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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #270 on: November 20, 2021, 08:29:27 PM »
Why is he "clearly a moron?"

I wouldn't say a moron, but what he did was dangerous and risky. But in general I think what he did was ethical.
We can't decry a public lack of ethics and then call people morons when they put their life on the line to do something good.

I realize I’m being too harsh on the kid but what he did was incredibly stupid. He could be dead right now.  This wasn’t his town/neighborhood.  I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the one person who had to resort to deadly force was a 16 year old.


He was literally trying to protect his grandpa's business, in the town where his dad lives, a ten-minute drive from where he lives most of the time.

But hey, in one sense you're right. Kyle wouldn't have NEEDED to be there if the GOVERNMENT had done its job, sent in huge numbers of police to STOP THE RIOT and ARREST AND CHARGE all the antifa terrorists.
But they didn't do that, they just gave them carte blanche to loot, vandalize, rape, kill and burn the city to the ground.

Even so, we wouldn't have needed a 16 year old kid there to stand up to them, if there were ADULT MEN in Kenosha who would have taken up arms and stopped these fucking terrorists in their tracks.

So OK, the hero had to be a 16 year old kid. David had to do it because all the rest of the tribe were too scared to take on Goliath. That's how you end up becoming the king.
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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #271 on: November 20, 2021, 08:32:14 PM »
The Chair of the House Judiciary committee calls for the continuation of the witch hunt: "This heartbreaking verdict is a miscarriage of justice and sets a dangerous precedent which justifies federal review by DOJ. Justice cannot tolerate armed persons crossing state lines looking for trouble while people engage in First Amendment-protected protest."
https://twitter.com/RepJerryNadler/status/1461775482496724998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Go Fund Me has clarified that they wouldn't let Rittenhouse raise money for his legal defense when he needed it, but now that the trial is over it's okay:
https://medium.com/gofundme-stories/gofundme-policy-on-fundraisers-for-the-legal-defense-of-violent-crimes-975aff8ba5f6

From what I read it looks like one can have a Go Fund Me after an acquittal, even Rittenhouse. Sounds to me like Go Fund Me is thinking there’s a significant amount of money they’re missing out on. Go Fund Me has always struck me as sketchy no matter who or what is getting funded.

I actually think Gofundme is trying to avoid the lawsuit storm...


They claimed "we don't let people raise funds for people charged with crimes". All Kyle needs to do is show all of the huge number of gofundme campaigns done for Antifa Terrorist Bail Funds to prove that's a lie.
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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #272 on: November 20, 2021, 08:45:53 PM »
Greetings!

*Laughing* So pathetic. Liberals really do have jello for brains. Their entire minds are filled with cat food. I read an article from the Liberal Guardian, that headlined "Rittenhouse wasn't convicted because in America, white reasoning rules".

And these fucking morons like to believe that they sit up on high, in some intellectual tower.

Dogs have more common sense than Liberals, like all the morons that work at the Guardian newspaper.

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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #273 on: November 20, 2021, 08:52:35 PM »
Greetings!

*Laughing* So pathetic. Liberals really do have jello for brains. Their entire minds are filled with cat food. I read an article from the Liberal Guardian, that headlined "Rittenhouse wasn't convicted because in America, white reasoning rules".

And these fucking morons like to believe that they sit up on high, in some intellectual tower.

Dogs have more common sense than Liberals, like all the morons that work at the Guardian newspaper.

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How moronic can they be if they're winning overall, SHARK? Good faith people are on the ropes right now.

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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #274 on: November 21, 2021, 12:19:41 AM »
Why is he "clearly a moron?"

I wouldn't say a moron, but what he did was dangerous and risky. But in general I think what he did was ethical.
We can't decry a public lack of ethics and then call people morons when they put their life on the line to do something good.

I realize I’m being too harsh on the kid but what he did was incredibly stupid. He could be dead right now.  This wasn’t his town/neighborhood.  I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the one person who had to resort to deadly force was a 16 year old.


He was literally trying to protect his grandpa's business, in the town where his dad lives, a ten-minute drive from where he lives most of the time.

But hey, in one sense you're right. Kyle wouldn't have NEEDED to be there if the GOVERNMENT had done its job, sent in huge numbers of police to STOP THE RIOT and ARREST AND CHARGE all the antifa terrorists.
But they didn't do that, they just gave them carte blanche to loot, vandalize, rape, kill and burn the city to the ground.

Even so, we wouldn't have needed a 16 year old kid there to stand up to them, if there were ADULT MEN in Kenosha who would have taken up arms and stopped these fucking terrorists in their tracks.

So OK, the hero had to be a 16 year old kid. David had to do it because all the rest of the tribe were too scared to take on Goliath. That's how you end up becoming the king.

I didn’t realize he had any connections to the town.  I really haven’t followed the case other than seeing the list of charges and of course the video of the shootings.  The video is all you need to see.  How anyone of any political persuasion can look at that and call it anything other than self defense is baffling.  Infuriating actually.  We got SHARK out here conflating liberal with marxists.  What’s actually going on is these people are actual fucking commies who are taking advantage of liberals who are too afraid of being called racist, therefore are apologists to this madness.  When if they actually looked into it they would realize all these motherfuckers are white.  All this shit, SJW, BLM, Antifa… are just another set of white culture that I don’t understand. 

Unfortunately we have to be pragmatic to survive these days.  I’ll use my gun to protect my home, family and person.  If my business across town was being wrecked during one of these riots I would be risking my ass and therefore my family if I tried to defend it.  I would hope insurance would bail me out.  Think about it.  They charged a child with first degree intentional homicide when he fired literally a second before he was about to get smashed.  One of these fucks pointed a gun at him and it was even discharged right before.  Imagine what they would have done if one of the “good ol boys” had done this and it wasn’t on tape.  That guy would be fucked right up the ass. 

I’m Latino by the way.  I don’t know if you’ve noticed but they’re calling us white supremacists on occasion now.    ::)
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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #275 on: November 21, 2021, 03:26:58 AM »
Why is he "clearly a moron?"

I wouldn't say a moron, but what he did was dangerous and risky. But in general I think what he did was ethical.
We can't decry a public lack of ethics and then call people morons when they put their life on the line to do something good.

I realize I’m being too harsh on the kid but what he did was incredibly stupid. He could be dead right now.  This wasn’t his town/neighborhood.  I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the one person who had to resort to deadly force was a 16 year old.


He was literally trying to protect his grandpa's business, in the town where his dad lives, a ten-minute drive from where he lives most of the time.

But hey, in one sense you're right. Kyle wouldn't have NEEDED to be there if the GOVERNMENT had done its job, sent in huge numbers of police to STOP THE RIOT and ARREST AND CHARGE all the antifa terrorists.
But they didn't do that, they just gave them carte blanche to loot, vandalize, rape, kill and burn the city to the ground.

Even so, we wouldn't have needed a 16 year old kid there to stand up to them, if there were ADULT MEN in Kenosha who would have taken up arms and stopped these fucking terrorists in their tracks.

So OK, the hero had to be a 16 year old kid. David had to do it because all the rest of the tribe were too scared to take on Goliath. That's how you end up becoming the king.

I didn’t realize he had any connections to the town.  I really haven’t followed the case other than seeing the list of charges and of course the video of the shootings.  The video is all you need to see.  How anyone of any political persuasion can look at that and call it anything other than self defense is baffling.  Infuriating actually.  We got SHARK out here conflating liberal with marxists.  What’s actually going on is these people are actual fucking commies who are taking advantage of liberals who are too afraid of being called racist, therefore are apologists to this madness.  When if they actually looked into it they would realize all these motherfuckers are white.  All this shit, SJW, BLM, Antifa… are just another set of white culture that I don’t understand. 

Unfortunately we have to be pragmatic to survive these days.  I’ll use my gun to protect my home, family and person.  If my business across town was being wrecked during one of these riots I would be risking my ass and therefore my family if I tried to defend it.  I would hope insurance would bail me out.  Think about it.  They charged a child with first degree intentional homicide when he fired literally a second before he was about to get smashed.  One of these fucks pointed a gun at him and it was even discharged right before.  Imagine what they would have done if one of the “good ol boys” had done this and it wasn’t on tape.  That guy would be fucked right up the ass. 

I’m Latino by the way.  I don’t know if you’ve noticed but they’re calling us white supremacists on occasion now.    ::)

Greetings!

Yep, Myleftnut, the Communists are calling Latinos "White Supremacists" now. Pundit himself has been called a "White Supremacist". The LA Times made an article, either front page or an editorial, saying that LARRY ELDER was the "Black Face of White Supremacy!"

By the way--all of those folks over at the LA Times call themselves Liberals.

Anymore, I don't really care about Liberals. If they are not adamantly standing against the Marxists...then, guess what?

They are worthless, like mewling slugs, helping the Marxists. So, they are Marxists. The time is now, to choose. Either they are against the Marxists, or they are with them. I am no less forgiving of RINOS, either. No apologies. Either stand the fuck up, or you get thrown to the sharks.

What's that snappy little expression? "You are either part of the solution or...part of the problem."

The "Mushy Middle" are worthless cowards. I have zero sympathy for people of any race, class, religion, background--anyone--that supports the Marxists, or meekly, like chewy, gummy, scum-sucking sheep, stand by and let the Marxists dominate, conquer, and enslave.

So, yeah, that's right. At the end of the day, if they aren't standing against the Marxists, then they are one and the same. Whether that makes them feel all cozy inside or not, too fucking bad. My country is on fucking fire and choking in shit. I have zero fucks given. I'm only interested in joining, serving, supporting, and helping true PATRIOTS. Everyone else are just like fucking zombies.

I don't like the circumstance we are in as a nation. I didn't choose it, or desire this road in any way, shape or form. I have resisted, fought, and stood for everything to be strong, and good, and better than all of this bullshit. *Shrugs* This is what so many of these scum want, so that's what they get.

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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #276 on: November 21, 2021, 03:33:23 AM »
Greetings!

*Laughing* So pathetic. Liberals really do have jello for brains. Their entire minds are filled with cat food. I read an article from the Liberal Guardian, that headlined "Rittenhouse wasn't convicted because in America, white reasoning rules".

And these fucking morons like to believe that they sit up on high, in some intellectual tower.

Dogs have more common sense than Liberals, like all the morons that work at the Guardian newspaper.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

How moronic can they be if they're winning overall, SHARK? Good faith people are on the ropes right now.

Greetings!

Yeah, Neoplatonist, that's what they want. So, they will get what's coming to them. They will all choke on napalm, one way or the other. Their attitudes, policies, evil, and wicked ideologies will bring utter ruin and destruction to this country. They can laugh, and feel so smug. But though they think they are wise, they are utter fools, and head like stupid sheep to the slaughter. Wrath, and fire, and death will come upon them, and though they gnash their teeth and weep and beg, there shall be no mercy shown to them.

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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #277 on: November 21, 2021, 03:56:32 AM »
Greetings!

Salty Cracker takes mushy middle, compromising worms to task, and reminds every good patriot how FUCKING WOKE BLACK RIFLE COFFEE COMPANY is.

Hilarious, as well.

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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #278 on: November 21, 2021, 09:42:22 AM »
How moronic can they be if they're winning overall, SHARK? Good faith people are on the ropes right now.

Greetings!

Yeah, Neoplatonist, that's what they want. So, they will get what's coming to them. They will all choke on napalm, one way or the other. Their attitudes, policies, evil, and wicked ideologies will bring utter ruin and destruction to this country. They can laugh, and feel so smug. But though they think they are wise, they are utter fools, and head like stupid sheep to the slaughter. Wrath, and fire, and death will come upon them, and though they gnash their teeth and weep and beg, there shall be no mercy shown to them.

Semper Fidelis,

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Ah. so the Liberals are morons because they're useful idiots for the Marxists. I get it.

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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #279 on: November 21, 2021, 10:22:20 AM »
The cope and seethe is so delicious. They NEEDED Rittenhouse guilty, and they didn't get it.

Now you have retards asking 'but can the prosecution appeal?'. And if any of those dumb fucks had taken a high-school level civics course, they'd know the answer (for the terminally unprepared, it's no).

And plenty of 'oh my god, right wing death squads are coming!' without any thought about what we saw ALL. LAST. YEAR.


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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #280 on: November 21, 2021, 10:29:59 AM »
Why is he "clearly a moron?"

I wouldn't say a moron, but what he did was dangerous and risky. But in general I think what he did was ethical.
We can't decry a public lack of ethics and then call people morons when they put their life on the line to do something good.

I realize I’m being too harsh on the kid but what he did was incredibly stupid. He could be dead right now.  This wasn’t his town/neighborhood.  I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the one person who had to resort to deadly force was a 16 year old.


He was literally trying to protect his grandpa's business, in the town where his dad lives, a ten-minute drive from where he lives most of the time.

But hey, in one sense you're right. Kyle wouldn't have NEEDED to be there if the GOVERNMENT had done its job, sent in huge numbers of police to STOP THE RIOT and ARREST AND CHARGE all the antifa terrorists.
But they didn't do that, they just gave them carte blanche to loot, vandalize, rape, kill and burn the city to the ground.

Even so, we wouldn't have needed a 16 year old kid there to stand up to them, if there were ADULT MEN in Kenosha who would have taken up arms and stopped these fucking terrorists in their tracks.

So OK, the hero had to be a 16 year old kid. David had to do it because all the rest of the tribe were too scared to take on Goliath. That's how you end up becoming the king.

I didn’t realize he had any connections to the town.  I really haven’t followed the case other than seeing the list of charges and of course the video of the shootings.  The video is all you need to see.  How anyone of any political persuasion can look at that and call it anything other than self defense is baffling.  Infuriating actually.  We got SHARK out here conflating liberal with marxists.  What’s actually going on is these people are actual fucking commies who are taking advantage of liberals who are too afraid of being called racist, therefore are apologists to this madness.  When if they actually looked into it they would realize all these motherfuckers are white.  All this shit, SJW, BLM, Antifa… are just another set of white culture that I don’t understand. 

Unfortunately we have to be pragmatic to survive these days.  I’ll use my gun to protect my home, family and person.  If my business across town was being wrecked during one of these riots I would be risking my ass and therefore my family if I tried to defend it.  I would hope insurance would bail me out.  Think about it.  They charged a child with first degree intentional homicide when he fired literally a second before he was about to get smashed.  One of these fucks pointed a gun at him and it was even discharged right before.  Imagine what they would have done if one of the “good ol boys” had done this and it wasn’t on tape.  That guy would be fucked right up the ass. 

I’m Latino by the way.  I don’t know if you’ve noticed but they’re calling us white supremacists on occasion now.    ::)

So - a couple of points you raise:

1.  "I didn't know [fact about this case]...". Yep - the entire MSM had been complicit in keeping the facts from the public, aided and abetted by Democrat politicians and SJW activists.  Those of us who did the homework instead of relying on MSNBC or CNN knew he was innocent within a week of the incident.

2. Hoping insurance covers your losses should rioters and looters destroy it.  Any time leftist assholes defend looting as a victimless crime, they always say "what's the big deal, you have insurance." Yeah. No you don't.  With few exceptions, insurance won't cover these losses because the insurers have exceptions for force majeure events - like wars, natural disasters, and looting/rioting.  Many small business owners are left empty-handed.

3. *Everyone* who owns a firearm that can legally open-carry needs to do so, en masse. Everyone who can, should apply for concealed carry.  An armed society is a polite society...

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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #281 on: November 21, 2021, 10:49:40 AM »
2. Hoping insurance covers your losses should rioters and looters destroy it.  Any time leftist assholes defend looting as a victimless crime, they always say "what's the big deal, you have insurance." Yeah. No you don't.  With few exceptions, insurance won't cover these losses because the insurers have exceptions for force majeure events - like wars, natural disasters, and looting/rioting.  Many small business owners are left empty-handed.

Do you have a convenient source confirming this?

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3. *Everyone* who owns a firearm that can legally open-carry needs to do so, en masse. Everyone who can, should apply for concealed carry.  An armed society is a polite society...

In your hypothetical, what's stopping an armed lunatic from shooting someone in a pan-armed crowd and triggering the Great American Shootout?

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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #282 on: November 21, 2021, 11:13:25 AM »
I'd be happy to platform a conservative competitor in the hopes off putting them out if business, but we all know go fund me will stay in business because there are so many more leftists who are engaged in criminal activity than there are conservatives.

GiveSendGo exists.

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3. *Everyone* who owns a firearm that can legally open-carry needs to do so, en masse. Everyone who can, should apply for concealed carry.  An armed society is a polite society...

In your hypothetical, what's stopping an armed lunatic from shooting someone in a pan-armed crowd and triggering the Great American Shootout?
Armed lunatics by and large tend to seek out places that lack anyone with a gun to counter them. Gun free zones are a favorite target of the lunatic. In regards to a riot turning into a firefight, yes, that possibility might incur. I’d argue that ought to be great encouragement to mayors and governors to more quickly and forcefully counter the riots as they start rather than give them “space to destroy” as they did in Baltimore, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, etc.:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/04/25/baltimore-mayor-gave-those-who-wished-to-destroy-space-to-do-that/%3famp

I have no problem with the actual peaceful protests, and I support efforts to reform/demilitarize the police because there are documented problems with police interactions with minorities. These problems also happen to whites, but seem to be less common, and the minority communities have a heightened awareness of the problems they face. There was a protest in the city l live, but it remained peaceful throughout the day and the night. Nobody should have sympathy for those wanting to riot, loot and burn. There are provocateurs who are encouraging the riots, and too many government officials are giving them the space to destroy. I want to avoid the great American shootout as well, but the odds of that occurring are only going to increase the longer the rioters are treated as jaywalkers by the authorities. The mainstream media and most of the commentators are complicit in this by referring to the riots as protests. That reporter describing a riot as a “fiery, but mostly peaceful protest” wasn’t a simple verbal mistake. That was the media trying to gaslight the public into believing that rioting is normal civic practice.

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Re: So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?
« Reply #284 on: November 21, 2021, 11:45:59 AM »
2. Hoping insurance covers your losses should rioters and looters destroy it.  Any time leftist assholes defend looting as a victimless crime, they always say "what's the big deal, you have insurance." Yeah. No you don't.  With few exceptions, insurance won't cover these losses because the insurers have exceptions for force majeure events - like wars, natural disasters, and looting/rioting.  Many small business owners are left empty-handed.

Do you have a convenient source confirming this?

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3. *Everyone* who owns a firearm that can legally open-carry needs to do so, en masse. Everyone who can, should apply for concealed carry.  An armed society is a polite society...

In your hypothetical, what's stopping an armed lunatic from shooting someone in a pan-armed crowd and triggering the Great American Shootout?

https://fee.org/articles/does-insurance-cover-rioting-and-looting-damage-either-way-its-disastrous/

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/downtown-portland-businesses-face-rising-insurance-costs-decreased-coverage-after-riots/283-f29140a0-9442-44b0-b555-295c8697c509

https://www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com/2020/06/articles/insurance/what-exactly-is-a-riot-and-civil-commotion-under-a-property-insurance-policy/

Bottom line - unless you have specific riders, even if you should be covered, you'll either have a fight with your insurer, or they won't make you whole. 

In my hypothetical?  What's stopping the lunatic is what *always* stops them - a large amount of armed citizens whose mere presence is a deterrent or who will quickly end a lunatic's rampage which prevents them from killing many people, unimpeded.  In *every* instance of an active shooter, armed citizens have ended their rampage much more quickly than when they weren't armed and had to cower while waiting for the police.