VIEWS COUNTER TO THE NARRATIVE ARE NO LONGER PERMITTED: Blue Lives Matter website to be shut down because shut up, they said.
Archive for 2020
June 8, 2020
RUSSIA DOESN’T LIKE THE COMPETITION, ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY’RE FALLING BEHIND: Commercial crew success prompts congratulations and criticism from Russia.
POLLS MUST HAVE COME IN: Biden comes out against defunding police departments.
PREDICTION: NO ONE WILL BE FIRED, LIKE JAMES BENNET, FOR THIS. Bush Spokesman Says New York Times Claim He Won’t Be Voting for Trump ‘Is Completely Made Up.’
MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS UPDATE: This Vandalism Gives the Lie to Antifa’s Anti-Fascist Claims.
FROM HOTEP TO DOH-TEP: Dems engage in shameful cultural appropriation.
I had to say something about the American politicians shameless and ignorantly using the Kente fabric as a prop in their virtue signaling.
*I’m usually more mild mannered than this so please forgive me, I’m upset. pic.twitter.com/aZMjgsHujS
— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) June 8, 2020
UPDATE (From Ed): Further thoughts from Hotep:
(Updated and bumped.)
ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Oops! Pelosi can’t get up after kneels for moment of silence to honor George Floyd.
Plus:
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V-SHAPED RECOVERY? S&P 500 erases 2020 losses as stocks soar. “The S&P 500 on Monday erased its losses for the year, surpassing its closing level for 2019 as investors bet on a robust economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.”
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH, HE KINDLY STOPPED BY MY POLITICAL RALLY: 
AT AMAZON, summer savings in Automotive.
JOE’S UBER-WOKE REBOOT WILL BE SOMETHING TO SEE: As the New York Times Goes, So Goes Biden.
MICHAEL WALSH: Why the Wuhan Flu Turned Violent. “In short, nearly everything they told us about the second coming of the Black Death turned out to be wrong. And for this, our betters ravaged the economies of the West, bullied the honest citizenry, and suspended the Bill of Rights — and then when the riots came, excused them on the non-medical grounds that ‘racism’ (a neologism in common usage only since about 1970) is a worse health threat than, well, Covid-19. [What follows is not a parody.]”
Plus: “There is a linkage between the coronavirus hoax and the riots — it’s just not what they say it is. From the moment Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election, the Left has been determined to destroy not only the Trump presidency but also the very country that allowed such an enormity to occur. They — the DNC, the big media, academe — have thrown everything they have into the fight, and that they have now turned to outright violence in its late stages ought to tell you something, both about the ‘resistance’s’ history, and the future it has planned for you.”
SO I’VE NOTICED THAT THE MESOTHELIOMA ADS ARE MOSTLY GONE FROM MY LOCAL TV, replaced by ads for lawsuits linking talcum powder to ovarian cancer, and, inevitably, lawsuits involving Zantac and stomach cancer. There must be a lot of money behind these.
UPDATE: In the comments, people are mentioning the Roundup/glyphosate cancer ads. Those were all over for a while, but I haven’t seen one in weeks.
ONLY ONE? WELL, PERHAPS IT’S THE DAY THE GRAY LADY MADE IT OFFICIAL: The Day the New York Times Redefined ‘Liberal’ as ‘Closed-minded Outrage Mob.’
The paper’s editorial page editor James Bennet and its publisher Arthur Sulzberger initially defended its publication on the grounds that it was the paper’s duty to present views that were at odds with its own opinions.
But within 48 hours, the improbable argument that Cotton’s ideas were a threat to the safety of the paper’s African-American staff, or constituted advocacy for fascism, not to mention a flood of canceled online subscriptions, carried the day.
Sulzberger walked back his defense, and, Bennet claimed he hadn’t read it, blaming the decision on a lower level editor named Adam Rubinstein. Ultimately, the Times claimed the article hadn’t been adequately fact-checked — something Cotton’s staff asserted was untrue — and didn’t meet its standards. Two days after that, Bennet was forced to resign.
But the result was also proof that Bennet’s efforts to open up the paper’s opinion section to more conservative views have failed.
According to Wikipedia, Bennet’s career in journalism began with a stint at the New Republic. But is it possible that Bennet is a deep undercover conservative sleeper agent? In 2007, Bennet, then editor of the Atlantic, hired Andrew Sullivan, who the following year, driven by Palin Derangement Syndrome, would become the world’s foremost uterus detective, something the magazine has never quite lived down. And now Bennet has turned the New York Times over to the “safetyism”-driven crybully mob.
Or, as Robert Conquest’s Third Law of Politics states, “The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.”
NOW ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS STAY SEALED OFF FROM THE WORLD FOREVER: New Zealand says coronavirus ‘eliminated,’ lifts all domestic restrictions.
Or until the virus dies out on its own, or there’s an effective vaccine.
LET’S GET RID OF THE CHICAGO POLICE TOO … NO … WAIT: “18 Murders in 24 hours: Inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago.”
(Some history on how African American neighborhoods really do suffer most when law enforcement officers fail to keep the peace.)
MY LATEST FOR THE PJMEDIA MOTHERSHIP: Wascally Gun-Grabbers Coming for Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam.
Like millions of other people GenX and younger, I grew up on a steady diet of Looney Tunes. That means I witnessed countless acts of violence, including but not limited to:
• A duck getting his beak shot to the back of his skull.
• A coyote getting himself smashed into mountains, blown up, and hurled into deep canyons.
• A cat smashed by an iron so hard his face became iron-shaped.
• A hunter with a shotgun shooting at defenseless animals.
• A helmet-wearing Martian with a giant ray-gun attempting to blow up the entire Earth.
• General mayhem, violence, and mean-spirited tomfoolery.
• Opera.
Because of all these heinous acts I witnessed, I would later grow up to enter a life of crime, including serial killing, bank robbery, and making underseasoned rabbit stew.
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IT’S COME TO THIS: Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender tells CNN that Not Wanting To Be Raped And Robbed Is White Privilege.
“Do you understand that the word dismantle our police free also makes some people nervous? For instance, what if in the middle of the night my home is broken into? Who do I call?” CNN’s Alisyn Camerota asked Bender on CNN Monday.
“Yes, I mean I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors – and myself, too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege, for those of us for whom the system is working,” Bender said. “I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality.”
As Iowahawk tweets in response, “I used to come up with some good ideas during dorm room mushroom trips too.”
Libertarian and conservatives billionaires really need to take Glenn up on his welcome Wagon idea warning new red state arrivals fleeing Minneapolis to not bring their leftism with them.
DEFUND THE POLICE IS GREAT — UNLESS YOU’RE POOR OR A MINORITY: What Would Happen if Cities Started to ‘Defund the Police?’