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Bernie's Brilliant Idea for Quelling Riots Is Nothing Shy of Facepalm Worthy
townhall.com ^ | 8/26/2020 | Beth Baumann

Posted on 08/27/2020 7:36:49 AM PDT by rktman

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), the progressives' ultimate icon, on Tuesday made the ridiculous suggestion that police officers should be banned from using tear gas, pepper spray or rubber bullets as a means of quelling riots. His proclamation comes as violent riots are taking place in Kenosha, Wisconsin after Jacob Blake, a black man, was shot seven times by police officers. Rioters have burned down businesses, looted others and even beat an elderly man for attempting to defend his business. One rioter pulled a gun on a reporter simply doing his job. The right-wing extremist group known as the Boogaloos shot a rioter in the head as he attempted to loot a business. A reporter jumped into action to provide aid to the man.

Despite all of that, Sanders wants to limit the tools police officers have to disband "protestors."

These aren't protestors. These are rioters. Looting, burning down buildings and harming others is the very definition of a riot. If these idiots aren't stopping what they're doing with these tools at cops' disposal, what makes him think that allowing them to carry on will magically make them stop?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bernie; civilunrest; riots; stoopidness
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To: rktman

Stock prices just went up for manufacturers of police batons, police dogs, shotguns, brass knuckles and studded boots.


21 posted on 08/27/2020 8:13:55 AM PDT by Pirate Ragnar
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To: rktman

It’s not stupid when you’re in on the plan to create more mayhem.


22 posted on 08/27/2020 8:24:44 AM PDT by Intar
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To: Responsibility2nd

Got a riot? Quick! Send in the Social Workers!

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You’ll need an appointment for that


23 posted on 08/27/2020 8:27:32 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: john316

CAn anyone explain why they are not using skunk gas or that slippery stuff so people can’t stand up? Used early on it would slow or stop a lot of destruction.


24 posted on 08/27/2020 8:34:59 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: rktman

Burn down his house to cook the steaks???


25 posted on 08/27/2020 8:50:15 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

No steaks. Too expensive. For riote....uh, I mean mostly peaceful PROtesters anyway.


26 posted on 08/27/2020 8:52:53 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

I would have thought his idea was to air drop some high-quality marijuana and let them all get high and mellow out.


27 posted on 08/27/2020 9:24:26 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: rktman

bernie doesn’t know anything. He is completely stupid.


28 posted on 08/27/2020 9:25:05 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: rktman

From now on, police shall only be allowed to stop a riot by holding a “dance-off” contest and emerging victorious.


29 posted on 08/27/2020 9:37:58 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: oldasrocks

CAn anyone explain why they are not using skunk gas or that slippery stuff so people can’t stand up? Used early on it would slow or stop a lot of destruction.

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Yes. Democrats don’t want to stop the riots. They believe in violence, hatred, anger, looting and so on. They believe this will work to elect Biden.

Republicans don’t want to stop the riots either. The believe that normal rational Americans will react in horror to the hostile and diseased minds of the liberals and re-elect Trump in a landslide.

Of course we are correct.


30 posted on 08/27/2020 11:00:59 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: rktman

What ever happened to midnight basketball as a generic solution?


31 posted on 08/27/2020 11:01:29 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Responsibility2nd
CAn anyone explain why they are not using skunk gas or that slippery stuff so people can’t stand up?

My question as well...where are the water cannon trucks that we always see in third world countries?
What is happening in our major cities is no different than a typical third world shit hole.

32 posted on 08/27/2020 11:10:42 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse (Nothing dies harder than a lie that people want to believe)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

Don’t ask rhetorical questions.


33 posted on 08/27/2020 11:25:01 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: dartuser

7.62 speaks with more authority.


34 posted on 08/27/2020 11:56:27 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB

“7.62 speaks with more authority.”

Don’t waste the good stuff on these punks, it’s not necessary.


35 posted on 08/27/2020 5:07:36 PM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: rktman

“Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), the progressives’ ultimate icon, on Tuesday made the ridiculous suggestion that police officers should be banned from using tear gas, pepper spray or rubber bullets as a means of quelling riots. “

i guess that means machine guns would be OK, then ...


36 posted on 08/27/2020 9:06:03 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: rktman
The right-wing extremist group known as the Boogaloos shot a rioter in the head as he attempted to loot a business.

Boogaloos? I Wiki'd them...

Participants often identify themselves as "libertarian" and say they are preparing for, or seek to incite, a second American Civil War which they call the "boogaloo". The term boogaloo has been used on the fringe imageboard website 4chan since 2012, but did not come to widespread attention until late 2019. Adherents use the term boogaloo, including variations so as to avoid social media crackdowns…

Since when are Libertarians "far right"?

37 posted on 08/28/2020 9:53:17 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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