ANALYSIS: TRUE. The government — in failing to maintain order in Kenosha — deserves blame for the Kyle Rittenhouse incident. . . Evers is at fault and so is the leadership of Kenosha.

NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS: The elite American media apparatus is disturbingly similar to the Chinese propaganda machine.

BECAUSE THEY’RE NO LONGER GOOD AT TRAINING PEOPLE FOR JOBS OR LIFE:  Why Academia Is Doomed.

CHILDREN, LET THIS SHOW WHAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU GIVE UP YOUR GUNS!  COVID Madness Continues Down Under – Australia Northern Territory Use Army to Force People Into Quarantine.

Molon Labe, Brandon!

STOP HECTORING US, MSM:  NBC Thanksgiving Suggestions to Cope With Joe Biden Inflation, Don’t Buy Turkey and Don’t Invite Family.

Who gave you permission to talk that way to Americans, you evil, rotten little children in adult bodies?

THE LEFT HAS MINDS LIKE SINKHOLES: Waukesha Parade Terror Sparks Vile Reactions.

OF COURSE:  Darrell Brooks, Waukesha Suspect, Career Criminal.

FROM LAURA MONTGOMERY:  Transport and Deliver (Martha’s Sons Book 5).

When flight on a boat jeopardizes all a family has worked for, can an errant son risk his life to save their future?

The Luwenthals—second generation settlers on the lost planet Not What We Were Looking For—confront the destruction of their past life, and are forced to flee. As the boat containing the family’s prized linotype crosses a river lit by the flames of the printshop they had to abandon, fifteen-year-old Tobias Luwenthal must face his father’s ire over what he sees as his son’s betrayal. Disaster strikes, but will Tobias seize the chance to redeem himself at the cost of his own life? Will his father learn from his son as Tobias has learned from him?

A short story that picks up right at the end of The Gear Engages.

If you’ve enjoyed the Martha’s Sons series, start reading now for a glimpse into what happens next in this dystopian lost world!

WAIT! I HAVE TO FINISH IRONING MY SHOCKED FACE:  Confirmed: Andrew Cuomo Is A Bad Person.

DEFINITELY NOT WRONG:  Productivity and Attrition: The Last Straw?

IF YOU PUT YOUR TONGUE IN YOUR CHEEK THAT FAR, DOES IT STICK?  Oh, For Sensible Obama Era Economics.

HE’S NOT WRONG: The worst kind of domestic terrorism.

I HAVEN’T FOLLOWED THIS CASE AT ALL: Andrew Branca: Arbery Case Trial: Based On Closing Arguments, Not Guilty Verdicts Are A Real Possibility.

But one of my former students, now a criminal defense lawyer in L.A., said she could give a better closing argument than either side did here. She’s probably right, but that’s setting the bar high.

HAHA, MAMA GOT ATTITUDE: Elon Musk’s mother mocked Biden for saying GM ‘electrified the entire automobile industry.’ “GM plans to have an all-electric vehicle line-up by 2035, but the vast majority of the automaker’s sales are still from combustion-engine vehicles, while Tesla cars account for nearly 80% of the EV market in the US — something Musk, his mother, and his fans quickly pointed to on social media.”

Regardless of who makes the electric cars, it’s all bullshit if you’re not building nuclear plants to power them. Wind and solar are scams.

MEET THE PROGRESSIVE D.A. BEHIND THE WAUKESHA BAIL CATASTROPHE:

[John] Chisholm, who was elected in 2007, supports deferrals for some misdemeanors and “low-level” felonies in order to cut down on incarcerations. And he’s taken credit for inspiring a new wave of prosecutors in cities like San Francisco, St. Louis, and Philadelphia who have enacted similar reforms. Chisholm congratulated San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin following his election in 2019, and the pair spoke at a forum earlier this year on the status of the progressive prosecutor movement.

Chisholm and other progressives support reforms to the cash-bail system, which they say criminalizes poverty. He has acknowledged that his reform-minded approach could put murderers back on the streets of Milwaukee.

“Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into [a] treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody?” he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2007. “You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach.”

The Milwaukee DA said his office recommended $1,000 bail for Brooks following his arrest on Nov. 5 on charges that he punched his girlfriend in the face and hit her with his vehicle in a gas station parking lot. The woman is identified only by her initials in court papers, which indicate they have a child together. Brooks was also charged with eluding police officers when they arrived to take him into custody.

Naturally, “In the aftermath of the Waukesha car attack that left multiple locals dead and dozens wounded, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has called for an investigation into the ‘inappropriately low’ cash bond offered to alleged perpetrator Darrell Brooks Jr.”

In much the same way that the Biden administration is conducting investigations into the mysterious sources of higher oil prices and inflation.

#JOURNALISM:

OPEN THREAD: I hate robbing banks.

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH MATT YGLESIAS IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Yglesias: A good way to reduce racism might be to do away with mandatory diversity training.

His second bullet point is the one that caught my eye: “Doing fewer diversity trainings would, based on the evidence, likely somewhat reduce racism.” That’s just a restatement of what he’s argued above, i.e. if anti-racism training is counterproductive then a genuine anti-racist would seek to stop requiring such training, but it’s still striking.

This is where the rubber really hits the road but instead of drilling down on what seems like a key point, Yglesias sort of moves on. But the obvious point here is that anti-racism is now big business. It’s an industry with high-profile thought leaders and hundreds of individual trainers offering variations on a theme for a price. DEI has also become a growing career path for people which often seems to amount to the same messages and approaches but delivered by people who are part of the company rather than hired guns from outside.

All of these people are committed to the concept of anti-racism and I suspect few would agree that their work is counter-productive. But what if you could demonstrate that it is? Would their commitment to anti-racism lead them to abandon their own jobs? Or would they stay on the career path regardless of what the research says? To put a fine point on it, what does Robin DiAngelo believe about the efficacy of her own work? Given that she’s now made a tremendous amount of money off her workshops and bestselling book, would it be possible to get her to admit her methods are counterproductive?

What, and give up all the opportunities for grift? White fragility writer Robin DiAngelo charges an average of $14,000 per speech and makes ‘$728K a year.’

HEH:

UPDATE: The background for anyone who missed it.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Jonah Goldberg And Stephen Hayes Quit Fox News To Join The View.

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Just how many threatening asteroids are there? It’s complicated.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years.

Flashback: Trump Was Right In 2017 When He Said Statue Destroyers Wouldn’t Stop With Confederate Figures.

—Mollie Hemingway, the Federalist, June 23^rd, 2020.

DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE: China and the IOC Say Missing Tennis Star is Safe. Should We Believe Them?

THE MOST NEW JERSEY HEADLINE EVER: ‘Exposure Is Probably In The Thousands’: Starbucks Employee Tests Positive For Hepatitis A, Triggers Mass Vaccination Effort.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Get ready to forget the Waukesha attack.

It least five people were killed and more than forty were injured on Sunday night when a driver plowed his SUV into attendees of the annual Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The driver has been identified in news reports as Darrell Edward Brooks Jr.

The horrific attack immediately made national news because of the death toll and brutal nature of the crime. Videos surfaced online showing the driver veering towards members of the parade and narrowly missing many others. Sunday’s incident appeared eerily similar to the 2016 Berlin terror attack, where an ISIS member killed twelve people by ramming his truck through a Christmas market.

However it seems probable that Waukesha will be memory-holed by the agenda-driven media because Brooks was a black man and, according to his social media, an anti-white supporter of Black Lives Matter. This doesn’t comport with the leftist media’s demonization of white men, whose alleged privilege and toxicity are the biggest threat to America.

I don’t claim to know that Brooks was motivated by his anti-white hatred, but I do find it suspicious that the media was so eager to rule out terrorism. In fact, CNN, CBS and other outlets were reporting on an alternative motive before they had even publicly identified a suspect. The explanation they have offered as to why Brooks drove into a crowd of hundreds of people would make even the lowest IQ individual scratch their head.

Apparently, Brooks was fleeing another crime scene (“possibly a knife fight”) when he ran into the parade. It makes perfect sense, you see, when evading possible arrest to drive to a highly populated area with a heavier police presence and swerve into innocent civilians.

No one with two brain cells would think that this makes any sense, but mainstream outlets are breathlessly repeating it without offering an ounce of skepticism. Will this turn into another Las Vegas shooting? It’s been five years since that mass murder event and we still don’t have a satisfactory answer as to why Stephen Paddock would kill dozens of country concert attendees.

Rod Dreher notes that Brooks “was not fleeing a knife fight, as earlier speculation had it. He was not being chased by police. Why did he do it? Why did he drive his car on purpose into a crowd of people at a Christmas parade? We don’t yet know. But we do know from his social media postings that Darrell ‘MathBoi Fly’ Brooks really hated white people:” Click over for what is apparently Brooks’ social media postings. Dreher adds:

Again, this is all circumstantial. We can’t say what motivated Brooks to drive into that crowd of people. Was it anger over the Rittenhouse verdict? We will see. This will become clear in time, I think. But watch, listen, and read carefully to how the media report this unfolding story. A suspect with a record of posting anti-white hatred online plows his SUV into a crowd of what appears to be white people. There might well be no connection between his racial animus and what he did in Waukesha. But we all know perfectly well that if the races were reversed, we would be in media Armageddon now.

Based on the media’s response, you’d believe that a Google or Tesla self-driving car rammed through the Waukesha Christmas parade.

UPDATE: Was the Waukesha Killer a Stoner? “Cannabis use is an often overlooked commonality among mass murderers and other violent offenders — one that the British journalist Peter Hitchens has warned about for some time. ‘No, not every marijuana smoker goes out and kills. So what?’ Hitchens wrote in a piece for the Daily Mail, discussing the U.K.’s growing knife-crime problem. ‘Not every boozer gets into fights, or commits rape, or kills people with drunken driving. Not every cigarette smoker gets cancer or heart disease. But we act against these things because of the significant minority who do cause or experience these tragic outcomes.’”