Sunday afternoon, police got a call about an “unconscious person” at a residence near the University of Idaho campus in Moscow, Idaho. It was soon reported that four people had been killed, but police wouldn’t say how they’d been killed or what the motive might be. Murders are very rare in the town of 26,000 permanent residents, and now here were four murder victims at once — two university seniors, seniors Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, both 21, junior Xana Kernodle, 20, and freshman Ethan Chapin, 20. Then on Tuesday, the local coroner let slip that the victims had all been stabbed to death, Police then said an “edged weapon” had been used in what they called a “targeted attack.” The owner of a local hardware store said police asked him if his store sold military-style Ka-Bar knives (made famous in the Rambo movies), which suggests they have some idea such a weapon was used in the murders.
Furthermore — and this is what’s freaking people out — police say that while (a) they don’t have a suspect in custody, (b) they don’t believe there is a threat to the community. Right. You’ve got a mass murderer at large, but don’t worry — there’s no “imminent danger.”
It seems obvious to me that police know a lot about the case they’re not saying publicly. Discussing the case with my brother Kirby, who’s pretty good with this kind of stuff, he thinks maybe the cops actually have their eyes on a main suspect, but are trying to get enough evidence or testimony to qualify as probable cause for a search warrant. This would explain why they believe there’s no “immient danger” to anyone else, because if police have a suspect under surveillance, and know why he did this “targeted” killing, then they also have reason to believe that the suspect isn’t just going around killing people at random.
All things considered, I’d expect police to announce an arrest within two or three days because (a) there can’t be many people who could possibly have a motive for such a “targeted” attack, (b) you don’t stab four people to death without leaving behind a lot of evidence, and (c) there’s got to be surveillance video somewhere showing somebody escaping the scene of the crime. Still, at this point, it seems very mysterious.
Federal prosecutors in New York said Monday they have declined to file criminal charges against former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, more than a year after his apartment and office were searched by the FBI.
The grand jury investigation has concluded “and that based on information currently available to the Government, criminal charges are not forthcoming,” prosecutors said in a letter to the court.
Prosecutors asked the court to end the appointment of Barbara S. Jones, the retired federal judge who had been appointed special master in the case.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan had been deciding whether Giuliani, one of Trump’s lawyers and a close adviser, violated lobbying laws when he campaigned for the ouster of then-U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch from Ukraine.
The FBI seized more than a dozen devices from Giuliani’s home and office during a search in April 2021. Jones had been reviewing the contents.
Giuliani “was very pleased” when he learned Monday he would face no foreign lobbying charges, his attorney told ABC News.
The attorney, Bob Costello, said he informed Giuliani shortly after the U.S. attorney’s office issued its letter.
“We are very pleased that they did this,” Costello said. “I’m not surprised that they did this because I saw the evidence, or lack thereof, and knew Rudy Giuliani didn’t do anything wrong.”
“They deviated from office policy by issuing a statement like this, which is very nice, because there’s a memorialization now that Rudy Giuliani didn’t do anything wrong in Ukraine.” Costello added he wished prosecutors had done it sooner.
“The mayor has been completely and totally vindicated,” Giuliani spokesperson Ted Goodman told ABC News in a statement. “The grand jury failed to find even probable cause that a crime was committed, which is the basis for a search warrant.”
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment beyond the letter that was filed on the public docket.
Costello had denied any wrongdoing by his client speaking to ABC News at the time Giuliani’s home and office were raided last year.
“They’re trying to make Rudy Giuliani look like a criminal. He has done nothing wrong,” Costello said in April 2021.
On April 28, 2021, Giuliani was awoken by federal agents at 6 a.m. at his home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Costello told ABC News. Agents took electronic devices, including Giuliani’s cellphone, while at his office they seized devices, including a computer belonging to longtime Giuliani assistant Jo Ann Zafonte, Costello said.
Giuliani, though he is now off the hook in the Southern District of New York, he remains a target of criminal investigators in Georgia over his role in seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The Georgia case will, of course, come to an ignominious end just as soon as it ceases to serve the partisan purposes of Democrats, which is why this federal “investigation” ended when it did. The whole point was to keep Giuliani quiet — to prevent him from defending Trump — while the persecution of Trump supporters and Nancy Pelosi’s J6 witch hunt continued through Election Day. Once the midterm campaign ended, so did the DOJ “investigation” of Giuliani. In related news . . .
It has been reported that the FBI had at least eight informants inside the Proud Boys, and a dozen more who were part of the J6 riot crowd, and it’s hard to avoid the suspicion that these fed assets acted the role of agents provocateurs, inciting the “insurrection” at the Capitol.
Rep. Higgins: “Did the FBI have confidential human sources on J6?”
Wray: “The suggestion that the FBI's confidential human sources or FBI employees in someway instigated or orchestrated Jan 6th, that's categorically false.”
Even if we could take Wray’s word for this — which we can’t, because he’s notoriously dishonest — one does not have to believe that the FBI’s sources “instigated or orchestrated” the riot in order to question what, exactly, was going on here. If, as has been alleged, the riot was a “conspiracy,” plotted in advance, why didn’t the FBI’s sources warn somebody to beef up security so that the riot could be prevented?
That’s a rhetorical question. Because we all know the answer.
As if further proof were needed. They quickly changed the headline and re-wrote the lead, but you have to wonder, what kind of hiring process results in one of the nation’s leading newspapers employing an editor who would click the “publish” button on something like that?
“A gunman has killed three people at a university — quick, somebody write an upbeat human interest feature on the killer!”
The 22-year-old University of Virginia student accused of killing three classmates and wounding two others on campus had previously been investigated by the school for claiming he owned a gun and was the subject of a separate incident in 2021 that involved a concealed weapon, police announced Monday morning. . . .
[Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.] had joined about 25 other students Sunday on a school trip to Washington, where the group watched a play and ate together, the university’s chief of police, Timothy Longo Sr., said at a press conference. When the students returned to campus, Longo said, Jones opened fire for reasons that remain unknown.
Jones, now charged with three counts of second-degree murder, had come to the attention of the school’s threat assessment team after they learned in September 2022 that Jones told someone he owned a gun, Longo said.
“The comment about Mr. Jones owning a gun was not made in conjunction with any threats,” said Longo, who told reporters that the office of student affairs “made efforts” to contact Jones and interviewed his roommate. That roommate did not report seeing Jones with a firearm.
Jones was at the center of “a prior criminal incident involving a concealed weapon violation that occurred outside the city of Charlottesville in February 2021,” Longo said, noting that, as a student, Jones was required to report the case to the school but never did.
The university filed administrative charges but the case was still pending when Jones allegedly gunned down his classmates Sunday night.
Heckuva job, “threat assessment team”! Nothing like filing “administrative charges” to deter armed violence. The three fatalities in the shooting were all UVA football players.
Lavel Davis Jr. was a particularly promising player, a 6-foot-7 wide receiver who caught 20 passes for 515 yards and five touchdowns his freshman season, and started six of eight games as a junior after missing his sophomore season due to injury. Now, here’s the “troubled childhood” angle that was the WaPo story’s original lead:
Once, Jones had been celebrated as a model of perseverance, overcoming a difficult childhood to earn his spot on a prestigious university’s football team.
He spent his early years living in Richmond public housing complexes, where it was often too dangerous to play outside, the Richmond-Times Dispatch reported in a 2018 profile. At night, while his mother worked, Jones was sometimes responsible for feeding his three siblings, walking to nearby grocery stores to pick up Ramen noodles or bologna. When he was 5, his parents divorced and his father left, a loss that he called “one of the most traumatic things that happened to me in my life.”
“When I went to school, people didn’t understand me,” said Jones, then 18, telling a reporter that he attacked other children who bullied him for being smart, leading to suspensions and stints in alternative school.
A woman who identified herself as Jones’s mother, Margo, answered a Washington Post reporter’s call Monday morning.
“I can tell you now that Chris was a good kid,” she said, before hanging up.
Brion Logan, his close friend and teammate in both middle and high school, recalled Jones being taunted as a child.
“Chris would wear outdated clothes and outdated shoes that a lot of people did not wear at the time, and they’d make fun of him because of his situation,” said Logan, a 22-year-old Navy enlistee. “He was always a nice person. He grew up in an unfortunate situation with his dad not being in his life too much and his mom not being the best-off financially.”
Despite the chaos in his life, Jones always made good grades.
“I would get upset because my intelligence was being insulted. Kids would pick on me — ‘Why did you do that? Why did you answer that question?’ ” Jones told the Times-Dispatch. “And in that world, disrespect means you should fight.”
When he reached sixth grade, his family moved to Varina, 10 miles outside Richmond. There, he found mentors, especially through football, but his relationship with his mother fell apart.
In search of a “new start” in 2016, he moved to Petersburg to live with his grandmother, Mary Jones. The Times-Dispatch story reported that over the next two years, mentors “helped him let go of his anger.”
“He always had strong goals. He was ambitious, but his anger simply got in the way,” one of those mentors, Xavier Richardson, said back then. “I try to help him understand that he has been able to succeed despite his obstacles, and he can thrive from them.”
Jones appeared to flourish in the years that followed. He played linebacker and running back at Petersburg High, earning honorable mention all-conference honors as a senior, according to a football biography on the University of Virginia website. He belonged to the National Honor Society and National Technical Honor Society and served as president of both the Key Club and Jobs for Virginia Graduates program.
Wonder if his high school yearbook entry mentions that classmates voted Jones “Most Likely to Murder Three People in Cold Blood”?
How could a Ponzi schemer hide in plain sight so long? That’s the real question at the heart of the story of how Sam Bankman-Fried, the son of two Stanford University law professor, became a celebrity in the financial world — rubbing shoulders with Bill Clinton and Tom Brady, among others — even while critics were pointing out that his crypto-currency empire appeared to be a swindle similar to multi-tier marketing schemes.
Universally known by his initials SBF, Bankman-Fried was nothing if not well-connected. His father, Joseph Bankman, is the Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School, while his mother, Barbara Fried, is the William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law at Stanford. SBF attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where “he graduated with a degree in physics and a minor in mathematics” in 2014. This is an important data point — whatever else you may say about Samuel Bankman-Fried, he is not stupid.
This is important, I say, because as you examine the rise and fall of SBF’s crypto empire, there are two possible explanations for what happened: (a) incompetence or (b) deliberate fraud. Given his academic pedigree, it’s difficult to believe it was (a) and therefore . . .
Say hello to SBF’s girlfriend/business partner, Caroline Ellison who, like Bankman-Fried, comes from an academic family. Her father, Glenn Ellison, is the Gregory K. Palm Professor of Economics at MIT. Caroline Ellison graduated from Stanford University in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. So the MIT/Stanford nexus is strong here and, if you’re old enough to remember the Vietnam War, you’re probably thinking about The Best and the Brightest — very smart people with degrees from elite schools who bring about catastrophic failure.
The details of what went wrong with SBF’s scheme are only partially known at this point. Until a couple of weeks ago, there was little awareness of any problem at the Alameda Research/FTX operation, and only in the past week has SBF’s world come crashing down. Basically, SBF created Alameda Research, “a quantitative trading firm specializing in cryptocurrencies,” in 2017. Then in 2019, he launched FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange that attracted over a million clients. He then started robbing Peter to pay Paul, making unauthorized use of funds belonging to FTX customers to prop up Alameda — allegedly, I hasten to add, as a responsible journalist. Predictably, there came a time when the money started running out, and SBF sought a new investor to rescue his enterprise; when that would-be investor did their “due diligence” research, they discovered that FTX’s bookkeeping was a toxic dumpster fire and — KABOOM! — the whole thing went bankrupt in a matter of days. The collapse was sudden, but it wasn’t as if people had no warning.
In April, FTX co-hosted the Crypto Bahamas conference at the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar in Nassau. The conference reportedly drew more than 2,000 people who paid $3,000 to attend. FTX’s cohost for the conference was “global thought leadership forum SALT” and the “alternative investments firm SkyBridge,” founded by Anthony Scaramucci. Among the headliners at the conference were NFL quarterback Tom Brady, former President Bill Clinton and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Literally every article written at the time about that conference referred to Sam Bankman-Fried as a “30-year-old billionaire,” and he appeared in a T-shirt, shorts and sneakers, which are apparently the only kind of clothes he owns. That was his chosen image — the billionaire slob.
Never trust people like that. Such behavior is disrespectful.
There was something else about SBF’s carefully crafted image, namely his oft-asserted claim to be an “effective altruist.” He wasn’t one of those greedy capitalists — no, Samuel Bankman-Fried was just making money so he could give it away as charity benefiting worthy causes. And, of course, by “worthy causes,” I mean woke liberal bullshit like “climate change” and massive campaign contributions to the Democratic Party.
“Sam Bankman-Fried . . . donated more than $40 million to Democrat candidates and super-PACs, including providing the initial funding for the Protect Our Future PAC. He was the second largest donor to the 2020 Biden campaign, pouring over $10 million into Biden-related campaign organizations.”
— David Strom, HotAir.com, Nov. 10
Is anyone really surprised by this? Of course, there are shady people in the financial world who are Republicans, but the 30-year-old MIT-educated billionaire slob? The “effective altruist” who cares about climate change and has a girlfriend who’s a Harry Potter fan?
No, he’s a Democrat. It only makes sense. As the tangled web of SBF’s multi-billion-dollar swindle is unraveled, we should keep this in mind: Democrats collected tens of millions of dollars in campaign contributions from a scammer who defrauded investors around the world. The damage inflicted by Sam Bankman-Fried is only beginning to become apparent. It’s possible that SBF’s swindle may collapse the entire crypto-currency market and, I repeat, people were warned it was a Ponzi scheme.
Click and watch that video, which was posted to YouTube in April, just about the time SBF was hosting his Crypto Bahamas conference. Stephen Findeisen, a/k/a “Coffeezilla,” is a Texas A&M alumnus who got interested in exposing fraud because of his personal experiences with friends who got involved in a multi-tier marketing scam. As Findeisen points out, there were interviews in which Bankman-Fried more or less admitted he was running a Ponzi scheme. There were numerous clues that SBF’s business wasn’t legit but . . . “30-year-old billionaire”!
Some people want to believe that the economic “system” is rigged, and that successful people are beneficiaries of unearned “privilege.” In such a worldview, the most successful people are the worst people and all the truly good people are impoverished failures. This belief system functions as a balm to soothe the injured pride of people who secretly envy the ultra-wealthy. Such people like to think that the reason they’re not rich is because (a) capitalism is inherently corrupt and (b) they themselves are too ethical to do whatever it takes to get rich. Having no such illusions myself — I’m just too lazy and disorganized, so once my “Become a Famous Rock Star” plan didn’t work out, I basically had no choice but to become a journalist, a notoriously ill-paid occupation — I don’t hate or envy rich people, and would be very happy if my kids became rich, because then I could just sponge off them in my retirement years. Meanwhile, I’m just rattling the tip jar in hopes that readers get enough entertainment value out of this blog they’ll be willing to spare some cash to keep it going, a “business plan” (if you can call it that) which has worked out surprisingly well over the past decade-plus. My own evening entertainment budget runs to a sweepstakes casino tab, a streaming subscription, and whatever bourbon happens to be on sale, which is to say I was never going to be invited to a $3,000 crypto conference in Nassau.
If you believe the “system” is rigged, however, the phenomenon of a 30-year-old billionaire tends to confirm your worldview, showing the economy to be a circus in which any sort of clown can win.
When this bushy-headed slob in sneakers was CEO of a company once valued at $32 billion, people could point to him and say, “See? Capitalism is just a gigantic crapshoot. All that ‘work hard and save your money’ stuff is just a lot of moralistic bullshit.” Now that Bankman-Fried is bankrupt (and quite likely to end up in prison), however, what lesson have we learned? We have learned what I’ve been saying for years: If something seems too good to be true, it’s probably neither good nor true.
Sticking the Big Yellow Button in here because this blog has always been in favor of shameless capitalism. There’s no “get rich quick” secret here, no something-for-nothing flimflam, just me writing stuff that I hope you’ll enjoy reading. A simple fee-for-service transaction that I’ve often summarized as The Five Most Important Words in the English Language:
A Belding [Michigan] man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver after leading police on a brief car chase.
In the early morning hours of Nov. 10, a pickup truck was spotted running a stop sign on Deaner and Wyman Road in Home Township.
When a deputy with the Montcalm County Sheriff’s Office attempted to the pull the truck over, it drove off.
The driver, Antonio Michael Rushford, of Belding, was with a woman passenger who texted dispatch and claimed that Rushford was not allowing her to leave the truck.
The deputy lost sight of the vehicle, but the passenger informed dispatch that Rushford crashed the truck and took off on foot.
Officials said they found methamphetamine in the truck after searching the scene where it was abandoned.
Deputies were able to locate Rushford when daylight broke after receiving a call about a suspicious man in the area of the crashed truck.
Further investigation determined that the passenger was friends with Rushford and willingly rode in the truck before he drove off from the traffic stop, officials said. She was treated minor injuries and later released.
Rushford was arrested and taken to jail by the Montcalm County Sheriff’s Office.
He has been charged with possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine and fleeing and eluding police.
As a journalist, I’ve long been fascinated by the vast distance between (a) the way crime is portrayed in popular entertainment and (b) the reality of criminality. In movies and TV dramas, the criminal is always cunning — sometimes even a brilliant “mastermind” — and his crimes are a mystery which can only be solved by the most careful detectives.
This Criminal Super-Genius motif is very useful as a fictional plot device, but in the real world, most criminals are stupid, and their crimes aren’t usually mysterious. Imagine a show called CSI: Montcalm County, and this episode’s called “The Missing Meth-Head Mystery”:
(SCENE: Interior, Sheriff’s Office.)
SHERIFF: The suspect wrecked a truck full of meth and disappeared. I’ll put my best detectives on the case and . . .
(PHONE RINGS)
SHERIFF: Sheriff’s office. DISPATCHER: We just got a call about a suspicious man not far from where that car wrecked. SHERIFF: What do you mean, suspicious? DISPATCHER: His face is completely covered with tattoos. SHERIFF: Thanks. (Hangs up phone.) The mystery is solved!
See what I mean? This episode wouldn’t last 10 minutes.
Look, I don’t want to be accused of aiding and abetting criminals, but if you’re driving around with felony quantities of dangerous drugs, maybe it’s not a smart idea to be running stop signs. Just sayin’ . . .
Permit me to suggest that if you get naked at the hotel pool and thereby display your penis to the general public, the police who arrest you can be expected to presume you are male. Because, in fact, you are male.
Chances are that you have never heard of this person before, but we are living in an age when it is possible to become a “celebrity” even though the vast majority of people have no idea who you are. And so that you may be fully informed, here’s the boilerplate paragraph from Time:
The 26-year-old content creator, who is transgender, became popular in the beauty YouTube space in 2015. Since then, her candor about her transition and popular makeup videos have helped her to amass a following of more than 29 million combined followers on social platforms including TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram. Last year, Dragun revealed her struggles with her mental health to her followers on social media. The beauty influencer uploaded a post to Instagram in which she said that she was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility for eight days following a manic episode on Thanksgiving Day. She then uploaded a YouTube video—which has since been deleted—in May, where she revealed she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Oh, “her candor about her transition” attracted “a mass following” and Nguyen/“Dragun” is now a “beauty influencer” with 29 million followers.
The fact that this person is a dangerous psychotic? Like the man said, when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro, and you’ve got to admit that weirdness is everywhere nowadays.
Nicholas Nguyen is a “woman” and Joe Biden is “president,” and it’s a hate crime to express skepticism about either of these assertions.
See? The before-and-after passport photos, helpfully posted to Instagram by the “transgender influencer,” demonstrate that the federal government is now playing along with these delusions. If you believe you’re a woman, you are a woman, as far as the U.S. State Department is concerned, and they’ll issue you a passport that declares this to be the case.
But a delusion is still a delusion, even if government agencies are willing to pretend otherwise, and then one day the cops show up because you’ve been parading around naked at the hotel pool — the unmistakable reality flopping around for all to see — and you end up in handcuffs at the county jail, pleading with a judge not to put you in a cell with other men.
“Inmate Dragun never made it beyond the booking process prior to release; therefore, she was never placed in a men’s unit,” corrections spokesperson Juan Diasgranados said in a statement. “All inmates undergoing our intake process remain in an open seating (open booking) area, in the presence of correctional staff.”
Diasgranados added Dragun was placed in a holding cell by herself due to her “high-profile status” before being released, and that she was escorted by an LGBTQ officer throughout her time at the facility.
“Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department (MDCR) is committed to protecting the rights of the transgender community and of all LGBTQ people,” the statement read. “MDCR has procedures in place for the appropriate intake, housing, and medical needs of transgender inmates, and we are committed to ensuring that all inmates in our custody, including transgender persons, are treated appropriately throughout our intake, classification and placement process.”
So they’re “treated appropriately” — although I suppose there are different opinions about what the appropriate treatment might be.
Speaking of treatment, TMZ reports Nguyen/“Dragun” is now “receiving professional mental health care in a facility”:
Nikita’s rep, Jack Ketsoyan, tells TMZ … “We want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for Nikita during this time. She is in a safe environment addressing her mental health. We ask for continued respect for her privacy and the sensitivity of this matter as she seeks treatment and healing.”
We’re told Nikita began seeking treatment Wednesday evening.
The transgender influencer has been open about her mental health struggles — in May she shared on her YouTube channel that she had been diagnosed as bipolar.
Nikita said she has a family history of bipolar disorder, though she was initially surprised by her diagnosis, because she didn’t quite understand what it meant to be bipolar. As a result, she says she didn’t relate her own symptoms to the disorder.
And by being “in a safe environment,” of course they mean, strapped in a straitjacket, locked in a padded room and injected with Thorazine.
Can’t wait for Nikita’s next TikTok video, doing the Haldol shuffle.
Y’know, it just now dawned on me that I missed the opportunity to do a really clever “Florida Man” headline on this story. Too bad.
My general stance toward Jennifer Rubin is to ignore her as much as possible, which is quite easy, because she’s become so predictable that no intelligent person takes her seriously. Recall that she was hired by the Washington Post as a “conservative” columnist, but good luck finding any controversial topic on which she takes the conservative position, and since the rise of Donald Trump in 2015, Rubin has been shrieking in unison with all the other #NeverTrump True Conservative Principles™ types who lost their minds from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Is it really my duty, as a mere blogger, to dismantle Rubin’s nonsense paragraph by paragraph, sentence by sentence? Is there anything in there that deserves so much of my attention? (Quick scan: nope.)
The unfavorable work-to-annoyance ratio, however, did not discourage Dana Pico at First Street Journal. After a late-night tweet on Sunday when Rubin, perhaps three-quarters of the way through her nightly half-gallon of wine, declared, “if Republicans would stop inciting violence crime might go down,” Dana sprang into action and cited the case of “Killadelphia” as disproving Rubin’s hypothesis:
In 2020, there were 1,009 murders in the Keystone State, 499, or 49.45%, of which occurred in Philadelphia. According to the 2020 Census, Pennsylvania’s population was 13,002,700 while Philadelphia’s alone was 1,603,797, just 12.33% of Pennsylvania’s totals.
It got worse last year: with 562 homicides in Philly, out of 1027 total for Pennsylvania, 54.72% of all homicides in the Keystone State occurred in Philadelphia. Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located, was second, with 123 killings, 11.98% of the state’s total, but only 9.52% of Pennsylvania’s population.
The other 65 counties, with 78.11% of the state’s total population, had 33.30% of total murders.
In 2020, Philadelphians gave 81.44% of their votes to Joe Biden. The Mayor, Jim Kenney, is a Democrat, as have been every Mayor since Harry Truman was President. The George Soros-sponsored District Attorney, let ’em loose Larry Krasner, is a Democrat, and won re-election in 2021, by a landslide. Philadelphia is by every possible measure, a heavily Democratic city.
It’s more than that. Those 65 counties other than Philadelphia and Allegheny? They gave 54.98% of their two-party votes — meaning: third party candidates excluded — to President Trump! It seems as though those evil, reich-wing Republicans whom Mrs Rubin claims are “inciting violence” are inciting it in heavily Democratic areas!
I’m far less familiar with our other murder capitals, like Baltimore (87.28% of vote in Baltimore City to Mr Biden) and St Louis (80.85% of vote in St Louis city to Mr Biden) and New Orleans (83.15% of Orleans Parish to Mr Biden) and Chicago (74.35% of vote in Cook County to Mr Biden), but it seems like most them are not exactly Republican strongholds.
It’s clear: Mrs Rubin somehow sees the assault on Mr Pelosi as somehow a far, far, far worse thing than the 441 murders in Philadelphia so far this year, or the 562 who were killed in 2021. I suppose I can only fault her partially for that, because that’s pretty much the way the Democrats as a whole see things.
These statistics are insuperable proof that Jen Rubin is an idiot and, to repeat what I’ve often said before: Crime is a people problem.
Democrats want us to believe crime is caused by guns, or poverty, or racism, but in fact crime is caused by — wait for it — criminals.
Democrats don’t want to put criminals in prison, because — once again, wait for it — Democrats are the pro-crime party. When people elect Democrats, they are voting for more crime, so the people of Philadelphia are actually choosing the daily bloodbath that is destroying their city.
Jennifer Rubin doesn’t care how many people get murdered in Philadelphia (or St. Louis, or New Orleans, or Baltimore, or any other Democrat-controlled urban hellhole) as long as the survivors keep electing Democrats. This is the sum and essence of her politics — Democrats good, Republicans bad — and no amount of evidence will change her mind. Trump Derangement Syndrome is incurable.
Murder suspects Dejaune Anderson (left) and Dawn Coleman.
It’s Halloween, but you don’t need ghost stories or scary movies to be afraid this year. There are real-life monsters out there in the world, and they are literally killing children:
A probable cause affidavit for suspect Dawn Coleman, who faces felony charges for neglect and obstruction of justice, paints a picture of the strange circumstances leading up to [5-year-old Cairo Ammar Jordan’s] death that led police to identify his mother [Dejaune Anderson] as a murder suspect. Posts about demonic possession, exorcism and blood rituals were used as evidence to develop probable cause to arrest Coleman and look for Anderson. Investigators also found photos of Anderson with the child on social media and Coleman with the distinct suitcase. . . .
Police obtained search warrants for the Facebook accounts of Dejaune Anderson and Dawn Coleman.
Investigators said Dejaune Anderson sent messages on her Facebook account. . . .
According to the affidavit, the [Feb. 19] post said:
“Can’t wait to tell my story: I had to raise my frequency, heal myself and past lives, heal my ancestors, heal (s***) in the universe, heal Gaia to exorcism a very powerful demonic force from within my son. (Had ppl in enough alignment with their soul to assist me.) Still I chose my soul and was able to completely heal myself and remove old paradigms from my mind. I know you can chose your soul with no questions asked.” . . .
Anderson had a run-in with South Carolina Highway Patrol [on March 12] and was charged with several traffic violations and child endangerment.
She was allegedly driving 92 miles per hour in a 60-mile-per-hour zone. Police said Dawn Elaine Coleman and a child, who Anderson said was her 5-year-old son, were also in the car. Troopers broke through the back driver’s side window when the women allegedly didn’t comply with police orders.
Anderson was booked into Colleton County Jail and Coleman and the child went to a hotel, according to the affidavit. . . .
After the South Carolina incident, police said Djaune Anderson posted:
“Stop getting caught up in the vessels of this realm. You guys get caught up with how old the body is, if they adult and kids, etc. Don’t even know it’s a full grown demon in the child body telling you what to do because you didn’t choose your soul. Better start using your 3rd eye.” . . .
Three days later police said there were several more posts: “Can’t wait to tell this story”
“About that exorcism” “A book about living with a demonic child”
“And a podcast” . . .
(Oh, of course — it’s 2022! You can’t exorcise the “full grown demon” from your 5-year-old without telling the story on a podcast!)
Police in Kentucky arrested Anderson [on March 31] less than one month after her incident in South Carolina when she allegedly tried to steal clothes from a Von Maur store and then punched a security officer in the face.
Police believe Anderson called Coleman from Jefferson County Kentucky Jail. She led troopers on a chase for about 30 miles in a 2019 Dodge Challenger before she ran out of gas.
Police said Coleman made a post [April 8] on her Facebook account:
“Just because the avatar is of what we call a child does not mean that it is actually a child there are beings that are here that are not supposed to be here that pick avatars to hide behind to play roles to steal energy and to ruin lives you better check to see if the children that you think are children actually have souls or if they’re not menevolent beings with a soul and in a child Avatar. Magic is real curses are real and there are some very powerful evil beings there that will curse your womb and then some. Nothing is what It seems and we are catering to evil beings in children avatars that aren’t even children. Vail need to rise most of won’t most will be wiped out because of your demons in this paradigm has no room for that. AK MG.” . . .
The day Anderson was released [from jail on April 11], police said she posted:
“Just got out of a jail mission”
“Yes had to do some healing and killing” . . .
Police used cell phone data from two cell phone numbers they said Anderson and Coleman used. [On April 14, the women] were in the area [Cairo Jordan’s] body was found from around 4:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Video from a neighbor’s home shows a car on Holder road at around 4:53 p.m. Police said it stopped where the suitcase was found. . . .
The post [on Anderson’s Facebook account April 15] said:
“This is a whole demon in a child body. Why you think she need a cigarette?! ! Losing energy huh! 64 years old in a child body. Was full of gifts and magickal rites stronger than many of you because your frequency not high enough. Start asking spirit to reveal these things to you hiding behind a body.” April 16, 2022: Body of Cairo Jordan found in suitcase in Indiana
A man who said he was mushroom hunting on his property found the suitcase on Holder Road in Washington County, Indiana.
The man told investigators he opened the suitcase and found a pillow with a black trash bag inside. He made the horrifying discovery after ripping the bag open.
That same day, investigators said the Dodge Challenger registered to Anderson was captured driving on Interstate 65 from Indiana to Kentucky at about 8:16 p.m.
Before we discuss anything else, let me ask this obvious question: How were these two women paying their bills? In March, they were busted by state troopers in South Carolina. Three weeks later, they led Kentucky state troopers on a 30-mile chase. They were driving a late-model Dodge Challenger which, even if they bought it used, would cost around $30,000. Are you driving a high-powered sports car? You go to work five days a week to pay your bills, right? But can you afford to just drive all over the place — South Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, etc. — in a late-model Dodge Challenger while occasionally trying to outrun the police? No, I’m pretty sure you couldn’t afford that lifestyle. So the question arises, how were Dejaune Anderson and Dawn Coleman paying their bills during this multi-week cross-country expedition?
A nationwide search is underway for the mother of a young boy found dead in a suitcase.https://t.co/LlJihAcUU3
My brother Kirby called this story to my attention, and wondered how it was that authorities in South Carolina and Kentucky who arrested Dejaune Anderson never called in child protective services? Like, here’s a woman driving 92 mph with her 5-year-old child in the car, and that’s not child endangerment? And while we’re asking questions, didn’t any of these cops notice that Dejaune Anderson is a raving lunatic?
A nationwide search is underway for the mother of a young boy found dead in a suitcase, a son she claimed to be possessed. . . .
Anderson is five-feet-five inches tall, weighs 135 pounds, with short dark brown hair. She’s known to wear wigs and hair extensions. Police said she was last seen in Los Angeles, and known to travel around California, as well as Las Vegas and Houston. . . .
Police arrested a second suspect, identified as 40-year-old Dawn Elaine Coleman, in San Francisco. She’s also facing charges of neglect of a dependent resulting in death, and obstruction of justice.
Again — Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vegas, Houston — these women just traveled around all over the country in their late-model sports car, and nobody seems even slightly curious about how they could afford to live this way. Did they hit the lottery? Or perhaps they fraudulently obtained some COVID-19 bailout money? Because my hunch is that these psychotic freaks were not engaged in any sort of lucrative legal employment, and with gas at $4 a gallon, it must have cost quite a lot to drive all over the country in a 6.2-liter hemi Dodge Challenger.
Especially when “very powerful evil beings . . . curse your womb.”
