I am expecting a giant meteor any day now. We've already got Flamethrower Squirrels from North Korea making landfall in California, but since they are defunding Police, they have no resistance. lol

The rioters and looters are almost 100% local. How do I know this? Until April 1 I lived in Minneapolis....only 1 mile from the 3rd Precinct. Here is a link to business and property damage: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-...
Not only have I patronized many of these businesses, I have enduring friendships among some of the owners. On the flip side, having spent a lot of time in the Hood, I have friendships, loosely, until I ascertain any involvement in the mayhem. The Lake Street corridor (Hiawatha Ave to Lyndale and 38th st. north into Downtown MSP is one of the most impoverished, and definitely the largest area of misbehavior in this metro area. Prosperity is fleeting. What I have now is my status in the Hood. Opportunism is a way of life....get it now before it's gone. That there may be inciters such as Antifa among this group...possible. I think it is more an eruption of multi-generational frustration.
If you travel the corridor I mentioned from 10pm to 4am you can bet that 95% of those you see have police records. The death of George Floyd is an object lesson of "that could have happened to me", for these folks. I've seen this indignation arise a dozen times on a smaller scale. It is a frustration of entrapment, a mindless outburst of rage.

The problem is that while the current Constitution is far from perfect, we'd be in pretty good shape if we just followed the one that existed. The problem comes (mainly) not from an inadequate document, but from one that's not being followed. So if we have a COS and get all these great amendments passed, what's the good if we don't even follow the ones we have?

He needs a supermajority in the senate, a simple majority in the house to do anything meaningful I think. We will c

He has destroyed the Fed as it was.

I think we will be surprised what happens to our so called debt, most of which was created out of thin air by the crooks of our society.

I think right now, Trump is taking advantage of that situation.

Sadly, I agree.

Except for the tropical depression (which is fairly predictable) the problem is that emotions are being used as tools of cognition and then being manipulated to create chaos.

The best thing that could happen is that reason (rational thought) is applied to all situations and that one strong person can deliver an effective message delivering rational thought to each situation ...
...hence subduing emotional reactions.

The Minneapolis police should have dismissed the "loose cannon" many years ago. He reacted with emotions and not reason to a very minor situation, hence setting off a horrible emotional counter-reaction.

Is this scenario possible given the background of the "Deep State" combined with the "welfare state" ?
Probably not.

Time to "Go Galt".

I hope with his "more flexibility" in the 2nd term that he finally tackles things like that. The things I've been disappointed in Trump 1st term is not taking on the debt or the Fed or any of the really scary long-term economic effects. The Fed had to raise interest rates and he attacked them for it. But something has to be done, he's got to get Ron Paul in the Oval Office and talk strategy.

Your words to Gd's ears, as my grandmother used to say. But I hope that, since Trump will, you know, "have more flexibility" in 2021, that the administration will start cracking down on this. I'm glad to see he finally declared Antifa a terrorist group. Took him 3.5 years? In a second term, he and Barr must come down with an iron fist on all these neo-Marxist tactics. Whether it's Anti-fa rioters or people trying to break into our country at the Southern border. Time to get tough. Use the full military to keep order if needed. Give them powerful weapons and the clearance to use them. Enough of this. Violence is justified to prevent violence. Have to start sending a message in language that they understand.

The Almighty God is angry at us sinners and is punishing us for the sins of the looters and moochers. We must all repent or be destroyed!

Just kidding, actually I think George Soros has a secret "weather machine" in his basement. That's a much more sane theory ;)

Great idea! 👍 Turn the swamp back into a swamp.

Ayn Rand may be spinning in her grave and trying to send us a message, "Atlas is Shrugging!" As to the weather, well the Sun has tht one covered, luckily Congress has no control there.
As to the Virus and the riots, well, that is Obama, Soros and their pals. All Trumps medl. advisors were Obama leftovers, most of whom have loyalty to China, and have used their alphabet organizations to send millions to that Chinese lab. We should be wary of Fauci, who knows that the grants called for creation of the virus, and "tacking the spread pattern" - what for future warfare purposes? As to the riots, they were just as well planned, so they could be in action within 72 hours. Busses crossing state lines to predetermined cities filled with ignorant thugs. Bricks and 2x4 were placed in advanced for use in causing damage and harm. Black Lives Matter were the busses, with most on board unaware that they are funded by Sosor money, a man who turned Jews into the Nazis for fun and money he stole from the dead Jews. Now, he is doing the same to black communites. ANTIFA members, equally unaware they are bought and paid for by Soros money, which belies their name. Tehy are causing harm to support the one world Marxist views of a man they should hate.

I'm growing tired of seeing different, very caustic forms of mental instability in our society. I was talking yesterday with this about my son. He's also confused and concerned about what he's seeing. His examples are some of his peers (teenagers) getting on social media (as are many "entertainers" and famous leftists) and saying things like how "all men" should take the blame, that they are so angry to hear people say "all lives matter", calls for violence, etc. Where are these people getting off saying this stuff? I explained to him that social media is a petri dish for cowards and blowhards. Also, that when people don't have a valid argument they turn to violence and mindlessly lashing out.

Yesterday a beautiful lady friend of mind (the sweetest person I know) was out with her 10 years old daughter and she was threatened by two teenage boys on bicycles. Why? Because the kids knew they could get away with it. No other reason. She called the county sheriff and they said they wouldn't do anything about it. So the boys returned and threatened her again. I've seen many examples of racism towards white people lately. It's explained as some sort of new, woke view people are enlightened with. It's disgusting. The videos are out there. The one yesterday of those "youths" attacking that young couple with 2x4s was disgusting. It was attempted murder in my view.

So, last night we got word from a law enforcement connection that the "protesters" in the city were going to be showing up in some of the suburbs, including my neighborhood. So, I slept locked and loaded in the front room. What's going to happen soon is some of these idiots are going get get wound up enough to go attack families in their suburb homes and you'll hear about a handful of these protesters being dropped in the streets and yards. What will be the response then from the woke Hollywood leftists? A call for even more violence? I think so. The street I live on is well-armed George Floyd sympathizers who just want to keep their loved ones safe.

I can not wrap my head around this desire for blood in our country. It reeks of communism and last night reminded me of the stories my French mother-in-law tells about hiding in their homes sheepishly waiting for the Nazi soldiers to leave... odd similarity.

Maybe we can designate Washington D,C. as a hurricane sanctuary city?

This will be a good first step.
https://www.freedomnewsreport.com/202...

There are many comments and/or theories about the big picture relating to the end of "Shrugged". I am pretty much in agreement with those.
But, as I sit watching the chaos on tv I am reminded of the late '70s when I was in Tehran during the Sha's demise. I lived in the northern part of the city. I had to go into the city to reach the embassy for help trying to get a flight out. Protesters started marching the street chanting. The military arrived resulting in a standoff. The military used bullhorns to tell the crowd to disperse. I was among many on the sidewalk just watching. The crowd did not disperse and started moving towards the military. Then, the military just opened fire. Then everybody just tried to find cover inside stores or anywhere. There were bodies in the street. After about an hour in the bank where I took cover, I made my way out and walked several blocks over and with a stroke of luck found a taxi to get home.
What I see on tv today is a squishy ooze of humanity that is squished out of one area into just another area for more chaos. It is entirely unproductive. Simple protest is NOT what is happening now. FORCE is the ONLY thing the radical elements will understand. Yes, just like the virus that stalks us now only bullets and/or bulldozers will stop the chaos. I have seen it.

In the beginning, we followed the voice of our own schizophrenia, then the voice went away and we were lost for a time...then, painfully slowly, we gained the voice of self. Since, it's been a fight between the Mind and the temptations and perversions of our brains-inherited from our ancestors.

It's very interesting, but the study of human nature historically speaking belies the notion that human beings are progressing in morality. While we have certainly improved technologically, it is almost as if every human being has to learn for himself/herself what morality means and how they are going to live their own lives. And while the teaching of children is incredibly important, even then we can not discount the notion of free will. It seems that the human race will never reach that harmonious state depicted in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but in practical cases will probably end up a lot more like Firefly.

Looks like Antifa is hiding among protesters making it difficult to just shoot them on sight in the heat of battle. Nevertheless, looters do need to be restrained and stopped before they damage property. Trump is right to call out national guard and military

Here is one example of the planned arson in the Twin Cities of Minnesota: https://needtoknow.news/2020/06/suspected-agent-provocateurs-who-incited-the-destruction-of-autozone-caught-on-video/

I get the impression that much of the rioting and chaos is a process of fanning the flames. In one video you will see a hundred state police shoulder to shoulder and two blocks away the criminal elements are breaking windows and torching vehicles.

Agreed. Likewise my daughter and her husband in San Antonio, my son and his family just a block away. In short, my entire large family is bunkered in, locked and loaded, and my nephew the State Patrolman has just been ordered to Columbus, OH for riot control...

Tonight I sit with a gun at my side...

It doesn't appear to be the black community in general doing this. They are protesting, and rightly so, but the rioting appears to be a different group - mixed, black & white - that are in most cases out-of-towners. They arrested a bunch of rioters in Minneapolis and they all turned out to be from out-of-town. I suspect the fascist organization Antifa.
The protests should be allowed and not interfered with, but as soon as it gets violent, the looters, vandals, and arsonists should be shot on sight. This is a coordinated attack on multiple fronts, on the American government, and on American citizens and businesses, and should be dealt with the same way we dealt with the Nazis.

I know those can have a big footpint. Is its carbon footprint also going to cause a problem? How can the EPA allow hurricanes like that to operate?