It’s Friday, July 23rd, 2021…but before we begin, Townhall.com‘s Katie Pavlich offers the disturbing details of why…

The FBI’s Involvement in Michigan Kidnapping Plot Raises Questions About January 6

 

As Matt covered earlier today, it has been revealed the FBI had an enormous role in the kidnapping plot of Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer last year. In fact, informants came up with the idea.

“An examination of the case by BuzzFeed News also reveals that some of those informants, acting under the direction of the FBI, played a far larger role than has previously been reported. Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them,” Buzzfeed reports.

The FBI’s signifiant involvement in the Whitmer case is raising serious questions about what role the politicized bureau played in the January 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol. This is especially pressing given the law enforcement agency still hasn’t caught the suspects who placed pipe bombs, which was caught on video, at the RNC and DNC headquarters the night before. Hundreds of other arrests have been made…”

Don’t kid yourself: This type of activity has been going on for decades, at least as far back as 1992 and the ATF’s attack on Randy Weaver (a White separatist, NOT supremacist) and his family at Ruby Ridge, Idaho (No, Kommielaa, the state, not you!) initiated by the actions of an ATF “informant”.  It’s also noteworthy during the siege Lon Horiuchi, an FBI sniper, shot Weaver’s unarmed wife in the face as she stood in the door of their cabin holding her 10-month-old daughter.  Like the unnamed shooter of Ashli Babbitt, Horiuchi never faced justice for killing Vicki Weaver. 

Meanwhile, at the same time the good guys are going bad, the bad guys are becoming worse, and getting away with it…

…thanks to the idiotic policies of Progressive politicians.

We can easily see a day when retailers cease operating in those parts of the once-Golden State which refuse to hold criminals to account.

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, writing at NRO, Ryan Mills reveals how…

Missouri Teachers, CRT Advocate Plotted to Hide Social Justice Curriculum from ‘Trump Country’ Parents

Teachers questioned how they could teach history and social studies through a social justice lens without rankling parents in the ‘highly conservative county … in the middle of Trump country.’

 

The curriculum-writing team in a suburban St. Louis school district plotted with a critical race theory advocate on how to keep parents in the dark about their efforts to inject leftwing social justice advocacy into their classrooms, according to a video of their meeting leaked online.

The video, posted on rumble.com in early July, is alleged to be a condensed version of a September 2020 webinar that members of the Francis Howell School District’s curriculum-writing team participated in. The webinar was hosted by their equity consultant, LaGarrett J. King, an associate professor of social studies education at the University of Missouri. He was described on the call as a specialist in the study of “race, critical theories and knowledge.”

During a question-and-answer portion of the webinar, teachers and staff on the call questioned how they could reframe their classes to look at history and social studies through a more racialized social justice lens without rankling parents in the “highly conservative” community, which one teacher described as “the middle of Trump country.” King agreed that teachers could do away with verbiage like “white privilege,” while still getting the progressive message across to students.

One white teacher on the call said she’s been teaching about white privilege for a decade“Kids are way more open,” she said, “but then they go home and they tell their parents, and then their parents get upset. I don’t advertise to my students when I’m teaching U.S. history that sometimes I would consider myself the anti-U.S. history teacher.”

Another white teacher said because they teach in a conservative county, “Sometimes I think we have deferred to letting that stop progress. We let noise keep progress from moving forward.”

In a paper he co-authored in 2018, King acknowledged that critical theory was developed in the 1920s by German thinkers who “sought to extend Marxist theory into the changing social, political, and economic landscape of the twentieth century by talking about how culture and ideology encourage and sustain social inequality.” In order to “remain true to critical pedagogy,” the authors wrote, “teachers should work to identify questions that are important to students’ lives and that encourage them to reflect on the ways that they are either privileged or oppressed by social dynamics.”…”

Here’s the juice: from its inception, Critical Race Theory has had nothing to do with history or reality, but rather has been solely intended to sow division and conflict to create an environment fertile for Marxist revolution.  And anyone, any group or any entity supporting it is either an enemy of the Constitution or a useful idiot in the classic Communist fashion.

As this meme forwarded by Speed suggests…

Next, as NRO‘s Zach Evans relates…

U.S. Life Expectancy Saw Biggest Decline since World War II during Pandemic

 

“…The main causes of death for Americans are heart disease and cancer, however the decline in life expectancy was driven primarily by the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 contributed to 385,201 American deaths in 2020, according to the CDC.

Additionally, over 93,000 Americans died of drug overdoses during pandemic lockdowns, a record and over 20,000 more than the previous year. Almost 70,000 overdoses last year were caused by natural or synthetic opioid. Deaths from homicide, diabetes, and liver disease — a symptom of alcohol abuse — also surged during the COVID lockdowns…”

Note the word “contributed”, for in reality it means the Wuhan virus was termed the cause of death for untold tens of thousands who died of other maladies but tested positive for the virus at the time of their demise.  Let’s not forget all that federal money available to hospitals for COVID-related deaths ‘twern’t and ain’t receivable for other reasons.

In a related item, ICYMI, Rand Paul is seeking a DOJ criminal referral to hold that lying sack of excrement Faux Chi accountable for his myriad of lies.

Dr. Faux Chi’s prevarications were so pronounced even WaPo columnist Josh Rogin felt compelled to tweet:

Will it go anywhere?  Not a chance, as this is a DOJ reporting to a veritable spawn of Satan and overseen by the hyper-partisan Merrick Garland.  Not to mention Faux Chi, in a terribly twisted sense, deserved protection, having provided Progressives an invaluable in-kind contribution by promoting the public panic over COVID. 

Moving on to an item from the Epoch Times via White House Dossier, in the worst tradition of the politically-correct politicians who’ve come to dominate them, our once-proud…

Military Institutions Dodge Questions on Critical Race Theory

 

The Epoch Times reached out to military bases regarding CRT cases reported via a whistleblower program launched at the end of May by Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.). Academies were also contacted for more curriculum details to support defense leaders’ argument that teaching CRT fosters an open-minded military. In response, the U.S. Naval Academy commented without addressing the CRT question, and West Point confirmed receiving and working on the request but didn’t comment.

At the center of the debate is one course on the Politics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality (SS392) at West Point, the U.S. Military Academy (USMA). The course outline on the USMA official website includes critical legal studies, equality, and social classes in the United States.

The Epoch Times reached out to Professor Rachel Yon, instructor of SS392, for more details about how the course serves as a mind opener instead of promoting CRT. She forwarded the request to the USMA public affairs, who acknowledged receiving and working on the inquiry but didn’t provide a comment.

Another course, social inequality (NL450) at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA), is named as a CRT class by CriticalRace.org. This website documents Critical Race Training in over 300 colleges and universities in the United States. The Epoch Times raised the question to USNA whether NL450 was CRT and whether USNA teaches systematic inequality in U.S. social structures along with two other courses, Gender and Leadership (NL485) and Gender Matters (NL486B).

The USNA responded in an email without addressing the CRT question: “The Naval Academy focuses on developing well-rounded future leaders in the Navy and Marine Corps. The courses you are asking about are elective courses; each semester, interested midshipmen voluntarily choose from a field of electives to learn about different subjects based on the course descriptions provided. Typically, a vast array of intellectual ideas, approaches, and theories are addressed during classroom discussions. Of note, Gender Matters is the only elective of the three mentioned taught in the past five years.”

If you’re not yet afraid for your country’s future, you should be, ’cause sooner rather than later…

We turn now to six selections specifically suited to inquiring Conservative minds:

(1). The Dimocratic mayor and city council of Salt Lake City declared racism a public health crisisThe resolution states racism affects many aspects of a person’s life, “which creates inequities in access to a range of social and economic benefits”

Since the mayor and city council control life in Salt Lake City, and are thus responsible for any racism existing therein, we recommend their first order of business be resigning in favor of anti-racist replacements.

(2). Just the News is reporting 46* used a private email address to communicate with, among others, “his globetrotting, foreign-deal-making son Hunter“.

(3). This past Wednesday, all Senate Republicans voted against opening debate on a bipartisan infrastructure bill.  The $1.2 trillion boondoggle has the support of eleven Senate Republicans, who nevertheless voted against opening debate because the text of the bill has not been finalized.

(4). As the WSJ‘s Kim Strassel records, seemingly intent on imitating the antics of their political opposition, Dimocratic efforts to bully Stephen Breyer into retirement may end up having the opposite effect.  Thus does life once again imitate art:

(5). In a real shocker, NRO tells us a top Chinese official rejected the WHO’s proposal for a second phase of the investigation into origins of the Wuhan virus.  “We cannot accept this kind of plan for origin-tracing,” Zeng Yixin, vice minister of China’s National Health Commission said, adding parts of the proposal “did not respect common sense and violated science.”  Say it ain’t so, Xi…say it ain’t so!

(6). Since we’re on the subject of those who don’t want the truth to come out, another lead from NRO informs us Nancy Pelosi rejected the potential appointments of Representatives Jim Jordan and Jim Banks to a select committee to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot, claiming, “With respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these Members, I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan to the Select Committee.”

As always, if you want to know what Progressives are about, just look at what they’re accusing others of doing.  Nancy wants to get to the truth about as much we’re desirous of a bad case of hemorrhoids while passing a kidney stone.

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Along with this from Ed Hickey:

Finally, courtesy of James Nichols, we’ll call it a week with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy today of Legal Insurrection and as useless a prosecutor who was ever a pox on the planet, as we’re told… 

Kim Gardner, the St. Louis Prosecutor Who Went After the McCloskeys for Protecting Their Home, Failed to Have Anyone from Her Office Show Up for Murder Trial, Forcing Judge to Free Killer

 

In case you were wondering, yeah, the victim, like the killer, was Black…

…proving once again only certain Black lives matter to the likes of Kim Gardner and her Socialist sponsor George Soros.  Sorry, but like most other major cities, the people of St. Louis get the government…and living conditions…they deserve, as they’re the ones who voted Gardner into office.

Magoo

Video of the Day

Witness the inevitable, deliberate decay in what is essentially a Dimocratic dictatorship.

Tales of The Darkside

Tucker provides a look at one of the most obnoxious AND noxious individuals ever to darken the halls of Congress, which is saying something. What Tucker doesn’t highlight is how many of Swalwell’s appearances were on FOX, providing this putz publicity he’d otherwise never have enjoyed.

On the Lighter Side

46* seems to forget the reason Delaware is home to so many corporations is the state’s comparative lack of burdensome regulations, low incorporation costs and absence of corporate taxation, all “problems” he hopes to solve at the federal level. What a putz.



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