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Everything Is White Supremacy: Inside America’s New Maoist ‘Struggle Sessions’

Posted on | February 10, 2023 | Comments Off on Everything Is White Supremacy: Inside America’s New Maoist ‘Struggle Sessions’

Professor Vincent Lloyd

You’re probably looking at Vincent Lloyd and thinking, “No way this guy could be an advocate of white supremacy,” but welcome to 2023, when everything is white supremacy. Lloyd is a professor at Villanova University and a leftist who, last summer, taught a seminar called “Race and the Limits of Law” in a six-week course at Cornell University for high-school seniors sponsored by the Telluride Association.

In an amazing article for Compact magazine, “A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell,” Lloyd describes how his seminar was wrecked and ended prematurely after his teenage students became radicalized in an “anti-racism workshop” held during the same Telluride-sponsored summer program for high-schoolers. One of the leaders of the anti-racist workshop, whom Lloyd calls “Keisha,” he describes thus: “A recent graduate of an Ivy League university, mentored by a television-celebrity black intellectual, Keisha . . . was planning to devote her life to transforming the academy in the direction of black justice.”

What Lloyd discovered was that, in the hands of such ideologues, “anti-racism” is a cult, and he offers this example of its operation:

In their “transformative-justice” workshop, my students learned to name “harms.” This language, and the framework it expresses, come out of the prison-abolition movement. Instead of matching crimes with punishments, abolitionists encourage us to think about harms and how they can be made right, often through inviting a broader community to discern the impact of harms, the reasons they came about, and paths forward. In the language of the anti-racism workshop, a harm becomes anything that makes you feel not quite right. For a 17-year-old at a highly selective, all-expenses-paid summer program, newly empowered with the language of harm, there are relatively few sites at which to use this framework. My seminar became the site at which to try out—and weaponize—this language.
During our discussion of incarceration, an Asian-American student cited federal inmate demographics: About 60 percent of those incarcerated are white. The black students said they were harmed. They had learned, in one of their workshops, that objective facts are a tool of white supremacy. Outside of the seminar, I was told, the black students had to devote a great deal of time to making right the harm that was inflicted on them by hearing prison statistics that were not about blacks. A few days later, the Asian-American student was expelled from the program.

Get me that student’s name, so I can recruit him to become a Republican Party operative! There is nothing that aids GOP youth recruitment quite as much as the nightmare experience of students coming face-to-face with the campus Left. That’s how Trump advisor Stephen Miller became such a dangerous right-winger, you know. He was at Duke University when the infamous 2006 lacrosse team gang-rape hoax went down, and it forever altered his worldview. The more the Left increases its ironclad grip on academic, the crazier the campus climate becomes, and the only way to protect your sanity is to join the Republican Party.

From the account of his experiences at this Telluride summer program, Professor Lloyd may be considering a shift to the GOP. If “objective facts are a tool of white supremacy,” then every rational person must become a white supremacist. It doesn’t seem to occur to the Left that, by embracing such radical nonsense, they’re creating their own enemies.

The type of radicalism that took hold during this Telluride program bears a close resemblance to the Maoist “Cultural Revolution” of the 1960s, when those suspected of insufficient Communist zeal were forced to denounce themselves in public “struggle sessions”:

The most violent aspects of the campaign included incidents of torture, murder, and public humiliation. Many people who were indicted as counter-revolutionaries died by suicide. During the Red August 1966, in Beijing alone 1,772 people were murdered, many of the victims were teachers who were attacked and even killed by their own students. In Shanghai, there were 704 suicides and 534 deaths related to the Cultural Revolution in September. In Wuhan, there were 62 suicides and 32 murders during the same period.

Things haven’t become this bad on U.S. campuses — yet. But clearly many campuses have been drifting toward Maoism for years, and Professor Lloyd tells how the radical “Keisha” acted as Maoist commissar:

Keisha and I were supposed to meet weekly, but she told me she couldn’t schedule in advance, and she would let me know when she had availability. She never did. But Keisha did find time to intervene when a student was “harmed.” During one class, when we discussed Brown v. Board of Education, my co-instructor explained what the “doll test” was that provided a psychological basis for the Supreme Court’s decision: It involved showing children black and white dolls and asking what language they would use to describe them, “colored,” “white,” or “negro.” During the seminar break, a student had reported this to Keisha, and she rushed in to tell us that a student had been harmed by hearing the word “negro.”

Oh, grow up! The idea that merely hearing archaic terminology can “harm” someone reflects a hypersensitivity that is incompatible with education. How can you study the history of racism if you can’t read anything written before 1970 because it might contain the word “negro”?

As might be expected, Professor Lloyd’s experience at the Telluride program ended with a Maoist “struggle session” led by Keisha:

Late Sunday night, I was informed the students were too exhausted to have class on Monday. Tuesday morning, no one was in the seminar room. I waited 10 minutes, and Keisha entered. She said the students had something to say to me. Ten more minutes of waiting in silence. Then all nine remaining students entered, each carrying a piece of paper. One by one they read a paragraph. Out of their mouths came everything Keisha had said to me during the “urgent” meetings she had with me after classes when students had allegedly been harmed. The students had all of the dogma of anti-racism, but no actual racism to call out in their world, and Keisha had channeled all of the students’ desire to combat racism at me.

Bingo! A cult requires a Devil — a sinister enemy, a bogeyman that the cult can use to frighten its members into obedience. And in the absence of any “actual racism” at this Telluride program — with no Trump-style demon figure available as the hated enemy — Keisha had somehow decided that Professor Lloyd would suit her purposes.

Welcome to the “white supremacist” clubhouse, professor. We’ll alert the SPLC, so you can get your own personal dot on the annual “Hate Map.”



 

Category: Education, Racism

In The Mailbox: 02.09.23 (Punditocalpyse Edition)

Posted on | February 10, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A select compilation of Substackery and other things that hit my inbox in these past few days.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Operator-chan assists the Ukrainians

357 Magnum: Don’t Bring A Knife To A Gunfight, also, An Alternative To The World Economic Forum
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1987
Twitchy: Tulsi Gabbard Unloads On Mitt Romney For Treason Accusation, Ph.D. Discovers Conservatives Are Saying Anything They Want On Podcasts And REEEEE!, and The Perfect Response To Woman Who Now Regrets Her Harry Potter Tattoos
Louder With Crowder: Tim Allen Is Back As Buzz Lightyear, also, “He Has To Deny It”
Vox Popoli: Another New Platform, Where Did Their Money Go?, We’re Not Obsessed, No Reason to Vote Republican, and Shakeups in Publishing
Dana Loesch: Fighting Tyranny With…More Tyranny, 
Don Surber: Saturday Morning Cartoons DC Style, Hollywood Rewrites Hunter Biden As A Victim, and The Real State Of The Union
Glenn Reynolds: Live Long And Prosper – If They Will Let You, 
Stoic Observations: Paris While Black
Gab News: The Collapse Of The Technological Age
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Another “Another Hump Day Shrapnel Post” Post

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Category: Uncategorized

Brain-Damaged Democrats in the News

Posted on | February 9, 2023 | 1 Comment

Some readers may have forgotten that, when Donald Trump was president, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a habit of ranting about the importance of impeaching him for — wait for it — alleged obstruction of justice in regard to the investigation of “Russian collusion.” As everyone with a functional brain has long since realized, there never was any such “collusion” (i.e., there was no crime committed by Trump regarding Russia) so that whatever he did as president in regard to the two-year-long investigation of the (non-existent) “collusion,” his actions could not plausibly be construed as obstruction of justice. After all, if there was no crime, how was justice obstructed? Insofar as there was any genuine wrongdoing in regard to Russia, it was perpetrated by Hillary Clinton’s campaign (and their allies in the FBI) in turning the Steele dossier into the pretext of a bogus smear against Trump.

“Failure to impeach now is neglect of due process,” AOC declared on Twitter in May 2019, after the Mueller Report had cleared Trump of wrongdoing in the “Russian collusion” hoax. Now that the investigative shoe is on the other foot, so to speak, AOC is singing a new tune:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., slammed the House Oversight Committee’s hearing on Twitter’s decision to repress the Hunter Biden laptop story in the fall of 2020 and called the story “half-fake.”
“We could be talking about the cost of prescription drugs, abortion rights, civil rights, voting rights, but instead we’re talking about Hunter Biden’s half fake laptop story. I mean, this is an embarrassment, but I’ll go into it,” she said during the hearing.
The Democratic congresswoman also said the hearing was a waste of time and public resources. . . .
“The newspaper wasn’t sharing what it obtained. New York Post had this alleged information and was trying to publish it without any corroboration, without any backup information, they were trying to publish it to Twitter. Twitter did not let them, and now they were upset. . . .”
She said GOP political operatives wanted the ability to “do it again.”
“They want the ability to do it again. They want the ability to inject this again. So they’ve dragged a social media platform here in Congress, their weaponizing the use of this committee so that they can do it again. A whole hearing about a 24-hour hiccup in a right-wing political operation,” Ocasio-Cortez continued.

At any point during the Trump administration, did she call the “Russian collusion” narrative “fake”? Did she call it “a left-wing political operation”? Because that’s what it was, you know. But of course, AOC believed all that buncombe, whereas the Hunter Biden laptop — which is very real — she calls “half-fake.” And at a time when we are on the brink of war over Ukraine, isn’t it kind of relevant that contents of Hunter’s laptop shed light on the Biden family’s corrupt influence-peddling in Ukraine? Isn’t it possible that, at some point, Joe Biden has done something in regard to this that could be construed as “obstruction of justice,” and thus grounds for impeachment? But this possibility never seems to have occurred to the feeble-minded congresswoman known to her old friends in Westchester County as Sandy Cortez.

Oh, and speaking of brain-damaged Democrats:

John Fetterman is probably still smarter than AOC, despite the fact that a stroke has destroyed most of his cognitive capacity.

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)



 

 

Category: Democrats

Goering’s on the phone from Freiburg

Posted on | February 9, 2023 | Comments Off on Goering’s on the phone from Freiburg

— by Wombat-socho


Silicon Valley delenda est.

“There’s no reward for failure (but death)…



It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…on the one hand, I am being paid a higher hourly wage than I have ever made in my life, being put up in a comfortable hotel not far from my office, and being reimbursed for my meals, but on the other hand, I am working seven hours a day for six days a week and six hours on Sundays, so I am tired as hell when I get off work. That was before I caught this cold/flu/pneumonic plague/whatever that has had me sneezing my nose off, trying to drink even more fluids than I normally do -which as a diabetic in the desert I can assure you is quite a lot- gobbling generic Dayquils & Nyquils, and sleeping as much as possible when I’m not actually in the office.

Which is why there have been no In The Mailbox posts this week. I consider it only fair to warn you I may not be well enough to post any for the rest of the week either. In fact, when I’m done with this I’m taking a couple of blue pills and calling it a night. Amuse yourself in the comments.


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Category: Uncategorized, Zeitgeist

Joe Biden Versus an Army of Straw Men

Posted on | February 8, 2023 | Comments Off on Joe Biden Versus an Army of Straw Men

As previously explained, I did not watch Joe Biden’s State of the Union address because I cannot stand to listen to him for more than a few seconds at a time, and then only as necessary — from a professional perspective — in order to describe and analyze the preposterous bullshit that he habitually spews. My friend Stephen Green, a/k/a Vodkapundit, may be able to consume enough alcohol to enable him to withstand a full hour of Biden’s bullshit, but my liver simply can’t handle that much liquor anymore. So I stayed sober and went to bed early, trusting that this morning Fox News would play plenty enough clips of Biden’s speech to make my blood boil. The part that most enraged me was this, and here I’ll quote the text of Biden’s prepared remarks:

Some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage unless I agree to their economic plans. All of you at home should know what their plans are.
Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years.
That means if Congress doesn’t vote to keep them, those programs will go away.
Other Republicans say if we don’t cut Social Security and Medicare, they’ll let America default on its debt for the first time in our history.
I won’t let that happen.
Social Security and Medicare are a lifeline for millions of seniors.
Americans have been paying into them with every single paycheck since they started working.
So tonight, let’s all agree to stand up for seniors. Stand up and show them we will not cut Social Security. We will not cut Medicare.
Those benefits belong to the American people. They earned them.
If anyone tries to cut Social Security, I will stop them. And if anyone tries to cut Medicare, I will stop them.
I will not allow them to be taken away.

Is anyone actually proposing to “take away” these benefits? No, and it certainly is not part of the Republican congressional agenda, which is why they began booing and heckling him during this part of the speech, so that what Biden actually said was transcribed this way:

So my — many of — some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage — I get it — unless I agree to their economic plans. All of you at home should know what those plans are.
Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans — some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset. I’m not saying it’s a majority —
AUDIENCE: Booo —
THE PRESIDENT: Let me give you —
AUDIENCE: No!
THE PRESIDENT: Anybody who doubts it, contact my office. I’ll give you a copy. I’ll give you a copy of the proposal.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Liar!
THE PRESIDENT: That means Congress doesn’t vote —
Well, I’m glad to see — no, I tell you, I enjoy conversion. (Laughter.)
You know, it means if Congress doesn’t keep the programs the way they are, they’d go away.
Other Republicans say — I’m not saying it’s a majority of you. I don’t even think it’s a significant —
AUDIENCE MEMBER: (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: — but it’s being proposed by individuals.
I’m not — politely not naming them, but it’s being proposed by some of you.
(Cross-talk in the audience.)
THE PRESIDENT: Look, folks, the idea is that we’re not going to be — we’re not going to be moved into being threatened to default on the debt if we don’t respond. (Applause.)
Folks — (applause) — so, folks, as we all apparently agree, Social Security and Medicare is off the — off the books now, right? (Applause.) They’re not to be touched? (Applause.)
All right. All right. We got unanimity! (Applause.)
Social Security and Medicare are a lifeline for millions of seniors. Americans have to pay into them from the very first paycheck they’ve started.
So, tonight, let’s all agree — and we apparently are — let’s stand up for seniors. (Applause.) Stand up and show them we will not cut Social Security. We will not cut Medicare.
Those benefits belong to the American people. They earned it. And if anyone tries to cut Social Security — which apparently no one is going to do — (laughter and applause) — and if anyone tries to cut Medicare, I’ll stop them. I’ll veto it. (Applause.)
And, look, I’m not going to allow them to take away — be taken away. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.
But apparently, it’s not going to be a problem. (Laughter and applause.)

Now, this back-and-forth between Biden and the GOP hecklers — it was apparently Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene who shouted “liar!” — makes for entertaining TV, which is why this clip was replayed endlessly on the cable news channels today, but the real point is the dishonesty of Biden’s rhetoric. Notice how he frames the alternatives: “Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share” — i.e., Biden’s proposal — what he accuses Republicans of doing is a scheme to “take the economy hostage” and “default on the debt” unless Medicare and Social Security are eliminated.

NO REPUBLICAN IS PROPOSING ANY SUCH THING!

Furthermore, and this is important, Biden’s demand that “the wealthy pay their fair share” will do nothing to stabilize Medicare and Social Security, both of which programs are headed toward bankruptcy. As more and more Baby Boomers retire, there simply will not be enough workers still paying taxes to maintain benefits for the elderly at their current levels. Something must be done to fix this problem, and making “the wealthy pay their fair share” ain’t gonna cut it. Even if the government were to seize every penny of the wealth of every billionaire in America, it would’t be enough to fix the multi-trillion-dollar actuarial gap at the heart of the Medicare/Social Security budget problem.

Students of rhetoric would, first of all, notice how Biden is setting up a false dilemma, as if the only possible choices are either (a) to do exactly as Biden wishes, in terms of “making the wealthy pay their fair share,” or (b) having Republicans “take the economy hostage” with dire consequences. This ignores entirely the possibility of (c) finding a compromise in negotiations over the debt ceiling, which is what Biden’s melodramatic language is ultimately about. Biden’s actual position is that no federal program should ever be denied a cent of what Democrats propose to spend on it, so that the size of the federal budget must continue to grow infinitely, without any reference to the ability of taxpayers to keep up the ever-increasing cost. When this Democratic Party agenda of perpetually expanding the federal government encounters any pushback at all from Republicans, Biden automatically resorts to accusing them of wanting to starve Grandma to death.

Notice that Biden’s use of this false dilemma rhetoric wasn’t just something he ad-libbed, but rather that it was written in the prepared text of his speech, so that this logical fallacy would seem to be the official policy stance of the White House. Sic semper hoc.

Democrats have been playing this rhetorical trick forever, certainly as far back as LBJ’s slanderous campaign against Goldwater, and the reason they keep doing it is because (a) Democratic voters are stupid enough to believe it and (b) the media will never call them out for it.

“A straw man fallacy . . . is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false one.”

Obama was the all-time King of Straw Man Arguments, forever accusing Republicans of supporting things they did not support in order to dismiss their opposition to his own policy agenda or their criticism of his actions. Scott Johnson pointed this out in 2016:

Obama is impassioned as he responds to his critics. Message: he cares. He cares to reiterate that he has it right and isn’t going to let events make him rethink his ways. . . . He is sarcastic and angry. He is condescending. He wags his finger as he lectures his critics. The straw man is the essential tool of his oratory.

Ted Cruz noted the same tendency in 2015:

“[Obama] has exacerbated racial misunderstandings, racial tensions . . . And, part of the problem is the way he advocates for any given plan, is to build a straw man of the opposition and then to vilify their position. So that, in the president’s telling, anyone who opposes Obamacare wants people to be denied healthcare and to get sick and pass away. That’s the only reason someone could oppose Obamacare, is because you malevolently want people to suffer. When you come to the Iran deal, anyone that opposes this terrible Iran deal, must be because they want war.”

This is why policy debate has become impossible, because Democrats simply won’t engage in honest debate about real alternatives, but instead resort to slandering their opponents, falsely accusing them of malign motives and mischaracterizing their policy proposals, in order to promote a narrative of heroic Democrats battling against evil Republicans.

So, no, I didn’t watch the State of the Union Address, because listening to Biden only makes me angry and, having expended 1,500 words venting my spleen about this one small segment of his speech, I’ll go back to my habitual policy of ignoring that dishonest son of a bitch.



 

 

Category: Joe Biden

B.I.T.S.

Posted on | February 7, 2023 | Comments Off on B.I.T.S.

URGENT MEMO FROM

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland

Biden-Induced Tourette’s Syndrome can be diagnosed by its telltale symptom, as the patient begins loudly shouting obscenities whenever Joe Biden appears on the nearest TV. The mere sound of Biden’s voice seems to cause BITS sufferers to start screaming incoherent sequences of curse words, vulgarities, slurs, epithets and sexualized insults. Researchers have concluded that these symptoms are involuntary and that the expressions voiced are entirely irrational, as the patient does not believe, e.g., that Biden literally sodomized his own mother nor that the President of the United States could literally shove the 4,000-page $1.7 trillion “omnibus” spending bill up his own rectum.

While some BITS sufferers are capable of restraining themselves during brief exposures to Biden — a 30-second sound bite on the news may produce only a slight rage-inspired trembling of the hands, sometimes accompanied by throbbing veins in the forehead — they generally lose control when forced to listen to Biden speak for more than a few minutes. All of which is to explain why Robert Stacy McCain will not be “live blogging” tonight’s State of the Union Address. The psychiatric staff has concluded that Mr. McCain might become a danger to himself and others, were he to attempt watching this hour-long event. Perhaps tomorrow morning, after a good night’s sleep and a nutritious breakfast, Mr. McCain will be able to glance briefly at transcripts of President Biden’s speech without erupting in dangerous fits of rage, but it would simply be too risky for him even to try watching the speech on live TV tonight.

We thank you for your understanding in this time of crisis.



 

 

Category: Joe Biden

Crime Reduction in Polk County, Florida

Posted on | February 7, 2023 | Comments Off on Crime Reduction in Polk County, Florida

Say hello to 21-year-old Alex Michael Greene and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Mr. Greene shuffled off this mortal coil yesterday in Polk County:

Pandemonium took over on Winter Haven’s Havendale Boulevard at about 2 p.m. Monday when a suspect connected to last week’s mass shooting in Lakeland fled from law enforcement officers, was involved in several crashes and a carjacking, and was then shot to death by a Lakeland Police captain whom the suspect tried to run over.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said officers and detectives from the Lakeland Police Department, the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement were watching 21-year-old Alex Michael Greene at a residence just outside of Eagle Lake “because they suspect he was involved with the shooting last Monday of 11 people in the city of Lakeland.”
Lakeland Police Chief Sam Taylor said they had a warrant on Greene for a burglary and they were hoping to bring him in to question him about the shooting, as well.
They were about to serve the warrant when Greene jumped into a white Silverado pickup truck and sped away, with Lakeland Police officers chasing him. Greene traveled north into Winter Haven, winding up on Havendale Boulevard as he weaved in and out of traffic. . . .
Judd said LPD Capt. Eric Harper, a 20-year law enforcement veteran who is in his 40s, “obviously sees the danger and is trying to pit the suspect and stop him so that we don’t have this pursuit on a very busy road.”
A pit maneuver involves a law enforcement officer purposely running his or her cruiser into the back side bumper of a vehicle to cause it to spin and stop. The Silverado came to a stop in front of Prime Care Chiropractic Center at 1400 Havendale Blvd.
Judd said Greene then got out of the truck and began running in and out of traffic, with Harper running after him.
“Why he and the captain weren’t run over is just the grace of God, because traffic was all over the place,” Judd said.
Greene then ran to Andreas Family Restaurant, next door to the chiropractic office. An older woman was visiting with friends in the parking lot, her passenger and driver’s side doors open as they exchanged a potted plant. Greene spotted the open car, circled the building and ran back to the woman’s Toyota Camry. The woman, who had witnessed the crash and saw Greene running, slammed her passenger door shut and ran to the driver’s door, but Greene beat her to it, shoved her out of the way and got into her Camry. She tried twice to open the door, but he began driving off.
Harper was now in front of Greene and the Camry, his service pistol pointed at Greene as Harper ordered him to get out of the car. Instead, Greene aimed the car at Harper . . . Harper then shot Greene at least six times.
Despite the gunshot wounds, Greene pulled back out onto Havendale Boulevard, heading west for about 50 yards until the car veered over the landscaped median, crossed the eastbound lanes and slammed into The Hamilton Company office, a security company, coming to rest halfway into the building. . . .
Greene was rushed to Winter Haven Hospital, where he died.

Well, I reckon the folks in Winter Haven can thank the late Mr. Greene for adding some excitement to their Monday afternoon, and also thank Captain Harper for ending this young criminal’s already lengthy career. In addition to being a suspect in a drive-by shooting in Lakeland that wounded 11 people and made national headlines, Mr. Greene had a record stretching back to when he was still a juvenile. At age 15, he was charged with “possession of a firearm by a convicted felon,” and had “two convictions of battery.” So far as I can tell, he was always either (a) committing crime or (b) behind bars, and he certainly didn’t spend as much time behind bars as he deserved. While the crime rate in Polk County probably isn’t very high, it’ll be a lot lower now that Mr. Greene has reached room temperature.

By the way, witnesses said there were four occupants of the car that committed that drive-by shooting in Lakeland, which means that three of the suspects are still at large, and if they want to try emulating their late accomplice Mr. Greene, I’m sure Polk County law enforcement will be happy to subtract them from the population, too.

If you look at a map of Florida, you can see that Polk County — a family-friendly community with lots of retirees — sits right between Tampa to the west and Orlando to the northeast, with I-4 running through. So the small-town cops in Polk County have to deal with a lot of criminals passing through between these two major urban centers, and it keeps them pretty busy, which is why Sheriff Grady Judd’s TV press conferences have become so legendary. Just so you know, Captain Harper was previously a Polk County deputy, and was involved in the manhunt for Angilo Freeland in 2006. Freeland was a drug dealer who made the mistake of driving through Polk County, where he got pulled over. When the deputy started asking questions about his fake ID, Freedland took off running into the nearby woods. A deputy with a K9 then showed up to search the woods for Freedland, who fatally shot both the deputy and the dog. A task force then combed through the woods until they found Freedland. They fired 110 shots, hitting him 68 times.

When asked why they fired so many shots, Sheriff Judd answered: “That’s all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more.”

Sheriff Judd has been reelected by a landslide ever since.



 

 

Category: Crime, Florida

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Canadian Child Actor Dopehead Matricide Edition

Posted on | February 6, 2023 | 2 Comments

Like most Canadians, Ryan Grantham looks harmless. He’s only 5-foot-2 and began appearing in movies and TV shows as a child. But despite his innocent appearance, Grantham is a deadly menace.

Like most Canadians. It is probably not necessary for me to remind readers of my longtime advocacy of thermonuclear warfare against Canada, which I consider as dangerous as the planet in Aliens: “I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”

A nation that would elect Justin Trudeau is dangerous — I think every American can agree on this — and therefore my proposal for blasting Canada off the face of the earth should not be “controversial.”

A few years ago, Ryan Grantham began smoking massive quantities of marijuana, developed a psychotic disorder, plotted mass murder and decided to begin his killing spree by shooting his mother in the back of the head at the family’s home in British Columbia. Grantham did not follow through on his mass murder plans — which is unfortunate, because one of his planned targets was Simon Frasier University, a haven of “wokeness,” and he also planned to assassinate Justin Trudeau:

Grantham, 24, detailed his plans to harm Trudeau, 50, in a journal and a police statement, prosecutors in British Columbia argued on Tuesday, June 14. According to CBC News, the former actor attempted to act on his thoughts after he allegedly shot his mom, Barbara Waite, earlier this year.
In March, Grantham pleaded guilty to second-degree murder when his mother was found dead in their townhouse two years prior. During his sentencing, it was reported that Grantham obtained three guns, ammunition, Molotov cocktails, camping supplies and a map for the area where Trudeau and his family are located. . . .
Grantham’s attorney Chris Johnson argued that mental illness affected the way his client was acting ahead of the murder. “At the time of the offense, this killing was not done out of hatred or animosity,” Johnson said. “It was done in Mr. Grantham’s disordered thinking, to prevent his mother from seeing what he thought he was about to do.”

“Disordered thinking”? Just your typical Canadian, really.

Grantham developed a psychosis from heavy marijuana and alcohol abuse, psychiatric reports would later find. . . .
According to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 3 in 10 marijuana smokers develop “cannabis use disorder”, where they are unable to stop using the drug even when it causes them health and social problems.

Which explains my sophomore year of college, I guess, but why bring that up now? The point is that Canadians can’t cope with high-potency ganja. They start smoking weed and don’t stop until they turn into murderous dopehead zombies. And do crazy things like elect Justin Trudeau.

Oh, in pleading for leniency, his lawyer said Grantham “had been on a ‘downward spiral’ for months” before his crime, “and been spending a lot of time online.” Right — I’m a blogger, so if I ever go on a mass-murder rampage, I’ve got my excuse ready, “spending a lot of time online.”

You may think I’m exaggerating the menace of Canadian dopehead murder zombies, but John Hinderaker points out that British Columbia has basically legalized all drugs — heroin, fentanyl, you name it — because they don’t want cops hassling the junkies who crowd the streets of Vancouver (all of whom are Justin Trudeau voters, I’m sure).

As for Ryan Grantham, he was sentenced to life in prison, although he’ll be eligible for parole in 14 years. Recently, he was in the news with a report that he “is being held in a prison hospital and is receiving counseling.” He’s in the prison hospital because authorities feared “he could be ‘physically, psychologically and sexually intimidated’ due to his frail stature.” Yeah, it would be a terrible thing if the dopehead zombie who murdered his mother got raped to death by the other convicts.

Some people may think I’m being cruel, but remember, we’re talking about Canadians here. It’s not like they’re actual human beings.

 



 

 

Category: Canada, Crime
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