tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post2949016296813051356..comments2024-03-28T08:51:18.908-04:00Comments on the daily howler: STORYLINE CONQUERS KENOSHA: The information which gets withheld!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-77402735201581807552021-12-02T12:05:24.608-05:002021-12-02T12:05:24.608-05:003:17,
You have written some stupid things here, bu...3:17,<br />You have written some stupid things here, but this one, that there is a Right-winger somewhere in this great big world ho gives a shit about small businesses might be the stupidest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-59035525563771621252021-12-02T12:02:38.003-05:002021-12-02T12:02:38.003-05:00Agreed that the babbling fuckhead at 11:58 wouldn&...Agreed that the babbling fuckhead at 11:58 wouldn't make any claim his Establishment bosses don't want him to make.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-15468506289838268992021-12-02T07:38:01.001-05:002021-12-02T07:38:01.001-05:00Dembot, our 11:58 doesn't make any claims.
An...Dembot, our 11:58 doesn't make any claims.<br /><br />And if you think that Kenosha county cop allegedly opining that your liberal cult's thugs came from elsewhere helps you somehow, you're even more retarded than we thought. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-75784260870405235812021-12-01T19:23:15.273-05:002021-12-01T19:23:15.273-05:00If people's pets died in the fires that were s...If people's pets died in the fires that were set, it was because their owners left them behind. Note that no people died and none were treated for smoke inhalation or burns. They went off and left their pets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21046726314960186282021-12-01T18:40:21.030-05:002021-12-01T18:40:21.030-05:00The weak and the wrong laugh off criticism, the re...The weak and the wrong laugh off criticism, the rest of us deal with it. According to neo right wing "philosophy", hard times are coming to you, Weak Boy Mao. Don't let them get you down.<br /><br />"Further confrontations arose when armed militia members, whom Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth described as "like a group of vigilantes", arrived"<br /><br />"Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth asserted that most of the damage was from individuals with no intent to protest and who were not from Kenosha County"<br /><br />I can't tell if you are mentally or morally deficient, or both; 11:58 is you, making a false claim. Your claims at 5:38 are more so false and unhinged. Time seems to be slipping you into darkness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-45338817997940370462021-12-01T17:38:19.326-05:002021-12-01T17:38:19.326-05:00Thanks for the laughs, dear dembot.
Liberals (a ...Thanks for the laughs, dear dembot. <br /><br />Liberals (a far-right cult) definitely do endorse looting, see 11:58 AM above. And also they loot and riot. <br /><br />Thousands of riots since last year's summer, $2 billion in damages, dozens of dead, thousands of injured. Hello? Who do you think you're fooling? You dembots are retarded, but normal ordinary humyn beings aren't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-3459054921121000452021-12-01T17:20:38.555-05:002021-12-01T17:20:38.555-05:00Supposedly Republicans are unaware that venture ca...Supposedly Republicans are unaware that venture capitalists have had a devastatingly negative impact on small businesses over the last 50 yrs. Walmart, ironically with it's central planning and reliance on China, exists to wipe out small businesses, particularly minority owned ones.<br /><br />And Zimmerman and Rittenhouse exist to wipe out whatever is left that doesn't support White dominance.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-29659704705899632292021-12-01T17:11:25.377-05:002021-12-01T17:11:25.377-05:00The local Kenosha Sheriff explicitly said the riot...The local Kenosha Sheriff explicitly said the rioters were not the BLM protestors. <br /><br />Broadly speaking, the Left does not endorse looting nor violence; neither does the Right, but the Right actually engages in it - Jan 6, McVeigh, Proud Boys, on and on etc.<br /><br />"Right wing" is just another way of saying "low integrity".<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87257304027738130112021-12-01T17:03:43.011-05:002021-12-01T17:03:43.011-05:00Black people get the short end of the stick, via s...Black people get the short end of the stick, via systemic and institutional oppression, in every possible way, particularly in economic ways. So when Somerby (and his fanboys) and Bowles shed their crocodile tears over a few small businesses that just happen to dovetail with their right wing narrative, don't be surprised when we note that they don't really give a fuck about those small businesses, they are just trying to score points. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-48861095007467295002021-12-01T15:17:25.433-05:002021-12-01T15:17:25.433-05:00Of course Somerby has no interest in the consequen...Of course Somerby has no interest in the consequence of rioting in ethnic neighborhoods composed of small businesses that aren’t franchises. <br /><br />That’s why he blogged on Bowles’ coverage of the carnage and wrote three paragraphs on the media’s handling of it. <br /><br />It’s not your goddess Maddow who doesn’t give a rat’s, it’s Bob…<br /><br />But then you’re only here to hound Somerby. <br /><br />You don’t care anymore than Rachel and the anonymices who invoke venture capitalists at the mention of mom-and-pop stores. Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-70548843621589762802021-12-01T13:08:59.090-05:002021-12-01T13:08:59.090-05:00One of the more interesting parts of the article (...One of the more interesting parts of the article (for liberals) is the example of systemic racism represented by the inability of minority owned businesses to get better insurance and their lack of access to funds intended to repair the community after the rioting. Further, more of the minority business owners were comingling their family possessions and family life with their shops, which made the burning personal when they lost possessions that were not business related.<br /><br />The mixing of residences with businesses seems odd to me, perhaps because I have lived in cities where zoning doesn't permit that. But it does make me wonder (1) why they didn't board up their windows, (2) why they didn't leave when there was burning, so that pets were killed, (3) why Kyle and his friends didn't protect these small business residences instead of focusing on protecting cars.<br /><br />Somerby, of course, has no interest in what happened to the human beings in those small businesses. He just wants to tag the rioters and blame CNN/MSNBC for not talking about the riot in its reports of the demonstrations. I would find it very odd if there were not also reports of the riots themselves, but agree with other commenters that these are two different phenomena. Exercise of free speech gives cover to opportunistic rioting only when the police decide to focus on the protesters and ignore the rioters, as has occurred over and over in various cities. The orders to police to stand down and not protect neighborhoods and businesses after the Rodney King verdict were infamous. Police do set priorities and when they believe that minority people are burning their own neighborhoods, it is hard to see how police, with their current political sympathies, are going to lift a finger to help, much as Kyle Rittenhouse and his cronies were deployed elsewhere, for other purposes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62882786530005320202021-12-01T12:26:16.547-05:002021-12-01T12:26:16.547-05:00The police rioted when the citizens tried to hold ...The police rioted when the citizens tried to hold their publicly funded asses accountable.<br /><br />Why are you pretending to forget that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-11989857116163427042021-12-01T11:58:41.890-05:002021-12-01T11:58:41.890-05:00Just a year ago you dembots couldn't stop tell...Just a year ago you dembots couldn't stop telling us how BLM riots -- yes, BLM riots -- are the best thing after sliced bread. <br /><br />The super-bestest liberal book In Defense of Looting, remember? <br /><br />"...looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society" -- remember?<br /><br />Rioters "are engaging in a powerful tactic that questions the justice of "law and order," and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society" -- remember?<br /><br />Are you still suffering from amnesia, dear mh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-37338953721546810512021-12-01T11:53:49.856-05:002021-12-01T11:53:49.856-05:00The connection between Black Lives Matters and the...The connection between Black Lives Matters and the violence and destruction is a tenuous one, but Bob takes it at face value that it was all “led by” BLM. So it was with the sometimes violent looting in the civil rights era. It’s a tricky area the Press could illuminate but they don’t do tricky areas, and neither does Bob. Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288008924419574934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-20397707943555014212021-12-01T11:47:34.048-05:002021-12-01T11:47:34.048-05:00“Bowles' text referred to "protests for r...“Bowles' text referred to "protests for racial justice"—but it also referred to "riots." <br /><br />Bowles wrote:<br />“Mr. Floyd’s death was the start of months of protests for racial justice led by the Black Lives Matter movement that have left long-term economic damage,”<br /><br />Was it the protests led by Black Lives Matter that caused the economic damage? That is certainly how Bowles’ sentence parses. <br /><br />Or were there rioters unconnected with BLM who used the protests as a cover?<br /><br />Bowles’ statement is the type of statement that seems designed to conflate two or more potentially separate phenomena and winds up blaming BLM for everything. That is sloppy at best, but could indicate a deliberate attempt at obfuscation. <br /><br />It feeds into the narrative that protests in and of themselves are bad, and only violent radicals and revolutionaries engage in them, “leftists”, naturally. mhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937133532381705347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62666488639101873262021-12-01T11:33:20.842-05:002021-12-01T11:33:20.842-05:00We don't need these rioters destroying neighbo...We don't need these rioters destroying neighborhoods and looting businesses. We already have your Establishment pals and their private equity firms doing that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-91144103126846266972021-12-01T11:22:14.924-05:002021-12-01T11:22:14.924-05:00tldr, but really, dear Bob, do normal ordinary hum...<br />tldr, but really, dear Bob, do normal ordinary humyn beings outside your liberal-hitlerian cult need to be told that liberal riots destroy neighborhoods? C'mon, dear Bob. <br /><br />...and your liberal-zombie comrades, dear Bob, we know, and you know, and everyone else knows that any common sense reasoning is wasted on them. So you're shooting blanks, we're sorry to say... <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com