NEVER INTERRUPT YOUR ENEMY WHEN HE’S MAKING A MISTAKE: Democrats’ Calls to Defund the Police Are a Losing Bet at the Polls.
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June 9, 2020
MANUFACTURER PLANS TO LEAVE MINNEAPOLIS: ‘They didn’t protect our people,’ 7-Sigma owner says of city officials.
Wow, who could have seen this coming?
WELL, SHE IS 80: Nancy Pelosi Knelt in Deference to Black Lives Matter. Then … Oops.
I’m so old I can still remember when it was “Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.”
This whole bending the knee thing is so much like kowtowing to authority that I’d almost swear it’s another import from China.
SOCIAL MEDIA UPHEAVAL: What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride.
Weinberg didn’t know what “doxing” meant, but it was happening to him: Someone posted his address. Detective Lopez didn’t answer his call, but soon someone with the police department contacted Weinberg to let him know that officers would be patrolling the area around his home because he might be in danger.
Detective Lopez reached him around 11 p.m. and they agreed to meet the next morning. At 11:47, Weinberg tweeted, “I recently learned I have been misidentified in connection with a deeply disturbing attack. Please know this was not me. I have been in touch with the authorities and will continue to help any way possible.”
His fiancée in New York, he spent the night alone, refreshing Twitter, watching helplessly as people tried to destroy his life. And Weinberg wasn’t even the only one: Another man, a former Maryland cop, was wrongly accused, too. The tweet accusing him was retweeted and liked more than half a million times.
At 7 a.m., Weinberg brought his bicycle and his helmet with him to the police station. Detective Lopez told him he was free to go and the department would issue a report excluding him as a suspect.
On Twitter, Maryland attorney general Brian Frosh sent Weinberg a message. “I am sorry for what you are going through. Police have a suspect. Can I post something that would help?” Hours before Weinberg was falsely accused, Frosh had asked all of Twitter for help finding the man in the video. “If anyone can identify this man, please let me know,” he said, and nearly 50,000 people retweeted him.
“I could use any help you can give. Can we speak quickly?” Weinberg said.
On the phone, Frosh — who did not return a request for comment from Intelligencer — was empathetic. He acknowledged that he had, in some way, contributed to Weinberg’s circumstances. He sent a tweet confirming that there was a suspect and “it is not Mr. Weinberg.” (228 retweets.)
On Friday, police arrested Anthony Brennan III, a 60-year-old from Kensington, Maryland, and charged him with three counts of second-degree assault.
Weinberg told a reporter he was “dizzy” after what he went through. . . .
As for the woman who shared his home address: She deleted it and posted an apology, writing that in all of her eagerness to see justice served, she was swept up in the mob that so gleefully shared misinformation, depriving someone of their own right to justice. Her correction was shared by fewer than a dozen people.
It’s like Twitter serves as an amplification system for toxic ideas.
AND FROM AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD! CNN: ‘Death Star Destroys Alderaan In Mostly Peaceful Demonstration’.
SHAME ON US FOR BELIEVING THE NEW YORK TIMES. YOU CAN TELL THE TIMES LIES WHEN THERE’S PRINT ON IT: Bush Aide: NYT Fabricated Trump Story.
YES. DECADES AGO: Has Hollywood Completely Lost Its Mind?
LOOK, I DON’T EVEN MIND THAT THE LEFT HAS A NARRATIVE. I MIND THAT IT DESTROYS THOSE IT PURPORTS TO HELP: Snakes in the Garden.
THE WORST PART IS YOU DON’T EVEN EXPECT IT TO SAVE YOU. YOU JUST THINK WOKENESS LOOKS GOOD OR MAKES YOU LOOK COOL: Dear Corporations: Taking a knee won’t save you.
THIS OPINION COMES FROM A PLACE OF IMBECILITY: Minneapolis City Council President: Ability to Call Police Over Robbery ‘Comes From a Place of Privilege’.
ATONING FOR THE SINS OF PEOPLE WHO LOOKED VAGUELY LIKE YOU TO PEOPLE WHO LOOK VAGUELY LIKE VICTIMS IS NO PART OF CHRISTIANITY. TAKE UP YOUR OWN CROSS DOESN’T MEAN TAKE UP THE CROSS OF PEOPLE WHO MIGHT MAYBE SHARE Y OUR SKIN COLOR. YOU ARE NOT GUILTY OF THE SINS OF OTHERS. UNLESS YOU, PERSONALLY, HAVE BEEN DISCRIMINATING BASED ON RACE, WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS GRANDSTANDING AND ACTING LIKE A TOTAL MORON. ALSO, POSSIBLY AN EVIL ONE. THE IDEA THAT ONE CAN BE GUILTY SIMPLY BY VIRTUE OF HAVING A CERTAIN SKIN COLOR, HAS A NAME: RACISM: White Cops, Leftists Engage in “Ceremony” of Washing the Feet of Black “Faith Leaders”.
DEAR BOB! THESE ARE NOT THE CRAZY YEARS. WE SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO THE CRAZY YEARS FOR COMPARING THEM TO 2020: Say It Ain’t So, Elmer!
IN A WORLD IN WHICH OTHER COUNTRIES WANT TO KILL US AND TAKE OUR STUFF — THAT IS PRETTY MUCH THE REAL WORLD AT ANY TIME — NO, WE DON’T. FOOLS WILL JUST GET US KILLED: Does America Want Submissive Leaders?
IT’S ALMOST LIKE ALL THE ASSUMPTIONS OF CLIMATE MODELS ARE WRONG: COVID-19 Global Economic Downturn not Affecting CO2 Rise: May 2020 Update.
IT’S ALL PERFORMANCE ART AND LARPING. THEY’RE NOT REACTING TO ANY REALITY: Democrats Do Performance Art For George Floyd.
OH, THAT IS FLATTERING IT WILDLY: New York Times Officially Becomes College Newspaper.
HELLO, GOTHAM! (WITH A SIDE OF SOPRANOS): Minneapolis City Council Goes For Woke, Will Defund Police.
June 8, 2020
HEY, THE PUBLIC HEALTH PEOPLE SAY BIG RALLIES ARE FINE: Trump to resume trademark campaign rallies after coronavirus hiatus.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Biden campaign adviser AOC says it is racist to call her a Biden campaign adviser.
WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER, EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE RACISM: The Bon Appetit test kitchen’s race problem.
OPEN THREAD: Got a beat-up hat a homemade bat and a brand-new pair of shoes.
Related: WaPo: ‘Millennials are the unluckiest generation in US history’ (economically speaking).
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