You’re not going to watch the new series The Acolyte because it’s only going to be streaming on Disney+ which costs $7.99 a month. Disney+ is the third-place streaming service, behind Netflix and Amazon Prime, and trust me when I say The Acolyte will not boost Disney+ in the rankings, because the people involved in making The Acolyte are proudly boasting of its anti-white, anti-heterosexual agenda. Just watch:
“Gayest Star Wars ever!” *Cackles maniacally. They trashed what you love so they can brag about making it gay. You sold your baby to crazy vandals, George. pic.twitter.com/cErZd64h1g
With avowed lesbian Leslye Headland as “showrunner” (executive producer) and avowed lesbian Amandla Stenberg as the star, The Acolyte could scarcely be more explicit in its intent. No doubt the executives at Disney greenlit this project as a political “gotcha” against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and an in-your-face gesture against Republicans in general. Basically, Disney is weaponizing Trump Derangement Syndrome as a business strategy, and the results . . . Just a quick Google search: “Reports show that The Walt Disney Company lost $123 billion in market value in 2022 alone.” How long can a company continue losing that kind of money? And yet the people running Disney nowadays seem to think they can keep turning out woke garbage, destroying once-valuable franchises, with no repercussions. Ace of Spades has much more on this, including this quote from a critic who’s seen previews of The Acolyte: “The third episode of The Acolyte will finally kill Star Wars for the vast majority of Pre-Disney Star Wars Fans. Based on LucasFilm comments of late, they are OK with that.” In the immortal words of Iowahawk:
1. Identify a respected institution. 2. kill it. 3. gut it. 4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.#lefties
Of all the people to be criticizing inflammatory rhetoric! Some readers may not be old enough to remember why California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters got the nickname “Kerosene Maxine.” During the Rodney King controversy leading up to the deadly 1992 Los Angeles riots, Waters was one of the most irresponsible voices in the South Central district she represented — pouring kerosene on the flames of hatred, so to speak. Her entire career has been built on smearing white people as “racist.”
“I believe George Bush is a racist. I believe he’s a racist for many, many reasons. . . . [Bush] is a mean-spirited man who has no care or concern about what happens to the African-American community in this country. I truly believe that. . . . I think that Bill Clinton is much better on the race question than George Bush. Not good enough, but most whites in America are not good enough on the race question, and we all understand that. I just think that George Bush is worse than most.”
— Maxine Waters, July 8, 1992
She’s talking there about the first President Bush — you know, the mild-mannered country club Republican who advocated for a “kinder and gentler America.” And notice what she’s saying: Most white people are “mean-spirited” racists, but Bush was “worse than most.”
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Saturday Show” that former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on “revenge” was so divisive she is worried it could start a civil war.
Host Jonathan Capehart said, “Congresswoman Waters, your name has been invoked several times. We will give you the last word. What do you think?”
Waters said, “Let me say when I tweeted about Trump talking about the Constitution, I basically said in my tweet that he had disregarded the Constitution he doesn’t have ant respect for the Constitution, I got over a million hits on that. I think the American people see through him and, they will be guarded in how they deal with the election.”
She continued, “Let me just say this, I am worried that he is so divisive and that he is talking about retribution and about revenge and I think that is dangerous. He has even mentioned civil war saying there will be bloodshed. I will spend some time with the criminal justice system, with the justice system asking them, tell us what’s going on with the domestic terrorists? Are they Preparing a civil war against us? Should we be concerned? What is he doing with this divisive language? It is dangerous.”
Waters added, “It is not just that he is a criminal, this is a man who disrespects the Constitution and democracy and we have to figure out what they are doing as domestic terrorists tried to take over the government January 6, how far is this going to go? Are they going to be attacking?”
Maxine Waters thinks Republicans are threatening violence? She thinks Trump is “divisive” one? Trump “disrespects the Constitution”?
As I say, this is an insult, not an argument. Political rhetoric, properly understood and properly exercised, is about persuading people, and should be directed toward matters of public policy. Maxine Waters is not seeking to persuade anyone, but is merely name-calling, making defamatory smears against her opponents. What she and other Democrats hate most about Trump is that he delights in playing the same game Democrats habitually play. You want to turn politics into a name-calling competition? You think it’s OK to label any and all Republicans “racist”? Donald Trump will see your bet and raise you a thousand.
According to the CCP, on this day in 1989, absolutely nothing happened in Beijing’s Tienanmen Square. In other news, there is no war in Ba Sing Se, and Iraqi forces are slaughtering the American invaders all along Iraq’s southern border. Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.
Why there are so few pictures of the Tienanmen Square massacre
“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a bureaucrat to Alaska!” – Captain Wallace Binghamton, USNR
It is widely known that you can get a lot accomplished if you don’t care who gets the credit. I therefore offer this proposal to the Trump campaign free of charge.*
One of the problems with uprooting the Deep State and the associated federal bureaucracy is that many of the people we want to drive into the wilderness are protected by being in the Civil Service, which makes them practically impossible to fire. A possible solution to this (short of electing a conservative – note I didn’t say Republican – Congress that will repeal the Civil Service Act of 1978) is to make serving in the bureaucracy as unpleasant as possible. There have been some proposals to disperse Federal agencies among the several states so as to put them “closer to the people they serve” and incidentally weaken the Washington DC area both economically and politically. Those proposals don’t go far enough. I propose that since we clearly have an excess of enemies of the state drawing paychecks from the Treasury, we should put them in places where no reasonable person would want to live and work, while making their lives as difficult as possible once they’re there. Such as, for example, the Aleutian island of Amchitka, most noted for being the site of a 1971 nuclear test that environmental wackos promised us would destroy Anchorage, Juneau, and Vancouver with an enormous man-made tsunami. (Spoiler: It didn’t.) A cursory review of the island will reveal that it has several features that make it ideal for our purposes: the weather is usually foul, it is distant from any other human habitations, there is no infrastructure on the island of any kind, and it is prone to earthquakes. in addition, Amchitka is still being monitored for the release of radioactive materials from the 1971 test, which ought to put the fear of SCIENCE!! into our victimsstockpiled bureaucrats. The rest of the Rat Islands would also be suitable for our purposes; Shemya, on the other hand, while possessing many of the traits that make Amchitka suitable for the SBR, actually has people living on it as well as a vital national defense installation, and we don’t want our stockpiled bureaucrats bothering any of those people.
How do we determine who gets shipped off to the SBR? During each of the government shutdowns caused by budgetary brinksmanship, lists are made of who the essential and nonessential employees are in each agency. The nonessential employees will be given a week to decide whether they want to quit, retire, or move to the Strategic Bureaucracy Reserve to continue their work. If they choose the SBR, they will be shipped to Amchitka with a tent, a sleeping bag, and fifty pounds of personal effects. They will not be allowed to take their families with them. Once relocated to the SBR, they will find office space in General Purpose Large tents erected by the Army, and conduct all their business in writing; the government will not provide any kind of computers or telephones to the SBR, much less any internet connections. Food, sanitation, and medical support will be provided by National Guard and Army Reserve units doing their 15-day annual training stint supplemented by prisoners from various military stockades and Americorps “volunteers” working off their student loans. A weekly mail boat will suffice to provide postal support and transportation off the island for bureaucrats who decide they’ve had enough of this treatment.
It’s possible that the number of bureaucrats sent to the SBR may exceed the space available on the Rat Islands. In this case, we may have to use less attractive (sic) options such as Johnston Atoll, which while it lacks the generally foul weather and earthquakes of the Rat Islands, does have a history of chemical weapons deactivation and nuclear weapons contamination, not to mention the occasional powerful hurricane, and is suitably distant from any human habitation.
It’s my fond hope that the creation of the SBR will result in the rapid drawdown of the Civil Service, and a consequent re-evaluation by Congress as to whether we need some of the etiolated agencies weakened by the creation of the SBR. It’s my small contribution toward Making America Great Again.
*Although I wouldn’t mind an appointment as a warrant officer with the four-year assignment of telling people they’re moving to Amchitka in a week.
July 31 ought to be an annual holiday in Minnesota, to celebrate the heroism of Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan, who made the world a better place when he fatally shot career criminal Ricky Cobb II.
It was 2 o’clock in the morning when troopers pulled over Cobb on I-94 north of downtown Minneapolis last July 31. There was a warrant for Cobb’s arrest in neighboring Ramsey County for violating a domestic violence protection order. Cobb, 33, had an extensive criminal record, and probably should have never been released from prison.
Among other things, Cobb had a tattoo declaring his affiliation with a north Minneapolis gang, the “1-9 Block Dipset Gang,” notorious for drug dealing and deadly street violence against rivals. But Cobb was not merely a local menace. He had charges in several different counties. The mug shot at the top of this post is from Cobb’s arrest in a 2013 bar brawl in St. Cloud, 65 miles north of Minneapolis. Ricky Cobb was a statewide one-man crime wave. Wherever he went, crime happened.
Did I mention that Ricky Cobb was a menace to women? He was twice convicted (in 2014 and 2017) of felony domestic assault by strangulation. He was then convicted in 2018 of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and sentenced to five years in prison. When he appealed his sentence, the court’s response was basically, “LOL.” And there’s much more about Ricky Cobb’s lifelong career of criminal violence:
The criminal complaint in the 2017 Wright County strangulation case describes a violent episode during an argument with the mother of one of Cobb’s children in which he reportedly punched her in the face several times and grabbed her by the neck, causing her to not be able to breathe. When the victim made two attempts to escape the apartment, Cobb blocked her and again strangled her both times. The victim was holding their 6-month-old baby during at least one of the attacks, the complaint said. . . .
Cobb also had two convictions for violating domestic abuse no contact orders, as well as a handful of other convictions for theft, false information to police, marijuana possession in a vehicle, and driving after suspension.
Court records show that Cobb pled guilty [in July 2023] in Anoka County Court to a felony count of providing false information to police as a predatory offender. Cobb had been out of custody on zero bail awaiting a September sentencing hearing in the case. The plea agreement specified that in exchange for the guilty plea, Cobb’s defense counsel would argue for a departure from sentencing guidelines. The case was charged last October, and the complaint stated that Cobb was required to register as a predatory offender as a result of a 2018 Wright County case. Two of Cobb’s prior domestic cases were out of Wright County: the 2017 domestic strangulation case, and one of the cases involving violation of a no contact order.
Cobb’s three felony convictions would have prohibited him from legally possessing firearms under Minnesota law.
A further search of Minnesota civil court records show Cobb was in court in May of [2023] fighting a child support order initiated in 2017 when Cobb was incarcerated. The order was finalized in May in favor of the petitioner and against Cobb. . . .
Other court records show that the petitioner in the child support/paternity case received an order for protection on behalf of themself and the two children in December 2021. In granting the order for protection, the court document stated that “the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that [Cobb] poses an imminent risk of causing another person substantial bodily harm and [pursuant to statute] the local law enforcement agency shall take immediate possession of all firearms in [Cobb’s] possession.”
All of this is preamble to the bizarre “controversy” surrounding Trooper Londregan’s fatal shooting of Ricky Cobb. The district attorney in Hennepin County is a left-wing Democrat named Mary Moriarty.
“How left-wing is she?” you ask. So left-wing that, when Moriarty approved a plea deal that gave a slap on the wrist to two teenage killers for murdering Zaria McKeever in November 2022, she was criticized by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is one of the most left-wing public officials on the planet. There’s “soft on crime” (which most Democrats are) and then there’s “too soft on crime for Keith Ellison,” which is a whole different Bonus Level of soft-on-crime.
In January, Mary Moriarty charged Trooper Londregan with three felonies — second-degree unintentional murder, first-degree assault, and second-degree manslaughter: “Our hearts are with Ricky Cobb’s family today, who are grieving an unimaginable loss. I know that they are devastated and will continue to feel this loss for the rest of their lives.”
Like I said, this is a whole different Bonus Level of soft-on-crime and, even in a reliably Democrat state like Minneapolis, people were outraged by Moriarty’s action. In March, after Londregan’s lawyers accused Moriarty’s office of ignoring the opinion of an expert who said the trooper’s “use of force was reasonable since the trooper thought his colleagues’ lives were in danger,” Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz — who is certainly not a conservative — said he was considering taking the case away from Moriarty’s office. In case you didn’t know it, there’s an election in November, and polls show Joe Biden just barely leading Donald Trump in Minnesota. The last thing Democrats in Minnesota need is for the anti-cop prosecutor in Minneapolis to be pushing cases that remind voters of how soft-on-crime Democrats are.
This probably explains why, under pressure from Democrats who aren’t as batshit crazy as she is, Mary Moriarty found an excuse to decide, on second thought, maybe Trooper Londregan isn’t a murderer:
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office announced Sunday that Mary Moriarty has filed to dismiss the case against Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan in the killing of Ricky Cobb II.
Moriarty filed a notice to dismiss charges against Londregan, saying defense lawyers presented many new pieces of evidence that made it “impossible” to prove that the shooting death of Cobb II was not an authorized use of force incident by Londregan.
Prosecutors dropped the case after hearing new testimony from Londregan, where he claimed he saw Cobb II reach for his firearm shortly before Londregan fired gunshots that ultimately killed Cobb. Also, prosecutors say a Minnesota State Patrol trainer claimed he never instructed officers to hold back from shooting into a moving car while trying to get a suspect out of the car but said refraining from firing at a moving car is “best practice.”
After these testimonies, and working with a use of force expert, Moriarty and prosecutors in the case decided to dismiss the case. . . .
“Open season on law enforcement needs to end – on the streets and in the courtroom. Trooper Londregan should have never been charged, and we are glad this political case is over. Enough is enough,” Minnesota Police and Peace Officer Association (MPPOA) Executive Director Brain Peters said in a statement about the dismissal.
“It was clear months ago that Ms. Moriarty was abusing her position to wrongfully charge Trooper Londregan. When she refused to listen to the facts of the case and the law, we asked Governor Walz to step in and remove the case from her jurisdiction. Finally, after many months of unnecessary strife, Ms. Moriarty has come to the same conclusion that the experts did: that Trooper Londregan was completely justified in his use of force to protect his partner’s life.
“We still share the same concerns we expressed to the Governor, as well as the House Judiciary Committee, about Ms. Moriarty’s active work to demonize law enforcement. We are committed to doing everything we can to protect our brave officers from corrupted officials like her.”
Good. Now make July 31 a statewide holiday in Minnesota.
