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Archive for 2020
June 22, 2020
JIM TREACHER: Top Five Statues We Should Tear Down Next. Including:
The “FTP” graffiti [sprayed on Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Austin, TX statue] stands for “F*** The Police,” which is a minor error in research because Andy Summers was that band’s guitarist. Nonetheless Vaughan once opened for The Police in 1984, so he was a cop-lover by proxy. Plus he was a white man who wore a Bolero hat and played guitar like Jimi Hendrix, which was cultural appropriation on two fronts. SRV is SOL. Tear that $#!+ down.
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ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK: Giuliani’s NYC Is All But Dead, Dems Killed It.
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JOHN HINDERAKER: How The Democrats Collude to Enable Voter Fraud.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Seattle ‘Autonomous Zone’ Creates Black-Only Segregated Area.
CPAC LEADER WARNS ‘STATUES OF JESUS ARE NEXT.’ Leftists Immediately Confirm His Concerns.
Old and busted: Recreate ’68! The new hotness? Recreate ’38:
I’D SAY IT’S ABOUT TIME: Boeing reshuffles space program management.
LET IT DIE: MLBPA Votes Against MLB Season Restart Proposal. Major league sports are all woke now, so let them go broke.
SEATTLE’S CHOP ANTIFASTAN TURNS BLOODY AGAIN: SECOND SHOOTING IN LESS THAN 48 HOURS.
Curiously though while the new autonomous nation is still outsourcing its crime fighting to America: People still dial 911 after 17-year-old CHOP resident shot; Refuses to talk to detectives.
UPDATE: Seattle’s Breakaway CHOP Now Also a Sexual Assault Crime Scene.
21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Pickup truck love has America addicted, willing to sacrifice alcohol and coffee and …
For millions of truck owners, the vehicles are as important to life as air and water.
People surveyed revealed that instead of giving up their truck for a year:
- 79% would give up drinking alcohol.
- 82% would give up Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime Video.
- 71% would give up drinking coffee.
- 47% would give up using phone.
- 44% would give up eating meat.
- 38% would give up sex.
In response to hearing the survey results, McRae, 54, said, “Holy Cow.”
When it comes to her husband, she predicted, “The cable for sure. The coffee would never happen. He takes that by IV.”
It’s important to have your priorities in focus.
WASN’T THE MAYOR COMPARING THIS TO THE SUMMER OF LOVE? Another Shooting at Seattle’s Protest ‘Autonomous Zone.’ Can’t tell from this story whether the victim was another unarmed black man, like last time . . . so, probably.
UPDATE (From Ed): Seattle to move to dismantle protest zone, mayor says.
And just like that, the left is in favor of regime change, once again.
UPDATE: With “the Summer of Love” winding down, it’s worth screen-shotting this:
I hope everybody is enjoying their ongoing sneak preview of the Biden era.
IT’S KINDA LOW PROFILE, BUT THERE SEEMS TO BE A LOT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT GOING ON ALL OF A SUDDEN, EVEN IN MY NECK OF THE WOODS: Federal charges against Heiskell man for inciting a riot, civil disorder. “The U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged 18-year-old Dominic Brown of Heiskell with inciting a riot and civil disorder. Allegedly, Brown was attempting to organize a riot at West Town Mall from messages he had posted on his Snapchat account. They say Brown was arrested on Monday, and made his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court in Knoxville on Monday as well.”
Social media make it easy to organize things. They also make it easy to identify the organizers.
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THE EXODUS IS HERE: Due to Seattle’s unrest, billion-dollar investment firm moving to Phoenix.
JOHN BOLTON IS THE PERFECT WASHINGTON MAN:
First, let me say that I love this book. I love everything about it. It is true unadulterated fan-fic for Bolton lovers everywhere. He is always right. He is always noble. His purposes are always true. Anyone who disagrees with him is an idiot, or possibly worse. Edward from Twilight has more flaws than this iteration of John Bolton, the mustachioed hero who can do no wrong… except to be, at a critical moment, surrounded entirely by idiots.
Plus some thoughts on “Bolton’s prominent mustache – ‘Regis’, a globe-trotting nuke-loving Hamas-bashing sexually aggressive bon-vivant with lush whiskey-tinged follicles. The image is ridiculous of course, but it is not far from the image the real John Bolton paints of himself in the absurdly entertaining pages of his book, the inaptly named The Room Where It Happened.”
BACK AND TO THE LEFT, BACK AND TO THE LEFT:
Related: What anti-racism really means and how to talk about it.
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Just what the heck is the opening chord of the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night?”
FACT-CHECKING THE “FACT CHECKERS:” Andy Ngo Demolishes WaPo’s Anti-Trump ‘Fact-Check’ Claiming No Antifa-Led Violence in the Riots.
Related: Washington Post Defends Story Dragging Random Woman Into Public Sphere Over Halloween Costume.
ARMED DEMONSTRATORS LEAVE RICHMOND MAYOR WITH TOUGH DECISION:
A .45-caliber handgun was tucked in the waistband of Jasmine Kelley’s shorts Sunday night as she stood outside the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue. She purchased it for about $475 last week, and it hasn’t been fired yet.
As the protests against racial prejudice began three weeks ago, Kelley, 29, quickly decided her role would be to protect others. She started by calling other protesters to check on their safety. Then, they were given walkie-talkies so they could communicate faster. Then, other protesters started showing up with guns in an effort to protect others.
Now, as groups assemble around the Lee statue every day in what has become a campground-like environment, a loosely organized group of men and women with handguns and rifles patrol the area, intent on keeping visitors safe. They chose not to divulge how many armed participants they have, except to say there are “plenty.”
Now, I don’t have a problem with this, but I’m not the city’s anti-gun mayor or a member of its anti-gun city council. They clearly do have issues with citizens lawfully carrying firearms in parks and other public places, so what happens on July 1st when their gun ban takes effect? Will they start arresting the armed protesters at the Lee statue? Or will they decide that even though the law is now in effect, there’s no need to enforce it?
As Cam Edwards writes, much like Mayor Jenny Durkan ignoring the guns being brandished in Seattle’s CHAZ, “I suspect that [Mayor Levar Stoney (D)] will develop a sudden case of amnesia in the coming days and forget all about the city council’s actions last year.”