American Greatness
...What is perhaps most jarring is the emergence of an alliance between big business and leftist radicals.
One would think big businesses would be wary of all this disorder. Presumably, company assets and the cushy lives of their executives are jeopardized by violence in the streets. But, like wealthy people and institutions everywhere, large corporations are well insured. They’re also shielded from much of this disorder, having moved many of their manufacturing operations overseas and spending most of their non-working time in gated communities and well-guarded high rises.
More important, these companies share the basic moral outlook of the protesters and rioters. Uber Eats earlier this month announced that black-owned businesses would have free delivery privileges on its system—a possible violation of Title VII. Apple has pledged donations to organizations challenging "racial injustice and mass incarceration." Banks have closed early to celebrate Juneteenth, something that almost no one outside of Houston had heard of only a few weeks ago. It's all class war - keeping the potential competitors from arising out of the middle class. Notice, how anti-racism does not apply to Asians - the only minority who can challenge the current ruling class.
[American Thinker] So much for the "block party atmosphere." So much for the "summer of love."
Summer hadn't even started on the calendar when Seattle's Mayor Jenny Durkan was forced to shut down the whole dumpster fire of lawlessness in the heart of her city down.
She praised it and praised it — and somehow never guessed that a police-free zone might just be an attractive place for criminals.
After turning six blocks of prime downtown land to armed warlords who chased out an entire police station and then set up their own "autonomous zone," they did the predictable, turning the area into a hellhole, and the bodies piled up.
Durkan now is attempting to wipe the egg off her face after bona fide killings in the abdicated area, known as "CHOP," got to be too much.
She made a windy speech recorded by Q13Fox News, calling it an "update" rather than a boob's desperate U-turn.
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She may say she will shut it down but we have yet to see what will happen when push comes to shove. Will she have the guts to do what needs to be done or will she let the problem continue to fester?
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She probably told the cops "Go and shut it down - but don't hurt anyone.". And the cops said "No can do, mizz!"
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And when these cities want taxpayers in the heartland to bail them out while they elect marxists and their cultural and opinion leaders not only belittle but outright attack said same people? Yeah, that's gonna play well...
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[Babylon Bee] The Washington Post published an editorial today calling on the New England Patriots to change their team name due to its association with the United States of America.
The article called for the Patriots to change their team name immediately to something that doesn't imply they are proud of their country.
"The negative associations with the horrible country of America should be left in the past," the editorial board wrote. "This name is very offensive to austere religious scholars in other countries, liberals, and Canadians. We must call on the NFL to do better, to be better."
"They must change the name to something that signals that they are not proud to live in this country."
Suggestions for the new name included The New England Colonizers, The New England Oppressors, and The New England Sorry For Being Americans.
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Got me there. I had Not Bee.
Let's go with the New England Kneelers.
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That would be the ultimate Bill Belichick press conference - go get yer f'n shine box, kid.
[Babylon Bee] It's hard to tell if something is racist. You have to analyze a lot of different factors. But now, you can cut your racist determination time in literal tenths with The Babylon Bee's handy guide to determining what is systemic racism and what is just a good old-fashioned traditional value.
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My rule for determining if something is racist is to switch the races. So, for example, a scholarship that is only available to black students. Hmm - that sounds noble. Now, consider a scholarship that is only available to WHITE students - RACIST!
Really? Why is it ok to discriminate against one race but not the other? Why should the son of a pair of black doctors get a scholarship that a white son of a janitor cannot?
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^ Because..Reasons. "Shut up" they explained
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#!. Sociopaths cannot be shamed.
Not only do they not care about inconsistencies and hypocrisy being pointed out, they actually see these as confirming their status and power, and rather like hearing about it.
The Critic via Instapundit
When I first saw the mural of George Floyd with large angel wings, I assumed that it was a satire on his sanctification — effective, perhaps, but not in the best of taste. Shortly afterwards, however, I realised that the mural was in earnest: the picture of the mural in the newspaper included a man genuflecting before it and the caption said that he was making a ’pilgrimage’. Apparently, St Peter can no longer cope alone at the Pearly Gates: he need bouncers too, Heaven having become something like a nightclub.
George Floyd was not a saint; in fact, he was a bad man, and being killed by a brutal policeman does not change a man’s life from bad to good. He was a man of many convictions — criminal convictions, that is, not political ones — and at least one of his crimes was of deep-dyed malignity. Along with five others, he broke into a pregnant woman’s house and held her at gunpoint while his associates ransacked the house for drugs and money. This is not the kind of crime that results from a sudden surrender to temptation. It was premeditated and planned, albeit not very intelligently or successfully.
George Floyd was not a quick learner. He had several convictions for possession and supply of drugs, yet when he moved to Minneapolis, allegedly to turn over a new leaf, he still took drugs and a video showed him discarding what was probably a packet of drugs when he was first arrested.
None of this exculpates the policeman, Derek Chauvin, and no decent person would suggest that it did. Then I guess I'm not a decent person. IMO, it was only a matter of time before George Floyd killed somebody.
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IMO, it was only a matter of time before George Floyd killed somebody.
For all we know, he might have already. Nevertheless, just like Jeffrey Epstein, just like Lee Harvey Oswald, you gotta keep the prisoner alive because you never know what kind of testimony he might offer.
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#4 So sorry. But when violence becomes necessary, there is no such thing as 100% safe procedure. So, your statement is, simply, irrelevant to the occasion.
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Agreed that suspects risk their lives when they resist arrest and I'm not passing judgment on Derek Chauvin. But the goal must be to keep the prisoner alive and, with four cops against a prisoner who was already handcuffed, the optics are not good.
But I will go further. In California some years back, voters passed a ballot proposition mandating life in prison without possibility of parole for anyone convicted of three felonies. This was the famous "three strikes" law. Since then our politicians have done their damnedest to circumvent the will of the people with regards to this law. They even passed another law that reduces a number of felonies to misdemeanors. Well, that's California for you. But I am staying on topic.
You see, if George Floyd had been subject to "three strikes", he would have already been doing life in prison and we would have been spared all this nonsense.
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If the police hadn't killed him then it is likely some other criminal would have: "Death by 'natural causes' because some people naturally get shot..."
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It really should be three strikes and a public burning or impalement. We need to provide concrete, visible examples. Or here in Houston, it should be a glass jar in this lovely mild Texas sun.
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He and Chauvin worked at the same nightclub. I have to wonder if Chauvin wanted to ensure Floyd didn't talk, because Floyd knew Chauvin was dirty. Nothing else could explain the stupidity done on camera by a member of the uniformed police.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[American Thinker] So much for the "block party atmosphere." So much for the "summer of love."
[Babylon Bee] The Washington Post published an editorial today calling on the New England Patriots to change their team name due to its association with the United States of America.
[Babylon Bee] It's hard to tell if something is racist. You have to analyze a lot of different factors. But now, you can cut your racist determination time in literal tenths with The Babylon Bee's handy guide to determining what is systemic racism and what is just a good old-fashioned traditional value. 
