It’s Monday, May 23rd, 2022…but before we begin, here’s an absolutely MUST-SEE segment from Tucker courtesy of The Nickel:
More importantly, as this cartoon from Antonio Branco relates…
…there is no graver threat to our national sovereignty.
MOST importantly, Tucker failed to note what will inevitably follow if such control is ceded to corrupt, unelected, foreign Socialist bureaucrats: Climate change and private gun ownership will be both swiftly be defined as global health emergencies. And that would only be Act I of the Progressives’ play, a drama many, if not most Americans, would consider to constitute the last straw.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, even ifa jury largely composed of die-hard Dimocrats and Clinton contributors…
“The Russia-Trump collusion narrative of 2016 and beyond was a dirty trick for the ages, and now we know it came from the top—candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. That was the testimony Friday by 2016 Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook in federal court, and while this news is hardly a surprise, it’s still bracing to find her fingerprints on the political weapon.
…In short, the Clinton campaign created the Trump-Alfa allegation, fed it to a credulous press that failed to confirm the allegations but ran with them anyway, then promoted the story as if it was legitimate news. The campaign also delivered the claims to the FBI, giving journalists another excuse to portray the accusations as serious and perhaps true.
Most of the press will ignore this news, but the Russia-Trump narrative that Mrs. Clinton sanctioned did enormous harm to the country. It disgraced the FBI, humiliated the press, and sent the country on a three-year investigation to nowhere. Vladimir Putin never came close to doing as much disinformation damage.“
Next, responding to the Dimocrats’ attempts to distract from the havoc they’re wreaking on the country, NRO‘s Kevin Williamson relates the reality that…
One of the reasons the race entrepreneurs of the Left are forced to define white supremacy down (Subject-verb agreement is white supremacy! Algebra is white supremacy! Punctuality is white supremacy!) is the fact that actual white-supremacist ideology has so little purchase in American culture. White supremacy is mostly a hobby for miserable dweebs on the Internet.
There is a reason these killers almost always act alone. Other than the occasional Leopold-and-Loeb flavor of a crime such as the massacre at Columbine, mass shooters almost always are solo — because they have no other choice. They do not have a big group of committed comrades ready to join them. They generally do not have many friends, as in the case of the Buffalo shooter, by his own telling.
In the United States, even our white-supremacist organizations aren’t very interested in white supremacy. Think of the Aryan Brotherhood, which is one of the largest groups of its kind, with as many as 20,000 members, and which conducts extensive operations both inside the prison system and in the outside world. The Aryan Brotherhood is highly organized, it has access to money and guns and other resources, and its members are not shy about murder and other violent crimes. When was the last time you heard about the Aryan Brotherhood shooting up a black church or bombing a Holocaust museum?Outside of the requisites of prison life, the Aryan Brotherhood has almost no apparent interest in white supremacy, and its criminal activities are almost exclusively ordinary organized-crime enterprises: drug and gun trafficking, murder for hire, extortion, etc. — profit-oriented crime rather than ideologically inspired crime.
There isn’t much profit in white supremacy.
It is of some interest that the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution finds that the share of “hate crimes” committed by whites in the United States is slightly below the white share of the population (non-Hispanic whites make up about 61 percent of the U.S. population and about 55 percent of the hate-crime perpetrators) while African Americans make up a disproportionately high share of the hate-crime offenders (about 12 percent of the population and 21 percent of the hate-crime perpetrators), figures that mirror the National Institute of Justice’s data about mass shootings (52.3 percent white perpetrators, 20.9 percent black perpetrators). It doesn’t seem likely that the numbers would break that way if hate crimes and mass shootings in the United States were primarily the product of white-supremacist ideology.
As I wrote earlier today, ideology is not an especially useful guide in these matters.
On the same day as the Buffalo massacre, a man apparently motivated by Chinese nationalism shot up a church full of Taiwanese people in California. Nobody seriously argues that the United States has a big problem with violent Chinese nationalism. (A big domestic problem, anyway.) I tend to agree with Charles C. W. Cooke that what actually happens in most of these cases is that broken and depraved people hitch themselves to a marginal ideology or another kind of fanaticism before committing their enormities, rather than ordinary people becoming deranged by exposure to corrosive ideas.
There are millions of Americans who cleave to any number of ghastly and evil ideologies, from racism to communism, but very few of them end up committing homicidal spectaculars. And the ones who do commit such crimes tend to resemble one another in certain familiar ways even when they profess diametrically opposed ideologies. What they share is broken lives. The shooter in the congressional baseball episode had a history of domestic violence and weapons violations, was estranged from his wife, was unemployed, and had been living in a van before the attack. The killer in the Waukesha SUV murders was out on bond after having committed essentially the same crime (intentionally running over a woman, with whom he had a child), was a registered sex offender, had a warrant out for his arrest, was unemployed, had a history of being treated with psychiatric medications, etc.
As I wrote earlier, none of this is to say that we shouldn’t care about the spread of white-supremacist ideology or other ideologies of that kind. But they are not going to be very useful in identifying likely terrorists or in preventing terrorist acts.
(4). General Thoroughly Modern Milley warned West Point graduates of the increasing risk of global war for which he and his predecessor Mike Mullen, to whom he offered a shout-out, are largely responsible given their efforts to forge a politically-correct Military incapable of waging war. Sorry, but how else would you account for this story forwarded by Breeze Gould detailing the Army’s considering allowing soldiers to change their base if local laws offend their choice of gender?!?
“An Amish man in Ohio was the subject of a low-speed police chase on May 14 when he was asleep while operating a horse and buggy. Ashtabula Sheriff’s Deputy Mike Talbert attempted to stop the buggy at around 2:43 a.m. in Orwell, Ohio, but was unsuccessful and told other officers that the driver of the horse and buggy looked like he was asleep, according to Fox 8. “There is a Bud Light can sitting in there and he’s passed clean out,” Talbert says. “We got a drunk Amish guy passed out in a buggy.”
…Police initially responded to 911 calls from people who claimed the buggy was “all over the road.” After pursuing the horse and buggy in a low-speed chase, the deputy eventually blocked the buggy with his car, but the buggy hit the cruiser.
The person operating the horse and buggy was identified as Nathan Miller, who took a breathalyzer test and registered a .063%, according to police. Miller was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle while under the influence.“
Passed out…at only .063%?!? Those Amish never could hold their liquor!
Magoo
Video of the Day
We rarely agree with Bill Maher, but when he’s Right, he’s right, as in this forward from Balls Cotton.
Tales of The Darkside
As Tucker records, America’s just moved one step closer to tyranny.
On the Serious Side
The Journal details how Finland and Sweden would transform NATO’s military capabilities.
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