I’m not sure what led to their presence in that exact spot, but rocks and bricks can actually be thrown from a variety of angles, as we’ve learned from other recent video.
The cops were getting pelted there, too, not just their vehicles.
I’ve always wondered why Maine never seems to get the violent leftists, even though our leftists are generally just as radical as those on the west coast when it comes to policy.
I can’t help but think that constitutional carry has something to do with that. You don’t know who is armed, but you do know that a lot of people are armed. I think that’s part of why our instances of shootings have skyrocketed, but things like armed robbery have not. Lewiston is more of a late-night smash-and-grab kind of town, not armed stickups in the middle of the day or ransacking stores during business hours.
I suspect this “protest” was a professionally coordinated event with a combination of paid agitators and good old useful idiots who think reddit is reality. Any place in the world can be targeted by these groups if certain people want to destabilize it. Maine, with a population of only 1.3 million, isn’t that important of a target, leaving our local nutjobs stuck trying to give ICE a hard time in small groups and giving people like my barber a hard time with cookie cutter antifa tactics that local police can’t do much about.
If there’s one thing we learned from the JFK files that were released by Trump, it is that the CIA has definitely been doing the exact same kind of stuff the world over, as has Mossad.
A friend of mine started his career working in emergency medicine/trauma down there. He treated shit tons of gunshots & stabbings. Kinda surprised me. I had no idea that area was so violent.
The old BS detector is going to be the key to our future, as long as we have free speech and a low-moderation social media platform like X, with the really smart, generally ethical people sharing information and backing their ideas up. I don’t think a lot of Europeans understand how important that is, or are too afraid of the state-imposed consequences to say or do anything about it at this point.
Bluesky is a complete joke, and I only creep one guy on the platform. He’s an associate history professor who runs one of my favorite blogs called “A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry”. He addresses topics like the logistical plausibility of Sauron’s orc armies and dissects Game of Thrones scenes from a military historian’s point of view. He’s fantastic at that, along with the ancient history stuff he does.
When I read his political posts on bluesky, they sound like the rantings of a person whose never left the education institution, with no connection to what normal working people experience in life. BS detected. False media narratives seem to underpin all of his ideas on that topic, along with his “fascism is here” nonsense that he doesn’t back up at all, except with his PhD.
Whether we continue voting for the same two parties or not, social media + free speech with intelligent, informed, and ethical people writing about what they know is the way forward, IMO. That’s how an asshole like me ends up being read by some of the most influential politicians and journalists in Maine.
Fun fact -I subscribe to The Athletic, initially independent but then bought out by NYT; subsequently, the people I follow only mention their Bluesky social info (no more Twitter/X). “All the news that’s fit to print” LOLLL apparently only applies to the news they want you to see; no surprise there.
From Charlie Kirk: “It’s official. Donald Trump is mobilizing 700 active duty Marines from Twentynine Palms to Los Angeles on a temporary basis until more National Guard troops arrive. The marines are expected to only be in a support role, not as an invocation of the Insurrection Act per USNORTHCOM”
Even my local government in Lewiston is still going whole-hog on the outdated tactics of Joseph Goebbels, believing they can “grow a new narrative” for our beleaguered downtown, and acting accordingly. The newspaper is all-in for the most part. One thing I found very interesting is that Lewiston’s Communications Director, who is a former Lori Lightfoot employee in Chicago, sent out a city-wide directive about how to discuss the rare upcoming newspaper article that acknowledged the unbelievable increase in gunshots.
It was all predictable claptrap, straight from the script.
Atlantic?
I subscribed to The Nation 25 years ago, along with Rolling Stone while working my way through most of what Hunter Thompson wrote.
You take that back!!! lol. When I was young, I used to read articles from The Atlantic; now, I just skip past stuff (propaganda) from there.
The Athletic -was started as an independent sports site with well known mainstream media journalists. I, of course, subscribed because my fantasy baseball guru was there and I wanted to support the dude (Eno Sarris).
Huh, I’ve never even heard of it. I haven’t followed any professional sports except for the Bruins for the last 20 years, along with occasional interest in NBA happenings. Back then I was a Bill Simmons and HST reader, and that’s about it for sports. I know that Tom Brady was a pretty good quarterback, too, which happens when you live in Maine.
I was busy stuffing my head full of Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Al Franken, and other spectacularly wrong people back in the early days of the internet.
I’ve mentioned the blog on various threads here. It is quite entertaining and informative. He is curious to me because he’s clearly intelligent, well read, and good at applying his education in creative ways.
He’s also not very good at playing political commentator or being a media narrative weaver. His most recent bluesky post is downplaying the riots, suggesting people like me gullible for believing the images on our screens of total chaos.
I run into the same issue of living in two separate realities with some of my wealthy, high IQ relatives. They refuse to believe that radical Democrat policy has any part in what has happened in my town.
I guess gunshots every week, needles everywhere and 1/3 of the student population speaking no English is like a weather phenomenon, or perhaps a natural outcome of people acting independently of government policy. It is very bizarre and probably a coping mechanism of some kind, because really smart people can’t always bear the burden of acknowledging their spectacular wrongness.
They need to exist in a world where only ignorant, hateful people could possibly disagree with them, which is why bluesky exists.
