THE DEMAND FOR HATE IN AMERICA FAR EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY: ‘Nooses’ In Oakland Park Were Exercise Aids, Man Says:

The Police Department provided five photographs of trees, some of which showed knotted ropes and one that appeared to have a piece of plastic pipe attached to a rope, hanging from tree limbs.

They have been removed by city officials.

Victor Sengbe, who is black, told KGO-TV that the ropes were part of a rigging that he and his friends used as part of a larger swing system. He also shared video of the swing in use.

“Out of the dozen and hundreds and thousands of people that walked by, no one has thought that it looked anywhere close to a noose. Folks have used it for exercise. It was really a fun addition to the park that we tried to create,” Sengbe said.

“It’s unfortunate that a genuine gesture of just wanting to have a good time got misinterpreted into something so heinous,” he told the station.

Flashback: Facebook friends each reported nooses at different colleges. One was a damaged power cable.

HE WAS HONEST ON TEN OCCASIONS? 10 Times Barack Obama Acknowledged That DACA Was Unconstitutional.

BULLYING: “With the slogan ‘Silence is Violence’ being used at the law school, there will be enormous pressure for student groups to go along. Not to do so would be deemed an act of ‘violence.'”

People who think silence is violence have never experienced actual violence. They should hope to remain so ignorant and sheltered in the future.

Plus, from the comments: “So my tactic of telling these petty tyrants ‘Fuck off’ isn’t violence, at least.” Well, it’s not silence, so . . .

SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC 1926! Trump Campaign Investigates Ancient Origins of Joe Biden’s ‘Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier’ Gaffe (Video):

MAP: See the Destruction the George Floyd Riots Wreaked All Over Minneapolis.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: 3-D Metal Printing Gaining Traction.

LEFTY EUPHEMISM ALERT: CHOP Cheers Theft… er… ‘Unplanned Donation’ as Cuomo Says Some People ‘Shouldn’t Have’ Police.

I’M STARTING TO DETECT A PATTERN:

It’s almost as if Republicans and conservatives aren’t the problem.

DECOUPLING: US wants undersea data cable to skip Hong Kong.

DEMOCRACY DIES IN DOXXING, PART DEUX: Mexican-American Accused of Making ‘White Power’ Sign by Overzealous SJW is Fired. “Cafferty is Mexican-American and says he comes from a diverse family of all races. He says he’s proud of SDG&E for taking any allegations of racism seriously, but he wants his job back…Cafferty is just another casualty of an overzealous social justice warrior. He should file a wrongful termination lawsuit against SDG&E.”

REMINDER: The pro-slavery origins of American gun control.

The colonies with large slave populations also had significant populations of free blacks. South of the Mason-Dixon line, various laws were enacted against unauthorized arms possession by slaves, and sometimes against free blacks as well. In the South, slave patrols searched slave quarters to look for unauthorized arms.

Today, some people believe a bogus theory that the Second Amendment was created for the sole purpose of suppressing slave insurrections. But this can’t explain the ardent support for arms rights in Massachusetts, where slavery had already been abolished by 1791, or in Pennsylvania, where slavery was rare and already on its way to extinction.

In fact, American abolitionists such as Joel Tiffany and Lysander Spooner later used the Second Amendment to argue that slavery was unconstitutional: The distinction between a free person and a slave is that the latter is forbidden to possess arms. Because the Constitution guaranteed all persons the right to keep and bear arms, it thereby implicitly forbade slavery.

Soon after the Confederacy surrendered in 1865, Frederick Douglass warned that even after slavery was abolished (as it would be, by the Thirteenth Amendment later that year) the slave states would try to keep the ex-slaves in de facto servitude. Douglass explained the need for federal law to stop state and local governments from infringing the freedmen’s rights. Until there was a new constitutional amendment to make states obey the Second Amendment, “the work of the Abolitionists is not finished.”

Lots of good stuff — read the whole thing.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER TRIPTYCH: Our Horrible Media: A Triptych. “Three pieces on what a horrible, biased failure the mainstream American media has become.”

DEMOCRACY DIES IN DOXXING: The Washington Post’s Halloween Costume Hit Job Is a New Low for Cancel Culture.

Brace yourself before diving in, because this is one of the worst newspaper articles of all time. Between the elite media navel-gazing, the smug sanctimony of the cancelers, the absurd one-sidedness of the narrative structure, the spirit of revenge taken to an odious extreme, it’s hard not to come away feeling nauseated. Unfortunately, it’s so emblematic of the rising dual trends of activist journalism and unforgiving progressivism that I’m going to go into some detail here.

The article is titled “Blackface incident at Post cartoonist’s 2018 Halloween party resurfaces amid protests.” Resurfaced? How? Did it surface once, and is now surfacing again? Already we’re shifting responsibility because the only reason this incident is “surfacing” at all is that the Post lacked the courage to tell the two women pictured in the article’s photo that this particular story was not newsworthy.

These two are Lexie Gruber and Lyric Prince. Gruber is a 27-year-old management consultant, and Prince is a 36-year-old artist. The Post photographed them for the story in Washington D.C.’s Malcom X park, where they appear as bold truth-tellers. Their truth is that they are still mad at an older white woman who didn’t understand that her costume wasn’t funny, and they want revenge.

 And getting a great photo out of their revenge, which is what really counts.

Related: The WaPo editor behind the Megyn Kelly blackface story has a history of outing random people.

I’M GONNA TRIGGER SOME PEOPLE WITH THIS ONE: Duluth Language Police Chop the Word ‘Chief’ from Local Vocabulary in Savage Move.

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SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: College students see improved sleep with COVID-19 pandemic. If you can’t party and don’t go to class, it makes sense . . .

WE HAVE THE WORST POLITICAL CLASS EVER, AND ALL OUR MANAGERIAL CLASSES ARE POLITICAL: Police Violence, COVID-19 Lies, and the End of Legitimate Authority. “Our leaders and institutions are failing us spectacularly. It’s up to us to reboot society.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: How Cultural Revolutions Die — or Not.

In other words, once cultural revolutions turn anarchic and eat their own, they lose support. When quiet sympathizers conclude that they too may be targeted, to survive they turn on their former icons.

We are seeing that now. Liberal sympathetic bystanders are wondering whether downtown arson and looting will go private and reach their suburban homes. Do they really want their marquee universities or the Washington or Jefferson monuments defaced or renamed? What happens when calling 911 gets a constant busy signal?

When a liberal mayor or black police chief or progressive governor or white leftist who diverges from the party line is targeted by the mob, then who really is safe?

Answer? No one. And so the cultural revolution sputters to irrelevance.

What deflated the MeToo movement was the high toll that the accusations took among the Hollywood and cultural elite. Suddenly, progressive celebrities began demanding evidence and insisting on presumed innocence when their careers were destroyed.

What burns out these cultural upheavals is that today’s revolutionary can be denounced as tomorrow’s sell-out. No leader wants to share Robespierre’s rendezvous with his own guillotine.

There is one caveat.

Sometimes cultural revolutions don’t die out — if they are hijacked by a thug or killer.

It’s VDH, so read the whole thing.

DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE. Russia Charges Prominent Scientist With Selling Military Secrets To China.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Business Licensing Makes It Too Easy for Politicians To Punish People They Don’t Like: Making a living is a right, not a privilege, and should be respected as such.

CONGRATS TO THE AVIATORS AND TO THE NAVY: U.S. Navy graduates its first F-35C TOPGUN class. “Maj. Derek Heinz and Lt. William Goodwin completed the 13-week Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor course at the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center of Naval Air Station Fallon, Nev., the Navy announced on Tuesday.”

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Virginia Dems announce speaker for party’s ‘virtual convention’ and inspire a shot/chaser for the ages — ‘And our media is dead silent on it:’

VERY DANGEROUS RULING, IN EFFECT ALLOWING A PRESIDENT TO LEGISLATE: When President Obama changed immigration law without going through Congress, we were told, “it’s a policy choice allowed by the discretion given the president under the immigration laws to decline, temporarily, to deport ‘dreamers’ until Congress decides what to do. It’s not ‘legislating’ because any future president can just as easily change the policy.” But today, in a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court has made it difficult for such policy choices to be reversed, in large part, it seems, because the policy choice led to regulations that created “reliance interests” among dreamers, requiring the Trump administration to more strongly justify reversing what was supposed to have been a mere policy decision. This is a very bad day for the separation of powers, and with Roberts once again punting, it brings up a truism I’ve noted many times: you don’t make significant, lasting change on the Supreme Court with a 5-4 majority, you need at least 6-3, maybe 7-2.