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ARE THE WHEELS COMING OFF IN ATLANTA?
Powerline ^ | POSTED ON JUNE 29, 2020 | BY PAUL MIRENGOFF

Posted on 06/29/2020 2:37:31 PM PDT by Hojczyk

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Atlanta’s interim Police Chief Rodney Bryant was about to address the City Council on the unrest plaguing the city when a councilman informed Bryant:

I was just notified there was a young man who was just shot and killed at 377 Westchester Boulevard. Can you get a unit out there? He’s been on the ground and there’s no police who have come. He’s dead already, he’s on the ground and the residents have put a sheet over him and the police still haven’t arrived.

This incident isn’t the only sign that the wheels are coming off in Atlanta. From the same source:

On June 13, as angry protesters milled around the south Atlanta Wendy’s the day after Rayshard Brooks was shot in the parking lot by a cop — and hours before the restaurant was burned down — there was a wild shootout in the Edgewood neighborhood in east Atlanta. Five people were wounded and two were killed. Residents reported hearing perhaps 40 gunshots.

Also:

Earlier this month, the owners of a bar in the popular Edgewood Avenue nightlife district posted a photo online of the business’s window smashed by a bullet. They said they felt unsafe and were closing “until the city gets its #@&! together.” What caused this? Eight people were shot nearby in six days.

And there is this, regarding drive-by shootings:

Friday in south Atlanta, police found the body of 80-year-old Clarence Knox inside his home. Residents reported at least 20 shots the night before, and cops think he was the unintended victim of a drive-by shooting. And over the weekend there was this headline: “6 injured in 3 overnight drive-by shootings in Atlanta.” One of the victims is a 10-year-old boy.

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KEYWORDS: atlanta; civilunrest; police
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To: Trumpet 1

The Blue Flew of suburban voters from Atlanta to the suburbs in Gwinnett and Cobb county are now in place and the Karens run social media. Do not tick off a Karen.

In the 90s people came here for jobs because of the Olympics. In 2005 we got infested by the roaches from New Orleans.

My son just graduated from high school. He will live with me for two years to get his entry-level college courses completed.

There is a STEM school being built less than a mile from my home. The value will keep going up and then I will sell the house.

Gwinnettians are going to vote for MARTA this fall. I fought it until I am worn down. I do not have the energy to beat the Karens and the Bluebirds from Atlanta anymore. My peace will rest when I sell my home and leave this area.

During the 1990s one half of a million black people moved from The Great Lakes Region to Metro Atlanta. Many of those Black People were from Chicago. There are high schools in 12 county metro Atlanta which were say 85% White in 1970 and are now 85% Black. See Cobb County.


41 posted on 06/29/2020 3:34:14 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: Hojczyk

That is ok, buzzards gotta eat


42 posted on 06/29/2020 3:43:20 PM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: Hojczyk

Chief to city councilman: sure thing councilman, let me check my officers still on the job notebook here, how’s 2 weeks Thursday sound to you? Best we can do with such a small force due to the councils defunding efforts.


43 posted on 06/29/2020 3:47:00 PM PDT by Ron H. (Gab.com)
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To: Hojczyk

Once again, follow the drug money. Slowly this is being realized.


44 posted on 06/29/2020 3:50:08 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Hojczyk

The country is done...all these democrats will flee these cities and go to red states and vote for the same fools...there is very little hope these people will wake up..
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Nope because they are a CULT and filled with hate and self loathing.


45 posted on 06/29/2020 3:55:03 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Hojczyk

“The wheels are falling off the world” (Jamie Cullum).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0TwpnQ3hlo


46 posted on 06/29/2020 3:57:16 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: Hojczyk

Bring out your dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XgUQOkej54


47 posted on 06/29/2020 3:58:01 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Preserve the American way of life! All lives Matter!)
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To: abb

A few DragonCons but nothing since early 00s.


48 posted on 06/29/2020 4:04:27 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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To: Hojczyk

They voted for color and not policy so let them reap what they have sewn.I dont blame LEOs one bit.


49 posted on 06/29/2020 4:04:55 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: wally_bert

This is what I used to go to.

https://10times.com/forest-products-machinery-equipment-expo


50 posted on 06/29/2020 4:10:22 PM PDT by abb
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To: abb

Sounds better than DragonCon based on the last couple of times I was there.

DragonCon is too regimented and overcrowded.

Besides most of the people who I liked to see there were showing up less and less.


51 posted on 06/29/2020 4:14:13 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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To: rfp1234

With but one side fighting it’s a civil massacre.


52 posted on 06/29/2020 4:18:55 PM PDT by coaster123 (Once begun stupid gets culled. Don't be stupid.)
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To: abb

Company I worked for had a booth and exhibit. We spent thousands, and I can’t put my finger on a single sale we made from it. Not one.


53 posted on 06/29/2020 4:20:27 PM PDT by abb
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To: abb

Maybe item #4 was missing.

https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-10-16


54 posted on 06/29/2020 4:25:23 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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To: Trumpet 1

I’m in North Cobb. Plenty of lefties here and growing. Even the parents on the right are letting their kids be indoctrinated to become angry liberal teens and young adults. The parents have surrenders the raising of their kids to the school system.
I was shocked at the 2016 election that Cobb went for killary. First time the county went for a dem since peanut man.
I fear for the America my kids will live life as adults in. At this point I must say I am all for a full blown civil war. I’m old enough to be satisfied with my life and the legacy I’ll leave my kids but it’s the freedom and idea of the republic our founding fathers envisioned I want most for them.
I’m well prepared for what is coming and I see it exploding right after the election if Trump gets reelected. Not sure if Biden wins, I think many of the people on the right don’t have the stones any longer to save this country. More talk but cannot walk the walk. We have become weak and complacent to almost everything. Prove me wrong!


55 posted on 06/29/2020 4:30:16 PM PDT by TermLimits4All (A next on the agenda, reelection of DJT.)
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To: Hojczyk

I say let the wheels come completely off and let all those super smart democrats live in what they created.

JoMa


56 posted on 06/29/2020 4:34:14 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: hal ogen

Move back...

Brother, there isn’t enough money in the world to
make me move back ! I lived in a warehouse, and a
metal roofed building for 15 years and listen to these
nitwits talk about gentrification, the only reason anyone
lives there now is because others came in and reclaimed
the old buildings and made them livable.

We put up with crime, drugs, people shitting on our
front steps, walking in our front doors, seeing what
we had, then watching us for weeks until they knew our
patterns then came while we were away and took our
stuff. G’Damn them all.


57 posted on 06/29/2020 4:48:00 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

It’s too bad. My son and I used to spend a weekend in downtown Atlanta. Go out at nite to see great bands. And then a Braves game on Sunday and back home Sunday Nite. Great memories! Great times. Atlanta was a cool city. Maybe a little sketchy, but nothing like New Orleans. We did that for years as he was growing up. I’m glade we had those times together. Guess those days are gone now. So sad!


58 posted on 06/29/2020 4:48:38 PM PDT by Desparado
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To: Hojczyk

Drove to Florida one year, shortest route was through Atlanta. Felt really squeamish all the way through Georgia. When I drove back several months later, I had to stop and get gas and lunch. Felt OK. Really pretty city.

Now, I’m so happy to live in a mostly Republican city in the Republican county of a stupid Dem state. Safe here in spite of CERTIFIED MORON Inslee making stupid rules.. Our minority people are fine citizens. During local “riots,” which consisted of maybe 150 people, a young black man stopped black looters breaking into Nike store. His action was caught on TV, then he was interviewed. He said, rightly, they were there to demonstrate, not to loot. The demonstration lasted hours, not days. I can live with that, though George Floyd was a criminal.


59 posted on 06/29/2020 4:52:10 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: Hojczyk
That's the plan. Soros realized that by funding anarchy the people who could move, would. Move to decent states, that is. And they'll turn the red states blue.

It's what happened to Oregon. Washington State. Colorado.

And it's working.

60 posted on 06/29/2020 5:55:22 PM PDT by LouAvul (Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Psalms 9:20)
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