BETTER CALL SAUL: A Hispanic vendor in Tulsa uses Alinsky tactics against a BLM supporter.

Saul Alinsky fought for the wrong side, but he was a smart tactician who came up with excellent rules for fighting an ideological opponent. Three of his rules are pertinent here:

• RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
• RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
• RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”

With those rules in mind, enjoy what happened in Tulsa when a mostly white group of Black Lives Matter protesters showed up at the Trump rally. The video begins when a white guy wearing the de rigueur leftist virtue mask (his has “BLM” emblazoned across it), and a t-shirt saying “I know words. I have the best words – Stable Genius,” spots a man who looks Hispanic. The white guy seems shocked that a Hispanic man is selling Trump merchandise while wearing a Trump hat and a t-shirt with a “God Guns and Trump” logo.

Video at link, which is awesome.

THE MADNESS OF KING WOKE: “America’s elite institutions now routinely make statements and use language that empirically is false. Indeed, they have taken the making, propagation, and enforcement of such language as their central mission.”

Plus: “At present, institutions like the university, the press, and the medical profession preserve the appearance of reason, empiricism, and argument while altering, through edict and coercion, the meaning of essential terms in the moral lexicon, like fairness, equality, friendship, and love. That the effort wins so much support speaks to the deep contradictions and corruption of American meritocratic institutions, and of the liberal individualist moral regime it seeks to replace.”

HE COULD USE MORE SMACKING DOWN, TO BE HONEST: Paul Krugman Gets the Smack Down He Deserves After Tweet Ridiculing Florida’s Handling of Wuhan Virus Outbreak.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Surge in L.A. Cases of Coronavirus Attributed to Protests: “It’s ‘highly likely’ that the surge is connected to mass protests that erupted in recent weeks over the death of George Floyd, L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said.”

FROM KEN LIZZI:  Warlord: Falchion’s Company Book Three.

 

DEATH FROM ABOVE

Captain Falchion, of Falchion’s Company, has reached the pinnacle of the mercenary profession. But that only means the jobs become more challenging. When the Wagon Circle threatens invasion, Falchion finds himself leading the defense. Fighting a nomadic army of armored wagons is hard enough, but the Wagon Circle possesses a secret weapon: Griffons. Facing the Wagon Circle, the combined efforts of its sorceresses, and the missiles and fire bombs of griffon riders might be too much for Falchion. Does he truly want to be a Warlord?

Warlord concludes the Falchion’s Company series.

YES, IT’S TIME TO DEFUND NPR:

Public media has long been defended. Frequently it’s pointed out that public funding for NPR is only about two percent of their federal operating budget, the same excuse we hear when Planned Parenthood pushes back against calls to defund it. Just as frequently, right-leaning outlets seek to point out a clear bias in publicly-funded coverage. But NPR’s ‘reporting’ of Black Lives Matter protests has veered so far from bias and into demagoguery that calls to defund it should be taken more seriously. When I say ‘defund’, I don’t mean in the tortured nuanced way that Democrats and the media use it about the police to mean ‘reform’. No reform for NPR. Defund it. Completely.

This weekend NPR published a story on their website by journalist Hannah Allam. The tweet to the story, declared that  ‘right-wing extremists are turning cars into weapons, with reports of at least 50 vehicle-ramming incidents since protests erupted nationwide in late May.’ The image accompanying the tweet was a photo of a vehicle surrounded by protesters, suggesting that the driver was plowing through them as they stood in the street. That is not what happened.

To say the least:

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Austin Demonstrators Who Raised Transgender Flag Jeer as Police Raise American Flag.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: What Happens When the Madness Ends? Today’s corporate revolutionary enthusiasts had better prepare for the inevitable turn.

Related: Fuji Bikes Suspends Sales To Law Enforcement, Citing Use During Riot Control. It’s astounding — and telling — that big corporations will treat U.S. police departments like war criminals, while continuing to do business with the PRC.

ONLY VISIBLE LIVE IN AFRICA AND ASIA:  ‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse coincides with summer solstice 2020.

I’m glad we can’t see it live. It looks like something I don’t want 2020 to play with.

HEY NOW, THEY’RE JUST WORKING FROM HOME:  Sextortion is evolving during the coronavirus pandemic, report says.

SAME AS IT EVER WAR:  Shootings Kick Off Seattle’s Summer of Love.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SEEMINGLY BOWING, BECAUSE THEY LIKE HAVING JOBS AND A ROOF OVER THEIR HEADS. BUT THE ANGER IS BUILDING. TRUST ME ON THIS:  The blind continuing panic over COVID-19.

OH, IT’S NOT THAT BAD. IT’S JUST THESE PEOPLE READ 1984 AND TOOK IT FOR AN HOW-TO MANUAL:  Iconoclast.

REALLY? THEY NEED TO EXPLAIN?  Cops explain why they quit in the wake of police protests.

DAMMIT, 2020 – NOW YOU’RE JUST SHOWING OFF:  Huge green fireball over Australia puzzles experts.

Hey, I still have “Aliens land” on my 2020 bingo card.

WEARING A MASK TO REPORT FROM INSIDE THE BELLY OF THE BEAST, ANDY NGO RECKLESSLY ENDANGERS ALL ASIAN-CHAZIANS:  My terrifying 5-day stay inside Seattle’s ‘autonomous zone’.

31% WOULD CONSIDER BUYING A CAR?  CITY DWELLERS!  Many Americans considering moving to a less populated area to avoid COVID-19.

UNEXPECTEDLY!  Kids are developing PTSD from coronavirus pandemic.

NEW YORK FINISHES SECOND TO LAST! CALIFORNIA THIRD FROM THE BOTTOM:  New Jersey ranked least patriotic state in America.

DEVELOPING: Protesters Try to Establish Autonomous Zone Outside White House. Police Aren’t Having It—for Now.

AT AMAZON, Breville BBL620 Fresh & Furious Blender, Silver.

SENATOR TOM COTTON AGAINST THE 1619 RIOTS: We Can Give No Quarter to Mob Rule. “When you tear down statues of Washington and Grant, it’s not about the Civil War—it’s because you hate America.”

Related, from Richard Fernandez.

If Trump wreaked the kind of devastation on the blue zones that they’re cheerfully inflicting on themselves, it would be some sort of war crime. Instead he’s just standing by, offering to help, but knowing his offers will be rejected.

BOB MCMANUS: Welcome to the Summer of Slay, America.

Shootings in Gotham were running at the rate of one an hour for much of the weekend, with final numbers up in the air. Upstate, 18 people were shot in Albany, two fatally, over three days; 12 hit in Syracuse, including nine at a single party; 10 in Buffalo.

Appalling? Sure. But think of it as the first fruits of criminal-justice “reform.”

To be sure, the Empire State wasn’t unique. In Chicago, police reported 102 shootings over the Father’s Day holiday — 14 fatal, including a 3-year-old boy. But you need a mechanical clicker to keep track of Chicago, so the weekend toll is likely to be higher.

Elsewhere, 11 were reported shot, with one fatality, in both Minneapolis and Detroit — and bullets were flying around Philadelphia, Baltimore and most of the rest of urban America.

While each state is unique, it is fair to look at New York as a laboratory, with Albany’s utterly otherworldly surrender to public-safety nihilism exacerbated by timorous, low-impact policing policies ­embraced at the local level.

Whether the new ways are working depends on your perspective: If the point is to keep the anarchists and activists quiet, in a cynical sort of way, they are. But if they are meant to keep citizens safe, it’s all an ­absurd charade.

Where’s Charles Bronson when you need him?

BETWEEN COVID AND THE 1619/BIDEN RIOTS, THE GREAT RESORTING OF AMERICA HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN: Due to Seattle’s unrest, billion-dollar investment firm moving to Phoenix.

Related: Right Now There Is A “Mad Rush” To Get Out Of The Cities.