RIOTERS IN RICH DEMOCRATS’ NEIGHBORHOODS? IS THAT ALLOWED? Beverly Hills Police Deployed Tear Gas as Protesters Gathered Friday Night. “Police officers with the Beverly Hills Police Department used tear gas and sponge-tipped grenades on protesters at around 11 p.m. on Friday night. The group of roughly 50, which identified itself as Occupy BLM, made its way down Santa Monica Boulevard before turning onto a residential street, where police formed a skirmish line and declared an unlawful assembly. . . . In a statement, BHPD said that protesters trespassed on private property, threw objects at officers, and pointed a laser at officers.” But no one was arrested.
Archive for 2020
June 14, 2020
2020: THE YEAR GUN CONTROL DIED. Gun opponents would leave predatory cops armed and their victims helpless.
QUESTION ASKED AND (POSSIBLY) ANSWERED: “[H]ow much of the response to the public killing of one George Floyd has been an engineered operation by the Democratic Party and its allies in the propaganda industry? I’d say, an awful lot, considering the presentation of events in The New York Times and other organs of the perpetual Resistance that have been luxuriating in existential woe surrounding the indecencies of whiteness, culminating in the fake abject ritual of contrition put on by Ms. Pelosi and Chuck Schumer taking-a-knee in their Kente cloth prayer shawls. Within a few more days, at least four cops around the country were ambushed and shot in the head, but there were no public displays of mourning for them.”
(Via Power Line.)
WHEN YOU’VE LOST AN EDITOR OF ROLLING STONE. Matt Taibbi: The American Press Is Destroying Itself.
“It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind. It’s become a cowardly mob of upper-class social media addicts, Twitter Robespierres who move from discipline to discipline torching reputations and jobs with breathtaking casualness. The leaders of this new movement are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry, and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats, and intimidation. They are counting on the guilt-ridden, self-flagellating nature of traditional American progressives, who will not stand up for themselves, and will walk to the Razor voluntarily.”
At Townhall, Matt Vespa writes, “But if you shame, deplatform, and purge those liberals who haven’t gone totally insane from your ranks, I could see how abolishing the police could seem like a possibility if you’re a lefty loon. The media appears to be a place where there can be no debate, where its writers work in fear, and the political correctness enforcers acting like ISIS’ religious police watch their every move. Yeah, I can see why that’s causing the liberal media to self-destruct. Submit or die is the special of the day for the American Left. And that is why I’m proud not to be a liberal or a Democrat. Taibbi’s post is lengthy but worth a full read.”
Related: I Don’t Believe The Media. The radical revolution that has destroyed confidence in journalism.
More: Old and busted? The 1619 Project. The New Hotness? The 1793 Project:
Given that so many cancellations hinge on the accusation that safety is being undermined, I would suggest a different metaphor than Mao. Mine is no less hyperbolic, but it puts the focus where my reporting—and Haidt and Lukianoff’s research—suggest it should be. In 1793, the Committee of Public Safety took charge of the French Revolution on a promise to “make terror the order of the day.” Evidence-free show trials and ideological purges followed, consistent with the radical leaders’ belief that public safety requires public terror.
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Ironically, the same subset of people ostensibly exercised about emotional safety—the woke left—seem frequently inclined to level unsubstantiated accusations that inflict emotional harm. This makes it difficult to believe that these Twitter warriors’ true aim is the promotion of psychological comfort. Did any of them consider Uhlig’s mental health after the man was baselessly accused? Does anyone care about Roman, who probably did not expect her enemies to ransack her Myspace page for evidence of racism and then pillory her for a photo taken when she was 23? What about Shor, thrown to the wolves for making a reasonable objection to what one wing of the protesters was doing?
As Robby Soave of Reason concludes, “That sounds like terror, not safety. Call it the 1793 Project.”
IS CHAZ EVOLVING INTO PARADISE?: I’ll leave that for you to decide.
TRAYVON’S MOM, SYBRINA FULTON: ‘I Think We Need More Police.’
That sound you just heard was millions of liberal brains blowing a circuit breaker. Trayvon Martin is a secular saint, and you can’t question anything his family says or you’re a racist. And… his mom doesn’t want to #DefundThePolice.
Have fun soothing your cognitive dissonance, libs!
Here’s wishing Sybrina Fulton good luck in her political career. She suffered a terrible loss, but she hasn’t let it warp her view of the world to the point where she advocates chaos and anarchy. Right now, that’s refreshingly bold.
Read the whole thing.
THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING: Photos: Pandemic-Fatigued New Yorkers Crowd Outside Of Bars & Restaurants.
STANDING UP AGAINST BIGOTRY: Orthodox Jews Sue Cuomo And de Blasio Over ‘Blatant Double-Standard.’
WHY ARE OUR WOKE INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM AND MISOGYNY? A Racial Reckoning At Condé Nast.. “It’s so hard to be a person of color at this company.”
MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS: CHAZ Resident Says ‘White America’ Will ‘See More Burning’ and ‘Looting’ If They Don’t ‘Get It Right’ (Video). The CHAZ resident has been identified as a prominent member of Antifa by Andy Ngo.
ELITE STANDARDS: Caltech Announces Two-Year Moratorium on SAT and ACT Requirements.
SORRY CDC, NOBODY’S LISTENING ANYMORE: CDC says new lockdowns could be needed if coronavirus spikes, releases new guidelines for going out.
Related: Is Attending a Political Protest More Important than Attending a Funeral?
Also: Amid a ban on religious gatherings, Church of the Woke gets a dispensation.
June 13, 2020
WHEN THE DAWN PATROL GOT TO TELL YOU TWICE, THEY’RE GONNA DO IT WITH A SHOTGUN: Armed Neighborhood Groups Form In The Absence Of Police Protection. Remember, police aren’t there to protect residents from criminals. They’re there to protect criminals from residents. “Only people with guns are on the rooftop.”
Just remember, you can tell the racial makeup of the groups by the wording of the NPR headlines.
IT’S AS IF ALL THE TALK ABOUT ANTI-RACISM IS JUST A COVER FOR AN ELIMINATIONIST WAR ON AMERICA’S HISTORY: Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier Of The American Revolution Vandalized In Philadelphia’s Washington Square.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Suspect involved in Christopher Columbus vandalism is teacher at Pawtucket Public Schools. “Derrick Garforth, 34, was charged with desecration of grave/monument, which is a felony. . . . Derrick Garforth, 34, and Charlotte Whittingham, 28, were both arrested. Police said Mackenzie Innis, 26, who was driving the car the suspects were in, was arrested also.”
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Denver school board votes unanimously to remove police from public schools.
Hey, worries about school shootings are so 2016.
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “The Left was pushing for large crowds to gather just a few days ago. They changed their minds when Trump decided to resume campaign rallies. This is just pure comedy now.”
OPEN THREAD: And the slogans are replaced, by and by.