Posted on 08/29/2020 1:19:29 PM PDT by Drew68
Spent the last 36 hours walking around Kenosha in a daze. Large swathes of the city are indistinguishable from a war zone.
The destruction in places is total, the locals dazed, shocked and trying to be brave.
Here are some pictures /1
The worst hit area is uptown, beating heart of the city's black community. Ice cream shops, nail salons, faith missions, all smouldering husks /2
I couldn't even work out what this building used to be /3
Every single local I spoke to blamed "out of towners" for the worst of the destruction. They didn't offer a huge amount of evidence for this, but it's a blanket consensus /4
This is the car lot next to where the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings took place. You could still taste the smoke /5
Pretty much every boarded up shop has a mural or painting on it now. Some have plaintive requests to prospective fire starters: "Kids live upstairs" /6
A (former) job centre in uptown Kenosha /7
The owner of this bar told me they'd opened just before the pandemic. Having eventually reopened, it was broken into this week, he estimated $25k worth of damage /8
As we were talking, a young man came to ask the owner where the nearest post box was. "There used to be two across the street," he replied. "But they both just got burnt."
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I’m sure Ilhan Omar smiles everytime she sees who much the US is starting to look like her home country.
I am coming to that as well.
We just cannot have them moving from community to community, gutting as they move.
Prayers for Kenosha, and for us all.
Before I give a damn, can any area Badgers tell me is Kenosha Blue or Red?
Why did the mayor turn his back on his own city?
Wisconsin didn’t have a chance, they’re right next door to Chicago, the North American center for corruption (now onder this is where Obama was based), so it was easy for the Soros-DNC terrorist-activists to get there.
Of course it was outsiders, who burns down their own town? Look at the arrest reports. Same thing happened in Ferguson, it was all outside agitators trying to get their news story. Same thing all over again, with how many lives ruined as a result?
And Big Media doesn’t care, they’re just rich honkies far away in New York City and Atlanta, encouraging it all to make it look like the country is falling apart under Pres. Trump ...
The media’s ouright lying & dishonesty in all this is just off the charts
I would like to know who is backing this shit. They must have a lot of pull because the Police and Fire Department do what they are told. I don’think that I would be surprised to learn who it is. But it would be good information. I might be persuaded to wager that in one dug deep enough they might uncover an obama or a Clinton.
Black business people are some of the worst offenders around to the anti-civilization crew. As more blacks, Asians Hispanics and others become successful, the losers’ message looks laughable. Which is why anything that leads to success and happiness is now called racist.
Nice legs in cream shop doorway.
Time to unlimber a crew-served weapon or two.
The Kenosha mayor, city council, and police department need to be arrested, charged and tried for giving aid and comfort to the Antifa/BLM terrorist enemy.
“Every single local I spoke to blamed “out of towners” for the worst of the destruction.”
Bulls**t. The mayor and elected government aren’t out of towners and they’re responsible for not properly suppressing this.
The elected officials are backing this. This is what you get when you vote Democrat.
Im starting to feel like the people there let it happen. They trusted the government. There is no shortage of citizens with hunting skills there. So, too bad, I dont think the rest of the citizens of WI or the US should be paying for it.
Paid thugs did this.
Americans of African Descent see white people burning down their businesses.
Nations hostile to US send money to Soros who sends money to Democrats who pay these thugs to try and divide our nation.
This makes these attacks war.
Helping the enemy in time of war gets you hung.
This isnt small potatoes.
These Democrats are helping enemies who are making war on us.
Thats a hanging offense.
Best walk away while they still can.
Probably be a good idea to inform.
All three Antia/BLM vermin Kyle Rittenhouse shot were white. Good chance that any respectable black people on his jury will vote to acquit. Indeed, much of the damage done to the Kenosha black community seems to have been done by radical white rioters.
Actually, it was Paul Ryans district. Still currently Republican.
I mentioned knowing black folks who aren't stupid like the ghetto trash. When I was growing up, I had black neighbors - next door, across the street, and a few other families on my block. The ones next door would go outside the city (San Francisco) to the farming communities, return and give my family watermelons (no kidding). My family was poor but getting by. They had six kids, raised them right, and the family moved to an upscale area; they were achievers. Same for a black family across the street. Later on, we had good relations with a black family living next door to my wife's family. The sons grew up and became successful. One son was complaining to me that his kids would visit friends in the ghetto and would imitate their slang talk, and he worried about them going ghetto. But they straightened out and are doing well.
It's about the mindset. Don't be swayed by the liberal Democrats and their victim mentality.
“This is CNN. Here are your election night returns so far. President Trump has just been declared the winner in Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes by a huge margin. Our election analysts are baffled why Trump’s margin of victory is so tremendous here in Wisconsin. All poles showed Biden winning here by 7 points. The reason for Trump’s Wisconsin win is inexplicable as we can’t find anyone in the CNN building who understands it. Back to you, Amber.”
anyone giving any thought to ALL the money for opportunity zones going into these areas? Think any businesses want to move forward with development or growth there, knowing what they know and seeing what they see?
NO.WAY.
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