YOU STAY CLASSY, LOS ANGELES: Severed pig head on spike left in front of L.A. police station.
Archive for 2020
June 9, 2020
CHICAGO’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Chicago mayor and alderman exchange profanities over concerns about looters in leaked audio.
Lopez said that looters might spill over into residential areas and wanted answers on how the city would handle that.
“Once they’re done looting and rioting and whatever’s going to happen tonight, God help us, what happens when they start going after residents? Going into the neighborhoods? Once they start trying to break down people’s doors, if they think they’ve got something,” he said. “I’ve got gangbangers with AK-47s walking around right now, just waiting to settle some scores. What are we going to do, and what do we tell residents, other than good faith people stand up? It’s not going to be enough.”
Lightfoot initially didn’t answer Lopez’s inquiry and wanted to move on to the next question. But Lopez said, “It’s not something you ignore. This is a question that I have.”
The phone call then took a profane turn as the two elected officials began exchanging expletives.
“I think you’re 100% full of shit, is what I think,” Lightfoot said.
“F— you, then,” Lopez responded. “Who are you to tell me I’m full of shit? … Maybe you should come out and see what’s going on.”
“If you think we’re not ready, and we stood by and let the neighborhoods go up, there’s nothing intelligent that I could say to you,” Lightfoot responded. “That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. I understand you want to preen.”
“Mayor, you need to check your f—ing attitude. That’s what you need to do,” Lopez replied.
Audio of exchange here.
Related: ‘What Are We Going To Have Left In Our Community?’ Aldermen React with Panic, Sorrow to Unrest.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): In this interplay you can see the troubled relationship between the black and the Hispanic parts of the uniparty state. The Hispanics made their play in the last mayoral race and couldn’t quite pull it off, but they’re the rising minority there. This could get interesting.
I LIKE THE CUT OF HER JIB: AOC Accuses Kayleigh McEnany of ‘Stripping Titles’ from ‘Women of Color.’ Her Response Is Epic.
WHO COULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THIS APPROACH? San Francisco may stop hiring cops with records of misconduct.
THE MANCHURIAN MEDIA: Chinese Propaganda Outlet Has Paid US Newspapers $19 Million For Advertising, Printing.
THE SCIENCE ISN’T SETTLED UNTIL WE SAY IT’S SETTLED: The W.H.O. walked back an earlier assertion that asymptomatic transmission is ‘very rare.’
A top expert at the World Health Organization on Tuesday walked back her earlier assertion that transmission of the coronavirus by people who do not have symptoms is “very rare.”
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, who made the original comment at a W.H.O. briefing on Monday, said that it was based on just two or three studies and that it was a “misunderstanding” to say asymptomatic transmission is rare globally.
“I was just responding to a question, I wasn’t stating a policy of W.H.O. or anything like that,” she said.
Dr. Van Kerkhove said that the estimates of transmission from people without symptoms come primarily from models, which may not provide an accurate representation. “That’s a big open question, and that remains an open question,” she said.
Well, okay then.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Contraceptives can cause weight gain, study shows.
EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATICAL: Google Chrome team moving away from the words ‘blacklist’ and ‘whitelist’ to be more inclusive.
KNOW YOUR PLACE, PEASANTS! NC Gov. Cooper declares Ace Speedway an ‘imminent hazard’ and closes the facility.
THAT’S DIFFERENT, BECAUSE REASONS: Top L.A. Democrat Pushed To Cut LAPD Funding While Having Private LAPD Detail At Her Home Since April.
Related: Democrats’ Calls to Defund the Police Are a Losing Bet at the Polls.
SMASH ALL THE STATUES: Get Gandhi! “Unknown miscreants vandalised the statue of Mahatma Gandhi outside the Indian embassy in Washington DC with graffiti and spray paint, prompting the mission to register a complaint with the local law enforcement agencies.”
I wouldn’t have taken Antifa to be Commentary readers, but evidently they’re big fans of the Greatest Movie Review Ever Written.
Since the left have long wanted to bring the Fairness Doctrine back, they’re applying its rules to the statues they desecrate: Black Lives Matter protests: Volunteers scrub ‘Churchill was a racist’ graffiti off London statue.
Wait until Antifa discovers that Churchill’s opponent during WWII was both racist and fa — to the max.
SEEN ON FACEBOOK:
ANN ALTHOUSE ON THE PEOPLE NOW SAYING THAT “ABOLISH THE POLICE” DOESN’T MEAN ABOLISHING THE POLICE: “Liberals love to present themselves as the People of Nuance. But if you’re going to do slogans and chants — and especially if you’re going to do vandalism and looting — you’re not doing nuance. And if your knee-jerk reaction for everything you do wrong is to flip it into ORANGE MAN BAD, you are not doing nuance.”
UPDATE: Link was wrong before. Fixed now, sorry!
IN THE MAIL: From Brian Nelson, The Last Sword Maker (The Course of Empire Series Book 1).
IT’S ALMOST LIKE OUR RULING CLASS, FAR FROM BEING SOBER AND RATIONAL, IS MADE UP OF A BUNCH OF HYSTERICAL, VIOLENT CHILDREN:
Well, primarily Twitter, which serves as an amplification system for toxic ideas.
Related: What it’s like to get doxed for taking a bike ride.
JUST HOW BAD IS CHINA’S ECONOMY HURTING, ANYWAY? China mobilises thousands of troops, armoured vehicles near border with India.
DEFUND THE LAW SCHOOLS!*
*Which doesn’t mean I actually want to cut funding to the law schools, and especially not to faculty salaries or pensions, which if anything should be increased. Rather, I’d like the government to, under cover of this slogan, spend money on my pet social causes by claiming that it somehow advances law school curricular reform.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: I chose a community college. It was the best decision I’ve ever made, and it saved me $80,000 too.
I LIKE THE CONTENT OF HIS CHARACTER: Actor Terry Crews Gets Dragged For Promoting Equality, Decrying Supremacy Of Any Kind.
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “We are coming ever closer to the singularity where the New York Times and Teen Vogue are indistinguishable.”