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-Land of the Free
VIDEO: Homeowner Catches Leftist Urinating on Trump Sign, Blasts Miscreant With Paintball Gun
Vote in November. Make them pay for choosing to be ill-mannered louts.
[NationalFile] Video footage shows a Trump supporter using a paintball gun to dispel a leftist who was trying to urinate on the homeowner’s Trump-Pence lawn sign.

After catching the vandal leering over the lawn sign and fiddling with his pants on a night-vision CCTV camera, the Trump-supporting homeowner retrieves a semi-auto paintball gun and heads to the front door, with a pistol holstered on his hip for good measure.

"What the f**k?" he calls out to the trespasser. "F**k you!" comes the reply, as well as a derisive flash of the middle finger from the miscreant.

Unsatisfied with this response, the homeowner shoulders the CO2 rifle and proceeds to spray down the vandal with a fusillade of rubber paint pellets, prompting the latter to cry out in pain, lose his balance, and tumble into the street.

The vandal scurries away into the night, as the homeowner pelts him a few more times for good measure and calls out "F**k outta here!"

Vandalism of pro-Trump signage has become increasingly commonplace in recent months. In Boulder, Colorado an adult woman attacked a 12-year-old boy after spotting a Trump campaign sign on his family’s front lawn:

The suspect made a U-turn and approached the victim and began assaulting him because of his political banner. The suspect then "attempted to take the banner but was unsuccessful," police said as a woman rode her moped through a Boulder neighborhood.

Boulder police spokeswoman Shannon Aulabaugh affirmed that the woman pulled a U-turn before approaching the preteen and told him "you want something to look at," or something to that effect before launching her assault, per Denver Post.

Aulabaugh then said that the woman, with a closed fist, struck the boy four or five times on the back of the head and arm before scratching her victim.

The woman reportedly tried to take the pro- Trump lawn sign before leaving the scene. Investigators believe the woman to be either in her 20s or 30s wearing a tan jacket, blue shirt, and blue jeans, and the woman rode a blue or gray moped, according to CBS Denver.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has intimated that politically motivated violence will increase if Donald Trump gets re-elected.
Posted by: 746 || 09/08/2020 00:30 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sheer pleasure. Love this video, very satisfying.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Chearong8698 || 09/08/2020 1:52 Comments || Top||

#2  That's what electric fence transformers are for.
Posted by: gorb || 09/08/2020 2:38 Comments || Top||

#3  and the woman rode a blue or gray moped

If you had two minutes it's pretty easy to take fishing line and do an improvised clothesline right around chest level. I did that to Bobby Peterson one day when he cruised by my house on his bike - took his ass right out.
Posted by: Raj || 09/08/2020 9:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't attack children. Anyone doing so needs a severe beatdown. If they cause harm, a severe ventilating.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/08/2020 10:27 Comments || Top||

#5  if this "woman" attacked my child she would have died that day.
Posted by: Chris || 09/08/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Need to send rampaging bands of 12 years olds out with paint guns tracking and hunting lefty vandals.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/08/2020 11:46 Comments || Top||

#7  This reminds me of a story from my old cracker neighbor. You see Loughman .FL is right on the county line and good old Imperial Polk County was a dry county. So the good old boys would walk across to Osceloa county to get there adult beverages . Being that this wasn't a sit down bar or anything, they would relieve themselves on the wall of another building. The owner of this building got quite irate . So a buried steel plate and a model T spark coil solved this problem, just saying.
Posted by: Vinegar Spolusing6485 || 09/08/2020 11:48 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: 746 || 09/08/2020 14:26 Comments || Top||

#9  https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryStories/comments/1w6ze3/xpost_from_rbestof_story_of_epic_snowball_war/
Posted by: 746 || 09/08/2020 14:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Love it!!
Posted by: Clem || 09/08/2020 15:33 Comments || Top||


Economy
Massachusetts employers facing ‘pretty staggering' hike in unemployment taxes
[MassLive] With unemployment soaring, state lawmakers are considering ways to soften the blow from a major impending increase in the taxes employers pay toward the state’s unemployment system, a jump in costs that one business group described as a "pretty staggering."

With the unemployment insurance trust fund suddenly facing a multibillion-dollar deficit over the next four years, the contributions required from Massachusetts businesses are set to increase nearly 60 percent when the calendar turns to 2021 and then continue growing at a smaller rate through 2024.

Those higher taxes -- estimated at an average of $319 more per qualifying employee next year -- will be due starting in April, raising concerns that the sharp uptick will put a drag on the economic recovery from the ongoing COVID-prompted recession and make it more difficult for employers to bring back jobs they cut.
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Posted by: 746 || 09/08/2020 00:22 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Socialism only works till other people's money runs out.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/08/2020 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  They want businesses hiring illegals?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/08/2020 7:06 Comments || Top||

#3  I was going to comment on this but the spam filter's not digging what I had to say, so guess I'm gonna punt here.
Posted by: Raj || 09/08/2020 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Works Progress Administration

Maybe 'the Walbergs' could setup a nonprofit to rebuild Boston.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/08/2020 10:41 Comments || Top||

#5  How to drive businesses out of your state:
class level 101
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/08/2020 12:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Next the local pundits will wonder why all of those boutique locally-owned and run businesses all closed their doors. The Big Box retailers can budget for this bureaucratic bloodletting -- the little guys can't.
Posted by: magpie || 09/08/2020 16:57 Comments || Top||


Europe
Xi disses Macron.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Fifth Column
Kamala Harris privately met legal team of Jacob Blake and family.
[Twitter]
Golly. Another Democrat who is just fine being seen with an everyone-hating father of a self-indulgent, poorly brought-up son. The family has gone downhill since Gramps was a civil rights leader...

Posted by: 3dc || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Just trying to heal America by convincing his family that their son acting like the thug he is was somehow justified.
Posted by: gorb || 09/08/2020 2:40 Comments || Top||

#2  She's always good for a laugh -- or a cackle
Posted by: Punky Darling of the Bunions2791 || 09/08/2020 4:37 Comments || Top||


#4  Who banged who?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/08/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey arrests a journalist for making a slight critical remark about a TV series.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: Politix
Gov. Cuomo Praises Heroes of New York
And it ain't the Gov.
[MSN] "New York State will go down in the history books as the place that beat back COVID," he said in a video released Monday. "And when they write those history books, the heroes of the battle will be the hardworking families of New York."

The comments came as the state marked a month with a COVID infection rate reported below 1%, according to the governor’s office.
1% of the State of New York, as compared to 0.75% for the entire country? Brag on, Gov!
Even with the outbreak apparently under control, New York State still has the highest death toll in the country — 25,361 fatalities as of Sunday, not including cases in which the victim had not been diagnosed with the virus before their death.

"The heroes of the COVID war are not the elite. They’re not the most well off. The heroes were the hardworking, talented and principled women and men of labor," Cuomo said, lavishing praise upon transportation workers, first responders and others.
Deflecting attention from his failures, to be sure.
"In my book, they have always been the heroes because they have always been essential to building this nation," added the governor, who recently got a deal to write a non-metaphorical book about the coronavirus crisis.
A book deal for Gov. Cuomo? I am amazed!
Posted by: Bobby || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


#2  ^What about restaurants run by people who contributed to his election campaign?

p.s. You can only have less that 1% positives if your tests have probability of less 0.01 for false positive. Or, you fiddling the results.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/08/2020 7:23 Comments || Top||


Russia Russia Russia: Kamala sez Biden Could Lose Because of Russian Interference
[BREITBART] Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut...
(D-CA) said on Sunday’s broadcast of CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
’s "State of the Union" that Russian election meddling could cause Democratic presidential nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
to lose the 2020 election.Host Dana Bash said, "I want to ask about Russia. The Department of Homeland Security bulletin said that Russia is trying to amplify claims that mail-in voting will lead to widespread voting fraud and undermine the public’s trust in the upcoming election. Are you worried that Russian interference could cost you the election?"

Harris said, "I am clear that Russia interfered in the election of the president of the United States in 2016. I serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee. We have published detailed reports about exactly what we believe happened. And I do believe that there will be foreign interference in the 2020 election and that Russia will be at the front of the line."

Bash said, "Could it cost you the White House?"

Harris said, "Theoretically, of course, yes."

She added, "We have classic voter suppression, we have what happened in 2016, which is foreign interference, we have a president who is trying to convince the American people not to believe in the integrity of our election system and compromise their belief that their vote might actually count. These things are all at play, and I am very realistic, Joe is very realistic, that until we can win...that there will be many obstacles that people are intentionally placing in front of Americans’ ability to vote."


Ex-F.B.I. Agent in Russia Inquiry Says Trump Is a National Security Threat
[NYTIMES] A former senior F.B.I. agent at the center of the investigations into Hillary Clinton’s email server and the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia defends the handling of the inquiries and declares President Trump a national security threat in a new memoir, while admitting that the bureau made mistakes that upended the 2016 presidential election.

The former agent, Peter Strzok, who was removed from the special counsel’s team and later fired over disparaging texts he sent about Mr. Trump, has mostly kept silent as the president and his supporters have vilified him.

But Mr. Strzok’s new book, “Compromised,” a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times ahead of its publication on Tuesday, provides a detailed account of navigating the two politically toxic investigations and a forceful apologia of the bureau’s acts. Mr. Strzok also reveals details about the F.B.I.’s internal debate over investigating the president himself, writing that the question arose early in the Trump presidency and suggesting that agents were eyeing others around Mr. Trump. Mr. Strzok was himself at first opposed to investigating the president.

But in a scathing appraisal, Mr. Strzok concludes that Mr. Trump is hopelessly corrupt and a national security threat. The investigations that Mr. Strzok oversaw showed the president’s “willingness to accept political assistance from an opponent like Russia — and, it follows, his willingness to subvert everything America stands for.”

“That’s not patriotic,” Mr. Strzok writes. “It’s the opposite.”

Mr. Strzok’s insider look serves as a counter to the efforts by Mr. Trump and his allies to discredit the Russia investigation. Attorney General William P. Barr has appointed a veteran prosecutor to review the conduct of the F.B.I., Mr. Strzok and others for possible misconduct and bias.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is Pravda.

So unbelievably slanted, it reads like satire ... except The Bee is funny. This is by turns boring and annoying
Posted by: Flerese Darling of the Poles2273 || 09/08/2020 2:12 Comments || Top||




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  Turkish lira has hit a record low against the dollar
Mon 2020-09-07
  BLM protesters in DC are calling for the White House to be burned down, cops killed.
Sun 2020-09-06
  Jihadists net $140 mn from Burkina gold mine raids
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  Thousands Antifa/BLM Flood Rochester, Threatening and Smashing Restaurants, Customers Flee in Terror
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  Federal Officers Reportedly Kill Michael Reinoehl
Thu 2020-09-03
  ICE puts detainers on 10 associates of MS-13 in connection with sex trafficking of 13-year-old girl
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  DHS Chief: Feds ‘Targeting And Investigating’ Heads Of BLM, Antifa And Those Who Fund Them
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  Sheriffs say they won't help governor's plan to stop Portland protest violence
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  Ten militants and five civilians killed in east Congo violence: army, local leader
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  Antifa sets police union building on fire again, 600-car pro-Trump caravan, deadly shooting near rally
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  Portland: Mayor besieged in his condo
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  Antifa and BLM attacking people leaving the Whitehouse after RNC end.
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  Congo army says Islamist militia kills 20 in east
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  Kenosha Residents Fire Warning Shots as Rioters Threaten Neighborhoods (video)
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