to your comment earlier this week when you were demanding “condemnations” of marginal figures who are largely in history’s dustbin to begin with. I wrote a pretty good answer. It still stands.

    Also, on a related note, some 40% of the GOP in Texas believe Texas should secede from the Union, are they snowflakes too?

    a) see above.

    b) Got a cite on that 40% figure.

    c) After you provide the cite; why is anyone who wants to secede from the union wrong, as such?

    You guys on the right seem to love that word, it’s a little funny since you all take up the mantle of being “special-er” than the rest,

    Do us a favor and read this link and leave your impressions before I respond. OK?

    People who rail against the government, but want it’s support when you have trouble…

    I railed against the train, but I ride it on occasion. Why not? I paid for it.

    I – and all of us who “rail against government” – pay for it every paycheck. It’s our country, it’s our First Amendment, and we’re gonna use it.

    do you think most Texans STILL think the Federal Gov’mint as Ronnie Rayguns used to call it, is ALL bad?

    a) Doens’t matter in the least. They can think what they want about the government they pay for.

    b) What’s this thing you have about regional dialects?

    c) Got any evidence that President Reagan (pbuh) said any such thing?

    But hey, you GOP-flakes you’re not special, nope nope, you just want your own little country so that the rest of us stop picking on you.

    We already have our country. We pay for it. Don’t like the fact we use our right to speak freely to voice our opinions? Then move to repeal the First Amendment and replace it with a commandment forbidding commoners to critizize Mother Government. Otherwise, suck it up, buttercup; we can walk, chew gum, pay taxes AND criticize Mother Government all at the same time.

    We are that good.

  14. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Pen, like DG, seems to have trouble with reading comprehension, or at least following directions (and certainly a weakness when it comes to following threads). Is this a congenital condition, or is it spread virally by sharing cups of Kool-Aid?

  15. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Penigma seems to need some immodium for his typing fingers. Come on, Pen, take a deep breath, and please inform us how the various bete noires on the right qualify as people who are especially privileged and shielded from public criticism, and are protected against prosecution when they violate the law.

    Good luck. Reality is that various groups on the far right suffer not only the reproofs of the media and Democrats, but also Republicans. One may say many things about them, but “snowflake” is not among them.

  16. Alt-Good Swiftee Avatar
    Alt-Good Swiftee

    Given Texas is a net receiver of tax funds overall at the federal level, it’s a pretty funny stance those GOP-flakes take…

    I love it when a reprobate whips that one out. Hold my beer and watch this…

    Pevee, the majority of that federal loot goes to support the moochers that have moved South for a more comfortable climate to party in. Many Southern states, most in fact, do not believe in encouraging bad behavior and don’t want wards of the state. For that reason, (speaking strictly about the Great State of South Carolina, now) the state’s safety net is just that; A SAFETY NET. It’s enough help to get you back on your feet, and not much more.

    Check it out:
    http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/state_summary.php?chart=40

    The moochers down here pay for their cell phones, beer, manicures, hair weaves and dope with federal AFDC money, not ours.

    I’m all for cutting welfare funding to red states hell, cut it all son…see how fast your moochers (and some of ours, hopefully) move back North, and good riddance too.

  17. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    Given Texas is a net receiver of tax funds overall at the federal level

    “Given?”

    I “give” nothing.

    Discretionary or entitlement?

    And if discretionary, how much of it is related to defense and federally-owned lands, per capita?

    If it’s entitlement – well, ain’t progressive taxation a bitch?

    Listening to Paul Krugman is the road to being a badly-informed citizen.

  18. Alt-Good Swiftee Avatar
    Alt-Good Swiftee

    Listening to Paul Krugman is the road to being a badly-informed citizen.

    Everyone I know that quotes Krugman is a certified moron. Most reprobates don’t understand how shallow and dead wrong Krugman’s critiques are, and don’t care because they feelz the hate contained in there and that’s all they’re interested in anyway.

  19. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    It is sad that after all the footage of people helping people, coming in from out of state with boats and food and whatnot, that Pen-like people think it was the mother goobernment (federal) that came to the rescue and saved everybody. It as if Cajun Navy and local ERT’s were sitting on their hands waiting for the signal from a libturd g*d. Pen-like people are a closed minded and willfully blind bunch.

    And, Cliven Bundy is the absolute opposite of a definition of snowflake, but it does not matter much to the incomprehensible Pen.

    And TX receiving federal grants? We have a thing called the border here, which is a responsibility of federal goobernement. Of course, since Pen-like libturds do not believe in borders, their context is a just little skewed as to where the money goes.

    It is a good exercise to fisk Pen just to remind how uninformed, illiterate, incomprehensible and morally deprived the left is.

  20. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    Snowflakes are unique and therefore precious and thus deserving of special consideration. They must be protected from every harm. They must receive participation trophies to avoid the emotional trauma of losing. They must ban conservative speakers to avoid the intellectual trauma of hearing contrary opinion. They must be excused from Finals if a jury fails to lynch someone, or the wrong candidate wins election.

    The best place to look for snowflakes is the English department on a college campus, but anybody who can count on receiving special treatment can qualify, such as rioters who pound citizens while the cops look on.

    Penigma doesn’t understand the definition of snowflakes so his list of Persons Requiring Ritual Denunciation is nonsensical. Which, come to think of it, pretty much describes his posts in general.

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  22. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    JPA, Houston is demonstrably of the Democratic party. The petro-chemical industry has built on areas set aside for industry, notably near the ship channel. It is the residential and commercial building that has been subject to no zoning. The petro-chemical industry has provided the jobs which have attracted all of the new people to the area, but has not directed where they live. The citizenry chose the government that they received, which is a large Democratic core that eventually becomes Republican suburbs, all of them anti-zoning and anti-regulation. Texans are Texans, no matter which party they follow. They don’t elect politicians who tell them how to live their lives.

  23. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    The petro-chemical industry has built on areas set aside for industry, notably near the ship channel.

    No. They picked the area because of the proximity to channel. It was not set aside for them. It was common business sense, something you do not understand.

    It is the residential and commercial building that has been subject to no zoning.

    No. We have plenty of chemical assets cohabitating with commercial and residential. At that time, you built were the oil came out of the ground, not where you were zoned to built. Again, common sense, and again, your luck of such is on display.

    The petro-chemical industry has provided the jobs which have attracted all of the new people to the area, but has not directed where they live.

    Thank almighty and freedom for that. In the soci@list paradise of your liking, see China, workers would be required to live on site in dilapidated apartment buildings.

    The citizenry chose the government that they received, which is a large Democratic core that eventually becomes Republican suburbs, all of them anti-zoning and anti-regulation.

    It is an interesting point that you are trying to make here. Houston proper is indeed demoncRat, how else would you get Sheila Jackson Lee, the comic relief of the congress? But the working class lives in the suburbs. Again, a perfect example of urbanization which herds all moochers into a core. In the case of Houston, you also have to throw in Rice and UH and brainwashed hipster doofus millennials with no kids into the mix.

    Texans are Texans, no matter which party they follow. They don’t elect politicians who tell them how to live their lives.

    No. DemoncRat Texans are very different from the real Texans. Just like in Baltimore, Minneapolis and Seattle, they are very happy being chained and be herded around.

  24. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Thanks, JPA, for the reminder of the Cliven Bundy reference earlier. There have now been two jury trials where the jury has essentially nullified the Federal charges and policy re Bundy and associates.

    The Feds may have to seek a change of venue if they want to get a guilty verdict.

    Perhaps Canada?

  25. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    JPA: Refineries are built where the oil is (or was), and where there is lots of water for cooling. The refineries will stay where they are, because there is no need for further refining capacity, and using and improving existing refineries is much cheaper than building new ones.

    By and large, you’ll find that the refineries were quite well prepared for weather events, are well insured (at market rates), and will return to service quite quickly.

    “No. DemoncRat Texans are very different from the real Texans”.

    I blame Texans. Both Democratic and Republican politicians are forced to pander to their delusional libertarian self-image. I’m not going to give the mayor of Houston a pass for poor city planning (talk about blame shifting), but citizens of Houston and Texas get the politicians they deserve.

  26. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    The refineries will stay where they are, because there is no need for further refining capacity, and using and improving existing refineries is much cheaper than building new ones

    Wrong. Wrong, Wrong. You are willfully uninformed in this industry and I have no inclination to educate you because in the past you have shown zero ability and capacity to learn. I do not to wish to waste my time and bandwidth.

    I blame Texans. Both Democratic and Republican politicians are forced to pander to their delusional libertarian self-image. I’m not going to give the mayor of Houston a pass for poor city planning (talk about blame shifting), but citizens of Houston and Texas get the politicians they deserve.

    WTF? Current Mayor has been on the job barely a year, so yea, let’s heap whole bunch of blame on him! You are incoherent, totally delusional and your arguments are completely void of any historical context as to how fast Houston developed. Again, you cannot fix nor educate stupid. And I will attempt to do neither.

  27. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    Emery, I’m curious to know how better land use planning would have helped avert flooding in Houston.

    Zoning ordinances don’t build levees. Zoning ordinances don’t keep out working stiffs or welfare moms. Zoning ordinances merely move the pieces around.

    A city with no zoning ordinance looks like a Monopoly board: industrial uses plunked down in residential areas; classes segregated by land prices. In a modern city, the railroads would be “light rail;” Mediterranean through Connecticut would be low-income apartments; and the green would be condos; but if you dump a foot of water on the board, the results wouldn’t be much different.

    So why does lack of zoning bother you so much?

  28. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Harvey had the energy to continue pumping water into Houston because it sat off-shore, over water, for days. As soon as the storm is over land it starts losing energy and moisture. Massive flooding happens near ocean shorelines and in river floodplains.

    My home sits on a hill at 1000 feet of elevation sufficiently far from the nearest watercourse to be flood-proof. I don’t need flood insurance. Most people don’t need flood insurance. I would prefer not to subsidize those who do.

    Flood insurance should be priced realistically enough that only agriculture will be economically viable on that land. There are always other places to build cities and towns.

  29. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    Wow. Just wow. Another case of willfull ignorance on display and another non-sequitur answer. Cities are not masterplanned, they grow out of opportunity. And you obviously know nothing of Houston and area geography with your stupendously stupid comment of 1000′ elevation. Wow, just wow. We all knew you are dense, but to be this dense takes practice.

  30. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Snowflake triggered 😂

  31. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    I see, at a loss for words and no more verbal diarrhea. Mission accomplished.

  32. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    🚨 Avalanche Warning! 🚨

  33. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    No one should be at all surprised by this . . .
    Public School Teachers Behind Violent Antifa Group
    http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/01/public-school-teachers-behind-violent-antifa-group/

    There is a reason why Bill Ayres went into public education after his stint as a domestic terrorist (Ayres, the son of the CEO of ConEd, made a special target of working people. Class courtesy, don’t you know).

  34. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    No. Have you heard of Soros fellowships? Look it up if you want to have your hair stand on end. Explains a lot about the state of our higher ed and who is in charge.

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