Anti-Lockdown Protesters Enter N.C. Subway Store Armed With Rocket Launcher

By rmrd0000 on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 10:56am |

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all they managed to do is make themselves a laughing stock allover social media for days, altered photos have been extremely popular, lots of jokes about penis size and ordering sandwiches.

NO WAIT, on second thought, could it be, they have had some impact? In discouraging people from restaurant food, because there might be a bozo there with a bazooka over his shoulder:

If you reopen it, will they come? Open Table data says not much so far. Nobody wants to dine in Jurassic Park food court with velociraptors still roaming around. This is why we need to solve the epidemic & have testing + tracing, not just reopen blindly. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/XRYAa1UysP
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) May 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 3:31pm

Everybody is stressed. We are social beings and suffer from confinement. Many are suffering economically. People are dying and these nitwits respond in this manner. You cannot escape that Trump does not forcefully condemn this. Vote.

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 3:50pm

Again, are you lecturing me, or trying to lead me in a Democratic party cheer? You think I need to be reminded to vote? It's just really offensive when you make a comment like this a reply, very condescending. If you want to practice your canvassing speech, opine to the moon or a supposed audience of uninformed lurkers supposedly here at Dagblog, can you just make it a comment instead of a reply? Please. That's the way to stay unoffensive yourself

If you are going to play the condescending game, ya know what? I think it's you that's the clueless one for posting this on Dag as if everyone here hasn't seen the story already two days ago ad nauseum, went super viral all over the world, with lots and lots of ridicule. No one is afraid of these doofuses ,except maybe you, everyone knows exactly what's up = threatened manhood, small penises. Even the NRA types are embarassed of these numbnuts. That's really what I was trying to get across.

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 4:25pm

Wow

I simply pointed out their behavior. You do not rent space in my head.

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 4:28pm

No, you did not just "simply point out their behavior" - a lot of dagsplainin' as usual.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 4:32pm

I pointed out that Trump made no comment condemning this behavior, and that you cannot overlook that fact.I said "Vote". That is condescending? I honestly thought it was a general comment. I did not say "Vote for Biden" or "Vote for Amash", etc.

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 5:15pm

What AA is objecting to is being told to vote as a specific reply to her comment.
If you had said something like: "Our only hope is the election", it would have come off differently.

For myself, I only hope that we last that long. It is like a Red Sea between now and then.

by moat on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 5:24pm

Just trying to understand, being called a hard headed MF is OK

"Vote";is condescension?

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 6:58pm

I did not mean to say my observation about the source of a negative comment justified other negative remarks.

We are not on each other's teams but a collection of diverging voices. Please don't make me wear a jersey.

by moat on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 8:02pm

Well crap, I was going to have you bat clean-up and now I need a DH.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 8:07pm

Next time, don't send me odd uniforms where I can't tell what faces forwards or backwards.

by moat on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 8:23pm

Is this better?

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 1:08am

Sorry, I should not have posed the question to you.

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 9:39pm

The rule is no condescension, real or perceived. Got it.

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 10:33pm

Noting moat's point from below, I amend my sentence to: The only way to begin to claw our way out of the current situation comes via the election in November.

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 5:37pm

Republicans are like the Goths and the Vandals of antiquity.

Every 10 years, they stoke rage in armed mobs with guns and now 4 foot pipe wrenches who obediently spread mayhem - while distracting attention from the Republican caused disasters that started it all.

Meanwhile, like Alaric the Hun, the GOP sacks the country - for themselves and for the rich, it's loot and pillage the Treasury and destabilize the rule of law and the nation's institutions.

After the Democrats restore prosperity they do it again, with the same lies, grievances, idiocy, threats of violence and gaming of the system.

by NCD on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 7:20pm

In the case of the N.C. Subway store, the current restrictions only allow eating outside or carry out. Several members of the armed group ate inside despite the request to eat outside. We can make penis jokes, but the bottom line is that the group is willing to disobey the restrictions. What could they be willing to do if Trump loses? I think the danger is real. We laugh at our own peril.

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 10:22pm

They are by far mostly cowards, they cannot face the facts that Trump is a fake and they are the fool, and he is ruining their MAGA fantasies. He hurt "the wrong people" , them, very very hard.

I seriously doubt these angry rubes will risk arrest to keep this volcanic toddler in office.

by NCD on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 1:02am

Found a Twitter feed

https://twitter.com/DallasMocha/status/1259507874566418438/photo/1

Guy fired for posting a suggested threat

Edit to add:

A reminder in the NYT of the 1970 Hard Hat Riot, where things did get hot among a similar group of angry people.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/nyregion/hard-hat-riot.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 8:55am

Get real and stop fearing phantoms and stoking trolls. The coronavirus is killing your tribe in huge numbers and you are worried about a guy carrying a bazooka in a subway shop. Your myopic focus is harming your ability to judge risk and prioritize likeliness of harms. Look to parents these days for a clue: they long for the days when their children could go back to schools that have the risk of a mass shooting, they don't know whether their children will have to wear masks for the rest of their lives and have to be in arranged marriages for companionship. If they make it to adulthood without committing suicide, that is.

These kooks are always going to be out there among us in a democracy. Deal with it. Make fun of them. Make sure they are prosecuted if they act out. Move on. Unite with people who aren't total kooks. Stop feeding the trolls. They are dragging you into the past. It's a different world. And I do mean world, not just country.

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 9:31am

While you are worrying about the bazooka guy in the subway shop, thousands of working class people are being sent back to work at meat packing plants and plants like Tesla and you show no interest in whether they and their cohorts in current "essential" jobs at Amazon and grocery stores and Subway takeout shops are being adequately protected from infection and death. You instead want to stoke outrage about trolling. That's what I see. And to lecture people like me that I should be outraged about the trolls, too, rather than rely upon ridicule of them for some relief from an existential threat to all of mankind.

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 9:40am

Lol

Just finished talking about the importance of masks and distancing to what you label as my tribe. Talked to a cousin in Las Vegas dealing with the same issue.

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 2:50pm

the impotence of masks and distancing

Please explain what that means.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 2:42pm

Thanks typo

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 2:50pm

posting a suggested threat

Threatening people on line is a bipartisan activity. The most we might be able to say is the right wing nuts do it more often then the left wing nuts. I suspect that's true but I haven't seen any statistical analysis so it might just be confirmation bias. We even have our left wing nuts killing republicans.

by ocean-kat on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 12:28pm

We could look at where white domestic terrorists rate on the FBI's radar.

https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/racially-motivated-violent-extremists-elevated-to-national-threat-priority-fbi-says

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 2:35pm

Ah, so you have respect for the FBI's assessments. So you agree with the FBI when it claimed the Black Panthers, a favorite of the left, were "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country." Again I suspect violent organizations on the right exceed the number on the left but we've have quite a number of violent leftists, from the Black Panthers to the Weathermen.

by ocean-kat on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 2:51pm

No. I agree with their current assessment, not COINTELPRO. That program was 50 years ago, wasn't it? Do you agree with the current FBI threat assessment of white supremacists?

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 2:56pm

When anyone or any organization agrees with you they are a model of probity and intelligence. When they don't it's all propaganda. I don't know how old you are. You discuss things with all the nuance I'd expect from a teenager in an AP history class. But we're not talking about ancient history here. All this happened in my life time. I've been pretty clear where I stand if you bothered to actually read what I post:

Threatening people on line is a bipartisan activity. I suspect violent organizations on the right exceed the number on the left but we've have quite a number of violent leftists, from the Black Panthers to the Weathermen. We even have our left wing nuts killing republicans.

by ocean-kat on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 3:26pm

You ask questions like a teenager, thus the response.
Your question:

Ah, so you have respect for the FBI's assessments. So you agree with the FBI when it claimed the Black Panthers, a favorite of the left, were "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country."

My answer to that question was that I did not agree with that assessment.

You followed with a statement

Again I suspect violent organizations on the right exceed the number on the left but we've have quite a number of violent leftists, from the Black Panthers to the Weathermen.

I answered your question in the negative.

You made another statement about threatening people.

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 3:33pm

You ask questions like a teenager

I asked no questions. Is this another of your lies or an example of your poor reading comprehension or lack of study of grammar and sentence structure? That is a question. The only one I've asked in this thread.

by ocean-kat on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 3:48pm

So you agree... should have been a question.

I disagreed with that question.

Otherwise, you were putting words in my mouth. I thought you forgot the question mark. That is why I labeled you a teenager.

No lie. No lack of comprehension. I was simply addressing your poor sentence structure.

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 4:04pm

I disagreed with the FBI search for Black Identity Extremists because it was a waste of time.

There are no Black Identity Extremists

I agree with the search for white terrorists

White terrorists have actually shot things up and blown things up (or sent ineffective pipe bombs)

See how it works?

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 4:09pm

So you agree... should have been a question.

In your opinion, and haven't we agreed that no one here cares what other people's opinion is? Every time you're losing the debate and you can't think of anything to say you've been quite adamant that you don't care about other people's opinion.

They were statements. They were intended to be statements. That they were sarcastic statements doesn't suddenly turn them into questions. I rarely ask you questions since I've learned not to expect honest answers from you. You ask many questions in an attempt to control the dialog so you can avoid directly addressing the arguments others make.

But I'm done teaching you the grammar you should have learned in elementary school.

by ocean-kat on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 5:15pm

What a relief

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 5:17pm

You ask questions like a teenager

agree and I am so very tired of putting up with that. We are rougher about rigor of thought on others as long as they don't purport to be representing "the black community". Once we've been told he's representing them, we got to go tippy toes and put up with teenage-quality input.

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 4:09pm

Oh, that's so condescending.

Edit to add:

I offer my opinion. You say that I am speaking for all black people. With all the name calling and attacks on my intelligence. you seem to be free to say what you want.

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 4:22pm

Actually you have it backwards, it's condescending to go easy on your crap as many here have been doing for years.

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 4:52pm

Have at it

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 4:55pm

Megan McArdle is a known libertarian. This is what she is pointing out.

79% of unemployed or furloughed people support keeping the lockdowns going even at the expense of jobs--actually *higher than the general population*.

"Open up" has always been about small biz owners, not the workers whose bloody shirts they're waving. https://t.co/aIfFFVQLgA
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) May 12, 2020

All of the protestors are a very small minority. The subset of them are an extreme minority of kookoorookoos with bazookas that will always be with any society. And ridicule is the way to deal with them, not fear and definittely not amplifying their concerns.

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 12:58pm

WaPo headline

Armed militia helped a Michigan barbershop open

OWOSSO, Mich. — Armed members of the Michigan Home Guard stood outside Karl Manke's barber shop, ready to blockade the door if police arrived. They were determined to help Manke, 77, reopen his shop Monday, in defiance of state orders, and dozens joined them, wearing Trump sweatshirts and Trump cowboy hats and waving Trump flags.

They gathered not because they desperately needed haircuts but to rail against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s approach to fighting the coronavirus outbreak in Michigan, one of the nation’s worst hot spots. They were channeling President Trump’s support of such protests, but some also were taking aim at the state’s Republicans, who they say have not done enough to “liberate” the state from safety measures that have ground life to a halt.

Michelle Gregoire, a 29-year-old school bus driver from Battle Creek who is running as a Republican for a seat in the state House, waved a yellow “Don’t tread on me” flag at passing traffic. She derided Whitmer as “a tyrant.” But she also urged Republicans “to get in line and get it together.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-michigan-republicans-whitmer/2020/05/12/54975e1a-9466-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html

Hope that this is not a recurrent theme

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 10:59pm

The barber's licenses suspended

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/us/michigan-barber-shop-virus.html

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 05/14/2020 - 9:00am

Now armed thugs defending businesses defying the lockdown law in Texas.

Armed militia-style protesters have helped businesses across Texas defy coronavirus lockdowns and reopen. Protesters say they are enforcing the Constitution.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/us/coronavirus-texas-armed-militias-reopening.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

by rmrd0000 on Wed, 05/13/2020 - 3:27pm

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