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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | July 14, 2023 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

The de-institutionalization of the mentally ill has been a disaster for American society. Many cities are plagued by homeless encampments largely populated by people who would probably be better off locked up in a psych ward, but the state mental asylums got shut down decades ago, and the healthcare system doesn’t have enough facilities to deal with all the kooks and addicts out on the streets. Even when someone is clearly a danger to themselves and others, keeping them institutionalized is difficult. So the cops find themselves confronted by lunatics who do obviously suicidal things like charge at them with hatchets:

Chesterfield’s police chief calls for changes within our mental health system after he says it failed Charles Byers, who was shot and killed by police Saturday, July 8.
Byers’ death occurred just days after he was taken to into a mental health hospital. Chesterfield police say a temporary detention order (TDO) was issued for the 34-year-old.
His father tells NBC12 the family admitted Charles on July 5 after they realized he was experiencing a mental health crisis. He went to an area hospital, but the next day he was charged with battery on a healthcare worker.
He was given a court date for General District Court in Manchester but never showed up.
“This is every family’s nightmare when a family member is in a mental health crisis and clearly needs help, and the family does everything that they can to obtain that help,” NBC12 legal analyst Steve Benjamin said.
NBC12 received the arrest warrant, and Benjamin says it looks like the magistrate released Byers. He says with a TDO, Byers should have been ordered to be returned to the facility after his arrest, not released.
“It appears that this individual was released, probably because of just a failure of communication, which is exactly what the law tries to prevent. Nobody wants this to happen,” Benjamin said.
It’s a miscommunication that cost a life. Benjamin says we do not know enough if anyone is at fault.
“It may very well have been that the Richmond Sheriff’s Department did not know that he was under a temporary detention order,” Benjamin said. “If he was took before a magistrate who also may not have known that there was a TDO, so he’s released by the magistrate. If the deputy did not know that he was under an order to be returned to the facility, then it would not have been the deputy’s fault.”
Following his release, Byers went to a Chesterfield neighborhood Saturday.
Officers say he had a hatchet and tried to get into homes, and police were then called to the scene. Police say after trying to de-escalate the situation, Byers charged at them, which is when police shot him.
Benjamin says the purpose of a TDO is to keep someone safe who may not realize they need help or may not realize they could be a harm to themselves and others.
“This is what has Chesterfield police calling for change in the system,” Chief of Police Col. Jeffrey Katz said in a statement. “Our mental health system failed Mr. Byers, his family, our community, and my officers. I feel compelled to speak on behalf of their interests and to support the needs of those in crisis, their loved ones, and the professionals who dedicate their lives to aiding people in need.”
Katz calls our country’s mental health infrastructure shameful, saying in his part, “Virginia has made overt strides to address this problem in recent years, but substantive changes must come faster. Lives are at stake.”

Whatever happened to straitjackets and padded cells and Thorazine? Back in the day, someone “experiencing a mental health crisis” would have gotten such treatment, especially if their behavior included “battery on a healthcare worker.” A hatchet-wielding lunatic is prowling around your neighborhood? Call the cops. What happens if the lunatic charges at the cops? BANG! BANG! BANG! Problem solved. Maybe this wasn’t what the ACLU had in mind when they pushed for de-institutionalization back in the 1970s, but as a treatment for someone “experiencing a mental health crisis,” police gunfire has the advantage of being permanent.

Have I mentioned lately that Crazy People Are Dangerous?



 

Category: Crime

It Probably Wouldn’t Be a Good Idea for Me to Express Myself Bluntly About This

Posted on | July 14, 2023 | Comments Off on It Probably Wouldn’t Be a Good Idea for Me to Express Myself Bluntly About This

Y’all know about my son, whose job is to salute and complete the mission, no matter what kind of bulls–t mission the civilians and politicians may have gotten us into. Anyway, Glenn Reynolds has this:

Biden: Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty. “For the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic Resolve in and around the United States European Command’s area of responsibility.”
“Operation Atlantic Resolve” is the catchall name for the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Could I express an opinion about this? Yes, I could, but it “wouldn’t be prudent at this juncture.” And then there is this:

Daniel Greenfield summarizes:

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, who got her start as a Clinton intern, has a lot of thoughts on the military.

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said she expects within weeks to begin drafting a proposal for a recruiting overhaul so sweeping that Congress might need to pass legislation to enact all of it.
Depending too much on military families could create a “warrior caste,” Wormuth said. Her plans seek to draw in people who have no real connection to the military and to broaden the appeal of service.

There are sixth and seventh-generation military families. There is a ‘warrior caste’ insofar as you have families who have fought for this country since the War of Independence. They showed up, they bled, and now they’re to be replaced by drag queens and identity politics quotas.
“The Army is strategically deploying recruiters to communities across the country based on demographics, ethnicity, race, and gender,” Wormuth had claimed in a written statement.

Could I tell you what I think about Christine Wormuth? Yes, I could, but in the famous words of Dana Carvey, not gonna do it.

The fact is that the Army missed its recruiting goal last year by 25%, the worst recruiting year for the Army since the draft ended in 1973: “The Department of Defense said 77% of American youth are disqualified from military service due to a lack of physical fitness, low test scores, criminal records including drug use or other problems.” Despite the more-or-less desperate emergency in recruiting, however, the Secretary of Army has got everybody worrying about demographic quotas while she frets about the danger of a “military caste” if too many recruits come from families with military backgrounds. But because this person is my son’s boss, I should probably refrain from expressing my thoughts about Secretary Wormuth. However, I suspect the commenters will have plenty to say.



 

Category: Military

In The Mailbox: 07.13.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 14, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.13.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

The ultimate movie mashup.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Electric Vehicles & Insurance Nightmares
Flappr: Top Ten 2023 Home Run Derby Participants
EBL: Saint Jason of Tarus
Twitchy: People Wonder Why Biden Is Ordering Reservists To Europe,  Trump Advisor Challenges Chris Christie To Wrestling Match, and Taylor Lorenz Claims Muck Is Bribing Big Accounts To Stay On Twitter
Louder With Crowder: Activists cemented their hands to the tarmac, now they may lose them, Roseanne Barr ENDS the “what is a woman” debate in hilarious fashion, and Joe Biden confuses Ukraine with Russia, Zelenskiy with Putin in another derptastic appearance
Vox Popoli: Protecting Their Pedos, also, The Problem with Word Spells
Gab News: The Neo-Amish Movement

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Turning Immigration Law on Its Head
American Greatness: Ten Reasons Why Affirmative Action Died, also, Don’t Republicans Know That Government Spending Saps Economic Growth?
American Thinker: Pre-Emptive Presidential Pardons for Joe and Hunter Biden, America: Land of the Free, Home of the Deluded, and The Big Gaslight
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Scumbag News
Babalu Blog: After condemnation by EU Parliament, Cuba’s fake president begins state visit to Portugal, Baseball player Yasiel Gonzales gives up $17 salary in Cuba for opportunity in Dominican Republic, and Life in Cuba: No access to medicine or healthcare, no water, and no electricity during record-breaking heatwave
BattleSwarm: Problem: Austin PD Is Down 500 Officers. Austin City Council Solution: Fire DPS, also, Texas Mini-News Roundup for July 13, 2023
Behind The Black: New Viasat geosynchronous communications satellite in trouble, Final close-out of all science research at Arecibo, Extremely Large Telescope in Chile marks halfway point in construction, Senate committee approves Biden’s FCC nominees, and Enthusiastic censorship and blacklisting at St. Philip’s College in Texas
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Ending Celibacy in the Catholic Church – A “Solution” that Causes Problems and Solves None, also, The hysteria over the hottest day on record BS proves just how far to the left Boston News Channels are
Don Surber: Sarah Sanders For The Win
First Street Journal: CNN correspondent in trouble for telling the truth
Gates Of Vienna:  Biden Pretzel Logic: ‘We Must Embrace Antisemites to Fight Antisemites’, Santiago Abascal: “I am Here to Accuse the Government”, Oak Leaves, Eritreans in Giessen Get Frisky, and Not My Country Anymore
The Geller Report: DeSantis’ and the GOP’s Problem Isn’t Trump, It’s That Dems Rigged The Last Election, FBI Director Wray Confirms Joe Biden is Under Criminal Investigation for Ukrainian Bribes, and Democrat Media Axis Attacks Film Exposing Child Trafficking
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, One Less Beer to Cry Into, and Rho Ophiuchi
Hollywood In Toto: Stern’s Private Parts – When Freedom and Funny Reigned Supreme, also, Silver Lining: Hollywood Strikes Let Conservative Art Thrive
The Lid: China Could Attack Taiwan Within Next 17 Months, Says House Armed Services Committee Member, also, ‘Wired’ Magazine Says Owning a Home Security Camera is Racist
Legal Insurrection: Lawsuit: Rhode Island Law Illegally Seizes Private Beachfront For Public Access, NY Dems Get Another Run At Redistricting Republicans Out of Existence After Mid-Level Appeals Court Orders New Mapping, Ohio School District Spent $24K on Trainings About How to Hide Gender Transition of Kids, Research Finds Very Few Historically Black Colleges Offer a Major in Women’s Studies, and Secret Service Ending White House Cocaine Investigation
Nebraska Energy Observer: I like this
Outkick: Rory McIlroy Says He’d Retire Before Ever Playing For LIV Golf, And There’s No Reason Not To Believe Him, Greg Gutfeld Crushes Megan Rapinoe With Epic Monologue, Pat McAfee Delivers Solid Jokes During ESPY Awards Monologue, Proving ESPN Got Themselves A Star, The Oakland A’s Are So Cheap They Wouldn’t Even Send Their Mascot To Seattle For All-Star week, Veronika Rajek Offers To Be A Ring Girl For The Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg Fight, and Tim Tebow Is Going To Own A Minor League Hockey Team In Lake Tahoe
Power Line: The Secret Service Gives Up, also, The Great Relearning Plods Along
Shark Tank: AG Moody Busts Cryptocurrency Theft Ring In Orlando
Shot In The Dark: Never Forget
The Political Hat: Euthanasia In Canada: Everybody Is Going To Die; 5000 In Ontario Alone; Denying Disability Benefits But Offering Death
This Ain’t Hell: An Army Reserve Major was charged for defrauding Gold Star families, Are you boy, girl, genderfluid or non-binary? Father’s video goes viral, and Ex-CIA Spy Accused of Sexually Assaulting Trainee Under Guise of “Training”
Transterrestrial Musings: The BE-4 Explosion, Chalk One Up, Penn State, Islam And The Left, and Christopher Wray
Victory Girls: Foreign Group May Get Power Over Military Supplies Contracts
Volokh Conspiracy: New Lawsuit Against Bing Based on Allegedly AI-Hallucinated Libelous Statements
Watts Up With That: Heartland Institute President James Taylor Knocks It Out of the Park on ‘Hottest Days’ Last Night on The Ingraham Angle, also, Alarming Deterioration of US National Weather Service Tornado Warnings
The Federalist: Government Takes Cues from Leftist SPLC To Bully Opponents Like Moms For Liberty, Republican Secretaries Of State Say Blinken Should Resign For 2020 Election Interference, A Woke Children’s Literature Cabal Is Conditioning Your Kid To Be An Obedient Leftist, Is America Losing The Battle For Naval Superiority To Red China?, New ‘Twitter Files’ Reveal DNC Flagged Coverage Of Hunter Biden’s Laptop To Twitter For Censorship, and 10 Abnormal Things Biden’s ‘Return To Normalcy’ Brought Americans
Mark Steyn: Reclaiming Kindness

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In The Mailbox: 7.13.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 13, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 7.13.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“And if the cloudburst thunders in your ear/You shout and no one seems to hear…”

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum:  When Minutes Count, Cops Can’t Be Bothered To Respond
Ammo.com: The Most Gun-Friendly States, 2023
Flappr: The Top 5 Presidential Nicknames
EBL:  Is the USA overextending itself militarily?, also, California Crime Wave Spreads To Santa Cruz Sea Otters
Twitchy: Jim Jordan Defends Elon Musk Against FTC Overreach, also, Dear Trolls – If You Mess With Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik, She Will END You – And Tell Your Mom
Louder With Crowder: MSNBC Freakout: Blaming Joe Biden’s STAFF for letting him look like a feeble, discombobulated old coot, Oh my: CNN commits unforgivable sin and MISGENDERS Dylan Mulvaney multiple times on air, and Bud Light set to get blasted by Costco’s “Death Star,” pointing to galactic trouble for the embattled beer
Vox Popoli: The Non-Diplomacy Dance, NATO Failed Sun Tzu 101, The Military Wing of Clown World, The Ink Wall Crumbles, and Devil Mouse Doubles Down
Stoic Observations: Meritocracy & Feudalism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Secret to saving your Marriage
American Conservative: Citizenship Is a Privilege
American Greatness: Biden Administration Opposes Merit-Based Military Promotions in Favor of Race Quotas, also, IRS Whistleblowers to Testify on Biden Family Influence-Peddling Schemes Before House Oversight Committee Next Week
American Thinker: Two-Tiered ‘Justice’ Intended to Incite Rebellion, Is the 2024 Election the Last Gasp for America?, and It’s Time to Bring Back “Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Canadian newspaper Op-Ed denounces hypocrisy of Canada’s cozy relationship with Cuban dictatorship, European Parliament condemns Cuba’s human rights violations, calls for sanctions against Díaz-Canel, and A Russian family frolicking on a Cuban beach
Baldilocks: Flying The Flag Of Stupid
Behind The Black: ISRO completes launch rehearsal for Chandrayaan-3’s launch on July 14th, Amidst the mountains on Mount Sharp on Mars, July 12, 2023 Quick space links, Black Georgia Democrat switches to Republican Party, and Real pushback: Montana’s library withdraws from ALA because it elected a Marxist/Queer leader
CDR Salamander: No, Our SSNs Aren’t Ready For A Great Pacific War
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech, Back at Work
Da Tech Guy: Jim Caviezel as August Landmesser Delivers The Quote of the Year
Don Surber: Montana Drops Woke Library Association
First Street Journal: World War III Watch
The Geller Report: Pedo Biden’s DOJ Removes ‘International Sex Trafficking of Minors’ as an ‘Area of Concern’, Disney Theme Parks Sizes ‘Shockingly Low’ Amid Woke Backlash, and Biden Regime Opposes Merit-Based Military Promotions in Favor of Race
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Horsehead Nebula, and Hunter Should Pay Attention to John Belushi
Hollywood In Toto: Carolla Torches Newsweek Over COVID Misinformation
The Lid: ‘Wired’ Magazine Says Owning a Home Security Camera is Racist, also, China Could Attack Taiwan Within Next 17 Months: Says House Armed Services Committee Member
Legal Insurrection: FBI’s Wray and Rep. Massie Battle Over 1/6 Pipe Bomb Investigation, Bank of America Providing Gun Purchase Records, The Supreme Court Should Apply Its Affirmative Action Ruling to Military Academies, Joe Manchin Headed to NH With Third Party Group ‘No Labels’ as Democrats Scramble to Shut Them Down, EPA Issues Final Rule Limiting Hydrofluorocarbons Used in Air Conditioners and Refrigerators, and Florida AG Demands Zuckerberg Answer for Lack of Action to Stop Human Trafficking
Nebraska Energy Observer: Minitru. Propaganda, Misinformation, and Truth
Outkick: Jordan Spieth, Scottie Scheffler Voicing Their Frustrations About Being ‘In The Dark’ On Golf Merger Puts Things In An Even Fuzzier Perspective, Megan Rapinoe Thinks It’s All About Her, Says Retirement Announcement Will Help USWNT Focus At World Cup, ‘Bud Light Sellout?’ NFL Star George Kittle Fires Back After Endorsing Sinking Brew, Stephen A. Smith Says ‘Death Is Too Good’ For Larry Nassar During Scathing Reaction To Him Being Stabbed In Prison, and CNN ‘Misgenders’ Dylan Mulvaney
Power Line: Jake Sullivan on the Luft indictment
Shark Tank: Steube Urges Administration To Cut Ties With Corrupt UNESCO
Shot In The Dark: Participation Trophy, also, Peak Progressive
STUMP: 2022 Top Causes of Death in the U.S. by Age Group
The Political Hat: The Incredible Superficiality Of The Right
This Ain’t Hell: State-sponsored theft in Supreme Court, Two More Accounted For, and California Democrat introduces a bill that would require judges to factor race when it comes to sentencing
Transterrestrial Musings: Yes, It’s Obvious, Gavin Newsom, and “Republicans Erupt”
Victory Girls: Dems to Moms: “Sit Down and Shut up, Karen”
Volokh Conspiracy: Legacy Preferences, Citizenship, Migration, and the Implications of a Constitutional Ban on Hereditary Privilege, also, NextGen Bar Exam MC Questions Only Require Takers To Spot Issues, And Not Apply the Rules
Watts Up With That: The Whale Killing Study the Feds are Afraid to Do, “I hate tree huggers”: Britain’s Opposition Leader on Net Zero Proposals, and Bill McKibben: Is It Hot Enough Yet for Politicians to Take Real Action?
The Federalist: Why Is Congress Letting Incompetent Bureaucrats Bully Americans Into Paying Taxes They Don’t Owe?, Ohio Launches Election Integrity Office To Ensure Transparency In Future Elections, The U.S. Navy’s Personnel Crisis Is Only Getting Worse, McConnell, Thune Join Bad-Faith Dogpile On Tuberville For Fighting Military’s Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Racket, Senate Republicans Grill Biden’s Pick For Joint Chiefs Chair Over DEI, Transgenderism In The Military, and David French Joins The Mob To Smear Moms for Liberty

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Are YOU a ‘White Nationalist’?

Posted on | July 12, 2023 | 1 Comment

When my wife and I were stuck at the Minneapolis airport for a nine-hour layover Monday, I had to come back in through the TSA security screening every time I went out to grab a smoke, and on my final trip through the line, I noticed a teenage girl in front of me removing her shoes. This being Minnesota — a state with a large Scandinavian population — the girl was blonde and had her hair braided in such a way as to remind one of a Bund Deutscher Mädel propaganda poster.

The absurdity of the situation probably wouldn’t be noticed by most air travelers, who have long since become accustomed to the hassle of TSA screening implemented in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. But watching this blonde girl unlacing her sneakers reminded me of what I’d written when we started our trip:

Remember the “Shoe Bomber”? In December 2001, would-be terrorist Richard Reid was aboard an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami when he failed in an attempt to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his shoes. Because of this botched terrorist attack, all commercial airline passengers to this day are required to remove their shoes and send them through the X-ray scanners before boarding their flights.
More than 20 years have gone by, and if this safety protocol has apprehended or deterred a single copycat “shoe bomber,” I’m unaware of it, but it keeps TSA busy, on the taxpayer’s dime, inspecting us all just to make sure we aren’t some kind of Al-Qaeda sympathizer.

Everyone must remove their shoes, and everyone must empty their pockets and send their belongings through the X-ray scanners because the government can’t differentiate between who is and is not actually a terrorist risk. That would be RAAAAACIST, you see, and we can’t permit that. Therefore the Scandinavian teen with her Bund Deutscher Mädel braids must consent to be searched just the same as any Palestinian. Noticing the absurdity of this? Yeah, that’s also RAAAAACIST.

Even if you don’t pay much attention to such things, it’s easy to see why Sen. Tommy Tuberville is being targeted with a “white nationalist” smear. Ever since the 2020 exit polls showed Republicans gaining ground among Latino voters, liberals have been in a state of quiet desperation as they lay the groundwork for re-electing Mister 81 Million Votes.

It is no longer sufficient, given the circumstances, for liberals to point their fingers and scream “RAAAAACIST!” Gail Heriot has remarked:

The word “racist” got used up a few years ago. It had been used so often to apply to things that obviously weren’t racist that it lost its sting. “White supremacist” took its place, but it’s headed in the same direction.

As the “white supremacist” label gets worn out, now liberals have increasingly begun using “white nationalist,” thus taking a giant leap toward accusing people of being outright Nazis. With that in mind, take a look at these recent headlines in l’affaire de Tuberville:

Jake Tapper Slams
‘Most Abjectly Racist Statement’
He’s Ever Heard From A Senator
— HuffPost

McConnell denounces white supremacy
in response to Tuberville controversy
— The Hill

Tommy Tuberville triples down
on claim that white nationalists
are unfairly labeled racist
— ABC News

Tommy Tuberville Is Either
Extremely Dumb or Extremely Racist
— Rolling Stone

Tommy Tuberville now says
‘White nationalists are racists’
after refusing to denounce them
— CNN

MSNBC Expert Arrives At Darkly Hilarious
Take On Tommy Tuberville
— HuffPost

There is a game being played here, you see, and whoever is advising Sen. Tuberville apparently doesn’t understand the rules of this game.

The first thing to do, when facing such an accusation, is to question the authority of the accuser: Who appointed you — Jake Tapper, or whoever — as the Grand Inquisitor of this anti-racist crusade? Where are the credentials that establish your authority to conduct this inquiry?

Liberals never anticipate such a response. They take their authority for granted, and never expect to have their bona fides called into question. This explains why everybody says, “Charles Who?” whenever I mention my 2009 blog war against Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs.

The premise of CJ’s assault on my reputation was that I was a neo-Confederate white supremacist, whereas the premise of my defense was that Charles Johnson is a goddamned fool. Check. Mate.

To this day, I have no idea what genius was behind the comic-book parody Chuck Johnson: Race Detective, but it struck the perfect tone in mocking the absurdity of CJ pretending to be morally superior to the various conservative bloggers (including Pamela Geller) whom he accused of harboring crypto-fascist sympathies.

Having vowed not merely to survive this attack, but to destroy the attacker, I took advantage of the fact that, over the course of the preceding couple of years, CJ had been purging LGF of any commenters who disagreed with his madcap jihad against Geller & Co. There were a lot of people fed up with CJ’s bullshit, and so when I stood up to him, there was a ready-made audience cheering me on in that fight.

Nearly 15 years have gone by, during which I’ve covered politics at every level — and damned near got that ambassadorship to Vanuatu that I coveted for so long — whereas Little Green Footballs . . .

Well, “Charles Who?”

If more people understood how to respond to such attacks, we could permanently wreck the Progressive Smear Machine, and leave it in a heap of discredited scrap metal. Forget about denying the accusation, or explaining away whatever “evidence” the accuser is waving in your face. Question the premise of the accusation (i.e., the belief that there is some eminent danger from a secretive cabal of right-wing RAAAAACISTS!) and question the authority of the accuser. Why should anyone care about me (or you or Tommy Tuberville) as a suspected member of this alleged “white nationalist” conspiracy? What have I done — or what am I supposed to be planning to do — that poses such a menace to the commonweal that my allegedly malevolent intent must be “exposed”? To ask such questions is usually enough to make reasonable people pause and examine the important question of motive: What’s the point of all this “investigative journalism” stuff about accusations of racism (or “white supremacy” or “white nationalism,” etc.)?

What do these self-appointed investigators aim to achieve by “exposing” the terrible Thought Crimes of the Wrongthinkers?

Even if some people are indisputably far gone down the path of race-obsessed kookiness (e.g., Kevin DeAnna and the “Wolves of Vinland”), do we really need an army of self-appointed investigators to root around for every telltale clue of secretive “white nationalist” sentiment in order to DEMAND THAT EVERY REPUBLICAN DENOUNCE IT?

The bottom line to this whole thing is that it’s just partisan politics — “Democratic Operatives With Bylines” trying to help their bosses win another election by smearing Republicans as crypto-Nazis.

There is no actual danger — no genuine nexus between violent extremists and, for example, a senator’s objections to Pentagon policy (which is why Tuberville has been blocking military promotions, thus making himself a target of this crazy “white nationalist” attack).

If the intent of the “We Must Expose the Racists” crowd were to reduce the level of racial hostility in America, they wouldn’t be operating the way they operate, which tends to exacerbate paranoia all around. Constantly being told that a sizable proportion of white Americans harbor hateful sentiments, black people and other minorities are encouraged to hate and fear white people, and to buy into a victimhood narrative, where every problem in their lives is to be explained by “systemic racism.” Meanwhile, any white person concerned about the drift of social and political trends — e.g., the lawless anarchy in “Killadelphia” — is confronted with evidence that the media elite are actually in favor of turning the country into a nightmare dystopia of unpunished theft, open-air drug markets, drive-by shootings, etc. Every day, observant people can see headlines like “Illinois to Require Landlords Rent to Illegal Aliens” and calculate which way the winds are blowing, and if they don’t like it? Well, they’re “white nationalists,” according to the liberal media and, after a while, some people will start asking themselves, “Am I really that name they keep calling me? Maybe I should check out this ‘white nationalism’ stuff and see what it’s about.” Where might this lead?

Well if you want more Trump, this is how you get more Trump.

The more liberals keep denouncing everything and everybody as “racist,” “white supremacist,” “white nationalist,” etc., the more indifferent people will become to these accusations, and many of them may start sympathizing with genuinely dangerous people. Liberal journalism is like free advertising for the kook fringe. If CNN keeps calling your Republican senator a neo-Nazi, and you think the senator is an OK guy, well, why not just go check out some neo-Nazi threads on Reddit or whatever?

Free publicity? Yeah, I need me some of that. It sure would be nice if a liberal journalist, maybe a guy with a diploma from Harvard, were to write a hit piece this week about what a dangerous right-winger I am.

Stay tuned, my loyal readers . . .



 

Category: Media Bias, Racism

With ‘Friends’ Like This …

Posted on | July 12, 2023 | 1 Comment

Arsenio Cooper

What kind of car do you drive? What are your monthly car payments? Excuse me for asking, but one fact that caught my eye in this story out of Chicago was that Arsenio Cooper was driving a Jaguar SUV. A quick Google search informed me that a used 2020 Jaguar SUV can be had for somewhere in the $30,000 to $40,000 range, causing me to wonder how Cooper was making his car payment while out on bail:

A seven-time convicted felon charged with shooting and trying to kill a long-time friend was on bail for a felony case in which he’s accused of having more than three pounds of pot in his car.
Arsenio Cooper, 33, is the 13th person accused of shooting, killing, or trying to shoot or kill someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for a felony. The cases involve at least 18 victims, seven of whom died.
Prosecutors said Cooper saw his friend of 15 years walking a dog in the 3200 block of West Washington around 5:45 a.m. on May 19, and they had a conversation. But Cooper grew upset and drove away in his Jaguar SUV, Assistant State’s Attorney Kathryn Morrissey said during Cooper’s bail hearing.
Cooper’s friend put his dog away, then came back out to speak with someone else. As they talked, Cooper returned in the Jaguar, got out, and opened fire on the victim, Morrissey alleged.
One round struck the 36-year-old victim in the face. He ran toward his home as Cooper ran after him, “firing round after round,” Morrissey continued. The victim saw bullets hitting the front door of his house as he ran inside. Morrissey said a Ring doorbell camera recorded it all.
Cooper returned to the Jaguar and drove away while the victim’s sister called 911.
Assistant Public Defender Catherine Fisher, representing Cooper during the bail hearing, claimed that the victim brandished a firearm and said Cooper had been advised that the victim was waiting for him with a gun. It’s a self-defense case, she argued.
Judge Ankur Srivastava held Cooper without bail on a charge of attempted first-degree murder.

(No bail? In Chicago? Do you realize how rare it is for anyone to be denied bail in Chicago, no matter how serious the crime?)

Cooper was on bail while awaiting trial for allegations that police found 1,600 grams of suspected marijuana inside three backpacks in his car during a traffic stop in March 2022, according to court records.
At the time of the traffic stop, Cooper was on bail for yet another felony case in which he faced charges of Class X armed habitual criminal and manufacture-delivery of cannabis, records show. He was acquitted of those charges in November.
Morrissey said his previous felony convictions include unlawful use of a weapon by a felon in 2019, possession of cannabis in 2015, manufacture-delivery of cannabis in 2012, unlawful use of a weapon with a previous conviction in 2011, and disarming a police officer and aggravated battery in 2007.

Given this information, what do you suppose Arsenio Cooper’s credit rating looks like? Yet somehow, this menace to society walks into the Jaguar dealership and walks out with the keys to a $40,000 SUV? Can someone please explain to me how this happens? Do I just need to move to Chicago and start committing felonies in order to qualify for Jaguar’s “SUVs for Criminals” program? Not that I mind driving my old Nissan clunker, but maybe it’s time for an upgrade. Just get myself a pistol and deal some dope, and I’ll be riding fine in a late-model Jag.

But I promise not to shoot any of my “long-time friends.”



 

Category: Chicago, Crime

In The Mailbox: 07.11.23

Posted on | July 12, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.11.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Hamilton “Ten Duel Commandments”, Separated at Birth: Smug Resting Bitch Face Fraternal Twins Edition, and Joe Biden – The Once and Future Asshole
Twitchy: Tucker On Twitter – The Andrew Tate Interview, “Really, Megan?”, and The Vaseline Twitter Account Is Pretty “A-GLAZE-ING” Today And Tweeps Are There For It
Louder With Crowder: Bud Light’s latest viral mistake claims “it’s fine, this is fine,” the internet is quick to remind them it’s not, Megan Rapinoe lashes out at Dave Chappelle, claims his “verbal violence” is to blame for protecting girls’ sports, and Singer Jewel defends “Sound of Freedom” as a 2014 news report resurfaces: “Media is trying to politicize this movie”
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CNN’s Idée Fixe

Posted on | July 11, 2023 | 3 Comments

Every hour this morning, CNN has featured this story:

Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama on Monday doubled down on his comments on White nationalism, saying it was an “opinion” that White nationalists are racist.
During an interview on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins,” Tuberville repeatedly defended his previous comments. When Collins stated the definition of a White nationalist is someone who believes that the White race is superior to other races, Tuberville said, “Well, that’s some people’s opinion.”
When asked what his opinion was, Tuberville said, “My opinion of a White nationalist, if someone wants to call them White nationalist, to me is an American.”
Speaking on an individual level, Tuberville added, “If people think a White nationalist is a racist, I agree with that.”
Tuberville previously faced backlash regarding comments made originally in an interview with a local Alabama radio station when he was asked if he believes White nationalists should be allowed in the military and responded, “I call them Americans.”
In May, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had called on the Alabama senator to denounce White nationalism as “un-American,” and stop his hold on military nominations, CNN previously reported.
Tuberville told CNN Monday night that when lawmakers are in the minority party in the Senate, “the only power we have is to put a hold on something.”
Asked by Collins whether he knows better than seven former defense secretaries who penned a letter in May arguing the hold was “harming military readiness and risks damaging US national security,” Tuberville said: “They were nominated, they weren’t elected. I was elected to represent the people of Alabama in this country.”

Why is CNN smearing Tuberville this way? Because after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last year, the Biden administration decided that the Pentagon should help pregnant women in the military get abortions. In response to that policy, Tuberville since February has put a “hold” on military promotions (the Senate must approve all promotions of officers, under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution). The Biden administration refuses to yield, and therefore what CNN calls Tuberville’s “blockade” has continued. In service of their mission as Democratic Party propaganda operatives, therefore, CNN is trying to hang the “white nationalist” tag on Tuberville. Did I mention that CNN’s ratings are lower than Paw Patrol? And they still can’t figure out why.



 

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