MY LATEST FOR THE PJMEDIA MOTHERSHIP: #DefundThePolice Fantasy Crushing Minorities, Inspiring Lawlessness. “Police have tough enough jobs even when their elected leaders have their backs; when police departments’ own governments abandon them, the breakdown comes hard and fast.”
Lots of video at the link, none easy to watch.
NIFTY: NASA Says The SpaceX Crew Dragon Module Parked at the ISS Is Generating Way More Power Than Expected. “In fact, the spacecraft’s solar arrays are performing ‘better than predicted,’ according to Stich, meaning that it could technically stay docked 114 more days, way past its planned return date with Behnken and Hurley aboard on August 2.”
GOOD: New Gun Owners Could Sway Future Elections. “Gun groups say millions of new gun owners could create ‘an even more formidable voting bloc’.”
DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE: TikTok: Beneath Its Fun Exterior Lies A Sinister Purpose. “TikTok is a very irresponsible company, dangerous by design. And not simply by carelessness, mistake or default: this is a deep and patent irresponsibility, a philosophy focused on the constant capture of all kinds of user data… the type of app you would expect from a Chinese company operating in China that makes a few cosmetic changes to adapt it to the West — if that — applying the same criteria and philosophy it does in China. In short, not recommendable for children or adults, particularly thanks to its sinister content recommendation system. And now under the benevolent guise of a Western CEO formerly at Disney.”
MOSTLY PEACEFUL: Black Lives Matter mob storms Target, threatens to ‘shut down’ business if they cooperate with police.
“All black people, living around this neighborhood, living around in this neighborhood, because you prioritize money over people, so until you stop calling the police, we continue to shut your business down,” the crowd chanted.
“Black Lives Matter literally threatened @Target today in DC. Apparently if that @Target in DC ever calls the cops on a black person ever again BLM will shut them down,” Hernandez explained. “Radicals.”
Hernandez said the group’s rhetoric mirrored that of Hawk Newsome, who co-founded the Greater New York chapter of Black Lives Matter.
Give in to the mob, get more mobs.
Previously: Black Lives Matter Co-founder Proudly Confirms: “We are trained Marxists.”
FAR LEFTY REVEALED TO BE FAR-FAR LEFTY: Biden VP Hopeful Rep. Karen Bass in Hot Water for Praise of Castro.
WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Teach Me How to Fly Your Plane I’m About to Steal.
WHAT IS HE ON? Jerry Nadler Says Antifa Is Imaginary.
I’D BE SHOCKED IF HE HADN’T BEEN: Does a Newly Released Document Prove Hunter Biden Was Selling Access to the Obama Administration?
AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Cities Protecting Statues By Disguising Them As Karl Marx.
WHO OWNS YOUR STUFF? With YouTube Music, Google is holding my speakers for ransom. “I could sit here and complain for days about YouTube Music’s regressions, the maze-like UI, and the weird blending of random YouTube crap and my music collection. But what I really want to shout from the rooftops right now is this: YouTube Music doesn’t respect people who purchase music. If you bought your music, uploaded it to YouTube Music, and expect to be treated like you own the music, this service is not for you. If you bought a Google Home smart speaker or any other Google Cast device, Google’s public position right now is that you’ll need to pay a monthly fee to cast to your speaker once Google Music shuts down.”
JOANNE JACOBS: History of right now: Short and virtuous. “Tearing down statues and changing syrup logos are not enough to end racism, notes the Babylon Bee. So that no one will repeat the mistakes of the past, new history books will cover only the morally correct things that happened in the current year. Every year, the books will be burned and replaced.”
COME SEE THE RACISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: NYT ‘1619 Project’ Founder Demonized the ‘White Race’ as ‘Barbaric Devils,’ ‘Bloodsuckers’ in 1995.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Justice Is Coming: Businesses Sue Seattle for Enabling CHOP Antifa-stan’s Reign of Terror.
Longer-term, the smart move would be to stop relying on the courts and start electing Republicans.
LAST WEEK EVERYONE WAS TELLING ME HE’D ALREADY LOST: New Polling Shows Trump’s Electoral College Advantage Is Slipping.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Nightmare Time—What If Joe Biden Wins? “Most of us do believe that the current polling is, put mildly, completely full of crap. Still, we have to prepare for the outside chance that the polls may be right. A very outside chance, I know, but preparation is always a good thing.”
WHAT A RIDE: Inside a training mission with a B-52 bomber, the aircraft that will not die. ““When you look at the life remaining in the air frame, the B-52 is the youngest” in our existing bomber fleet.
The most recently-made Stratofortress rolled off the assembly line in 1962, and it could still be in service in 2052.
CHANGE: Is An MBA Worth It? After Covid-19, Absolutely Not. “Covid-19 has shone a glaring spotlight on just how archaic this type of education is. Almost overnight, business plans have been torn up, the rules we’ve played by scrapped. Executives can’t lean on the tactics they learned from outdated case studies—all of us are learning about our new world in real time.”
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