Protestors are now going restaurant by restaurant to chant at diners on Beach Dr. in St. Pete. A lot of diners yelled back, starting multiple confrontations.
This one was the most significant. Protestors took over a couple’s table. Not sure why they were targeted specifically. pic.twitter.com/dzLM7KuCW9
— Josh Fiallo (@ByJoshFiallo) September 24, 2020
I don’t think Trump needs the help in Florida, but thanks BLM idiots. In the Midwest we tend to take our dining pretty seriously, however. Better make sure you have your health insurance fully paid up before trying this tactic here.
Ah, another joyful presentation/ protestationion by BLM. Surely appreciated by all the Republicans in attendance.
A lot of diners yelled back, starting multiple confrontations.
Oh, **** NO.
They did NOT “start” confrontations.
Walking up to someone and yelling at them? THAT is a confrontation.
Those who resist bullying are NOT “starting” anything.
The press nitwits call this rabble ‘protesters’. What are they protesting? That someone has the disposable income to order a meal in a sit-down restaurant?
Come on you guys, gals…this is another peaceful protest…dat’s allll.
These actions create Landslide victories. Trump 2020
I don’t imagine we’ll ever see another landslide in my lifetime. Still, it would be condign punishment for the Democratic establishment to get stuck with four more years consequent to the conduct of their pit-bulls.
The left is like the conquering nation who insists that they did not start their wars of conquest: if only the nations they had claimed had rolled over and accepted their new as vassals no war would have been necessary.
Great catch, Foxfier. We may disagree sometimes but you nailed that.
The same media who treated ACTUALLY PEACEFUL anti-lockdown protesters as “bio-terrorists” can’t be bothered to condemn this garbage. Imagine the media reaction if people protesting COVID restrictions invaded a restaurant and sat down at someone’s table like that. The media would say it was “attempted murder” for violating “social distancing”…
Pinky-
we both recognize and reject that kind of poisonous bullying. Is a good thing to agree on. 😀
I don’t know, Donald. I loved Chicago but one of the reasons I don’t care to go back is because when I was there a few years ago the homeless were allowed to harass people. I was sitting at outdoor dining and one guy, who seemed to be high, began to bother people. I went to talk to the proprietor. He could care less.
Chicago has been a mess for decades, at least since the death of Mayor Daley the Elder. Daley was the king of corruption, but he knew how to maintain order and government services.
Daley was the king of corruption,
Daley bought an expensive retreat for his family in Allegan County, Mi in 1964. If there’s an obtrusive sign of graft in his life, it’s that. Otherwise, I think his method was to allow others to skim.
I did not intend to imply personal dishonesty Art, but rather that he presided over a system of graft.
After Daley’s death reporter Mike Royko, an ardent opponent of Daley, summed him up well:
https://deadlineartists.com/contributor-samples/mike-royko-%E2%80%93-daley-embodied-chicago-%E2%80%93-chicago-sun-times-%E2%80%93-122176/
Chicago has been corrupt for generations, but I used to love to go Christmas shopping there. And Wrigley was a treat for a baseball fan. Now I won’t even do that. I don’t want to give a dime to Lightfoot’s evil regime.
Regarding the St. Pete’s rioters: St. Pete is a very blue city. I would wager that many of the diners being screamed at in this video have BLM and Biden signs in their yards. Will it wake them up? A few, maybe. Some others will blame Trump, because if you have TDS, Trump is to blame for everything!
” reporter Mike Royko”
How I miss Royko. One of the last honest reporters in the country. And a man who was rooted in a particular city and loved it dearly, although Chicago often let him down.
Royko would be disgusted with today’s “journalists.”
How I miss Royko. One of the last honest reporters in the country.
Agree with you. You could trust him. Still think there’s something affecting about the Mayor’s wife tipping over a book stand in a rage on seeing his take-down of her husband on sale.
My rough impression is that Mayor Daley was a good man willing to keep company with skeevy men under the impression there wasn’t any better way for business to get done. It wouldn’t surprise me to discover (positing you could do a comprehensive audit)that the corruption of outfits like the Chicago Democratic machine has been overstated. Around about 1985, Michael Kinsley offered the observation about corruption in Washington “The scandal isn’t what’s illegal. The scandal is what’s legal”. A hypothesis: much of what’s happened with the replacement of machines has been the replacement of crude criminality with more sophisticated schemes which have been vetted by lawyers.
Stop and think about it. One of the dismaying aspects of our political mise en scene is the buckraking done by former presidents. IIRC, this began with Gerald Ford; I think Carter may have abstained and Nixon and Reagan may have limited it to a couple of one-offs. What irks is that we have generous pensions for our former Presidents, not to mention providing security details, office staff, and these ‘libraries’ commemorating them. The pensions were established in 1958 as it was understood that Truman was rather cash poor. He’d reported received offers, which he abjured as unseemly. The Trumans were also the 1st two people to sign up for Medicare in 1965; it came in handy for them. Truman had no security detail on leaving office, even though a squad of Puerto Rican nationalists had tried to assassinate him in 1950 and killed a DC cop in the process. When it was established for the Trumans, Mrs. Truman limited it to a single officer parked in a car outside the Wallace homestead in Independence, Mo. This degree of scruple is what you got from a man who was for 20 years a cog in the Prendergast machine (and counted the sons of ‘The Boss’ as among his dearest friends.
I also have to ask myself if Carmine deSapio and his predecessors at Tammany Hall ever slated anyone for statewide or citywide office as gross as Andrew Cuomo, George Pataki, or Alphonse d’Amato.