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“Win or lose, fans of the Philly Eagles go out into the street and smash things. Whoever wins on Election Day, leftists will smash things,” is how I began my recent article ‘Fear and Loathing on the Left’.
Washington D.C. businesses aren’t waiting until the riots begin or until Election Day to begin boarding up.
With just days ahead of the election, some buildings within blocks from the White House have boarded up their store fronts.
During a public safety meeting last week, Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto brought up the concern of residents and businesses owners to DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.
“We are already getting requests from businesses if they should board up. We are getting requests about people moving trash cans inside,” Pinto said.
Consider this a parallel to the betting markets. Except that lots of people make dumb calculations while gambling while in this case it’s small business who don’t want to gamble with their livelihood.
“We will not tolerate any violence of any kind. We will not tolerate any riots. We will not tolerate the destruction of property. We will not tolerate any unlawful behavior. Offenders will be arrested and held accountable,” DC Police Chief Pamela Smith said.
Unless they’re leftists in which case they’ll be out with a desk appearance ticket in 5 minutes.
How dumb does Pam really think D.C. storeowners are? They’ve seen leftists riot repeatedly in Congress, punch police officers and walk away with nothing. They lived through the BLM riots. They know the rioters will go unpunished so they’re preparing to protect themselves.
Kasandra says
Although often ignored, there was violent Leftist rioting in D.C. on inauguration day in 2017 (and, of course, in 2020).
Jeff Bargholz says
A woman mayor and police chief? No wonder the Washington District of Corruption is so dysfunctional.
Kasandra says
It’s a D.C. tradition. See, e.g., Mayor for Life Marion Berry.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, that crackhead made Bowser look good.
Algorithmic Analyst says
lol, good one Jeff 🙂
Anne says
As we keep seeing, the DEI crowd does not hire based on competence, making us doubt the qualifications of women and minorities. Happening all too often. Anne
Algorithmic Analyst says
Win or lose. Excellent points. Either way they have an excuse for rioting and looting. And those big glass storefront windows are expensive, not to mention the looting of the store. Even if they have insurance, the premiums go up.
Intrepid says
Do they really think that a few pieces of wood are going to protect their precious businesses? Note to the idiots putting up these idiotic safeguards: WOOD BURNS!!
Algorithmic Analyst says
That reminded me of something: the randomness of vandalism. After seeing a lot of vandalized areas in the East Bay (SF Bay) I noticed the vandalism was kind of random: only a certain percentage of items were vandalized, it wasn’t complete. The vandals would only hit a few items or places and leave the rest alone.
CowboyUp says
Yes, wood burns, and if looters want what’s inside, they just pry the wood loose with crowbars and smash the windows with steel mallets. Some were caught on surveillance camera doing that to a boarded up store just last week.
Rouge1 says
the leftist scum will get burnt to the ground by their leftist scum brothers.
MuggsSpongedice says
From LawFare to actual crime that goes unpunished there are far too many that see no consequences for their actions and far too many that get caught up in the melee – unprecedented in human history open borders they are law breakers 0nce they illegally cross the border and they are criminals to begin with – the word goes back to their homeys in their nation of origin ‘come to USA they don’t arrest you and if they do they let you out in 24 hours’ – if President Trump is no elected tomorrow we can kiss the USA goodbye forever – tell your friends and family to vote their wallet and security!
CTripps says
Yet the police and military will let the leftist burn it down without making any efforts to stop the destruction.
Now, if peaceful Trump protesters dare march to protest another election theft the military has its orders to gun them down.
Is it any wonder a US military base in the southwest recently fired an employee for making ‘disparaging’ remarks about communism? Yes, the Military News reported he was first marked an insider threat, removed, and subsequently fired by his contract house.
Think long and hard on that one.
Chris Shugart says
The politicos have no problem when other cities burn as long as it doesn’t upset their own rice bowls. If it happens on their own front yard, then it becomes an issue. It’s all about them, American citizens be damned.
john blackman says
if you are a left wing lawyer and you fire bomb an empty police car you will only get 12 months in the slammer [ not sure how long you would get if it had police in it ] considering it was during the george floyd anarchy probably a few months more . yes the law and the democrats will dismantle america piece by piece just like all good marxists . will they murder you ? yes ! if they can get away with it as recent events have demonstrated . all govt. depts . have received the memo to either murder you or jail you and not even the republicans will defend you as the j6 lie demonstrated . considering p.smiths lips were moving and because she is a democrat you know she was lying , if they lose they will burn the place to the ground and orange man bad and his supporters will take the rap .