This video is depressing and inevitable:
I *really* hope the Trump campaign is on the ball here, because the leftists are doing their damnedest to provide him with all the footage he needs for TV commercials that should net him a historic landslide of an election.
“Hate crimes” are stupid. But… so long as they’re on the books, it’s nice seeing them at least *sometimes* applied to to leftist violence. In this case, two 21-year-old women decided it would be a hoot to attack a 7-year-old because he was wearing a MAGA hat. They now face 15 years in prison:
Delaware law states that a person is guilty of such when they commit a “crime for the purpose of interfering with the victim’s free exercise or enjoyment of any right, privilege or immunity protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, or commits said crime because the victim has exercised or enjoyed said rights.”
Whoopsie.
In order for a movie to be eligible for the Best Picture award, it will now be required to adopt certain features:
STANDARD A: ON-SCREEN REPRESENTATION, THEMES AND NARRATIVES
To achieve Standard A, the film must meet ONE of the following criteria:
A1. Lead or significant supporting actors
At least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group.
A2. General ensemble cast
At least 30% of all actors in secondary and more minor roles are from at least two of the following underrepresented groups:
A3. Main storyline/subject matter
The main storyline(s), theme or narrative of the film is centered on an underrepresented group(s).
Huh. A movie about, say Robin Hood or King Arthur or the Vikings or the Greeks or the Romans or the Renaissance would need to be either a-historical or would be disallowed. Shakespeare is off the table. World War I or WWII or the Franco-Prussian War or Napoleon: verbotten. The early space program? Nope.
One wonders if they woke mafia behind this nonsense will go after *past* best Picture winners the same way they’ve tried to retroactively cancel the likes of H.P. Lovecraft. “Casablanca?” cancelled. “Hamlet?” “The Best Years of Our Lives?””My Fair Lady?’ “The Sound of Music?” “A Man for All Seasons?” “Patton?” “Amadeus?” “Braveheart?” “Titanic?” “A Beautiful Mind?” “Return of the King?” “The Kings Speech?” None of these would be allowed to even be *eligible* under the new era of #OscarsSoWoke.
Some Antifa terrorists in Portland tried to burn some police to death. But their aim was as bad as their ideology and they set one of their fellow travelers on fire instead.
Now we wait: will the rest of the Mostly Peaceful Protestors turn in the Molotov cocktail chucking ᛗᚩᛏᚻᛖᚱᚠᚢᚳkᛖᚱ who tried to kill cops? Surely several of them must know the identity of the attempted murder(s). Failure to turn them in implies that they are protecting them, which makes them accessories and allies. Perhaps the thing to do is to arrest *everyone* and sort through them. Take a few months to sort the bad from the truly awful.
Because the rioters will come to *you.* There’s no escaping them.
Black Lives Matter activists raid Rochester restaurants and trash them. This is what social justice looks like. pic.twitter.com/uBDVvV5pL7
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 5, 2020
Black Lives Matter rioters try to break into apartment buildings. pic.twitter.com/xcEb6fns9F
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 5, 2020
And in this video you can see that the rioters are not only marching in *front* of private homes, they’re climbing *on* to private homes:
And it turns out – entirely unsurprisingly – that the Portland shooting of a right winger by a left winger was a result of the left winger stalking and ambushing the right winger with the apparent *purpose* of murdering him:
Commies: continuing to demonstrate that a hundred years on, they’re still the very worst people on the planet.
A good explanation of the events of the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” protests and violence, where big-government collectivists fought big-government collectivists and the press achieved new heights in outright lying:
This person is apparently more than just some random whackjob; she’s been published by many a “mainstream” source, such as “Time” and “The Atlantic.” So… huzzah.
Violence is the only way, of course
No votes. No marching. No spots on cable news. No high fashion magazine cover stories. No hashtags. No panels.
None of that is going to bring about the liberation Black folks deserve.
— FJ The REAL Racist (@FeministaJones) August 27, 2020
She wants violence that jeopardize children’s lives.
Huh.
Seems to me there are two ways of looking at this:
1: She’s a racist nutbag who thinks that a race war is a good idea. Both from a moral or ethical standpoint, and from the standpoint of a small minority launching a war of genocide against a better-armed majority that she already believes is out to kill her and her people.
2: She’s a cynical grifter, saying crazy evil stuff for the clicks.
In an important sense it doesn’t matter which she is. Because she alone could hardly make much of a dent if she decided to launch a one-woman race war… but even if she doesn’t believe her own BS, she could certainly convince a lot of weak-minded fools to do what she’s suggesting.
In case the unlikely happens and Twitter actually enacts their “advocacy of violence is bad” rules against her, here’s a screenshot:
I honestly don’t know if this is silly or useful. Still… kinda cool:
In short, the amendment, put forward by former Navy SEAL Rep. Dan Crenshaw, would use Naval ranks rather than Air Force ranks. This may have been spurred on by an op-ed written by William Shatner.
Beyond changing names – Colonels would become Captains, for example, I’m not sure what *practical* difference there would be. There would doubtless be a change in the *feel* of the thing I suppose. And of course if Biden wins – especially if the Dems gain in the House and Senate as well – the whole Space Force will stand a good chance of vanishing like the Apollo Application Program, the Space Exploration initiative, the Nova booster and all the rest.
This is an informative and interesting read… an interview with a left winger who advocates *for* looting, including the looting of small businesses. Including the trashing and destruction of small grocery stores in food deserts. because the author is not only evil, she’s a fricken’ *moron.* She believes that looting is just a fair way to redistribute stuff that those people deserve, and that every time they destroy a business, the business will simply restock for the next time.
And the reason that the world is organized that way, obviously, is for the profit of the people who own the stores and the factories. So you get to the heart of that property relation, and demonstrate that without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free.
Riiiiiiiiiight.
The author has all the very latest, most leftie-approved notions. Looting is ok, because the word “loot” was appropriated by white people from brown people. Looting is ok, because it destroys even the basic *idea* of owning property, because “property” is white supremacy.
Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police. It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected. And also it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that’s a part of it that doesn’t really get talked about—that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.
Cthulhu nods approvingly.
But looters and rioters don’t attack private homes. They don’t attack community centers. In Minneapolis, there was a small independent bookstore that was untouched. All the blocks around it were basically looted or even leveled, burned down. And that store just remained untouched through weeks of rioting.
ᚠᚢᚳk ᚣᚩᚢ ᚪᛋᛋᚻᚩᛚᛖ.
I do wonder about whether a business that gets looted after this can sue *her* for damages. I wonder about suing NPR and her publisher for giving her a platform.
More information has come out regarding Kyle Rittenhouse and the people he went up against. The information is interesting… and not exactly shocking. The following Twitter thread is by a journalist at the New York Times who did actual objective journalism (shocking, I know!). When Rittenhouse shot the second and third people, killing one and wounding the other, it was clear he was acting in self defense. But the *first* guy he shot was under unclear circumstances. But investigating the available evidence seem to show that he wasn’t the first shooter. When he was initially chased into the car dealership *someone* *else* started shooting. It appears that that first fatal shot was again in self defense.
In the hours before the shooting incident, @KristanTHarris, @RichieMcGinniss and @ElijahSchaffer all interviewed Rittenhouse, who said he was protecting a local vehicle dealership together with several other armed men. He also offers medical assistance to protesters.
— Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) August 27, 2020
Rittenhouse is around that area in most of the footage we reviewed. About 15 minutes before the first shooting, police drive past Rittenhouse, and thank the group he’s with. “We appreciate you guys, we really do,” they broadcast through the speakers of their armored vehicles.
— Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) August 27, 2020
Rittenhouse eventually leaves the dealership (https://t.co/udrONTtQEY) and is barred by the police from returning, as seen @Ruptly footage, six minutes before the shooting: https://t.co/bxzrk75jk8. pic.twitter.com/AredrTnc9Z
— Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) August 27, 2020
At 23:19, Rittenhouse is seen in this YouTube livestream. He's being chased into a parking lot. While he is being pursued, an unknown gunman fires the first shot into the air. pic.twitter.com/BSD8rd6ARN
— Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) August 27, 2020
The muzzle flash of the first shot by the unknown gunman and the smoke rising from the handgun can be seen in this video capturing the first shooting from a different angle. pic.twitter.com/ddRjsgiMN7
— Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) August 27, 2020
The initial shot and Rittenhouse’s four subsequent discharges of his AR-15-style weapon are followed by three more shots in the parking lot — we don’t know who fired them. Rittenhouse seems to make a phone call and then flees the scene. pic.twitter.com/ddRjsgiMN7
— Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) August 27, 2020
It’s interesting to examine the three people that Rittenhouse shot. Fortunately, Andy Ngo is another journalist who is doing actual journalism:
The 3 shot (2 killed) in #Kenosha, Wisc. at the BLM riot have been identified.
Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, was the first one killed. Video allegedly shows him chasing teen shooter & throwing something at him. Rosenbaum was a registered sex offender for a sex crime involving a minor. pic.twitter.com/up1VgDyrgZ
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 27, 2020
Feel free to wonder if you should feel bad when a minor shoots a convicted pedophile.
The third who was shot (& survived) is Gaige Grosskreutz, 26. He's a member of the People’s Revolution Movement. He was filmed chasing after the teen w/a pistol. He was shot at close-range in the upper arm. He has a criminal record that includes being intoxicated & armed w/a gun. pic.twitter.com/U9Q3R7pcPH
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 27, 2020
Hardly surprising that these “mostly peaceful protestors” had violent backstories. And for those who question the propriety of a 17-year-old carrying a gun, you have to question whether someone with a criminal record involving a firearm should have been carrying a gun while claiming to be a medic.