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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.” . . .

Importing future Democratic voters is serious business.




 

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.

When the manager ain’t happy, nobody’s happy.

Can We Make Thursday ‘Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day’?
Gregor Mendel Blog
Quotulatiousness
Nebraska Energy Observer
Hogewash
Scott’s Blog
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Yvette Mimieux, RIP
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Aspiring Rapper Update: Lawsuit Accuses Seattle CHOP ‘Warlord’ of Pimping Hoes
The Political Hat
EBL

Patriots Post Mortem: What Mac Jones Needs to Do During the Off Season
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Ludwig II von Bayern
A View From The Beach
EBL

Good News From New York
357 Magnum
EBL

Jimmy Baseball’s Third Ex-Wife
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.24.22
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ and the Censorship of COVID-19 Criticism
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Morning Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Crazy People Are Dangerous
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Mass Formation Psychosis: What Is It and Why Is Everybody Talking About It Now?
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.27.22
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

A Death in New Jersey
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.28.22
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending January 28:

  1.  EBL (16)
  2.  A View From The Beach (9)
  3.  357 Magnum (8)
  4.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

‘Liberal Creationism,’ Revisited

Posted on | January 29, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Liberal Creationism,’ Revisited

William Saletan marks his 25-year anniversary at Slate-dot-com with a column discussing what he’s learned, about himself and the online audience, during his quarter-century at the original Internet magazine. Among other things, he laments the rise of Twitter warfare and the way centrifugal forces seem to be driving both Left and Right toward tribalism, with no possibility of moderation or compromise or even rational discussion. These are conditions not conducive to the kind of elitist neoliberal punditry that is Saletan’s specialty. During the same 25 years that Saletan has been at Slate (originally a property of Microsoft, since purchased by the former owners of the Washington Post), I’ve gone from working for the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune to spending more than 10 years at The Washington Times to being an independent blogger and American Spectator correspondent (while also recently being employed in a day job I never talk about). While I’ve been swimming along with the surging current of populism — I was populist before populism was cool — Saletan has attempted to resist the tide and, consequently, has become nearly irrelevant. Elitist neoliberalism matters a lot to the elite, but it doesn’t swing much weight with the masses, and if anybody’s sitting around breathlessly awaiting William Saletan’s next column, I can’t imagine why. This doesn’t make Saletan a villain, and I have no desire to celebrate his unfortunate situation, but I am dumbfounded by this paragraph in Saletan’s farewell column at Slate:

My worst mistake was in 2007, when I wrote about race and IQ. To this day, the subject makes me feel almost physically ill. In addition to a basic scientific error — you can’t use data about the heritability of traits within a population to draw inferences between populations — I was spectacularly obtuse to the social context in which I was writing. I thought statistical averages within groups should make no difference in how individuals are perceived. And it would be lovely if we lived in that world. But we don’t.

Saletan thereby repudiates and apologizes (again) for his 2007 column, “Liberal Creationism,” which was one of the most important and controversial things he ever wrote — and thus does the neoliberal surrender to the mob. In so doing, however, he draws attention to the heresy he has recanted, giving the rest of us an opportunity to examine his arguments and interrogate his reasons for abandoning them.

What prompted Saletan’s column was a newsworthy event:

Last month [i.e., October 2007], James Watson, the legendary biologist, was condemned and forced into retirement after claiming that African intelligence wasn’t “the same as ours.” “Racist, vicious and unsupported by science,” said the Federation of American Scientists. “Utterly unsupported by scientific evidence,” declared the U.S. government’s supervisor of genetic research. The New York Times told readers that when Watson implied “that black Africans are less intelligent than whites, he hadn’t a scientific leg to stand on.”

These denunciations of Watson’s claims were contrary to the facts. That is to say, Watson’s claim was not “unsupported by scientific evidence,” even if there was (and is) controversy about what the evidence means, both within the narrow confines of anthropology and in the larger context of societal and political issues. The real point, as explained by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in their monumental 1994 book The Bell Curve, can be summarized in three words — average group differences.

Insofar as human beings can be categorized as members of groups, there will be measurable differences between such groups — otherwise the categories are meaningless — so that when studying these groups from a behavioral or sociological perspective, what matters is the difference between group averages. This is a point Herrnstein and Murray emphasized sufficiently in their book for any honest and intelligent reader to grasp, but alas the Left is not populated by such people, so that The Bell Curve was greeted by an insane hysteria. Herrnstein (whose scientific credentials were impeccable) had died of cancer by the time the book was published, so that Murray (an economist by training) was left alone to defend their argument against malicious accusations that their intention was to justify some sort of latter-day Nazi eugenics program.

Those of us old enough to recall this mid-1990s controversy should understand it as a prelude to today’s “cancel culture” issues. The malicious slander directed at Murray (and posthumously also toward Herrnstein) was not intended to enlighten the public about the issues involved; rather, this was a journalistic lynch mob engaged in character assassination as part of an effort to suppress the facts and prevent any debate over what The Bell Curve might suggest in terms of public policy.

We can disagree as to why average group differences exist, or what sort of policies could be implemented in dealing with such differences, but what we cannot do — if we wish to be intellectually responsible — is to engage in a make-believe game where we pretend that these differences don’t exist, and then try to sustain our make-believe game by screaming “RAAAAACIST!” at anyone who raises the issue.

And this, really, was the point of Saletan’s 2007 column, i.e., that liberals were playing the part of fundamentalist True Believers, attempting to prohibit discussion of what they regarded as heresy:

Tests do show an IQ deficit, not just for Africans relative to Europeans, but for Europeans relative to Asians. Economic and cultural theories have failed to explain most of the pattern, and there’s strong preliminary evidence that part of it is genetic. It’s time to prepare for the possibility that equality of intelligence, in the sense of racial averages on tests, will turn out not to be true.
If this suggestion makes you angry — if you find the idea of genetic racial advantages outrageous, socially corrosive, and unthinkable — you’re not the first to feel that way. Many Christians are going through a similar struggle over evolution. Their faith in human dignity rests on a literal belief in Genesis. To them, evolution isn’t just another fact; it’s a threat to their whole value system. As William Jennings Bryan put it during the Scopes trial, evolution meant elevating “supposedly superior intellects,” “eliminating the weak,” “paralyzing the hope of reform,” jeopardizing “the doctrine of brotherhood,” and undermining “the sympathetic activities of a civilized society.”
The same values — equality, hope, and brotherhood — are under scientific threat today. But this time, the threat is racial genetics, and the people struggling with it are liberals.

Here, as a Bible-believing Christian, I must defend Bryan and object to Saletan’s implication that Darwinism is a scientific fact and that Genesis is false. Of course, there are (((other))) reasons why Saletan ought to defend Genesis — as a matter of self-interest, I certainly would, if I were him — but what I find really objectionable among Darwin’s fan club is their apparent certainty that our entire universe is one gigantic accident, a random coincidence without transcendent meaning or purpose.

Did I ever mention that I am a traditionalist? My ancestors thought of themselves as pilgrims sojourning in this vale of tears on their way to the Promised Land, and this sense of a missionary purpose to life, which was instilled in me in the pews and classrooms of the Lithia Springs First Baptist Church, has never really left me. Sinful backslider though I am, nevertheless I have never doubted that God has some larger purpose for my life, even if that purpose is a mystery I shall never understand.

We must keep the faith, dear brothers and sisters, even while we endure hardship and doubt, harassed by scoffers and forced to witness the evils of a world lost in sin. Among the rewards for this stewardship is the courage to withstand the attacks of the wicked. Satan is a liar, and his earthly minions habitually traffic in slander, of which I have sometimes been a target. In moments of crisis, when my survival was threatened, I declared, “Never doubt that God answers prayer.” Having fools for enemies is among the greatest blessings I have enjoyed.

Readers will excuse this seeming digression into theological matters, because it only seems irrelevant to William Saletan and his repudiation of his “Liberal Creationism” column. Truth is not to be discovered by plebiscite; facts are not a matter of majority rule. If you have the truth on your side, you ought to be courageous in defending it, even if — and perhaps especially if — it seems everybody is telling you you’re wrong.

The truth may be controversial, but it’s still the truth. This is what we learn from the Book of Job — afflicted by evil, and surrounded by “friends” who told him to curse God and die, Job kept the faith.

When Saletan wrote “Liberal Creationism,” he must have known this would be controversial, so why didn’t he resolve himself to defend the truth at all hazards, to acquit himself with courage in the battle?

One imagines he was afraid of losing his career as a journalist.

To which the proper answer is, “So what?”

In August 1987, I was driving a forklift in a warehouse on Fulton Industrial Boulevard. The warehouse was not air conditioned, the pay was low, and there was certainly no prestige to my labor. I’d walked out of my last newspaper job vowing that I was through with that infernal business, but sweating in that warehouse made me reconsider my vow. That evening, I called my old editor, Chris Barker, and asked him if he knew of any job openings in the newspaper racket. Chris said he’d check around, and called back later to tell me there was an opening for a sports editor at a paper in Calhoun, Georgia.

“Fine,” I said. “Just tell me, where the hell is Calhoun, Georgia?”

Within a week, I was living there, and a couple months later, I walked into the office and met the woman who became my wife, and by summer of 1989, we were married with a little baby daughter. The point of that story is: If all else fails, I could always go back to driving a forklift.

Perhaps that thought never occurred to William Saletan, so that when his liberal friends started screaming “RAAAAACIST!” at him because of his 2007 column, this represented in his mind an existential threat.

Whether or not Saletan’s job at Slate was in jeopardy, a liberal pundit’s career opportunities might be severely limited by the accusation of racism, and so Saletan followed up with a series of articles backing down from what he’d written in “Liberal Creationism” and now, nearly 15 years later, he feels compelled to renounce that column as his “worst mistake.”

Well, let me tell you something, Bill: I’d go back to driving a forklift before I’d belly-crawl in front of a mob like that. Your cowardice only incited the mob to further aggression, with the consequence that we are now surrounded by mobs who think they can bully people into silence.

Now let me offer you the best refutation possible of the slanderous accusation that it is “racist” to discuss average group differences: If you are smart enough to read and understand The Bell Curve, obviously you are a person of superior intelligence, no matter what your ethnic heritage.

It so happens that I, as a white Southerner, belong to a below-average group — Yankees, on average, are actually smarter. Well, what does that mean for me as an individual? “Stupid is as stupid does,” to quote the great Alabama philosopher Forrest Gump, and if I do not wish to be regarded as inferior, it behooves me to take care how I conduct myself.

Grant that at times I may have said or done stupid things that would lend aid and comfort to my enemies, giving credence to their dismissal of me as a stereotypical dumb hillbilly, but on the whole, I think no honest critic would describe me as ignorant, and thereby I refute the slander of my enemies and uphold the dignity of my people. It would seem to me that others ought to emulate this example if they are likewise members of groups whose average might give rise to accusations of inferiority.

Try not to be a stereotype, is what I’m saying here. Say, for example, if you’re a pointy-headed intellectual, learn how to park your bicycle.

If you get that joke, don’t let on. They’ll ban you forever.

Patience is a virtue. We must learn to endure life in a world where truth is trodden under foot by peddlers of lies, and where those who ought to be courageous in defense of truth instead surrender to the mob. My ancestors were not wrong in thinking of themselves as sojourners in the vale of tears, and knowing what dreadful hardships they endured gives me courage to maintain my dignity amid whatever minor difficulties might afflict my own circumstances. You have not yet seen me bowing before any mobs, the way the gutless Saletan has done, and I don’t anticipate you’ll see this in the future because, unlike Saletan, I know: I could always go back to driving a forklift. Deo vindice.




 

Category: Intellectuals, Media Bias, Racism

In The Mailbox: 01.28.22

Posted on | January 29, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We had some stragglers from Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day, and I’ve included them with the rest of the links. 
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Unsolicited Dick pic.

OVER THE TRANSOM
A View From The Beach: In a Fit Of Mass Formation Psychosis
357 Magnum: Happy Belated Birthday EVH, also, The Heckler’s Veto & Higher Education
McGee’s Tally Book: It No Longer Swings To & Fro
EBL: Evangeline Lilly – Resisting Mass Formation Psychosis
Twitchy: “And Then The Intern Took Another Bong Hit”
Louder With Crowder: WV Gov. Justice Invites Bette Midler To Kiss His Dog’s Butt, also, Elon Musk Comes Out In Support Of Canadian Truckers
Vox Popoli: Sowing The Seeds Of Evil, also, You ARE A Third World Country
According To Hoyt: Round The Bend, also, When Tolerance Kills
Monster Hunter Nation: Let’s Play Privilege Bingo! also, “Dead Acre” Review (Free Novella On Audible)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Saving Small Farms
American Greatness: The Needle & The Damage Done, also, Meet The Capitol Police’s New Spy Chief
American Power: “I’m a Public School Teacher. The Kids Aren’t All Right”, also, The Left’s Culture War As Class War
American Thinker: The Democrat Party’s Application Of Mass Formation Psychosis, also, Tribal Morality – The Difference Between Election Fraud & Voter Suppression
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five University Sheep News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer Leads Protest In Prison – Family Fears For His Life, Everything Looks Calm To Cuba’s Sock Puppet “President”, and Forget Neil Young – Next To His Former Partners, He’s A Brilliant Freedom Lover
Baldilocks: The Plan & The Push
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 28
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, A Red Chinese Space Plane? and Will SpaceX Recover Superheavy On Land Or At Sea?
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Hall Of Fame Talk – Who Belongs In, Just About Half Of Democrats Embrace Abject COVID Tyranny, and Ready for The Blizzard Of 2022? Thank A Bunch of Dead White Men
Don Surber: NYT Finally Opposes Harvard’s Racism, also, Frampton Comes A-Cropper
First Street Journal: What Good Are Gun Control Laws When Larry Krasner Won’t Enforce Them?
Gates Of Vienna: The Mean Streets Of Little Mogadishu In Borlänge, “You Will Not Escape Your Just Punishment”, and Cui Bono?
The Geller Report: Court Rules Pa. Mail In Voting Law Unconstitutional, Canadians Furious After PM Zoolander Calls Trucker Convoy “Fringe Minority”, and YouTube Permab& Dan Bongino 
Hogewash: Comet Leonard, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, and Democracy Dies In Derpness
Hollywood In Toto: Cowardly Stern Is Destroying His Legacy In Real Time
The Lid: Massive Truck Convoy Opposing Jab Mandates Heads To Ottawa, And PM Zoolander Goes Into Hiding
Legal Insurrection: LA DA Gascon Allows Child Molester To Be Housed In Juvenile Detention, George Soros Gives Democrat PAC $125 Million For Midterms, and State Legislators Making A Stand Against “Critical Theory’s Long March”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Seventeen NBA Players Make Millions Off Shoes Made With Red Chinese Slave Labor, Buck No! Troy Aikman May Be Leaving Longtime Partner Joe Buck, and Sexist Stephen A. Smith Calls Jeff Garcia Sexist For Questioning Mina Kimes
Power Line: Felony Murder In A Good Cause – FOX News Edition, Voters Don’t Like SCOTUS Set-Aside, and Is Joe Biden In The CCP’s Pocket?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Will Help Farmers If Freezing Temperatures Kill Crops 
Shot In The Dark: Not Approved By Avery Librelle, Help Me Decide, and Accountability
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – NATO & European Security
This Ain’t Hell: Former Ship’s Captain Goes To Prison, Valor Friday, and Slain Officer’s Wife – The System Has Failed Us
Transterrestrial Musings: How The GOP Can Block Breyer’s Replacement, The Inevitable, and A Dying Nation
Victory Girls: Cat Announcement Shows White House Desperation
Volokh Conspiracy: Dragging Out Protesters Disrupting City Council Meeting Isn’t Excessive Force
Weasel Zippers: Imbecile Who Raised Prices On Insulin Whines That People Can’t Afford It, CNN – 55% Disapprove Of Biden, Only 30% Think He’s Concerned With Their Economic Well-Being, and “This Is What ‘America’s Back’ Means?”
The Federalist: Ga. School District Published Plans To Teach CRT – Then Hid Them, Girls – It’s OK To Be Beautiful, and Facebook & Reddit Ban Pro-Police Comic That Broke No Platform Rules
Mark Steyn: Truckin’ Through Trudeaupia, also, Rock Me Gently, Investigate Me Slowly

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Category: Linkagery

A Death in New Jersey

Posted on | January 28, 2022 | 1 Comment

“Daniel J. Ackley, age 33 of Millville, passed away suddenly on January 4, 2022,” according to his obituary, a masterpiece of understatement. The muzzle velocity of a standard 9-mm pistol is about 1,250 feet per second, which is pretty doggone sudden. The late Daniel Ackley was armed with a large knife — so large that responding police officers thought it was a machete — at a trailer home in Millville when a female relative called 911:

In the first call, a woman describing the situation says Ackley has a history of getting angry and uncontrollable and he doesn’t really know why — to which the dispatcher asks if he needs the police or an ambulance to take him to a facility. The woman agrees. . . .
A second call is then made, saying that Ackley has now gone outside and is holding a knife.

The headline calls Ackley a “Troubled Iraq Veteran,” as if threatening people with knives were more common among Iraq veterans than among, for example, Philadelphia residents. We don’t know if Ackley’s military service had anything to do with his final outburst of knife-wielding craziness, although 30 seconds before he got shot, he helpfully informed the officers, “I’ve been to Iraq, bitch!” When one of the officers said, “I don’t want to shoot you,” Ackley showed a high level of political awareness by responding, “I’m not black enough to be shot?”

Turns out there are limits to “white privilege” in New Jersey.

Nobody looted Best Buy. No statues were toppled. White guys get shot by cops all the time, and CNN never seems to notice.




 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 01.27.22

Posted on | January 28, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.27.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“If you talk about mass formation psychosis, you must be crazy!” THEY say.

EVERYBODY BLOG ABOUT MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS DAY
McG’s Tally Book: Today Is Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day
Daily Dose Of Vitamin Fred: MFP And We!
Nebraska Energy Observer: We Must Make Today Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day
EBL: COVID-19 Indoctrination Song
Da Tech Guy: A $10 Word For Something That’s Not New
Hogewash: Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day

OVER THE TRANSOM
Twitchy: Dean Obeidallah Is Simping For Joy Reid, also, USA TODAY Says It’s Downright Dangerous That Americans Don’t Trust Their Public Health Officials
Louder With Crowder: Ron DeSantis Releases Ad Sure To Cause Another Fauci Meltdown, also, Marvel Actress Comes Out Against The Jab, Shares Common Sense Message From Washington DC Protest
Vox Popoli: Of Pearls & Swine

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Mr. President, Stay Out Of Ukraine
American Greatness: Polls Show Popular Support For Canadian Trucker Convoy Despite PM Zoolander’s Assertion That It Represents “Fringe Minority”, also, Awakening From The Biden Slumber
American Power: Putin Seeks To Revise Post-Cold War Settlement In Europe
American Thinker: The Pandemic Endgame – Is There One? also, The Rise Of Blockchain Republics
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Brain Implant News
Babalu Blog: 11J – A Turning Point In The Repression Of Cuban Evangelicals, also, The Democrats Get Silly About Threats To Democracy
Baldilocks: A Spinster’s Tale, Part 1
BattleSwarm: Joe Rogan, Neil Young, & Rock’s Eternal Now
Behind The Black: Pushback – Blacklisted Doctors Opposing Biden/CDC/FDA Policies Testify To Congress, Red China Tests Space Junk Removal Robot In Geosynch Orbit, and ABL Test Explosion To Delay First Launch By Three Months
Cafe Hayek: More On The Late, Great Walter Williams
CDR Salamander: What Did You Do In Your First Five Years After Commissioning?
Don Surber: Is Breyer Retiring? also, Even NYT Admits Biden Can’t Walk & Chew Gum
First Street Journal: The Lexington Herald-Journal & Journalistic Ethics
Gates Of Vienna: Afghans, Afghans Everywhere!, That WAYCIST Cross, and Mrs. Green Goes To Moscow
The Geller Report: Soros DA Found Guilty On 141 Counts, also, “If It Gets Out…The Government Is Betraying The American People”
Hollywood In Toto: Unorthodox Casting Pays Off In Cyrano, also, Here’s What You’re Missing About The Spotify/Neil Young Battle
The Lid: The Rabbi Who Was Silent About The Holocaust
Legal Insurrection: Remember When Law Profs Said VP Can’t Cast Tiebreaking Vote On SCOTUS Nominations? The Murder Turtle Does, ASU Cancels Fundraising Event Featuring Two GOP Congressmen, and UIC Law Prof Sues After School Tried To Force Him Into Humiliating Racial Reeducation Program
Outkick: Tennessee Playing With New Attitude On The Court, MLB Minor Leaguers Not Required To Be Jabbed For 2022, and NBA Subjects Fans Attending Clippers/Wizards Game To Video Message From Chinese Ambassador
Power Line: Betraying The American People, A Day In The Life, and Why Do Democrats Hate Children?
Shark Tank: Eskamani Considering Run For Congress?
Shot In The Dark: “Welcome To Potemkin’s!”, Dismantle, and Casualty Of Not-Quite-War Yet
STUMP: 2021 January-June Cause Of Death Ranking Table
The Political Hat: Modern Education – Secret Indoctrination, BLM Guiding Principles, & Brainwashing In 21 Days
This Ain’t Hell: Thursday FGS, Fat Leonard Takes Down Another Navy Officer, and Washington State Citizens Upset That SEALS Use Their State Parks For “Wargames”
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Mass Formation Psychosis: What Is It and Why Is Everybody Talking About It Now?

Posted on | January 27, 2022 | 2 Comments

Have you ever heard of “The Streisand Effect”? It’s what happens on the Internet when someone tries to suppress the truth:

Barbra Streisand . . . in 2003 had sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia[dot]com for violation of privacy. The US$50 million lawsuit endeavored to remove an aerial photograph of Streisand’s mansion from the publicly available collection of 12,000 California coastline photographs. Adelman photographed the beachfront property to document coastal erosion as part of the California Coastal Records Project, which was intended to influence government policymakers. Before Streisand filed her lawsuit, “Image 3850” had been downloaded from Adelman’s website only six times; two of those downloads were by Streisand’s attorneys. As a result of the case, public knowledge of the picture increased greatly; more than 420,000 people visited the site over the following month. The lawsuit was dismissed and Streisand was ordered to pay Adelman’s legal fees, which amounted to $155,567.

In a free society, such censorship efforts always fail, if citizens understand what is at stake. Today was Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day, an effort to bring attention to a dangerous censorship effort. Last month, William Jacobson blogged about Mass Formation Psychosis and linked to this short primer on the subject:

A brief overview of Mass Formation, which was developed by Dr. Mattias Desmet. He is a psychologist and a statistician. He is at the University of Ghent in Belgium. I think Dr. Mattias is onto something about what is happening and he calls this phenomena:
MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS
So, when he says “mass” formation, you can think of this as equivalent to “crowd” formation. One can think of this as:
CROWD PSYCHOSIS
The conditions to set up mass formation psychosis include lack of social connectedness and sensemaking as well as large amounts of latent anxiety and passive aggression. When people are inundated with a narrative that presents a plausible “object of anxiety” and strategy for coping with it, then many individuals group together to battle the object with a collective singlemindedness. This allows people to stop focusing on their own problems, avoiding personal mental anguish. Instead, they focus all their thought and energy on this new object.
As mass formation progresses, the group becomes increasingly bonded and connected. Their field of attention is narrowed and they become unable to consider alternative points of view. Leaders of the movement are revered, unable to do no wrong.
Left unabated, a society under the spell of mass formation will support a totalitarian governance structure capable of otherwise unthinkable atrocities in order to maintain compliance. A note: mass formation is different from group think. There are easy ways to fix group think by just bringing in dissenting voices and making sure you give them platforms. It isn’t so easy with mass formation. Even when the narrative falls apart, cracks in the strategy clearly aren’t solving the issue, the hypnotized crowd can’t break free of the narrative. This is what appears to be happening now with COVID-19. The solution for those in control of the narrative is to produce bigger and bigger lies to prop up the solution. Those being controlled by mass formation no longer are able to use reason to break free of the group narrative.

Do you grasp the significance of this concept in our current situation? Guess what happens if you tell the truth in a world where major institutions are devoted to promoting official lies?

Twitter on [Dec. 29] suspended the account operated by Dr. Robert Malone, a U.S.-based virologist, and immunologist credited for significantly contributing to the invention of the mRNA technology, the foundation of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines against Covid-19.
The ban came just hours after the AP posted a controversial “fact check” report claiming Malone “misled” people by claiming the vaccines are failing against the Omicron variant.

It is self-evident that vaccines haven’t stopped the Omicron variant, which produced a surge of “breakthrough” COVID-19 infections in vaccinated patients, even those who had gotten “booster” shots. Yet not only did Twitter ban Dr. Malone for “misinformation,” but because popular podcaster Joe Rogan hosted Dr. Malone on his program, everybody is now trying to ban Rogan:

Biden-appointed U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Silicon Valley tech companies have an “important role to play” in preventing the spread of alleged coronavirus “misinformation.” His comments came during an MSNBC interview that specifically mentioned Joe Rogan.
Murthy made the comments during an appearance on MSNBC, in which host Mika Brzezinski asked Murthy what should be done about alleged misinformation from Joe Rogan and social media posts.
“What do you think are the best ways to push back on misinformation about COVID that continues to be aggressively pushed, whether it be Joe Rogan’s podcast or all over Facebook?” asked Brzezinski.
“We can have the best science available, we can have the best public health expertise available. It won’t help people if they don’t have access to accurate information,” responded Murthy. “People have the right to make their own decisions, but they also have the right to have accurate information to make that decision with.”
The Biden-appointed health official went on to urge private companies to use their power to limit the spread of alleged misinformation.
“This is about companies and individuals recognizing that the only way we get past misinformation is if we are careful about what we say and use the power that we have to limit the spread of misinformation,” said Murthy.
With an average of 11 million listeners per episode, Joe Rogan is arguably the most popular pundit in the western world.

Do you see the point? If indeed our “leaders” are trying to hypnotize the masses, the one thing they can’t allow is for anyone to tell the masses, “Hey, they’re hypnotizing you.” So the silencing of dissent is essential to the propaganda campaign that fuels Mass Formation Psychosis.




 

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