Posts on Sunday, June 21, 2020
‘Come on, Jake’: Peter Navarro grows
tired of Tapper who won’t let go of
Trump’s Covid testing quip replies
tired of Tapper who won’t let go of
Trump’s Covid testing quip replies
CNN political commentator Jake Tapper invited White House trade adviser Peter Navarro onto “State of the Union” this Sunday to talk about the president’s joke about how he’d asked his people to “slow the [coronavirus] testing down.”During President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa the night before, he’d specifically pointed out that increased coronavirus testing means increased coronavirus cases, and then joked about it by saying, “So I said to my people slow the testing down.”It was obviously a joke, but Tapper didn’t understand that. Big surprise.Watch the relevant part of the discussion below: (Tweet/Video)
‘Stunning’: Barr hits establishment media
for ‘bovine silence’ on collapsed
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for ‘bovine silence’ on collapsed
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Attorney General William Barr hit the establishment media in an interview aired Sunday for what he called its “bovine silence” regarding the debunked narrative of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.In an interview on “Fox Sunday Futures,” Barr also asserted that the various government investigations into the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Kremlin were the “closest we have come to an organized effort to push a president out of office” since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.Barr has long questioned the FBI’s decision to open a counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign in July 2016. He appointed John Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut,
The American Museum of Natural History will remove a prominent statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its entrance after years of objections that it symbolizes colonial expansion and racial discrimination, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday. The bronze statue that has stood at the museum's Central Park West entrance since 1940 depicts Roosevelt on horseback with a Native American man and an African man standing next to the horse. 'The American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior,' de Blasio said in a written statement.
DUBAI - Iran is considering making it mandatory within days to wear masks in public places and covered spaces, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday, as the tally of confirmed coronavirus cases continued to rise above 200,000. "Mainly for crowded and covered areas...we may make (masks) compulsory in a week, more or less. But first plenty of inexpensive masks should be made available for the people," Rouhani said in remarks broadcast by state television. Daily death rates for most of this week have exceeded 100 for the first time in two months, an uptick blamed by officials on the lack of
A community college professor in Oakland, Calif., is on administrative leave after asking a Vietnamese-American student to “Anglicize” her name because he felt it sounded “offensive” in English. In a Wednesday night email exchange that was quickly shared to tens of thousands on social media, Matthew Hubbard, a professor in the Laney College mathematics department, repeatedly asked the student, Phuc Bui Diem Nguyen, to “Anglicize” her name because it “sounds like an insult in English.” In response, Ms. Nguyen told the professor that his request “feels discriminatory” and that she would file a complaint with the school’s Title IX office
Amid protests, Chicago's streets turned violent.
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'Defund the police' critics say it's a warning replies
CHICAGO — Over Memorial Day weekend, Chicago experienced its most violent day in 60 years, with 18 people killed and more than 45 others shot in 24 hours. The tragic weekend, which occurred in the midst of massive citywide protests against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, was quickly seized on by several critics of the "defund the police" movement, who used the shootings as an example of what would happen if police budgets and manpower are cut. "It is beyond comprehension that Democrats' response to this trend would be to reduce police protection," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas
Years ago when institutions had more credibility skepticism was met with the phrase “Would your government lie to you?” Afterward when the 60s established that Uncle Sam told fibs the Watergate generation found a new source of truth: “Would the media lie to you?” Events since, from the Dan Rather document fiasco to the scandalous off-and-on-again prohibitions on public rallies, have convinced many the media is no better than the US government at telling the truth. “You can’t say, ‘Listen to the science and keep your churches at 25 percent occupancy and socially distance your choir singers,’ and then say,
This was the most informative interview on the attempted deep state coup of President Trump to date. Attorney General Bill Barr joined Maria Bartiromo this morning on Sunday Morning Futures.(Photo) AG Barr went on to say “people are looking at” the period before the Papadopoulos conversation in a London wine bar. In other words, the DOJ is looking at the planning stages of the Trump-Russia attempted coup. AG Bill Barr: First of all, I agree with you that it’s been stunning that all we’ve gotten from the mainstream media is bovine silence in the face of the complete collapse of the Russiagate scandal.
President Donald Trump mocked Joe Biden’s campaign Friday by posting a picture of a nearly empty hall and stating that the former Vice President’s ‘rally’ had ‘zero enthusiasm’.
Trump shared a picture on Twitter of the Democratic candidate’s campaign event in Philadelphia earlier on Friday in which social distancing measures were taken to space out attendees.
‘Joe Biden’s rally. ZERO enthusiasm!’ he wrote.
Trump’s criticism came as crowds gathered - both fans and protesters - ahead of his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, (Snip)
President Donald Trump mocked Joe Biden’s campaign Friday by posting a picture of a nearly empty hall and stating that the former Vice President’s ‘rally’ had ‘zero enthusiasm’.
Trump 2020 Campaign Manager Brad Parscale on Sunday berated the media for savaging the campaign’s small crowd size in Tulsa on Saturday, despite boasting a million campaign ticket requests beforehand.“For the media to now celebrate the fear that they helped create is disgusting but typical,” Parscale wrote in a lengthy statement to reporters. “And it makes us wonder why we bother credentialing media for events when they don’t do their full jobs as professionals.”
Corporate media organizations had a field day after only about 6,000 supporters attended President Trump’s rally, failing to fill the BOK Center stadium and left the planned overflow areas empty. Parscale blamed the media’s negative reporting
Democrat Leaders to Remove Iconic Teddy
Roosevelt Statue outside NYC Museum
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Roosevelt Statue outside NYC Museum
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They won’t stop til they crush the system.In August 2017 far left protesters demanded the New York Museum of Natural History remove their famous Teddy Roosevelt statue. The protesters carried signs that read “Black Lives Matter” and “Abolish white supremacy.” (Tweet) On Sunday The New York Times announced liberal leaders agreed to take down the iconic Roosevelt statue outside the Museum of Natural History.Democrat city leaders agreed to its removal.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) announced his committee will be launching an investigation into US Attorney General Bill Barr’s firing of SDNY US Attorney Geoffrey Berman.
Barr on Friday fired Mueller hack and US Attorney Geoffrey Berman and nominated Jay Clayton to replace him.
The crooked attorney refused to step down and released a statement of his own, which Barr referred to as a ‘public spectacle.’
Berman’s office was the lead in several high profile cases assembled by Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann. [Video]
Nadler accused Barr of ‘caring little about the law’ in a statement on Saturday and asserted that Berman’s firing “smacks of corruption and incompetence”
First, they came for the Confederates...
Now that they've toppled Robert E. Lee, and various lesser emblems of the Old South, they're going after far more important targets, and worse still, getting away with it.
Is it too extreme to compare the mass destruction of the public monuments and faces adorning cities across the U.S. to the monstrous dynamic that propelled the Nazis to kill? Yes, it's far from the same degree, but the underlying dynamic of what's happening is the same - a spiraling vortex of outrage, which being unchecked, eventually hits home.
Three of the latest from San Francisco, are purest Taliban,
Rally Recap: Massive Trump Crowds Inside
and Outside Tulsa BOK Center — 6.7 Million
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and Outside Tulsa BOK Center — 6.7 Million
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The liberal mainstream media can’t get their talking points straight.
They want to condemn President Trump for holding such a large rally during the coronavirus pandemic.
They also want to lie to Americans that it was a failure and no one showed up.
It must be very difficult being the fake news media these days.
Last night President Trump held his first campaign rally since the coronavirus lockdown in early March.
Over one million people signed up to attend the event.
The media said it was failure and no one came.
It was as if they were reporting on a Joe Biden rally! [Video]
For almost 50 years, the country has been debating the enactment of state and local gay rights laws. Protections for gays and lesbians have been passed(Snip)Recently, the debate has been extended to include transgender rights as well, (Snip)
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court, in a 6-3 opinion written by President Trump’s first appointee, Justice Neil Gorsuch, held that this entire debate and all of those laws arrived at through debate and deliberation have been totally unnecessary. Why? Because, whaddaya know? We’ve already had a federal gay rights law, and a federal transgender rights law to boot, on the books for 56 years!
“The spines of thousands are
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There was a natural inclination, when colleagues and others at Cornell Law School twisted and distorted my words to try to isolate me and damage my reputation, to think it was about me.(Snip)Once I went public with what was happening, and the isolation ended, it didn’t take long for me to realize that it’s not about me.(Snip)This evolution in my thinking was captured in an email from a Combat Tactics Instructor Pilot, accompanied by the iconic image from Tiananmen Square. He heard about what what happening and sent his email of support, followed up with this note:
A plane protesting NASCAR's ban on the Confederate flag flew over Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama Sunday, just hours before fans returned to the track. Images of the aircraft flying the banned symbol were shared widely on social media. Inside the track the ban seems to have been so far observed. The plane pulled a message which read: 'Defund NASCAR', a reference to protesters pushing to 'defund the police' over the death of George Floyd and other black Americans killed by law enforcement. On the ground protests also saw a caravan of cars fly them up to the track's entrance. Footage shared online showed dozens
Forney, Texas—An East Texas family is not happy about the ‘brand changing’ of a popular pancake syrup: Aunt Jemima. The iconic “Aunt Jemima” has long-standing ties with the city of Hawkins, and a goodwill ambassador named “Lillian Richard.” Living in Forney, Vera Harris is the family historian for the Richard family of Hawkins, and could hardly believe a big part of their family legacy, the “Aunt Jemima” brand, was about to be erased from supermarket shelves.(Snip) “I wish we would take a breath and not just get rid of everything. because good or bad, it is our history. Removing that wipes away
Greta Thunberg says the world needs to learn the lessons of coronavirus and treat climate change with similar urgency. That means the world acting "with necessary force", the Swedish climate activist says in an exclusive interview with BBC News. She doesn't think any "green recovery plan" will solve the crisis alone. And she says the world is now passing a "social tipping point" on climate and issues such as Black Lives Matter. Corrections*
According to Joe Biden, the basement candidate for president, ending “systemic racism” in the United States is “the moral obligation of our time.”
Too late, Joe! Systemic racism in the United States ended with the Union victory in the Civil War. Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. On June 19 of that year, Union General Gordon Granger announced in Galveston, Texas, that all slaves in the state were free—Texas being that last state to comply with the Emancipation Proclamation. That is the date that the latest Kwanzaa-like manufactured racialist holiday, “Juneteenth,” is intended to celebrate and that Joe’s minders intended to capitalize on by writing “Juneteenth: A
After top Democrats gloated that teenage activists had sabotaged turnout at President Trump’s Tulsa, Okla., rally on Saturday, the Trump campaign fired back within hours, saying that media organizations are complicit in spreading false narratives about the event -- and that protesters and the coronavirus were the real culprits. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., specifically asserted that teenagers allegedly reserved scores of tickets for the Tulsa event online – then failed to show up, thus preventing others from being able to attend. "Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote to Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, referring to a popular Chinese video-sharing social media application.
New York City police are searching for a man in connection to the assault on a 73-year-old woman who was punched in the face while standing on a subway platform last week.
The incident happened around 7:15 p.m. on June 17 at the 174-175th Street station in the Bronx, police said.
The woman was waiting on the Manhattan-bound side of the platform when a man walked up to her and punched her in the side of her face before fleeing the station, police said.
He did not speak or have any interaction with the victim before the attack, according to police.
Nineteen police officers were injured during riots and looting in Stuttgart last night after checks over suspected drug dealing sparked a 500-strong revolt. Twenty-four people were arrested after gangs of thugs kicked officers, broke into shops, smashed up vehicles and marauded through the German city until the small hours of the morning. At least 500 were involved, with officials describing the carnage as 'completely out of control' and that it had devolved 'into real riots.'(Snip) Around 200 took up against the officers, hurling bottles and stones at them in the central Schlossplatz, an iconic parade ground which is bordered by lawns.
Some of the same sorts of far-left political figures who’d like to empower pimple-faced children with the power to vote erupted in teenage-like giddiness Saturday evening after word emerged that President Donald Trump had allegedly been pranked, tee-hee.“Social media was abuzz Saturday night with claims that President Trump opponents, many of them teenagers and K-Pop fans, guaranteed that hundreds, even thousands of seats for the Tulsa rally remained empty — by bulk ‘reserving’ tickets they had no intention of using,” the New York Post reported early Sunday.Dubbed “Zoomers” (a nickname for kids born in the late 1990s and early 2000s), these children allegedly gobbled up free Trump rally tickets
A homeless man has been arrested for sucker-punching a 73-year-old woman on a Bronx subway platform in an unprovoked attack that sent her to the hospital, cops said Sunday. Ahmed Kromah, 23, was arrested Saturday night for allegedly walloping the unassuming elderly victim on the Manhattan-bound platform at the 174-175th St. station in Mount Hope about 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, cops said. Kromah ran up to the lady without saying a word, punched her in the side of the head, and then fled the station, according to police. The victim was rushed to BronxCare Health System with pain and bruising
This story was first published on June 20, 2005.
A quarter-century ago, “The Blues Brothers” embraced Chicago as no other film has, before or since. The movie tapped directly into the heart of the city, harnessing its energy and will to get things done on a scale bigger than anywhere else. It exploited its sense of humor and willingness to laugh at itself.
In turn, Chicago opened its arms to the film in a way that seems unlikely now. The end result is a movie that established itself in the minds of many as one of the classic comedies — indeed movies — of all time.
A shooting on Capitol Hill early Saturday left one teenager dead, another person critically injured and raised new questions about the city’s capacity to provide emergency and medical services to the protest zone that has taken over the heart of the neighborhood for the last 12 days. (Snip) What does a neighborhood look like with no armed law enforcement? The answer, if nothing else, was peaceful. Graffiti abounded. So did camping and litter. The area sometimes felt more like a festival than a sit-in. But, after nearly two weeks of daily hostile standoffs between police and protesters, the tear gas
Biden campaign adviser weighs in
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Former Vice President Joe Biden's senior campaign adviser Symone Sanders dodged a question of why the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has not held a news conference in 80 days. (Snip) When asked a second time why Biden has not held a news conference in 80 days, Sanders said that Biden and his campaign "take pride in prioritizing local media." "And so the vice president is doing local media interviews, he's doing national media interviews, and he is taking questions from reporters," she said. Earlier in the interview, Sanders took President Trump to task for holding a campaign rally during the
Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo said Friday it is not possible to return to the red light quarantine restrictions that Ecuador maintained for more than two months. (Snip) “We believe we have mitigated the worst effects of the Covid outbreak and we must continue on the path of restoring our normal way of life.” (Snip) “We have not only suffered severe economic impacts, with at least 200,000 people losing their jobs, but there has been extreme social and psychological damage as well,” she said. “The number of women and children injured and killed in the past three months is at record levels.” Corrections*
Attorney General Bill Barr announced in an exclusive interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo that Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham's investigation of the Russia probe's origins will likely yield "developments" before summer is over, despite delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.(Snip)He also made it clear that Durham will continue after November's election, although he noted that "what happens after the election may depend on who wins the election."(Snip)Barr also came out against media outlets who have not given Russia-related developments the attention he believes they deserve.
A group of teenagers were surprised when they came outside their homes one afternoon last month for a “honk and wave” parade organized by Stockbridge residents celebrating their accomplishment, graduating from high school. The students are part of the Stockbridge Youth Council, and nearly all of them plan to attend a historically black college or university—including some in Georgia—this fall.“It was always a HBCU for me,” said Kyla Jordan, 18, who plans to attend Clark Atlanta University and fell in love with the campus after a visit.“ I just want to be surrounded by people who have the same heritage as me
On June 7, actor Terry Crews sent out a tweet in which he appeared to call out the idea of “black supremacy.”
“Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth. Like it or not, we are all in this together,” Crews tweeted.
For his tweet, Crews received significant backlash. Tyler James Williams, who co-starred with Crews on “Everybody Hates Chris” responded to the actor’s initial tweet, leading to the following reply from Crews: [Tweet]
On Tuesday, Crews appeared on “The Talk,” where he was asked about the tweet.
“I compare that tweet to cussing in church because what’s wild is you have the message,
Fugitive socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been hiding out in a sprawling Paris apartment close to Jeffrey Epstein’s $8.6million pedo pad, we can reveal. Maxwell, one of the world’s most wanted women, fled to France, where she was born, to avoid questioning in the US by the FBI over her links to the late disgraced billionaire. The 58-year-old, who vanished from public life in 2016, moved into her secret bolthole on Avenue Matignon, in Paris’s exclusive 8th Arrondissement, to remain undetected.(Snip) “She wants to remain in France for as long as she can to take advantage of extradition laws and has a huge network of contacts willing to keep her hidden.
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Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times explained why Juneteenth is so important to the Black Liberation Movement (or Black Lives Matter as it now calls itself). Juneteenth allows black intellectuals like him to divorce themselves from Lincoln's freeing of the slaves.
Lincoln is nettlesome to Bouie and others because having white people free the slaves makes it impossible to write off the entire white race. Indeed, 300,000 white boys from the North died to liberate 6 million people and make them American citizens.(Snip)Well, Bouie and his kind cannot have white boys dying for black men (Snip)
So he put his head in the sand and spun Juneteenth.
Tallahassee, Fla. — Motorists saw a startling scene Saturday morning as they drove along a Florida interstate: a mannequin dressed in a police uniform dangling from a rope at an overpass. Emergency crews in Jacksonville, Florida, were dispatched shortly after 6:20 a.m. to investigate a possible suicide. But when they got there, they discovered a mannequin hanging from an Interstate 95 overpass wearing a pig mask and dressed in what appeared to be a New York City police uniform. In a statement on Twitter, Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams called the incident “extremely disturbing.” He called it an attempt to stoke “anti-police sentiment
This video is buckets of priceless. During a Right Side Broadcast livestream interview of President Trump supporters at the Tulsa rally, RSBN journalist Liz Willis interviews Bruce Carter, a black Trump supporter.
During the interview Ms. Willis mentions the media, and that’s when Mr. Carter shares an example from moments before where CNN used him to create fake news. Carter says “but you just mentioned the news, so someone just sent me this clip with me on CNN sometime this morning”… Apparently CNN used a picture of Bruce Carter to frame an angry narrative that “Tulsa Braces For Clashes”. This is priceless. Well worth watching:
Flavortown. That’s what thousands of people want to rename Columbus, Ohio, according to a new petition posted on change.org. And the petition poster sounds serious.“Beloved Buckeyes one and all,” wrote someone identifying himself as Tyler Woodbridge. “Columbus is an amazing city, but one whose name is tarnished by the very name itself. Its namesake, Christopher Columbus, is in The Bad Place because of all his raping, slave trading, and genocide. That’s not exactly a proud legacy.”
CHICAGO-- Nine people have been killed, four of them minors, and 47 others have been wounded in shootings across Chicago so far on Father's Day weekend.A teenage girl, 2 teen boys and a 3-year-old are among the dead. A 27-year-old man was driving his 3-year-old son in the 600 block of North Central Avenue when a blue Honda pulled up and fired into their car just before 6:30 Saturday night, according to police.Police said the man was only grazed, but the 3-year-old was hit in the back and later died.The father drove the boy to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, police said, but the boy was pronounced dead
Irami Osei-Frampong, a University of Georgia graduate student and teaching assistant recently wrote that some white people may have to die before black communities will be made whole. Osei-Frampong made the comments on Facebook and says he’s confused on why his words are so contrersial.(Video) WSBTV reported: A University of Georgia graduate student is getting criticism for comments he wrote on Facebook.The man at the center of the controversy is Irami Osei-Frampong — a philosophy graduate student employed by the university as a teacher’s assistant.He speaks frequently about race and equality,
Why would CNN even bother going live on Saturday night for Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma? The network didn't plan to show the event. Instead, reporters spent two hours gloating over a lower crowd size and questioning Trump’s fitness to serve. After warning for a week about the health risk of attending the rally, Blitzer opened the show at 8 PM this way: “But in a surprising development, turnout for the event has been smaller than expected. The campaign is blaming protesters. The campaign is blaming the news media for the crowd size. Clearly, not a full house.”Reporter Ryan Nobles declared victory even before the speech had begun:
Tik-Tok and K-Pop users are claiming they reserved hundreds of tickets for Donald Trump’s Tulsa rally, never having any intention of showing up. The result was a half-empty arena in Tulsa for the president’s post-coronavirus restart of his campaign.
In fact, Twitter is alight this morning with reports that dozens of teens reserved thousands of rally tickets to sabotage the optics of Trump’s speech.
Trending on Twitter this morning is #EveryoneLaughingAtYouDonald and #TrumpRallyFail.
Democrats are worried their party unity is fraying five months out from the presidential election as several contested primaries pitting progressives against mainstream Democrats go down to the wire.
Some Democrats have begun pointing the finger at Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), saying he's been consumed with down ballot elections at the expense of promoting Biden's bid for the White House.
The Democrats, who are not affiliated with the Biden campaign, say Sanders needs to do more to make sure progressives fall in line behind Joe Biden in November.
For some people, the video of police officer Derek Chauvin callously kneeling on the neck of the unarmed, pleading George Floyd looked like many things. A travesty. A horror. A stark reminder of the brutality and injustice of American policing, and an urgent call to stand up, dig deep, and demand change.
But for the subjects of an article published in the Washington Post on Wednesday, the video prompted a different kind of deep digging.
‘Blackface incident at Post cartoonist’s 2018 Halloween party resurfaces amid protests’, reads the headline, a prelude to 3,000 words of groundbreaking work in the field of offense archaeology.
For his first three years of life, Izidor lived at the hospital.
The dark-eyed, black-haired boy, born June 20, 1980, had been abandoned when he was a few weeks old. The reason was obvious to anyone who bothered to look: His right leg was a bit deformed. After a bout of illness (probably polio), he had been tossed into a sea of abandoned infants in the Socialist Republic of Romania.
Gunmen unleashed a torrent of gunfire in a crowded Uptown block early Sunday in Minneapolis, killing one person and wounding 11 others in one of the city’s most violent shootings in recent memory.
Police said the 11 survivors were scattered at area hospitals with “various severity levels of injuries.” They said the victim who died was a man, but gave no other identifying details. All of the victims were adults. (snip) the 2900 block of Hennepin Avenue
On Father’s Day 2008, candidate Barack Obama made his most honest speech on race, maybe his only halfway honest speech on race. The media barely noticed.
The site was the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. From the pulpit Obama spoke to the gathered voters -- excuse me, congregants -- with uncharacteristic audacity. He reminded his audience that too many black fathers were missing from “too many homes.” He knew something of the phenomenon himself given that his father “left us when I was two years old.” Yes, that con again.
The contemporary political landscape is mired in a tsunami of bad ideas. Who would have ever anticipated that defunding police departments, emptying out prisons, eliminating cash bail, free health care, free college, looting as a legitimate form of social protest politics, among other screwball ideas would go mainstream? Socialism? How did views resting on blatant falsehoods jump from the academy’s ideological wet markets to the New York Times?
A full explanation must wait until passions cool, but in the meantime let me offer a personal account based on decades of university teaching where this nonsense initially metastasized from a few quirky campus ideas to a conquering idiocy.
One of the things conservatives notice whenever leftists flare up is that, subject to a few notable exceptions (Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Dan Crenshaw), our conservative politicians are cowardly. They never call out the leftists; instead, they simply try to soothe leftists' destructiveness while accepting their premises.
Thankfully, politicians are a minority amongst conservatives. Most conservatives are regular folks who live and breathe their principles – as is the case with a Hispanic vendor at the Tulsa rally who got harassed by a couple of white Black Lives Matter protesters
Opponents of President Donald Trump celebrated the fact that his rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night was only half-full, claiming credit for a TikTok prank that flooded the Trump campaign’s website with fake RSVPs.Trump supporters had camped out for several days in Tulsa, hoping to secure a place inside the 19,000-seat venue, after the campaign reported that over one million people had signed up for tickets. Campaign manager Brad Parscale touted the large numbers as a data-mining success, and an outdoor stage was set up for the president and vice president to address an expected overflow crowd.
I wanted to trust Dr. Anthony Fauci. I really did. Early in the pandemic, I took the advice of Dr. Drew Pinsky and listened to what he said. Maybe I listened too closely. Lockdowns leave a person a lot of free time, and a Google machine and keyboard are an excellent way to pass the time. This week on a Department of Health and Human Services podcast, Dr. Fauci made the following comment:
“One of the problems we face in the United States is that unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias that people are — for reasons that sometimes are …
Because of the number of diplomatic offices and residences in my neighborhood, the uniformed division of the U.S. Secret Service patrols much of this Ward (Ward 3). (Snip) You would think we have everything a person might need here: Safety, decent public and private schools, easy shopping, fine restaurants, lots of easy transportation options. But you’d be wrong. What we need is fewer virtue-signaling lawn signs and a greater appreciation of the blessings all Americans have.
As soon as the mayhem began in Minnesota, a number of houses on the next block sprouted commercially prepared lawn signs supporting Black Lives Matter.
Ancien Regime Change
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Ross Douthat’s column today centers on the decadence that has befallen the American system of government. Excerpts:
It might surprise contemporary Americans that for most of our history, what we call “culture war” debates — arguments about rights, social justice, the moral organization of society — were often settled through democratic deliberation, rather than the kind of ruling the Supreme Court just delivered on gay and transgender civil rights. Congress debated and passed laws. State legislatures did the same. Constitutional amendments were proposed, passed, ratified — and when necessary, repealed.
Geoffrey Berman on Saturday night agreed to step down as one of the nation’s most powerful U.S. Attorneys, ending a day-long power tug-of-war that stretched from his Manhattan headquarters to the White House and Justice Department in Washington.In a statement issued at 6 p.m., Berman said he would leave immediately, and turn control of the office over to his Deputy U.S. Attorney, Audrey Strauss.Berman credited his decision — which came after a day of refusing to step down — to Attorney General William Barr backtracking on his original demand that his successor be attorney and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton.
The Oldest Hatred Rears Its Head
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It's been more than two days now since the New York Times opinion page, policed closely by the paper's readers and employees for evidence of bigotry, published an op-ed that approvingly cites the black anti-Semitism explained away in a 50-year-old essay by the writer James Baldwin.
We've been waiting for the reference to spark some sort of backlash and outcry from the paper’s reporters, for the Twitter hashtag decrying the insensitivity, for the internal finger pointing about who dropped the ball and allowed the publication of a piece that could make American Jews feel so unsafe.
National Arm Of Black Lives Matter
Spent Millions On Travel And
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The national arm of Black Lives Matter spent millions on consultants, travel and compensation for its own staff between July 2017 and June 2019, according to audited financial statements prepared by its fiscal sponsor, Thousand Currents.
BLM Global Network spent $899,000 on travel, $1.6 million on consulting and $2.1 million on personnel costs during its 2017, 2018 and 2019 fiscal years, the financial statements show, together comprising 83.3% of its total spending during the three year period. BLM Global Network granted $328,000 to outside organizations, which include local BLM chapters, during that same time frame, a figure that represents about 6% of its total spending.
Welcome to the Power Line Autonomous Zone—or is it supposed to be Power Line Occupied Place (PLOP?) instead? I think I like PLOP better, but in any case we decline to be bound by the petty rules of conformity and rote confessional. PLOP is a sanctuary polis for common sense and good cheer.
“What Would Happen If Trump Refused to Leave Office?” That question is bruited in a headline the Atlantic issued a few months back. It’s been echoing around the Democratic press for months. The answer is that it would be an unsustainable constitutional affront. And what would happen were a United States federal prosecutor to refuse to leave office? We came awfully close to finding out this weekend.
The would-be runaway prosecutor was the United States attorney in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman. He was appointed in 2018 by the judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
John Bolton’s aspirations to publish 500 pages of what reportedly is a nonstop jeremiad against that fellow in the Oval Office faces a steep legal hurdle: the 1980 Supreme Court decision in Snepp v. United States. Frank Snepp was a CIA agent who spent 1968 in Vietnam, the year in which American weekly casualties peaked. In 1977 Snepp published a memoir of what must have been a most unhappy tour, even by the standards of wartime. Titled A Decent Interval, it ran some 600 pages. Its thesis, in a nutshell, was that America made an indecent exit from Vietnam, abandoning its allies, knowing that the North Vietnamese
T he political difference between the McCarthyism of the 1950s and the egalitarianism of the 1980s and now 1990s is that this time the enemies of free speech, dispassionate inquiry, and scholarly merit are within.”
—Aaron Wildavsky, founding dean, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley, in 1991-
Way back in the pre-Trump era of 2015, an anonymous academic published an article on the Vox website entitled “I’m a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me.” He wrote: “I wish there were a less blunt way to put this, but my students sometimes scare me—particularly the liberal ones. …
There is an old saying that if you don’t blow your own horn, there won’t be any music. Gov. Andrew Cuomo obviously is a believer, having ended his streak of 111 daily coronavirus briefings with another blast of praise for himself.
From March 2 until Friday, he held forth in marathon appearances that boosted his political ratings. Early on he hit an incredible 87 percent approval in the state and an April poll found that 56 percent of national Democrats wanted to dump Joe Biden and make Cuomo the presidential nominee.
That support reflected how skillfully the governor performed in front of the camera.
Almost as soon as the first marches to protest the killing of George Floyd began, in Minneapolis on May 26, conservatives and COVID contrarians seized on the rallies as a case study of liberal coronavirus hypocrisy. If the disease spread rapidly through the assembled protesters, they felt, it would show that those who’d spent the spring scolding Americans for resisting lockdowns didn’t care as much about public health as they did about advancing their own set of political values. (Liberals, of course, would put it differently: that the cause was worth the risk.) If there were relatively few new cases, the thinking went, it would demonstrate
A 19-year-old man is dead and another person has been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after an overnight shooting inside the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone in Seattle, police said.
The shooting occurred early Saturday, around 2:30 a.m. local time, inside the zone, which is also referred to as CHOP, according to a statement from the Seattle Police Department. Police said a "violent crowd" prevented them accessing to the victims. They said they were later informed that both victims had been transported to Harborview Medical Center by CHOP medics.
The 19-year-old later died and the other victim, who was only identified as male, remained in the hospital.
Tiz the Law has won an unprecedented Belmont Stakes, claiming victory Saturday at the first race of a rejiggered Triple Crown schedule and crossing the finish line in front of eerily empty grandstands.
The 3-year-old colt from upstate New York charged to the lead turning to the frontstretch and now can set his sights on the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby and Oct. 3 Preakness. All three legs of this year’s Triple Crown schedule were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Belmont, usually the series capper, was initially scheduled for June 6.
Tiz the Law gave New York a hometown champion in its first major sporting event
President Donald Trump drank water from a glass, then tossed the rest of the water onto the stage at Saturday night’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Media speculation abounded about the president’s health after he walked slowly down a ramp and seemed to have difficulty drinking water during last week’s speech at West Point.Trump introduced the topic by jokingly relating a conversation he had with First Lady Melania Trump about him “trending number one” not because of a great speech, but because everyone thought he “may have Parkinson’s Disease.”WATCH:
President Donald Trump thrilled a crowd of supporters at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, speaking for one hour, 41 minutes.The president appeared energized by the thousands of supporters in the arena, even though it fell short of filling the BOK Center stadium and did not have overflow crowds as the campaign expected.Democrats and corporate media fueled fears about the rally for weeks after it was announced, warning that it would lead to more coronavirus infections and deaths as the pandemic continued.Trump took the stage at about 8:30 p.m. thanking the crowds for coming anyway.“You are warriors,” he said.
Atlanta arson investigators said Saturday they've identified a female suspect who is being sought in connection with a Wendy's fire that was set after the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks.
The Atlanta Fire Department obtained an arrest warrant for Natalie White, 29, for first-degree arson, which is considered a felony in the state of Georgia, Fox 5 reported.
White's face was captured on video surveillance and shared during a news conference on Tuesday at a fire station on Manford Road.
Previous pictures reportedly showed one suspect wearing black clothing and a facial covering, while the other -- who turned out to reportedly be White
Although President Donald Trump’s first rally since the Chinese coronavirus pandemic broke out in the United States fell short of attendance expectations, hundreds of thousands of people watched the president’s wide-ranging speech online. The New York Times reports roughly 500,000 people tuned into President Trump’s “Great American Comeback” rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on YouTube across various live feeds.(Snip)The Trump campaign blamed the lower-than-expected turnout on “protestors, coupled with a relentless onslaught from the media.”(Snip)The president also warned that Democrats are attempting to erase America’s heritage.