Monica Showalter"In an indication of what's going on in the California suburbs, a craft beer pub owner in the offramp town of Covina used his truck to block a health inspector, bringing himself a visit from the local cops.
The owner of Bread & Barley in Covina, California decided enough was enough when a public health Nazi ordered his restaurant to shut down.
So Carlos Roman parked his truck behind the vehicle belonging to the public health inspector.
“He wants to come in here and say nobody can work—well, then he can’t work either!” Roman told a police officer who responded to the scene. “If we can’t work, he can’t work.”
As many as a half dozen police officers showed up and demanded the restaurant owner move the truck.
“This is what happens when people get desperate,” Mr. Roman said. “I’m desperate. Who’s going to pay her car payment? Who’s going to pay my cook’s rent?”
He then asked the police officer and the health department Nazi whether they got a paycheck on Friday.
"Before we go on, first, I have to say I don't agree with Starnes's characterization of the officials here as 'Nazis.' Listen to the video, it's very clear they are not.
"But it's also clear that the owner's pain was real, he was a man living off GoFundMe donations, in desperation making a Quixotic protest. There was no way that pub owner, Carlos Roman, was going to win this encounter, and the cops gave him time and time again to just move his truck, they didn't even threaten him with a ticket, they just warned him he either needed to do that or he was going to get a tow. " . . .
Detroit alleges a civil conspiracy “to disturb the peace, engage in disorderly conduct, incite riots, destroy public property … ”
. . . "Detroit’s demonstrators are part of a “civil conspiracy,” the city’s countersuit alleges, “to disturb the peace, engage in disorderly conduct, incite riots, destroy public property,” and resist police orders, among other “illegal acts.” The countercomplaint asks the court to issue judgments declaring that the protesters engaged in this conspiracy and “defamed” the mayor and police, and to award the city damages.
"The counter-lawsuit, according to Gilardi, has sparked political objection from, among other, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib:
The countersuit against Black Lives Matter protesters is a novel move in the post-George Floyd moment, and it has lit a fire under already boiling local tensions. The city has tried to portray it as a routine legal tactic, but many see the counterattack as an effort to suppress the right to protest and to shift the public narrative away from the police department’s violence. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., whose congressional district includes much of Detroit, has lambasted it as “an unthinkable assault on constitutional rights.”
The protesters are fighting back on two separate tracks: one in court, with the backing of national legal groups, and another in the city council, which has the power to cut off funding for the city’s litigation. One council member has already vocalized her opposition to the countersuit, and the activists are working to lobby others ahead of a vote early next year.
"It’s hard to predict where the suit will lead, but it may give Detroit the opportunity to present evidence as to coordination of violence, and to address the media narrative that the police were to blame for the “mostly peaceful” protests turning violent.
UK Daily Mail"Speculation is growing that the AT&T building was intentionally targeted in the Nashville Christmas Day bombing as the FBI probes rumors that the main suspect in the attack harbored deep paranoia about 5G technology.
"Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, was named in local media as the FBI's sole person of interest hours after an RV exploded outside Nashville's AT&T building on Friday morning, leaving three people injured and multiple structures damaged.
"The explosion is thought to have been the result of a suicide bombing after it was revealed that human remains had been recovered at the scene and officials said they were not looking for another suspect." . . .
Michelle Swing was gifted two houses in Nashville by bombing suspect Anthony Quinn Warner
What we know about Anthony Quinn Warner
Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, was named by local media as the person of interest in the Nashville Christmas Day bombing. Unmarried and childless, Warner is listed as a Nashville resident who lived in the suburb Antioch.
A property linked to him since the 1980s was raided on Bakertown Road, Antioch on Saturday afternoon. This house was transferred for free to 29-year-old Michelle Swing on November 25 but she claims she was unaware of the exchange.
Warner had also transferred a $249,000 house on the same road to Swing for free in January 2019.
That house previously belonged to Warner's father Charles, who died in 2011. It was transferred to Warner's brother Steve before being passed to Warner in October 2018, a month prior to Steve's death.
Warner's mother Chris is still alive and he has a sister Teresa.
The Daily Beast reported Warner was arrested in 1978 and convicted of an unspecified felony charge in 1980.
Neighbors described Warner as an 'oddball' who was seen tinkering with antenna on his roof and placed 'No Trepassing' signs around his house.
FBI agents are said to be investigating tips that Warner was paranoid about spying on Americans through 5G.
He used the Bakertown Road address as the location of his business, Custom Alarms Electronics, which specialized in burglar alarms. The license for the business expired in 1998. Warner then became a self-employed IT worker and carried out subcontract work for a local real-estate agent who spoke to FBI agents on Saturday.
If It's Biden, Expect Wholesale Rejection of American Core Values"With this presidential election, American history is hanging in the balance, but not as in the past, where we perceived the implementation of unwanted policies if the wrong candidate should win. In this post-election scenario, a Biden administration is much worse than "unwanted" or "wrong-headed" policies. To this writer, we are facing a collapse of natural rights as depicted in the Bill of Rights, the curtailing of individual mobility — upward socio-economic mobility and literally restricted travel mobility (to protect the environment under Green New Deal restrictions). If we have a new administration, we are also facing forced vaccinations and curtailment of property rights on an unimagined scale.
"Critical Race Theory will be required in curricula in colleges and high schools. Whites will be strongly pressured thereby to accept that there is endemic structural racism in our institutions, irrespective of what any individuals might think or feel, because of the inherent white privilege in American and Western civilization." . . .
UK Daily Mail "The 29-year-old mother who was given a $160,000 house for free by the man identified as a person of interest in the Nashville Christmas Day bombing has said she had no knowledge of the property exchange, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
"Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, signed the property away via a quitclaim deed to Michelle Swing, a 29-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, for $0.00, according to county records.
"Swing’s signature does not appear on the November 25th transfer and she told DailyMail.com she knew absolutely nothing about it.
FBI agents swarmed the $160,000 property on Saturday morning in their hunt for the mystery RV driver behind the devastating blast outside Nashville’s AT&T building.
The Christmas morning explosion is now thought to have been the result of a suicide bombing after it was revealed that human remains had been recovered at the scene and officials said they were not looking for another suspect.
They did not identify a suspect but unmarried Warner has been named in media reports and a vehicle matching the one used in the bombing is seen parked up beside the two-bed house in Google street view images.
‘In the state of Tennessee you can deed property to someone else without their consent or their signature or anything,’ Swing told DailyMail.com
'I didn't even buy the house he just deeded it over to me without my knowledge. So this all very weird to me, that’s about all I can say.'
According to the Daily Beast, Warner transfered another home on Bakertown Road to Sing via a quitclaim deed last year.
Swing declined to say whether she had ever met Warner or whether she had family links to him, adding: ‘I've been told to direct everything else to FBI.’ . . . .
"A Google street view image of the address shows an RV — which identically matches the description of the RV Nashville Police said was used in the bombing — parked in the backyard of Warner’s home. NBC affiliate WSMV said that the RV is no longer at Warner’s address.
"The blast, which police called an "intentional act," left at least three people injured and destroyed 41 buildings and businesses nearby, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said in a statement.
"Tissue was found after the explosion, and authorities are examining it to confirm whether it could be human remains, according to Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake." . . .
"When a call came to respond to a “shots fired” in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, it wasn’t antifa or Black Lives Matter who responded, it was six Nashville cops, some reportedly new to the job, who found themselves “standing between good and evil” in a potential mass casualty situation.
"The officers, Brenna Hosey, James Luellen, Michael Sipos, Amanda Topping and James Wells, and Sgt. Timothy Miller, sped to 2nd Avenue and discovered an RV spewing loudspeaker messages warning that it was going to blow up.
. . . "Cops are willing to put their lives on the lines for people they don’t know. That makes them heroes in these situations. But they’re not stupid and they don’t stay where they’re not wanted or supported. Police have fled in droves from the Seattle Police DepartmentandPortland Police Bureaubecause the city would rather allow rioting, destruction, and terrorism than take a politically unpopular stand against people who claim to stand for “black lives” and “anti-fascists.” You don’t stand against fascism by acting as a totalitarian fascist any more than you stand for “black lives” by burning down black-owned businesses. And in light of all the destruction, you don’t cut funding for the very people who “stand between good and evil.” There might be a better solution out there, but cutting funding to support the very people keeping the peace is insane.
"Nashville residents didn’t call antifa or Black Lives Matter when this RV was spotted spewing its messages of hate and terror. They called the cops." . . .
While we're on the subject of Democrats and the police:
'Racially Diverse' Cops Dumping Portland in Favor of Lower Paying Jobs in Places Where They're Appreciated "Portland cops are already retiring in record numbers, but now cops are fleeing mid-career to go to places for lower pay and a fiscal hit to their retirement accounts. The Democrats’ embrace of the antifa and BLM defund-the-police stance is working—leaving Portlanders even more defenseless against rioters, looters, arsonists, squatters, and terrorists. In essence, the exodus is “a win by those that would want the police to be defunded,” according to the Portland Police Bureau’s human resources officer.
"Finding replacements may take some time because the diversity recruiting officer for Portland police is gone too.
"The Portland Tribune characterizes the exodus as an “unprecedented situation for Portland” in which “a racially diverse and experienced group of police officers is taking pay cuts to get away from the city, while citing poor working conditions here.”
"Leftists keep the pressure on cops by complaining about what they wear, what they do, and the “munitions” they use against rioters, as if quelling violence is wrong.
. . . Where are the Portland Police Bureau officers being welcomed? In neighborhood communities and different states.
In Boise, for instance, Chief Ryan Lee — a former assistant chief in Portland — has hired four Portland officers away from his old bureau so far. They’ll lose not only pay, but service time towards their eventual retirement.
"Victoria Taft is the host of “The Adult in the Room Podcast With Victoria Taft” where you can hear her series on “Antifa Versus Mike Strickland.” @VictoriaTaft
‘Defunding the Police’ Is ‘Code Word’ for Insane – That’s Why Left Is Redefining It In Real Time
Cops Send an ‘Earth to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’ Message: Your City’s on Fire and the Cops Are Leaving
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Mayor Claims to ‘Resolve’ RHAZ Armed Antifa Takeover With ‘Family’ and It’s Totally On-Brand
According to Carlson, the professor went on to say that as a result of Trump’s aggressive stance on China, the “elites” got to work electing a new president:
PJ Media "In case you missed it, Tucker Carlson opened his show last night [Dec 8] with a shocking video showing a Chinese professor of economics giving a speech about the country’s decades-old activities in the United States. He followed up with commentary from China expert Gordon Chang and current Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe.
"The complete segment on Tucker Carlson tonight is about eight minutes long, but it is well worth a watch. The comments are damning, and it is easy to see why they were removed from Chinese media and social media:" . . .
Tucker Carlson segment on a video deleted from Chinese social media of a professor saying that China "has people at the top of America's core inner circle of power & influence." pic.twitter.com/h3Ygy6UlHk
"Gordon Chang: China Engaged in ‘an Act of War’ by Enflaming Antifa Riots in the U.S.
He suggested the Obama administration was easy to manipulate, and the Chinese had many friends among its members. China’s problem came when Donald Trump was elected because after that, everything changed:
For the past 30 years, 40 years, we have been utilizing the core power of the United States. As I said before, since the 1970s, Wall Street had a very strong influence on the domestic and foreign policy of the United States. So, we had a channel to rely on.
But the problem is that after 2008, the status of Wall Street declined and, more importantly, after 2016, Wall Street can’t fix Trump. Why? It’s very awkward. Trump had a previous soft default issue with Wall Street, so there was a conflict between them.
So, during the U.S.-China trade war, they (Wall Street) tried to help, and I know that. My friends on the U.S. side told me they tried to help but they couldn’t do much."
. . . “ 'To this point, we do believe that the explosion was an intentional act,” a police spokesman told reporters, according to BBC News." . . . And your first clue was.....?
"Police spokesman Don Aaron told reporters that authorities received calls of shots fired in the area before the explosion took place. Though officers did not see evidence of shots fired, they did find the suspicious vehicle outside the AT&T building and called in the bomb squad.
"Investigators have not yet determined a motive. The vehicle exploded while the bomb squad was responding, and it is not known whether anybody was inside at the time of the “significant explosion.”
"Though there is currently no indication of a secondary device, explosive- detection dogs were searching the area “out of an abundance of caution.' ” . . .
The Federalist . . . "Nashville Metro Police Chief John Drake told reporters, according to CBS, that authorities are investigating whether the Christmas detonation was linked to the ride-sharing company or AT&T." . . .
. . . "One of the most unusual things about the Nashville bombing was that there were reportedly gun shots before hand and then a recording in the RV which warned people to evacuate out of the area before the RV blew up.
"But then on top of that, Fischer noticed something else odd. Many in media have been sharing a viral video of the explosion area, taken from across the street, with a warning to evacuate and then the explosion." . . .
Trending Politics"Deep State dirty cop Robert Mueller's disgraceful and un-American political persecution of President Trump's allies took another hit with the pardons of Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.
"On Wednesday, Trump used his constitutionally guaranteed power of the pardon to grant clemency to the two lifelong Republicans who were swept up in the partisan witch hunt that revealed how corrupted that the Justice Department had become under the Obama regime.
"The pardon was particularly sweet for the 68-year-old Stone whose Florida home was raided by heavily armed FBI paramilitary forces in January 2019, an operation that was given live national television coverage after someone presumably on Mueller's team tipped off CNN that it was about to go down.
"Stone was ultimately convicted by a tainted jury presided over by an Obama appointed judge who clearly had a vendetta against him and was facing a possible death sentence in prison until President Trump commuted his sentence in July.
Now Stone is fighting back by suing the bastards." . . .
Roger Stone vows to file $25M defamation suit against Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. . . “ 'A, that’s a lie. B, it’s defamatory. And three, Hakeem didn’t say it on the House floor. Consequently, I’m going to be suing Congressman Jeffries for $25 million … So, I hope Mr. Jeffries has some proof to his allegation because I will see his ass in court.”
Racism! Notice the tree has white lights and resembles a KKK hood? TD
"I mean, we shouldn’t be shocked that people like this exist. Ever since 'wokeness' latched onto the political Left like a barnacle, the hot takes have grown more insane. Whatever you thought was ‘too extreme’ quickly was turned on its head with these people. Since Obama, the ‘woke’ Left has thrust scores of pseudo-intellectual talking points into the social media universe in the hopes of making it mainstream. Yet, the most common is making everything into a vehicle for white supremacy and then bashing it. Ladies and gentlemen, these people think that a man who holds the door for a woman is a sexist, misogynist dinosaur. Are we shocked that they decided to put Christmas on the white supremacy list? " . . .
For decades, California has been a national leader. Trends that begin in California end up in the rest of America. That’s an unnerving thought when one considers that California has essentially hit the self-destruct button. We’re just watching the countdown to detonation. Andrea Widburg
In California, the craziness never stops. . . "Every year, California enacts new laws, and every year, those new laws have an increasingly leftist tilt. This year is no exception, and the new laws couldn’t happen at a worse time.
. . . "The lockdowns are wiping out restaurants, gyms, hair salons, and small retailers. Meanwhile, the big stores into which California consumers are being funneled (and, not so coincidentally, that make big political donations) are doing just fine. The state is becoming medieval, for the middle class is getting wiped out. There are the rich, the poor, and the government.
"Many of the new laws going into effect on January 1, 2021, will pick up where the lockdowns left off, further destroying the economy and, along the way, increasing racial and sex divisions. The San Francisco Chronicle has a list of the more consequential laws, although the sheer volume of statutes in California means that everyone is almost certainly an unwitting scofflaw every day:
"Because nobody knows better how to run your business than the government, the state is going beyond the requirement that publicly held companies with California headquarters must have a woman on the board of directors. Henceforth, the board must also have one person from an “underrepresented community”: . . ."
