What an entrance, liam665. Thanks for that!
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They didn’t even take the time to put on shoes. My guess is that they have been in their bubble feeding on a steady diet of paranoia from FOX. They looked out the window and thought this is it they’ve come for us. Then they ran out there and everyone was like who are you and laughed at them. They look scared and angry and confused. These are apes in a fight or flight response amped up on adrenaline and whatever is in the medicine cabinet. They had no sense left to use.
ETA - This is the most likely the first time they have ever felt real fear first hand. Fear that an angry mob was coming for them and there was nothing to protect them. Fear they would lose their home. Feat they would lose their assets. Fear they would lose their lives. All things many black people live with on a daily basis and why BLM is so critical. This could be a moment of empathy for what other experience daily… or an opportunity to play the victim. 
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didn’t these peaceful protesters go on their private property?
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Unless the entire gated community is their private property, no.
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The street isn’t their “private property” just because it’s in a gated community, comrade.
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Yeah, just listen to his language in that interview…
“mob”
“hoard”
“storming the bastille”
What the protests mean to them is a dystopia and i just don’t know how we’ll ever reconcile with people like this. It’s why i’m looking forward to Cory’s novel The Lost Cause that’s set in a more hopeful future because those people are still gonna be around and we’re going to have to live with them. I’m sure the historians we have on here will point to the bad blood between people and the centuries long traditions that are still acted out to this day.
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My Dad’s sister is a hardcore FOX news watcher. She called him all freaked out that Seattle had left the United states and started it’s own country based on Fox News coverage of the CHAZ. He told her to stop watching FOX.
I don’t know how we can counteract the level of reality distortion that is in effect for some people.
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I saw a gate that says private property and i see said protesters beyond the gate?
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It must be owned by the neighborhood association. You can’t just put a gate up on public property. Or the street might actually be owned by them, with an easement to all the other properties further along.
Thanks @orenwolf for posting the IamShaneMorris thread below that clarifies why there is a gate on a public road.
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How conveniently he forgets basic information, like what time of day they were making and eating dinner, but has the presence of mind to include details about all sorts of supposed ‘threats’ that made them ‘afraid for their lives’, while only saying ‘private property, get off’ in response. He said all the things a lawyer would tell you to say, to protect yourself if proof comes later, and still be able to claim self-defense.
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Too late! Looks like he’s claiming the characterization himself.
Also: ye gods these unhinged palace-dwellers really do think that it’s all about them.
Did they have no inkling whatsoever about people peacefully protesting against police brutality in other American cities?
Or their own?
Did they not take even the slightest note of the content and tenor of their mayor’s offensive actions last week, what repercussions could come of those?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/us/st-louis-mayor-police-reform/index.html
As @Ratel pointed out upthread:
… their mayor is endangering real people–real activists who in St. Louis by all appearances are being hunted? Like possibly extra-judicially?
Either Mayor Krewson is completely incompetent in serving her St. Louis constituents, or completely ignorant of ongoing murders of black activists in St. Louis, or completely forgetful about proper procedure for disclosing such sensitive information.
She absolutely should resign.
The McCloskeys have made this all about them instead, and my guess is that the mayor is relieved in whatever small part that the spotlight has at last partially swung onto her neighbors: the McCloskeys.
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Since no one got shot, it’s actually kinda great in a Streisand Effect way that these two fools did this. So many more people know now about this peaceful protest, AND about the idea of taking them to the streets of the grotesquely rich and powerful.
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And not even a gun slit.
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But on the back side it didn’t say nothing —
This land was made for you and me.
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But it’s Twitter, so most of the comments are really hateful.
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Is trespassing on private property legal justification for threatening lethal force? I don’t know Missouri’s gun laws, but in my state it sure isn’t.
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If you two don’t stop with the tree jokes, @anon67050589 & @anon59592690, I’m gonna leave.
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They also seem to think the storming of the Bastille was a bad thing
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