It’s Wednesday, June 24th, 2020…but before we begin, in honor of the great Thomas Sowell, allow us to offer a few random thoughts on the passing scene, views elicited by these next three items which paint a picture which grows increasingly unsettling every day, beginning with the latest Black Lies Matter-inspired outrage of a…
Is there something in the water?!? Oh for the days of Sheriff Bart, when White women were viewed as sex objects…
…rather than punching bags.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Though the respective races of the assailant and victim were detailed in the story, they weren’t included in the original headline, a curious omission considering their importance in making the story at all newsworthy. We consequently modified the headline for emphasis.
Then there’s this from the Land of 10,000 Lakes…not be confused with the…
We know just who these victims of perceived institutional racism, these Corrections Officers of Color, need to call to seek redress of their grievances: any of the Progressives pictured above. Pattern…WHAT pattern?!?
Meanwhile, yet another supposed hate crime has been revealed as not only a hoax, but a complete and utter waste of taxpayer-funded time, effort and resources, as the, at the behest of the only “Black” NASCAR driver…
In fact, there was absolutely no evidence of any “crime” at all, as the “noose” in question wasn’t actually a noose:
“…“Although the noose is now known to have been in garage number 4 in 2019, nobody could have known Mr. Wallace would be assigned to garage number 4 last week,” they said in a joint statement. It is unclear why a noose had been in the garage for so long. Nascar, in a statement, referred to it as a “garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose.”…”
Though we’re not a detective by training, we’re gonna go out on a limb here and say that NASCAR statement makes it abundantly clear why the “garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose”…
…had been in the garage since 2019: to pull down the friggin’ garage door!!!
Sorry, but one would have to be a complete idiot…or pursuing a partisan political agenda…not to recognize the purpose of a rope LOOP attached to a roll-up garage door…which has been in place for months, if not years!
Now for our random thoughts on the passing scene: one of the primary reasons we detest Barack Obama, his Socialist politics aside, was the purposeful use of his position to divide rather than unite America, case in point being his refusal to dispel the lies behind the Michael Brown Hands Up/Don’t Shoot fable, a MYTH his own DOJ and equally-detestable racist Attorney General disproved.
In similar fashion, while the MSM described George Zimmerman as a “White Hispanic”, a radically new and previously non-existent racial classification created solely for the occasion, the “White Black” Barack incendiarily suggested if he had a son, he’d look like Trayvon Martin.
Truth be told, The Great Divider deliberately misrepresented these two Black males solelybecause the color of their skin served his racially-charged agenda. Their character was immaterial; onlytheir level of melanin mattered.
Let’s be clear: like George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks, neither Michael Brown nor Trayvon Martin deservedto die. But also like Floyd and Brooks, neither Brown nor Martin were the “gentle giant” or “innocent adolescent” the MSM so desperately made them out to be. Yet, for personal, partisan political gain, The Obamao was willing to inflict racial divisiveness upon the nation and, for all tense and purposes, declare open season on its law enforcement officers.
We recently featured an amazing bit of analysis from Medium.com written by Gavrilo David, in which the author offers a compelling case Derek Chauvin and his fellow officers may well have been following Minneapolis Police Department guidelines in their treatment of George Floyd to the letter, right down to and including Chauvin placing his knee on Floyd’s neck. Clink on the link above, read the article and draw your own conclusions.
For the record, Mr. David doesn’t say the officers’ actions were right; in fact, he states categorically they were “absolutely wrong”. Again, for the record, based on Mr. David’s evidence, we’re at least open to the politically-correct heresy those involved in George Floyd’s arrest may have done nothing worthy of termination, let alone arrest. For if Mr. David’s analyses and facts are correct, none of them will likely be convicted, especially of murder.
The same holds true of Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan, the two Atlanta officers charged in the shooting of Rayshard Brooks.
Point is, even if everything Gavrilo David writes is TRUE, and offered into evidence at trial, as G. Trevor, Mr. Meisen and a number of other readers have noted, TRUTH NO LONGER MATTERS!!! The Mob cares not what’s true and what isn’t, what makes sense and what’s insane; they care only aboutpower…and the next convenient excuse to loot, burn and kill…all without fear of punishment or retribution.
Do you REALLY think Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and Fulton County, GA District Attorney Paul Howard don’t realize they haven’t a snowflakes chance in Hell of winning their cases in court?!? Of course not! Like Barack Hussein Obama, they’ve simply weighed their political futures against the harm the inevitable riots will inflict upon the country, and guess whose interests prevailed?!?
SPOILER ALERT: There’s no “I” in “TEAM”, but there is in “ELLISON” and “FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY”!!!
Here’s the juice: at the risk of everyone losing their lunch, over the Father’s Day weekend, for the second time in 20 years, our septic system backed up, with revolting results…
…in our basement bathroom.
Once…
…in the septic system, we called a remediation company authorized by our insurance company to repair the damage. The response team consisted of three young Black males likely in their late teens or early twenties. We introduced ourselves, shook their hands and offered them their choice of a refreshing beverage…the same effort made upon the arrival of any repair or maintenance team at our home.
Upon their departure, we again shook their hand and asked if anyone wanted coffee in the morning upon their return to resume their restoration efforts. Again, the same respect and courtesy we offer anyone repairing or performing maintenance on our home, including the two White technicians who recently repaired our downstairs HVAC system.
All three were courteous and professional, the veritable polar opposites of those shown below looting and damaging the Oakland, CA Mercedes-Benz dealership:
At the risk of beating a dead P.C. horse, allow us to emphasize, in the best tradition of MLK, we judged the restoration team on their character, NOT their skin color.
As for the looters shown above, if only local police…as well as other law enforcement agencies across the country…had met these criminals with the fortitude expressed by Louisiana’s Sheriff Clay Higgins in this February 2016 video forwarded by Fielding Cocke…
…we’d ALL be better off. (We beg forgiveness for ending a sentence in a preposition…we guess we just did again!)
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, in a related item, the WSJ’s Andy Kessler describes how America is engaged in…
“Truth or consequences? “When I use a word,” says Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” In other words, anything he wants it to mean.Prescient. Today words are abused and truth has become so debased that no one believes anything anymore.
It started off Art Linkletter-like: Politicians say the darnedest things. You know—the definition of “is,” uranium yellowcake, if you like your doctor, the size of inauguration crowds. Facebook and Twitter now have truth squads trying to discern truths from fakes.Good luck with that. The Post-Truth Era not only has arrived; in three short months, we’ve descended into the depths of dishonesty dysfunction…”
Kessler has it right, as noted in 1949 by Orwell in 1984…
“Mick made clear he was the chief of staff and Bolton’s total disregard for his colleagues and common decency was unacceptable and would no longer be tolerated. “Let’s face it John,” Mick said. “You’re a f—— self-righteous, self-centered son of a b——!” That epithet really didn’t have much to do with the motorcade, but was the culmination of months of Bolton thinking he was more important and could play by a different set of rules than the rest of the team. Bolton backed down and stormed off…”
Never have we lost as much respect more quickly for a man than John Bolton.
In a related item, as FOX News reports, in addition to his national security credentials, the “f—— self-righteous, self-centered son of a b——” is now an expert on pandemic response:
“…The point being that the president is not a conservative, in the sense either of political ideology or temperament. He has some conservative sensibilities and has mastered some right-wing tropes. But he’s not a conservative thinker wedded to a conservative policy agenda. That’s hardly a revelation. He’s not wired to think in those terms. He’s not a progressive, either.
What is he, then? Does it matter? After all, he’s president not because of what he is but what he isn’t — which is Hillary Clinton. That’s fine, but Republicans and conservatives who’ve been supportive of Trump should not delude themselves that things have changed, that the president has evolved into a conservative because we’d like him to be one, or because he occasionally proclaims himself one.
The euphemism has always been that the president is “transactional.” Of course, that only makes sense as the simulacrum of fixed principles if there is something identifiable that the transactions are designed to advance. In the president’s case, that would be Donald J. Trump. That is not an original observation, either.
What conservatives and Republicans often gloss over, since it is not very flattering, is that we are transactional, too.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not singing from the Never-Trump hymnal. I am not accusing my fellow conservatives and Republicans of whoring themselves, of checking their principles at the door and making loyalty to the president their compass.Quite the opposite. The trick in this uneasy alliance has always been to maintain our principles while convincing the president to come around.Not because he necessarily agrees, since his agreements are fleeting. He has to be convinced that it’s in his interest to come around.
Which brings us to this business of fighting the last war.
When Donald Trump was a presidential candidate, his impulse — and, as we’ve seen, there is no seven-second delay between an impulse and its verbalizing — was to assert that his sister would be a “phenomenal” nominee should a Supreme Court vacancy open up. Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, the president’s older sister who has since retired from the Third Circuit federal appeals court, was a dogmatic supporter of abortion. Trump’s suggestion thus caused consternation on the right, particularly among legal scholars and social conservatives. He realized a retraction was in order, tout de suite.
The incident turned out to be significant.Trump was not necessarily persuaded by the virtues of originalism and limited government (though we can always hope). He did, however, grasp the power of the issue, its galvanizing effect on the voters he was wooing.
When Justice Antonin Scalia unexpectedly passed away in February 2016, the candidate realized that the campaign had shifted. It would no longer feature the usual vaporous debate over Supreme Court nominees.Now, the election might well turn on the concrete question of whether a Republican or Hillary Clinton should be the one to fill the pending vacancy. Indeed, the vacancy in its suddenness pushed to the front of voters’ minds the advanced ages of many remaining justices, and the likelihood that the next president would have more than one vacancy to fill.
Donald Trump was fast on his feet. He sized up the esteem in which Republicans hold the Federalist Society, as well as the consternation among his base supporters that a President Hillary Clinton would replace the iconic Scalia with a progressive activist. Trump saw that it was demonstrably in his interest to become the champion of conservative judges in the Scalia mold. He was deft enough to see that leaning on the Federalist Society for this purpose would not only signal the right nomination instincts but also earn him some credibility with skeptics who saw Trump as a New York limousine liberal.
It worked. To his detriment, though, the president has never allowed himself to acknowledge how narrow — I think (as so WE!), how miraculous — his victory was. Hence, the babble about “the Electoral College landslide.” More to the point, the president now seems not to see how unique were the conditions of the 2016 battleground.Replication of that battle’s plan is not a path to 2020 success…”
McCarthy goes on to offer his usual insightful analysis, though we’d temper his conclusion with one interesting factoid largely ignored in the post-Tulsa kerfuffle forwarded by Speed Mach:
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these three from Ed Hickey…
…along with another string from Balls Cotton:
Finally, we’ll call it a day with further proof, courtesy of James Nichols, how those who never learned history in the first place can’t help but repeat it:
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