Groups March Into Beverly Hills, Loot Stores On Rodeo Drive

MELTDOWN: Lemon Goes on Insane Rant Defending Riots as ‘Mechanism’ for Change

Brian Williams: Minnesota Governor, Mayor ‘Offered Up, Abandoned’ Police Precinct

City Leaders To Protesters: ‘Coming COVID-19 Second Wave Is Your Fault’

Top FBI Lawyer Who Authorized Carter Page Surveillance Is Forced To Resign

Minnesota is now using contact tracing to track protestors

Study: Integrating satellite and socioeconomic data to improve climate change policy

Destroying the environment to save it

Anger Privilege

Undocumented Shopping

Protesters in Some Cities Target Confederate Monument

Edward Banfield’s“Rioting Mainly for Fun and Profit” in 1970

Destruction, Vandalism Left In Aftermath Of Washington, DC Riot

America Wakes Up After A Night Of Chaos And Destruction: 1,700 Rioters Arrested In Three Days  All cities run by Democrats. (Chickens coming home to roost?)

Biden Staffers, Celebrities Scramble To Funnel Bail Money To Rioters

Unfit To Print Episode 54: Media Coverage Of BLM Protests Vs. Anti-Lockdown Protests

Friends of Antifa: NBC Scoffs at Claims ‘Left-Wing’ Mobs Causing Riots

Black Organizers ‘Enraged’ by White Agitators ‘Here to F*ck Shit Up’ in George Floyd Protests  Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Apple Stores smashed and looted amid George Floyd protests

St. Patrick’s Cathedral Defaced During NYC Riots

Two Different Responses to Looting  This is why the looting is only happening in Blue areas.

Ahead Of The 3rd Night Of Riots: Looting, Violent Protests Begin In Phildadelphia

MSNBC’s Velshi Lets Dem Guest Overstate Police Shootings of Blacks

Ivy League Terrorist  Not only a terrorist, but an incompetent terrorist. (Well. That’s Princeton for you.)

MSNBC Host Hints Rioters No Worse Than Pro-Trump Protesters

MSNBC, CNN Compare Trump to George Wallace  The Democrat Governor?

Repugnant: CNN’s Don Lemon Repeatedly LIES, Says Trump Has Been Silent on Riots

George Floyd’s brother says Trump ‘didn’t give me an opportunity to even speak’ during phone call CNN.

Trump, White Supremacists And Russia: Here’s Who Democrats Have Blamed For Riots So Far

Stelter Blames Trump for Press Being Targeted By Police, Rioters  Of course. Both the police and the rioters take their marching orders from Trump, probably through a clever system of dog-whistles. Obvious once you think about it.

The psychopath in chief. [Tony Schwartz, ghost author, The Art of the Deal]  Biting the hand that fed him — as all such people do.

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Good luck with that, girls. Welcome to our world.  When we said that ‘feminism’ was the start of a slippery slope, we were right. Enjoy your slide.

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It’s an amazing paradigm. In the new America, not only is rioting acceptable; a person who says rioting is wrong is a racist. A person who says it’s bad that around 20 million pure, innocent black babies full of potential have been killed in abortions is a racist. A person who complains about the extremely high murder rate among blacks, which primarily affects black victims, is a racist. Black people who acknowledge these things are sellouts.

You have to support rioting, and you can’t complain about the things which are really killing large numbers of black people.

In New York City, if you’re an unborn black baby, you will PROBABLY be killed before you’re born. The odds against you are better than 50%. The Klan could never dream of accomplishing that kind of genocide. There are fewer than two busloads of Klan members per state, and they can’t get anything done, but they get more attention than Planned Parenthood, which places over 80% of its murder mills near concentrations of black people. I come from a white region where poverty and unwanted pregnancies are common. Planned Parenthood isn’t anywhere near that area. Their mission is directed at blacks.

It’s very strange. Only one type of violence against blacks seems to matter, and it’s a type which causes a tiny percentage of black deaths. If the perpetrator isn’t white, no one cares. This is even true when black cops kill blacks. They get less attention.

Bad black cops do exist. I had one shove a gun in my face for sleeping in a car. Pretty sure that wasn’t in the handbook.

Something weirder still: people are demanding justice for George Floyd, AFTER his killers have been arrested. It makes sense to complain when the authorities ignore abuse, but what is the point when the suspects have been jailed promptly? You can’t be protesting the way the justice system works, because it’s working. Are you rioting to protest the existence of police brutality? If so, you don’t understand how sadists think. No sadistic cop ever said, “I need to rethink what I do because BLM is burning down a black neighborhood.”

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If all of the rioters got the coronavirus, I doubt that anyone would be seriously upset. I know I wouldn’t.  Perhaps the CDC ought to dispatch a brigade of academic Karens to quell the riots. That would be amusing.

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About fargin time.

UPDATE: The Communist Origins of the Antifa Extremist Group

Actually, I doubt that any three people in the AntiFa organization have the wit to be Communists.

UPDATE: Watch: Rioter Sets Himself On Fire Trying To Torch Building  Case in point.

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I remember that smell. Those were the days.

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Hammer tech.

Think of it as evolution in action.

ZMan is tired of all this.

If you are over the age of forty, the current black riots seem like another bad remake of a bad movie from your youth. You can appreciate how the young and stupid may be fascinated by it, but you know it is just pointless destruction by people who are over indulged and terminally ungrateful. The whites involved, and there are plenty, are just ridiculous people playing make believe. They are reenactors dressing up to play a role they read about in their grievance studies classes.

Further, you know what comes of it. There will be lectures from the servants of the ruling class about white privilege and the legitimacy of black rage. The so-called conservatives will grovel and plead. There will be some candlelight vigils tossed in so the politicians can perform their public acts of piety. It is the same old story remade by decreasingly plausible actors. Meanwhile, normal white people just see their tax for being white go up yet again. It is so tiresome.

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The Department of Justice has filed a statement of interest in a lawsuit filed by seven Michigan businesses challenging restrictions imposed by Governor Whitmer in response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The plaintiffs are a real estate brokerage, a lawn and property maintenance company, an automotive glass exporter, an engine oil and auto parts distributor, a small jewelry store, a dental office, and an association of car washes. They brought their federal case in the Western District of Michigan.

George Floyd protests: Barack Obama calls for ‘justice’ and a ‘new normal’  Not ‘peace’ or ‘calm’ or anything that might be mistaken for law & order. Obama is just another race pimp.

Brooklyn police precinct overrun by protesters

Twin Cities Situation Deteriorating as Keith Ellison Fans the Flames

Rioters Smash Glass At CNN’s Atlanta Headquarters Rioters Smash Through Metal Barriers and Advance on White House

Tucker Laments Double Standard: ‘Normal’ People Must Follow ‘Countless New Rules,’ Rioters ‘Get To Ignore’ Them  Well, yeah; that’s what ‘privilege’ is all about.

In NYC, Blacks Make Up 69% of Those Shot by Police, But 79% of Those Who Shoot at Police, by Steve Sailer

NYPD Precinct Attacked, “Officers Down” As Rioters Storm CNN HQ In Atlanta During Second Night Of Nationwide Protests

Floyd Autopsy Doesn’t Support Strangulation As Cause Of Death

Atlanta Mayor Scolds Rioters: ‘When Dr. King Was Assassinated, We Didn’t Do This To Our City’

Minnesota Governor Suspects “White Supremacists” Involved in Riots, by Steve Sailer

Two Federal Officers Shot, One Killed, As Violence Spreads To Oakland

Owner Of Gutted Minneapolis Shopping Mall Tells Governor And Mayor: ‘People Will Uprise Over This’

College Football Hall Of Fame Gets Destroyed During Riots In Atlanta

Cornel West: There Will Be ‘More Violent Explosions’ Without ‘Democratic Sharing’ Of Wealth  Ah, the agenda finally reveals itself.

2 Killed During Protests In Oakland, Detroit Over Police Death Of George Floyd  Police 1, Rioters 2.

Antifa’s white privilege

Tim Walz Blames Riots On ‘Outsiders,’ Cartels And White Supremacists — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Joy Reid Join In

Minneapolis’s Progressive Image Burns in Its Streets

WashPost Art Critic Tries to Turn Temporary CNN Arrest Into Evidence of Trump Tyranny

‘Trump Supporters Targeted’ – Gunshot Fired Into Arizona RNC Field Office 

DC Mayor Accuses Trump Of ‘Hiding Behind His Fence’ From ‘Peaceful Protesters’

Director of Female Ghostbusters Suggests Racist, Sexist Trump Fans Killed His Movie

Trump-bashing Couples Will Host ESPN’s Annual ESPY Awards This Summer

WATCH: These Cable Hosts Savage Each Other Over ‘Your Friend’ Trump

When American conservatism becomes un-American  Washington Post.

WHAT?! Cuomo, Lemon Claim ‘CNN Is Not Being Victimized,’ ‘Not the News’ Amid Riots

UN Human Rights Chief Demands US Takes “Serious Action” To Stop Killing Of Unarmed African-Americans

No asteroids needed: ancient mass extinction tied to ozone loss, warming climate

Humpbacks bounce back from near extinction to help fight climate change  I wonder whether they get free T-shirts.

People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features  Proponents of climate-change hysteria are fond of tagging their critics as ‘science-deniers’, ignoring how often their ‘science’ is demonstrated to be mythology. The latest trend is to shovel the non-woke into various psychological boxes, the way the old Soviet government did with dissidents. (They wouldn’t dream of doing that with LGBTQ+ people, of course.)

NYT Op-Ed: ‘Stop Eating Animals’ If You Care About Climate Change, Racial Justice and Working Poor

“Well, lads, there’s a man’s work ahead of us this day.”

Name the movie.

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The Hennepin County Medical Examiner (ME) conducted Mr. Floyd’s autopsy on May 26, 2020. The full report of the ME is pending but the ME has made the following preliminary findings. The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation. Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease. The combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by the police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.

The news you won’t get from the ‘news media’.

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What do they know that you don’t?

Probably not a whole lot.

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I suspect that the reason for the imbalance is that even Twitter realizes that nobody is paying any attention to what Biden says.

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And that’s really all it takes.

Three Ways Lockdowns Are Costing Human Lives

Fox Exposes Cuomo’s Office Trying to Hide Deadly Corona Exec Order

Department of Education Ignites Media Whining By Declaring Connecticut Trans Policy Illegal

Protester Who Hanged Kentucky Governor in Effigy Fired From His Job  When didn an AntiFa rioter ever lose his (or her) job?

How Do You Like Democratic Socialism So Far?

NYC Reportedly Bans The Term ‘Illegal Immigrant,’ Will Now Refer To Illegal Immigrants As ‘Noncitizens’

Both conservatives and liberals want a green energy future, but for different reasons

Minneapolis Third Precinct police station set on fire after rioters break in

Rioting In Minneapolis Is So Bad, The Fires Show Up On Air Quality Maps

Tucker Carlson: Media, Leaders ‘Eagerly Stoking’ Racial Division While Minneapolis Is ‘Falling Apart’

House Judiciary Dems Want DOJ to Probe Three Killings of Unarmed Blacks  Which they are already doing.

At Least 30 New Yorkers Arrested Rioting Over George Floyd’s Death

Twitter spreads riot porn – but censors a President vowing to restore law and order

‘This Is Mostly A Protest’: MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Says Riots Aren’t Unruly As Building Burns Behind Him

“They Motherf**kers Need To Go Home!” – Locals Rage At Rioters As Minneapolis Burns

Sharpton Upset: ‘Reckless’ Rioters Are Destroying the Black-Owned Stores!  Rioters don’t care.

Michael Moore, Democratic Socialists, Journalists Join Hands And Cheer Minnesota Riots

Michael Moore: ‘Good Citizens’ Burned ‘Evil’ Police Station

Black Business Owner Who Invested Life Savings Into Looted Bar: “I Don’t Know What I’m Gonna Do” – Summit News

MSNBC’s Al Veshi Denies There Is Any Rioting, But Will Allow “Some Fires Have Been Started,” Including the Inferno Behind Him

‘Time To Riot Everywhere’: Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova Following George Floyd’s Death  Yeah, white gay sports stars like her are SO oppressed.

Anarchy in Minneapolis: Democrats Celebrate Rioters Who Burned Down City

Tragedy and Comedy in the Twin Cities

Minneapolis Rioter: “We’re Gonna Start Coming To The Suburbs”  They better come heavy, then, because the suburbs won’t put up with this shit.

Black Firefighter Spent His Life Savings To Open A Bar. Then Minneapolis Looters Burned It Down  Guess he wasn’t black enough.

Minneapolis Retailers Shut Down After Rioters Ransack Shops

This Is CNN: Violent Riots Happening Now Are Just Like The Boston Tea Party  Without the whole tax dispute thing.

Minneapolis Transit Shuts Down As Bus Drivers Refuse To Help Police  As with most Democrat-run cities, transit workers (like civil servants) tend to be overwhelmingly NAM.

No, Donald Trump Is Not a Working-Class Hero  And, of course, the Crustians at New York Magazine are the experts on who is or is not a working class hero.

CBS Claims Trump’s Twitter Feud Just a Distraction from Virus Death Toll  Their real complaint is that it works.

Actress McGowan Praises Trump for Call to Probe Floyd Death as MIsreporting Ties Officers to Political Right

Lemon FLIPS OUT: ‘God’s Honest Truth’ Trump to Blame for Racism

Twitter Tags Trump Tweet On Minneapolis Riots With “Glorifying Violence” Warning

Trump issues toothless exec order to show donors, fans he’s doing something about those Twitter twerps

Trump’s Flagged Tweet Contained 1960s Cop Phrase That Started Race Riot

Keith Ellison Says Trump’s Tweets ‘Stems From The Same Sort Of Attitude’ That Killed George Floyd  And his is the same sort of attitude that prompts the riots.

CNN’s John King Assigns Blame: ‘100,000 Is a Devastating Piece of the Trump Legacy’  In a country of 330 million, it’s a rounding error. We lose more than that every year to the flu. (Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year)

CNN Analyst Bakari Sellers Blames ‘Trump’s America’ In Part For CNN Reporter’s Arrest

Twitter Censors Trump, Won’t Remove Iranian Threats of Violence

Taylor Swift Goes After President Trump Over George Floyd Tweets

Trump Warns Rioters: When the Looting Starts, the Shooting Starts; Twitter Censors Tweet — Again! Demented Suburban Empathy Mom Nancy French Reports Trump For “Threatening My Nation”

Warren: Trump Is Advocating For ‘Illegal, State-Sponsored Killing’  Democrats: Party of Fear – Party of Hate – Party of Death.

Dem Gov. Newsom Gets Only One Critical Question on ‘View,’ But Is Repeatedly Invited to Trash Trump  No surprises here.

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We data scientists call this data profiling, and it is the essential first step in constructing an accurate data model.

Ace of Spades brings the heat.

Run them down, a wise man said.

Seriously. If an unruly mob is blocking your car from going forward and attacking it, that is false imprisonment and it may lead to being dragged out of the car and being beaten to death, or raped, or both.

Correction: I should say, run them down when they surround your car and prevent it from moving in any direction. You wouldn’t be allowed to run anyone down just because they’re blocking forward progress, assuming you could turn around or go into reverse.

But if they’re surrounding you and attacking your car: They are attackers. Lethal force isn’t authorized by force unlikely to kill (like rolling into someone at 7-10 mph) is.

Not with the intent to injure, but with the intent to flee an attacker using the most expeditious and safe means possible.

No one is required to cooperate with one’s kidnappers or obey the commands of an illegal, violent vigilante mob.

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That’s new.

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Taiwan ought to thank God that Trump is President and not a Democrat. Obama would have sold them down the river without  a second thought.

Scott Johnson at Powerline is not happy.

Tom noted somewhere in his tweets that he hasn’t been blacklisted. I have.

MDH included me on the press briefing conference call notices and responded to my questions by email until April 27. Then they cut me off. They have refused to tell me why. They have failed to respond to any of my several inquiries. Something happened. I don’t know what it is.

It seems to have had something to do with the questions I was asking. Working on a story about my experience, however, the Washington Free Beacon’s Collin Anderson elicited a statement from MDH to the effect that they only allow “professional journalists” on the briefing. And yet I was included until April 27. Collin’s story about my experience is here. I wrote about Collin’s story here.

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Let’s hear it for Social Distancing.

Thank God for those strict gun control laws in Philadelphia, or the place would be like Texas.

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The Third Precinct police headquarters at 30th and Minnehaha was torched and burned to the ground — the authorities let it burn to the ground. Law enforcement is invisible. We have reverted to a Hobbesian state of nature a la Lord of the Flies. During her interview with Kyle Hooten on FOX News last night Martha MacCallum played footage of the looting. Alpha News has posted the video here.

The crime spree spread from Minneapolis to St. Paul and points elsewhere. More than 170 St. Paul businesses have been looted or damaged while dozens of fires have been set. St. Paul had nothing to do with the death of George Floyd. It is nothing more than a target of criminal opportunity.

The Left has discovered that the pandemic shutdown isn’t going to be enough to beat Trump, so they’re ginning up race riots to make it seem as if the country were dangerously insecure.

Same old playbook.

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I’m sure they’ll land cushy posts elsewhere in the Deep State. The Crust take care of their own.

It’s nice having fewer liars on TV, though.

Iran’s Khamenei: Israel a ‘Cancerous Tumor’ to Be Destroyed

Pakistani Officials Say at Least 2 Survived Plane Crash

Pakistan’s ‘Islamophobia’ problem

FBI Identifies Slain Suspect in Texas Navy Base Shooting

Group: Texas Naval Base Shooter Voiced Support for Hardline Clerics

Corpus Christi Naval Air Station Shooter Was Supporter Of Salafi-Jihadist Ideology  What are the odds?

Jihad in the Time of Corona

Islam is Incompatible With Democracy  But you knew that….

Rouhani: Iran to Retaliate If US ‘Trouble’ for Venezuela-Bound Tankers  How? By blowing up random innocent people? They do that already.

Invitation to a Beheading

Watch: Tensions Explode As Israel Blocks Aqsa Mosque On Eid Holiday During COVID-Lockdown

Fleeing Syrian Brain Surgeons on the Rampage

FBI Indicts Man On Most Wanted List With Terrorism Charges

American Islamists’ Hypocrisy on Religious Persecution

Corpus Christi Shooter Inspired by Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaida Sources

Greece Sends Military To ‘Build The Wall’ Amid Renewed Turkish ‘Migrant Chaos’ Threats

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Many human activities were curtailed in America during Memorial Day weekend due to the Wuhan coronavirus. However, murder in Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington D.C. weren’t among them.

In Baltimore, there were eight killings over the weekend, even though residents were under orders to stay home due to the pandemic. Four additional people were injured in the shootings.

According to police, several of the victims had previously been convicted of attempted murder. In a properly functioning justice system, these victims would have been incarcerated.

Chicago topped Baltimore. It suffered nine killings, with 27 more wounded, over the weekend. This was Chicago’s deadliest Memorial Day weekend since 2015.

Washington, D.C. got off easy. Only three people were shot to death over the weekend.

This is one reason why people are moving from Blue states to Red states.

Chicago Pastor Accuses Mayor Of Lying About Police Presence At Services Violating Lockdown Order

NY Gov Andrew Cuomo Uses Cooked Numbers To Defend Record On Nursing Homes

Serve the Fatherland by Snitching on Your Neighbor!

The Hydroxychloroquine Controversy Is a Reminder That Prescription Laws Are a Government Racket

The Media Want America to Stay Closed Forever

Texas Supreme Court Rules Lack Of COVID-19 Immunity Not Enough To Qualify For Mail-In Voting

Why Does the CDC Think the COVID-19 Fatality Rate Is So Low, and Why Won’t It Tell Anyone?

New York Gov. Cuomo To Sign Executive Order Allowing Businesses To Deny Service To Anyone Not Wearing A Mask  Unless they belong to a Fashionable Minority, of course; that would be raaaaaaacist.

Students In LA County Will Have To Wear Face Masks At All Times Under New Plan For Reopening

DC Police Officer Punched While Trying To Enforce Social Distancing Orders

You Can Now Get Fired For Refusing To Wear A Mask At Work

CBS, NBC Scoff at Trump’s Feud with Twitter, Ignore Anti-Trump Bias of Fact-Checker

Gym Sues New Jersey Gov. Murphy for ‘Unconstitutional’ Shutdown

CNN’s Lemon Blames Trump for Death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

Twitter CEO Dorsey Defends Trump Fact-Checking, Integrity Chief

MSNBC: ‘Fool and Bully’ Trump Has a ‘Disregard for Human Life’

WaPo Reporters Accuse White House of Covering Up Recession  It is, of course, impossible to ‘cover up’ a recession, since the criteria for recession and the data by which it is determined is publicly accessible.

CNN Analyst: End Every Tweet by Blaming Trump for 100,000 Dead Americans

Medicare Chief Says Cuomo Is Wrong To Blame Trump Administration For His Nursing Home Order

Rep. Maxine Waters: Trump ‘Dog-Whistling’ Deaths of Blacks  Funny how only Maxine Waters (and other race pimps) can hear these ‘dog-whistles’. Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

Claim: Aussie Fire Chiefs “gagged”, Ordered not to Talk about Climate Change

NY Times Hates Blacks Boosting Racist Trump, Hitting Biden’s ‘Three Unfortunate Words’

Social Distancing in Minneapolis, by Steve Sailer

Minneapolis Police Protesters Seen Looting TVs, Clothes From Target

NYT: How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror, by Steve Sailer

The Great Non-White Hope, by Audacious Epigone

Death in Minneapolis Revives #BlackLivesMatter

“Minneapolis Is Burning” – Buildings Torched, Stores Looted, Protests Over George Floyd Intensify 

We’re Going to Hear a Lot of Bad Arguments about Rioting and George Floyd

George Floyd Protestors Set Fire To Wendy’s, AutoZone In Minneapolis

Minneapolis Burns As Looters Take To The Streets Following Protests Over Death Of George Floyd

Minneapolis meltdown

Minneapolis Riots Level Buildings, Empty Big Box Stores, Result In Gunfire And Death

Minneapolis Mayor Requests National Guard After Protests Turn Violent

Armed Citizens Stand Guard Against Looters In Minneapolis

George Floyd Protesters Attack Old Woman In Wheelchair While Looting

Rep. Maxine Waters Blames Trump’s ‘Dog Whistling’ For George Floyd’s Death  If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

Trump Administration Carves Out $10 Billion For PPP Loans To Businesses In ‘Rural, Minority And Other Underserved Communities’

NBC Bans Reporters From Using The Word ‘Riot’ In Coverage Of Minnesota Riots

Minneapolis On Fire

‘Star Wars’ Actor John Boyega Goes On NSFW Rant Against ‘Racists’

Floyd’s Brother Calls for Death Penalty

Minneapolis Protesters Liberate HD TVs from Area Target  Which, of course, will restore life to George Floyd.

Brooke Baldwin Breaks Down On Air: ‘As A White Woman, Aware Of My Own Privilege’

‘These People Don’t Give A Damn About George Floyd:’ Former NAACP St. Paul President Watches Police And Protesters Clash

Colin Kaepernick Responds To Death Of George Floyd

Ice Cube Cancels ‘Good Morning America’ Appearance Due To Death Of George Floyd  So that’s a win.

Chris Hayes: Why Is There a Different Reaction to Peaceful Protesters Who Are Actually Peaceful Protesters and “Peaceful Protesters” We Only Call Peaceful Protesters Because It Would be Racist to Say “Rioters and Looters”?

Minnesota Governor Calls in National Guard to Control Riots

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Starting to look that way.

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Senate Democrats released a 50-plus page report Wednesday sounding alarm bells over the rate at which Senate Republicans and President Trump have confirmed federal judges during the president’s first term as Republicans are working on shepherding along even more lifetime-appointed federal judges.

That’s what losing looks like.

The account calls GOP-appointed judges “politicians in robes,” rails against the Chief Justice John Roberts’ Supreme Court, slams the conservative and libertarian lawyers’ group the Federalist Society and says Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is “betraying the vision of our founders.”

In other words, Republicans are doing to them what they’ve been doing to Republicans since the 1960s.  “MOMMMEEE! Johnny hit me back!”

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LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman, who notoriously backed a group that “spread disinformation during the 2017 Alabama special election for U.S. Senate,” is now being joined by other Big Tech billionaires in a plot to boost presumptive Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden in 2020.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Scott Adams: “One of the funniest stories is that Democrats are getting panicked that the economy might come back too quickly.  It might come back too quickly, and before the election.”

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Who so richly deserves it.

UPDATE: Kayleigh McEnany Makes Fake News Jim Look Like a Fool on Liberal Media Screw-Ups

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I sat down at a restaurant the other day; it was slow, as most dining rooms have been the last two weeks. I live by myself and like to talk, so I like having conversations with the wait staff fairly often. I can’t remember the comment I had (something about a COVID impact on the restaurant I think), the lovely lady said, “You can’t see it but I am smiling behind this mask.”

If you look at the actual data, the overwhelming majority of coronavirus victims who have died were elderly people with pre-existing conditions in long-term care facilities.  This whole ‘wear a mask’ business is politically-motivated fetishism, ‘I am wearing the Magic Mask and therefore I am safe from the Demon Covid-19!’.

UPDATE: 98.1% Of ‘COVID-19 Deaths’ In Massachusetts Had An Underlying Health Condition

ZMan does a deep dive.  One of his best.

As a practical matter, politics is about persuasion. The reformer, for example, first persuades people that something is broke. Like a good salesman who creates need in the mind of the prospective customer, the reformer creates a sense of unhappiness with the status quo in his target audience. The reformer is, in effect, a chronic complainer, always talking about his unhappiness with the status quo. His goal is always to first persuade people that something is broken and needs fixing.

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On today’s show we discuss the biggest lies told about coronavirus, including the ones that led to the lockdown.

We also discuss the House changing the rules so members no longer have to actually show up to work, Nancy Pelosi seeing opportunity in the pandemic and Joe Biden breaking wind.