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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Knee-Benders Cancel ‘Gone With the Wind’ & ‘Cops’ on Same Day to Appease Frothing Rage Mob. “The Paramount Network hasn’t released a lot of information about the cancellation of Cops, but it was pulled from the lineup as a reaction to the protests/riots. It has been on the air for thirty-three years, which is forever in television time. A product that successful doesn’t usually get tossed aside so easily. That should give us all pause as we ponder how powerful this mob has already become.”

DON’T REPEAL PROPOSITION 209:  The Assembly is supposed to vote on whether to repeal Proposition 209 today.  Check out my op-ed in the San Diego Union Tribune:  “How Prop 209 Helped Under-Represented Minority Students Succeed at California Universities.”

I’LL KEEP TAKING MY CHANCES: New guidelines on cancer prevention recommend cutting out alcohol completely.

OUR HEROIC FIREFIGHTERS WHO DON’T TAKE SIDES: Trump-bashing the theme in 4 of 5 awards given by White House press corps.

Related: Trump Didn’t Ruin the Media, Obama Did. “Obama was the first indicator that the media would simply refuse to cover stories they didn’t like about a politician they did. The media covered Clinton’s Chinagate and Travelgate. But they refused to cover the IRS scandal with the same level of vim as they would have under Bush; they downplayed the Obama administration’s involvement in the botched ‘Fast and Furious’ gun operation scandal; and members of the mainstream media openly mocked the right’s anger over the administration’s manipulation of the 2012 Benghazi terror attack. Obama had to be protected at all costs, including the cost of the media’s credibility. Meanwhile, the media savaged 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.”

Flashback: New Status Anxiety Fuels Trump Derangement.

THE USUAL SUSPECTS: Here Are The People Who Want To Ban The National Anthem At Sporting Events.

YEP:

CUTBACKS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: CA Dem Ignores Call to Cut Six-Figure Salary Amid Budget Shortfall.

COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Hasidic Jewish children apparently booted from NYC park — after Mayor de Blasio endorsed massive protests amid coronavirus.

Last month: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will issue a Cease and Desist order closing down the city’s Jewish day schools.

EVEN THE GRAUNIAD IS NOTICING: We often accuse the right of distorting science. But the left changed the coronavirus narrative overnight.

This feels like gaslighting. Less than two weeks ago, the enlightened position in both Europe and America was to exercise nothing less than extreme caution. Many of us went much further, taking to social media to castigate others for insufficient social distancing or neglecting to wear masks or daring to believe they could maintain some semblance of a normal life during coronavirus. At the end of April, when the state of Georgia moved to end its lockdown, the Atlantic ran an article with the headline “Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice”. Two weeks ago we shamed people for being in the street; today we shame them for not being in the street.

Well, at least the shaming continues. It’s almost like that’s the key bit. Plus:

Public health experts – as well as many mainstream commentators, plenty of whom in the beginning of the pandemic were already incoherent about the importance of face masks and stay-at-home orders – have hemorrhaged credibility and authority. This is not merely a short-term problem; it will constitute a crisis of trust going forward, when it may be all the more urgent to convince skeptical masses to submit to an unproven vaccine or to another round of crushing stay-at-home orders. Will anyone still listen?

Not likely. Trust is the most important asset to public health efforts, but it’s been squandered almost without a thought for the consequences, because our “experts” lack the self-discipline and capacity for reflection to do otherwise.

Finally, are you even allowed to say this? “Risk and safety are relative notions and never strictly objective. However, there is one inconvenient truth that cannot be disputed: more black Americans have been killed by three months of coronavirus than the number who have been killed by cops and vigilantes since the turn of the millennium. We may or may not be willing to accept that brutal calculus, but we are obligated, at the very least, to be honest.”

SETON MOTLEY: The Censoring Left: ‘Net Neutrality’ for Thee – Not for Me.

Net Neutrality mandates ISPs deliver every bit of data they handle – neutrally. They can show no preference for any data.

Big Tech companies – are nigh all Leftist. So of course, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and more – have all long publicly professed their desire to see government regulate ISPs in Net Neutrality’s heavy-handed fashion.

Because why not? It doesn’t apply to them.

Oh: And Big Tech wants Net Neutrality for ISPs – because it is a HUGE government crony gift to Big Tech.

Net Neutrality outlaws ISPs from charging Big Tech for the MASSIVE amounts of bandwidth they use. So you and I would pay dramatically more for Internet access – as a giant subsidy to Big Tech.

It isn’t like any of those companies are exactly hurting for cash.

ALONG THE KOREAN DMZ: The Robot Refused To Fire.

SOMEWHERE OFF THE NORWEGIAN COAST: It’s a silver B-52, at least in this light.

SCENARIOS FOR A CHINA-INDIA HIMALAYAN WAR: Well, confrontation scenarios that could erupt into something very dangerous.

Everyone who wants to prevent nuclear war and expand economic opportunity should demand China’s dictatorship answer this question: Why is nuclear-armed mainland China militarily and diplomatically escalating its Himalayan border dispute with nuclear-armed India?

Read the whole thing.

BAH. PAY US:  Trump’s Plan to Pull U.S. Troops from Germany Irks Merkel Government and the Media.

NARRATIVE WHIPLASH: With Trump Rallies Returning, the Media Suddenly Remembers the Coronavirus Pandemic.

SPACE: Imagining safety zones: Implications and open questions.

THIS IS THE LEFT’S UTOPIA. JUST TRIBES AT WAR:  In Chicago, Hispanic Gangs Protect Their Neighborhoods From Looters: “Get the F*ck Out! We Won’t Let Our Neighborhood Burn”.

THE LEFT IS LARPING (LIVE ACTION ROLE PLAYING) ALL THE WAY DOWN:  This Video of Rep. Nadler Getting His Glasses Tangled in His Mask is Just… Perfect.

SAME AS EVER:  Systemic Racism and Bigotry Are the Lifeblood of the Left.

GIVING PRIZES FOR RADICALIZATION RESULTS IN MORE RADICALIZATION:  How the Radicalization of Colin Kaepernick Explains the Current American Crisis.

THERE IS NO TRUTH IN PRAVDA:  The Doctrine of Media Untruth.