ANN ALTHOUSE ON THE IN DEFENSE OF LOOTING AUTHOR WHO WAS FEATURED ON NPR:

Looters “get to the heart of that property relation, and demonstrate that without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free…. Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police.”

That seems to present looting as street theater with a message. It makes an argument. A terrible argument. We’ve heard that argument in words many times over the years, and most Americans reject it. We want to work and build wealth and enjoy our lives and we want the great mutual benefits of hard work and wealth. Osterweil’s looting is a switch from making the argument against property in words and to speak with actions — the destruction of property. But that doesn’t make the argument more convincing! It’s a nasty tantrum thrown because you can’t convince people with your ideas. Ironically, fortunately, it makes the argument for the other side.

Read the whole thing.

Related: From Roger Kimball: Meet the Democrats’ Newest Strategist.

MATTHEW CONTINETTI: Pervasive Sense of Fear Will Help Trump Win Election.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: “3 Antifa members arrested last night in Portland. A preschool teacher, a Social Work Grad Student, and a Band Teacher.”

In accordance with the prophecy:

LIVE AND LEARN: Glenn Beck issues heartfelt apology to Trump for opposing him in 2016. “I am feeling so humbled this week. I feel truly horrible for the things I said and believed in 2016 about @realDonaldTrump. I believed the worst politically, which he proved me wrong at almost every turn. . . . I expected @realDonaldTrump to take control federally at the first opportunity. Here we are in a massive crisis. Bush ‘violated the free market to save the free market.’ Trump could have violated federalism to ‘save federalism’ yet he has stood firm through COVID.”

2016 ALL OVER AGAIN:

Biden also received no post-convention bump, as most candidates do when more voters start paying attention to the election. Biden was of course at a historical disadvantage with COVID-19 canceling out the possibility of a large-scale convention, but the trappings were all there: video presentations, major endorsements, candidate speeches. Yet still nothing.

Then consider the fact that Trump’s base support has not eroded. Trump’s popularity with voters, as measured by FiveThirtyEight, shows his support has more or less remained between 40-44 percent throughout his presidency. While he currently trails Biden in the crucial swing states, Trump enjoys a rock of support, even after three years of Russiagate, Robert Mueller, sustained negative media and entertainment coverage, sports team boycotts, impeachment and of course the pandemic. Roughly 40 percent of the country, we can assume, has simply tuned out the media.

There are other curious similarities between the Biden and Clinton campaigns. A Politico piece by Alex Thompson titled ‘Trump’s campaign knocks on a million doors a week. Biden’s knock on zero’ should startle any Democratic strategist. ‘Biden and the Democratic National Committee aren’t sending volunteers or staffers to talk with voters at home, and don’t anticipate doing anything more than dropping off literature unless the crisis abates,’ Thompson writes. ‘The campaign and the Democratic National Committee think they can compensate for the lack of in-person canvassing with phone calls, texts, new forms of digital organizing, and virtual meet-ups with voters.’

That’s from Stephen Miller in Spectator USA. But there’s bipartisan support for the notion: Michael Moore warns of 2016 repeat: Enthusiasm for Trump ‘OFF THE CHARTS.’

KAROL MARKOWICZ: ‘Compassion’ isn’t a fix for homelessness — it’s just virtue signaling.

THAT’S NOTHING. YOU SHOULD SEE HOW MANY OF MY FANS HAVE BECOME EFFECTIVELY MY “KIDS”.  (THOUGH, THANK HEAVENS, AS ADULTS. NO NURSING INVOLVED):  Rescue dog who lost her puppies adopts a trio of orphaned kittens.

SOME INFORMED THOUGHTS: Covid-19 policy: Assertions and provocations. “Disease suppressionists want to stamp out community spread of the disease over the long term, but if their policy were implemented and successful in the United States there would be no chance for vaccine Phase 3 trials to read out on anything like the promised schedule. If the political support for disease suppression is in part predicated on the hope for a vaccine sooner than the usual 3-5 years, then disease suppression is an inherently self-defeating policy because it delays vaccine trials.”

NOW I KNOW WHO I WANT TO BE WHEN I GROW UP:  Granny ‘Monkey Busters’ are battling apes with airguns.

NEWS YOU CAN USE – BUT WOULD RATHER NOT HAVE TO:  Get naked, and other advice to fend off a polar bear attack.

NEWS YOU CAN USE:  How ‘Love Fraud’ lothario Scott Smith ‘scammed’ women out of $1 million.

IT’S NOT THE FIRST TIME THIS CASE HAS BEEN MADE:   Mystery of lost colony of Roanoke solved? Amateur archaeologist makes the case.

DO IT. SMASH THE NARRATIVE:  DOJ conducting probe into nursing home COVID-19 deaths in four states.

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON, NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS:  9 Lessons Learned from Re-Watching Classic ‘Star Trek’.

OH, COME ON. LIKE IT WAS THAT HARD TO DO:  Republican National Convention Destroyed Biden’s Basement Campaign.

MY KIDS MAKE FUN OF MY ACCENT ALL THE TIME. THIS GETS THEM TOLD THEY’RE ALLOWED TO MAKE FUN OF MY ACCENT IN ENGLISH WHEN THEY MUSTER A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO MORE THAN A PITIFUL “WHERE IS THE BATHROOM” LEVEL.  I’LL BE NICE AND NOT DEMAND THEY BE ABLE TO WRITE NOVELS IN IT, AS WELL: Not Racism.

(And Kim is right. If I’d stayed here after my exchange student year, I’d probably have lost my accent. Going back for those four years was the fatal misstep.)

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  The Bloom is Off The Ruse – Tom Donohue and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Announce Support for Far-Left Democrats in 2020…

HE GOT OFF LIGHTLY. KARMA CAN BE MUCH WORSE:  Ted Wheeler Panders, The Left Pays A Visit.

TO BE FAIR TO THE PRECIOUS DARLINGS, OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM CONVINCED THEM THE ECONOMY IS A CLOSED PIE, AND NO ONE CAN CREATE VALUE. ALSO THAT ENVY AND THEFT ARE VIRTUES:  In Defense of Looting: Exercise in Leftwing Sociopathy.

SHAUN DOLEZAL WILL DO ANYTHING FOR “CREDIBILITY”:  Shaun King Scamming Off Chadwick Boseman Death.

WITH BELLS ON. WE MUST BEAT THE (MASSIVE) MARGIN OF FRAUD AND MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE:  It is the PARTY of Biden that must lose big in November.

NO. DON’T DO THAT. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES LET THE LEFT KNOW HOW MANY VOTES THEY NEED TO MANUFACTURE!  Democratic voters swamp CSPAN to say they are switching to Trump.

THEY ARE FEEDING THE VIOLENCE WITH THEIR LIES:  The Jacob Blake narrative: on getting the story straight.

And considering who Jacob Blake is and what he actually was guilty of, are we to assume the left is now done with the #metoo movement? Or perhaps the stone cold racists never meant for it to apply to black women?

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