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YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG BUT THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG IS INTERESTED IN YOU: Massachusetts Restaurant Bans Elected Official Over Alleged Anti-Black Lives Matter Comments.
WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Machete-Tattooed Machete Attacker Exposed.
I know I needed the break.
TWITTER + CNN = COMEDY GOLD: Clown World: Twitter Fact-Checks Hilarious Trump Tweet Meme on Behalf of CNN.
Sorry if you had been told there would be no math.
NOTHING GOOD: What Happens When the Cops Have Had Enough?
THIS ISN’T THE WAY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS REPORTING IT: Trump Campaign Ad Uses Antifa Symbol, But the Symbol Has a Disgusting Backstory…
TEN YEARS AGO THIS WOULD HAVE BOTHERED ME: Bad News Fauci: NFL Season May Not Happen.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Polls Are Getting Worse for Trump, Which Probably Means He Wins in a Landslide. “In a Briefing last month, I wondered whether anyone believed the polls even though I knew the question was largely rhetorical for devoted readers here. Well, maybe not for our regular trolls, but they believed the polls in 2016 too and that’s a big part of what made election night so delicious. That’s why we keep the trolls around, for moments like that. And for the clicks.”
DANIEL HOROWITZ: Atlanta shooting exposes the lie of BLM.
BLM: Blood libels matter.
They matter because when a dangerous lie criminalizing all police and victimizing every black criminal is allowed to metastasize, it turns America into a violent, lawless nation, harming the very people that movement purports to champion. The new rioting over what appears to be an act of self-defense on the part of an Atlanta cop demonstrates that this movement was never about justice for George Floyd.
The reason why the video showing the killing of George Floyd sparked so much outrage is precisely because it was so anomalous in police encounters. The video appears to show Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin kneeling, presumably with a lot of pressure, on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes, in a contained situation long after Floyd had been subdued.
Well, now we know that the outrage was not over that anomalous act. What the latest blood libel in Atlanta demonstrates is that those pushing the lie seek to criminalize basic police work and lionize career criminals who needlessly escalate arrests into violent altercations, often killing others.
If the goal is to increase lawlessness until people willingly give up their liberties in exchange for (illusory) safety, then it all makes sense.
WELL, YES: ‘Naive’ Europe must snub China if it refuses market access, says ex-Nato chief.
But he called on Europe to prepare to take a stronger stance and move parts of its supply chains from China to “stable and reliable” alternatives if China failed to offer reciprocity for the European Union.
“Europeans have been too naive for too long,” said Rasmussen, a former prime minister of Denmark who led Nato, the transatlantic security alliance, from 2009 to 2014.
“We had all hoped that we could live harmoniously and that over time engaging with China would lead to it being more like Hong Kong. Unfortunately, under [Chinese President] Xi Jinping it is Hong Kong that has become more like China.”
The EU tends to act mercantilist when negotiating with the US, but too often bends the knee for China.
Unchecked executive authority was just one of the many abuses the Founders tried to guard against, but I guess certain justices missed that day in conlaw.
OH: Google’s Go-To ‘Conservative’ Influencer List Who Claim ‘Big Tech Bias Is a Good Thing.’ “The list (at the bottom of this article) includes key conservative influencers from major think tanks and publications – some of whom are believed to be beneficiaries of large Google donations.”
WATCHING? I HOPE HE’S SWEATING: Intelligence Analyst Is Going to Prison for Leaking Classified Intel to NBC. Is Comey Watching?
THE PARTY OF COMPASSION, TOLERANCE, AND CARING ABOUT THE CHILDREN: Liberals React to Rep. Matt Gaetz’s Announcement About Adopted Son Nestor With Disgusting Homophobic Tweets.
HE WAS HONEST ON TEN OCCASIONS? 10 Times Barack Obama Acknowledged That DACA Was Unconstitutional.
I’M STARTING TO DETECT A PATTERN:
It’s almost as if Republicans and conservatives aren’t the problem.
REMINDER: The pro-slavery origins of American gun control.
The colonies with large slave populations also had significant populations of free blacks. South of the Mason-Dixon line, various laws were enacted against unauthorized arms possession by slaves, and sometimes against free blacks as well. In the South, slave patrols searched slave quarters to look for unauthorized arms.
Today, some people believe a bogus theory that the Second Amendment was created for the sole purpose of suppressing slave insurrections. But this can’t explain the ardent support for arms rights in Massachusetts, where slavery had already been abolished by 1791, or in Pennsylvania, where slavery was rare and already on its way to extinction.
In fact, American abolitionists such as Joel Tiffany and Lysander Spooner later used the Second Amendment to argue that slavery was unconstitutional: The distinction between a free person and a slave is that the latter is forbidden to possess arms. Because the Constitution guaranteed all persons the right to keep and bear arms, it thereby implicitly forbade slavery.
Soon after the Confederacy surrendered in 1865, Frederick Douglass warned that even after slavery was abolished (as it would be, by the Thirteenth Amendment later that year) the slave states would try to keep the ex-slaves in de facto servitude. Douglass explained the need for federal law to stop state and local governments from infringing the freedmen’s rights. Until there was a new constitutional amendment to make states obey the Second Amendment, “the work of the Abolitionists is not finished.”
Lots of good stuff — read the whole thing.
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I’M GONNA TRIGGER SOME PEOPLE WITH THIS ONE: Duluth Language Police Chop the Word ‘Chief’ from Local Vocabulary in Savage Move.
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