I (Still) Hate Illinois Nazis

Posted on | February 1, 2022 | Comments Off on I (Still) Hate Illinois Nazis

In case you missed it, Whoopi Goldberg (née Caryn Elaine Johnson) surprised everyone who thought she’d already reached the nadir of ignorance, boldly going where no one had gone before, and doing it on live TV:

Sparks fly as The View panel confronts Whoopi after she says “the Holocaust isn’t about race. No. It’s not about race.”
“Well, the considered Jews a different race,” Joy Behar says.

“But it’s about white supremacy. It’s about going after Jews and Gypsies,” Ana Navarro adds. pic.twitter.com/GZwZSi2qXi

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 31, 2022

GOLDBERG: Well also, if we’re going to do this, then let’s be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn’t about race.
HAINES: No.
GOLDBERG: No. It’s not about race.
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: They considered Jews a different race.
GOLDBERG: It’s not about race. It’s not about race.
BEHAR: What is it about?
GOLDBERG: It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about.
ANA NAVARRO: But it’s about white supremacy.
[Crosstalk]
NAVARRO: It’s about going after Jews and Gypsies and Romas
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: But these are two white groups of people. How do we —
BEHAR: Well, they went after black people too.
HAINES: They did not see them as white though.
GOLDBERG: But you’re missing the point! You’re missing the point. The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. Let’s talk about it for what it is. It’s how people treat each other. It’s a problem. It doesn’t matter if you are black or white because black, white, Jews, Italians, everybody eats each other.
So is it — if you are uncomfortable if you hear about Maus, should you be worried — should your child say, oh my god, I wonder if that’s me? No. That’s not what they’re going to say. They’re going to say, I don’t want to be like that.

Everybody has weighed in on this, and Whoopi (who is not, and never has been Jewish, whatever her stage name might lead anyone to imagine) is reportedly in “deep s**t” at ABC because of her remarks. But this was not really the most stupid or offensive thing she’d ever said on The View, it just so happened that her stupidity in this case was offensive to Jews and — oh, boy! — you don’t want to do that at ABC. Conspiracy theorists would have you believe that all media organizations are controlled by the worldwide Zionist cabal, but I think some would say ABC more than most. (If I’m wrong, you’ll excuse me for not being up-to-date on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, but I’ve been busy lately.) What’s interesting in all this is how someone like Whoopi could think she was adding something helpful to the discussion (about a Tennessee school district removing the children’s book Maus from its curriculum) by saying what she said. “I’ve watched this three times and have no idea what she’s getting at,” says Allahpundit. Oh, but I have some idea.

Whoopi grew up in New York City, where there are more Jews than any other place except Israel. And, from the perspective of a black person from New York, Jews are just another group of white people who nevertheless tend to think of themselves as victims of discrimination. And that annoys the hell out of the kind of black person (e.g., Al Sharpton) who makes a career of exploiting claims of victimhood. Sharpton was able to exploit the black resentment of Jews which emerged in the wake of the success of the 1960s civil rights movement. Most people don’t realize how active Jews were in the civil rights struggle, and know nothing of the aftermath, when “Black Power” radicals like Stokely Carmichael took over SNCC and kicked out all the white people.

Many years ago, I interviewed a woman (the wife of a prominent black politician in Atlanta) who had participated in SNCC’s sit-in protests, and she cited this period — the “Black Power” takeover circa 1965-66 — as the moment when race relations in America went wrong. This gave rise to a far-left tendency that led many black radicals to side with the Arabs against Israel in 1967 and beyond, becoming de facto allies of Yasser Arafat’s Jew-hating PLO, with consequences that are still with us.

Having boiled down a lot of complex social history into two paragraphs, I’ll leave it at that, except to note that Whoopi still doesn’t seem to understand exactly why her comments were so offensive to Jews.

Whoopi Doubles Down On Holocaust
Remarks — Despite Apology: ‘They Had
Issues With Ethnicity, Not With Race’

Look, I’ve found myself in trouble in situations where what I said did not properly convey what I meant, and had to cope with being branded a “white supremacist” on the basis of such a misunderstanding, but was persuaded to take heed of Denis Healey’s First Law of Holes. Yeah, maybe there was some nuance in what you said that you feel like has been missed in the controversy, but your attempt to “clarify” your meaning is not likely to help you in the midst of a firestorm. Whoopi wants it to be understood that she was trying to highlight differences between the historic experiences of blacks and Jews — and how racism in America is different than what was going on with Hitler in Europe — but she’s not doing a good job of it, apparently because like so many Americans her knowledge of European history is almost non-existent.

This is something I’ve tried to explain to the sort of “white supremacists” who think they’re going to usher in some kind of Fourth Reich here in America. The particular historic conditions that made possible Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s simply don’t exist here, but good luck explaining that to the kind of idiots who think they’re going to win over the masses by flying swastika flags and shouting, “Sieg Heil!”

Besides neo-Nazis, the only people who think such a thing is possible are liberal Jews, which is why the Democratic Party and its media allies devote so much effort to depicting Republicans as would-be Hitlers. Why do you think Ana Navarro kept trying to interrupt Whoopi by talking about “white supremacy”? That particular phrase has connotations of anti-Semitism that the word “racist” doesn’t have, which is why liberal Jews who might roll their eyes at accusations of “racism” will take the accusation of “white supremacy” more seriously. Democrats know this!

Whoopi Goldberg’s gaffe completely screws up this narrative, which is why she’s in so much trouble at ABC now. And as I was enjoying the spectacle of her twisting in the wind, I couldn’t help but think of that classic scene in The Blues Brothers, where Henry Gibson plays the neo-Nazi leader speaking through a megaphone to an angry mob:

“The Jew is using the black as muscle against you, and you are left there, helpless. Well, what are you going to do about it, whitey?”

Alas, there are actually people who think that way, who see crafty Jews as the secretive sinister force behind everything, and I wonder what they’ll say if Whoopi Goldberg actually does get canned by ABC? At the same time, the executives at ABC must realize how bad it would look — I mean, not just in terms of confirming anti-Semitic conspiracy theories — to fire Whoopi for this, when she has such a long track record of saying stupid and offensive things, some arguably even worse than this.

As for me, well, there’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark out, and we’re wearing sunglasses.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Category: Celebrities, Racism

In The Mailbox: 01.31.22

Posted on | February 1, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.31.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

It was, too.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Consequences Of The Breakdown Of Law & Order In LA
EBL: Where In The World Is Blackface Trudeau?
Twitchy: Grope & Flail Finds “Activists & Academics” Who Say Calling Trucker Protest “Peaceful” Undermines “Non-Violent Danger” It Poses
Louder With Crowder: Joe Rogan Addresses Spotify Controversy, Forced To Explain To Haters What A Podcast Is
Vox Popoli: Russia Rejects Globohomo, “A Rare & Direct Warning”, and Trudeau Flees Canada
Stoic Observations: Exit The Ghetto

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Cloud Yells At Old Man
American Greatness: Joe Biden & The Uses Of Nihilism
American Power: The Totalitarian Left’s Joe Rogan Freakout
American Thinker: The Most Impressive Communist-Crusher You’ve Never Heard Of
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Abbott Beating Beta O’Rourke Among Hispanics, also, Thinking Of Vacationing In Communist Cuba? Think Again.
Baldilocks: Slavery & Names
BattleSwarm: These Canadian Truck Protest Convoys Seem Pretty Massive, also, Amazon & Its Discontents
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American Killed Himself, also, Israel, Overrun With COVID, Proves The Jab Has Failed & Must Be Abandoned
Cafe Hayek: Scott Atlas Asks If Truth Will Prevail, also, Human Beings Are Not To Be Trusted With The Power To Lockdown
CDR Salamander: Ukraine Exposes NATO’s Divisions
Da Tech Guy: “I’m Not Black Enough To Be Shot”, also, The Three Stages Of Young & Mitchell Vs. Spotify (Per My Wife)
Don Surber: Trump Basher Wants Him Back, also, WaPo Opposes Freedom
First Street Journal: What George Soros Has Inflicted On America, also, More Journolism From The Lexington Herald-Leader
Gates Of Vienna: Two Out Of Three Germans Can’t Be Wrong, also, The Revolution Has Begun
The Geller Report: Sweden Refuses The Jab For Kids 5-11, also, Trump’s Texas “Save America” Rally Shatters State Record With Massive Crowds
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, What Color Is Your Galaxy?
Hollywood In Toto: Gutfeld Shows Colbert & Co. How To Speak Truth To Power, also, Rockers’ Silence On SpotifyGate Speaks Volumes
The Lid: American Truckers Awakening “The Fire-Breathing Dragon”
Legal Insurrection: Profile In Cowardice, Penzey’s Begging For Customers After CEO Calls Republicans Racist, and Democrat Incompetence Led To Pittsburgh Bridge Collapse – So Of Course They Blame Republicans
Nebraska Energy Observer: Deliberate Observation, also, Antisemitism Persists
Outkick: The Rock Supports Joe Rogan, Bengals Score 21 To Beat The Chiefs 27-24, and Tom Brady Retires From NFL
Power Line: Whoops Whoopi! also, Smearing The Truckers
Shark Tank: Rubio On Demings’ Silence – “She Doesn’t Want To Tell People The Truth”
Shot In The Dark: “Dangerous Misinformation”, also, Lions Are Lying Down With Lambs
STUMP: Original Sin (or Pandora’s Box), Public Finance, & Pensions
The Political Hat: Florida Vs. Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: Special Ops Legend Maj. Gen. Singlaub Dies At 100, also, Maryland Woman Charged With Possession Of Fake Military ID
Transterrestrial Musings: Lockdowns, Red China In Space, and Weed Makes You Stupid?
Victory Girls: Convoy For Freedom Truckers Threatened With Arrest, also, Bad Orange Woman Giggles “Soft On Crime? What Does That Mean?”
Volokh Conspiracy: “A Rock…The More Mass, The Faster It Falls”, also, Georgetown U. Faculty Letter Against Firing Ilya Shapiro
Weasel Zippers: Canadian PM Flees Capitol For “Secure Location”, also, Cheney Challenger Raises $1.1 Million
The Federalist: A Happier Society Would Have More Children, also, Corrupt Media’s Smear Of NYT’s David Leonhardt Over COVID Reminds Us Why They Cat Be Trusted
Mark Steyn: The Two Johns – John Milius & The Legend Of Dillinger, also, When Irish Eyes Are Daíling

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Category: Linkagery

‘Running Gun Battle’ in Florida Town Leaves One Dead, Four Wounded

Posted on | January 31, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Running Gun Battle’ in Florida Town Leaves One Dead, Four Wounded

Polk County, Florida, is in the central part of the state, between Tampa to the west and Orlando to the northeast. It used to be a mostly rural area, with lots of orange groves and a cheap place to retire, but the population has grown to more than 700,000, adding about 250,000 new residents in just the past 20 years. Some of the new residents of Polk County are thugs, and they had some of their typical thug fun over the weekend:

A 20-year-old man was killed and four others were hospitalized in critical condition from an exchange of gunfire between two cars in unincorporated Winter Haven early Sunday morning, according to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
The deceased man and three of the injured — a 26-year-old man, a 20-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy — had left a bowling alley in the same car around 1:13 a.m., Judd said.
As the group drove north on Buckeye Loop Road toward Martin Luther King Blvd on the outskirts of Winter Haven, a dark sedan that followed them pulled up beside the car and the two vehicles engaged in a “running gun battle,” Judd said at a news conference Sunday.
“If you look very close, you’ll see some of these bullets are entrance holes into this vehicle, some are exit holes from the vehicle, so the suspects were shooting back and forth at each other,” Judd said.
The shootout was witnessed from a distance by friends of an individual in the first car, who Judd said reported seeing the vehicle ease over to the side of the road before it came to rest.
“And what we find (in the car) is not good. What we found was a 20-year-old young man, still a kid, dead,” Judd said. “He was shot eight times. Did you hear what I said? He was shot eight times.”
Judd said that among the other occupants, the 26-year-old was shot eight times, the 17-year-old was shot twice and the other 20-year-old man was shot between seven and eight times. The man who was shot and killed was the front-seat passenger of the car with an “AR strapped around him” and “a gun in his waist,” Judd said.
Though the shooting occurred in unincorporated Winter Haven, Judd said that the Winter Haven Police Department offered a “remarkable amount” of assistance to Polk County deputies at the scene.
The dark-colored car continued to drive west on Martin Luther King Blvd before it dropped off a 21-year-old man at Winter Haven Hospital who had also been shot and is now in critical condition there, Judd said.
Judd said there were so many bullet holes and shell casings to count that deputies were initially unable to report exactly how many shots were fired between both cars.
“We’re still counting bullet holes,” Judd said.

Watch the video here:

You’ll see that Sheriff Judd makes the case that Polk County has a low crime rate, and that this incident was unusual. What apparently happened was that some thugs were dealing dope and got into a feud with rival thugs. And the sheriff makes the point that, while a lot of people talk about marijuana as a “low-level, non-violent crime,” there is an awful lot of violence surrounding the dope trade, because it’s run by thugs.

I’m reminded of a scene in P.J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores, where O’Rourke did a ride-along with D.C. police in an area afflicted by the 1990s crack epidemic. O’Rourke tried to offer a libertarian critique of the War on Drugs, suggesting legalization was the solution, to which the police officer replied, “Air should be illegal, if these people breathe it.”

What that cop was trying to express was an idea that I’ve often phrased a bit more politely: Crime is a people problem. It’s not a drug problem. It’s not a poverty problem or a gun problem. Crime is caused by bad people — criminals — who will commit crime more or less continuously unless they’re put behind bars. The only way you can reduce crime is to identify the criminals, arrest them, and send them to prison. It doesn’t really matter what they’re arrested and convicted for — burglary, assault, drug possession, car theft, whatever — what matters is that you convict them of something, and get them off the streets. Put enough thugs in prison, and the would-be thugs on the street will be discouraged from following in their footsteps. Otherwise, they’ll just kill each other.

“Self-cleaning oven,” they call that in Chicago.

Category: Crime, Florida

The Joy of Schadenfreude as Nick Wright Cries the Tears of Unfathomable Sadness

Posted on | January 31, 2022 | Comments Off on The Joy of Schadenfreude as Nick Wright Cries the Tears of Unfathomable Sadness

When my team loses a football game, I have the luxury of being silent, pretending that nothing happened. The incident on January 10?

Nope. No comment. Movin’ on.

Nick Wright of Fox Sports does not have that luxury. He gets paid to talk about football, which is galling to fans of other teams who must listen to this Kansas City native rave about his man-crush, Patrick Mahomes.

Until this past season, I had never paid any attention to Nick Wright, and had no real opinion about Mahomes. But then the New England Patriots drafted Mac Jones from Alabama, and I became a Patriots fan — and quickly learned to hate Nick Wright like God hates sin. Because he is convinced that Mahomes is destined to be the greatest quarterback in NFL history, Wright habitually slanders any potential rival.

Honestly, I had almost completely ignored the NFL for a couple of decades before the Patriots drafted Mac Jones, which was why I had no idea who Nick Wright was when I first started seeing YouTube clips of him slagging Mac Jones. At that point, I was unaware that Wright was a Kansas City native, but once I figured out his motive for being anti-Mac, it made me furious — how dare Fox Sports employ this commentator who was so obviously biased in favor of one team that he made a habit of dissing other teams (especially the Chiefs’ AFC rivals)?

My hatred of Nick Wright led me to start cheering against the Chiefs, the same way, as an Alabama fan, I cheer for whoever’s playing Auburn.

And this was frustrating, because the Chiefs are a very good football team and Mahomes really does have wizard-like football skills. While I’m not a fan of the run-and-gun, shake-and-bake, razzle-dazzle style of football that Mahomes plays, he is unquestionably the best at that style of play. Last week’s division playoff game between Kansas City and the Buffalo Bills was one of the greatest games in NFL history, and the performance by Mahomes was absolutely electric.

He completed 33 of 44 passes for 378 yards and 3 touchdowns, and was also the Chiefs’ leading rusher, with 7 carries for 69 yards and another TD, but the numbers don’t capture just how magical he was against the Bills. Just watch the video of these two plays:

MAHOMES WHEELS!!! 34 YARDS!!

(via @NFL)pic.twitter.com/hVl3IqSo2Y

— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) January 24, 2022

#Chiefs answer right back to the #Bills, Mahomes runs it in on 3rd down. He broke a 34-yard run earlier on the drive as well.pic.twitter.com/gJlPK4HHv0

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) January 24, 2022

How do you defend against a player like that? It’s perfectly understandable why opposing defenses would get demoralized against Mahomes, and also understandable why a Kansas City native like Nick Wright would be a fan. But having to listen to Wright drool over Mahomes is so annoying that, as a freshly minted Patriots fan, I have come to hate Nick Wright so much that I hate Mahomes, too.

Therefore on Sunday, I was cheering for the Cincinnati Bengals against the Chiefs in the AFC championship game, but during the first half, it seemed like all hope was lost for an upset that would break Nick Wright’s heart. The Bengals were trailing 14-3 with about 10 minutes left in the half when, on third and 6, Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow threw an incomplete pass, and the Bengals were forced to punt. Kansas City took over at their own 28, and Mahomes led his team down the field on a drive that ended with a touchdown pass, to put the Chiefs up 21-3 with five minutes left in the half. Trailing by 18 points, it seemed the Bengals were doomed, and Kansas City was on their way to the Super Bowl.

And then Patrick Mahomes choked like a loser.

‘Incredible choke job’: $720m QB falls apart as NFL giants ended in Super Bowl stunner – Fox Sports https://t.co/pdPb1gwXPo #Australia #SarangPokhare

— Sarang Pokhare (NewsFeed) (@sarang143u) January 31, 2022

Yeah this second half has been the worst I’ve ever seen Mahomes play. Awful decision after awful decision. #NFL

— Andrew Gamble (@andrew_gamble) January 30, 2022

This is an incredible choke job from Mahomes. No way around it.

— Tommy Smokes (@TomScibelli) January 30, 2022

Mahomes choked so bad, even Nick Wright couldn’t deny he’d choked.

It was a choke of world-historic importance, a performance destined for a place of honor in the Choking Hall of Fame. So every NFL fan who isn’t from Kansas City set their alarms this morning to wake up and watch Nick Wright writhe in agony about how bad Mahomes choked:

How is @getnickwright doing after the Chiefs 27-24 OT loss to Bengals in the AFC Championship?

"That was the worst loss that I've suffered as a fan of any team, in any situation. And I don't know that I'll ever get over it. … How am I doing? Terribly. Will it get better? No." pic.twitter.com/YmAylr5FlL

— First Things First (@FTFonFS1) January 31, 2022

Oh, the salt just burns in that open wound, doesn’t it, Nick? And trust me, there are millions of people laughing at your misery.

Me watching Patrick Mahomes choke…. pic.twitter.com/iHmuU6Ez01

— ? Zegras 4 Calder ? (@BrosBanned) January 30, 2022

Category: Football

Rule 5 Sunday: Evangeline Lilly

Posted on | January 31, 2022 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Evangeline Lilly

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ms. Lilly has been in a fair number of movies & TV shows, most notably Lost, The Hobbit, and Ant-Man & The Wasp. Of course, what caught my attention is her public statement against the jab mandate, which of course has earned her some flak from her fellow actors & actresses. This pic of Ms. Lilly is from her days on Lost.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

On the beach.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1610, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five University Sheep Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Chicks With Iguanas, Boston Blizzard Babes, Regina Spektor, Evangeline Lilly, Marie Newman, Possibly (Mass Formation) Psychotic Babes, The Gilded Age, “Hazy Shade Of Winter”, Daisy Edgar Jones, Fountains Of Wayne, and The Last Duel.

A View From The Beach: Elizabeth Smith, ASMFC Looking to New Striper Regs, Analysis: Probably Correct, Fish Pic Friday – Tara Foster, Whew, Chessie Gets Home Safe, In a Fit of Mass Formation Psychosis, Justice Breyer Says Sayonara, Some Thursday Tanlines, Bravo! No Dissent Permitted, Hump Day Political Hilarity, Some Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Sunday Sunrise

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‘Air Biden’: Midnight Flights Bring Illegals From Border, and It’s ‘Racist’ to Notice

Posted on | January 30, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Air Biden’: Midnight Flights Bring Illegals From Border, and It’s ‘Racist’ to Notice

Remember, the “Great Replacement” is just a right-wing myth:

The Biden administration doesn’t want media attention on illegal immigration, its open border policies, or the results of those policies. How do we know? A security officer just said so, in an explosive video of secretive, dark-of-night flights transporting illegal immigrants to various points throughout the US.
This video merits coast-to-coast media coverage, not just to expose the administration’s stealth operations that flout the laws, but to encourage Americans and leaders at all levels of government to demand that the administration start protecting our border, our country, and our citizens.
The list of lies administration officials have told regarding their handling of illegal immigration is extensive and still growing. How many times have they refused to call the historic numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border a “crisis” or implausibly claimed the border is “closed”? . . .
Over the last several months, night flights of illegal migrants have been periodically reported in places such as Florida, New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. In each instance, state and local officials received no notice they were coming, let alone given an option to refuse them admission. The administration has no apparent concern with how these “air lifts” may burden local officials with additional costs and facilities capacity in areas such as education, housing, healthcare and law enforcement.
When asked why the administration was flying illegal immigrants in the middle of the night, press secretary Jen Psaki belittled the reporter and then lied. She claimed that the flights were resettling unaccompanied children. Yet videos of these surreptitious flights clearly show full grown adults emerging from the planes.

Anyone asking questions is a “racist,” of course:

Last summer I was notified of secret overnight flights coming into Westchester County Airport that were transporting thousands of illegal immigrants apprehended at the southern border. Having overseen the airport during my tenure as county executive, I knew that flights arriving after midnight are not allowed so I started asking questions publicly.
Who are on these planes? Have they been vetted and COVID tested? How many flights so far and how many more are scheduled? Where are these illegal immigrants being placed and who is paying for all this? Have background checks been done, especially on the adults?
What happened next was entirely predictable. I and other local residents were called “racist” and “xenophobic” simply for asking questions. Seemingly, neither the current county executive nor the governor cared or had any interest in knowing what was happening in their jurisdiction.
We ignored the taunts and continued to demand answers.
Finally, we were told that these were only unaccompanied minors and they were not being resettled locally. That was a lie. I eventually learned that the flights began in April and grew more frequent with larger planes by summer. I personally witnessed and videotaped dozens of adult male migrants boarding charter buses and being dropped off to waiting cars at a nearby Costco parking lot.
And New York Post journalist Miranda Devine’s investigation found that many of the undocumented individuals were indeed being resettled throughout Westchester, Long Island and the other New York suburbs.
Recently we secured police body-camera footage from the tarmac after one of the flights. A government contractor is seen on the recording telling a county police sergeant that Homeland Security wants the flights from the border “on the down-low. … Everything is supposed to be hush-hush.” . . .

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Category: Immigration, Joe Biden

Yes, Black Lives Matters Was a Scam

Posted on | January 30, 2022 | 1 Comment

Intelligent people knew from the start that Black Lives Matter was simply a Democratic Party propaganda operation. “Systemic racism” did not suddenly become a problem in the spring of 2020, and obviously it was not a coincidence that the “mostly peaceful” protests erupted in an election year. Further proof of the BLM movement’s essential bogusness was the fact that, once Joe Biden was installed as president, the protests ended. Black suspects are still getting shot by cops, but the national news media has ceased covering these incidents, because that was never really what it was about. It was about electing Democrats, period, and having succeeded at that goal, the media has moved on from BLM.

“Demand Justice for [Fill-in-the-Blank]” memes are now gathering dust back in the Instagram archives of liberals too stupid to wonder what the 2020 season of “activism” was really about. Never once has a liberal asked the cynical question, “Cui bono?” Who benefited from all that “activism”? Whose interests were served? Who got rich from those months of media-fueled outrage? For anyone naïve enough to buy into the BLM narrative, perhaps this information will come as a surprise:

No one appears to have been in charge at Black Lives Matter for months. The address it lists on tax forms is wrong, and the charity’s two board members won’t say who controls its $60 million bankroll, a Washington Examiner investigation has found.
BLM’s shocking lack of transparency surrounding its finances and operations raises major legal and ethical red flags, multiple charity experts told the Washington Examiner.
“Like a giant ghost ship full of treasure drifting in the night with no captain, no discernible crew, and no clear direction,” CharityWatch Executive Director Laurie Styron said of BLM.
BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors appointed two activists to serve as the group’s senior directors following her resignation in May amid scrutiny over her personal finances. But both quietly announced in September that they never took the jobs due to disagreements with BLM. They told the Washington Examiner they don’t know who now leads the nation’s most influential social justice organization.
Paul Kamenar, counsel for conservative watchdog group the National Legal and Policy Center, said a full audit and investigation into Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the legal entity that represents the national BLM movement, is warranted.
“This is grossly irregular and improper for a nonprofit with $60 million in its coffers,” Kamenar said.
BLM previously came under fire from local black activists after the New York Post reported in April that Cullors, then its executive director, had spent $3.2 million on real estate across the United States. The reports followed BLM’s disclosure in February 2021 that it closed out 2020 with $60 million in its bank accounts.
BLM denied allegations that Cullors spent BLM funds on her personal properties. However, BLM and other activist organizations under Cullors’s control offered contracts to an art company led by the father of her only child, the Daily Caller reported.
Cullors announced in May she was stepping down and that activists Makani Themba and Monifa Bandele would lead the organization as senior executives. But Themba and Bandele revealed in September that they never actually took the job because of disagreements with BLM’s “acting Leadership Council.” . . .

You can read the whole thing, but the fascinating thing about this is the fact that liberals don’t care that BLM was always a scam.

It’s almost as if they knew it all along.

Category: Racism

FMJRA 2.0: There Ain’t Nothing Wrong With The Radio

Posted on | January 29, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: There Ain’t Nothing Wrong With The Radio

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Not a good week for my Senators, who dropped two to the Pirates at RFK, and neither of them were close. Hoping to get three in against the Orioles tomorrow morning before I motor up to Reno for three weeks of work in the tax mines there.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.