Hundreds of protesters, some carrying guns, Storm Michigan State Capitol

PurpleThrobber said:

creepycoug said:

PurpleThrobber said:

creepycoug said:

PurpleThrobber said:

creepycoug said:

PurpleThrobber said:

creepycoug said:

I've never understood the urge to show up with weapons. Show up with your dick in your hands instead; less likely to have an unfortunate accident.

I miss when the government protected the rights of its citizenry.

Although I am, without dispute, on record as not being a huge fan of the government, I would argue it still does. People protest a wide range of shit in this country literally every single day. It never, ever stops. And when you see it, there are always armed forces of some stripe standing by facilitating it.

There comes a point, and there has always come a point, when a protest morphs into a mindless mob. At that point, we have a police force, unless you want to argue that we shouldn't have a police force. Nothing new happening here IMHO.

I'll be clear about this: people can protest all they want, for whatever they want, for as long as they want. How they do it has always been, and will always be, the tricky part and there is no escape from judgment, even in the reactionary Tug. Destruction of property? No. Harming others? No. Threatening others? That's where it gets difficult.

So all we're talking about here is style. What's your style? Mine is to show up and say what I have to say and then go get a beer and get back to work. If it's my protest, I don't want weekend warrior dumb fucks dressed up like they're going to do something when, in fact, they're not going to do anything. They never do. It's a stupid show for mostly men with small cocks.

If I'm being honest, I find 'those' people to not be my kind of people and I'd rather they not show up to my parties or my protests. It is my inalienable right to feel this way; don't tread on my opinions ese.

I'm giving it to you straight as you would expect from me.

My hope is the 'protestors' on both sides clash in a bloody battle ending in absolute carnage and death. We could use fewer of the extremes on the bell curve and if they whack one another, WTF cares?

My other hope is if Inslee and his west coast fucktards keep playing this goal post moving game, he sends out his vaunted storm trooping Washington State Patrol (ooohhh, scary....radar guns) and Trump says "Hold my non-alcoholic beer" and deploys the Federal troops ala Little Rock.

Or Insless can quit playing this game of political chicken and slink back into his fucktard hole.

And, no, not a fan of vandalism of private property or vigilante violence (exception made per above). But at some point, if the fucktards keep fucktarding, there's only so many times to turn the other cheek. Ax King George about that. Generally, The Throbber would rant then go back to work/porn/drinking - but we're heading into unprecedented territory and if it's going to take more than being a keyboard jockey to ward off the communist plague, so be it. For the most part, the Boomers/Gen Xers haven't lived a life of sacrifice and duty in the last 60 years.

I don't think it'll come to that.

I don't either - because Inslee is a tremendous pussy boy. Trump is going to let the wave of outrage start at the Idaho border and build it's way until it encircles and chokes out King County.

It's already starting.

It's starting everywhere. They are growing very restless down in Grays Harbor. Nobody's died there of COVID, and they were poor enough before this started.

But, back to the point of my post, you don't need a gun to make this point, and I continue to laff like an idiot hyena at people who tote guns for the sole purpose of feeling tuff. If you could search their souls, I think you'd find that most of these people are not really engaged in any real or sincere civil protest; showing up in costume just makes them feel good for whatever reason.

Like I said; my gun is in my pants. That's the one I use for feel good tim. But each to his own.

I am worried though. Sounds like my brother coug and Sleddy are ready to shoot some bitches.

Whether one uses a gun to make their point is an entirely different topic than their Constitutional right to carry one.

It's kind of dick move (and strictly prohibited) to carrying a weapon into a court or a legislative body or whatever....but if some guy wants to wander around town or appear in a parade with his shoulder holster visible and is properly credentialed, no skin of my teeth. Same as the guys in Texas who showed up to church with their firearms and shot the mass shooter right between the eyes. Not going to get into the discussion of this is good optics and that is bad optics because once you go down that path, it opens the can of worms of "who" gets to decide good and bad subjectively. It's his right. His rights ends when he points it at me for no justifiable reason.


You have the right to laugh at them too. The Throbber will defend both.

WestlinnDuck said:

The real issue is that poorly educated Americans don’t realize how tenuous a high functioning free society is. They just think it is their birth right. What is their birth rate if they choose to keep it is liberty, freedom, the rule of law and the sanctity of private property. What do you think is going to happen when you destroy the building blocks of our economy? We are not like the people of the 1930s which accepted the destruction of the American economy with an incredible amount of patience. At this point, with no scientific support 90% of the country is shut down as we spend money we don’t have to support people who aren’t working for god knows how long.



This thing is close to crashing down. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses are on the verge of never coming back. They are the real engine of the American economy. State and local government tax revenue has totally collapsed. They were already broke ass. You think they are going to take a voluntary hair cut? Nope. They will think they can just tax the sh*t out of people whose businesses have collapsed and are trying to claw their way back to profitability. That’s not going to work. You kill the golden goose, there ain’t any more eggs.