FMJRA 2.0: The Agony of Defeat

Posted on | June 1, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: The Agony of Defeat

Much like Vinko Bogataj, immortalized forever as the epitome of miserable defeat, the Senators staggered to a miserable 1-5 finish this week, losing two of three to the Bravos at the Launching Pad before coming home and getting swept in three hard-fought games by Pete’s Brewers. The only win this week was Game #2 of the Atlanta series, where Joe Coleman gave up just three runs for his 14th win as the Senators teed off on Fergie Jenkins and then added two more runs off the bullpen for the 7-3 win. This leaves us tied with Boston at 61-69, eleven games behind the Brewers, one behind the Twins, and just 2.5 games behind the A’s. This coming week brings us a two-game set against the Angels (3-5) and three games against the Day Traders, who we swept last time we played them.
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Nothing Is ‘Secret’ Anymore

Posted on | May 31, 2025 | 1 Comment

The Glenn Greenwald scandal is an important reminder about the reality of life in the Information Age. This was the subject of a lecture I gave my then-14-year-old son Jefferson in 2013. The day the second Anthony Weiner scandal broke — while the disgraced ex-congressman was a candidate for mayor of New York City — it just so happened that Jeff needed a ride to an extra class he was taking at a school on the other side of town. We were riding along when something came on the radio about the story and I snapped off the radio and began ranting; “Nothing is private! Nothing is secret! Everything you do on the Internet, there’s a permanent record of it out there somewhere!”

The resulting lecture may have been 20 minutes or however long it took us to reach our destination, but I remember telling Jeff never to write anything in an email, DM or text message that he wouldn’t want to see as a headline on the front page of the New York Times.

It goes without saying that you should never “send nudes,” and never record a sex video. Online dating apps? You’re crazy!

Because I write a lot about crime, I’ve come to realize that video surveillance is now nearly ubiquitous, and this is very important. One of the reasons that Sean “Diddy” Combs is now on trial is because a surveillance camera in a hotel corridor caught him abusing his girlfriend. If video surveillance had been so widespread in 1994, O.J. Simpson almost certainly would have been convicted. Now think about what this means if you’re trying to get away with some kind of sexual shenanigans.

One of the most basic defenses against any accusation is alibi — you weren’t at the scene of the crime at the time it allegedly happened. Video surveillance makes it well-nigh impossible to get away with a phony alibi, so you move to what is typically the next line of defense — it’s a “he-said/she-said” case. The whole “campus rape epidemic” hysteria circa 2014 involved cases like this, where the college girl claimed she’d been raped, and the guy insisted it was consensual sex. This was why so many universities denied the accused male students due process, treating rape accusations as a student disciplinary violation and “trying” these cases in campus tribunals where the accused did not have the basic protections he would have had in a criminal trial. Getting a rape conviction in a courtroom, when it involves two drunk college students who stumbled back to a dorm room together after a party, would be nearly impossible. Such circumstances imply consent — what did she think was going to happen? — and it would take strong corroborating evidence for a prosecutor to make a rape accusation stick in a case like that (which was at least 90% of the “campus rape epidemic” hysteria) in a court of law.

Ah, but could your text messages be evidence? Such messages were brought to light in several of those “he-said/she-said” campus rape accusation cases, including the infamous “Mattress Girl” case at Columbia University. Paul Nungesser was able to produce text message exchanges with that lying slut Emma Sulkowicz which helped vindicate him, and forced Columbia to settle a lawsuit with Nungesser.

Do you understand why I felt the need to go off on that rant to my 14-year-old son in 2013? Young people today do not live in the same world I grew up in. Technology has changed the world in ways that we could never have imagined back in the 1970s. People nowadays go to prison because of types of evidence that did not even exist 30 years ago and people are destroying their livelihoods and reputations because of their online behavior. The “sexting” scandals that wrecked Anthony Weiner’s career is one example, and this weird sex video scandal with Glenn Greenwald is another. Why would smart people do such stupid things?

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— ?Laurie (@Laurieluvsmolly) May 30, 2025

Let us consider Glenn Greenwald’s response:

Journalist Glenn Greenwald angrily lashed out at his political enemies after a sex tape showing him in a compromising position spread on social media.
In a post to X on Friday morning, Greenwald said the clips were published without his ‘knowledge or consent’, and that he planned to take legal action.
The 58-year-old, who is also a lawyer, added that the leaking of the videos was done so by ‘political enemies’ to ‘advance a political agenda’.
‘Last night’s videos were released online depicting behavior in my private life. Some were distorted and others were not.
‘They were published without my knowledge or consent and its publication was therefore criminal.
‘Though we do not yet know exactly who is responsible, we are close to knowing, and the motive was a maliciously political one,’ he said.

Excuse me, Mr. Greenwald, but we actually do know who is responsible, and that person is you. What I mean to say is, your “sex tape” can never be leaked, if you don’t record a “sex tape.” While it is almost certainly true that your “political enemies” published this video — obviously, your friends wouldn’t do that — your enemies are not responsible for you being so stupid as to make that video in the first place.

By the way, Mr. Greenwald, since we are both journalists, can we agree that “sex tape” is an obsolete term? Digital recording has long since replaced videotape, and therefore there is no “tape” involved. Also, I hate when reporters use the verb “film” to describe the act of recording a video, e.g., “he filmed himself engaged in sodomy,” No, dammit! He’s not Cecile B. DeMille, and this wasn’t 35mm Kodak. Nothing was filmed! Nor was anything taped! Stop using those words! But I digress . . .

My point is that stupid is as stupid does, and how stupid do you have to be, as a controversial public figure, to think that you can record a sex video and there’s zero chance of it ever being leaked?

“The shame is part of the kink” — is that what it’s about? Some sort of masochistic craving for humiliation? Well, if so, Greenwald got the ultimate payoff, didn’t he? The whole BDSM world makes no sense to me, and never did. Being neither a sadist nor a masochist, I can’t comprehend either partner’s pleasure in such perverse transactions. Also (and I’ve said this many times before) there is a reason why some things are called “fantasies,” because if you try to do them in real life, the consequences are usually bad. There are many erotic possibilities which might be exciting to imagine, but which simply aren’t practical in real life. Trying to turn your kinkiest fantasies into a “lifestyle” probably isn’t going to work out as well as you hope, and may lead to your death or imprisonment.

Google “dog + sex + video + arrest” sometime and go through the headlines. First of all, you’d be surprised at how frequently police arrest someone for having sex with dogs. It’s at least once a month that such an arrest makes the news, and sometimes there are three or four such stories a month. The second thing, however, is that in almost every case, people record video of themselves having sex with dogs. Usually, it’s the video that leads to their arrest — they share it on social media or whatever, somebody reports them to the cops and, hey, there’s no “allegedly” about their crime. It’s all right there in the video. These dog-sex freaks have literally created the evidence that sends them to prison.

Florida influencer arrested
for having sex with dog for $500,
posting it on Instagram: Sheriff

Florida ‘influencer’ Logan Guminski

For $500, was it worth it? And did this “influencer” blame her disgrace on her enemies, the way Greenwald did? Because such an excuse would scarcely make more sense in her case than in his case. The important question is not how the video came to public attention, but rather why the video ever existed in the first place. Stop recording this stuff!

But people never ask for my advice, and when I volunteer advice, they ignore it, so I don’t know why I even bother offering helpful advice like this. When the next big “sex tape” scandal happens, I’ll just say I told you so, and why the hell do I keep seeing the phrase “sex tape” in headlines? It’s 2025, there is no videotape anymore! Nobody listens to me . . .

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In The Mailbox: 05.30.25

Posted on | May 31, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Saint Joan of Arc, also, 1956 DeSoto – Delightful, De Lovely!
Twitchy: Julie Hamill Schools CNN’s Brianna Keilar Over Cali Trans Track “Star”, What A Horrible Day To Have Eyes, and With One Nasty Dig, Joy Behar Sets Democrats Even Further Back With Young Men
Louder With Crowder: Michelle Obama claims a woman’s reproductive system isn’t for…reproducing, JD Vance REVELS in how bad legacy media fails at life these days, Instagram bro goes viral fighting his followers until he “gets knocked the f*** out” and he’s the hero we all need, and Jake Tapper’s book tour makes more sense when you see how RECORD LOW his ratings are
Vox Popoli: The Stalwarts of Library, Dual-Citizenship Illegal, and The Winds of Winter is Complete
According To Hoyt: The Voyage of the Space Beagle – Reading The Future of the Past, Growth Mindset and Evil In the Guise of Good, Today, and To Work or not to Work
Monster Hunter Nation: Gun Runner Graphic Novel – Backer Page up now, also, Update on what I’m working on
Upstream Reviews: The Last 49 Days
Stoic Observations: Rent Seeking & Inequality

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Why Trump Must Not Walk Away from Ukraine War Talks
American Greatness: Joe Biden Mocks Idea He Struggles Cognitively, Says He ‘Can Beat the Hell’ Out of Those Making Claim, also, Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Terminate Biden’s Mass Parole Program For Now
American Thinker: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Tax Code
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Ten Commandments Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 30
Behind The Black: Webb spots a new record-setting galaxy, only 280 million years after the Big Bang, SES cleared by the United Kingdom to buy Intelsat, SpaceX launches GPS satellite for military, NASA unwittingly reveals its bankruptcy by its reliance on AI, and Supreme Court unanimously rules the federal government’s regulatory overuse of environmental impact statements is wrong
Cafe Hayek: Debunking the Self-Styled Debunker, also, Imports Aren’t the Only Substitutes
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: What You See Is All There Is, About That Royal Navy, and When the Lights Go Out
Don Surber: It’s Democrat Policies, Stupid
First Street Journal: The Trump effect is doing some good things
Gates Of Vienna: Islam: Enmity and Hatred Forever
The Geller Report: Michigan Muslim Pleads GUILTY in Plot to Open Fire and Kill Jewish Preschoolers, Supreme Court Lets Trump Strip 500,000 Illegal Migrants Of Legal Status, NYC Mayoral Race Tightens with Jew-Hating, Jihad Marxist Zohran Mamdani Gaining on Cuomo, FBI Opening Inquiry Into Leak of Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision, and Obama Judge Blocks Trump from Ending Biden-Era Migrant Parole Program
Hollywood In Toto: Whoopi Goldberg Mocks Arson Attacks on Tesla Dealerships, also, FIRST LOOK: Hulu’s ‘King of the Hill’ Reboot
The Lid: Trump Admin. Uncovers Worst Case of Food Stamp Fraud in History
Legal Insurrection: Federal Appeals Court Tosses “Book Ban” Challenge, “the supreme judicial law of the land, at least in District Courts for the past four months, has been whatever Biden did, Trump can’t undo”, ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Who Received No Jail Time for Killing Woman in Car Crash, Jake Tapper’s Ratings Drop in May Despite Wall-to-Wall Media Tour for Biden Decline Book, and Catholic Bishops Sue Washington Over Law Forcing Priests to Break Confession Seal
Outkick: World Boxing Bans Imane Khelif From Eindhoven Box Cup, Will Require Sex Testing For All Fighters, Tim Walz’s Female-Hating State Just Watched A Biological Boy Humiliate A Bunch Of Softball Girls, Greg Sankey Announces Massive Increase In SEC’s Financial Penalties For Field, Court Storming, Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani Launch Massive Homers In First Inning Of Dodgers-Yankees World Series Rematch, and Oilers-Panthers Rematch Keeps Wild Jaromir Jagr Streak Alive
Power Line: Give Hibo the heave-ho, The Tariff Cases, Scandal at Harvard, the Big Beautiful Bill and the New York Times, New Orleans Dream Home, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Hope Florida Raises $785 Million At Governor’s Cup Golf Fundraiser
Shot In The Dark: Chicago On The Mississippi, also, Late To The Party
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Three Approaches to Terrorists
This Ain’t Hell: Whiplash on Tariffs, Valor Friday, and US government employee protests Trump’s policies– by attempting to share classified information
Transterrestrial Musings: Elon’s Presentation On Mars Plans
Victory Girls: Chris Cuomo Says Illegals Murdering Americans Is “Manufactured” News
Watts Up With That: Billions In Green Projects Up in Smoke as Trump, GOP Slice Up Dems’ Climate Largesse, Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part III: The problem with power markets, Climate Attribution Lawfare Hits New Low with 2021 Heat Wave Lawsuit, and Financials Shift from ‘Green’ Agenda to Greenbacks
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In The Mailbox: 05.29.25

Posted on | May 30, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.29.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

M.C.A. Hogarth has a new Kickstarter that may interest you.
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The first Conspiracy, by Centurii-chan

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Democrat Wants to Limit Your Freedom to Move Around, also Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gunfight
EBL: Slap Happy Macron, “?? ‘????? ??? ???????” : The Fall of Constantinople, Patrick Henry and Treason, anti MAGA Tariff Traitors, and Pirates of the Caribbean : The Horologist
Twitchy: CBS Claims Four-Year-Old Could Die Within Days If Deported, Democrat Influencer Claims GOP Is Using Her [Enormous] Weight To Distract From Real Issues, and MSNBC Whines That Troons On Medicaid Face Horrifying Future Under Big Beautiful Bill
Louder With Crowder: Trans TikToker cries big boy tears because she can’t find a suitor, Jake Tapper now slams the media for letting Democrats get away with their anti-Donald Trump lawfare, San Francisco forced to put their woke “equity grading” agenda on hold after HUMILIATING backlash, Influencer claims that Democrats would totally win the male vote if they listen to her, and Court Rules Trump Tariffs Illegal – Threatens to Destroy US National Security
Vox Popoli: AI-Sourcing White Collar Workers, also, Maximum Pressure

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Rubio Says U.S. Will ‘Aggressively Revoke’ Visas of Chinese Students
American Greatness: Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses
American Power: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
American Thinker: Why Does the NYT Oppose White Civil Rights?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Giant Russian Nuke Info Hack
Behind The Black: Elon Musk’s presentation “The Road to Making Life Multiplanetary”, Chinese pseudo-company completes successful hop test of rocket, Scientists believe they have detected the actual process in which Mars loses its atmosphere, South Korea rocket startup launches small prototype rocket, and Just as I refuse to say “native American”, I refuse to say “Gulf of America”
Cafe Hayek: A Conversation With a Protectionist, also, Oh, If Only Humanity Were Never Cursed by the Creation and Use of the Absurd Notion of ‘Balance of Trade’
CDR Salamander: What Happens When You Let The PRC Get Away With the South China Sea Grabs
Don Surber: I won’t side with Dems on BBB
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: While you can try to educate the ignorant, you just can’t fix stupid
Gates Of Vienna: Loay Alshareef Wants a Hamas-Free Palestine
The Geller Report: JUDICIAL TYRANNY: Majority of Trump’s Tariffs Blocked by Federal Trade Court in Sweeping Ruling, Elon Musk Announces End to His Time in Trump Administration, Report: ‘No Evidence’ Biden Knew of Executive Actions Signed Via Autopen, and FBI Director Kash Patel: James Comey Death Threat ‘Copycats’ Forcing Agency to Pull Agents off Child Sex Predator, Drug Trafficking Cases
Hollywood In Toto: Fockers Producer Admits Sequel Handcuffed by Woke, also, Chris Hemsworth Goes the Full Tom Cruise
The Lid: Freed Israeli Hostage Reveals What Hamas Thought when Trump Won the Election
Legal Insurrection: Illegal Alien Arrested in Fatal Jet Ski Hit-and-Run of US Air Force Academy Cadet, The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful of the Starship 9 Test Launch, Undercover Journalist Catches Administrator at UNC-Charlotte Bragging About DEI Despite Ban, Occasional Cortex Ramps Up Politically-Fraught ‘Abolish ICE’ Messaging Ahead of 2026 Midterms, and Columbia Investigated a Grad Student for Criticizing Transgenderism on Social Media
Matt Taibbi: It’s 3 AM and Private Equity Is Extending An Invitation To “The Big Club”
Outkick: If Others Want This 5+11 CFP Format, The SEC And Big Ten Should Welcome This 16-Team Model With Arms Wide Open, Angels Finally Bring Back Superstar Mike Trout, Yankees Fan Learns Not To F*** With Angel Stadium Security After Running On Field, Caitlin Clark Drama Is Emblematic Of Nation Afraid To Discuss Race Honestly, and Kristin Cavallari Gets The Dogs Barking From Her Tub, Paige Spiranac In MAGA Red & Is Bryan Cranston A Moron?
Power Line: Flying on the ground, The Supreme Court Tames NEPA, and Sanctuaries on notice
Shark Tank: McCormick & Ciscomani Introduce Bipartisan Bill Improving Veteran Readiness & Employment Program
Shot In The Dark: Affirmed, One Day At DFL HQ, and Tough
This Ain’t Hell: A few Trump observations, also, DOGE and the DOD
Victory Girls: Sec. Marco Rubio Announces Crackdown on Chinese Student Visas
Watts Up With That: Kathryn Porter on British Thought Leaders, GM Switches Gears On New York EV Plant As GOP Nukes Dems’ Mandate, and Not All That Sensitive
The Federalist: Power-Grabbing WI Judges Are Learning From Rogue Federal Jurists, HHS Tells Doctors To Stop Mutilating Children, Documents Show DC Bar Skirted Its Own Rules And Due Process To Target Jeff Clark, Declassified Doc Shows FBI, DOJ Declined To Charge Russia Collusion-Hoaxer Who Allegedly Lied To Congress, and Hemingway Presses White House: What Are You Actually Doing To Stop Ongoing Judicial Coup?
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In The Mailbox: 05.28.25

Posted on | May 29, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.28.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Censorship Industrial Complex
EBL: Speaker Johnson Says Congress Needs To Back DOGE Cuts, also, Eat More Chicken
Twitchy: Scott Jennings Laughs At Dems Trying To Reach Young Men With Tim Walz, Jazz Hands, & Troons, Democrat Activist Claims Young Men Are Pro-Abortion, Pro Gay Marriage, and Pro-BLM, and President trump Rejects $15 Million Settlement From CBS For Kamala Harris Editing Scandal
Louder With Crowder: “This is why you f***ers lost”, Occasional Cortex promised “consequences” for Trump’s Border Czar – Now Tom Homan is challenging her to put up or shut up, Elon Musk realizes GOP actively “undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing”, Undercover footage captures DNC official David Hogg admitting what WH staffer was the one who REALLY ran the Biden Admin, and The Cover-up of the cover-up: Our review of “Original Sin” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
Vox Popoli: Rethinking Free Trade, Haldane vs Kimura, and Everybody Hates George
Upstream Reviews: The Standard-Bearer’s Oath
Cedar Sanderson: The Price of a Man’s Life
Postcards From Barsoom: The Imago DEI

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Time for a ‘Big, Beautiful Deal’ for Greenland
American Greatness: MTG Says House Plans to Tee Up First DOGE Cuts Bill Targeting Foreign Aid, NPR, CPB on Monday, also, DNC’s David Hogg and Former White House Staffer Claim ‘Scary’ Jill Biden Staffer Wielded ‘Enormous Amount of Power’ in Biden Regime
American Thinker: Medicaid Cuts Will Save—Not Kill—Americans
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Paxton Up 9 Over Cornyn
Behind The Black: China launches its first asteroid sample return mission, The canyon that Curiosity will eventually climb, Astronomers discover a star radiating in X-rays and radio in ways that fit no known explanation, Engineers pinpoint and bypass fuel line problem on Psyche, and A positive endgame in Gaza begins to loom
Cafe Hayek: On Retaliatory Tariffs
CDR Salamander: This Is The Greatest Existential Threat To The Republic
Dana Loesch: From a Chainsaw to a Nail File
Don Surber: Democrats have a BO problem
Gates Of Vienna: Not Through Me
The Geller Report: Iran Rejects Temporary Freeze on Enrichment, Says It’s Not Worried About Sanctions
Glenn Reynolds: Scary AI and Scarier Not-Scary AI
Hollywood In Toto: Patti LuPone Says Trump’s Kennedy Center ‘Should Get Blown Up’, Life of Chuck Is Craziest Stephen King Adaptation Ever, Gad Saad Gently Shreds Kyra Sedgwick’s Anti-Trump Fears, Bring Her Back Is Repulsive, Not Revolutionary, and Karate Kid: Legends Offers Uneasy Blend of Franchise Favorites
The Lid: Sec. State Marco Rubio Blocks Visas for Foreign Officials Who Censor Americans
Legal Insurrection: SCOTUS Won’t Review “There are Only Two Genders” Middle School T-Shirt Free Speech Case, Three Months Later, DOGE Finally Gets Access To Treasury Payment Systems, Harvard Kennedy School Could Lose 60% of Student Body Without Ability to Enroll Foreign Students, Summer of European Blackouts Continues, with Outages in Nice and Cannes in France, and Critical Minerals and Rare Earths Mines Begin Popping Up Outside China After Trump’s EOs
Matt Taibbi: Does “Abundance” Beat America’s Culture-Warrior In Chief? Who Started The Culture War? and Jake Tapper’s Biden Book Is Hilarious & Insane,
Outkick: Angel ‘Smollett’ Reese And The Race Hoaxers Must Face Accountability, Miami Marlins Infielder Caught Crying On Field After Making Series Of Errors, Caitlin Clark Delivered Massive Ratings Again For WNBA Prior To Injury, Nancy Mace Is The World’s Hottest Mechanic, Nikki Glaser Pops Her Top To Let ‘Em Breathe & Angel Needs God! and Livvy Dunne Reveals She Played Through Pain To Shoot SI Cover
Power Line: Personal & confidential – WFB, Jr., A word from Secretary Rubio, and National Hamburger Day
Shark Tank: DeSantis Signs Bill Boosting Autism Support & Education Programs
Shot In The Dark: As The DFL Votes
The Political Hat: The Woke Way Of Thinking
This Ain’t Hell: Sad Memorial Day in Grapevine, also, Republicans compared to apex predators, Democrats to slow animals
Victory Girls: Secret Service Catfight Signals That The Agency Needs A Purge
Watts Up With That: Blackouts Surge – How Fragile Grids Threaten Global Energy Security, Exposing Alaska’s Green New Deal (Part I), and Reliance on ‘Renewables’ Makes Widespread Blackout Nightmare More Likely
The Federalist: Judge Ho Gives SCOTUS The Smackdown It Deserves, Mississippi GOP Asks Cops To Investigate Potential ‘Vote Buying’ Schemes, Like Scott Pelley’s Commencement Rant, 60 Minutes Is Unserious Democrat Propaganda, DOJ Sues NC Elections Board For Registering Voters Without Proper ID, and Media Falls Over Itself To Defend South African President Who Claimed Genocidal Chants Were Free Speech
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Special Gloatfest Edition

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George Floyd and the ‘Backlash’ Narrative

Posted on | May 28, 2025 | 3 Comments

‘Social justice’ in Minneapolis, May 28, 2020

Amid a nationwide carnival of destructive violence following the death of George Floyd in May 2020, few episodes of the “most peaceful protests” were more idiotic than burning down an affordable housing project under construction in Minneapolis. The six-story building was to have had 189 apartments, including 38 “affordable” units, as well as ground-floor retail space, and had been scheduled to open in spring 2021, but the arsonists of the Black Lives Matters movement destroyed it.

Nobody was ever prosecuted for that crime, but very few members of the mobs that rioted that year were prosecuted anywhere, let alone in Minneapolis, where the mayor and governor and district attorney were too busy groveling before the BLM crowd to do anything about the crime wave that followed George Floyd’s death. While the arsonists who burned down the affordable housing project went unpunished, the same was not true of those who torched the nearby Third Precinct police station — that was prosecuted as a federal crime, you see.

Clockwise from top left: Braden Michael Wolfe, Davon De-Andre Turner, Bryce Michael Williams, and Dylan Shakespeare Robinson

All of them got from two to four years in federal prison. What did these perps do to advance “social justice”? Where is the value-added? Who benefits from mindless destruction? Well, Democrats do.

You can click here for a useful compendium of facts about the death of George Floyd, who was not “murdered,” no matter what anyone tries to tell you. But the facts didn’t matter to the rioters, who did not actually care about George Floyd. They were just Democratic voters, whipped up into a frenzy of hatred, so that they could be mobilized on behalf of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. At one level, Black Lives Matter was merely a get-rich-quick swindle — “social justice” for cash — perpetrated by Patrisse Cullors and friends. At another level, however, it was about converting accusations of racism into political capital for Democrats.

Every year, about 1,000 people in the United States are shot to death by law enforcement officers — roughly three times a day, cops shoot and kill somebody somewhere in America, but very few of those cases become national news stories. The media are very selective about which police shootings they treat as important enough for national attention. In every year since 2017, the number of white suspects shot by cops has been larger than the number of black suspects shot. But there is no “social justice” angle in cops killing white suspects, so you never hear about any of those shootings. Also, you never hear about any case where an armed suspect gets into a shootout with cops. No, it’s always the unarmed black suspect whose death in a police shooting gets national media attention.

Guess what? Such shootings are a statistical rarity, and even in those rare cases, there are usually extenuating circumstances that explain what happened. Still, if you’re working with a sample size as large as 1,000 fatal shootings by police, and if about one-third of those cases involve black suspects, all you need is for one percent (1%) to be “controversial,” and you’ve got the potential for a race riot three times a year.

BLM activists had a habit of doing the “say their names” thing, rolling out a list of names of putative victims of police racism. Next time you see one of those lists, you should take some time to research the individual cases, because the majority of them fall into that “extenuating circumstances” category. The case that put BLM on the map — the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri — is quite typical. Activists manufactured a myth of innocence about Brown — “Hands up, don’t shoot” — but investigation proved otherwise. Even the Obama Justice Department couldn’t find evidence of police wrongdoing in that case.

So here’s the New York Times headline:

5 Years After George Floyd’s Murder,
the Backlash Takes Hold
The Black Lives Matter movement, kicked
into high gear after Mr. Floyd’s murder
on May 25, 2020, has given way to the politics
of “white grievance” championed by President Trump.

You see? It’s all about politics. It’s not about public safety or justice or any real concern about civil rights. Rather, it’s about Trump — Trump! Trump! Trump! — and the Democratic Party talking point that any time a Republican wins an election, it’s bad for black people. This is a sort of tautology that liberals never question, because they operate from the premise of their own good intentions (“we vote Democrat because we want to help black people”) and, on that basis, assume that anyone who opposes them must have bad intentions. To them, it’s self-evident.

Was all the arson, vandalism and looting in response to George Floyd’s death good for black people? Can anyone explain how burning down an affordable housing development helped the black community?

More generally, did the anti-police rhetoric of the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the “reform” policies implemented in response to that rhetoric, help or hurt the black community? Isn’t it true that BLM’s anti-police message tended to justify and excuse criminal behavior? And what were the consequences of that? Say hello to Nazir Clemons.

In December 2021, Clemons was working as a GrubHub delivery driver, and was parked outside of a restaurant on Clark Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, waiting for an order, when he was robbed by two armed men, who shot him and stole his car, a blue 2012 Ford Fusion. Fortunately, Clemons survived being shot, but guess what? The next day, 20 miles away in the Cleveland suburb of Solon, Ohio, police spotted the stolen Ford and a pursuit took place that ended when the driver, swerving to avoid “stop sticks” that police had put in his path, lost control and rammed into two other vehicles. Inside one of the other vehicles was an 85-year-old woman who died from her injuries.

The judge threw the book at Jaymarlon Hayes:

A harsh sentence for 19-year-old Jaymarlon Hayes today who will now spend 71.5 years in prison.
Cuyahoga County Judge William Vodrey said it’s where he belongs to protect the public.
“The defense suggest that the defendant has the potential to do good. I hope that’s true. However any good you do, will be within the state prison,” Judge Vodrey said.
Within a five day span, prosecutors said Hayes stole a car, shot a man and then crashed into a car killing 85-year-old Sally Schultz.

In appealing the lengthy sentence, his attorneys argued that “Hayes has an IQ of 72, and a record of untreated mental health problems,” and also, “Hayes’s father was incarcerated for most of Hayes’s childhood.” How is that an argument for leniency? You’re stupid, you’re crazy, and you inherited your father’s criminal tendencies? But I digress . . .

The deadly crime spree that put Jaymarlon Hayes in prison was not an isolated incident, but rather part of a trend of out-of-control crime in the wake of the George Floyd riots. Carjackings and other vehicle thefts soared nationwide. A study of major cities found that “the average carjacking rate was 20.1 (per 100,000) in 2018 and 37.9 in 2023” — that’s a 90% increase. There was also “an increase in motor vehicle theft, with the average rate rising from 475.6 in 2018 to 1,070.5 . . . in 2023” — more than a 100% increase. And finally: “Carjacking victims and reported offenders were disproportionately male and Black.”

Am I engaged in “backlash” by calling attention to these facts? Is it some kind of “social justice” to tolerate violent crime? Must we turn loose black criminals, without regard to the fact that most of the victims of their crimes are also black? How does such an attitude — the “revolving-door” jail, setting criminal free with a slap on the wrist — actually help anyone?

Some people say America has a race problem, but I would argue instead that America has a liberal problem. Liberals elect Democrats, and the results are predictably bad — Minneapolis has been a Democrat stronghold forever — and yet somehow it’s always Republicans who get blamed for what goes on in such places. The drug-addled criminal George Floyd dies in Minneapolis, and it’s Trump’s fault. Those of us who voted for Trump, and who live far away from Minneapolis, we are to blame for George Floyd’s death, rather than the Democrat-voting citizens of Minneapolis. Ladies and gentlemen, I plead not guilty.

If you want to call that “backlash,” so be it.

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