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Archive for 2021
July 25, 2021
NYPD BRINGS A RECKONING ON LEFTISTS WHO SEIZE PROPERTY AND CALL THEM ‘SLAVECATCHERS.’
It’s as though, after all the crime and violence from radical leftists, that the police have just had enough and have stopped giving them the kid gloves treatment.
As we reported, the LAPD let loose at the WiSpa last weekend actually responding to getting attacked by Antifa, whacking them with batons and taking them down with non-lethal impact munitions. A bunch of them were also arrested. Lo and behold, Antifa isn’t out again this weekend. Could it be that if they finally get a response to their violence that they learn not to continue, if there are consequences?
In New York City yesterday, left wing activists took over some vacant retail space that was under construction in Brooklyn, claiming it for the “community.” That got problematic when construction workers who came to work on the property found them there. That’s when the police were called and it didn’t end well for the leftists.
Evergreen:
FROM A FRIEND: “Inflation will impoverish the nation. Regressively. And everyone knows it.”
ROGER KIMBALL: Losing Our Liberty All at Once?
Joseph Hackett, you see, is a 51-year-old Trump supporter and member of an organization called the “Oath Keepers,” a group whose members have pledged to “defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.” (You can see how this ends already, can’t you?) The FBI does not like the Oath Keepers. They arrested its leader in January and have picked up many other members in the months since. Hackett came from his home in Florida to join the Trump “Stop the Steal” rally that took place on January 6. According to court documents, he entered the Capitol at 2:45 that afternoon. He left some ten minutes later, at 2:54. The next day, he went home. On May 28, he was apprehended by the FBI and indicted on a long list of charges, including conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, destruction of government property, and illegally entering a restricted building.
As far as I have been able to determine, no evidence of his destroying property has been made public. According to his wife, it is not even clear that he entered the Capitol. But he certainly was in the environs. He was a member of the Oath Keepers. He was a supporter of Donald Trump. Therefore, he must be neutralized. What about the Antifa and Black Lives Matter “peaceful protestors” who destroyed some $2 billion of property, killed or injured scores, and toppled countless public monuments? Take your time.
Earlier: The insurrectionary crime of “parading.” “Now the press hypes up a bunch of people protesting in the Capitol as some sort of combination of Pearl Harbor and 9/11. How different it was when Marxists stormed the Senate Building in October 2018 to protest the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh.”
BUT THEIR PRONOUNS WERE PERFECT: Team USA falls to France at Tokyo Games for first Olympic men’s basketball loss since 2004.
Earlier, from America’s Newspaper of Record: Inspiring: US Women’s Soccer Team To Boycott Scoring Goals Until Racism Is Defeated.
OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH YOUR LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT: Is Joe Biden Calling ‘Defund’ Democrats Crazy?
“Are there people in the Democratic Party who want to defund the police?” a reporter asked the president. Biden snapped back: “Are there people in the Republican Party who think we’re sucking the blood out of kids?” he said to the sound of bewildered silence. Check and mate.
To translate*, Biden’s veiled answer to the question posed by his interlocutor is, yes, of course, some Democrats support defunding the police. But they are as fringe, paranoid, and, indeed, vicious as the Republicans who subscribe to the most unhinged QAnon conspiracies. If that were true, we would be in big trouble. By any objective assessment, the number of Republicans who subscribe to some version of Q’s incomprehensible theories is dwarfed by the amount of elected Democrats who weren’t just amendable to defunding police but tried to translate that slogan into policy.
Flashbacks:
● George Soros funneled $1M to defund the police movement as violent crime continues to surge.
● Atlanta mayor says city has been ‘defunding the police’ for the last few years.
● Come On, Fact Checkers, Republicans Did Not Defund the Police. “Here’s an easy test to see whether fact-checking websites can make any claim to be ‘independent’ and nonpartisan in tone. Biden staffers claimed Republicans ‘defunded the police.’ That’s a bald-faced lie.”
● Revisionist History Now: How Will the Future See ‘Defund the Police’?
● Andy McCarthy: Republicans Mustn’t Get Hoodwinked on ‘Defund the Police’ Pivot.
* Also to translate: Joe Biden Had the Opportunity to Denounce ‘Defund the Police.’ But He Says Something Disturbing and Unhinged Instead.
JAMES LILEKS ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA VIRUS:
The great thing about Twitter is the way it allows corporations and nobodies to auto-clown in public in the same forum. Imagine picking up Saturday Evening Post in 1935, and there’s a big beautiful ad for a car, or a cigarette, or a bus trip. The height of the advertising craft, with a gorgeous illustration, elegant typefaces unique to the ad, attractive people engaged in the joy of the moment, all cares set aside. Directly across from the ad is a 27-word manifesto from Bob0323423 about how all pencils should be registered with the State.
“That’s impossible,” you say. “Bob couldn’t afford to buy the space.” True. Bob had to write a letter, and get it through the gatekeepers. Thus the magazine appealed to the widest possible audience, at least within the parameters it set, and Bob was resigned to writing his ideas on postcards and mailing them to everyone in the House of Representatives, where they were tossed, unread.
Twitter, let us agree, is not the Saturday Evening Post. Herewith some fun from the last week.
Read the whole thing.
(Classical reference in headline.)
FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE MAN: Chicago teacher sues school district after being fired for criticizing city’s violence.
IT’S A SLAVE STATE RUN BY BILLIONAIRES: Nikole Hannah-Jones hails Cuba as among the ‘most equal’ countries.
MANHATTAN GOES SUE ELLEN MISCHKE: “People, in other words, are running around half-naked.”
AT HELEN’S PAGE: Robert Zimmerman’s Conscious Choice: The Origins of Slavery in America and Why it Matters Today and for Our Future in Outer Space.
HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Asteroid the size of Giza pyramid, Taj Mahal to pass ‘close’ to Earth.
MISTER, WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE ERIC HOFFER AGAIN: On this day in 1898 … or maybe it was 1902 … and maybe it wasn’t even this day … maybe it was July 15, the great longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer was born. Maybe I’m just being nostalgic, but it seems to me that The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements is still worth a read … maybe now more than ever.
VOTERS ARE FIGURING OUT THAT THEY’RE GETTING IT GOOD AND HARD: Weekly Biden Report Card gives D-: Zogby ‘miserable,’ Babbin says #Bidenflation worsens. “#Bidenflation took a starring role this week. I define it to mean price increases caused by wild government overspending, the prescribed cure for which is more government spending. The Democrats are loading things such as amnesty for illegal immigrants and tax increases in their next $3.5+ trillion spending bill. Republicans thwarted it briefly with a filibuster, but the proponents will likely end-run the filibuster by including it in another budget reconciliation bill. Our national debt is soon going to be over $30 trillion.”
Promises that can’t be honored, won’t be. Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be. Plan accordingly.
PETER WOOD: Critical Witchcraft Theory.
NOT FITTING THE NARRATIVE: ALERT: Lib Summer Havens Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard Are COVID-19 Hotspots.
AT HELEN’S PAGE: The Weightless Ribbon: Rolling with Ease in Seven Lessons and Driving With Ease. (Bumped)
YES, BUT IN ALL AREAS THE IMPORTANT THING IS FOR THE GENTRY CLASS TO FEEL SUPERIOR: America Is Getting Unvaccinated People All Wrong: They’re not all anti-vaxxers, and treating them as such is making things worse.