Archive for 2020
June 2, 2020
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ROGER SIMON: Who’s Causing America’s Nervous Breakdown?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Colleges Lower The Boom On Faculty/Staff Retirement Plans.
The good news is, I don’t have a generous pension for them to take away. In fact, I don’t have a pension at all, just a 401k type plan.
THAT WAS THE RIOT THAT WAS: Veteran blogger and Instapundit reader Pierre Legrand emailed a massive core dump of video clips of the past several days’ events:
Have tried to post these in DISQUS and it pukes everytime I try. This needs to be posted so we can keep track of it.
Not sure this will work out but I want to post this list of terror attacks before it’s deleted.
Man stomped and stoned for trying to defend a bar from being looted
Destroying store and beating unarmed woman and her husband
Beating and stomping guy on the ground Santa Monica
Restaurant manager beaten and stomped for trying to defend his workplace
Stopping, beating and stomping a truck driver while protesters yell to kill him
Protesters attack a media member and then pummel him
Chasing guy and kicking him in the face for defending flag in Portland
Police officer beaten on the streets
Car runs over a cop
Protesters set homeless man’s belongings on fire
Throwing fireworks at the cops
Looting a FedEx truck then looter gets dragged when truck tries to escape
Chasing and beating guy with red had
Rioter sets himself on fire while trying to set a building on fire
Fireworks thrown into CNN hq / Police officers
Protester runs over the cops with an SUV
Destroying/looting/setting on fire Old Navy
Guardhouse in front of WH set on fire
Dozens of cars destroyed/torched near CNN hq – Atlanta
St Louis neighborhood on fire
Building on fire while self-proclaimed Mexicans say fuck white people
Destroying police SUV
Near a torched car audio speakers propaganda that all crime is legal
Destroying/looting bank in Montreal
Pharmacy destroyed/looted in Dallas
The remains of whole neighborhood destroyed
Destroying stores – Dallas
Destroying police SUV – Austin
Police SUV torched LA
Looting target/beating disabled person in Minneapolis
Future apartment building destroyed with fire in Minneapolis
Looting pharmacy – Minneapolis
Destroying business in Minneapolis
More businesses on fire in Minneapolis
Ransacked Target Minneapolis
Building burning in neighborhood Minneapolis
Boy drove car into a store
Post office looted/destroyed
Minneapolis third police precinct set on fire
More buildings on fire Minneapolis
Autoparts Store getting destroyed/looted
Autozone on fire
Looting in Minneapolis
Adults loot with their children
Cars torched – Minneapolis
Looting an ATM in Minneapolis
Remains of destroyed/looted Cub Foods
Business and stores on fire in Minneapolis
Brenda Lenton’s home and belongings destroyed by a fire – Minneapolis
Aftermath of whole neighborhood being set on fire in Minneapolis
Nashville city hall set on fire while rioters cheer
Fox reporters chased out with projectiles thrown at them near White House
Attacking drivers Tulsa, Okla
Setting St. John’s Church on fire
Destroying/looting stores Montreal
Destroying/looting store in Downtown Oakland
Bar destroyed/Trying to loot a safe
Stolen Bulldozer in Oakland
Two police SUVs torched in Seattle
Multiple cars torched in Philadelphia
Ohio Statehouse being destroyed
Trying to breach Justice Center/central police precinct Portland
Destroying/Looting Justice Center Portland
Looting small business in Portland
Destroying/looting small business Portland
Looting Louis Vuitton store
Driving stolen cars into stores – Portland
Destroying Chase Bank – Portland
Setting Chase Bank on fire – Portland
Destroying/Looting Apple Store – Portland
Looting in St. Paul
Looting Shoe Store
Looting apple store
Looting North Face store – NYC
Nike Store being looted – NYC
Looting in Union Square – NYC
Looting T-mobile store
Shop owner saves store from looters with a firearm
Business owner defends his store from looters with a firearm
To be fair, the AP assures me that none of that looting ever actually happened. And based on today’s NYT and CNN.com homepages, none of the other events captured in the above videos happened, either.
REPORT: TRUCKER ATTACKED BY MOB ON I-35 WAS DELIVERING FUEL TO BLACK-OWNED MINNEAPOLIS BUSINESS. “A black business owner named Lonnie [McQuirten] tweeted out the following on Sunday afternoon, which shed light on what really happened:”
More from James Lileks:
The tweets said the driver BARRELED INTO THE CROWD. We find the video. There was no barreling. Looks to me like he stopped without hitting anyone. He was removed from the cab, and social justice was administered. After all, the people standing on the freeway had the reasonable expectation that they would not be run over, since the authorities – you know, the murderous totalitarian state under which they groan – had blocked off the roads and was present to ensure their safety while they expressed their opinions.
Later, a tweet:
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Hello, who’s this guy? Some Russian Bot? The underscore makes you suspicious:
Nope, DFL House Majority Leader.
Later deleted, but hey, has to be true in the meta sense.
Click over to Lileks’ Bleat to see the tweet in question, which takes on a whole new light, after McQuirten’s comments.
IN NEW YORK, SCRAPPY LOCAL NEWSPAPER STRUGGLES FOR SURVIVAL:
Perhaps the Gray Lady is employing the latest Associated Press Style Book’s guidelines to writing articles about looting:
Note that Kruesi’s Twitter byline reads, “‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’ Anyways. I’m an AP reporter.”
Evergreen:
(Classical reference in headline.)
UPDATE (5:28 EDT): CNN has also apparently adopted the AP Style Book’s take on looting, as not much appeared to have happened in New York last night, based on their homepage right now:
TYLER O’NEILL TALKED ABOUT HIS BOOK AND THIS ARTICLE ON MARK GRIFFITH TODAY: SPLC Slams Trump’s Terror Designation of Antifa as ‘Dangerous and Unjust’ as America Burns.
Tyler’s book on the SPLC is Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
PJ Media Week continues on the Mark Griffith Show tomorrow, with Megan Fox. The show is from 3-5 PM Eastern, 1-3 PM Mountain, noon-2 PM Pacific, and you can listen via:
- KLZ 560 AM in the Denver area
- on the internet at klzradio.com
- or on iHeart Radio.
Is Mr de Blasio more proud than Mrs I. Omar, her brother and her husbands are of Mrs Omar’s school-age daughter Isra? Isra is only 17, yet she’s also an ‘activist’: co-founder of Youth Climate Strike. This underage sect of Greta Thunberg cultists have done their homework: they call themselves an ‘anti-capitalist, working class, multi-racial coalition of young people organizing for radical climate action’.
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These are the children of the revolution. They’re heirs to privilege and influence, precociously installed in sinecures with a presumption that would have embarrassed a French aristocrat. When the peasants are revolting, they exhort and aid, but they prefer others to do the actual fighting. When the rubble is cleared and the blood washed from the streets, they’ll be where they are now. And they’ll still be there, part of a class of professional agitators, marching through the institutions while most of our media applaud them and give a soft pass to their hard-headed parents. The revolution has not begun: it is already well on the way to completion.
Read the whole thing.
DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: Marianne Williamson apologizes for tweeting photoshopped image of Hitler holding Bible next to Trump.
Flashback to the No Pasaran blog in 2012: 卐mas Caroling: The Extremes Hitler Wanted to Go To in Order to Replace Christianity with the “Religion” of National Socialism.
Or as author Dave Shiflett quipped in 2002 in National Review, “A shocking story has been revealed: Adolf Hitler was not a Christian after all. Instead, he hoped to destroy Christianity.”
Incidentally, the past week’s worth of images are a reminder of something Glenn wrote in 2017, linking to a Rod Dreher post titled “The Storm Before the Storm,” “The thing is, you don’t get Hitler because of Hitler — there are always potential Hitlers out there. You get Hitler because of Weimar, and you get Weimar because the liberals are too corrupt and incompetent to maintain a liberal polity.”
MOST 21ST CENTURY HEADLINE EVER: Operation Warp Speed selects billionaire scientist’s COVID-19 vaccine for monkey tests.
GEORGE WILL IS CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOST CONSERVATIVELY: One of America’s most prominent conservative columnists wants Republicans to lose in 2020.
AT THIS RATE, WE’RE ALL GOING TO BE OPEN-CARRYING AR10s BY JULY: New Full Size Pistols for 2020.
EVERGREEN: Some advances in AI have been exaggerated.
IT’S A HUGE SACRIFICE BUT I’M WILLING TO ACCEPT IT: Seth Rogen to Anti-BLM Followers: ‘F**k Off… You Don’t Deserve My Movies.’