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God Bless Officer Tatum

Posted on | May 20, 2021 | Comments Off on God Bless Officer Tatum

If you are a God-fearing American, you need to be praying for this man. Brandon Tatum is doing the Lord’s work, and he needs all your prayer circles calling down God’s angels to protect him from evil.

Because I watch a lot of crime videos on YouTube, the algorithm somehow started pushing videos from the Officer Tatum channel into my recommendations, and the first one I watched was like, “Oh, wow, this guy gets it.” He’s saying the same things I’ve been saying about this violent crime wave and BLM and Ben Crump and so forth.

Anyway, he uploaded a video about the shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. For weeks, Crump and the usual suspects have been in the “Family Demand Answers” mode, accusing police (county sheriff’s deputies, actually) of “executing” Brown. “Release the video!” was the main demand, and it was implied, if not stated directly, that there was some kind of cover-up involved. What these “activist” types and their friends in the liberal media didn’t want you to know is, first of all, the laws in North Carolina don’t allow for this kind of stuff to be released publicly without a judge’s authorization, and the judge in this case wanted to wait until the state police and the district attorney had completed their investigation. But if you’re stupid enough to believe the way this story was presented on CNN and MSNBC, you might actually believe that the sheriff’s deputies in Pasquotank County are just a bunch of racist goons who murdered an innocent black man.

My second point: Andrew Brown Jr. was definitely not innocent.

He was never really innocent in his entire adult life. When he got shot dead by deputies serving an arrest warrant, Brown was 42. He had a criminal record dating back as far as 1996. Do the math, and you realize Brown has been a criminal since before he even turned 18.

So far as anyone can tell, Andrew Brown Jr. never had a real job, never earned an honest dollar in his whole life. He was a lifelong drug dealer who was convicted no fewer than 12 times — TWELVE TIMES — of felony drug charges. He was most recently released from prison in 2018. The reason deputies were serving a warrant on him was because an informant got undercover video of Brown dealing drugs. What kind of drugs was he dealing? Meth, cocaine, and heroin laced with fentanyl.

It wasn’t like Brown was just turning over a few nickel bags of weed or something. He was dealing serious amounts of very bad drugs, the kind of stuff that puts people in an early grave, and you can make all the libertarian arguments you want for ending the “War on Drugs,” but do you want this deadly poison being sold in your community?

America answers: “Hell to the no.” We want to put these people in prison, and the sheriff’s department in Pascotank County had an airtight case against Anthony Brown Jr. They had warrants to arrest him and search his property, but they also knew that Brown had previously shown a disposition to resist arrest or attempt to flee, so when they went to serve the warrant, they brought their tactical squad with them.

Now I’m going to insert Officer Tatum’s video, in which he reviews and comments on the body-camera footage of this incident:

 

Let me here say a few words about prejudice.

Because I’m a Southerner, I’ve been dealing with prejudice my whole life. One of the reasons I prefer written communication is because, with the written word, you can’t hear my accent. Like Jeff Foxworthy says, the minute a Southerner opens his mouth, people deduct 15 points from his IQ score — no matter how smart a Southerner may be, the slow-motion drawl makes him sound stupid. And because I’ve got a particularly sharp Appalachian twang, I know I seem more intelligent when I write than when I speak. Having dealt with this problem for decades — a professional journalist who talks like Jed Clampett — I am aware that black people suffer similar problems if they “talk black.”

What do you think Joe Biden meant, really, when he praised Barack Obama as being “clean” and “articulate,” as if possessing such qualities had been hitherto unknown among black Americans? You can say it was racist of Biden to say that, and the last thing I want to do is to defend Joe against accusations of racism, but what he obviously meant was that Obama didn’t “talk black” like, e.g., Jesse Jackson.

Or Maxine Waters or Sheila Jackson Lee or any of the other black Democrats who, by word and deed, reinforce the worst racial stereotypes. I mean, every time “Kerosene Maxine” opens her mouth, it’s like a recruiting ad for the KKK. If you’re looking for the Number One cause of racism in America, look no farther than the 43rd District of California.

All of this I say because Brandon Tatum talks the way you’d expect a black man from Tarrant County, Texas, to talk, and many viewers of his videos — particularly the intellectuals of the journalistic elite — might therefore underestimate his intelligence. Certainly, he’s been dealing with this his whole life, but let me tell you something I know from direct experience: Just because a black person doesn’t speak with the elocution and grammatic accuracy of a Cambridge University professor, don’t assume they’re stupid. Because the joke may be on you.

See, as a professional journalist, I learned to anticipate how my redneck accent caused people to underestimate me, and use that to my advantage — like Detective Columbo playing dumb with a murder suspect, and then waving his cigar: “Ah, I just got one more question . . .”

Call up somebody and give ’em that aw-shucks, yes-ma-am, no-ma’am stuff like you’re just a down-home good ol’ boy — let ’em underestimate you — and you’d be surprised at what folks will tell you. If I can figure out how prejudice can be used as ju-jitsu leverage, I’m sure plenty of black people have figured it out, too, so if you’re underestimating Brandon Tatum because he “talks black,” you need to rethink your assumptions. And speaking of assumptions . . .

Why do so many people — including a lot of liberals — act as if the word black is a synonym for poor? Some white folks encounter a successful black man and will automatically assume he grew up in the ghetto and miraculously escaped a life of poverty. Hate to disillusion anyone, but despite the so-called “income gap” between whites (as a group) and blacks (as a group), there are lots of middle-class black people in America, and not every black child grows up in the ghetto.

Brandon Tatum’s father was a captain in the Fort Worth fire department, and his grandfather’s brother, Jack Tatum, was an All-Pro defensive back for the Oakland Raiders in their Super Bowl glory days. Brandon Tatum went to the University of Arizona on a football scholarship, didn’t get picked in the NFL draft and became a police officer in Tucson. Seven years later, after he went viral speaking out on behalf of Donald Trump, Tatum left the police force and became a full-time commentator.

He’s got 1.6 million YouTube subscribers — an audience about twice the size of CNN’s average daytime viewership. And he’s the real deal.

Everything he says about this Andrew Brown Jr. shooting is what I’d say myself, except I’m a white guy and nobody cares what a white guy says about BLM because it’s racist when we say the common-sense truth about these criminal scumbags who get themselves shot by cops.

Every Christian knows that “the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,” and you know Satan would like nothing better than to devour a righteous man like Brandon Tatum, so I’m asking y’all to get that intercessory prayer going for him.

Lift him up. We need this guy’s voice amplified so loud it makes liberals shut their mouths with all this “systemic racism” nonsense.

Can I get an “amen,” dear brothers?




 

Category: Crime, Racism

In The Mailbox: 05.19.21

Posted on | May 19, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.19.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Look who’s being recalled to duty! (Probably)

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1357
357 Magnum: Your Smart TV Is Spying On You
Red Pilled Jew In Exile: Quick Hits
Proof Positive: Israel’s Protector
EBL: Rebekah Jones Doubles Down On Crazy
Twitchy: PBS’ Yamiche Alcindor Can’t Understand Why UNC Didn’t Give Tenure To Nikole Hannah-Jones
Louder With Crowder: Chicago’s Mayor Groot Will Only Agree To 1-on-1 Interviews With Black Or Brown Reporters
Vox Popoli: An Empire Expands, also, When Caesar Fails To Cross The Rubicon

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Biden Scolds Coast Guard Academy Grads for Not Laughing At His Lame Joke, also, A Small Group Of GOP Reps Defy Pelosi On Masks, Risking Fines
American Power: Elizabeth Hinton, America On Fire
American Thinker: An Election Heist Too Big To Fail
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuban State Security Arrests Dissident Rappers “El Osorbo” y “El Funky”
BattleSwarm: This Is Your Skyscraper On Chinesium
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Senate Revises NASA Authorization To Confirm Lunar Lander Award To SpaceX
Cafe Hayek: Deficit Financing Fuels Excessive Government Growth
Da Tech Guy: The #Unexpectedly Chronicles, also, The COVID Coup
Don Surber: The Cry Of The RINOsaurs As The Tar Pit Consumes Them, also, An Admission That COVID Was Biological Warfare
First Street Journal: Journolism Strikes Again At The Herald-Leader! also, Killadelphia
The Geller Report: Former Democrat Mayoral Candidate Indicted On 109 Counts Of Felony Voter Fraud, also, Terrorist #BLM Declares “Solidarity” With Hamas In War Against Jews
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, M42
Hollywood In Toto: Vincent Gallo’s Store Shreds AOC, Cuomo, Comey, & Kaepernick, also, Too Many Celebrities Actively Condone Or Support Violence
The Lid: Democrats’ Attitude Toward Israel & Hamas – F*** The Jews, They’ll Vote For Us Anyway
Legal Insurrection: In Memory Of Marquette Professor John McAdams, Who Won Free Speech Suit Against School, also, Community College Allegedly Paying $150,000 To Professor Accused Of Anti-Muslim Sentiments
Nebraska Energy Observer: When Is A Protest Not A Protest? When The BBC Says So
Outkick: Don Lemon Very Mad About Joe Rogan’s Take On “Straight White Men”, also, Pressure Increasing On IOC, Beijing Olympics As Uighur Slavery Continues
Power Line: Minneapolis Spirals Downward, also, Is The French Upheaval Coming Here?
Shark Tank: Rubio Implies Demings Is A “Radical Liberal Ally” Of Biden & Pelosi
Shot In The Dark: There Just Has To Be Some Polling
The Political Hat: Legislative Update – Texas Vs. Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: National Guard News, also, Pentagon To Monitor Military Social Media For “Extremist & Concerning Behavior”
Transterrestrial Musings: Crazy Business Practice
Victory Girls: SCOTUS Protects 4th Amendment In Unanimous Decision
Volokh Conspiracy: Let’s Talk About Stare Decisis On The Warren Court
Weasel Zippers: Police Officers Fired, Demoted for Criticizing #BLM, also, Oregon Counties Vote To Secede From State, Join Idaho
The Federalist: Biden Tells Unamused USCGA Graduates They’re “Really Dull”, also, Pelosi Fines Republicans $500 For Following CDC Mask Guidance
Mark Steyn: If I Knew You Were Coming…, also,  License To Hug

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Why Do Democrats Want a 9/11-Style Capitol Riot ‘Truth Commission’?

Posted on | May 19, 2021 | Comments Off on Why Do Democrats Want a 9/11-Style Capitol Riot ‘Truth Commission’?

They can’t quit him. Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are unable to let go of their “Orange Man Bad” obsession with Donald Trump. That’s why, as I watched MSNBC this morning (so you don’t have to), they were headlining the New York state attorney general’s criminal investigation of Trump’s business organization. In their deranged minds, destroying Trump will also destroy what he represents — a populist challenge to elite control of America’s government and other institutions.

Our would-be elite overlords believe that only folks with Ivy League degrees and the correct “progressive” opinions can be allowed to have any meaningful influence in American public life. While it is true that Trump had an Ivy League diploma (from Penn), his mistake was in being too sympathetic to the working class who are fed up with elite control. Our media overlords won’t be satisfied until the current working class is entirely supplanted by cheap foreign labor — either through immigration, or through international trade competition — simply because the media elite hate the working class, so many of whom refuse to comply with elite demands, e.g., pretending that men can get pregnant or that AR-15 owners are the greatest threat to America’s public safety.

One obvious reason the media keep playing the Trump card, so to speak, is because nobody cares about Joe Biden and since Trump left office, most news ratings have fallen to unprecedented lows. Almost the only guy on cable TV who’s still relevant is Tucker Carlson, which is why CNN’s Brian Stelter is constantly “reporting” what Carlson says (as if CNN viewers are too stupid to turn the channel and see for themselves).

This is the simplest explanation for why CNN, MSNBC and other liberal media outlets continue to hype the Jan. 6 “insurrection” on a daily basis — it offers them a chance to feel more relevant, and perhaps even to claw their way out of their post-Trump viewership decline. And they all think it would be a splendid idea for Congress to authorize a 9/11 style “bipartisan” commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Notice that I have no problem describing what happened on Jan. 6 as a “riot.” When people storm a police barricade, that’s a riot in my book, even if I agree with the politics of the people doing it. And while there were a few genuinely dangerous kooks at the Capitol on Jan. 6, most of the people who breached the barricades were mainly guilty of misdemeanors, caught up in the urgent excitement of the moment. Even though I am sympathetic to people who think the 2020 election was stolen, I think the Capitol riot was a bad idea, but because nobody solicited my opinion in advance — “Hey, Stacy, what do you think about our plan for charging past the cops into the Capitol?” — so all I can do is express my disapproval in the aftermath.

It’s kind of like what happened in Charlottesville in August 2017. I’m all in favor of protecting historic monuments against left-wing mobs of political correctoids, but Munich-style torchlight parades and dressing up in combat gear for a street brawl? Bad optics, to say the least.

But while the CNN/MSNBC media gang want a Jan. 6 “Truth Commission” mainly to keep feeding their audience the Orange Man Bad diet they crave, Democrats are seeking more tangible political advantage:

Six months later, the “Big Lie” won’t die.
The Left and NeverTrump have tried everything in their collective power to punish critics of the 2020 presidential election: Social media accounts, including those belonging to Donald Trump, have been deplatformed. Republican lawmakers have been cut off by longtime donors, threatened with legal recourse, and worse.
Nonviolent Trump-supporting Americans who traveled to the nation’s capital on January 6 to protest dubious election results in swing states now face criminal charges. Nearly 75 million Americans are considered potential “domestic violent extremists” by their own government and nearly half their countrymen agree.
Lives and careers are being destroyed — and the Biden regime is only getting started. . . .

Read the whole thing.




 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Democrats, Election, Media Bias

Gov. DeSantis Hires Christina Pushaw; Rebekah Jones Gets Crazier Than Ever

Posted on | May 19, 2021 | Comments Off on Gov. DeSantis Hires Christina Pushaw; Rebekah Jones Gets Crazier Than Ever

When last we updated readers on the Rebekah Jones saga (“The Streisand Effect and the Results of Everybody Blog About Rebekah Jones Day,” Sunday), the reporting of Charles C.W. Cooke at National Review had devastated whatever was left of Jones’s “whistleblower” reputation.

Since Sunday, there have been further developments in the saga. First, Christina Pushaw, the journalist whose February report on Jones began the debunking of her “whistleblower” narrative, was announced Monday as the new press secretary for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis:

Governor Ron DeSantis has tapped conservative journalist and communicator Christina Pushaw to be his new press secretary.
Pushaw, who most recently worked as a freelance journalist publishing in national conservative outlets like The National Interest and Human Events, landed inside the Governor’s office as DeSantis transitions into campaign season. Born in California, Pushaw carved out a career in communications after graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Southern California. She also holds a Master’s degree in International Relations and Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
“Some people are surprised that I’m a conservative because I’m from one of the bluest areas in the country. But that’s precisely what shaped my views on policy. Growing up in California, I’ve seen firsthand the destruction caused by unfettered progressive control,” Pushaw told The Capitolist in an email. “The contrast between my home state of California and my adopted home state of Florida couldn’t be more dramatic.”
In addition to her freelance journalism work, Pushaw worked with conservative public policy organizations in Washington D.C. and has also worked as an international political communications consultant aiding pro-American political leaders and organizations in Eastern Europe, specializing in English-language media. Her experience working with political leaders and other organizations helped hone her skills in an often hostile media environment. One of her clients, Mikheil Saakashvili, has been an outspoken critic of Vladmir Putin. . . .
Pushaw first got onto the radar of the DeSantis administration for her willingness to call out the now thoroughly discredited “whistleblower” Rebekah Jones in a series of investigative stories, including a blockbuster exposé in Human Events in February. That story was among the first national media outlets to shine a light on major plot holes in Jones’ claims and in the media narrative she perpetuated. Jones was fired from Florida’s Department of Health last year and is currently awaiting trial on charges that she illegally accessed a state computer network.

Congratulations to Ms. Pushaw and, as for Jones, what do crazy people do when things go wrong? They get crazier:

As Twitchy readers know, Charles C.W. Cooke wrote a fairly exceptional piece on ‘fabulist’ Rebekah Jones for The National Review. Full disclosure, this editor just this morning had the time to sit down and really read it and all we can say is … wow.
Seems Jones wrote a response/blog about his piece.
And managed to misspell his last name throughout the entire thing.
Oh, and she apparently plans to sue him for libel as well?

Jones’s reply to Cooke is more than 9,000 words of pure craziness and, while I’m not professionally licensed to provide psychiatric diagnoses, it is my opinion as a layman that Jones is deranged, demented, daft, wacky, bonkers, non compos mentis, off her rocker, nuttier than a Snickers bar, a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

Meanwhile, CNN’s Jake Tapper, who promoted Jones’s “whistleblower” narrative as recently as December, has thrown her under his Twitter bus.




 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Florida

In The Mailbox: 05.18.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 19, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.18.21 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Play Stupid Games…
EBL: Mega-Houses On The Grift
Twitchy: “Boobs For The Win!”
Louder With Crowder: Biden Wants To Run Surveillance On Soldiers’ Social Media, Use Private Firms To “Circumvent” 1st Amendment
Vox Popoli: Capitalists Provide The Rope, also, They Lied To Us
Stoic Observations: The Perfection Of Individuality

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Is Jordan Peterson Going To Fail The Stupid Test?
American Conservative: Why Twitter Isn’t Manly
American Greatness: Shawshank For January 6 Detainees. also, SCOTUS Rules Unanimously Against Warrantless Gun Seizures
American Power: Michael Anton, The Stakes
American Thinker: And Just Like That, Masks Are No Longer Necessary
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Neurotic America News
Babalu Blog: Miami Marlins To Celebrate Cuban Heritage Night With Nostalgic AAA Sugar Kings Uniforms
BattleSwarm: Brandon Herrera On New ATF 80% Lower Rules, also, SCOTUS Strikes Down Warrantless Gun Seizure 9-0
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Martian Mesas Made Entirely Of Dry Ice
Cafe Hayek: Who Was James Buchanan?
CDR Salamander: The French View Of The Pacific
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – Bye Bye Mask! also, Time For Israel To Move Back Into The Gaza Strip & Stay
Don Surber: Trump Earned It, also, Israel Exploded AP’s Offices, Hamas Exploded AP’s Reputation
First Street Journal: Killadelphia, also, Toldjah So!
The Geller Report: British Rabbi Hospitalized After Brutal Beating By Muslim Thugs, also, Palestinians Fly Nazi Flags At Pro-Terror Demonstration
Hogewash: Doing Science In The Laboratories Of Democracy, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Comedians Won’t Touch Dr. Fauci, And That’s a Problem, also, Chris Rock Shreds Cancel Culture But Misses The Big Picture
The Lid: Dr. Fauci Admits His Mask Stance Two Months Ago Was All About Optics
Legal Insurrection: Ousted Space Force Commander Saw “Increasing Relevance” Of “Marxist Ideology”, also, Rep. Val Demings Taking On Rubio In 2022
Nebraska Energy Observer: We Stand
Outkick: Legendary Buffalo Hot Dog Stand Closes After 70 Years – Can’t Find Workers, also, UFC’s Derrick Lewis Finds Moron Trying To Break Into His Car, Brings The Pain
Power Line: In The Middle East, Discredited Myths Never Die, also, Biden Yields To Putin On Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Shark Tank: Pelosi Fines Brian Mast $500 For Following CDC Guidelines & Not Wearing Mask
Shot In The Dark: Ko-Ko Kamala & The Kalorama Kommissar
STUMP: Mortality Nuggets
The Political Hat: Washington State Embraces Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: Inside The Military’s Secret Undercover Army, also, Biden Administration Has The Army Ready To Fight Our Biggest Enemy Yet
Transterrestrial Musings: The Neo-Feudalism Of Los Angeles, also, Leaving Portland
Victory Girls: Cuomo Gropes His Way To Profit Off COVID
Volokh Conspiracy: The First Amendment & Mask Mandates
Weasel Zippers: #BLM “Stands In Solidarity” With Hamas, also, Neanderthals Win – Texas Hits Zero COVID Deaths Per Day
The Federalist: Chrissy Teigen Got Rich Setting The Cancel Culture Norms Now Biting Her, also, Biden Greenlights Russian Pipeline After Shutting Down Keystone XL 
Mark Steyn: Design For Living – Give ‘Em Hecht, also, Hip Hopper

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FMJRA 2.0: Rip & Tear

Posted on | May 18, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Rip & Tear

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Rule 5 Sunday: Not From The Black Widow Movie
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Truth or Satire? It’s Getting Harder to Tell
First Street Journal
EBL

David French Gets Paid to Hate You
Bacon Time
EBL

Biden’s ‘Diversity’ Administration
EBL

Hunter Biden’s Beijing Honey Trap
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: The Thrill Of It All
A View From The Beach
EBL

Motherhood (and the Lack Thereof)
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.10.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Of Course, Evolution Is Racist
Hogewash
Rotten Chestnuts
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.11.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Falling Down and Falling Apart
Gregor Mendel Blog
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.13.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 05.13.21 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.14.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending May 14:

  1.  EBL (14)
  2.  A View From The Beach (8)
  3.  Proof Positive (6)

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In The Mailbox: 05.18.21 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | May 18, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.18.21 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Back from the DC area and ready to play catch-up. The FMJRA will appear later today, as will the evening edition of In The Mailbox. Thanks to Stacy and John Hoge for having me on The Other Podcast and for their hospitality.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Minneapolis Mayor – “Defund The Police” Was A Bad Idea
EBL: St. Pancake, also, Masks Now, Masks Tomorrow, Masks Forever
Twitchy: President Biden Tells Rep. Tlaib He Admires Her Intellect & Passion 
Louder With Crowder: Cop Car Tosses Protesters Blocking HIghway, also, Crowder Starts Legal Action Against YouTube
Vox Popoli: The Canceling Of Literature, also, “Dozens Of Meetings”
Stoic Observations: Brother & Sister
Gab News: The Incompetent Grifters Around President Trump

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: This Ain’t Your Country Any More
American Conservative: The Other Virus – Learned Helplessness
American Greatness: Biden Diverts Money For America Healthcare To Illegals, also, Space Force Commander’s Book On Marxist Takeover Of The Military Soars To #1 After He’s Relieved Of Command
American Power: Ashley Rindsberg, The Gray Lady Winked
American Thinker: Dr. Fauci Finally Unmasked, also, Why Are Media Ignoring Massive COVID Vaccine Death Spike?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Spain Busts Money-Laundering Operation Shipping Drug Money To Cuba
BattleSwarm: Followup – IDF To Hamas “Psych!”, also, The Lab Leak Hypothesis Revisited
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Where Is Red China’s Zhurong Rover?
Cafe Hayek: A Weak Hypothetical In Support Of Tyranny, also, The Beginning Of The End Of Liberal Civilization?
CDR Salamander: The Army – Climate, Politics, & Pork
Da Tech Guy: Plausible Deniability AP Style, also, Chicago Aldermen Make Wrong Turn On Proposal To Rename Lake Shore Drive
Don Surber: Statuary Rape, also, Why Joe Biden Acts Like An Asshole
First Street Journal: The Left Are Pro-Choice On Exactly One Thing (Part II), also, Why June 11?
The Geller Report: U.S. Sending Aid To Palestinian Terrorists As Jihad Against Israel Continues, also,  Democrats In Congress Parrot Terrorist Talking Points
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Words Have Meaning
Hollywood In Toto: Woman In The Window Lives Down To All The Bad Buzz, also, The Movie Star Era Is Over – Are Franchises Next On The Chopping Block?
The Lid: Judge Has Bad News For Hillary About IRS Investigation Of The Clinton Foundation
Legal Insurrection: Lincoln Project Targeting Children [sic] With “Franklin Project” Civics Program, also, University Of California Dropping SAT & ACT In Settlement With Minority Students
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Malaise & Renaissance
Outkick: Martin Truex Says Bubba Wallance “Needs To Get His S**t Together”, also, Rob Manfred Remains Wildly Unpopular
Power Line: NYT – Slow Joe Getting Slower, also, The Deep Unpopularity Of Kamala Harris
Shark Tank: Democrats Have A Socialism Problem
Shot In The Dark: Demotion, also, Hope I Die Before I Get…Young
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Black Panthers, also, Oklahoma Vs. Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: Armed Forces Day, also, A Different Kind Of Military Phony
Transterrestrial Musings: The Climate Doom Mongers, also, Sharing Office Space With Terrorists
Victory Girls: Bill Gates Proves Money Can’t Buy Morals, also, Yes, AP Knew Hamas Was In The Building
Volokh Conspiracy: FCC Commissioner Brendan Car Slams Marilyn Mosby’s Complaint Against WBFF
Weasel Zippers: Biden Proving To Be A Bigger Disaster Than Carter Ever Was, also, Biden Economic Advisor Blames Bad April Jobs Report On Easter Being In March (It Was In April)
The Federalist: Twitter Suspends Spanish Politician For Saying “A Man Cannot Get Pregnant”, also, Army Takes On “Climate Change” As Serious Threat To National Security
Mark Steyn: Good Times & Hood Times, also, America’s Political Prisoners

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‘Caring, Loving and Charitable … He Got a Kick Out of Pulling Pranks on People’

Posted on | May 17, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Caring, Loving and Charitable … He Got a Kick Out of Pulling Pranks on People’

Theodoro Macias Jr., known by the nickname “Lolo,” was only 28 when he died on May 9. His obituary includes these remembrances:

Junior grew up in Longmont and attended schools in the area. He recently worked for a national cell phone network. He was dedicated to his job, and was passionate about serving people. Lolo was a caring, loving and charitable individual. He enjoyed spending time with his friends, and family. He loved to explore the mountains in search of scenic spots to contemplate. He enjoyed working out at the gym, listened to a variety of music genres, attended numerous concerts, and cherished going on long road trips with his friends, always seeking unique adventures and memorable experiences.
He adored his nieces and nephews, frequently bought them toys and video games, spoiling them like no other. He became a kid all over again when playing with them. Junior was extremely playful, he got a kick out of pulling pranks on people, since a young boy all throughout his life, and for this he will be mostly remembered. Not even his grandparents escaped his mischievous tricks. His frequent jokes and sayings will never be forgotten. Lolo was a loving son and brother, an excellent, fun, and best uncle, an amazing cousin, and a real and faithful friend.
He will be deeply missed by his loved ones. We love you Lolo. Forever.

Macias was less fondly remembered by other residents of Colorado Springs, where he committed the worst mass murder in the city’s history:

The man suspected of fatally shooting his girlfriend and five members of her extended family in a Colorado Springs mobile home had a history of jealous, controlling behavior and opened fire at the family’s birthday party in part because he was upset he wasn’t invited to the celebration, police said [May 11].
Investigators believe Teodoro Macias, 28, walked into a mobile home in the 2800 block of Preakness Way shortly after midnight Sunday and shot his girlfriend, 28-year-old Sandra Ibarra-Perez, and the five others in quick succession and in a deliberate manner, Colorado Springs police Lt. Joe Frabbiele said at a news conference Tuesday.
The suspect then killed himself, according to police.
“At the core of this horrendous act is domestic violence,” Chief Vince Niski said. “The suspect… displayed power and control issues. When he wasn’t invited to a family gathering, the suspect responded by opening fire.” . . .
Those killed were identified as Melvin Perez, 30, his wife Mayra Ibarra De Perez, 33; Melvin’s brother, Jose Gutierrez, 21; and the men’s mother, Joana Cruz, 52. Also killed were Mayra’s siblings, Ibarra-Perez and Jose Ibarra, 26.
The suspect and Ibarra-Perez had been dating for about a year, Frabbiele said. While there were no official reports of domestic violence by Macias, Frabbiele said family members told investigators he was jealous, controlling and tried to isolate Ibarra-Perez from her family. Macias and Ibarra-Perez’s family had a conflict a week prior to the shooting at a different gathering, Frabbiele said. . . .
The Mother’s Day mass shooting is one of the deadliest in state history and happened just seven weeks after a gunman killed 10 people at a grocery store in Boulder. It is the deadliest shooting in Colorado Springs history, Mayor John Suthers said. . . .
Nine of 39 people killed in homicides in the city last year died in connection to domestic violence, according to Colorado Springs police statistics. About a third of aggravated assaults in the city in the first three months of 2021 were related to domestic violence.

So domestic violence accounted for 23% of the city’s homicides last year, and this mass shooting was just a domestic violence incident. The weapon Macias used was a 9mm Smith & Wesson pistol, which had been purchased legally by someone else in 2014, and police said they don’t know how Macias obtained the weapon. But it was just an ordinary pistol, not one of those evil “assault weapons” that Democrats want to ban, nor was this mass murder a “hate crime” committed by white supremacists, so there’s no political angle to the story, which is why it disappeared from the national media immediately after it happened. If only Macias had been shot by a cop, rather than committing suicide, maybe the media could have worked some kind of “social justice” angle into their coverage, but as it is, this grisly massacre in Colorado is just “local news,” like most of the 15,000 or so homicides in America annually.

The reason I led with Macias’s obituary — “his mischievous tricks”! — is because every time a black criminal gets shot by police nowadays, we get the “Family Demands Answers” story, where the perp’s grieving relatives hold a televised press conference with the local “civil rights” lawyer. We are expected to sympathize with these people, who tell us what a wonderful person the deceased suspect was.

Family demands answers after police-involved shooting that led to man’s death
— June 5, 2020

Family demands answers after Ohio deputy fatally shoots Black man
— Dec. 7, 2020

Delaware family demands answers after fatal police-involved shooting
— Feb. 5, 2021

Family demands answers after DeKalb man shot, killed by police
— April 14, 2012

Family demands answers and reform after 37-year-old Latoya James was killed in a raid
— May 7, 2021

Those are just a few of the dozens of such headlines in recent months, as the media seems to assume — and expect their audience to believe — that no criminal ever deserved to be shot by police. Some of these cases are more ambiguous than others, but even where the police shooting was indisputably justified (e.g., the Ma’khia Bryant case), the media still promotes the narrative that what happened was somehow the fault of police, rather than a reaction to the suspect’s criminal behavior.

Next time you see one of these “Family Demands Answers” stories, where they’re trying to convince you the deceased criminal was an innocent angel, just keep in mind Teodoro Macias’s obituary.

Oh, “his mischievous tricks”!




 

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