I WAS ONLY GOING TO STAB YOU: “Sunday’s anti-cop riots in Lancaster, Pa., have made the current de facto rules of engagement clear: Officers may never defend themselves against lethal force if their attacker is a minority. They should simply accept being shot or stabbed as penance for their alleged racism.”
Well, that’s consistent with what Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender believes civilians should do if there’s a home invasion, which Jim Treacher referenced earlier today:
FOREIGN INFLUENCE: Chinese database details 2.4 million influential people, their kids, addresses, and how to press their buttons. “A US academic has revealed the existence of 2.4-million-person database he says was compiled by a Chinese company known to supply intelligence, military, and security agencies. The researcher alleges the purpose of the database is enabling influence operations to be conducted against prominent and influential people outside China.”
NEW HUMMER EV DISPLAYS “CRAB MODE.” It’s sorta cool, but not as cool as the true-sideways maneuvering I was hoping for.
JIM TREACHER: After Trying to Defund Police, Minneapolis City Council Asks: ‘Where Are the Police?’
You want to get rid of the police? This is what it looks like. When you stop enforcing the law, you get anarchy and chaos. You get ruined lives and billions in damages. The only thing worse than cops is no cops.
And that’s after we saw nonsense like this, from Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender:
And speaking of nonsense in Minneapolis: Minneapolis Won’t Let Riot-Battered Stores Install Security Shutters.
In a report justifying the rule change, Minneapolis officials argued that external shutters “cause visual blight” and create the impression that an area is “unsafe” and “troublesome.”
After looters crashed through his floor‐to‐ceiling windows and stole $1 million worth of booze in May, Chicago‐Lake Liquors owner John Wolf wanted to protect himself from a repeat occurrence. … The [forbidden] investment [in security shutters] would not only prevent rioters from entering his store, it would protect his windows — which cost $50,000 to replace.
Minneapolis will have more “visual blight” than it knows what to do with for years after this past summer’s Biden Riots.
YOU CAN TAKE THE GIRL OUT OF EAST GERMANY, BUT YOU CAN’T TAKE THE EAST GERMANY OUT OF THE GIRL. Angela Merkel’s Germany is terrified of upsetting China.
(Classical reference in headline.)
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: I Watched Preteen Sexploitation Flick ‘Cuties’ on Netflix So You Don’t Have To. “If you had thought that the sexploitation of preteen girls was something Americans of all stripes could agree was a bad thing, well… welcome to 2020, when everything is politicized and anything can be used as a cudgel against conservatives.”
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SOME GOOD ECONOMIC NEWS: Post-Election Gun Sales Not Expected to Decline Sharply.
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REMIND ME PLEASE WHAT ‘CDC’ STANDS FOR: Is the CDC Downplaying the Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine To ‘Resist’ Trump?
SMALL DEAD ANIMALS: Posted without Comment.
Incidentally, I couldn’t find the above tweet on Frum’s timeline so that I could see the ratio, until I went into private browsing mode. Is Twitter hiding pro-Cuties tweets from liberals to avoid further piling on?
Related: “These children had to memorize this dialogue and perform it on camera. They also had to learn how to stroke their crotches, twerk, put their fingers in their mouths suggestively, and move like strippers mimicking vigorous intercourse. The actors are children. Simply to play their roles, they had to have their innocence taken from them by the filmmaker — no doubt with the consent of their parent or parents. It is hard to imagine fathers and mothers allowing their little girls to be exploited in this way, but people will do anything for fame.”
If only someone had written a book documenting “How We Got Here,” the Weimar-like decade that produced a sea change in American* elites’ norms.
* Yes, it’s a French movie. But it’s an American company that bought the rights to stream it here.
Related: In other news regarding Netflix, where the hits just keep coming: FBI Raids Home of Netflix Star and Biden Surrogate Over Underage Sex Allegation.
WOW: Netflix Subscription Cancellations Soar After ‘Cuties’ Controversy.
I’m working on a piece about the film for later today.
FIRST AIRSHIP ON VENUS: NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration.
JAMES LILEKS’ WEDNESDAY REVIEW OF MODERN THOUGHT:
The daily stroll through the poisonous bramble-garden of Western Civ never fails to produce the discovery of some heretofore unknown species. Here’s a white woman’s latest contribution –
What, you need a name? Why? The main descriptors of people are race and gender; a name would be superfluous, and suggest there’s some sort of individual agency at work that transcends those essential quality. So let’s call her WW36504.
Headline: Wine’s diversity issue starts with the way we talk about the taste of wine.
Read the whole thing, for a sneak preview of the ever-shrinking latest edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. Incidentally, the above link goes to the San Francisco Chronicle. Elsewhere in the Chronicle: Shopping in SF’s Tenderloin is wide open — for illegal drugs, that is.
Good to see the city has its priorities in order.
THE LONELY LIVES OF SCIENTISTS: Finding in 100-million-year-old amber reveals sexual intercourse of ostracods.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
● Shot: When protesters call for ‘defunding the police,’ what does it mean?
—Minnesota Public Radio, June 8th.
● Chaser: Council advances plan to dismantle Minneapolis Police Dept.
—Minnesota Public Radio, June 27th.
● Hangover: With violent crime on the rise in Mpls., City Council asks: Where are the police?
—Minnesota Public Radio, yesterday.
As James Lileks writes, with a screen-shot of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s coverage of the story yesterday, “This . . . is just priceless. Utter, complete, total fools. No small irony in the fact that they end up blaming the Black guy in the end, too.”
WELL, OKAY THEN: Some American cities could grow all their food locally, study finds.
UNRAVELLING THE SECRETS OF TENNESSEE WHISKEY.
PETTY: U.S. Think Tank Under Fire for Hosting Top Iranian Official.
The Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan U.S. think tank that employs numerous former government officials, is scheduled to host next Tuesday Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif, the regime’s top spokesman and architect of the landmark nuclear accord, for a virtual conversation on the Zoom meeting platform. The event comes just days after Iran tortured and executed popular Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari over his participation in a peaceful protest. The execution sparked outrage across the globe and is casting a shadow over the CFR event.
Trump administration and congressional officials who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon about the upcoming event expressed outrage that CFR would host Zarif after his government executed Afkari, who has since become a poster boy for Iran’s human-rights abuses.
The event also runs afoul of U.S. sanctions laws, according to a legal group. Under strict interpretations of the current law, Americans are prohibited from providing any services, including technology services like those used to host the event, to sanctioned individuals such as Zarif. The event could serve as a test for the Treasury Department as it determines how the law should be enforced. While Americans are permitted to meet with sanctioned individuals under the auspices of the United Nations in New York City, meetings of this nature remain in a legal gray area.
It looks to me like the CFR is sticking its thumb in Trump’s eye for undoing Barack Obama & John Kerry’s disastrous Iran Deal.
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