It’s Monday, June 22nd, 2020…but before we begin, as this meme forwarded by Ed Hickey reminds us, the cure to any condition, the solution to any problem, first requires the accurate identification of the cause:
Now, here’s The Gouge!
Leading off, let’s be clear on the REAL nature of Black Lives Matter…or perhaps, far more appropriately, Black LIES Matter…as evidenced in this 2015 interview with a Baltimoron too benighted to recognize…or hypocritical to admit…the true source of his city’s problems:
ICYMI, the interviewer made mention of one Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, aka Anthony Jalil Bottoms, who was convicted for the 1971 murders of two NYPD officers. You can learn more about Mr. Bottoms politics here. Reference to Bottoms in any way, shape or form other than complete and utter condemnation tells you all you need to know about the politics at play, here or elsewhere.
In a related item, allow us to itemize the insanity sweeping the country in response to the fabricated fables of these avowed Marxists, i.e., those adamantly opposed to the very concept of Capitalism and the Founders’ Republic:
Talk about a tempest in a teapot! Turns out one Lexie Gruber and her friend, Lyric Prince (Puerto Rican and Black respectively), confronted White woman Sue Schafer at a 2018 Halloween party hosted by Socialists cartoonist Tom Toles over Schafer’s satirical costume: a business suit with a name tag stating “Hi, I’m Megyn Kelly”…and…GASP!!!…blackface. This immediately following Kelly being fired from NBC, ostensibly because she stated that, in her youth, blackface was acceptable…which it was…but far more likely because her former audience at FOXdidn’t follow her to the peacock network.
“Lexie Gruber and her friend Lyric Prince, who are Puerto Rican and African American respectively, confronted the woman at the party about the costume.“You understand how offensive that could be to a person of color?” Gruber told her, who attempted to defend the costume.
According to the Post, “some guests at the party say they wish they had confronted her more aggressively” while “others say that she has already paid a price(Sorta like the Union soldiers at Gettysburg…and EVERY OTHER CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELD!!!)and that her embarrassment and regret were evident when she left the party in tears.”
Toles initially respondedto Gruber by saying he didn’t know who was wearing blackface at his party(In other words, when faced with an uncomfortable truth, he lied!!!) but did recall telling his friend at the time that her costume was an “ill-considered attempt at satire.” When he told Gruber he wouldn’t identify the friend, Gruber told him, “Hiding her name is a deliberate act of white privilege and cowardice, not friendship.”
Prince, 36, told the Post, “I felt very unsafe talking to that person in the first place. I was in an environment that, if it got heated, it would decidedly not be in my best interest.”She also revealed that she sought help from a therapist, saying she felt “threatened and physically and emotionally exposed…I felt powerless in a way that I never want to feel again.”
Witnesses said Gruber “yelled” at the woman after Prince confronted her and they both left the party shortly after.
The Post reported that the woman, a vocal critic of President Trump and an advocate for social causes on Facebook, knew she made a “terrible mistake” the moment she arrived at the party. She reportedly “spent many hours in therapy talking about ‘how carelessly I behaved. I’m deeply ashamed.'”
Following the party, she emailed Toles and his wife, Gretchen, to apologize. “With this story, they’ll get the public humiliation they want, but it won’t foster any real dialogue between us,” the woman told the Post. “I wish they would talk to me.I made a mistake, and I understand now that when black people make a mistake, they can get killed.”
As much as we’d wish it were so, Sue Schafer didn’t deserve to be fired for wearing a Megyn Kelly costume to a woke 2018 Halloween party. If anything she did was deserving of termination, it was her claim equating her wearing an ill-advised costume to a party of Progressive pussies with a mistake which means death for Black people.
Frankly, anyone requiring counseling from the aforementioned encounter needs to have their head examined.
Because NOTHING bespeaks WHITE SUPREMACY like the website of a Jewish Harvard dropout!!!
Unless, of course, it’s the renaming of long-standing consumer products…
…or the mindless recommended flushing of additional untold trillions of dollars down a dry well…
…which has already consumed over $40 TRILLION taxpayer dollars.
Here’s the juice: left unchecked, this insanity won’t be effecting our family or us. Rather, as this clip forwarded by Bill Meisen demonstrates, those who sufferwill be the very people these charlatans profess to be protecting:
Moving on, writing at NRO, Andy McCarthy offers his analysis of the…
“If you broadcast that you are willing to be bullied, then you invite the mob to rule. When the mob rules, you get brass-knuckles politics, not justice.
You get a hyper-political county prosecutor, under the corruption microscope as he desperately seeks reelection, filing trumped-up, mob-driven charges before the actual investigators have a chance to finish their work.
You get a capital murder charge against a police officer who returned fire after being shot at with a taser by a fleeing suspect. A taser that the fleeing suspect, a criminal with a violent history(AND on PROBATION!), stole from the police while they attempted to arrest him on a well-founded charge.
A taser being the very weapon that the same prosecutor, just days earlier, had deemed a deadly weapon under Georgia State law. But of course, that was then, when the same prosecutor was addressing the use of tasers by police.This is now, when a criminal used a stolen taser on police. In mob-stricken Atlanta, the prosecutor says the latter use of deadly force is no threat at all.
In an outrageous trumping up of a criminal case — to describe this as mere “overcharging” would be woefully insufficient — Fulton County prosecutor Paul Howard Jr. has charged former police officer Garrett Rolfe with felony murder in connection with the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks.
The killing of Brooks, who was violently resisting arrest and attempting to flee, is still under investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). But in the wake of George Floyd’s recent killing by Minneapolis police officers, the Black Lives Matter demagogues refuse to wait for evidence-based conclusions. They will tolerate no storyline other than the slanderous fiction that we are all expected not just to abide but endorse: Institutionally racist cops are hunting down black men.
So, prosecutor Howard did not wait for the GBI to finish its probe. The mob was demanding a scalp, so he gave them a scalp.
Howard got his in-house investigator to sign off on arrest affidavits.(Boys and girls, can you say “Jim Comey and Pete Strzok?!? We KNEW you could!!!) They charge Rolfe with felony murder, in addition to several other charges. In Georgia, felony murder is a death-penalty offense. The homicide theory of felony murder is that, while the offender does not specifically intend to cause death, he does intentionally commit a felony from which death results. In this instance, Howard alleges that the underlying felony was aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The allegation is ludicrous. That is why Howard rushed to get it done before any investigative findings could contradict him. He is in a fight for political survival: trailing in his reelection bidwhile facing sexual-harassment accusations by two women who worked in his office. There are also allegations that he violated campaign-finance laws. The state ethics commission is looking into those.
Under this corruption cloud, he has taken stock of our mob moment.His best shot, he apparently decided, is to run against law enforcement.
That is why he charged Rolfe. He has also filed charges against Officer Devin Brosnan, Rolfe’s partner during the incident. Brosnan is not charged with murder. Howard’s main allegation against him is aggravated assault — in Atlanta, when a suspect forcibly resists arrest, steals an arresting officer’s taser, and the officer sustains a concussion, the new practice is to charge the officer with felony assault…”
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
With all due respect to Yeats, the best maintain their convictions still. But as Holman Jenkins observes in his commentary which follows, they also recognize the reality the best option today for the furtherance of their ultimate goals is an imperfect vessel.
Since we’re on the subject of those caving into The Mob, FOX News records a classic RINO exposing his truly spineless nature as…
“…The Left has often peddled the patronizing claim that America is irredeemably racist and that blacks should have no interest in its well-being until it is radically reformed or dismantled, and some(we’d suggest MOST!) white liberals have bought into that view. One notable historical example of this type of patronizing dynamic is the split between the black abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the white abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison in the mid 19th century over Garrison’s position that the U.S. Constitution was proslavery.Douglass came to accept the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution as antislavery because he recognized that the founding documents of the United States, especially the Declaration of Independence, provided the moral and political framework for black Americans’ fight for equality. As Douglass so clearly emphasizes in his autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom, no race of people can achieve equality if they lack agency. The claim of systemic racism is shameful because it robs the black community of any sense of agency and, thus, accountability.
Peaceful protests in reaction to Mr. Floyd’s death and against police brutality in general are completely justified.(Though perhaps not as justified if the facts set forth herein are at all accurate!) But why is there no vocal outrage, no call to action, in the black community over the fact that only 30.8 percent of black children, according to the latest dataset in the 2018 American Community Survey, live in a married, two-parent household? The vast majority of black children are raised in single, female-headed households. Despite the valiant effort that single black mothers show in raising their children, they can’t be both good mothers and good fathers, and they shouldn’t have to be. As W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, has documented, the negative psychological and social effects of fatherlessness on black boys have been devastating. The psychological toll can manifest in many destructive ways. Research shows that young black boys have more behavioral problems in the early school years and more delinquency or criminal behavior as adolescents and adults. Unfortunately, BLM teaches through its writings and conferences on race that the idea of a two-parent home, the need for both fathers and mothers, is a racist construct produced by a powerful white majority. But would the young black son wishing for his father to show up agree?
If anything is systemic, it is the failure within the black community to see that the breakdown of the black family is the root cause of so many of the social ills that confront the community, and black males in particular. The sad fact is that, while the diverse group of Millennials who marched in the streets with blacks were united by a common cause, many of those same Millennials, unlike their black counterparts, went home to intact families and will return soon to their selective colleges.
Income, health, and education inequality will persist until black families are made whole mostly by their own efforts and are able to give their children all the psychological tools needed to be happy and successful. Success is a cumulative process, and the once widely agreed-on cultural precepts still hold: that you should, for example, get an education, get married before you have children, and obey the law. Community activists and academics who contort themselves to justify ever-new iterations of family formation are only hurting the people they think they’re helping…”
Or perhaps, as we believe, such activists, academics and Progressive politicians know precisely…
…what they’re doing to the people they purport to be helping!
Next up, the WSJ‘s Holman Jenkins reveals what so many #NeverTrumpers simply cannot see: how…
“The highly plausible caricature of Donald Trump in John Bolton’s book is also completely unsurprising. Nobody who has run for president was better known to the American people than Mr. Trump nor didmore for the preceding 40 years to advertise his unpresidential qualities. In an unusually balanced analysis, the New York Times let slip a deep truth: “Other presidents at least maintained the notion that there was a difference between presidential duty and campaign imperative, but as Mr. Bolton describes it, Mr. Trump sees little need for pretense.”
Bingo. Mr. Trump’s defining quality has been his gargantuan cynicism about the game of politics and the politicians who play it, a cynicism shared by millions of voters. But this leaves out something. He seeks personal victories, all right, but ones constantly aimed at fulfilling the vision he sold to voters and apparently truly believes in: Our elites are hypocritical and corrupt (Ukraine). We’ve been suckers in trade deals (China). Our allies take advantage of us (Angela Merkel). Our rivals don’t respect us because we appear weak (Putin).
There are multiple ironies, as there ought to be when voters embark on an experiment as outré as the Trump presidency. After all, which of his supporters didn’t pull the lever thinking “I hope we can go four years without a major crisis.”Yet if not for the pandemic wild-card, Mr. Trump would be the greatest economic success in a generation, and simply by calling off Barack Obama’s reflexive, indiscriminate granting of power to every pro-regulation interest in the Democratic coalition.
Daily and hourly pundits denounce his evangelical supporters as hypocritical, as if these experts forget elementary political science. Our two-party system would cease to exist if voters weren’t ready to make common cause with those they have nothing in common with, especially if they can deliver.
…Mr. Trump, it’s important to remember, is a product of the Wharton School, Manhattan’s glittery business circles, and NBC. He is both a parody and representative of a media-political elite whose addiction to celebrity may be the deceptively simple sum of its maladies. Why was Rachel Maddow unable to evince skepticism about the Steele dossier? Because it would have spoiled the show on which her entire prominence was founded. No other explanation is necessary.Nor is any other sufficient. And yet some still call her a journalist.
The flip side is even more disturbing and likely to have you questioning fundamental assumptions. When was the last time you noticed of a politician that some things he refused to say no matter how much it might benefit him politically? If anybody fits that description lately, it’s Donald Trump. Weird.“
Speaking of weird, it’s a description deserving of the Dimocrats’ latest demonstration of their double-standards, as highlighted by James Woods:
In the interest of fairness, the status of the former Exalted Cyclops of the KKK likely falls under the purview of the Senate; but then, we haven’t heard Chucky calling for the erasure of Byrd’s memory either. Yeah…weird!
Turning now to The Sports Section, as FOX News informs us…
“…Florida president Kent Fuchs said in a letter to the university’s faculty, students, and staff that the cheer has a “horrific historic racist imagery” involving African American people, especially children, being used as bait for alligators. “Accordingly, university athletics and the Gator Band will discontinue the use of the cheer,” Fuchs wrote.
The university’s sports teams in the Southeastern Conference are nicknamed the Gators, for the ubiquitous Florida reptile. In the past, the school’s band would strike up a “gator bait” tune and fans would respond with their arms doing a chomping motion while shouting the slogan.
The link to racism is borne out by news articles in years past. For example, in 1923, Time Magazine published a story about how “colored babies were being used for alligator bait” in Chipley, Florida. “The infants are allowed to play in the shallow water while expert riflemen watch from concealment nearby,” the article said. “When a saurian (alligator) approaches this prey, he is shot by the riflemen.” The Chipley Chamber of Commerce responded to the Time article by calling it a “silly lie, false and absurd.”…”
Wow, an article from a 1923 edition of Time, the contents of which were termed a “silly lie, false and absurd” by its subjects: talk about authoritative!
Reports Fuchs intends to replace “gator bait” with a rendition of this classic Clevon Little scene from Blazing Saddles…
…remain unconfirmed.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s another string of Conservative consciousness and common sense from Ed Hickey…
…along with several more from Mark Foster…
…as well as this undeniably accurate SITREP from Balls Cotton:
By the way, Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy is one of those who have helped to put us “here”.
And last, but certainly not least, courtesy of Balls Cotton and Speed Mach respectively, given the choice between an overbearing boor…
…and an imbecilic boob…
…we’re going with the former rather than the latter…every time!
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with two videos from one of our favorite YouTube channels, which, while not always accurate in what it presents as fact, is at least generally entertaining. But this first one critical of the U.S. treatment of individuals of Japanese ancestry at the start of WWII for some reason really got our goat…
…perhaps because of the contents of a second video from the same source dealing with a related subject:
We’re certainly no fan of FDR, considering his peacetime initiatives some of the most counter-productive if not downright destructive B.B. (Before Barry). But sorry, Simon, the fact civilians of Japanese descent living on Niihau would side with a random Japanese carrier pilot against their fellow islanders indicates concerns authorities had about the loyalty of Japanese-American citizens or Nipponese nationals residing in the U.S. at the outbreak of hostilities were by no means baseless.
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