Posts on Friday, June 12, 2020
While some truly impressive and legitimate discussions have been coming out of the recent racial turmoil, one sector that has repeatedly proven itself utterly useless is the entertainment sector. (snip)
Their sincerity might have been real, but it was no less of a thoughtless knee-jerk reaction than anything else we’ve seen these past few weeks. Case in point: Lady A(ntebellum) did not even check to see if someone else might be creating under that name. In fact, it turns out someone does create under that name.
And she is a black woman.
And she is not impressed.
Mayor Martin Walsh is declaring racism a public health crisis and is aiming to transfer $12 million from the police overtime budget to help put his order in motion immediately. Walsh said Friday there is a “new urgency” to erase racism in the city and added Boston’s budget for the coming year will reallocate roughly 20% of the police OT allotment to programs for youth and other needs. That will start with $3 million for the Boston Public Health Commission. A new task force, chaired by former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Wayne Budd, will also review police force policies and equity issues in the department.
The white liberal protesters weren’t expecting this!
A group of dumb Black Lives Matter protesters, mostly guilty white liberals, shut down an intersection for what the media would call a “peaceful protest.”
This is getting really old. Infringing on another person’s rights is not a “peaceful protest” it is thuggery.
And that is what these leftists are getting away with in America today.
The liberal media mob cheers them.
But they stopped the wrong woman.
Annanashe got out of her car and started screaming at the leftists to get out of her way.
A new poll has found that black Americans overwhelmingly oppose rioters’ demands of defunding the police.
The YouGov/HuffPost poll found that most Americans do want police reform, such as banning chokeholds, but defunding the police was the least popular policy they asked about.
“Self-described liberals support defunding the police by a 13-point margin,” HuffPost reported. “But nearly every other ideological and demographic group opposes it. Democrats and Democratic leaners oppose it by a 4-percentage point margin, and Black Americans oppose it by a 20-point margin.”
They found that while about a quarter of black Americans support defunding the police, 49 percent oppose the idea.
The CEOs of two of the world’s biggest social media platforms are attacking President Donald Trump anew as they angle to censor some of his comments and ‘fact-check’ his responses.Snapchat chief Evan Spiegel is defending his platform’s actions to limit the reach of the president’s content by actually invoking the First Amendment’s free speech guarantee while urging other platforms to do the same.Spiegel, who heads up Snapchat and Bitmoji, made his remarks during an interview with Bloomberg News that was published Thursday. They come after Twitter started fact-checking President Trump’s tweets last month, referencing cherry-picked articles to support the claim that he’s been dishonest.“The government is explicitly threatening
The Trump administration on Friday finalized a regulation that defines gender as a person’s biological sex, reversing an Obama-era rule aimed at protecting transgender people against sex discrimination in health care.
The Health and Human Services Department regulation says essentially that “gender identity” is not protected under federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in health care. The policy shift was long sought by religious and social conservatives. The Obama administration’s regulation defined gender as a person’s internal sense of being male, female, neither or a combination.(Snip) LGBTQ groups say explicit protections are needed for people seeking sex-reassignment treatment, and even for transgender
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio brushed off criticism from current and former city officials in proclaiming that his is the “strongest mayoralty” in the United States.“This is the strongest mayoralty in the country, in every sense, and the strongest city in the country, in every sense, and we can persevere through all sorts of challenges and we will. So I’m quite confident in what we can do in the next year and a half,” de Blasio said Friday during his daily press briefing.The bold statement comes after some of his own staff blasted publicly in letters as well as with an unprecedented march across the Brooklyn Bridge
President Donald Trump sought to brush aside fears he might not leave office willingly if November’s election doesn’t go his way.“Certainly, if I don't win, I don't win,” he told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner in an interview that aired Friday. If he doesn’t win the election, Trump continued, “you go on, do other things.”Though the president has never given any serious indication that he might not leave office if he were to lose reelection, his comments aired Friday appear to be the first time he has publicly committed to doing so.Still, he told Faulker that if he loses, “I think it would be a very bad thing for our country.”
Abolitionist Monuments Defaced By ‘Anti
Racism’ Rioters Is What Teaching Fake
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Racism’ Rioters Is What Teaching Fake
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The imagery couldn’t be more direct. Across the nation, rioting and unrest that has killed black Americans and destroyed black neighborhoods has included the defacement of historic monuments, including those to abolitionists.The last wave of monument destruction, in 2017, largely focused on Confederates and slave holders, erasing all the accomplishments of figures such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson with a scarlet S, for slave-holder. This time, the ignorance has descended even further. The rioters are now tearing down and defacing memorials wantonly, apparently assuming that if someone is being celebrated that person is “probably a racist,” as the image below says.
Seattle, Washington’s, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) is demanding that all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States be granted American citizenship using Seattle Police Department funding.CHAZ, formed by anarchists, Antifa members, and Black Lives Matter activists, has released a list of demands that would shift Seattle Police Department funding away from policing resources and towards providing naturalization ceremonies to all illegal aliens.Officials for CHAZ also said illegal aliens must be called “undocumented” because “no person is illegal.” The demands include: We demand that the funding previously used for Seattle Police be redirected into:
The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously voted a resolution to replace the police with a ‘community-led public safety system.’Get out while you can!The radical left is pushing to “defund the police” following the death of George Floyd. By “defund the police,” the left means replacing the police with Sharia patrol, Black Panthers, La Raza and other anti-Christian, anti-white social justice enforcers.Reuters reported: The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously passed a resolution to pursue a community-led public safety system to replace the police department following the death of George Floyd
Some prominent U.S. businesses are giving workers June 19 as a paid day off, a gesture to recognize the liberation of slaves during the Civil War. Twitter, Nike and the NFL announced this week they would observe Juneteenth – the day 155 years ago that African-Americans in Texas learned they were free from slavery. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said Tuesday that Juneteenth will be "a day for celebration, education and connection" at the company. Dorsey's other company, mobile payment provider Square, also will make Juneteenth a paid company holiday, he said. Nike CEO John Donahoe said Thursday that recognizing Juneteenth is
Amazon is reportedly considering removing the immensely popular 1970s series “The Dukes of Hazzard” from its streaming library as it reviews its content offerings in the wake of racial tensions and protests happening throughout the US. The TV series ran on CBS for seven seasons from 1979 until 1985. It follows the adventures of Bo and Luke Duke, who create mischief in their fictional small town of Hazzard County, Ga. The show has been criticized over the years, specifically for the boys’ well-known car, The General Lee, which is emblazoned with a confederate flag on the roof.(Snip) In 2015, TV Land pulled
General David Petraeus wrote an impassioned article in the Atlantic this week about the need to change the names of military bases that for over a century have been named after Confederate generals and to recalibrate iconic remembrances such as statues commemorating Robert E. Lee at West Point — points of reference he reminds us that have been central in his own experience and career. (Snip)Again, is this moment really the proper time to begin renaming bases and removing statues? We are in a middle of a national frenzy and chaos, in which such major decisions won’t always be done systematically and carefully to heal rather than further to inflame
Senate Democrats are warning former Vice President Joe Biden against releasing a list of potential Supreme Court picks.
Then-candidate Trump, in 2016, released a list of names he said he would pick from to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, and Biden is facing calls from activists on both the right and left to do the same.
But several Democratic senators are warning Biden, who previously chaired the Judiciary Committee, against doing so.
Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the No. 2 Senate Democrat and a member of the panel, told The Hill that Biden should not emulate Trump, who broke political norms with his list.
A Manhattan judge set free an alleged looter charged with bashing a cop’s head open with a glass bong swiped amid violent protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, The Post has learned. The move marked at least the second time that Judge Laurie Peterson has overruled prosecutors and released a defendant without bail—which in the earlier case allegedly led to a pair of unprovoked slashings by the psycho who got sprung.(Snip) When a cop grabbed one of the crooks, Bullock—who has a rap sheet listing 23 prior arrests—hit the officer in the back of the head
A Plague of White Submissiveness
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A strange thing happened on Saturday in Carey, North Carolina. During Black Lives Matter demonstrations, a group of white people, including police officers, cleaned the feet of black religious leaders and protest organizers, while offering a prayer repenting for the sins inflicted on black people. (Snip)
All that, you might say, over the murder of George Floyd? Yes, and there’s a lot more, including the purging of the past.
“Activists and organizers and people who are part of these racial-justice movements, including young white people, recognize that we can’t change policing in America until we change the culture of America, and the culture of America has been deeply steeped in white supremacist
Walker Percy, Love In The Ruins:
Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines and the question came to me: has it happened at last?
Two more hours should tell the story. One way or the other. Either I am right and a catastrophe will occur, or it won’t and I’m crazy. In either case the outlook is not so good.
The protesters who created an “autonomous zone” in Seattle have hijacked the Black Lives Matter message, according to a community council that works to foster relationships between black residents and police in the city.
The group, the African American Community Advisory Council, visited the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone on Thursday — and were booed by the crowd there when they voiced support for black police officers, KOMO News reported.
“Black lives do matter but there are also black lives that are police lives,” one woman from the group said, according to the report. “They feel the same way that you do.”
Judge says court may have picked 'intemperate'
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One of the judges on the panel overseeing an appeal to force Judge Emmet Sullivan to let the Department of Justice (DOJ) drop its prosecution against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn said Friday that the court might have appointed an "intemperate amicus" to oppose the DOJ.
It was an apparent swipe at outside counsel John Gleeson, who wrote a lengthy 73-page brief this week opposing the DOJ's motion to dismiss the Flynn case, in which he said the government's arguments "are riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact" and "are not credible as the real reasons for the dismissal of a criminal charge."
Will The DC Circuit Court Order Sullivan
To Dismiss The Flynn Case? It All Comes
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To Dismiss The Flynn Case? It All Comes
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Over the course of nearly two hours, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals quizzed attorneys for Michael Flynn, the Department of Justice, and Judge Emmet Sullivan. The questions posed during oral argument suggest the court is hesitant to order Sullivan to dismiss the criminal case against Flynn — at least at this time. How the court will rule, however, likely rests in the hands of Judge Karen Henderson.(Snip)
Here’s why, along with some other key highlights.(Snip)
One key area of inquiry concerned the power of a federal judge to question federal prosecutors on their motive for seeking dismissal. What is the “leave of court” standard? Rao asked,
Abuse and inequality—at the hands of American law enforcement—comes in all forms.
The death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer has been condemned broadly—by everyone from the Republican president and leaders of both parties to Americans of every color, religion, and partisan affiliation.
The nation now is engulfed in a heated and inarguably dangerous debate about “systemic racism.” Every aspect of the nation’s law enforcement apparatus, activists insist, is the framework that enables this alleged travesty.
(Snip) Democrats, led by the forked-tongue Schiff, have spent the past three years defending, even justifying, unprecedented abuses by the nation’s top law enforcement chiefs related to their targeting of Donald Trump, his associates,
Loretta Lynch to advise probe of NYPD over Floyd protests. New York, which was set on fire, looted, and vandalized has brought in Loretta Lynch, former AG under Obama in case you forgot, will be investigating police behavior during the protests/crime sprees. New York city doesn’t have bail so all the criminals who were caught destroying the city have long been released. They’ll never come back, but the cops do not have that luxury. As the defund police movement plows along, there won’t be any police left to defund because people will and are leaving the police forces. Why would they stay?
DNI John Ratcliffe has declassified the Appendix to the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA). [Source Document Here] The appendix known as “Annex A” was the material the FBI and CIA did not include in the body of the ICA; however, it was used to brief congress. [NOTE: the document quality/clarity is very poor as released]
There was always suspicion that “Annex A” was the ridiculous claims by FBI source Christopher Steele; those suspicions are confirmed today. The ICA was written in late December ’16 & early January 2017, and the purpose was to politicize intelligence by making outlandish claims of the Trump-Russia conspiracy the official position of the U.S
After the May, 2020, killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, fire and vandalism swept the nation and the world. Those participating in riots alleged that America and Western culture were stained with white supremacy. Violence would even the score and purify the land. My liberal Facebook friends insisted to me, "It's just property. Insurance will pay for it all. It will be replaced." In fact it wasn't just property; human beings, including African Americans, have died in these riots. I posted photographs of the victims. My liberal friends did not pause to type a word of mourning or second thoughts about the price of civil unrest.
The official business part of the RNC convention will still take place in Charlotte, North Carolina, presumably still August 24-27, with a limit of only six delegates per state permitted. The RNC already said the 2020 RNC platform will remain unchanged from the 2016 version. However, the fun events typically associated with conventions, such as Mr. Trump’s acceptance of the nomination, will now be held in Jacksonville, Florida.According to the New York Times the acceptance speech and event will take place August 27th at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, which holds 15,000 people. However, a note of caution… there is no official announcement of the Jacksonville date(s)
Put this in the ‘things that make other things make sense‘ file….
Some smart sleuthing by Raheem Kassam and Natalie Winters at The National Pulse shows the donations made to Black Lives Matter actually go to ActBlue. From there ActBlue takes those contributions and sends them forward to the Joe Biden Campaign.(Snip)This means donations to Black Lives Matter are actually the primary funding mechanism for Joe Biden 2020; and that explains why national democrats (Pelosi) and the DNC have changed their position on BLM as an activist organization, and now embrace them openly.
The financial arrangement also further solidifies the purpose for BLM (Obama/Holder) to align with the AME Church network
On Wednesday, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded that Confederate statues on the U.S. Capitol be removed, she failed to mention that her father had overseen the dedication of the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument while he was Baltimore’s mayor in 1948.
This was not a fact that was lost on actor and outspoken conservative James Woods, who shared a story from Breitbart about Pelosi’s omission that simply included the hashtag “#Awkward.”
Longview, Wash.—A 70-year-old man convicted of multiple child sex offenses died Friday in a Washington state prison after he was beaten by multiple inmates. The Daily News reported that Robert Munger was serving his 43-year prison sentence at Airway Heights Corrections Center in Spokane County when he was attacked. Department of Corrections spokesperson Janelle Guthrie said he died at a medical facility in the area. Guthrie declined to comment further. The case is under investigation. Guthrie says an autopsy was requested and a critical incident review of his death is underway. No further information was provided.
The owner of the vacant Sheraton Minneapolis Midtown Hotel opened its doors last week as a sanctuary for people trying to avoid the Black Lives Matter riots, to include left-wing activists and the homeless.The hotel, which was heavily damaged during the riots, quickly became a homeless commune and community organizers launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise well over $100,000, with carloads of other donations pouring in, the Star Tribune reported.But those who took refuge, reportedly over 200 people, are now being kicked to the curb as they’ve turned the hotel into a shantytown
Retired generals who denounced Trump
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could be recalled to active duty and
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Retired four-star military officers who lambasted President Trump could be recalled to active duty and prosecuted for violating the U.S. Code, military law experts told Just the News.
“Retired officers can't make contemptuous remarks of the commander-in-chief,” said John Dowd, a former Marine Corps Judge Advocate and former Trump legal advisor. “They’re all subject to recall. They’re subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice until they die.”
The pertinent law is Title 10 of the U.S. Code, Section 888, the experts said.
“As part of the UCMJ, governing military law, you cannot use contemptuous words against certain officials, including the president,”
A new poll released Friday showed that 55% of Democrats approve of calls by the Black Lives Matter movement to “defund the police” — though 64% of the country as a whole opposes the idea.ABC News reported:
Strong majorities of Americans oppose the movement to “defund the police” and some of its most significant goals, specifically reshuffling funding away from law enforcement to support mental health, housing and education programs, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday finds. Nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose calls for defunding police departments, compared to 34% who back the movement,
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot blasted an unnamed city council member for “illegally” recording a phone call between the mayor and a number of the city’s aldermen over ongoing riots and unrest that destroyed hundreds of Chicago businesses and left some of the city’s wards helpless.The mayor and Alderman Raymond Lopez, who represents areas on the city’s south and near west sides, got into a profane exchange of words on the call, with Lopez accusing Lightfoot of using police resources to protect downtown stores from looting while leaving poorer and residential neighborhoods to fend for themselves, according to local media. “It’s not something you ignore.
Political and corporate support for Black Lives Matter has become ubiquitous over the past week. Everyone’s email inbox is bulging with messages of support from corporate sponsors, every website is covered with Black Lives Matter logos, and the group has benefited from numerous fundraisers and charity sales. But, many people might not realize that Black Lives Matter is a distinct political organization, not just a slogan or social media hashtag, and it has both enormous funding and a wide-ranging political agenda.(Snip)BLM’s history page proudly salutes the radical causes built into its DNA since its 2013 founding, including “liberation” politics and transgenderism.
In fact, BLM thinks other black civil rights movements aren’t
Ricky Gervais Shreds Celebrities
Who Put Out Cringeworthy
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Who Put Out Cringeworthy
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Comedian Ricky Gervais openly mocked celebrities after a group of them released an anti-racism PSA that makes current issues in America all about them.
The PSA (seen below) will actually make you feel physically uncomfortable watching it as Hollywood’s best and brightest put their white guilt on display for the world to see.
The two-minute video features celebrities vowing to “take responsibility” for a host of things they feel have contributed to racism in America.
“Every not-so-funny joke, every unfair stereotype,” actor Justin Theroux laments.
Racially charged jokes are going to be eliminated. There goes the career of Chris Rock. Start burning tapes of Richard Pryor.
A date for reopening New Jersey malls has not been announced by Gov. Phil Murphy and a group of mayors is pressing him on why. The mayors of Bridgewater, Elizabeth, Paramus, Wayne and Woodbridge sent a letter to Murphy this week requesting a quicker reopening of malls in their towns. “Willowbrook Mall is the largest taxpayer in our community and having them closed for so long is hurting our economy severely,” Wayne Mayor Chris Vergano said in the letter. All of the mayors said the economic impact from the closings is substantial. “We have been unable to collect revenue associated with our profit sharing
Politics as Religion After George
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What are you really seeing as Americans kneel, hands raised in secular prayer, repeating political creeds on the TV news? And that secular foot-washing?
You're witness to neo-Marxist appropriation of Christian symbolism, in the aftermath of the horrifying Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.
And now, the priests of the secularist left separate the biblical sheep from the goats on the basis of skin color.
Floyd, an African American, was killed by a white cop who has been charged with murder. Most, if not all, Americans were disgusted at that cop's knee on Floyd's neck. And most Americans, of all races, still express grief, seek common understanding, and push for long overdue reforms.
Wokism's Cult Following
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When statues are toppled it’s because the topplers are making room for their own monuments. Every revolution is driven not only by the desire to tear down but also to replace the old world with the new. ‘Defunding the police,’ we are now told, does not mean defunding the police, but shifting the money to a new public safety agency, which will almost certainly lead to a politicized if not a political police. Even banning Gone with the Wind is preparatory to more. No political movement ever bans just one book. That coming new world will be inconceivably different from anything familiar. It has to be
Two people were killed and eight others, including an 11-year-old boy, were wounded by gunfire Thursday across Chicago.The latest fatal shooting happened Thursday morning in Englewood on the South Side.Two men, 19 and 22, were sitting in a vehicle about 11:50 a.m. in the 1000 block of West 71st Street when a red-colored truck pulled up and someone inside fired shots, Chicago police said. The pair in the vehicle drove off, and were later found by police at 81st Street and Loomis Boulevard.The 19-year-old, shot in the face and neck, died at the scene, police said.
The Republican National Committee announced Thursday that Jacksonville, Fla., has been selected to host President Donald Trump's re-nomination celebration after North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper told the committee it could not hold a full-scale event due to coronavirus restrictions.
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel announced that the committee voted unanimously to allow "official business" at the convention to be held in Charlotte, N.C., but that Trump will give his acceptance speech at the 15,000-seat VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in the sunshine state."We are thrilled to celebrate this momentous occasion in the great city of Jacksonville," McDaniel said in a statement. "Not only does Florida hold a special place in President Trump's heart
Live Stream: Oral Arguments in the General
Flynn Case Live This Morning—Starting
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Flynn Case Live This Morning—Starting
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On Tuesday General Flynn Attorney Sidney Powell informed his supporters the oral argument in his ongoing case will be live-streamed on the DC Circuit YouTube channel.The hearing will take place at 9:30 AM Eastern Time on Friday morning, June 12, 2020.** Here is a link to the DC Circuit YouTube page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a15exlPAA3U
Starbucks to allow baristas to wear Black Lives
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Starbucks said Friday that the chain would allow workers to wear attire and accessories highlighting the Black Lives Matter movement, reversing its prior stance after social media users called for boycotts of the company. Buzzfeed first reported on Wednesday that the coffee chain would not allow its employees to wear Black Lives Matter clothing or accessories, and management justified the decision by saying that such items could be misunderstood and incite violence. While Starbucks has a policy against wearing personal, political or religious clothing or accessories, workers told Buzzfeed that the company hands out buttons and attire celebrating LGBTQ rights
Free Citizens Do Not Kneel
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In the last couple of weeks we have witnessed people, most of them white, kneeling before black protestors and activists as a supposed gesture of repentance for their crimes of “white privilege” and tolerating “systemic racism.” The kneeling penitents include not just ordinary people, but police officers, National Guardsmen, and, in a shocking self-debasement of the world’s greatest democratic republic, a gaggle of House Representatives adorned with “culturally appropriated” African kente cloth scarves. White progressive racial masochism is nothing new; Tom Wolfe skewered it brilliantly nearly a half century ago in essays like “Mau-Mauing the Flak-Catchers.” But the current manifestation is more significant and dangerous. It has taken place
Will Joe Biden remain caged in his basement for the rest of the campaign, speaking only via edited video performances? There is a strong argument for his puppet masters to do so, given his inability to maintain mental focus and coherence, even at the price of refusing to participate in the presidential debates that have been customary since Kennedy met Nixon in a Chicago TV studio in 1962.
As I wrote almost a week ago, Biden’s sad mental decline cannot be concealed if he is liberated from his confinement. Yesterday, his handlers must have quickly regretted letting him out
Authorities in Florida have released disturbing surveillance video showing the moment hundreds of looters broke into a closed Walmart and stole more than $100,000 worth of merchandise. The incident took place on the night of May 30 during George Floyd protests in Tampa and the surrounding areas. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office on Thursday issued a plea to the public seeking help with identifying the looters who ransacked the Walmart at 2701 East Fletcher Ave. in Tampa.(Snip) The recording shows waves of raiders, some wearing face coverings, others not, racing through the aisles and grabbing merchandise, mostly electronics, including big-screen televisions.
The Problem with George Will
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George Will's a funny guy. He is willing to aid our ideological foes for our own good. He will teach us how wrong we've been to support President Trump by facilitating Marxist socialism's stranglehold on what's left of America's Constitution. After fighting for Democrats to win everything this November, he will turn around and help us rebuild a Republican Party in his image for the miserable decades to come.
When we voted for Donald Trump in 2016, weren't we rebelling against not only Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, but also the shriveled and putrid corpse of a Grand Old Party that had long since given up being grand
Strong majorities of Americans oppose the movement to "defund the police" and some of its most significant goals, specifically reshuffling funding away from law enforcement to support mental health, housing and education programs, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday finds. Nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose calls for defunding police departments, compared to 34% who back the movement, and 60% specifically oppose reducing the budget for police to reallocate it to other public health and social programs, while 39% support that move. But black Americans land differently on the issue, though not overwhelmingly so.
A majority of black Americans
The BBC slipped up during news coverage of George Floyd’s funeral with an image of another George Floyd used to illustrate the black man killed in Minneapolis police custody last month. BBC News’ mistake came late on Tuesday night as it reported on the funeral service for the 46-year-old Houston native that had taken place in his hometown, some hours earlier. Viewers on the BBC News channel were shown an image of the former New York Jets American footballer George Floyd, instead of the man whose death has sparked demonstrations against racism and police brutality around the world. A BBC
The two destabilizing events recently occurring back-to-back, the response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, and the George Floyd rioting, illustrate well how America is now institutionally incapable of making decisions in her own best interests. That is, the overreaction to the disease and under-reaction to the rioting reflect a country long demoralized.
Moreover, if that’s not troubling enough, know that this is a state of being that usually leads to tyranny. (snip) You may recognize “demoralization” and “destabilization” as the first two steps in the process of communist subversion, explained well by late Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB agent who fled to Canada in 1970.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Thursday expressed support for removing the names of Confederate figures from at least some U.S. military bases. Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, Romney said he would support a measure to rename military bases honoring confederate leaders “in some cases.” When asked about President Trump’s blanket opposition to renaming bases, he replied: that’s “not where I’d be.”
Those of us who thought higher education could do little damage while it was shut down were sadly mistaken.
As Antifa-led demonstrators burned and looted American cities in the wake of the tragic murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis cop, academia, like the rest of the American Left, never let a crisis go to waste, even one they helped engender.
“Fittingly, the ideological handmaiden of this violence — academia — has already sprung into action,” Heather Mac Donald wrote in City Journal on May 31, 2020. “The chancellors and presidents of Harvard, the University of Arizona, the University of Pennsylvania, and
Several prominent liberal groups are joining the push by some Democrats to expand the Supreme Court to eleven justices, a move designed to eliminate the Court’s current 5-4 conservative majority.
An open letter signed by several organizations backs a plan to expand the Court to eleven members:
The activist conservatives who control the Supreme Court are poised to trample existing rights, from reproductive freedom to LGBTQ rights — and to block any significant progressive legislation in the future on urgent crises from climate change to health care to gun safety.
The Real Reform We Require
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The current inflamed condition of political debate presents opportunities as great as its challenges. (Snip) After imposing reforms on police treatment of suspects, and providing for special relief for those who suffered severe economic loss because of the inability of American urban police to protect thousands of business establishments from being trashed and torched, the next priority should be a comprehensive reform of American criminal law.
It has been intensely irritating to hear commentators regularly refer to the American legal system as “the envy of the world,” and make the claim that 99 percent of the membership of the FBI and less exalted police forces are entirely admirable people.
Empirical and anecdotal evidence shows that Antifa is, in fact, highly networked, well-funded and has a global presence. It has a flat organizational structure with dozens and possibly hundreds of local groups.
Antifa's stated long-term objective, both in America and abroad, is to establish a communist world order. In the United States, Antifa's immediate aim is to bring about the demise of the Trump administration
It’s no longer big news that Black Lives Matter, Antifa, anarchists, sex offenders, and criminal opportunists seized a six-block area in Seattle’s chi-chi Capitol Hill district. The same people who protested against Trump’s walls built walls around their Utopian paradise, the gun haters armed themselves, and the ones decrying identification at elections demand identification for anyone seeking to enter the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (or CHAZ). Most mayors would be horrified, but not Jenny Durkan. She likes it.
The U.S. Army under President Barack Obama turned down the suggestion in 2015 of renaming military bases that had been named for Confederate generals.The idea emerged in the wake of the mass shooting at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in which a white supremacist murdered nine black parishioners. In the aftermath, the state government removed the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the state capitol, noting its history as a symbol of division.However, the Obama administration rejected the idea of renaming military bases named for Confederate bases, noting that many of the names had been adopted as symbols of reconciliation between North and South after
A statue of Christopher Columbus was beheaded by protesters on Thursday as the city tried to remove the monument from a park in Camden, New Jersey.The city of Camden said the statue in Farnham Park has “long pained residents of the community” and attempted to remove the structure on Thursday evening in advance of a planned protest at the site, according to Philadelphia’s CBS3.But as city workers tried to remove the monument, demonstrators lopped off its head and hoisted it into the air before placing it on the statue’s base.“Christopher Columbus to us, as Black Americans, represents a privatizer, a colonizer,
It is widely known that our betters say it’s OK to protest in massive groups despite the risk of coronavirus transmission, but small gatherings not in support of Black Lives Matter are still unacceptable. Now we’re told that it’s also fine for protests to turn violent as long as it happens for the “right” reason. Imagine, though, the howling that would have pierced our ears had there been a whiff of violence started by the protesters whose only demand was to be set free of the pandemic lockdowns.
Watching these developments, including the conquest of a chunk of Seattle by
Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell, the former companion of deceased sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein, are asking a federal judge to keep a batch of court records under seal, arguing that public interest in the documents is outweighed by privacy considerations and the potential impact a release of the documents could have on an ongoing criminal investigation into alleged accomplices of Epstein.
"Ms. Maxwell ... is aware that investigations surrounding the alleged conduct of Mr. Epstein survive his death. It is unclear who are witnesses or targets of any investigation," Maxwell's attorney, Jeffrey Pagliuca, wrote Wednesday in a filing objecting to unsealing certain documents. "The sealed testimony or summaries
Stacey Abrams, the less-than-graceful loser of Georgia’s 2018 Democratic gubernatorial election, took a few hours off from her embarrassing bid to become Joe Biden’s running mate to accuse the Peach State’s leadership of voter suppression. She has appeared on various talking-head shows and claims the Georgia Secretary of State was guilty of “malfeasance.” Abrams provided no evidence to support this charge, of course, other than the presence of long lines at the polls in urban counties, where elections inevitably devolve into utter chaos pursuant to the incompetence of their Democratic election officials. Abrams inevitably insisted the root problem was Republican skulduggery.
Last Friday's stunning jobs report revealed the economy is roaring back under the leadership of President Trump, much to the misery of Joe Biden and the Washington political establishment.
The economy added 2.5 million jobs in May, the largest one-month gain in our nation's history. There’s still much work to be done, but Trump’s strong economic policy before and during the coronavirus pandemic ensures the economy will bounce back greater than ever.
Before the pandemic artificially shut down the economy, Trump’s policies led to a historic low unemployment rate and steady wage growth.
A group of activists sued Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser this week over her decision to paint “Black Lives Matter” down two blocks of 16th Street, which leads to the White House, saying she violated the First Amendment and showed favoritism to “the Black Lives Matter cult orthodoxy.”
The lawsuit, filed in federal court on Wednesday, complained Ms. Bowser’s move, as well as her decision to rename a nearby street “Black Lives Matter Plaza,” came at the taxpayers’ expense but showed a preference for one faith — or belief — over others.
The main argument in the 51-page complaint filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
There are seminal moments in American history that test every fiber of our nation’s soul.
We are facing one now. Revolutionary forces are causing every American citizen to question which direction the country is heading. To determine the outcome, we must examine our nation’s history to project ourselves forward into the future.
Once again, tyranny and treachery are in our midst, and although we feel we’ve descended into a hellish state of existence, we must never forget, hell is conquerable.
Prayer is the greatest weapon and a consciousness of God is the ultimate “thought of the day.”
False Prophets
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America is reeling. Before we could emerge from the fog of Covid-19, we were thrust into the saga of the George Floyd killing and the subsequent unrest. When events like this play out before a nation on video, raw emotion can erupt. In this case, it was amplified by shelter-in-place orders, massive unemployment claims, and small businesses teetering on extinction.
Over the past two weeks, we have seen peaceful protests, but also looting, businesses torched, attacks on police, and the desecration of some of the nation’s most revered memorials. All of this is numbing. Recently, I thought that I had finally turned the corner on my anger
Joe Biden has expressed confidence and even excitement at the prospect of debating Donald Trump, saying he can “hardly wait” and that he’s “looking forward to it.”
I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that Biden’s campaign is actually quite terrified at the prospect of Biden facing Trump on a debate stage.
Just check out this clip of Joe Biden in Philadelphia on Thursday, looking extremely presidential with a face mask hanging off his left ear, speaking during a roundtable event on reopening the economy:
Yesterday, I pointed out that the annual number of homicides in Baltimore was around 215 in the five years before the left and the Obama administration undermined the police force there following the death of Freddy Gray. In the five years since, the average number of homicides per year is around 335.
That’s 625 excess deaths.
How many of the lives lost were black lives? To me it doesn’t matter. Black lives and white lives are of equal value. However, the racial breakdown should matter to the BlackLivesMatter movement.
According to this article in the Baltimore Sun, nearly all of Baltimore’s homicide victims in 2019 were black.
In 1969, New York mayoral candidate Mario Procaccino went after his rival, the movie-star-good-looking incumbent John Lindsay, by deriding him and his supporters as “limousine liberals” — people who, in the words of a Procaccino campaign memo, “preach the politics of confrontation and condone violent upheaval in society because they are not touched by it and are protected by their courtiers, doormen and private police guards.”
Procaccino’s sound bite immortalized one of the more enraging figures in modern US society — the preachy, self-righteous, anti-capitalist but conveniently rich and socially prominent person who decries American injustice and gives lip service to the need for radical change
The COVID Skeptics Were Right
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When Alex Berenson, the former New York Times reporter, said that people will look back on the coronavirus lockdown as a “colossal mistake,” many scoffed. But with each passing day, as the failures of government at every level become clearer, Berenson and other COVID skeptics look increasingly perceptive. The governmental cure was worse than the disease.
“What I think is that people took a very, very aggressive action a month ago without necessarily thinking through what the economic or societal consequences were going to be,” Berenson said to the press in April. “Now more and more evidence is coming out that we responded too harshly, that maybe we should
Joe Biden is reaching heights that Hillary Clinton never did this late in the campaign against Donald Trump. The former vice president holds a significant national lead of around 10 points and is over 50% support.
Yet a look at recent polls suggests Trump is outperforming where he was four years ago with a key part of the Democratic coalition: Hispanics. This could have implications for what electoral strategy Biden may need to take into the fall if he is to beat the President.
Clinton crushed Trump with Hispanic registered voters in the final 2016 preelection polls. She led by 61% to 23%.
All right, this time they’ve gone too far.
As part of a sweeping reassessment of all things either favorable to the police or upsetting to the black community, the latest target is “Paw Patrol.”
That’s right. No less an authority than the New York Times informs us that the Nick Jr. cartoon--featuring a squad of canines running around helping other creatures--is too positive toward the cops.
After the show tweeted an appeal for black voices to be heard, the commenters started growling: “Defund the paw patrol.” “Euthanize the police dog.” “All dogs go to heaven, except the class traitors in the Paw Patrol.”
The Post Millennial editor-at-large Andy Ngo told "The Story" Thursday that it was "hard for me to overstate the anarchy that is on the streets" of Seattle following the establishment of an "autonomous zone" by anti-police protesters in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood earlier this week.
"You have here a group of several hundred people who have laid siege to a territory and have claimed it as a separate political entity from the United States," Ngo told host Martha MacCallum.
"And, aside from images of then dancing and having a good time, they also have people going around who are armed and acting as security, and also border checkpoints.
Black Lives Matter is a political advocacy group, “[f]ounded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer,” according to the group’s website. Never mind that the George Zimmerman trial was a complete fraud, as Joel Gilbert brilliantly explained in his recent book and movie, “The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America.”
BLM is a self-described global network, which explains why protests and riots sprang up seemingly spontaneously all over the world after George Floyd’s death. Starting in Minneapolis, protests quickly spread to far off locales including New Zealand, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.
On their website, BLM states that they, “practice empathy.”
The recent turmoil that has gripped our nation in the form of riots, looting, arson, and other criminal acts is another reason why President Trump will be re-elected in a landslide. When you look across our country and see masked marauders beating store-owners unmercifully because they were trying to save their businesses, and there are no cops in sight to protect them, you know that liberals are in charge in those places.
When you see news clips of rioters roaming through commercial districts in large cities, ripping down storefronts, pillaging the contents, and running off with flat-screen TVs on their shoulders,
Media and the leftist code
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Go ahead and make it official: Senator Tom Cotton is the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner.
In driving the staff of the New York Times positively batty (including woke hostage victim and executive editor Dean Baquet), Cotton singlehandedly threw a wrench into the workings of America's premier liberal institution. Not since making rubble bounce in Baghdad as a captain in the 101st Airborne has Cotton kindled so much chaos in the heart of an enemy.
In using his senatorial status and martial background to endorse the deployment of the National Guard to quell citywide rioting, Cotton effected a veritable coup, toppling James Bennet, the editorial page editor.
Trump is no racist
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Yesterday, I was asked by a friend: "What are President Trump's chances in getting re-elected? Do you think he could overcome the racial stigma from the black community?"
Many have been convinced that African-Americans, holding a demographic and political leverage — of the estimated 330 million Americans, 12.7% of them are of African origin — will make the difference in Donald Trump's defeat by Joe Biden in November. Trump's classification as a racist — if any recent U.S. president was a racist, it was Barack Hussein Obama, who had been formed by his personal friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright;
"El Nuevo Metodo de Votar." The year was 1993. Control of the Pennsylvania state Senate turned on a special election in Philadelphia. Although the district was heavily Democratic, the Republican was running a strong campaign, with organized labor and minority support. In desperation, the Democratic machine's operatives descended on the District to steal the election by manipulating Latino voters into signing absentee ballot applications, falsely claiming a "new method of voting" — voting absentee for convenience — then illegal in Pennsylvania if one could go to the polls. Democratic city election officials then illegally provided the ballots to the operatives directly —
London Mayor Sadiq Khan last night ordered workers to board up the Cenotaph, Winston Churchill's statue in Parliament Square and a host of other iconic monuments to protect them from damage ahead of another weekend of protests in the capital. Scaffolding sprung up around Churchill and the nearby Cenotaph late on Thursday evening after concerns they could yet again be targeted by Black Lives Matter activists.(Snip) It comes amid fears of a clash between Black Lives Matters activists and far-right thugs who have vowed to descend upon the city at the weekend to protect the statues. The covering of British historical monuments
A statue of worldwide Boy Scouts founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell will be “temporarily” removed in southern England amid topplings of controversial monuments, officials said. Amid the surging worldwide anti-racism movement, Baden-Powell, who served in the British Army, founded the Scouting movement in 1908 and died in 1941 at age 83, has been accused of racism, homophobia and support for Adolf Hitler. Officials in the southern seaside town of Poole said the statue would be under 24-hour guard until it can be transported to a secure location.
“We acknowledge the differing views of the life activities of Baden-Powell
The nearly two-day manhunt for the man who shot several officers and allegedly killed a homeless man ended the way it began — with gunfire. The suspected shooter, Mason James Lira, 26, of Monterey, was shot dead near the Salinas riverbed east of the Highway 101 and Highway 46 West interchange on the south end of Paso Robles at approximately 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, June 11. The handguns he used in his shooting spree were found next to his body. “I’m glad this is finally over,” said Paso Robles Police Department Police Chief (snip). “It’s been really a tough go.” A CHP officer and Kings County Sheriff’s Office deputy were
Police in the city of Paso Robles on California's Central Coast say 26-year-old Mason Lira is dead after shooting several law enforcement officers in the last few days. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office says Lira was killed Thursday by officers who were searching for him as part of a massive manhunt involving hundreds of law enforcement officers from different agencies. Authorities say Lira shot a homeless man to death and over the course of that day and the next, wounded four officers, including a deputy, Blake Bursiaga, from Kings County. The series of events began on Wednesday, when Lira allegedly opened fire at the Paso Robles Police headquarters.
This is the Democrat Party leader and the likely nominee for President of the United States.
Joe Biden today told a crowd of supporters that George Floyd’s death was bigger than the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Joe Biden: “Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” (Tweet/Video)