Sunday, 31 May 2020

Riot Observations

1.  No one much talks about it, but the way that George Floyd got into the first bit of his issue....was at the store, with the use of a counterfeit $20.  The storekeeper said 'no', and basically walked out with whatever he was buying.  Where'd the twenty come from?  Unknown. 

I knew someone from a decade ago who'd gone to a bank for their pocket money for the month, and the bank slipped them a fake twenty, which came up almost immediately as they tried to pay gas they'd bought.  Bank would not acknowledge this.  I knew another guy who done some deal at a flea market and was given a couple of twentys for whatever they sold, and two of the twentys were later deemed fake. 

Did George know it were counterfeit?  No way to tell.  It would be interesting to know the rest of the contents of George's billfold, but I doubt if this will go to far.

2.  This continued commentary about right-wing KKK members being in the middle of the riots?   It's about the most laughable joke possible.  Real KKK folks would wear the hoods, burn crosses, and wave confederate flags. 

People who wear black clothing?  Antifa.

3.  All these structures burnt to the ground?  Odds of rebuilding?  In the middle of a likely two-year recession?  No.  I'd take the insurance money, and just walk away.  Let the real estate people figure out some loser-deal to handle the property. 

For the jobs lost?  Presently, I'd be guessing that a minimum of 100,000 jobs lost, and will probably get up into the 500,000 range in the next couple of days. 

4.  NY City police arrested some dimwit young gal....for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a police vehicle (4 cops inside).  The city DA?  It's going to be tough to avoid attempted-murder charges on the gal, and just let her walk away.  The police?  They will watch this develop, and probably lay down a card or two.  This dimwit?  She's looking at a minimum of three years in prison....over what?  The sister?  She was with the dimwit and will get charges as well.  The parents?  I'm guessing they are looking for a lawyer, and figuring a minimum of $50,000 to defend the two idiots.  Paying off the police union?  I hate to suggest it, but a hundred-thousand donation might turn the trick. 

5.  You look through the videos and the one obvious thing missing?  Latinos.  You don't see any Latinos. 

6.  From the G-20 Conference in Hamburg, Germany back in the summer of 2017.  There's this odd moment that occurs.....some protest folks are throwing bricks at cops, and the cops charge them.....grabbing a couple.  So this one guy stands out....no ID and uncooperative.  An ID is eventually made.  He's a German policeman.  So the question was asked....was he a undercover cop?  No, and he's not even from the region. 

This was a young policeman who could not explain his participation or his violent act.  Nothing ever got said after that point.  Charges?  Unknown.  Termination from his job, unknown.

So when some idiots suggest that undercover cops are part of the riots in the US.....I might go and ask to identify them, and if they have Antifa tendencies. 

Saturday, 30 May 2020

Explaining the 1807 Insurrection Act

Passed in 1807....it gives the President the opportunity to deploy active-duty military troops (from within the US)...to put down rebellion and insurrection. 

So in effect, President Trump could go and deploy 10,000 military personnel into Minneapolis.

Now, I won't say this is a positive thing, and it's very likely to trigger a Kent State event.

Back in 2006, the wording to this Act was re-worked.  It was to include natural disasters (like hurricanes).  At that point, most people figured for most all future uses....it'd be in times of flood or hurricanes. 

The Rest of the Script

After watching the riot video this morning....particularly of the CNN HQ's in downtown Atlanta, I will offer up the rest of the script (compliments of the Antifa crowd):

1.  Stacey Abrams is now locked in as the Biden VP. 

2.  Abrams will appear by late Sunday in Atlanta, and deliver a live nationwide 'we must come together' speech via CNN.   The CNN crowd will proclaim her as the 'peace-maker' and the unification candidate.  At least forty black known figures will be in the background behind her.

The speech given....will be one of the 'ages'....where peace and tranquility will be uttered over and over. 

Fifty percent of all blacks will be laughing over the fakeness of the speech.

3.  The riot business will halt at this magically 'halt'.  Antifa team members will quietly and quickly leave the scene.

4.  Somewhere in the three weeks after the Democratic convention....Biden will announce his health issues, and Stacey moves to be the candidate. 

5.  The Republican convention?  At this point, with riot potential and Antifa in the background.....it's doubtful that it will occur.

6.  The possibility that the FBI will put Antifa on a domestic terror list?  They will fight the Justice Department on this, but will be forced to do it.  Junior FBI personnel will admit that they've felt like this this for five years. 

Friday, 29 May 2020

More Minneapolis Observations

I spent an hour this morning looking at new riot video from Minneapolis.  So more observations:

1.  I expect this weekend, at least forty cities across the nation will see more riots in their region, and cars/buildings will be torched.  Cops will be told to more or less stand down.  Fire departments will refuse to act because of a lack of protection. 

2.  The National Guard getting called out?  So at this point, the suggestion is that they are there to escort the fire department folks to the fires, and protect them.  The chief question....will they be armed and able to respond?  Are we re-creating another Kent-State mess? 

3.  I don't see the majority of police in Minneapolis staying.  Just me suggesting this, but I wouldn't be shocked to see 50-percent gone by late summer. 

4.  Covid-19 eruption in ten days in Minneapolis?  It wouldn't surprise me if you see a 100-percent increase in infections, and ride out a second wave in the state for the next four weeks.

5.  The fact that the policeman accused of the murder....had been written up on a number of violent episodes in the past?  Well, this finally got brought up.  Here's the thing....back in the very beginning when episodes came up....the DA in Minneapolis was current US Senator...Amy Klobuchar.  Yes, kinda interesting.  What'd she do with the investigations?  Nothing.  Why?  No one says much...I'm guessing that the police union suggested that she drop the potential charges.  This guy should have been let go back a decade ago, but nothing ever occurred.

6.  People getting armed to protect their businesses?  Well...the area affected so far is Southwest Minneapolis.  This is the lesser end of the city.  I would suggest that as the riot folks finished up burning structures there....then they will move to mid-town and the southeast part of the city.  There, they might end up meeting with armed counter-riot people, and you might end up seeing a dozen folks dead in just one evening. 

7.  Eventually, Trump is going to turn to the FBI and ask why is Antifa in the middle of this, and you do nothing?  The goofballs at the FBI will then look at the working-level FBI folks....who've been telling this for five years minimum, and some harsh criticism will erupt from the junior FBI guys to the management folks.

8.  Trump threatening to send the National Guard?  Here's the thing....this threat is simply open.  The governor, the mayor and the city council....will be smiling and happy to let this happen.  But Trump might go an entire month without moving to the next step.  How many many buildings and cars burn by that point?  He's going to make you guys look highly stupid, and have people literally begging for Trump to take charge. 

9.  The more I watch this murder tape, with the cop looking straight at the camera....I'm convinced the dude is drugged up (referring to the cop).  I don't think he has any idea over what he's doing.

10.  Finally, another story popped up....that for roughly 17 years....the dead guy and the cop....worked at a particular restaurant in town...together.  If true, it just begs more questions. 

Thursday, 28 May 2020

Explaining this Whole Twitter, Jack Dorsey, and Executive Order Being Drafted

What this discussion in the past week has brewing....is mostly about content. 

From the 1700s through most of the 1900s....newspapers in America survived because they had content that people wanted to read.  Without content, your paper would fold up and dissolve in a short period of time.

The Baltimore Sun....built up a huge legacy in the 1910 to 1930s era, with the help of H. L. Mencken.  Mencken could write a 500 word essay piece and grown men would sit and weep over the description and blunt nature of the writing.  He made the Sun....into a newspaper that folks in Baltimore, DC, and Arlington would read.

Silent movies took off....because they had content....a basic story.

Radio took off....because they found music, news commentary, and verbal plays to entertain people. 

TV networks would take off because of comedy, drama, cowboy westerns, and gameshows.

AM radio took off in the 1980s because they found this one guy....Rush Limbaugh, who could talk about politics for two hours, and people were passionate to hear him speak.

The internet arrived in the 1990s, and found content. 

Social media came along around 2010, and found content.  Twitter and Facebook survive today....because they have content that draws people. 

So here's the landscape....Jack Dorsey (the CEO of Twitter) is the 'gatekeeper' or 'librarian' of this operation.  He'll freely admit, without content, his empire dissolves. 

The problem here is that this library is 'free'.  You walk in....dump your content, and people come to the Dorsey-library to read freely. 

Through 2015, Jack and his team were all happy and gleeful.  They didn't see a problem.  They had content.  They had advertising.  Members of the team went off to Costa Rica each year to gaze at birds, smoke great weed, and sip very expensive French cognac. 

But along about 2015....here came this Trump guy.  Trump figured out that he didn't need ABC, or CBS.  He didn't need the NY Times or Washington Post.  He didn't need NPR or the AP.  He just needed Twitter....talking direct to the American people.  Funny thing about this.....he could easily write 140-character comment, and hit 'enter' on his own.  He didn't need an army to run his talk-policy, or million-dollar-a-week poll people telling what to think or say.

Dorsey had never encountered something like this.

The big IT empire folks who were heavily screwed into the liberal agenda were dismayed.  Jack needed to fix this.  So they went and got 'editor' people....trying to pretend that they weren't going to screw with content, but that's exactly how they went at this. 

People figured out the various games, and started to chat freely about Jack's childish operation.  Jack still made money, but the people around him were furious....'you need to do something' was uttered daily to Jack.

This past week, Jack's team decided to finally fact-check Trump.  The fact that they'd skipped 40-million bogus stories and lies....from various countries (Iran, China, etc)?  Well....that got dumped into Jack's lap. 

Jack has a problem.

Was the 'library' ever supposed to edit content?  If you have a 'library' doing it....aren't they creating their content, or dissolving you of your 'content'?  Can an intellectual even reach a level where facts are absolute? 

Yeah, a bunch of questions arise.  And Jack is in trouble.

So my two suggestions for Jack.

1.  Announce that Twitter is turning the off-button 'ON' around Friday evening and shutting down Twitter for 48 hours....every single week.  Let everyone know....from the right to the left, that Twitter is private and will stay that way.  Get people used to the idea that Twitter won't work on weekends.  It's mostly to make a point.

2.  All of this was free.  It shouldn't be.  Just to gaze at the library, without commentary, you ought to be paying $7.99 a month, and limit customers to just 100 people to follow.  Next step up....with commentary added and 500 people to follow, $29.  Finally at the premium level.....$49 a month, for all privileges. On this privilege, make it clear....that's absolute open content.  If people don't want that last privileage....don't pay the $49 a month, and just get limited service. 

As for this Order from Trump fixing the mess?  No....I would seriously doubt it.  It'll be challenged in court, and take a full year to reach the Supreme Court.  I'm sure RBG will be sitting there and asking what the hell Twitter is, and couldn't things just easily work without involving the President. 

My View of the Minneapolis Riots

First....Randy, your mamma called and said she saw you on CNN in some kinda bad disguise, and she thinks that Antifa recruiter has clouded up your head....got you into some serious weed, and you need to come home right away.  She'll leave the porch-light on, awaiting your arrival (with fresh pecan pie).  She don't want to hear anymore Antifa chatter in the house.  She uttered the term 'evil demons' and 'work of the devil' several times.

So, now onto the important business.

Once you burned down your neighborhood, or you allowed Antifa to do it for you.....what's it going to look like in five years?  Like Baltimore or Detroit?  And is that really what you desire?  Half of these business-fronts will look over the insurance money and wise-up....leaving the city.

Next....are you doing much to help the case on the four dimwit police?  No.  Let the prosecutor line up the case.  This shouldn't take more than 90 days to haul them into court, and run a simple seven-day trial.  All seven will end up in prison, and then you can get your thugs to go after them there.

Onto the news cameras?  Got the juicy stuff?  So, if I were a viewer, and looked up the leadership of the state and city....what do I see?  Democrat governor, democrat mayor, democrat city council, and a police chief approved to be hired by the mayor and council.  If you think a leadership change needs to occur....how will this work?  And getting 'orangeman' into this lineup?  Does he run the state authority?

Also, to note.....some flags made in China....are flame-retardant.  For college graduates, that means it don't burn....even if you soak it in diesel or gas.  So go and buy onto cotton flags (usually made in Mexico) if you got some burn-the-flag act for the TV cameras scheduled.  You look silly spending 5 minutes trying to burn a retardant flag. 

Finally, to the topic of correcting injustice and poor cops.  If the police system isn't working....it's your city leadership that needs to be punished and fired.  But if you aren't smart enough to see that.....then why bother even playing the game?  Just start a civil conflict in the city, and see how far that goes.

Simply Observations

1.  This whole thing in Minneapolis....where does this lead 'from'?

Well....the mayor and majority of the city council....are democrats, and they hire the police chief to serve them and their expectations.  So if they hire 'thugs'....it's not just the police chief who triggered the damage, it's the city management itself.

2.  Riots in Minneapolis to lead anywhere?

I would expect ten days of this, with over a hundred buildings looted or burned by the end.  Figure that thirty to forty percent of the folks affected....won't come back and rebuild.  It's kinda the path of Baltimore and Detroit.  Don't worry....this is big-city life and part of the drama that they expect.

3.  West Virginia mail carrier charged up with election fraud?

This dude picked up an absentee ballot requests (plural, so it's more than one), and altering them.  Asked about it....he said it was a 'joke'.  Note, he's a 47-year old guy.  Here's the thing....it's a felony in the state, and a minimum of one year (up to ten) in prison.  So this guy can say adios to the postal job, and figure if he begs his way out.....he'll do one year, and get out at 8 months with 'good' time served.  On the stupid level....it's a solid ten.

Can you imagine being in prison, and some rough dudes come up...asking your crime, and you admit that you corrected some ballot requests from Democrat to Republican?  Their response?  'Man, that's pretty lame'. 

4.  Black guys get killed by who?

Statistically speaking....if you are a black guy, it's huge odds if you die in a shooting, it's done by another black guy.  It's actually 7-times the odds of a black guy doing it to you, than a white guy.

Now, all this said....black guys might put themselves in a risky spot, arguing over a woman or some debt, and not grasp that the other black dude has zero patience or understanding. 

No one ever does the statistical collection to say how the shooting started, if booze or drugs were involved, or if it was just a mistaken identity issue. 

5.  Anything really odd about this Michigan lockdown and 'water' activity?

This is a curious thing.  If you were to go out for a lake visit with a canoe or raft....it'd all be fine and no cop trying to hassle you.  If this involves anything with a motor involved.....you would be all hassled-up and in trouble.  The only difference....is a motor. 

6.  Can you drink while wearing a mask?

No.  But it begs questions....if you 'dipped' the mask for 8 seconds to slurp up some beer.....is it possible to get one virus-bug of Corona?  So far, no PhD guys have discussed this.  It may require a good bit of testing.....maybe ten to twenty kegs of beer.  I would be willing to participate as a tester.  But it has to be premium beer (not PBR).

7.  What sort of action is Trump talking about with social media?

So far, no one really knows.  Social media may have to react, and go to the next level....shutting down YouTube, Facebook, Twitter....for 24 hours, to demonstrate their power against Trump.   This might freak out a whole bunch of folks. 

8.  Fact-checking doing much by social media?

It's adding a cost factor.  No one says how much.

If you go and read the novel '1984'....it usually makes up a hour-long chat by folks over society and the need to control 'facts' or 'truth'.  I have this belief that none of the Twitter or Facebook top level of management have ever read '1984'.