It’s Friday, August 7th, 2020…but before we begin, if you haven’t seen it, the previously unreleased body cam footage from the Floyd arrest, courtesy of James Nichols, is a real eye-opener:

Floyd was obviously under the influence of something, as he reminded us far more of Billy Ray Valentine…

…than the hardened career criminal he was.

We’ve offered our thoughts on Floyd before, so we’ll leave it Brandon Tatum to provide his far more expert opinion on the actual arrest…

…and Tucker Carlson to comment on the political motivation behind the transparently manufactured criminal charges against the officers involved, including Derek Chauvin:

“I believe in transparency and the public’s right to know, but a higher priority for me is a successful prosecution”…”still safeguard the prosecution”…”reluctant to do anything that would undermine the prosecution”…REALLY?!?  This is exculpatory evidence the prosecution is legally-bound to release to the defense.

Ellison’s job is NOT to prosecute these officers, but to ensure justice is served.  Not only are these men presumed innocent until proven guilty, but the evidence from the just-released video coupled with what we previously now know to be true indicates criminal charges likely should never have been filed.

Wake up and smell the Progressive politics of destruction, America: Ellison’s concern isn’t with transparency, the public’s right to know or a successful prosecution; and it sure as hell isn’t about justice.  His only concern from the outset was maintaining the myths behind Black Lies Matter and fomenting riots, NOT justice, as the truth would cause his case…and the cause of Antifa and BLM…to implode.

This is a presidential election year, where…

Two things are crystal clear: First, particularly in light of the testimony below, a plan for violent insurrection was in place, awaiting only the opportune moment to move:

Second, George Soros, BLM, Antifa and the entire Dimocratic Party and its extended MSM propaganda arm are in this joined at the hip.

Now, here’s The Gouge!

We lead off the last edition of the week courtesy of a question from Erick Erickson writing at The Resurgent:

Should We Burn Down The GOP?

 

“…There are others with genuine principled opposition who still subscribe to character counting who will not vote for Trump. But among the most vocal set of not just Never Trump, but also now Never Republican, are the set who could not care less if a baby lives or dies.

That, in fact, seems to be a real dividing line between those who’d destroy the whole of the GOP and those who just can’t bring themselves to vote Trump. If you think abortion is killing children, you recognize there is only one party that stands with you and, for all its faults, has put some points on the board.

The other party is a death cult perfectly willing to exterminate children up to the moment they enter the world and then some and is moving on to the extermination of the elderly too. See e.g. Andrew Cuomo.

What I find so remarkable about the most strident of the NeverRepublicans is, having cashed in with a bunch of losing candidates who everyone could tell spoke conservatism as a second language, they are now perfectly willing to burn down the party they failed to capture, never really understood, but pretty consistently privately disdained. With no seat at the table and no future cashing in with candidates of the GOP, they’ll pour gasoline and strike a match on the way out.

Trump would not exist in a world that never had their cynicism and gamesmanship within the GOP. They were perfectly happy to constantly escalate the stakes for their candidates. They were perfectly happy to make bold promises they never had any intention of fulfilling. So long as they themselves could get the power and call the shots, they’d say or do anything.

Now they can’t.

Instead of taking their football and going home, they’re going to try to wipe out the whole team they played with. Frankly, it is their only real shot to stay in politics.

…I really don’t care if someone wants to vote against Trump or run vanity ads in the DC market solely designed to troll him. But there are two parties in America, one of which is okay with killing kids and one that generally is opposed. None of us should be surprised that the ones who privately mocked the pro-lifers from within the party will now be so public in their disdain.

Donald Trump’s unique superpower has always been to make others behave exactly as they claim he behaves. That superpower works here too.“

We understand The Donald is an imperfect vessel; indeed in many ways he’s less than imperfect, from his off the cuff remarks to his incessant, inane tweets.  But the alternative in 2016 was the femme FAT-ale…

…at the center of an ongoing criminal conspiracy to sabotage her opponent’s campaign, aided and abetted by a sitting President and his entire Administration, including his increasingly insensate #2, who represents the alternative in 2020: 

And did we mention his successor upon him being declared mentally infirm under the Section 4 of 25th Amendment will be one of these manifestly anti-American and utterly unqualified Marxist radicals…

…whose selection was based solely upon their sex and skin color?!?  MOST ESPECIALLY if Moochie is “his” choice. (Moochie isn’t pictured above, as we couldn’t find a photo with all of them together.)

Add to that the addled octogenarian who’s #3 behind them…

…not to mention the Dimocrats’ collective continued refusal to condemn rioting and looting and advocacy for a Marxist movement with an agenda far beyond the mere defunding of police, and we’re forced to ask:

The scary part is, the likes of Bill Kristal, Max Boot, Jonah Goldberg, George Will, John Kasich and Mitt Romney are completely serious…not to mention dangerously deranged. 

Here’s the juice: the concept of how the country can possibly benefit, either in the short or long term, from ceding control to what is essentially a Communist cabal escapes us.  But those privy to the secret we cannot unlock are welcome to attempt to convince us otherwise.

In a related item courtesy of Jeff Foutch and Front Page Magazine, Don Feder details the true nature of the…

Peaceful Riots and the Left’s Reality-Avoidance

Lessons unlearned after a century of genocide, gulags and mass starvation.

 

“People ask how Democrats can look at what’s going on in Portland and other urban combat zones and call it “peaceful protest” when on the nightly news they can see fires raging, hear mobs howling, and watch police being assaulted. Are they nuts?

In a way, they are. (We’d suggest in far more ways than one!)

It’s not just the anarchy in the streets. The entire progressive worldview is based on a far-reaching denial of reality.

Since at least the Enlightenment, those who embraced objective truth believed it was their responsibility to use empirical evidence and reason to understand the world, so that they didn’t end up getting eaten by tigers they mistook for tangerines.

Leftists work overtime to reshape the public perception of the world around them to conform with their ideology – even when it means denying the obvious. The novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called it “whim-worship.” In other words, this is the way it is because this is the way I want it to be. Because I hate America, I want it to be an inherently racist country, based on oppression and exploitation – and thus it is.

Here are a few examples of reality-avoidance ripped from the headlines…”

P.S. If you’re wondering why Groper Joe says…

…so often, he’s simply paying homage to the “first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy”…

…who in turn, as The Boss observed, appropriated the line from Cris Carter:

Since we’re on the subject of Progressives’ refusal to recognize reality, writing at the Washington Examiner, Byron York asks and answers…

Will Democrats accept election loss? New report says no.

 

“For weeks, there have been news reports and commentary on whether President Trump will “accept” the results of November’s election. The president started it on July 19 when he was asked, on Fox News Sunday, “Can you give a direct answer you will accept the election?”

“I have to see,” Trump said. “I have to see. No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say no, and I didn’t last time, either.”

The answer set off a long trail of headlines: “Trump declines to say whether he will accept November election.” “Trump won’t commit to accepting result if he loses election.” “Trump not ready to commit to election results if he loses.” The president has continued to stir the pot since then, most notably with a tweet asking whether, because of potential problems with voting by mail, the Nov. 3 election should be postponed.

So there is much discussion of Trump and the election results. But there is another, equally pressing question: Will Democrats accept the results of the election if Joe Biden loses? A new report suggests the answer could be no…”

As our meme above concludes, based on the Dims’ reaction to every important election they’ve lost since 2000, history tells us not just “no”, but HELL NO…up to and including Stacie Abrams…

…breaking away from Golden Corral‘s all-you-can-eat buffet long enough to lose the governorship of Georgia.

Turning now from Dimocrats’ feeding their faces to those covering their a*ses, the New York Post reports…

Sally Yates says James Comey went ‘rogue’ in Michael Flynn case

 

“…President Trump weighed in on Twitter about the Yates hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “BIG NEWS! The Political Crime of the Century is unfolding. ObamaBiden illegally spied on the Trump Campaign, both before and after the election. Treason!”, Trump wrote.

But Yates avoided giving Republicans a confirmation that Obama or Biden influenced the Flynn case…”

Not to mention implicating neither in the conspiracy to overturn the results of a lawful election.

Which brings us to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s these from Ed Hickey…

…a couple from Balls Cotton…

…along with one each from Jeff Foutch…

…Speed Mach…

…and Rick Page:

Finally, we’ll call it a week with the Separate and Unequal segment, courtesy today of this forward from George Lawlor detailing a suburban Chicago school district’s return to an updated version of Jim Crow, as an…

Illinois district includes students of color in groups with first chance at in-person learning

 

“A suburban Chicago school district has said students of color will get the first chance to return for in-person learning when schools reopen, citing “a pandemic” of “inequity and racism, and classism” that preceded COVID-19.

Because District 65, which includes students from Evanston and Skokie, won’t force teachers to work on-site, school buildings may not be able to accomodate all students who would like to come back to their classrooms. In that event, Superintendent Devon Horton reportedly said, the district would give priority to “Black and Brown students,” and others it considered to be “marginalized” or “oppressed.”…”

Such a poorly conceived and frankly offensive policy raises more questions than it redresses purported past inequities.

For instance, (1). If District 65 had fostered a “pandemic” of “inequity and racism, and classism” prior to the Wuhan virus and Mr. Horton’s arrival, why hasn’t the entire school board been drummed from office?  After all, Mr. Horton was hired back in December of 2019.  Indeed, were the Evanston/Skokie school system so rife with racism, why did the parents not object years ago?

(2). Haven’t the City of Evanston and Village of Skokie been continuously controlled by Dimocrats since at least the early 1990s?

(3). If “classism” was endemic, would not poor White children have suffered as much as poor Black and Brown children?

(4). Wethinks Devon Horton hasn’t really thought this thing through.  Otherwise, what does he believe is going to happen if a “Black or Brown student”…or of any other pallor the District, in its infinite wisdom, determines to be “marginalized” or “oppressed”…falls victim to the Wuhan virus instead of what could have been some “White” student?

Magoo