Brickbat: We Are Here To Help
In Glasgow, Scotland, the owner of the News Plus convenience store says shoplifters have hit his shop "every day," costing him $26,345 in stolen goods. Mohammad Sheikh has called the police more than 100 times in a year, often providing CCTV footage. Despite his constant reports and pleas for help, he claims no one has ever been arrested or charged, leaving him unsure whether he can keep the store open. Police say they are aware of the issues at his shop and have a special task force targeting retail crime in the city, but Sheikh says he feels like nothing is being done to stop the daily thefts plaguing small businesses like his.
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The police aren't going to touch the other Mohammeds robbing his store with a 10' pole. They're too busy ignoring all the Mohammeds grooming and/or raping pre-teen girls.
Did you honestly expect any sense of western civilization law and order in a caliphate?
Better get rid of the Muslims & Marxists here before we turn into Britain, and we have to contend with Advanced Muslims & Marxists.
Better get rid of the Trumpanzees gone Apeshit before we turn into a TotalShitarian and AuthorShitarian giant outdoor prison like North Korea, the USSR, and so many more, after democracy has been stolen by violent mobs and thugs!
Steal my TV and my sneakers if ye must; butt do SNOT steal my democracy!!! Ye "conservatives" can't even be bother to conserve DEMOCRACY, which has been shown to work best for hundreds of years now?!!?!? WTF, barbarian assholes?!?!?
Your team already started doing that when that trantifa thing assassinated Charlie Kirk and Act Blue pieces of shit twice trice to assassinate Trump. SSqrlsy, you are part of the Bullshitliks.
Using Reason-cummentators-logic, the Trumpanzees gone Apeshit did shit first and worst, so twatever the Demon-Craps do, is BLESSED!!!
This is how we make PROGRESS!!! (Or at least, so say the Scumbies and other evil people!)
Trumpanzees gone Apeshit got forgiveness (and blessings?) from Trump. WHERE is the forgiveness for the Demon-Craps gone Apeshit? We gotta be FAIR, ya know!!!
Twatabout the Twatabouts, anyway?!?!
Mentally ill chaff & redirect. Were you upset that the bullet only grazed Trump’s ear? Why are you trying to deflect and hand wave away the violence being carried out against your opponents?
I see and condemn violence all around! When are YOU gonna do that? Why should I attract MORE attention to left-tits violence to THIS audience, who harps on that ALL DAY EVERY DAY!!! Butt for SOME strange reason, can SNOT cunt-demn rightwing bullshit!!!
Hey Scumby!!! Let's see YOU write a plain and simple (unambiguous) condemnation of Trump blessing "Hang Mike Pence"? Can You DO it?
You are chaffing and redirecting again. Why won’t you call out the acts of violence and calls for violence by team D? Hand waving it away again.
Trump didn’t bless what was said. Go back and revisit without using a progressive lens.
Trump DID bless that shit and You PervFectly know it!!!
I KNEW You could SNOT condemn it, because YOU (ass well as Trump) are a lying, hypocritical Servant, Serpent, and Slurp-Pants of the Evil One!!!
“Hang Mike Pence”!!! Dear Leader agrees!!!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-defends-jan-6-rioters-hang-mike-pence-chant-newly-n1283798
Trump defends Jan. 6 rioters’ ‘hang Mike Pence’ chant in new audio
The audio captured part of an interview ABC News’ Jonathan Karl conducted with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in March for Karl’s upcoming book.
Trump is PROUD of His Imperial Support for His Storm Troopers and His Political Violence, and can SNOT shut His Trap about shit!!!
PS, Mike Pence’s dangerous words and ideas were that votes, voters, established democratic norms and processes, peaceful transfers of power, and the USA Constitution should actually be RESPECTED!!! Now just IMAGINE THAT!!! This was HERESY to True Trumpaloos!!!
You are mistaken. Stop falling for “No Balls Cucks” NBC propaganda. Go back and revisit without regurgitating the progressive media spin.
You are again chaffing and redirecting. Why won’t you call out the acts of violence and calls for violence by team D? Hand waving it away again.
I know!!! Servants, Serpents, and Slurp-Pantses of the Evil One are NEVER in the wrong!!!
Twat's shit like, being PervFected in EVERY way, Scumby?
PS, I already said, "I see and condemn violence all around!"
Does that SNOT include ALL violence? Can Scumby the Dumbshit actually READ?
You haven’t condemned the specific violence against Charlie Kirk nor against Donald Trump. You instead have been attempting to chaff & redirect. Each time you do this it is a further attempt to distract from what team D members had done.
You have SNOT specifically condemned Idi Amin's killing and EATING his enemies!!! SEE?!?! You AGREE with killing and eating enemies!!!
Hey Scumby!!! Let's see YOU write a plain and simple (unambiguous) condemnation of Trump blessing "Hang Mike Pence"? Can You DO it?
You cun't do it 'cause Your Dear Orange Caligula can NEVER do wrong, just like YOU can never do or say wrong things!! "Wrong" in Your Own PervFected "Mind", that is, and so that's why You so often ARE wrong!!!
Killing C. Kirk wasn't a right thing to do. Trying to kill Dear Orange Caligula wasn't right, either. Has shit EVER occurred to YOUR dim-witted mind that violence and threats of violence are an endless cycle? Maybe, just maybe, Dear Orange Caligula perpetuated this UGLY EVIL CYCLE by blessing "hang Mike Pence". To some extent, He brought this shit upon Himself!!! Two or three or 29,000 wrongs do NOT make a right! HOW will Orange Caligula do His part to stop this shit, when You and Yours keep on encouraging Him, in attacking YOUR enemas? "Throw us more bloody red meat of rapefugees", You Pervfectly demand, cuntstantly!
YOU can SNOT see this simple idea, because YOU and YOURS are already PervFected!!!
Hey Scummy Scumby You PervFected Violence-Lusting Asshole... So long ass the violence is for YOUR Tribe, that is...
Can Ye even do THIS? Let's see if You can even write a plain and simple (unambiguous) condemnation of the out-of-cuntrol, anti-democracy, violent Trumpanzees chanting "Hang Mike Pence"? Can You do THAT much at least?
“Wasn’t a right thing to do”
How convincing.
Imagine your beloved NYT after that day in Dallas printing above the fold:
KENNEDY HEAD BLOWN OFF; Wasn’t a Right Thing to Do
The rest of your post is more gibberish, some boaf sidez, propaganda regurgitation, and more chaff & redirect.
Can Ye even do THIS? Let's see if You can even write a plain and simple (unambiguous) condemnation of the out-of-cuntrol, anti-democracy, violent Trumpanzees chanting "Hang Mike Pence"? Can You do THAT much at least?
NO answer from Pro-Team-R violence-lusting Asshole and Servant, Serpent, and Slurp-Pants of the Evil One! Snot even so much ass a "wasn't a right thing to do"!
You are BELOW PATHETIC and UTTERLY ARROGANT, You PervFected Servant, Serpent, and Slurp-Pants of the Evil One!
Hey Evil Minion:
KENNEDY HEAD BLOWN OFF; Wasn’t a Right Thing to Do
YOUR version of this is twat? THIS?: This is SUCH and EVIL crime, everyone in Dallas should be SLAUGHTERED, Dallas and the whole surrounding 100,000 square miles should be NUKED, and salt should be plowed into the ground!!!
Does shit occur to Your PervFectly EVIL mind, that too-strong condemnations and revenge-lust, even revenge by Government Almighty, ALSO perpetuate the endless cycle of violence?
EVIL moron! Who can SNOT condemn in ANY way, "Hang Mike Pence", or ANY threats or violence, so long ass shit is for YOUR Sacred Team!!!
SSqrlsy, the topic is
Your team already started doing that when that trantifa thing assassinated Charlie Kirk and Act Blue pieces of shit twice trice to assassinate Trump. SSqrlsy, you are part of the Bullshitliks.
And all you can reluctantly and qualifiedly muster is, “It is not a good thing.” That’s it? Chaff & redirect, boaf sides, and whataboutism is not an answer.
Servants, Serpents, and Slurp-Pantses of the Evil One are NEVER in the wrong!!! They (such ass we see here in Scumby) can SNOT even bring themselves to say that "Mobs of anti-democracy Trumpanzees gone Apeshit chanting 'Hang Mike Pence' is NOT a right thing to do!"
You have been tested and found to be EVIL, PervFected Pro-My-Team's-violence-lusting Evil One Junior!
Chaff & redirect, boaf sides, and whataboutism is not an answer.
Can Ye even do THIS? Let's see if You can even write a plain and simple (unambiguous) condemnation of the out-of-cuntrol, anti-democracy, violent Trumpanzees chanting "Hang Mike Pence"? Can You do THAT much at least?
Being a PervFected, Mind-Infected, Violence-Lusting Tribalist Servant, Serpent, and Slurp-Pants of the Evil One is FAR WORSE than a piss-poor solution or answer to ANYTHING!
More chaff & redirect, boaf sides, and whataboutism is still not an answer.
Being a PervFected, Mind-Infected, Violence-Lusting Tribalist Servant, Serpent, and Slurp-Pants of the Evil One is SNOT going to get You a PervFected session with Queen Spermy Daniels, from Dear Orange Caligula (who swill SNOT share!), so GIVE SHIT UP! Shit is unlikely to lead You to Peace and Happiness in this life, and shit is highly unlikely to get You much of anything worthwhile in the Beyond the Beyond, either, I would bet!!!
There appears to be NOTHING that I can do to wake You up, in Your Pervfected Devotion to the Evil One, let alone help Already-PervFected You in ANY way! GO TO THE LIGHT!!! The Light can help PervFected You!!! Try it SINCERELY and see! Good Luck... Shit sure looks like Ye will need it badly!!!
Still nothing but spastic boomer geriatrics. Thanks. NEEDZ MOAR ALL CAPS.
Still nothing butt Evil-One Worshitting rituals and shituals!!!
Get an exorcism!!! See M. Scott Peck, Glimpses of the Devil
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1439167265/reasonmagazinea-20/
If'n Ye DO get an exorcism... Be SURE to pay Your exorcist(s)!!!
Else ye may becum...
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Appeal to irrelevant authority doesn’t provide an answer to the question. Keep pointing and sputtering.
OK then I will keep on pointing to YOUR EVIL inability and-or unwillingness to give a simple, honest, non-evil answer!!!
Can Ye even do THIS? Let's see if You can even write a plain and simple (unambiguous) condemnation of the out-of-cuntrol, anti-democracy, violent Trumpanzees chanting "Hang Mike Pence"? Can You do THAT much at least?
The ball is still in your court yet you resort to chaff & redirect. Maybe some more ALL CAPS. Mix in additional copy pasta. Sprinkle the clang association.
So Scumby, are YOU gonna show up at the next Trumpanzees-gone-Apeshit attempt to steal democracy, and replace it with mobocracy? Since Ye can SNOT see that this kind of shit is EVIL? If You DO, I hope that You will follow in the shit-steps of Saint Babbitt, right on through to the grave!!! We don't NEED evil power-grabbers here! Since Ye can SNOT reform and acknowledge EVIL when Ye see shit, is THAT the best that we can hope for? Sure seems that way!
Don’t fear the revolt!
(insurrection)!
All our times have come
Here, but now they’re gone
Seasons don’t fear the revolt
Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain
(We can be like they are)
Come on, baby
(Don’t fear the revolt)
Baby, take my hand
(Don’t fear the revolt)
We’ll be able to fly
Baby, I’m your man
La, la la, la la
La, la la, la la
Valentine is done
Here but now they’re gone
Horst Wessel and Ashli Babbs
Are together in eternity
(Horst Wessel and Ashli Babbitt)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel
Horst and Babbs both wanted to grab political power through violence, and got back, what they were dishing out. Karma is a bitch! Live by the sword, die by the sword!
Refute it, bitch!
Shit-eating bitch, more chaff & redirect gibberish from you, shit-eating bitch.
SQRLSY, you are so obviously insane, and completely incoherent. I could respect your arguments if you ever truly made any, but instead you just vomit "wit" in the form of misspelled, typo-drenched, drivel posts. I hope that you get the help you need someday. If that help comes in the form of Nurse Ratchett and the lobotomy crew, so be it. It would be great to see a thread that you didn't post on. Please, get a life.
I don't know. I might expect some hands getting cut off.
This isn't 1990s Disney's Aladdin.
(Yea, they removed that 20 years later. It hurt Muslim feewings.)
You sure about that? They took out a line about "they'll cut off your ear if they don't like your face" in the opening song, but I'm pretty sure they kept the part where they threaten to chop off Aladdin's hand for stealing.
Also, you sure about that? Google AI says it's still practiced in a few countries, like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan (although rarely.) It linked to a Guardian article about someone in Sudan being sentenced to it in 2023.
Is there a point to having a one paragraph article about a shop in Scotland? Did Reason forget to publish part of the article?
Nah, Chaz just wanted one white person pointing a gun at another white person - while writing an article about brown people being uncivilized maniacs who don't fit (or want to fit) into western civilization.
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/25580528.glasgow-store-plagued-shoplifters-police-nothing/
Hey Hateful Xenophobic racist asshole... Look at the photos and video! Shit is SNOT the "brown people being uncivilized maniacs ", shit is the white natives!!! (Presumed natives; Maybe they are AT-like scum immigrunts from the USA). LIE like a scum-dog much?!?!?
Racist!
Skin color is the most important thing.
Looks like he is as racist as shrike. It is not only not a good thing, but really bad.
You didn't even look at your own link, did you.
You don't even have a functioning brain, do you?
You could have just said, "Yes."
Shrödinger's shit-eating racist bitch SSquirrel. If it had a brain, it could have answered. But since the shit-eating racist bitch SSquirrel has no brain, you got what you got.
Watching your interactions with the Shit Eater makes me glad I keep him muted. And with all the shitweasel leftist filth here, I only mute him and one other retarded scumbag.
Classic anarcho-tyranny.
Yeah, I find this a little rich coming from Chuck. If the police don't show up and crack heads, they're fascists. If the police do show up and crack heads, they're fascists. It's almost as though they can't win.
Mohammad Sheikh has called the police more than 100 times in a year...
Maybe he's the wrong shade of brown to be deemed the victim in this.
Mohammad Sheikh obliviously needs to change his name to something FAR more Scottish!!!
Has Boehm opined that the shoplifters might be doing so out of necessity due to Trump tariffs?
Mohammad Sheikh should call ALL of the shoplifters "Pedos" without ANY evidence, and THAT would cunt-vince them ALL to be GOOD human beings!!!
Hey Scumby... Twat do Ye PervFectly want to guess that snot ALL of the shoplifters are EVIL rapefugees and ferriners, and that MANY of them are lazy, good-for-nothing, thieving Scottish natives? Ye gonna go "PREACH SHIT!!!" that blaming the Rapefugees, always the Rapefugees, will FIX this shit for them?
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Why isn't he getting used to it like the rest of us are?
He’s just profiting off the backs of the locals.
What if Mohammad Sheikh told the police that one of the shoplifters had posted a meme critical of Muslims?
Or silently made a Christian prayer within 3 miles of his shop.