Battle Portland:

[catfish1957]

Officers said they didn’t intervene at that point because it was only property, and they figured allowing the rampaging to run its course might deescalate the situation.
But after some protesters burst through the police car barricade officers said they used smoke grenades and made some arrests — then retreated, hoping things would calm down.

Idiots.

Sorry for asking, but just how does one poop in a balloon? And who would be that level of unsanitary?

[Cyber Liberty]

Officers said they didn’t intervene at that point because it was only property, and they figured allowing the rampaging to run its course might deescalate the situation.
But after some protesters burst through the police car barricade officers said they used smoke grenades and made some arrests — then retreated, hoping things would calm down.

Idiots.

Doesn't anybody here know how to play this game?

[sneakypete]

Doesn't anybody here know how to play this game?

@Cyber Liberty

Of course. The question that need to be asked is "Who has the stones to play it like it needs to be played?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Time to strip some of the cell phones away and see who has been texting instructions to these terrorists.

These little fish are expendable, but the big boys are not and need to be located and arrested.

[mountaineer]

Sorry for asking, but just how does one poop in a balloon? And who would be that level of unsanitary?

It takes a unique form of insanity to stuff poo into a balloon.

[sneakypete]

Time to strip some of the cell phones away and see who has been texting instructions to these terrorists.

These little fish are expendable, but the big boys are not and need to be located and arrested.

@IsailedawayfromFR 

[Smokin Joe]

Time to strip some of the cell phones away and see who has been texting instructions to these terrorists.

These little fish are expendable, but the big boys are not and need to be located and arrested.

Yeppers! 

[mountaineer]

Police tweet about the $#!t balloons:

Portland Police   @PortlandPolice
Not sure whose job it was to make these....

Just when we thought we had seen it all in over 80 days.
Feces filled balloons thrown during riot on August 22 2020.
2:41 PM · Aug 22, 2020

[Smokin Joe]

Police tweet about the $#!t balloons:

The same thing was done at the dem convention riots in Chicago in '68, only they used plastic bags--also golf balls w/ nails hammered through them, iirc.

Fecal matter should have DNA in it. Trace it to the source...

[Hoodat]

The same thing was done at the dem convention riots in Chicago in '68, only they used plastic bags--also golf balls w/ nails hammered through them, iirc.

How did that '68 election turn out for the Democrats?  Asking for a friend.

[Smokin Joe]

How did that '68 election turn out for the Democrats?  Asking for a friend.

Mr. Johnson's former veep lost. Probably the last patriotic Democrat to run for POTUS.

[mountaineer]

Today's festivities:

Andy Ngô  @MrAndyNgo
Another mass brawl breaks out in downtown Portland. Proud Boys and other right-wing groups rush in and fight #antifa, who are pushed back. Bats, sticks and pepper spray are used in the brutal melee. #PortlandRiots

7:08 PM · Aug 22, 2020·

Video here: 

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1297309736455397377

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Today's festivities:Video here: 

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1297309736455397377

I like the idea of spraying them with a permanent marker like purple so one can identify them easily.

Police protection in Portland is the biggest joke in the nation right now.

[mountaineer]

I like the idea of spraying them with a permanent marker like purple so one can identify them easily.

I agree. It also should have a distinctive "skunklike" scent.

[catfish1957]

I agree. It also should have a distinctive "skunklike" scent.

Ineffective.  Would probably make them smell better.   

[roamer_1]

Sorry for asking, but just how does one poop in a balloon? And who would be that level of unsanitary?

Well... It is my sad state to acknowledge a certain familiarity... 

I built a water balloon gun out of a surveyors tripod, 10 ft of 4" PVC and a garage door spring... It was magnificent. Set up on top of the college building on main street, since I could remember the angle and direction, We (me and Richie) dialed that puppy in on a stop light 2 blocks away, aiming for the second car in a theoretical line of stopped cars... Noted the increment, angle, and direction, and marked the position of the legs...

The next night (Saturday night), whoever the poor bastard was in the 2nd position on the inside lane got a fantasic peppering of water balloons... I mean, it was grand. It was really easy to load, and like a mortar team, we got real good at it... By the time the fist one hit, we could get 7 or 8 in the air following.

The absolute highlight of the evening was a literal bombardment of a late 60's Pontiac Bonneville ragtop (with the top down) STUFFED to the gills with young ladies...

I swear I had never laughed that hard ever in my life. And we never even came close to getting caught - Even peppering the cops with abandon. The angle was so high and we were so concealed that no one ever figured it out. It was one of the very best few weekends of my life. By the time we were done we had it dialed in on the sidewalks, various cars in the ordered length of stopped cars waiting on the light, and eventually even pot-shotting traveling cars going through intersections. All from a couple lawn chairs on the college building roof, with a cooler of beer between us, and a couple hundred water balloons per night.

BUT, certain events happened some time thereafter requiring vengeance... As to the type=pig... As to the how= Watered down a bit and stirred smooth, loaded into a 5 gal bucket, with a pneumatic grease gun for a lid... As to the hygiene... Shrugs... Ain't like I ain't seen pig sh*t before (like, daily). As a redneck boy, I am well acquainted with all kinds of sh*t, and as immune as one could ever be.

As to the target, well that will remain unsaid.  But it was a big target, of reasonably high value, with it's occupants, and all thoroughly coated before we relented.

[roamer_1]

It takes a unique form of insanity to stuff poo into a balloon.

Thank you. I do try my best. 

[Hoodat]

I built a water balloon gun out of a surveyors tripod, 10 ft of 4" PVC and a garage door spring... It was magnificent.

Can you provide a drawing, sir?  Garage door springs can be lethal in their own right.  But I'm trying to figure out how you used that to accelerate the balloons.  (ME is not my forte)

[sneakypete]

Can you provide a drawing, sir?  Garage door springs can be lethal in their own right.  But I'm trying to figure out how you used that to accelerate the balloons.  (ME is not my forte)

@Hoodat @roamer-1

I want to know how he kept them from bursting even before they left the barrel/launch tube.

[Hoodat]

Probably used steel-belted radial rubbers, the ones you would use in a Bangkok brothel.

[roamer_1]

Can you provide a drawing, sir?  Garage door springs can be lethal in their own right.  But I'm trying to figure out how you used that to accelerate the balloons.  (ME is not my forte)

@Hoodat @roamer-1

I want to know how he kept them from bursting even before they left the barrel/launch tube.

Well no, it ain't the sort of thing I kept around for 35/40 years... But as far as I recall, the spring was the ticket. It was about 5 ft of an old push style garage door spring... Had a comparatively soft take-off, with gaining push as it was let loose. The other serious concern was getting the balloons filled just so... By weight, and always the same brand through a series, as not all balloons are the same.

The way it was fixed to the tripod was important too, once the trajectory was established, the barrel could be loosened and allowed to slide back to hit the ground, and then tightened down... there was a flange built in to step on with weight on fire, to control recoil and keep aim precise. We also used it bazooka style, repeatable accuracy required a more mortar style configuration.

Lastly, the firing mechanism was the spring, with an old pot lid to act as a cradle - The center hole of the pot lid being used as a tie point for a rope that went down through the spring to a slotted keyhole in the cap at the bottom of the barrel which was the way to cock it, and a knot in the string provided proper tension... Kick the knot down out of the slot to fire.

That's about all I remember. 

[Smokin Joe]

Well... It is my sad state to acknowledge a certain familiarity... 

I built a water balloon gun out of a surveyors tripod, 10 ft of 4" PVC and a garage door spring... It was magnificent. Set up on top of the college building on main street, since I could remember the angle and direction, We (me and Richie) dialed that puppy in on a stop light 2 blocks away, aiming for the second car in a theoretical line of stopped cars... Noted the increment, angle, and direction, and marked the position of the legs...

The next night (Saturday night), whoever the poor bastard was in the 2nd position on the inside lane got a fantasic peppering of water balloons... I mean, it was grand. It was really easy to load, and like a mortar team, we got real good at it... By the time the fist one hit, we could get 7 or 8 in the air following.

The absolute highlight of the evening was a literal bombardment of a late 60's Pontiac Bonneville ragtop (with the top down) STUFFED to the gills with young ladies...

I swear I had never laughed that hard ever in my life. And we never even came close to getting caught - Even peppering the cops with abandon. The angle was so high and we were so concealed that no one ever figured it out. It was one of the very best few weekends of my life. By the time we were done we had it dialed in on the sidewalks, various cars in the ordered length of stopped cars waiting on the light, and eventually even pot-shotting traveling cars going through intersections. All from a couple lawn chairs on the college building roof, with a cooler of beer between us, and a couple hundred water balloons per night.

BUT, certain events happened some time thereafter requiring vengeance... As to the type=pig... As to the how= Watered down a bit and stirred smooth, loaded into a 5 gal bucket, with a pneumatic grease gun for a lid... As to the hygiene... Shrugs... Ain't like I ain't seen pig sh*t before (like, daily). As a redneck boy, I am well acquainted with all kinds of sh*t, and as immune as one could ever be.

As to the target, well that will remain unsaid.  But it was a big target, of reasonably high value, with it's occupants, and all thoroughly coated before we relented.

We just took a couple of lengths of fairly large bore surgical tubing, a coffee can, and had a guy on each end of the tubing and the shooter/loader doing the dirty work of aiming and firing. Basically a large slingshot. We used softball or smaller balloons because they wouldn't splatter from the acceleration of being catapulted. Firing from uphill, we could hit an intersection roughly 240 yards away away (Google Earth measurement).  We got dangerously good, and nailed a campus security car on the hood one night. Needless to say, the light show started down there, so we ditched the slingshot in the hedge and walked about 100 ft away and sat down and waited for that to cool off, watching as the areas around the closest dorms to the intersection were searched. No one though to look all the way up the hill at us...
We were 'nice' and used nothing but water.

[Smokin Joe]

@Hoodat @roamer-1

I want to know how he kept them from bursting even before they left the barrel/launch tube.

You don't fill them really full, so the tension on the balloon is low and they can withstand the compression of acceleration. Impact is another story.

[sneakypete]

You don't fill them really full, so the tension on the balloon is low and they can withstand the compression of acceleration. Impact is another story.

@Smokin Joe

Thanks. I am not clever enough to understand those dynamics. It would never have even occurred to me to try it.

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe

Thanks. I am not clever enough to understand those dynamics. It would never have even occurred to me to try it.

Sure you would have. Just think of trying to throw one completely full and tight (you're going to get wet), versus leaving a little slack in it...

[roamer_1]

We just took a couple of lengths of fairly large bore surgical tubing, a coffee can, and had a guy on each end of the tubing and the shooter/loader doing the dirty work of aiming and firing. Basically a large slingshot. We used softball or smaller balloons because they wouldn't splatter from the acceleration of being catapulted. Firing from uphill, we could hit an intersection roughly 240 yards away away (Google Earth measurement).  We got dangerously good, and nailed a campus security car on the hood one night. Needless to say, the light show started down there, so we ditched the slingshot in the hedge and walked about 100 ft away and sat down and waited for that to cool off, watching as the areas around the closest dorms to the intersection were searched. No one though to look all the way up the hill at us...
We were 'nice' and used nothing but water.

We started off with a catapult... Similar to what you describe... Adapted that to the PVC pipe to get better aiming and targeting capability... Only went so far though, as we had to slot the sides of the pipe, pass a handle through the slots, with the surgical tubing anchored at the top of the barrel on both sides, tied to the handles... Increment marked on the slots gave us range... But it was not reliable. the slots weakened the barrel giving us multiple failures, and if the balloon contacted the slot on the side at all it would go between the slot and the handle, causing immediate failure - blowing up in the barrel. So we finally wound up in a push spring to avoid the slotting.

But ALL kinds of fun... And yeah, funnier than heck watchin' Barney getting all frustrated, impotently trying to find the 'evil doers'...      We gave it up after a few weekends, because the cops were getting close... Man. what a blast. Good clean fun.

Funny, this coming up in my head... It's just about punkin chunkin time. 

[Smokin Joe]

We started off with a catapult... Similar to what you describe... Adapted that to the PVC pipe to get better aiming and targeting capability... Only went so far though, as we had to slot the sides of the pipe, pass a handle through the slots, with the surgical tubing anchored at the top of the barrel on both sides, tied to the handles... Increment marked on the slots gave us range... But it was not reliable. the slots weakened the barrel giving us multiple failures, and if the balloon contacted the slot on the side at all it would go between the slot and the handle, causing immediate failure - blowing up in the barrel. So we finally wound up in a push spring to avoid the slotting.

But ALL kinds of fun... And yeah, funnier than heck watchin' Barney getting all frustrated, impotently trying to find the 'evil doers'...      We gave it up after a few weekends, because the cops were getting close... Man. what a blast. Good clean fun.

Funny, this coming up in my head... It's just about punkin chunkin time. 

Yeah, we gave up because our surgical tubing was deteriorating (and when it broke we lost range and got welts). Our supply source didn't want to liberate any more from the bio department, so we decided to quit before we were discovered.

[mystery-ak]

BLM extremists beg for police help after fed-up patriots clobber them: ‘When the cops are gone, you’re gonna deal with us’

many videos

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/08/23/blm-extremists-beg-for-police-help-after-fed-up-patriots-clobber-them-when-the-cops-are-gone-youre-gonna-deal-with-us-963422

[mystery-ak]

WATCH: Portland Rioters Bring Guillotine, Burn American Flags

[Hoodat]

Shirtless hotshot cries for ‘medic’ after he gets maced by cops repeatedly for rushing at them…repeatedly
August 16, 2020 | Vivek Saxena

The video and comments at the site are priceless! 

"Medic!  We need a medic!  Medic!"  -  BWAAAHAAAAHAAA

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Mr. Johnson's former veep lost. Probably the last patriotic Democrat to run for POTUS.

Well, I'd say all Democrats who lost have shown symptoms of being patriotic to this country by the fact they lost.

I know, I know, I'm implying Hillary is patriotic.  No I am not, she was strangely simply patriotic to the country by the ineptness she displayed so we did not have her to lead us, nothing more.  Bill never displayed that type of patriotism.

[Cyber Liberty]

Well, I'd say all Democrats who lost have shown symptoms of being patriotic to this country by the fact they lost.

I know, I know, I'm implying Hillary is patriotic.  No I am not, she was strangely simply patriotic to the country by the ineptness she displayed so we did not have her to lead us, nothing more.  Bill never displayed that type of patriotism.

Put another way, we knew every great once in a while Hillz was liable to be bribed into doing the right thing, while Sloe Joe will be a slave to those who will never, ever do the right thing.

[mystery-ak]

88 Nights of Destruction: Rioters Attempt to Set Police Station Ablaze in Portland

Police stood down as hundreds of protesters gathered at the Portland Police Bureau in Northeast Portland on Sunday night only to declare a riot around 11 p.m. when the awning of the building was set on fire.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/24/88-nights-of-destruction-rioters-attempt-to-set-police-station-ablaze-in-portland/

[sneakypete]

88 Nights of Destruction: Rioters Attempt to Set Police Station Ablaze in Portland

Police stood down as hundreds of protesters gathered at the Portland Police Bureau in Northeast Portland on Sunday night only to declare a riot around 11 p.m. when the awning of the building was set on fire.

 

@mystery-ak

Cool! Isn't standing around and watching the city burn why the taxpayers pay the police dept expenses and the salaries and benefits of the city council?

Burn,baby burn!

[mountaineer]

Portland Police  @PortlandPolice
Aftermath: A violent crowd confronted officers at North Precinct the evening of August 23rd, into the following morning. Officers were targeted with ceramic debris, rocks, heavy metal bolts, fires, and more.  When the crowd cleared, they left behind a field of debris.

11:04 AM · Aug 24, 2020

Video at

https://twitter.com/PortlandPolice/status/1297912729101991936

[240B]

@mystery-ak
Burn,baby burn!

I hope they burn all of Portland down.
Antifa/BLM would be doing a national service for all America.
After if they go north to Seattle or south to CA, either way America wins.

[mountaineer]

Andy Ngô   @MrAndyNgo
New report confirms what we all knew: Mayor @tedwheeler instructed police to stand down in the face of riots. Having no opposition, antifa then strategically worked to develop a system to main the riots now for almost 3 months.
Portland’s protests: 3 months in, no end in sight
And so, as the city prepares to enter month four, Wheeler seems to find himself very near where he was during month one: without a clear plan to end the now-regular clashes between the police force...
5:54 PM · Aug 24, 2020

Andy cites this article:

Portland’s protests: 3 months in, no end in sight
By Rebecca Ellis (OPB)
Aug. 24, 2020 9 a.m.

Mayor Ted Wheeler says the city is "considering all options” to end nightly clashes between police, protesters, but he lacks a clear plan.  ...

Police say it’s not clear how they’re supposed to address individual crimes in the midst of a sprawling crowd. Asking police to make targeted arrests in a swarm of hundreds of people could put both officers and peaceful protesters in danger. Officers worry that not going in at all would be an abdication of their duties.

The mayor recognizes the problem with these scenes that play out on the streets of his city every night: non-violent protesters facing force as police respond to the misbehavior of a few. He just hasn’t found the answer.

“This is the issue, right? I mean, this is the main question,” Wheeler said. “...How do you hold that small number of people accountable without infringing on the First Amendment rights of everyone else?”   ...

Read entire article at Oregon Public Broadcasting

[catfish1957]

In the real world , Ngo would be getting a Pulitzer.  We all know controls that narrative though, don't we.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Are the Democrats still claiming these are 'peaceful protests'?

[Bigun]

In the real world , Ngo would be getting a Pulitzer.  We all know controls that narrative though, don't we.

  So it will never happen!

[HuskyPatriot]

Mayor Wheeler is now miserably cornered by his own incompetence from the get go and now he's putting up his hands crying over his supposed need to separate the "peaceful" demonstrators from the rioters or he will get thumped by the PC crowd?  It's a mob, plain and simple.  Let the authorities do their jobs.  "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead"!!!   

[Cyber Liberty]

Mayor Wheeler is now miserably cornered by his own incompetence from the get go and now he's putting up his hands crying over his supposed need to separate the "peaceful" demonstrators from the rioters or he will get thumped by the PC crowd?  It's a mob, plain and simple.  Let the authorities do their jobs.  "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead"!!!

Leftists are laboring under the illusion there are such things as "peaceful protestors," and they can be filtered from the thugs.  Uh no, after three straight months I don't think "Kumbaya" is on the front of anybody's mind when they show up in Portland to "demonstrate."

Screw that.  Assume they are all violent and you'll do a lot better than assuming they are peaceful.

[mystery-ak]

Portland protesters sue federal agents for injuries
by Anna Giaritelli, Homeland Security Reporter |
 | August 25, 2020 01:36 PM

Four Oregonians who took part in Black Lives Matter protests in downtown Portland last month sued Trump administration officials for injuries sustained as a result of Department of Homeland Security agents' “unconstitutional” attacks on them during the demonstrations and want the federal government to pay for the hardships they say they suffered.

The class-action lawsuit — aimed at acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf; senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary, Ken Cuccinelli; and 200 unnamed DHS law enforcement agents — alleges the demonstrators were “peacefully protesting” downtown in late July when federal agents "operated beyond their authority, by using unconstitutional and unnecessary force against Black Lives Matter protesters."

“These federal agents used chemical and impact munitions designed for war zones against American civilians," lawyers representing the four plaintiffs wrote in an announcement of the lawsuit. "Their actions resulted in hundreds of injuries to peacefully protesting women and men of all races, ages and walks of life."

The four people suing allege they were wounded at events where federal agents were present, though local police were also present at the incidents and are not being sued for any potential role in the injuries. The lawsuit asks for the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon to deem the actions of federal agents unconstitutional and award “unspecified compensatory and punitive damages to each peaceful protester subjected to chemical munitions."

more
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/portland-protesters-sue-federal-agents-for-injuries

[mountaineer]

The federal court can impose sanctions against any plaintiff who files a frivolous lawsuit. If ever there was a time for it ...

[sneakypete]

Portland protesters sue federal agents for injuries
by Anna Giaritelli, Homeland Security Reporter |
 | August 25, 2020 01:36 PM

@mystery-ak

As a wise man once noted (Shakespeare,IIRC) "The first thing we will do when we take over is kill all the lawyers."

[sneakypete]

The federal court can impose sanctions against any plaintiff who files a frivolous lawsuit. If ever there was a time for it ...

@mountaineer

Unfortunately,it seems most (all?) of the federal judges are more political than the Clinton's.

[Hoodat]

Leftists are laboring under the illusion there are such things as "peaceful protestors," and they can be filtered from the thugs.  Uh no, after three straight months I don't think "Kumbaya" is on the front of anybody's mind when they show up in Portland to "demonstrate."

Screw that.  Assume they are all violent and you'll do a lot better than assuming they are peaceful.

One can hang around dog sh!t and not touch it, but still will end up smelling like it.

[Cyber Liberty]

One can hang around dog sh!t and not touch it, but still will end up smelling like it.

And Portland has smelt like dog shit since 2017.

[mystery-ak]

Meet Antifa's 'Alice Phallus.' When She's Not Rioting, She's a 'Life Coach' for Portland's At-Risk Youth



Antifa’s Alice Phallus Is Arrested

Police say they arrested 14. Among them was Alice Elizabeth Johnson. The woman, who just celebrated her 28 birthday – Happy Birthday, Alice! – was charged with interfering with a Portland Police officer. She was let off on her own recognizance and required to post $0.00 bail. Zero. That’s a nice birthday present from the new DA.

At night, Alice appears to be an antifa warrior for the far Left. She leaves the comfort of home to take on imaginary fascists and racists. Fascists and racists are defined as people who don’t agree with her. For example, you’re a “fascist” and a “racist” if you support police officers.

She looks fierce with her shaved head and mean spirit.

more
https://pjmedia.com/uncategorized/victoria-taft/2020/08/26/meet-antifas-alice-phallus-when-shes-not-rioting-shes-a-life-coach-for-portlands-at-risk-youth-n843246

[Cyber Liberty]

Meet Antifa's 'Alice Phallus.' When She's Not Rioting, She's a 'Life Coach' for Portland's At-Risk Youth

Is that her "war face?"