YES, THEY REALLY THINK WE’RE THAT DUMB:  Jen Psaki: Republicans Want To Defund The Police.

DON’T WANT TO REPRESENT THE COUNTRY? DON’T COMPETE:  Gwen Berry’s Childish Olympic Protest.

I do however enjoin her to move the African country of her choice. We’ll even foot the bill and help her pack. And then she’ll find out what real racism and injustice is.  In a land full of tribalism.

CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?  Arizona House Passes Bill Requiring Schools Share Stories From People Who Fled Communism.

HE’S BAAAACK:  Trump Rally To Defeat Republican Who Voted To Impeach.

And he won’t forget and forgive.

OH. YOU MEAN WE’RE NOT JUST CRAZY ANTI-VAXERS? GOOD TO KNOW:  FDA Adds Warning About Heart Inflammation to COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines.

OKAY…  THAT WILL GO WELL. NOT:  Tucker Carlson: US military is intensifying a political purge of the ranks.

OH. THE CHICK WHO THINKS THE GUIDED TOUR OF THE CAPITOL WANTED TO KILL HER THINKS WE’RE HYSTERICAL:  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns of ‘hysteria’ on soaring violent crime incidents.

I guess we’d better cool it, right? Let’s start with a completely cool display of middle fingers and a hearty recommendation that she grow up. (And move to her spiritual homeland of Cuba.)

OKAY GUYS, I NEED RELAY TEAMS KNOCKING AT MY PARENTS DOOR AND TELLING THEM THIS:  Shocker: Lisbon court rules that only 0.9% of ‘verified cases’ attributed to COVID in Portugal actually died of it.

Then maybe mom will stop obsessing on how much danger I’m in. (Pfui.)  Be nice and do it only 10 am to  pm. Parents aren’t young. (On the serious side, I will never forgive the architects of covidiocy here or there for scaring an 85 year old woman out of her wits, or for making me miss dad’s birthday. We are so profoundly not amused. Our lack of amusement is deeper and wider than the Grand Canyon.)

FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU; TRY TO FOOL ME TWICE … AND YOU WON’T LIKE IT:  Debunking the scaremongering over the ‘delta variant’ of COVID.

They should at this point rejoice if all the public does is ignore them.

WHAT A CURIOUS WAY TO SPELL “LEADERSHIP FAILURE”:  Ideological Capture: When Top Military Leaders Adopt Critical Race Theory Verbiage.

CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?  California Parents Plan to Sue the State Over School Mask Mandates.

COUNTRY: YOUR RIDICULOUS JUNTA MIGHT NOT BE AMERICAN:  Biden Administration: Our 90-Day Covid-19 Origins Review May Not Be Definitive.

PERHAPS EMPTYING THE JAILS IN THE NAME OF COVIDIOCY WAS A BAD IDEA?  Mayor de Blasio Promises to ‘Flood’ Times Square With Police After Second Shooting.

THE PACK SMELLS BLOOD:  The Solution to Metastatic DC Corruption is Extreme Federalism, and Biden’s Crew Knows Exactly That.

The herd knows it. May G-d have mercy on our souls. I told them breaking the ballot box was stupid. I told them!

APROPOS OF PETER GRANT’S BLOG POST, YOU MIGHT FIND THIS BOOK USEFUL:  The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 (Touchstone Books) by Donald R. Morris.

There probably is some bias in there (and not on the side of white anything) though I don’t remember detecting it, when I did my deep dive into African history 17 years ago.  What became very clear to me is that whenever civilized (in this case defined as post-tribal) humans collide with tribal humans, tribal humans lose. They use the techniques that work in between tribes, imagining that their adversaries are also a tribe:
They start off with unimaginable massacres and horrible evil in the belief that this will cause the adversaries to back off. Because this works, between tribes. But when you’re dealing with people who view human individuals as both important, and important regardless of tribe, the more atrocities they commit the more they aggravate the anger of the civilized people.
The civilized hold back, afraid of committing atrocities, and the tribal humans commit more atrocities, and act like victors, while doing truly horrific things.
And then at some point the post-tribal people lose it.
What comes after is usually horrific and causes college social studies majors to cry centuries later.
This dance has been performed over and over and over again, since Rome at least. Since we had a polity that transcended tribes. The end is always the same.

So, the neo-tribal barbarians of the left who are following the script to the letter might wish to hear and revise their tactics.  They won’t, of course, but we should warn them, all the same. Since we’re the ones who are trying to avoid the horrors.

WE WILL FIGHT WITH EVERYTHING WE HAVE:  Reclaiming Art as a Force for Liberty.

I’m very afraid winning the culture war won’t be enough, or fast enough. And yet, we must win the culture war also, or there is no future.

SO…. DOG BITES MAN?  Today’s blacklisted American: Attendees at conservative event attacked by Antifa thugs.

ALL THEIR DAYS ARE WEIRD. THEY SUFFER FROM THE BIZARRE DISTORTION OF EVIL:  Joe Biden’s and Kamala Harris’s very weird day.

FEAR NOT, MR. PRESIDENT:  Do Not Miss This – President Donald Trump Full “Wake Up America” Interview with Ric Grenell on Newsmax.

The Junta has awakened the most terrifying and unrelenting force in history. The American people. They’ve made it clear they hate us, and mean to destroy us. May G-d have mercy on their souls. If indeed any of them still has them.

THE JUNTA THINKS WE’LL TOLERATE THIS:  DOJ Announces a Lawsuit Against The State of Georgia For Demanding Voting Integrity in Elections – Feds Fearful States Will Deconstruct Election Fraud.

I’d laugh if I weren’t crying.

OH, LOOK, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Prices in May Rose 3.4% Compared to a Year Ago, But Spending Went Flat.

CLOWNLAUGH MCROUNDHEELS PRETENDS SHE MATTERS:  Harris in El Paso, But Won’t Visit the Actual Border or Tent City in Nearby Fort Bliss.

Even as an actress she’s mediocre. I’ll never forgive Willy Brown for his lousy taste in women.

THE JUNTA HATES HUMANS. ALL HUMANS:  Biden Bureau of Land Management Nominee Advocated for Population Control.

Okay, they hate Americans a little more than others.  I’m starting to believe it’s not just mutual, it’s mutual in spades*. (*As in Ace of Spades HQ. And trust me, they hate the Junta.)

DO THEY THINK WE’RE THAT STUPID?  Democrats Trying to Rewrite History on ‘Defund the Police’.

That type of rewrite requires complete control of the means of communication. It requires our inability to say: Oh, please!

WE’D ALL LOVE TO HAVE PLACES WHERE POLITICS DON’T ENTER:  Who Gets Your Attention?

I tried. No, I really did. For years, and years, and years. But in the fields and places the left has invaded, you’re not allowed to ignore politics. You either proclaim allegiance loudly or you’re punished. Destroyed if they can manage it.

I’ve said it once, and I’ll repeat it: in a saner time, I’d be writing my stories, and people would be trying to figure out my politics, but unable to. And I’d never have talked about it. This is not a sane time. Oh, dear me, no. We’re very far from sane times. And perhaps it’s our very great honor to get to stand up for liberty and individualism. Even if we fail.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.