…is depressed and angry. So is Greg Gutfeld; he said so on The Five yesterday. I feel fortunate to live in a neighborhood that, despite being in the center of the LA metroplex, is unlikely to attract looters.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Thank CNN, the media, and the Democrats for the looting and the riots.
[Update a while later]
Pandemics and pandemonium: a history of pandemics and rioting, and a description of “riot ideology.” I just saw on Twitter that Barr is threatening to release communications between Antifa and prominent public officials to coordinate the mayhem. I’m guessing that none of those public officials are Republicans.
[Update while more later]
“Resistance” has become insurrection.
[Afternoon update]
How to destroy civilization. And American Kristallnacht.
I read Shirer’s “Rise and Fall” as a teenager, but not since.
I just saw on Twitter that Barr is threatening to release communications between Antifa and prominent public officials to coordinate the mayhem.
This needs to be done. Setting aside the officials; it can’t be coincidence that so many Hollywood Democrat fundraisers are willing to send money to post bail for arrested “protestors”, particularly when the only reason to post bail is for those arrested for committing violence and the media assures us those people are white supremacists and not Antifa (despite the latter’s own tweets).
Antifa is just one of a multitude of Democrat activist groups that share funding, organization, and personnel. Going after Antifa would lead to the doorsteps of organizations that fund PBS, college scholarships, and environmentalism, just to name a few.
BREAKING: As part of its fight for social justice, Syracuse University has changed the name of its football team to The Blackmen.
Everyone is susceptible to this, especially on platforms like Twitter. I’ve seen things like this from all sides. A video or picture with a caption to frame it is passed around. No one checks to see if it is true.
While anyone can do this, it has been especially bad on the left during the riots. Activists pass things off to the media and politicians who repeat it to wider audiences. I’ve seen it locally and it is probably more effective locally. You are more likely to believe a local rumor than one from across the country.
There is a coordinated media op being run by the Democrat’s militant activist groups. It moves from the planning circles to social media and then onto the news and politicians.
Shirer’s book, which I also read as a teen, is well worth the effort of rereading. It’s a little turgid, but pretty interesting, A dedent grounding in stuff that went on when my parents were kid.
That’s why I read it. I remember being told, as a little child, about the war with the “notsies,” and hearing that if they had won, I’d have never been born…
My mother had a little book on learning German, which I perused, but not seriously enough to ever learn the language.
When I was in high school, the Christian Brothers had a phrase “bubbleheaded liberals.” It described the kind of “liberal,” for example,who would make excuses for muggers even as he was being stabbed. Michael Knowles has a video compilation, released to YouTube, of TV reporters trying to downplay the violence and malevolence of the “peaceful protesters” even as that violence and malevolence are being exhibited for the news cameras. My favorite footage is from some reporter praising the peacefulness of the “protesters” even as they’re throwing rocks and other debris at him. He says something like, “Okay, some of them have been throwing rocks and cursing at me”–now get this–“but not in a mean way.” That last phrase captures the essence of “bubbleheaded liberalism.”