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‘Only white people worry about this’: Alleged BLM supporters defend sickening torture of frightened raccoon

On the same night that former President Barack Hussein Obama spoke at the Democrat National Convention in defense of so-called “peaceful” Black Lives Matter “protesters,” a number of alleged BLM extremists rushed to defend a group of street hoodlums who’d been recorded beating and torturing a raccoon to death.

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The video appeared to show a motorist deliberately running over a raccoon and then bat-wielding hoodlums beating the raccoon to death.

The video first appeared because of a Twitter user named “Lil Raco” who shared the video to his account and added the caption, “Raccoon VS The Block.”

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After backlash erupted, he deleted the tweet and began claiming that he hadn’t witnessed the raccoon be killed. To hear him tell it, he’d found the original video elsewhere and then “screen recorded” it for...

A senior advisor to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said Chinese dictator Mao Zedong was one of her “favorite political philosophers” during a speech to graduating high schoolers in 2009.

Anita Dunn, who was temporarily granted effective control of Biden’s campaign in February and now serves as a senior advisor, said Mao and Mother Teresa were “the two people that I turn to most” when she needs to encourage others to break from the mold and blaze their own trail in life.

“In 1947, when Mao Zedong was being challenged within his own party on his plan to basically take China over … the nationalist Chinese held the cities, they had the army, they had the air force, they had everything on their side,” Dunn told the audience. “And people said how could you win? How could you do this?”

“And Mao Zedong said, ‘You fight your war and I’ll fight mine,'” Dunn said. “Think about that for a second. You don’t have to accept the definition of how to do things, and you don’t have to follow other people’s choices and paths. You fight your own war, you lay out your own path.”

Dunn was serving as acting White House Communications Director under former President Barack Obama when she was recorded making the comments about Mao. Dunn announced her resignation from her post in November 2019, less than a month after former Fox News host Glenn Beck first reported her comments.

Mao’s Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of an estimated 45 million Chinese people from 1958 to 1962, earning him the dubious distinction of being one of the biggest mass murderers in recorded human history.

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Tires That Are Made In The Good Ole U.S.A. Or Alternatives To Goodyear:

Best Tires

By Mike / Home Goods / May 29, 2020

Finding the right tire for your car can be tough, and even tougher to know where it’s coming from. We did the research to help ease that research and decision making process, finding the tire manufacturers who are making the best tires right here in the USA. Below are our findings, along with information on how to know where a tire is from, deeper details on our top picks, and some information on foreign tire makers that have U.S. facilities. Happy hunting!

How to Spot Tires Made in the USA

Luckily, identifying whether a tire is made in the USA or not is relatively easy to spot – designating the place of manufacturing on the tire itself is required! You can identify where a tire is manufactured by looking at the DOT (Department of Transportation) code on the side of the tire. After the letters “DOT”, you’ll see the Tire Identification Number (TIN), which has a few components in it (see the graphic). The first ID number after the letters “DOT” identifies the manufacturing plant that the tire came from. We’ve listed those IDs for the American facilities of various tire manufacturers below so you know how to spot American made tires! If you want to look up any other plant codes, Tire Safety Group has a comprehensive list with all codes listed, so you can check that out. The rest of the DOT string identifies tire size, manufacturer, and production date.

Our Findings

Overall, there are really just two major American manufacturers who are still producing most of their tires in the USA: Cooper and BLM Supporting MAGA hating ~~Goodyear~~. Underneath them, they have several subsidiary brands that they have acquired over the years (some of which we will cover). There are also a good number of small tire makers that are producing awesome products in specialty markets like off-road and street competitions. We’ll go over all of this and more! Below is a quick look at our top recommendations.

Top Recommendations

Best Tires	Headquarters
Cooper Tires	Findlay, OH
Mickey Thompson	Stow, OH
Dick Cepek	Stow, OH

Dunlop Tires	Akron, OH
Nitto Tires	Cypress, CA
Carlisle	Scottsdale, AZ

For when you need to change your tire, check out our recommendations on the best jacks made in the USA. Other related reading: best sound deadening materials made in the USA.

The Best American Tire Manufacturers: Going Deeper

Below is a deeper look into the manufacturers that are producing some of the highest quality tires in America. We included a little bit about what types of tires they specialize in, some of our favorite models, and DOT codes so you can spot what American plants their tires are coming from.

Cooper Tires

Cooper Tires was founded in Akron, Ohio in 1914 and continues to make many of their tires across a few different plants in the states. They produce tires for a wide variety of (mostly) passenger vehicles, including a series that they call “Discoverer” for SUVs and pickups that we really like. For other products made in this great state, check out our made in Ohio guide.

DOT codes for Cooper’s American plants:

3D – Albany, Georgia
U9 – Tupelo, Mississippi
UP – Findlay, Ohio
UT – Texarkana, Arkansas

Here are our top picks for our favorite Cooper Tires made in the USA:

Cooper Zeon LTZ – SUVs and CUVs, All Season
Cooper Discoverer A/T3 – SUVs/CUVs and Trucks, All Season
Cooper Discoverer H/T Plus – SUVs and CUVs, All Season
Cooper Discoverer S/T Maxx – Trucks, All Season
Cooper Discoverer SRX – SUVs and CUVs, All Season
Cooper Discoverer STT Pro – Trucks, All Season (More Rugged)

Mickey Thompson

Mickey Thompson is a subsidiary of Cooper Tires that specializes in high performance tires for street racing and off-road use. They’ve always been about catering their products to automotive enthusiasts, and the quality of their tires and attention to detail really shows it. In particular, we really like their off-road truck tires that they call their “Baja” series.

Here are some of their truck tires that are made in the U.S.:

Mickey Thompson Deegan 38 – Long wearing radial, all terrain
Mickey Thompson Baja ATZP3 – hybrid all terrain
Mickey Thompson Baja MTZP3 – premium mud terrain
Mickey Thompson Baja Claw TTC – ultra aggressive bias belted

Dick Cepek

Dick Cepek is another subsidiary of Cooper Tires, also specializing in off-road truck tires. They were founded in 1958 by Dick Cepek himself, a huge off-road enthusiast who came up with the idea to make his own tires when he couldn’t find any reliable ones to perform well in extreme environments. Their approach is simple – they only produce three types of tires, but they make them well and have various sizes and adaptations to each style to fit your car or truck.

Here are the Dick Cepek truck tires that are made in the USA:

Dick Cepek Fun Country – hybrid all terrain
Dick Cepek Trail Country – all terrain
Dick Cepek Extreme Country – mud terrain

Nitto Tires

Nitto is a relatively smaller tire brand that is making some amazing tires out of their factory in California. Their engineers are testing everything from road noise reduction to new advancements in polymer tread compounds. They focus primarily on producing high performance tires for trucks to go off-road and racing tires for street competitions. We love a couple of their heavy duty tires in the Grappler series along with some of their high performance street tires in the NT555 and Motivo.

Here are some of our top picks for Nitto tires made in the USA:

Nitto NT555 G2 – summer ultra high performance tire
Nitto Motivo – all season ultra high performance tire
Nitto Exo Grappler AWT – heavy duty all terrain tire
Nitto Ridge Grappler – hybrid terrain light truck tire

Carlisle

Carlisle primarily makes tires for the agriculture, farming, and outdoor communities – and they are very good at it. We are particularly impressed by their trailer tire (link below), which is 100% made in America and offers very good protection and durability.

Carlisle trailer tire:

Carlisle USA Trail

Recap: Best Tires Made in the USA

Cooper Tires – Findlay, OH
Mickey Thompson – Stow, OH
Dick Cepek – Stow, OH
Dunlop Tires – Akron, OH
Nitto Tires – Cypress, CA
Carlisle – Scottsdale, AZ

Foreign Tire Brands with U.S. Facilities

Michelin

Michelin is a French company that is making tires worldwide, and starting doing so in the U.S. in 1950. They have a particularly big production presence in South Carolina.

Here are their U.S. DOT codes:

4M, M3 – Greenville, South Carolina
B6 – Spartanburg, South Carolina
B7 – Dothan, Alabama
B9 – Lexington, South Carolina

Some of their subsidiaries that they have acquired over the years include companies like: BFGoodrich, Kleber, Kormoran, Riken, Tigar, and Uniroyal.

Continental

Continental hails from Germany and got started all the way back in 1871. They didn’t start exploring in the U.S. until more than 100 years later when they bought General Tire & Rubber Company in 1987. Since then, they have put down some roots in the U.S.

Here are the Continental U.S. DOT codes that you can look for:

6B, A3 – Vernon, Illinois
A9 – Bryan, Ohio
AC – Charlotte, North Carolina
AD – Mayfield, Kentucky
VY – South Sumter, South Carolina

Pirelli

Pirelli is a double whammy – they are an Italian manufacturer and are owned by a Chinese company called ChemChina. They have a huge footprint across the globe (facilities in 13 countries) and also maintain a few production facilities in the U.S.

Here are the Pirelli U.S. DOT codes to look for on their tires:

CH – Hanford, California
CK – Madison, Tennessee
JR – Rome, Georgia

Dunlop Tires

Dunlop was founded in England in the late 1800’s and is owned by Goodyear. They primarily focus on selling their tires in North America, Australia/New Zealand, and Europe.

Bridgestone

Bridgestone comes from Japan, the largest tire manufacturer in that country. They produce all kinds of tires, everything from motorcycles to commercial trucks and passenger vehicles. They expanded into the U.S. in the late 1960’s and have invested heavily in production facilities here.

U.S. DOT codes for Bridgestone tires:

0B, W2, Y2 – Wilson, North Carolina
1C, HY – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2C, 4D, 5D – Morrison, Tennessee
2M, 3M – Bloomington, Illinois
7X, 8X, 9X – Graniteville, South Carolina
8B, VE, YE, YU – Des Moines, Iowa
D2, E3, W1, Y7 – Lavergne, Tennessee
YD – Decatur, Illinois

Yokohama

Yokohama is another Japan-based tire manufacturer who is a little less present in the U.S. with only one known manufacturing facility here in Salem, Virginia (DOT code is CC). Similar to Bridgestone, they expanded to America in the late 1960’s.