‘Unhinged bias’: Liberal law professor Jonathan Turley slams MSNBC for hiring Lisa Page as legal analyst
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You must be kidding??? This is a total disgrace! https://t.co/3QdaYCaiZS
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2020
A few select riot headlines – Democrats and media go full nut case
LIST – Rioters destroy hundreds of black-owned businesses
The 17 people who have died in the Democrat riots so far
Mural of cop hanging from noose
Chaotic Scene In London — BLM rioters attack police horses
Watch Live — Communist Democrats protest in DC
And maybe the most lunatic:
LA Mayor Garcetti Calls His Cops ‘Killers.’
These same L.A. Cop “killers” provide 24/7 security for Mayor Garcetti
Illegal aliens, felons, rioters, looters, seditionists – what do these groups have in common
‘Best Friend’ of NYPD Bomber Was Obama Intel Aid With Ties to CAIR and Soros
Never forget
Headline of the day
Pat Buchanan responds to Gen. Mattis
Liberal Mush from the Mad Dog
Patrick Buchanan:
“…In his statement to The Atlantic magazine, former Defense Secretary General James Mattis says of the events of the last 10 days that have shaken the nation as it has not been shaken since 1968:
“We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers.”
Is “a small number of lawbreakers” an apt description of wilding mobs who have showered cops with bottles, bricks and rocks in 40 cities, looted stores in the hundreds, torched police cars, and injured dozens of Secret Service personnel defending the White House?
Is “a small number of lawbreakers” the way a patriot would describe anti-American anarchists who desecrated the Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial on the Mall and the Korean War Memorial and tried to burn down the Church of the Presidents in Lafayette Square?
Was the sacking of Georgetown, Rodeo Drive in LA, 5th Avenue in New York and 40 city centers, the work of a few “lawbreakers”?
Is that a good description of the people who gravely wounded that cop in Las Vegas and shot four cops and murdered that retired black police chief in St. Louis?
The protesters, says Mattis, are “rightly demanding … Equal Justice Under Law.” This is a “wholesome and unifying demand — one that all of us should be able to get behind.”
But what does the general think of the methods and means the “protesters” have used — the massive civil disobedience, the blocking of streets, the vilification of police, the contempt for curfews. What does the general think of protesters who provide moral cover for insurrection?
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people,” says Mattis. Trump “doesn’t even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us.”
But it was not Trump who divided America in this racial crisis.
The nation was united in revulsion at the criminal cruelty that led to George Floyd’s death. The nation was united in backing an enraged people’s right to protest that atrocity.
What divided America were the methods and means protesters began using in the first hours of the Minneapolis riot — the attacks on cops with bottles, bricks and Molotov cocktails.
In Mattis’ statement, one finds not a word of sympathy or support for the police bearing the brunt of mob brutality for defending the communities they serve, while defending the constitutional right of the protesters to curse them as racist and rogue cops.
“Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them,” not to the military, says the general.
Correct. But what happens when mobs run wild to where a governor of New York is denouncing the NYPD for failing to protect the city from anarchy and is threatening to replace the mayor for failing to put down the insurrection.
In July 1967, the 82nd Airborne was sent into Detroit to put down the riot. In 1968, there were federal troops in D.C. to stop the rioting in the wake of Dr. King’s assassination. In the violent protests of the Nixon era, U.S. airborne troops were brought into the basement of the Executive Office Building.
The general quotes James Madison: “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign invaders than an America disunited.”
And how, General, did that work out for Madison when the “foreign invaders” arrived in Maryland in August 1814, marched up Bladensburg Road, and burned the Capitol and White House and Alexandria, while “Little Jimmy” fled out the Brookville Road?
If memory serves, it was Gen. Andrew Jackson and the troops he pulled together for the Battle of New Orleans who defeated the British and saved the Union.
“Society cannot exist,” wrote Edmund Burke, “unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
That is where we are now. Society and civilization are on the line.
If mob tactics are now how we change laws and alter public policy, the democratic republic is dead and we have gone full Third World.
Some of us do not believe America is a racist society or that the nation’s police, numbering a million men and women, are shot through with anti-black racism.
Some of us believe the police are the last line of defense we have against that “small number of lawbreakers” Mattis tells us are no problem.
Did the general actually produce this pile of mush that reads like something out of Ramsey Clark in the 1960s?
My guess: Mattis, an obedient servant of President Trump for two years, has been persuaded that the wind is blowing the other way and his “place in history” demands that he get himself on the correct side.
The general has just defected to the resistance…”
BLM Antifa terrorizes father and crying daughter returning from Childrens Hospital in Houston
Protesters? More like criminal rioters. Where is the MSM on this story? Not newsworthy?
https://youtu.be/lf7WSYXDG-E
https://twitter.com/FreeIllinoisNow/status/1268503935062597633
Hat tip to Kane
Journalism
They lied to the country for YEARS about "collusion"
They ruined people's lives, and spied, leaked, and lied
They tried to subvert the will of the American people and overthrow an election
And MSNBC hires them. The media is a joke.https://t.co/L8jmFMO14W
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) June 5, 2020
Democrat
Journalism
Thank goodness
Biggest Job Gain in History, Unemployment Drops as Lockdowns Lift
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US shocks economists by adding 2.5 million jobs in May as unemployment declines to 13.3%
I think we will see the economy roar back to life! Democrats/media most hurt.
In case you thought universities were going to ease up on their self-destruction…
Headline of the day
A statement of the obvious
Democrat governance. Alternately referred to as “insanity”
Minneapolis City Council President Says They’re Dismantling PD, Gives Alternative That Would Replace the Department
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“Los Angeles Starts to Defund Its Police.”
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SF mayor announces effort to redirect police funds to black community.
I want to make sure dear reader that you understand what I think about this.
It is insanity!
Antifa is a terrorist organization. It’s members should be hunted down and the organization shut down
The cleaning out of lefty holdovers at Voice of America
Candace Owens on the Floyd affair
Candace Owens:
“…Everyone is pretending that this man lived a heroic lifestyle. We are embarrassing in that regard. Nobody wants to tell the truth in black America. Our biggest problem is us. . .
For whatever reason it has become fashionable over the last five or six years for us to turn criminals into heroes overnight. It is something I find despicable.
George Floyd was not an amazing person…
…Shelby Steele said that the black community is unique… our culture is unique from other communities because we are the only community that caters to the bottom denominator of our society….
You would be hard pressed to find a Jewish person who has spent five stints in prison, who commits a crime and dies while committing a crime and that the Jewish people demand justice for. You would be hard pressed to find this in white America… even in Latino America….
Not every black American is a criminal. Not every black American is committing crimes. But we are unique in that we are the only people that fight and scream and demand support for the people in our community that are up to no good…
…First and foremost George Floyd, at the time of his arrest, was high on fentanyl and methamphetamine…
Owens also mentioned a 2007 robbery that Floyd was involved in that involved a pregnant victim and Floyd holding a gun to her abdomen:
…And this was the biggest instant I had that made me realize this is a horrible human being, that I’m not going to pretend is a good person…”
Michael Barone on the rioting
Michael Barone:
“…I know how violent rioting, and that’s what we’ve been seeing, despite media attempts at hiding it, can destroy a city and ruin the lives of its residents. In the summer of 1967, I was an intern in the office of the mayor of Detroit when the city suffered a six-day riot in which 43 people died. I was at the mayor’s side in the so-called command center as radio calls came soon after nightfall. Police were abandoning 1 square mile after another.
The riot finally ended after some 12,000 federal and federalized national guard troops restored order. But most of Detroit has still never fully recovered. You can still see the abandoned commercial structures and the residential streets with burned-out houses and hauntingly empty lots.
Downtown and adjacent areas have enjoyed a revival, which I hope will continue. But the lesson is clear. Violent riots destroy people’s willingness to invest their lives and money in a city. Those most harmed are those who start off the most disadvantaged. Violence and crime are a confiscatory tax on what people would otherwise earn and accumulate over a lifetime.
The combined effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns and the last several days’ rioting threaten to destroy the efflorescence of gentrifying central cities, which has followed Rudy Giuliani’s demonstration in New York City, a quarter-century ago now, of how to reduce and nearly eliminate violent crime. The demonstration these last few days that it can be suddenly increased threatens to undo that progress for the next quarter-century.
The short-term political effects are harder to gauge. A Morning Consult poll showed a 58% to 30% majority, unusual in these polarized times, supporting “calling in the U.S. military to supplement city police forces.” Will President Trump and Republicans benefit from their calls for “law and order,” as President Richard Nixon and Republicans did in the years after the riots in Detroit and many other cities half a century ago? Maybe, and especially if folks like Healey and the Fairfax County message poster are seen as representing the Democratic Party…”