FMJRA 2.0: Force Majeure

The word “tragedy” is often used by the media to describe deaths that aren’t really tragic, but the murder of an Uber Eats driver in Washington, D.C., last week certainly deserves that description. Mohammad Anwar, 66, was a grandfather, a native of Pakistan whose family described him as “a hardworking immigrant who came to the U.S. in 2014 to build a better life for himself and his family.” His killers were subhuman scum:

An Uber Eats delivery driver, described by relatives as a hardworking Pakistani immigrant grandfather, was killed in a crash after officials said he was carjacked by two teenage girls in Washington, D.C.
The 13-year-old and 15-year-old, who have not been identified because they are minors, allegedly used a stun gun on the driver on Tuesday, causing him to crash his car, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
When responders arrived at the scene, about a block from Nationals Park, they found the victim suffering from life-threatening injuries, police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Mohammad Anwar, 66, of Springfield, Virginia, was identified by his family as the victim, NBC Washington reported. He was working for Uber Eats at the time of the assault, according to relatives and Uber.

The description of the fatal incident in this NBC News account doesn’t adequately explain the horror of what was captured on cellphone video by an eyewitness who started recording as Anwar was attempting to prevent the teenage girls from stealing the car. Anwar was at the driver’s side door of the vehicle, holding onto the wheel, when the carjackers sped off with him hanging out the side of the door. They swerved left, evidently trying to ram him into a lightpole, and then turned right around a corner. The vehicle disappears from sight in the video, then a loud crash is heard. The witness runs down the street and, when he turns the corner, we see the car toppled onto its left side, the two teenage carjackers scrambling out while Anwar’s apparently lifeless body lies on the sidewalk.

They murdered an Uber Eats driver in DC. pic.twitter.com/Zz7xOu0Piv

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 27, 2021

Question: Was this a “hate crime”? The two teenage criminals were black, and had no doubt carjacked many other victims before they committed this crime in broad daylight. Were they targeting their victims on a racial basis? There has been a nationwide spree of carjacking in America over the past year, and there is a discernible pattern to these crimes. Almost all the perpetrators are black, and the victims . . .

Well, maybe they’re chosen at random. But maybe not.

At any rate we know who is responsible for this crime wave:

The District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department created a task force [in February] to address a rise in carjackings and auto thefts. . . .
The D.C. department assigned a dedicated group of detectives who specialize in robberies and violent crimes to its new team. The District of Columbia has been hit hard by carjackers this past year. Police data shows that between March and mid-October 2020, carjackings and attempted carjackings rose to 193 from 89 during the same period in 2019 — a 117% increase.
In the past few months, those numbers have surged.
Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 21, 2020, there were 11 cases, according to police spokesperson Alaina Gertz. In that same period this year, there have been 71 — a 545% increase.

Did I mention that D.C. has strict gun-control laws? Isn’t it obvious why Democrats favor gun-control laws? They want to disarm law-abiding citizens, to make it safer for criminals to attack them.

Category: Crime, Racism

Joe Biden’s Potemkin ‘Press Conference’

Posted on | March 27, 2021 | Comments Off on Joe Biden’s Potemkin ‘Press Conference’

Let us be clear: What Joe Biden did Thursday was a superficial simulacrum of an actual press conference, a performance stage-managed as carefully as a Wagner opera, intended for the sole purpose of creating the illusion that the elderly fool is not yet completely senile.

White House aides supplied Biden with a photo guide to the reporters, with certain reporters marked by numbers apparently indicating the planned order of pre-screened questions. Certainly, the journalists in the White House press corps are aware, as Conrad Black says, that “the whole occasion was a long-prepared set-up” — and apparently they’re OK with that, because the media was full of praise for Biden’s performance.

Of Biden’s “senior moments” Thursday, Tucker Carlson said:

You’ve heard the term “pregnant pause?” Joe Biden’s pauses were third-trimester quintuplets. These pauses were ready to burst.

Watch the clip:

Leader of the free world
pic.twitter.com/3FrchEQGK9

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) March 25, 2021

“So the best way to get something done … if you, if you hold it near and dear to you that you, uh, um, like to be able to … well anyway … I’m … we’re gonna get a lot done.”

We could talk about the lies and smears Biden delivered, like claiming that Georgia’s new election-integrity law is worse than Jim Crow. And I’m like, “Are you freaking kidding me?” I’m a native of Georgia but, fortunately, was only in kindergarten and first grade when federal civil-rights legislation ended de jure segregation. That was roughly a decade after the Supreme Courty’s 1954 Brown v. Board ruling, so the great drama of the civil-rights era was basically over by the time I started second grade. The significance of it all was invisible to most of us kids at the time because our parents excluded us from whatever grown-up conversations they were having about these controversies. But the historical reality of Jim Crow — what it actually was — cannot be revised for the political benefit of Democrats. No honest person claims requiring that voters show ID before casting their ballot is worse than Jim Crow, but Joe Biden is not now, nor has he ever been, an honest person.

Joe Biden had a cheat sheet with the names and faces marked of which journalists to call on, and he knew EXACTLY what questions would be asked of him.

That was not a press conference—that was a play put on by bad faith actors in a pseudo-democracy. pic.twitter.com/ee56Xcg63M

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) March 26, 2021

As Curtis Houck says at Newsbusters, it was a media “clown show.”

Dominic Green summarizes the pathetic spectacle:

The sorry theatrical display of Biden’s first press conference is an accurate image of what has happened to American democracy. A carefully limited number of carefully selected journalists asked carefully vetted questions. A carefully chosen president read carefully written answers off his cue cards, and carefully avoided taking any questions from Fox or Newsmax.
The White House is no longer the home of democracy. It’s a reality TV series in a care home. Biden mused about how the country has lost its way, about how it used to be so much better, but he seemed fatalistically feeble, as if it was all too much and all too late, and he has already given up. As if the nation is in its twilight years.
‘We’ve got so much more to do,’ he said, as he continually does. But he also ad-libbed, ‘I’ve never been able to plan three-and-a-half, four years ahead.’
How funny. How sadly reflective of the senility of American democracy that he thought that was a smart answer. How shamefully embarrassing for the compliant, complicit media that not one of his questioners bothered to ask whether an inability to plan for the future was what the American people need in their president — especially a 78-year-old who says he expects to run, if that is really the word, in 2024, when he will be 82.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Category: Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 03.26.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 27, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.26.21 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Fifteen Calls To Police In One Year
EBL: Larry McMurtry, RIP
Twitchy: Hollywood Actors Upset With Senators Manchin & Sinema, also, Over 18,000 Unaccompanied Illegal Alien Minors In Custody – Is It a Crisis Yet?
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Visits Border, Releases Shocking Video On Border Crisis
Vox Popoli: Congress Shall Make No Law, also, Investments Are Buyouts
According To Hoyt: They Can’t Drag Us To The Past, also, Ah, To Be Extreme Now That Spring Is Here
Monster Hunter Nation: Target Rich Environment – Now On Audio, also, John Brown & I Were On The Blades & Blasters Podcast Talking About Gun Runner
Stoic Observations: The Real Steely Dan

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Boomers Move To France, Have No Plan
American Conservative: Farms Are Coming To Cities
American Greatness: Where Is The GOP Outrage Over DOJ’s Capitol Probe? also, The Scandalous Cruelty Of Biden’s Border Disaster
American Power: Trey Gowdy Clear Leader In Viewers For Fox News Rotating Primetime
American Thinker: COVID & The Semmelweis Reflex
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Road Trip Friday
Babalu Blog: The Fantasy Vs. The Reality Of Communism
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 26
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, Bigelow Sues NASA For $1 Million
Cafe Hayek: A Future Of Playing Whack-A-Mole With Risks
CDR Salamander: Kafka & The Corps
Da Tech Guy: Am I The Only One Who Feels I’m No Longer Living In The U.S.A.? also, Keeping Secrets – Maureen O’Hara & Glenn Kirschner
Don Surber: Harvard Is The Hotbed Of Anti-Asian American Hate
First Street Journal: The Washington Post Dances Around The Right Question But Never Asks It
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Lawless Lawmaker
Hollywood In Toto: Must-Read Movie Books For Your Library, also, TAKE TWO – Nobody Keeps Us On Our Toes
The Lid: Rep. Ted Lieu Goes Ballistic When Witness Brings Up Harvard’s Anti-Asian Discrimination
Legal Insurrection: Ohio State Has 150 Diversity Officials But Will hire 50 Profs To Address Social Justice, also, SecTrans Buttigieg Declares War On Rural Red States With Call For Mileage Tax
Nebraska Energy Observer: Elder Abuse & Selling Out
Outkick: MLBPA Threatens To Move All-Star Game After Georgia Passes Election Reform Bill, also, Deshaun Watson Sent Accuser NDA
Power Line: Critical Race Theory – The Great Evil Of Our Time, also, “A Sickening Spectacle”
Shark Tank: Eskamani & Democrats Push Ahead With More Divisive & Racist Rhetoric
Shot In The Dark: We’ve Seen This Before
STUMP: Moneypalooza Monstrosity – State & Local Governments Should Pay Down Pension Debt
The Political Hat: Whiteness As A Disease To Be Cured, also, Moons Are People Too
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Biden To Leave Troops In Afghanistan Past May 1 Deadline
Victory Girls: Ted Lieu Throws Toddler Tantrum At Hearing
Volokh Conspiracy: Asymmetrical Nationwide Injunctions
Weasel Zippers: WaPo Retroactively Editing Its Stories On Border Crisis To Conform To Biden Narrative, also, Biden Needed Cheat Sheet With Photos To Identify Reporters
The Federalist: Nancy Pelosi On Trying To Steal Iowa House Seat – I Am The House, also, Mr. President, Most Gun Owners Aren’t As Reckless As Your Son
Mark Steyn: When Survivors Succumb

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Category: Linkagery

More Bisexual Tumblrina Craziness (and Other Random Insanity Updates)

Posted on | March 27, 2021 | Comments Off on More Bisexual Tumblrina Craziness (and Other Random Insanity Updates)

The phrase “crazy Tumblrina” is wrong, because it’s redundant.

No sane person is on Tumblr, and if you add bisexual to the descriptor (i.e., “crazy bisexual Tumblrina”), you’ve just wasted two words, because basically everyone on Tumblr is bisexual, or at least somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum. But mostly, yeah, they’re bisexual.

Let us parse this particular example, just for fun:

“I hate men as much as anyone else but . . .”

(Notice how confidently this Tumblrina assumes that everyone who reads her blog hates men because, of course, everybody on Tumblr does hate men. It is a masculinity-free zone. If you don’t hate men, you’re not welcome on Tumblr, and therefore nobody who reads this Tumblrina’s blog would dare disagree with her opening clause.)

“. . . it’s rly annoying that bi women have to like constantly downplay their attraction to men . . .”

(Wait a second, sweetheart. You just said you “hate men as much as anyone else,” like a charter member of the Andrea Dworkin Fan Club, and now you’re saying you’re attracted to men? Please explain this bizarre love/hate thing you’ve got going on, and also give me your address so we can set up a picket line to warn men to stay away from you.)

“. . . to be taken seriously in the lgbt community . . .”

(Why is it so important to you “to be taken seriously” within this alleged “community”? What is it that you want to be “taken seriously” about? Your orange wig, red nose and giant floppy shoes, perhaps?)

“. . . and god forbid be in a relationship with one…. annoying . . .”

No, ma’am, what’s annoying is that your “bisexuality” (as you call it) seems rather hypothetical. If you are attracted to men (despite hating them) and in a relationship with a man, please explain how this entitles you to membership in a political “community” organized around the idea (however misguided) of being victims of oppression? Who is oppressing you, and what specific form does this oppression of bisexuals take?

Never mind all that. The main point about “bisexual” women is that men should avoid them. Bisexual women are always either:

a. Lesbians embarrassed to tell their parents they’re lesbians;
or
b. Sociopathic perverts looking for a chance to ruin a man’s life the way Amber Heard ruined Johnny Depp;
except when they are
c. Both (a) and (b).

Now that we’ve cleared that up — and after I’ve reminded everyone that Tumblr is “a money-losing dumpster fire full of pornography and mentally ill LGBTQ activists” — it’s time for this update:

Ashton “Aimee” Challenor is back in the news, not in a good way:

A Reddit employee whose hiring sparked a wave of communities to go private this week is no longer at the company, CEO Steve Huffman has confirmed.
Hundreds of communities went private this week in protest at the employment of a former U.K. politician called Aimee Knight, previously known under the surname Challenor, who was recently hired as an administrator by the popular messageboard platform.
“The employee in question is no longer employed by Reddit,” Huffman said in a post on Wednesday explaining Reddit’s perspective on the situation.
Many of the subreddits that went dark had over one million members, including r/apple, r/Music, r/HistoryMemes, r/pokemongo, r/PrequelMemes and r/Cringetopia.
Knight, 23, was suspended by the U.K Green Party in 2018 after it emerged her father, David Challenor, was appointed as Knight’s election agent despite him previously being charged with multiple serious sexual offenses, including taking indecent photographs, false imprisonment, rape and sexual assault of a child in November 2016.
An investigation found that Knight appointed David Challenor as her election agent in both April 2017 and mid-2018. In August 2018, David Challenor was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison, and was formally expelled from the party.
In 2019, Knight was suspended by another political party, the Liberal Democrats, after her partner, Nathaniel Knight, allegedly shared child sex fantasies online. Knight has maintained the Twitter account used to share the posts had been hacked.
The controversies spilled over onto Reddit this week after a moderator of the popular community r/ukpolitics shared an article that mentioned Aimee Challenor by name, seemingly triggering the website’s anti-doxxing protection for its employee.

Read the whole thing. Ask yourself why, of all the people Reddit could have hired as a site administrator, they hired this person?

What was Challenor’s previous claim to fame? He/“she” and his/“her” pedophile father “were credited with creating ‘Terfblocker,’ a list that enabled Twitter users to automatically block the accounts of feminists who are critical of transgender ideology. More than 50,000 so-called ‘TERFs’ (trans-exclusive radical feminists) were reportedly blocked by the list that the Challenors created.” So when Reddit hires site administrators, apparently, special consideration is made for people with a proven track record of Thought Police censorship.

Meanwhile, Donald Douglas thinks he’s found nude photos of Ellie Goulding, although I’m 99.9% sure they’re deepfakes. I hesitate to mention this immediately after discussing “Aimee” Challenor, because it would be a terrible thing if some sicko 4chan pranksters decided to do deepfakes of this grotesque beast. As you might have guessed, there is an extensive Kiwifarms thread on “Aimee” Challenor.