Clothing store advocating hate has billboard of Trump depicted as Hitler removed in a day

NOTE: This isn’t the normal fare for WUWT, but it has happened in my town, and this website is still connected to the local newspaper, the Chico Enterprise Record, where it got it’s start, so I’m covering it.

UPDATE: It gets worse. The website for the store sells T-shirts depicting cop killings see below

In less than 24 hours, a billboard comparing President Donald Trump to Hitler was installed and removed at East Third and Mangrove avenues.
The advertisement, paid for by local clothing store Rouse & Revolt, depicted Trump with a 45 fashioned on his sleeve in a swastika-style armband, his face stony amid nuclear explosions occurring behind him on the billboard’s red background.


Stott Outdoor Advertising took the display down after people erupted on social media.
The advertisement was called disgusting, despicable and “plain stupid,” by some, while others expressed support for Rouse & Revolt.

Images via Facebook page of Action News Now, Chico, CA

“Her billboard may have already been taken down, but any store owner that will speak truth to power in such a grand way has my support. I only wished I lived closer to Chico so I can show support through my wallet as well,” wrote Facebook user Tamara Hinckley.


While some called for a boycott of the business, others spoke about free speech and letting people express themselves.
Rouse & Revolt store owner Nicholle Haber Lewis wrote the following message with the original image on Facebook when the billboard first went up:

“We support equality, we support equal rights, we support a woman’s right to her own body, we support DACA, we support universal health care, we support gay people in any Place they live. We welcome all races, all religions, all countries of origin, all genders and we not only STAND with you, we kneel with you as well. Rouse & Revolt”

More here at Chicoer

Stott Outdoor Advertising has confirmed they took this billboard down. Owner Jim Moravec has sent us the following statement:

“The core business of Stott Outdoor Advertising is providing a unique forum for the expression of ideas, both commercial and non-commercial. In this instance, the advertising message chosen by Rouse and Revolt clearly went beyond a commercial message and was primarily political in nature. Stott Outdoor has accepted and displayed political advertising for many years representing a wide variety of viewpoints, so long as the speaker is clearly identified and the message is legal, moral, and ethical. If those criteria are met, then Stott Outdoor is not going to be the party to limit the advertiser’s message. 

In this instance, it has become obvious in hindsight that the identity of the speaker is insufficiently clear. While we here at Stott Outdoor have knowledge of Rouse and Revolt, a clothing company which has advertised with us in the past, many others do not have such knowledge of the business, and have interpreted the name of the business as a command or instruction. This confusion over the identity of the speaker, combined with the depiction of violence, prompted us to remove the advertising message.”

UPDATE:

It gets worse, apparently hate is a theme with this store, as you can buy a t-shirt that depicts cop-killing as this screencap of their website shows:

UPDATE2: Shortly after this posting their website went offline. Claims were being made in social media that their website was “hacked” and that this image was not theirs. I view that as “damage control”.

Unfortunately for them, the Internet never forgets, it’s on the Wayback Machine Internet Archive from July 28th, 2017, as well as their own Facebook page. See links and screencaps below.

FACEBOOK:

Screencap: rouse-revolt-facebook-page

The Wayback Machine Internet Archive from July 28th:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170728000215/https://rouseandrevolt.net/

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Tom Halla
October 5, 2017 3:37 pm

The lunatic fringe meets the standard of being lunatics.

Reply to  Tom Halla
October 5, 2017 4:23 pm

The sad part, they are not the fringe. They are today’s Democrat Party.

Evan Jones
Editor
Reply to  Matthew W
October 5, 2017 6:36 pm

From a philosophical point of view, it is sad. From a tactical political point of view it is outstanding news. And it’s always amusing when a party that desperately needs to grow itself, instead purges itself of the insufficiently faithful.

Wrusssr
Reply to  Matthew W
October 5, 2017 7:41 pm

STRATEGIC MARKETING TIP FOR R & R: Highly recommend you send your next billboard concept to the NFL and ask them if they think it will fly.:

Latitude
October 5, 2017 3:40 pm

The left has turned into a bunch of kids…all trying desperately to out do or one up each other

Sheri
Reply to  Latitude
October 5, 2017 4:15 pm

If only they were kids. They are adults lying and trying to get people killed. The store probably cheered the Vegas shooter trying to take out cops

Latitude
Reply to  Sheri
October 5, 2017 4:31 pm

dunno…my take is in the day of twitter, facebook, and pussy hats…..the latest thing is to out outrageous each other

MarkW
October 5, 2017 3:45 pm

It really is sad the way these morons actually believe that they are doing something courageous when they go out of their way to insult anyone who disagrees with them.
Sadder still, when they actually do get power, they run wild doing all of the things they have spent years accusing conservatives of wanting to do.

markl
October 5, 2017 3:49 pm

So fabricated racism is attacked with hate. The growing ‘white man is the bogeyman’ narrative will backfire big time. It’s being supported by the same MSM that pushes CAGW and probably backed by the same cabal.

Reply to  markl
October 5, 2017 3:57 pm

I’m not so sure. There are a lot of dumb, easily-manipulated people out there. I hope you’re right, but I wouldn’t put money on it.

Sheri
Reply to  NavarreAggie
October 5, 2017 4:16 pm

A lot of them are paying a high price, as cops stay away from high crime areas, do nothing to pre-empt a crime for fear of being racist and are likely to let the bad guy run rather than risk the MSM crucifying them. So people die and are hurt.

mike
Reply to  NavarreAggie
October 5, 2017 6:50 pm

A B&E or armed robbery at Rouse & Revolt clothing store:
store: Hello, 911 ? Hello, hello ?….

Reply to  NavarreAggie
October 5, 2017 8:52 pm

My sister is one of those “easily-manipulated people”. She has the biggest heart in the world and just thinks conservatives are heartless–she has no idea what conservatives really are–she just buys the bullsh*t that we are heartless, mean, gun-toting bully’s who want to give incentives to corporations, make the rich richer, and take away healthcare for the poor. you can’t talk to her because she cries. In her mind, I am the exception in her world and she doesn’t get it, why I am “one of those.” Since I know what a wonderful person she is, I sort of understand them–sadly ill-informed, overly generous with everyone else’s money, and.. well, shall I say it? Her husband is a university professor! THAT explains it all.

Reply to  NavarreAggie
October 6, 2017 1:32 am

Shelly
you might like to remind your sister that the worst atrocities of the 20th Century were committed by left, and far left governments including Stalin, Mao, Hi*ler, Pol Pot, Mussolini, Castro, the Kim dynasty of N. Korea……….and many more.
Fascism was invented by Mussolini, kicked out of his socialist party. Hi*ler was leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
And of course, the Klan emerged from the Democratic movement.
The desire of capitalism is to conduct peaceful trade.

RAH
Reply to  NavarreAggie
October 6, 2017 4:09 am

HotScot
I have a sister the same way. Won’t talk to me about politics or climate change. Just says, “I don’t want to talk about it” and gets up and walks away.

MarkW
Reply to  NavarreAggie
October 6, 2017 6:48 am

Shelly, remind your sister that true compassion means giving someone from your own wealth.
Compassion is not stealing from someone else in order to give.

Tom O
Reply to  NavarreAggie
October 6, 2017 2:51 pm

I don’t like to think of these people as dumb. In fact, I don’t think they are dumb, but I do think they are the receivers of intentionally wrongful education. They were manipulated when they were most easily manipulated, as children.

RAH
Reply to  markl
October 5, 2017 3:59 pm

Eventually the pendulum will swing back the other way. It always does.

Sheri
Reply to  RAH
October 5, 2017 4:17 pm

Yes, but it’s really messy in the meantime.

RobbertBobbert
Reply to  RAH
October 5, 2017 5:29 pm

RAH..Eventually the pendulum will swing back the other way. It always does…
Good call but this time the lunatic fringe are intent on gaining control of the pendulum and will do everything possible to control it.
And control us.
This weird movement of companies and business, operating within the private enterprise system, turning themselves inside out to virtue signal their ‘establishment lefty luvvie’ credentials is mystifying.
It is happening more and more in Australia as well and I wonder if anyone can explain this?

Frederic
Reply to  RAH
October 5, 2017 10:59 pm

More a yuuge wrecking ball than a pendulum

MarkW
Reply to  RAH
October 6, 2017 6:51 am

I’m reminded of an NFL player who recently was quite upset about fans boycotting games and advertisers pulling ads because of the recent controversy over not standing for the national anthem.
His reply, “I’m just peacefully exercising my first amendment rights”.
Wake up dude, so are the fans and advertisers.
Just because you have a right to do so doesn’t mean you won’t suffer consequences for doing it.

Paul Penrose
Reply to  RAH
October 6, 2017 10:29 am

MarkW,
You got it right. Their motto is “Free speech for me, but not for thee.”

Mike
Reply to  RAH
October 6, 2017 12:44 pm

RAH “eventually the pendulum will swing back the other way. …..”
Yes and a wrecking ball is a pendulum too!

Sara
Reply to  RAH
October 6, 2017 1:35 pm

The pendulum reached its peak with the previous administration and has begun to swing in the opposite direction. The hyperactive reactions by people like the Rouse & Revolt owners and the other loud, noisy, destructive (and paid to be that way) people is a desperate attempt to seize control of the swing and stop it.
Unfortunately, they don’t understand this simple thing: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

mitch
Reply to  RAH
October 7, 2017 2:55 pm

Marxism is metaphysical. it is pointless to try and reason with them. their beliefs are faith based. it is their religion. they think it’s politics, however their politics are religious. i believe it was Kautsky who pointed this out. he was than deemed a renegade by Lenin and cast out of the communist party.

RAH
October 5, 2017 3:53 pm

Yep, the left says Trump is Hitler and a despot that is going to usurp the Constitution but we still want to take what the founders knew was the primary deterrent to that away from everyone! So which is worse leftists? Trump or the firearms that you could use to resist the coup you claim he wants to stage?

Pamela Gray
Reply to  RAH
October 5, 2017 7:00 pm

Winner comment

TA
Reply to  RAH
October 5, 2017 10:12 pm

The Left thinks all conservatives are Hitler. Trump just happens to be at the top of the list, so he is where they focus most of their attention.
It’s easier for the Leftists to think in stereotypes. They do better with generalizations than with details or facts.
Not all, I might add, but I personally have never seen one who didn’t think that way. Even my smart liberal friends look at the world that way. Give them a piece of leftwing propaganda and they are immediately True Belivers in the new meme: such as Trump and the Russians colluded.
Btw, isn’t it about time they wrapped up this collusion investigation and tell the public there is no there, there?
They have nothing on Trump, yet they keep digging. Let’s see if they dig this hard for evidence of collusion between Hillary Clinton and the Russians. That might be hard to do though, since all the prosecutors are Democrats who have donated to Hillary’s campaigns, and at least one of them has even worked at the Clinton Foundation, for the Clintons. They probably are not too eager to investigate the Clintons.

Reply to  TA
October 6, 2017 4:43 am

They wouldn’t have to dig very hard to find out that the Russians colluded with JFK. But I’m not hearing a lot of whining from the left about that…

MarkW
Reply to  TA
October 6, 2017 6:53 am

Despite their constant claims towards individuality, the left insists on treating people as members of groups, rather than as individuals.
Thus we get affirmative action for all blacks, rather than programs targeted to help poor people.
As a result the son of a wealthy black doctor is given help, while the son of a white janitor is ignored.

RAH
Reply to  TA
October 6, 2017 7:42 am

And they say AA is not racial discrimination with a straight face.

MarkW
Reply to  TA
October 6, 2017 5:17 pm

These are the same people who claim that blacks can’t be racist.

billk
October 5, 2017 3:59 pm

So Hinckley is excited by “Speaking Truth to Power”. Maybe it will give poor Jodie a thrill up her leg.

October 5, 2017 3:59 pm

I guess when they put out their list of
“We Support”
They just forgot to mention supporting the
American 󾓦 Flag

Reply to  hocuspocus13
October 5, 2017 4:25 pm

+100

SMC
Reply to  hocuspocus13
October 5, 2017 4:35 pm

Ah, but the American Flag is a symbol of hatred and oppression… Or so the Left would have us believe.

TA
Reply to  SMC
October 5, 2017 10:34 pm

“Ah, but the American Flag is a symbol of hatred and oppression”
I have been thinking about this and I think that the so-called oppression of African Americans by the police and the larger white society is a false narrative all the way. The statistics say just the opposite of what they complain about.
The only people oppressing the Black Community are their Democrat Party masters, and young, black criminals.
I wondered why all these black athletes who are taking a knee in protest (of what?) were not trying to get their complaints out to the American public in hopes of improving the Black Community’s situation. But all they seem to want to do is trash the United States by trashing its flag and national anthem.
These black athletes could go to any television broadcast company in the country and ask for free air time to air their grievances, and noone would turn them down. The media outlets, including Fox News would be eager to get them on the air. Hannity has already offered them airtime.
Or, these guys have enough money between them to finance a public outreach program to air their grievances. But they haven’t made a move in that direction.
Which leads me to believe that these guys really know the score, and that the statistics *do not* support the “oppressed black man”narrative, and if they go public, the lies will be exposed. So they kneel on the sidelines and let it go at that.
That’s not to say there isn’t racism in the world and in the U.S., but there is a big difference between being discriminated against by some individual moron, and being deliberately oppressed by the police and the Government.
The black athletes can speak up any time they want, but they remain silent. Why is that?

TA
Reply to  SMC
October 5, 2017 11:00 pm

The Democrats are so exercised about the senseless murders in Las Vegas.
Why don’t the Democrats get this exercised about all the black people who are being murdered in Chicago and Detroit and Baltimore (to name only a few) which sadly, greatly outnumbers the number of dead in Las Vegas.
The reason the Democrats get so exercised over Las Vegas is because they see it as an opportunity to try to do away with the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms). One of their pet projects.
The reason the Democrats do not get exercised over the multitude of deaths of innocent people, and some not so innocent, in the inner cities is because they don’t want to call atttention to the fact that this killing is their fault.
They see no political advantage to bringing that up in public, so no matter how many more blacks are killed, you won’t see the Democrats holding press conferences and denouncing all the violence like they have done after Las Vegas.
That’s what the black athletes ought to be protesting about: Democrat rule has almost destroyed the Black Community.

RAH
Reply to  SMC
October 6, 2017 12:11 am

TA the problem is Special Counsel Mueller has unlimited scope and time. There was no probable cause for any investigation of Trump or his campaign so the whole thing is just a politically motivated fishing expedition. It is another one of those deals that once instituted has to result in somebody going to jail for something. Even if that reason is a “process crime” having nothing to do with the original intent of for the investigation. ie: Scooter Libby.

RAH
Reply to  SMC
October 6, 2017 4:13 am

GREY LENSMAN October 6, 2017 at 3:43 am
“Kneeling, have you heard of that English word before”
Your point?

MarkW
Reply to  SMC
October 6, 2017 6:56 am

According to the left, the west must be perfect. Even westerners who lived hundreds of years ago must be judged by today’s standards.
On the other hand, non-westerners aren’t to be judged at all. No matter what they do, it can be excused as a reaction to something the west was doing.

TA
Reply to  SMC
October 6, 2017 9:12 am

“TA the problem is Special Counsel Mueller has unlimited scope and time.”
I agree, RAH. The question is does this apply to both Democrats and Republicans, or only Republicans.
Trump *can* fire Mueller, if he so desires, and would have a pretty good argument for doing so because the Special Counsel is established in order to investigate a specific crime or crimes, but no specific crime has ever been alledged against Trump. Collusion, even if it happened (no proof it did), is not a crime.
So Mueller is on a fishing expedition but we don’t know what he is fishing for. Is he a tool of the Swamp who is trying to get rid of Trump using all means possible, or is he an honest person who is looking at all the wrongdoing?
They say Mueller is a honorable man, and his history seems to bear that out, but the same people said Comey was an honest man and we know now that is not true.
Time will tell. One thing about Trump is he hasn’t been in Office long enough to commit too much wrongdoing, and he seems to be a smart enough guy to keep himself out of legal jeopardy in his private business dealings, so I don’t think they have anything on Trump, and would be very surprised if they managed to get him on anything.
They might nail Flynn or Manafort, but their problems have nothing to do with the Trump administration, it’s all on them.
Trump’s supporters are not going to accept a Mueller-arranged Kangaroo Court aimed at Trump. If he charges Trump, Mueller better have all his legal ducks in a row.

Reply to  SMC
October 6, 2017 10:06 am

On African American: “I’m not African, I am American”. – Morgan Freeman
This separation of identity is what the left thrives on. Men women, gay straight, black white ect.

Tom Halla
Reply to  Mark - Helsinki
October 6, 2017 10:12 am

And there is a problem that the term “African American” is not what is meant. I knew several literal African Americans in California==> Tunisians, an Algerian, Egyptians, and a Boer, not what is meant usually by African American.

RAH
Reply to  SMC
October 6, 2017 10:53 am

TA
Hell no it doesn’t apply equally to democrats as it does to republicans. If it did Hillary and/or some in her campaign staff would be a real trouble! If Mueller is really “honorable” then he will be investigating the democrats also. But I don’t believe that is going to happen at all based upon who he has hired. This appears to be a Democrat fishing expedition through and through. Mueller is claiming he has spoken to the author of the golden shower “dossier” but the Senate Intelligence committee chairman just announced this week that he has failed to get Steele to respond to their requests for him to come before the committee. Now what does that tell you?

MarkW
Reply to  SMC
October 6, 2017 5:20 pm

I wish I could remember the name of the reporterette, who while filming a story in Africa, referred to the locals as African-Americans.

Janice Moore
Reply to  hocuspocus13
October 5, 2017 5:58 pm

comment image
(video still of Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima)comment image
(Raising the Flag at Ground Zero, September 11, 2001)
That flag means something.

Janice Moore
Reply to  Janice Moore
October 5, 2017 6:06 pm

And this man understood why:
John Wayne, “America — Why I Love Her”

(youtube)
Tears in my eyes….. so grateful….. so proud (as should all of you WUWTers be of your own native lands)….. so full of love.
God, bless America.

Leonard Lane
Reply to  Janice Moore
October 5, 2017 10:56 pm

Thank you Janice!

RAH
Reply to  Janice Moore
October 5, 2017 11:55 pm

Janice
In their ignorant fervor facts never get in their way. Take their National Anthem protests. So ignorant that they don’t even know that Francis Scott Key was one of the most competent lawyers in the US at the time and took cases at his own expense to represent slaves to fight for their freedom. That black soldiers fought in the defense of Ft. McHenry and served as sailors in the US Naval forces trying to defend the Chesapeake and Baltimore. In particular a Naval battery on shore in support of the fort had black sailors among those manning the guns. The support of that battery was specifically mentioned by George Armistead in his official report on the battle.
http://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/pdf/TRANSCRIPT%20Official%20Account%20of%20the%20Bombardment%20of%20Fort%20McHenry.pdf
George Armistead, who commanded the garrison at Ft. McHenry was one of five brothers, all Virginians, that fought in the war of 1812. His nephew, Lo Armistead, died leading a brigade of Pickett’s division at Gettysburg. Such is the tangled web of the history of our nation and the those that have fought to defend it. It is all so much more complex than they would have us believe.

GREY LENSMAN
Reply to  Janice Moore
October 6, 2017 3:43 am

Kneeling, have you heard of that English word before

Pablo an ex Pat
Reply to  Janice Moore
October 6, 2017 7:07 am

I guess they forgot that they said the opening words of the Pledge of Allegiance.

TA
Reply to  Janice Moore
October 6, 2017 9:16 am

Thanks for that history lesson, RAH.

Paul Penrose
Reply to  Janice Moore
October 6, 2017 10:38 am

Grey,
I kneel before God; I stand for the flag. What do YOU believe in?

October 5, 2017 4:00 pm

When “The Great Leap Forward” fell flat on its face, Mao resorted to “The Cultural Revolution”, which was a way to eliminate opposition which only he could pull off. I think we are seeing the Far Left attempt a similar ploy after a similar failure in America, but the “revolution” is not run by evil genius, and will not succeed. Instead it only will disgust the majority.

BallBounces
October 5, 2017 4:08 pm

The Vegas killer roused and revolted. The billboard (and store) is nothing more than pathetic preening of progressive poseurs.

Carla
Reply to  BallBounces
October 5, 2017 7:00 pm

The Vegas killer had Philippine links.
ISIS claimed him. Yet they didn’t reveal anything.
Seems when it comes to ISIS drug dealings, the U.S. can’t nail it.
The Philippines is currently involved in a what some have called, “gangster style” crackdown on drugs, including government officials. ISIS wasn’t getting their drug money and took over the city of Marawi.

Carla
Reply to  Carla
October 5, 2017 7:10 pm

One more thingy..the Vegas killer had enough money to buy his weapons on the black market.
So, Gun control is not a valid case.
Just ask Libya about the shipment of weapons and grenades shipped to their port under a Cambodian flag, yet seen by the U.S. intel as having left N. Korea.

Carla
Reply to  Carla
October 5, 2017 7:12 pm

Correction; on last post Exchange Egypt for Libya. The weapons were bought by Egypt and sent from North Korea.

Paul Penrose
Reply to  Carla
October 6, 2017 10:40 am

Carla,
If there is a point in your ramblings, please make it.

Frederik Michiels
October 5, 2017 4:08 pm

just an idea from the other side of the ocean:
big drama: succeeded
play on perception: succeeded
showing how polarized the worl is: succeeded
making people talk about it: succeeded
showing how poor people react on freedom of speech: succeeded
publicity stunt: succeeded
reach of 300 miljon people on the net: succeeded
perfect viral going stunt! well done! 🙂
now i can grab my chips and read a whole debate in the comments as creating that debate is why they did it.
but having an internet hype, going around the world, reaching millions of people…
….. with just one billboard….
….smart move.

Janice Moore
Reply to  Frederik Michiels
October 5, 2017 4:18 pm

Exposed one’s ignorance and breathtaking coarseness: succeeded.
Net result:
YOU LOSE (Lewis, et al. and all the “kneelers”). hahahaha!
Game over.

Frederik Michiels
Reply to  Frederik Michiels
October 5, 2017 4:26 pm

note that you need to interpret this knowing i’m apolitical but respect anyone’s political or religious viewpoint..

MarkW
Reply to  Frederik Michiels
October 5, 2017 4:37 pm

Every leftist I’ve ever known has sworn that they were a political.

Frederik Michiels
Reply to  Frederik Michiels
October 6, 2017 2:59 am

fyi Mark: europe is not the same as USA

MarkW
Reply to  Frederik Michiels
October 6, 2017 6:59 am

Nice non-sequitor you got there.
Did you get it wholesale?

Reply to  Frederik Michiels
October 5, 2017 4:42 pm

“reaching millions of people … with just one billboard … smart move”
A lot of exposure is not necessarily smart. If the left keeps on with the same tactics, 2020 could be like 1972 when McGovern lost every state but one.

Janice Moore
Reply to  Ralph Westfall
October 5, 2017 5:42 pm

Indeed. Raised a tall scaffold and ended up hanging themselves (the “kneelers,” et al.) on it.
Loudmouth, obnoxious, liberals: the gift that keeps on giving.

Latitude
October 5, 2017 4:10 pm

more nefarious than you imagine….
NFL players’ union teamed up with George Soros to fund leftist advocacy groups
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/5/nfl-players-union-teamed-george-soros-fund-leftist/

Sheri
Reply to  Latitude
October 5, 2017 4:18 pm

All the more reason to completely boycott the NFl.

Janice Moore
Reply to  Sheri
October 5, 2017 4:23 pm

I agree, Sheri. It is common practice for U.S. employers to demand that their employees leave their politics at home. Those players are on the job. Each team should not be required to make the choice, for it will only benefit the slimer teams — i.e., the NFL needs to create a level playing field for this issue so that, “Fine. You’re fired.” doesn’t send punks like Mr. K. into the unprincipled arms of a who-cares-about-honoring-America/veterans/police team).

TA
Reply to  Sheri
October 5, 2017 11:15 pm

I watched the beginning of the Thursday night pro football game, to see if I was going to watch it or not, depending on whether I saw anyone not standing while the National Anthem was played. If you aren’t standing, I’m not watching.
Well, tonight the NFL apparently decided to schedule a commercial while the National Anthem was played, so I didn’t know if someone took a knee or not.
The football players better find themselves another way of protesting, otherwise a lot of people are going to lose a lot of money. And all for a false narrative, at that.

RAH
Reply to  Sheri
October 6, 2017 12:03 am

The real money that supports the NFL comes from their TV contracts. That is where you hurt them. I will not watch a minute of an NFL game for the duration. I also support eliminating our tax dollars at all levels that go to support the league and the facilities they play in.

Reply to  Sheri
October 6, 2017 1:52 am

There is an alternative folks.
Watch Rugby, the game American Football (as we call it) emerged from.
No racism, no political statements, and no armour.
Along with cricket, it’s the Chess of field-sports, just an awful lot faster and more brutal.
And there are Rugby clubs all over the USA, indeed, you guys field a credible team in the World Cup.

RAH
Reply to  Sheri
October 6, 2017 3:40 am

I love Australian football.

MarkW
Reply to  Sheri
October 6, 2017 7:00 am

And if they do air the anthem, the camera focuses on the singer only.

TA
Reply to  Sheri
October 6, 2017 3:24 pm

It turns out the players on the field for Thursday Night Football stood for the National Anthem. All of them.
And their tv ratings were higher.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/06/thursday-night-football-ratings-up-over-last-week/

JustAnOldGuy
Reply to  Latitude
October 6, 2017 11:39 am

I deeply regret that I was never a fan of professional football because any boycott I might possibly engage in would indistinguishable from my attitude toward the “sport” for the past 60 years.

Janice Moore
October 5, 2017 4:10 pm

While Ms. Lewis does not deserve the dignity of a response (nor the free publicity), good for you, Anthony, to expose such filth — hopefully, it will serve as a wake-up call for all of us rational, healthy-hearted, Americans to remain vigilant.
(Annotated for clarity)
We support equality — who doesn’t?
we support equal rights — who doesn’t?
we support a woman’s right to her own body killing the unborn.
we support DACA — entering/remaining in the U.S. illegally, i.e., breaking the law.
we support universal health care handing over the healthcare industry to the government.
we support gay people in any [p]lace they live. — who doesn’t (given, the “support” asked for doesn’t violate one’s religious creed, including the non-M u s l I m religiously devout)?
We welcome all races, all religions, all countries of origin, all genders — who doesn’t [so long as they come in legally AND from countries where terror1sts are properly vetted before leaving? — Is Saudi Arabia on that list? Turkey? Egypt? Morocco? Indonesia?…. lots of M u s l I m s in those countries, Ms. Lewis]
and we not only STAND with you, we kneel with you as well. …. — In other words: you hate the country [yes, most of us LOVE this country and are offended by the “kneeling” disrespect] where you can run your own business and you hate the police officers who protect your little business from theft and yourself from harm
and all those who died for that flag you refuse to honor …..
In short: you are ignorant. As most hate-filled people are.

Reply to  Janice Moore
October 5, 2017 4:41 pm

100% Janice.

Janice Moore
Reply to  hollybirtwistle
October 5, 2017 5:42 pm

Thanks, Holly! 🙂

tom0mason
Reply to  Janice Moore
October 5, 2017 6:08 pm

Janice Moore, well said!
So much better than my attempt below.

Janice Moore
Reply to  tom0mason
October 5, 2017 6:59 pm

NOT so much better, Tom M.! (see my comment below)
And, thank you, so much, for the kind compliment.

Twobob
October 5, 2017 4:11 pm

Sad!

October 5, 2017 4:16 pm

Modern American liberalism.
It’s as close to mental illness as you can get.

C Thornhill
October 5, 2017 4:24 pm

No one should even enter Rouse & Revolt Store where they display clothes that depicts COP KILLERs, Only a real SICK person that owns this store should be run out of town. We do not need this HATE in Chico.

TA
Reply to  C Thornhill
October 5, 2017 11:18 pm

It should be renamed the Hate, Rouse & Revolt Store. That’s what they are selling: Hate.

D. J. Hawkins
October 5, 2017 4:34 pm

Unfortunately it appears that Chico Electric, on the adjoining board, was an innocent bystander taken down in the cross fire.

Janice Moore
Reply to  D. J. Hawkins
October 5, 2017 5:48 pm

That was a great observation, D.J.. I was inspired by your keen and kindhearted eyes to go find an image of what appeared to be a hard-working, innocent, local business entrepreneur and post it toward the top of this thread to make up for it but, NO WAY! I discovered that C.E. is a solar sc@mmer! In this case, good riddance and GOOD collateral damage.

Paul Penrose
Reply to  D. J. Hawkins
October 6, 2017 10:47 am

I noticed that too. Perhaps Chico Electric was so sickened by having their advert next to that R&R garbage, that they demanded it be taken down too. If I were them, I would have pulled all my advertising from that company. Forever.

SMC
October 5, 2017 4:41 pm

It’s the People Republic of California. What do you expect?
Mr. Watts, You should move away from the PRCa. You’ll be persecuted soon, if things keep going the way they are.

NW sage
October 5, 2017 4:47 pm

If this billboard isn’t hate speech – and thus not subject to first amendment protection – I don’t know what is.

Germinio
Reply to  NW sage
October 5, 2017 5:13 pm

My understanding (and I am not a constitutional lawyer) is that hate speech is protected under the first amendment. As is anything except incitement to immediate violence.

TonyL
Reply to  NW sage
October 5, 2017 5:19 pm

The First Amendment does *not* have a “hate speech” exemption.
There are very good reasons for that.
If you do not defend all speech, you are not for free speech at all.

TA
Reply to  TonyL
October 5, 2017 11:25 pm

“If you do not defend all speech, you are not for free speech at all.”
In order to prevent hate speech, someone has to define what hate speech is, and that someone’s definition may not coincide with other people’s definition.
So how do we decide who makes this choice? Easy, we don’t let anyone make this choice. Instead, we counter what we consider to be hate speech with more speech, not with censorship.

MarkW
Reply to  NW sage
October 6, 2017 7:03 am

Leftists tend to define anything they disagree with as hate speech. Because they get angry whenever they hear it.

drednicolson
Reply to  MarkW
October 6, 2017 6:39 pm

Anything anyone says can be “hate speech”, if the listener chooses to feel hated.

October 5, 2017 4:51 pm

Scum.

GregK
October 5, 2017 4:52 pm

Was it in very bad taste ?
Yes
Did it attract attention to the store?
Yes
Did it increase sales in its target market?
I don’t know but suspect that it did

Reply to  GregK
October 5, 2017 4:56 pm

Two views:
There is no bad publicity
And
The Barbara Streisand effect is not a good thing

Mike Brown
October 5, 2017 4:57 pm

Our Constitutional Republic may very well be in the greatest danger of our short history. If Americans don’t stand up and vote the establishment out in 2018 we may lose our Constitutional Republic to the Liberal Marxist Democrats. What scares me most is that I don’t see Americans getting the message. Antifacists, Planned Parenthood, Resist, Black Lives Matter, Progressives Today, and another 200 to 300 groups across America are gearing up for more violent demonstrations! http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/10/04/loyola-marymount-professor-says-violent-protests-are-productive/
Please Wake Up America!!

paqyfelyc
Reply to  Mike Brown
October 6, 2017 2:28 am

getting violent do not get you support, it weaken your case. Antifa are just another bunch of fascists and people scorn them, like BLM (who actually don’t care about black lives, or any life at all).

F. Leghorn
Reply to  paqyfelyc
October 6, 2017 5:26 am

The “blm” just said “liberalism is codespeak for white supremacy “. They are at war with themselves. This is either going to be tragic or hilarious. Or both.

TA
Reply to  paqyfelyc
October 6, 2017 9:27 am

Any mass violence by these radical Leftists will be met with an enormous backlash. The radical Leftists haven’t quite pushed things far enough, but if they do, the American people and the Trump administration are not going to stand for it. It will be put down hard.

F. Leghorn
Reply to  Mike Brown
October 6, 2017 5:22 am

And vote out the liberal republicans. In other words most of the incumbents.

TA
Reply to  F. Leghorn
October 6, 2017 9:32 am

“And vote out the liberal republicans.”
Yes, I think this should be a major focus of Trump and Trump’s supporters. Let’s get rid of the RINOs and replace them with solid conservatives who will support Trump’s agenda. 2018 is just around the corner.
Liberal Senate Republicans are the fly in the ointment. With just a few more Republican votes, Trump would be pushing his whole agenda through. Instead, the House has sent 285 bills to the Senate where they languish, with no vote, because the Republican Senate is disfunctional.

Michael Jankowski
October 5, 2017 4:59 pm

New headline: “Rising CO2 levels and climate change cause store to advertise cop-killing t-shirts.”

paqyfelyc
Reply to  Michael Jankowski
October 6, 2017 2:29 am

LOL

October 5, 2017 5:01 pm

LMAO WUWT
..
This site used to be about science and climate.

Now, instead of the comments being ruled by Godwin’s law, the posted articles are.

Sweet Old Bob
Reply to  Robert Kernodle
October 5, 2017 5:24 pm

Your sense of “humor” is strange …..

Frederic
Reply to  Robert Kernodle
October 5, 2017 11:11 pm

There is no Godwin’s “law”. The Godwin’s law is a rhetoric ploy used by the left to hide the fact that H.tler is a socialist and is the founder of the Nazional Socialist party.

MarkW
Reply to  Robert Kernodle
October 6, 2017 7:09 am

It really does amaze me how bent out of shape some people get whenever the discussion turns to a subject they don’t want to talk about.
In the last week we’ve had 20 or 30 hard core science articles, and one where the author wanted to talk about something that upset him greatly.
And from that you conclude that we no longer talk about science.
Sheesh, grow up.

Latitude
October 5, 2017 5:02 pm

…and democrats are now talking about what’s wrong with Obamacare

ZThomm
Reply to  Latitude
October 6, 2017 10:25 am

… it’s not single payer?

MarkW
Reply to  Latitude
October 6, 2017 5:22 pm

It’s not subsidized enough.

J.H.
October 5, 2017 5:38 pm

The level of hatred leveled towards Trump, conservatives and skeptics is nothing less than frightening. It’s always been bad, but since Donald Trump was elected President… It has gone up in orders of magnitude.
The Left feel that they are entitled to hate openly. There is no civility or attempt at dialog from them. It’s just an outpouring of hatred by one side of politics.
They really need to wake up to themselves.

Janice Moore
Reply to  J.H.
October 5, 2017 6:19 pm

Those loudmouth, ignorant, coarse-talking, haters, are doing our country a big favor.
For, thanks to them, many die-hard, lifelong, Democrats are quietly voting against their party. They will not be as vocal about it as Ronald Reagan, but, those “Democrats” can now see (and hear) that their party has left them.

TheLastDemocrat
Reply to  Janice Moore
October 5, 2017 8:27 pm

Yup.
If Republicans weren’t stumbling all over themselves trying to be globalists while trying to be American, they could waltz in and win everything.

MarkW
Reply to  Janice Moore
October 6, 2017 7:11 am

I read an article recently that Antifa (a misnomer if ever there was one) is calling for open rebellion with the intention of over throwing the government of the US.
They have even picked a date Nov. 4, for the revolution to start.
Part of me hopes that they are dumb enough to actually try this. It will discredit the left for another generation.

TA
Reply to  J.H.
October 6, 2017 9:40 am

“It’s always been bad, but since Donald Trump was elected President… It has gone up in orders of magnitude.”
If Trump were a quiet little thing like G.W. Bush, and did not fight back against the lies of the MSM, then Trump would only get the standard trashing by the MSM, but Trump is calling the MSM out as liars and Fake News, and he is hurting their credibilty (or rather, the MSM are hurting their own credibility, and Trump is just pointing it out), so the MSM has a viseral hate for Trump and see him as a direct threat to them, which he is, so they attack him mercilessly, using any and all means they can muster and lies and distortions are part of their arsenal (th most part).
I saw a poll the other day that showed that the MSM’s coverage of Trump has been 95 percent negative. They hate him. They hate all Republicans, but most Republicans go away meekly when the MSM criticizes them. They definitely don’t want to confront the MSM. Trump is a different kind of animal. No “meekly” for him.

Paul Penrose
Reply to  TA
October 6, 2017 11:01 am

Most people are afraid of being called names like “bigot” or “racist”. That is why so many are silent while BLM, antifa, and their ilk spread their message of hate and intolerance. But I refuse to back down to these bullies; I won’t be cowed into silence. I can take insults. They are not bullets after all.

RAH
Reply to  TA
October 6, 2017 11:15 am
Reply to  TA
October 6, 2017 12:38 pm

At least some action is taken sometimes.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/10/02/top-cbs-lawyer-no-sympathy-for-vegas-vics-probably-republicans.html
But if she hadn’t gone so public, she’d still be a CBS VP.

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