‘There Was Never Any Evidence’: FBI Lied About White Supremacist Terrorism

Posted on | January 3, 2025 | 1 Comment

One of the hallmarks of any totalitarian regime is that the leaders proclaim obvious falsehoods — kulaks and saboteurs are to blame for the famine! — and compel everyone to repeat these lies, with punishment aimed at dissenting truth-tellers. The purpose is “not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate,” and once you understand this function of totalitarian propaganda, you are less surprised by the ability of someone like Christopher Wray to speak blatant lies with apparent sincerity. Only skilled liars could flourish in the Biden regime:

The “top threat we face from DVEs [Domestic Violent Extremist] continues to be those we identify as Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (‘RMVEs’), specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race,” FBI Director Christopher Wray told Senate Judiciary Committee on March 2, 2021.
“According to the intelligence community,” said Biden in 2021, “terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not al Qaeda — white supremacists.” . . .
Between 2012 and 2021, Islamic extremists committed five acts of domestic US terrorism that killed 77 people, whereas white supremacists committed four acts of domestic terrorism that killed 49 people. And even if the numbers were reversed, at just 12 cases of domestic terrorism, the sample size is too small to be able to claim, scientifically, any kind of discernible trend about DVE.
The total number of killings by white supremacists annually is very low. In 2022, there were only 21 homicides linked to white supremacists in the entire country. By comparison, Chicago alone saw an average of 58 homicides every month. In 2022, there were a total of 24,849 homicides. Thus, the share of them that were by white supremacists was .08%. . . .
The FBI’s claim that white supremacy was the main driver of the acts of terrorism was also misleading. Most of the white supremacist killers appeared to suffer from mental illness, whereas most of the radical Islamicists appeared sane and driven overwhelmingly by ideology. . . .
Thus, there was never any good evidence that there was a rising threat of terrorism from the political ideology of white supremacy, nor that it was greater than the threat of Islamist terrorism. And yet FBI Director Wray, President Biden, and the whole of the US IC have claimed, repeatedly, for four years, that it was. Why?

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) The first and most obvious answer to Michael Shellenberger’s question, “Why?” is that this lie served the political agenda of the Biden regime. By portraying their opponents as allies of “white supremacists” — inherently dangerous, linked to a “lethal threat” of violent extremism — Democrats could justify repressive measures, including censorship to stifle dissent as “misinformation.” Yet because “there was nevery any evidence” for their claim about the “white supremacist” threat (no such trend could be shown from actual data), the people promoting this claim knew it was false, and also knew that other well-informed people would recognize its falsehood.

Here we come to the second answer to Shellenberger’s question: The function of propaganda as a weapon of humiliation, expressing the power of the regime by forcing others to repeat obvious falsehoods or, at least, to remain silent and pretend to believe the regime’s lies.

January 20 cannot come soon enough.

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In The Mailbox: 01.02.25

Posted on | January 2, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.02.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A personal look back at 2024.
Plus, Son of Silvercon news!
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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Trading Places, At least 10 killed after vehicle hits crowd of people in New Orleans, and ISIS Terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar
Twitchy: In One Fell Swoop Biden Proves J6 Committee Was Totally Political & Makes Liz Cheney Look Even Worse, NOLA Terrorist’s Mosque’s Response To Terror Attack Filled With Red Flags, and FBI Totally Did The Meme AGAIN
Vox Popoli: They Didn’t Have to Take the Bait, also, Magic Dirt Fail in New Orleans
Cedar Sanderson: Flowering In The New Year
Bugscuttle Gazette: Meditations On Paper Armor
Toni Airaksinen: Jewish Professor Accuses College Of Becoming “Pro-Hamas Sewer” In Explosive Lawsuit
Stoic Observations: Python, At Last

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Dana Loesch: Terror Attacks In New Orleans & Las Vegas To Start The New Year,
Don Surber: New Year, same FBI-NYT lies

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Terrorism on Bourbon Street

Posted on | January 2, 2025 | Comments Off on Terrorism on Bourbon Street

It was nearly 4 in the morning on New Year’s Day, but crowds of people were still celebrating on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, because celebrating until dawn is what you do when you’re in New Orleans, unless the reason you’re in New Orleans is to kill people:

The suspect accused of plowing a pickup truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 15 and injuring at least 30 on New Year’s Day, is named Shamsud-Din Jabbar, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The FBI also confirmed that Jabbar, whose identity was first reported by Nola.com, is 42 years old and that he was carrying an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) flag in the vehicle.
The FBI said in a statement:

The subject has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas. He was driving a Ford pickup truck, which appears to have been rented, and we are working to confirm how the subject came into possession of the vehicle.
An ISIS flag was located in the vehicle, and the FBI is working to determine the subject’s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations.
Weapons and a potential IED were located in the subject’s vehicle. Other potential IEDs were also located in the French Quarter. The FBI’s special agent bomb technicians are working with our law enforcement partners to determine if any of these devices are viable, and they will work to render those devices safe.

The agency said it was investigating the attack as an act of terrorism, and are “aggressively running down all leads to identify any possible associates of the subject.”

When I woke up Wednesday morning and first heard about this incident, I did not immediately think “terrorism.” My office TV was tuned to ESPN, however, and as noon approached, the announcers mentioned that players in town for the Sugar Bowl (between Notre Dame and Georgia) had been locked down in their hotel rooms. My thought: “Whoa!” You don’t do that because of some random case of road rage. Eventually, the game that had been scheduled for 8 p.m. ET New Year’s Day got rescheduled for 4 p.m. ET today. The reason for extra precaution soon became obvious: First, the guy’s Muslim-sounding name and flying the ISIS flag. Second, the use of explosive devices, and third, the reports that Jabbar apparently had accomplices in his crime: “We do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible, . . . We are aggressively running down every lead including those of his known associates.”

Perhaps another reason they postponed the Sugar Bowl is that the FBI needed time to see if there was any connection between Jabbar’s deadly attack and the car-bomb attack at the Trump resort in Las Vegas, which happened just a few hours later and was committed by a former Green Beret who was stationed at Fort Bragg in approximately the same time-frame as Jabbar. Both of these guys being military veterans, and both striking on the same day? Both using electric vehicles rented through the same online app? Maybe just a coincidence, but maybe not.

Parallels Between New Orleans and Las Vegas Attacks

• U.S. Army Veterans who served in Afghanistan
• Both stationed at some point at Fort Bragg
• Attackers killed in separate incidents
• Both used P2P car sharing app Turo
• IT specialists with computer systems knowledge pic.twitter.com/AKAVoLDejR

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) January 2, 2025

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In The Mailbox: 01.01.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 1, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.01.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Happy New Year!
Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month.
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From the replies to a @MorlockP thread on language for uplifted dogs.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrats Lied About Biden’s Decline, It’s Beginning To Feel A Lot Like Winter, and Invasive Russian King Crabs In Norway?
Twitchy: Asparagus Fortune Teller Says Vegetable Told Her Trump Will Have “Health Scare” In The New Year, Fair Winds & Following Seas, and Donk Strategist Gets Bodied For Claiming Democrats Fix Economies Broken By Republicans
Vox Popoli: Darkstream Meme Review, Two New Trax on UATV, The Collapse of the Conventional Evolutionary Model, The Degeneracy of Migration, and 2024: The Year the Masks Came Off
Upstream Reviews: Podcast- You can’t take the sky from me
Stoic Observations: What Happened To Black Capitalism?
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Happy New Year
Defending The Wood Perilous: Happy New Year!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: What Is On Sal’s New Year List?
Don Surber: Why NPR wanted that congressional pay raise
STUMP: Watch Out 2025! Pensions, Finance, Mortality Trends, Fraud, & The Train Chugs On,

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In The Mailbox: 12.31.24

Posted on | January 1, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.31.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Happy New Year, y’all.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

What we all want in 2025.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: ATF Resorts to Raid to Stifle First Amendment Rights of 2A Advocate
EBL: Speak No Evil, Jimmy Carter RIP, Biden blames his failures on Merrick Garland, Dayle Haddon RIP, and Why wasn’t Portugal Conquered by Spain?
Twitchy: Greg Gutfeld Outs “The Blob” Trying To Smear Elon Musk As A Security Risk, Eye-Opening Thread Takes Apart Media Narrative About Carter’s Post-Presidential Work, and Four Politico Writers Talk About How Trump Has Americans Turning Away From Liberal Values
Louder With Crowder: Smug ‘influencer’ whines that old man is ruining her livestream as he lets her know how little he gives a rip, also, Health “Expert” Calls For Mass Bird Flu Vaccinations Before Trump Admin
Vox Popoli: Nationalism > Meritocracy, The Devil Champions Foreign Invasion, Fake Trump Backs Fake Americans, No Meritocracy Without Nationalism, and Erasing History
Toni Airaksinen: NYU Prof Cancelled Finals, Invited Students To Protest Israel, also, 2024 Year In Review
Gab: Be “Racist” Or Be Replaced
Postcards From Barsoom: The Great Christmas H1B War Of 2024
Stoic Observations: Obligatory Seriousness On H1B, also, The New American Empire
Bacon Time: Christmas 2024

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Cruisers, Institutional Capital, & Reputation
Dana Loesch: Christmas Break – GOP Infighting, H1Bs, Ukraine Money Laundering & More!
Don Surber: The History Of 2024 Part One
STUMP: Top 6 Mortality With Meep Posts From 2024, Updated Public Pension Projection Tool, and Top Five Podcast Episodes Of 2024,

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America Loves an Underdog

Posted on | December 30, 2024 | Comments Off on America Loves an Underdog

Four months ago, nobody expected that Sam Darnold would be hoisted upon his teammates’ shoulders as the Minnesota Vikings celebrated their 14th victory of the season, making them the winningest team in the NFC, with one week remaining in the NFL schedule. After losing long-time starting QB Kirk Cousins to the Falcons in free agency, Minnesota had traded up in the NFL draft to get Michigan QB J.J. McCarthy with the 10th overall pick. McCarthy had led the Wolverines to a national title and was expected to become the Vikings starter at some point during his rookie year. Minnesota had signed Darnold to a one-year deal and expected him to begin the season as the starter, just to give McCarthy time to get ready for the QB1 job. Those plans got scratched, however, after the first pre-season game on August 10. McCarthy played well enough, but in the next practice, he reported soreness in his knee and it was discovered that he’d torn his meniscus, requiring surgery that meant he would be sent to the injured reserve list, missing his entire rookie year.

At that point, every sports commentator had the same reaction: You’re going to compete for the playoffs with Sam Darnold at quarterback? In the same division with the Lions and the Packers? Fat chance.

Before the NFL season kicked off in September, the over/under number for total wins for the Vikings was 7.5 on FanDuel, meaning that among fans who were willing to bet money, most saw Minnesota as a below-average team, barely good enough to place third in the NFC North, where the Chicago Bears are perennially fourth. And most of this expectation of mediocrity was because of Sam Darnold who was, to NFL quarterbacks, what Kaboom was to breakfast cereals. To name Darnold as your starting QB was to admit you had given up any pretense of being a serious contender. Anybody who ever said “Super Bowl” and “Sam Darnold” in the same sentence would immediately disqualify himself from being paid as a professional sports commentator. If you squinted one eye and turned your head slightly sideways, you might be able to envision a scenario where a team with Sam Darnold at quarterback could get lucky enough to go 9-8 and back into the playoffs as the 7th-seed wild card, but to compete for the division title in the NFC North? To win fourteen games? No, that could never happen with Sam Freaking Darnold at QB.

Once upon a time, Darnold was a promising prospect. In two seasons at USC, he’d amassed more than 7,000 passing yards, and was the third overall pick in the 2018 NFL draft. Unfortunately, he got drafted by the New York Jets, a franchise that has destroyed the careers of innumerable first-round quarterbacks over the past couple of decades. After three disappointing seasons with the Jets (because all seasons are disappointing with the Jets), he was traded to the Carolina Panthers, right before the Jets drafted BYU quarterback Zack Wilson (whose NFL career was then predictably destroyed). The Panthers are a garbage franchise at least as bad as the Jets, however, and nothing that Darnold did during two seasons at Carolina improved his status as a QB. He was just another NFL “draft bust,” a first-round pick who never amounted to anything, and nobody was surprised when the Panthers let him go after the 2022 season. Darnold, who had been the third overall pick in the draft just a few years earlier, found himself on the roster of the San Franscisco 49ers as the backup QB behind Brock Purdy, who had famously been the very last pick (7th round, 262nd overall) in the 2022 draft. This is what recovering alcoholics call “rock bottom.”

Something about that year in San Francisco, however, seems to have made a difference for Sam Darnold. For the first time in his NFL career, he was with a quality franchise, where the owners, the fans, the coaches and players all expect winning seasons. Since being hired as 49ers head coach in 2017, Kyle Shanahan has taken San Francisco to three division titles, four NFC championship games and two Super Bowls, and has done all this without having the kind of superstar “franchise” quarterback that is usually considered prerequisite to championship-caliber football in the NFL. Every other team in the league knows they can pick a quarterback in the first round, and still get beat by Shanahan’s Niners, with some unheralded journeyman at QB. Going to the Super Bowl with Jimmy Garoppolo and Brock Purdy? Yeah, Kyle Shanahan can do the impossible.

That mentality somehow rubbed off on Sam Darnold during his year in San Francisco, I reckon, because this year with Minnesota, he’s not only had the best season of his career, but one of the best seasons of any NFL quarterback. With 4,153 yards passing, 35 TD passes and a 68.1% completion rate, Darnold ranks ahead of Patrick Mahomes (3,928 yards, 26 TDs, 67.5%). The Vikings have lost to only two teams — the Lions and the Rams, both in October — and head into next Sunday’s season finale in Detroit with at least a chance of securing the NFC’s top seed (and a first-round bye) in the playoffs. It would be very difficult to beat the Lions at home, but if Minnesota can pull it off, it would be the second-biggest comeback of the year. Did I say second-biggest comeback?

Yeah, because there was this guy — maybe you’ve heard of him — who got cheated out of an election, investigated, prosecuted and targeted by lawsuits, a guy who survived two assassination attempts and everything else to become the 47th President of the United States. In everything that Democrats tried to do to Donald Trump, they turned him into an underdog, apparently forgetting how much Americans love an underdog.

Sam Darnold is now the Donald Trump of quarterbacks.

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Rule 5 Sunday: At The Pump & Munch

Posted on | December 30, 2024 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Amazing how many gas station chains have double entendre names.
The lads at Flappr have some bad news, but I’ll let them tell you about it.
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H/T Rule5Texan on X

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 Acting President Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, The Coventry Carol, Olivia Hussey RIP, MAGA Panama, Long Life Yoga, Tammy Henbrow, Mondo Cane, “Frankie’s Song”, Super/Man, Hila Ben David, The Shop Around The Corner, Blondie – We Three Kings, “Christmas Wrapping”, “Christmas In Hollis”, Polish Christmas Carols, Carol of the Bells, Put One Foot In Front Of The Other Santa, Bad Monkey, and “Fairytale Of New York”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Jade Amber, The View of Stripers from Delaware, Fish Pic Friday – Breonka Carlo, Tattoo Thursday, Merry Christmas!, Gone Fishin’, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: Serious Matters & Unfolding Trends For December 27

BACON TIME: Rule 5 Redheads

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FMJRA 2.0: An Unpromising Start In Kansas City

Posted on | December 29, 2024 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Started the season against Kansas City and ran into a buzzsaw of quality pitching, getting swept. The first two games at least were close, but Spaceman Lee got shelled in the third game. We’ll see how we do against Pete’s Brewers on New Year’s Eve.
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