ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Second City Theater CEO Denounces Self, Steps Down.

Andrew Alexander, the CEO and co-owner of famed The Second City improv theater, said he is stepping down after a former performer leveled accusations of racism against the comedy institution.

In a lengthy letter posted on the company’s website, Alexander said he “failed to create an anti-racist environment wherein artists of color might thrive. I am so deeply and inexpressibly sorry,”

He vowed Friday that he will be replaced by a person of color.

Might as well quit. Humor is no longer allowed anyway.

BLACK LIVELIHOODS MATTER: Shop owners reveal financial and emotional struggles of being looted. “They tell me ‘Black Lives Matter.’ They’re lying . . . I’m black, look what you did to my store.”

THE TREASON OF EPIDEMIOLOGISTS:

Meanwhile, if we have a huge spike in cases because of these protests, will they say, “Well, it was worth it to end racism”? Maybe, except they won’t have ended racism. Sure, some will plausibly argue that any COVID-19 comeback was the result of evil Republicans reopening the churches and the barber shops. But that will be dismissed for the partisan hogwash and special pleading it will be.

And, if we don’t see a huge spike in COVID-19 cases after all of this, no one will believe the experts when we head into the fall (when it’s supposed to come back) and they say now we really mean it. So we’ll still have an intolerable amount of racism—at least according to the people who say we have an intolerable amount of racism today—and we’ll have another economy-crushing outbreak on our hands.

And, if—God willing—it doesn’t come back strong in the fall, well, no one will ever take these people seriously again, and for understandable reasons.

Read the whole thing. The past week and a half of “Oceania has never been in favor of lockdowns” by a medical profession that’s dynamiting its credibility to help fuel the revolution (or at the very least, protest the Bad Orange Man) has been astonishing to watch.

KEITH ELLISON FOR DUMMIES.

Earlier:

STUFF THAT WOULD MAKE THEM LOOK BAD, OF COURSE: What Aren’t Minnesota’s Democratic Leaders Telling Us?

NO LABOR SHORTAGE: 30M Jobless Americans, All Want Full-Time Jobs.

UNIONS SIDE WITH UNIONS: As protests grow, big labor sides with police unions.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Joe Biden Wants To Reform the Criminal Justice System He Helped Create. New video from Reason TV:

J.D. VANCE ON HOW THE “PUBLIC HEALTH” COMMUNITY HAS FORFEITED PUBLIC TRUST:

“Many people–out of a respect for social distancing–missed a parent’s dying hours,” author J.D. Vance wrote. “If you think experiencing that–while watching mass gatherings praised by the same scolds who prevented you from seeing family–doesn’t erode trust in authorities, you’re actually an idiot.”

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There needs to be an accounting.

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WHEN YOU LOOT AND BURN THE GROCERY STORES, GROCERIES ARE HARDER TO COME BY. GO FIGURE. Chicago’s South Side Left With Few Food Options After Weekend Violence.

They made a food desert, and called it social justice.

IF YOU WON’T PROTECT PEOPLE, THEY WILL PROTECT THEMSELVES: “Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city will not tolerate vigilantism after groups of mostly white men patrolled the streets of the Bridgeport neighborhood on Wednesday night in response to a nearby city protest.”

OPEN THREAD: We are here to save the Erf. E – R – F.

NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Upper East Side moms Facebook group implodes after intense diversity fight.

LEFTIST LOSES STRUGGLE SESSION: Watch as Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is booed out of a protest for refusing calls to defund the police.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey would have been roasted if he hadn’t appeared at his city’s protest Saturday for George Fry, but showing up didn’t do him much good either, and he literally walked away with his head bowed in shame, reportedly after refusing demands to defund the Minneapolis Police Department.

Here’s the set-up (language warning):

https://youtu.be/4gTRJ4T3MHM

And here’s Frey’s walk of shame:

https://youtu.be/nqo45w_T1ZQ

Exit quote from the above link at Twitchy: “He will win re-election because as much as everyone in that crowd dislikes him, they will dislike the Republican candidate even more. Thus, nothing will change.”

Minneapolis’ last Republican mayor served for day on December 31st, 1973.

SPACE: China launches 2 rockets in 2 days, lofting 4 satellites to orbit.

BLUE ON BLUE: VIDEO: Liberal Minneapolis Mayor Kicked Out of Protest and Taunted When Refuses to Defund Police.

SOUNDS LIKE THE VOTERS OF BALTIMORE KNOW WHAT THEY WANT, AND DESERVE TO GET IT GOOD AND HARD: Ex-Baltimore mayor, once convicted of embezzlement, now favorite to fill seat of mayor convicted of fraud.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: L.A. Pride Organizers Apologize After Involving Police In Upcoming Solidarity Protest.

SHOT:

CHASER: VIDEO: U.S. Senator Whitehouse Won’t Quit All-White Exclusive Private Club.

QUESTION ASKED: What if D-Day Had Failed?

Related: “On June 6, 1944, James M. Doohan, a Canadian, led D Company of Royal Winnipeg Rifles ashore at Juno. He took out a sniper’s nest, lost middle finger of his right hand to a bullet. He said he ‘gave Hitler the finger.’ You know him as Scotty on Star Trek.”

DESPITE THEIR BEING LOOTED ON HER WATCH: Mayor pleads with Walmart, other retailers to not abandon Chicago.