Defund the police? Your city first; "Do you lefties really understand what that means?"*

When 'Defund the Police' Is Too Radical For Bernie Sanders  "To say the ‘Defund Police’ movement is radical is an understatement—especially when even a proud socialist isn’t on board with the idea.  
. . . "Some were skeptical whether Sanders truly disagreed with the movement or whether he publicly opposed it to help Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who said Monday he did not support defunding the police." . . . 

Reform, defunding, abolition: Activists push plans to overhaul police departments
. . . "Congressional Democrats rolled out a long-shot reform plan on Monday. The Justice in Policing Act would include national use-of-force standards for police officers (including banning chokeholds), a countrywide registry of police misconduct, the creation of independent bodies to investigate such misconduct and a reversal of the militarization of police forces around the nation.
"It also includes a partial rollback of qualified immunity, which shields law enforcement officials from being held personally liable for actions undertaken in the line of duty.
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared to try to get ahead of claims that the legislation wasn’t enough, saying it was “transformative” and “not incremental.”
“ 'This is a first step,” Pelosi said. “There is more to come.' ” . . .

Andrew Thomas blogs at Dark Angel Politics

‘Defund the police’ creating deep rift between two key Dem constituencies, Hispanics and blacks . . . "The problem with ad hoc armed groups is that the Constitution’s protections mean nothing to them, and even if well-intentioned, self-interest and greed inevitably supplant idealism as the motivating force, absent powerful external constraints.

"And now, as police have proved themselves incapable of protecting the entire public in the face of insurrection, in Chicago, Hispanic gangs are stepping up. Fuzzy Slippers of Legal Insurrection writes:  . . ."

*Defund the Police? That Would Mean...  . . . "Another thing you might think of, wokies, is that if the police aren’t cracking heads in a shocking display of police brutality then the various gangs of helpless-victim minorities will be delighted to take up the slack.

"I am sure that all you educated wokies are familiar with the North African St. Augustine, who wrote 1,600 years ago that the only difference between a criminal gang and a government was the “addition of impunity." . . .

Kamala (pronounced "comma-la") Harris, calling for $150 million LAPD defunding, also used LAPD as her private security detail

She falsified a confession transcript of a defendant and then, when she was caught, defended it.  She's been caught making phony charges of racism about her Berkeley upbringing, as if Berkeley in the 1970s were a den of Klansmen.  She has an army of fake Twitter followers in an obvious bid to make herself look more influential than she really is.  Lately, she put out a deceptively edited video to smear [Supreme Court nominee Brett] Kavanaugh.

Tom Stiglich

Sense And Nonsense On The Police [Updated]  "Democrats are demanding that police forces be abolished (or “defunded”) even though one would be crazy to think that a world without law enforcement would be desirable. Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender, on CNN, couldn’t answer a simple question: if there are no police, what do you do if someone is breaking into your house?  Interview video below

CAMEROTA: "What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into. Who do I call?"
BENDER: "Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors. And I know — and myself, too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege."

. . .
"That’s the nonsense. The sense comes from Republican Senate candidate Jason Lewis, this time on Fox News:o the sense and the nonsense, we can add the breathtakingly hypocritical: Nury Martinez, the President of the Los Angeles City Council and (of course) a Democrat, is leading an effort to cut $150 million from the LAPD’s budget. Only–oops–it turns out that Ms. Martinez has had “24/7 security beginning April 4 at [her] home, almost always staffed by two officers.” Provided, of course, by the Los Angeles Police Department, at a cost to taxpayers of an estimated $100,000." . . .

. . . UPDATE: Journalist Lara Logan responds to Lisa Bender’s moronic comment about “privilege” with a dose of reality (Emphasis mine), TD:

Lara Logan

✔@laralogan

I remember when I was being gang-raped & beaten by a mob in Egypt, would have been great to have a police force to call then. Would that have been my white privilege talking? I’ve stood against racism all my life, don’t have a racist bone in my body. My heart breaks... https://twitter.com/eddiezipperer/status/1269951088964370432 …

Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men

. . . "A group of at least 200 men beat her, pinched her and tore at her clothes in a 40-minute attack that only ended when a group of women came to her aid." . . .

Tell me again: why did Democrats choose AOC?

Sorry; I meant to say "CONGRESSWOMAN AOC". Forgive me, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,

Candace Owens Shuts Down AOC’s Attack On Kayleigh McEnany: “You are stupid, incomprehensibly stupid

. . . "Politico’s Jake Sherman tagged AOC in a tweet that said McEnany said “from the podium: ‘Biden adviser Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.’”
"AOC was not happy and snapped back without having watched the full press conference and accused McEnany of racism for not calling her Congresswoman.
"AOC then got all arrogant and embarrassed herself saying she would “look forward to her apology.”
" '@PressSec wouldn’t be the first person to mistake a women of color for having a lower position or title than she does, but Kayleigh – in case you haven’t picked up a newspaper in two years, I’m a Congresswoman,” AOC tweeted.
“ 'The @PressSec comment is steeped in a long, hurtful, & horrendous history of stripping women of color of titles and diminishing them to “the help.”” AOC continued.
“ 'Perhaps she isn’t aware that what she did is mired in racist history. If that is the case, I look forward to her apology tomorrow.”

"Enter Candace Owens:

This is incomprehensibly stupid. Referring to someone as an advisor is not a form of racism. Jared Kushner, who is infinitely brighter and more accomplished than you will ever be, is an advisor. You can also “advise” while you are in congress. You did it for Bernie, imbecile. . . .

Then Owens gives the knife a twist:

Candace Owens

✔@RealCandaceO

You are stupid. Not because you are a woman of color, but because you are stupid.

 AOC Says For The Pillaging To Stop You Must Give Up Your Property & [she] Issues A Whole List Of Demands  ... ' AOC threatened that if these demands are not met things are going to get a whole lot worse. She also said that if you don’t agree with the demands you are involved in “social oppression.”
"Her statement comes after another night of chaos from the George Flynn riots, Police casualties are increasing business owners trying to protect what’s left of their business after the pandemic are being beaten and having their livelihoods burned to the ground. Now this communists – AOC – is telling us that if we don’t give up our property and give everyone health care it’s about to get worse.
"Well, we don’t negotiate with terrorists and President Trump has declared Antifa a terrorist organization." . . .

Woke Chaos and Naked Power

. . . Shut up. Believe. Repeat. The chaos of the moment isn't a bug; it's a feature. And the more confused we are, the less we can possibly hold together, despite the fact that nearly all Americans agree on the most important issues." . . .

Ben Shapiro  . . . "Instead, the country seems to be falling apart. That's because of the utterly chaotic political and media response to the Floyd tragedy: a response that demands agreement but, most of all, requires compliance. You must kneel.
"You must kneel because you cannot understand. You simply cannot. If you have to ask for a definition of systemic privilege, we are told, it's because your white privilege has blinded you to reality. If you point out that not all inequality is inequity, we are told, it is because your latent racism is leeching into your worldview. If you defend America's history, philosophy and culture -- or, God forbid, her flag -- you must apologize. And, if Drew Brees is any indicator, your wife must also apologize, and your second cousin once removed.
"You may not understand what is being demanded of you. You may see the wave of conflicting messages emanating from the press and wonder just what you're supposed to do. But the chaos is the point. You are supposed to be confused. Confusion is a political weapon. Clarity is a shield. If our media and political class can prevent clarity, they can prevent unity; if they can obscure, they can demand acquiescence." . . .
. . . "Thus, we hear that the rioting and looting were exaggerated by the media, or that they were largely the product of white antifa members. But we also hear that rioting and looting are the justified outgrowth of centuries of black rage. You cannot, therefore, oppose rioting and looting too strenuously, lest you be labeled a racist." . . .

Loot us, beat us! We're only pond scum.

Suspect in Murder of California Cop Made Pro-Antifa, Anti-Police Posts on Facebook

Breitbart

"The suspect in the murder of a sheriff’s deputy in California last weekend posted several comments on Facebook critical of police and their responses to Black Lives Matter protests, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

"As the Associated Press noted last week, “Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, 38, was shot and killed in Ben Lomond, an unincorporated area near Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart said. A second deputy was injured, and a third officer from the California Highway Patrol was shot in his hand, Hart said.”

"The suspect is U.S. Air Force Sgt. Steven Carrillo, who was allegedly caught on surveillance video with a weapon during the encounter.

"The Chronicle added Monday that while investigators have not yet concluded that Carillo had an anti-police motive, he posted several times on Facebook in defense of Antifa and against police actions in Black Lives Matter protests:" . . .

When Don Lemon Said Kamala Harris Wasn’t African American But she does support BLM; those who chant to murder police.
Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness

The tweet — which some suspect is from a bot targeting black voters — read: “Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican. I’m so sick of people robbing American Blacks (like myself) of our history. It’s disgusting. Now using it for debate time at #DemDebate2? These are my people not her people. Freaking disgusting.”

 Kamala Harris’ Father Says Their Ancestors Owned Slaves  

. . . Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) is the descendant of an Irishman who owned a slave plantation in Jamaica, according to her father’s lengthy ancestral summary of his side of the family.Donald Harris, a Stanford University economics professor, revealed in 2018 that his grandmother was a descendant of Hamilton Brown, the namesake of Brown’s Town in northern Jamaica." . . .

As President Donald Trump has indicated, liability issues will need to be addressed before any economic reopening gets very far.

What If You Go Back to the Office and Get Covid-19?
"Any plan for reopening is going to have to resolve some sticky liability issues."  

In the absence of clarity on this question, many risk-averse institutions will simply wait, as their lawyers will be reluctant to give them clearance to reopen.Yet the path forward is tricky. The coronavirus relief act passed by Congress last month waives or limits liability for volunteer health-care providers, as well as those providing “pandemic countermeasures.” But how do businesses and other institutions fit into this picture?

 Reopen and get sued? Some small business owners fear exposure to liability issues upon reopening their doors

. . . "The problem for business owners is that they don’t have to lose a lawsuit for it to be crippling — or even catastrophic. It can cost tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to defend oneself against a lawsuit that is too flimsy to win yet still strong enough to survive a motion to dismiss without a trial. 

“ 'If you get past the motion to dismiss, then you have discovery and a jury trial and the lawyer bills really start piling up,” said Michael Krauss, a George Mason law professor specializing in tort law and legal ethics. “Some plaintiff lawyers exploit that with what they call nuisance suits intended just to get a settlement. In those cases, the settlement will be cheaper than paying a lawyer to successfully defend the suit.”

"In the past month alone, all sorts of COVID-19-related lawsuits have already popped up. Workers suing employers. Inmates suing the Corrections Department. Passengers suing cruise lines. Businesses suing insurance companies. Heck, even U.S. states suing China."

George W. Bush Spox Says NYT Article Claiming He Won’t Be Voting For Trump ‘Is Completely Made Up’

Daily Caller

"Former President George W. Bush’s spokesman vehemently denied an article from the New York Times that alleged he would not be voting for President Donald Trump in 2020.

"The NYT reported Saturday that a slew of high-profile Republicans do not plan on supporting Trump’s reelection. Included in that list was Bush, and the NYT cited “people familiar with their thinking.”

“ 'This is completely made up,” Bush’s spokesman Freddy Ford said in an email according to the Texas Tribune. “He is retired from presidential politics and has not indicated how he will vote.” (RELATED: Bush Office Thanks Trump For Support Amid State Funeral)" . . .

Other Republicans who reportedly won’t be voting for Trump this year include Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, Arizona Sen. John McCain’s widow Cindy McCain, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, the NYT reported.

Medical Journal Retracts Study Claiming Hydroxychloroquine Is Dangerous

Daily Caller

" 'A widely read study claiming the use of the antimalarial hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus leads to an increased risk of death has been retracted, the study’s publisher said Thursday. 

"The Lancet, the medical journal that published the original study in late May, said in a statement that they “can no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources,” and “due to this unfortunate development, the authors request that the paper be retracted.” 

“We all entered this collaboration to contribute in good faith and at a time of great need during the COVID-19 pandemic,” they said. “We deeply apologise to you, the editors, and the journal readership for any embarrassment or inconvenience that this may have caused.” . . .

I'd say the left's legal and political system has dominated the police

Townhall

The Left's Coming War on Cops  

"Newly painted in huge yellow letters on 16th Street, just north of the White House, is the slogan: "Defund the Police."
"That new message sits beside the "Black Lives Matter" slogan, also in huge letters, painted there at the direction of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.
"Still, the messages are less ominous than the chants of protesters in New York after the takedown that resulted in the death of Eric Garner.
"Protesters then chanted of the NYPD: "What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now!' " . . .

Liberal oppression; America's Kristallnacht (Updated)

Despite recent events, we will not rise in revolt.  We will not act as a catalyst for additional violence.  Instead, we will vote.  We will use the finely honed system that the Founders bequeathed to us to relegate the extremists to the dustbin of history...once gain. James D. Best*

Our society under the harsh thumb of millennial oppression

Take a step back in time to the Holocaust. The night of broken glass was a time when many of the Jews saw the destruction of homes and businesses. Glass littered the streets as windows were broken. This was also a night when many men, women and children were beaten to death.  Night Of Broken Glass

UPDATE: The above post would have got me fired: NPR fires weatherman for comparing Seattle riots to Germany in 1938 on his personal blog

America is too good for Democrats*  "For most of this century, Democrats have tried to start a civil war — a war between themselves and anyone who disagrees with their agenda.
. . . "The primary Democrat weapons are harassment, bullying, and intimidation.  Democrats have nurtured the cancel culture, run conservatives off social media, made higher education an exclusive domain for their viewpoints, ripped up Republican yard signs, threatened canvassers, and fired guns at local Republican offices.  They even shot Republicans at a softball practice.  Some of this violence is of the lone wolf variety, but much of it is highly organized." . . .

Cornell students demand Chemistry Prof. David Collum be fired for tweeting that Buffalo incident was not police brutality
"Campus cancel culture seeks to fire someone with an unpopular view, claiming his presence makes students feel unsafe and runs against a diverse and inclusive campus."
. . . "David Collum is a distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University, and former Chair of the department. He self-identifies as libertarian, making him one of a small percentage of openly non-liberal professors on a large campus dominated by far-left social justice dogma.

"Collum also is a sought-after speaker on finance, and the Snowflake Generation, which seems prophetic in light of what’s going on in his life now."  . . .

NY Times Opinion Editor Resigns After Internal Fury Over Op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton  . . ."This resignation is so absurd that I really don’t know what they are thinking at the former gold standard of print journalism.  The lunatics are running the asylum . . . right into the “woke” ground." . . .

82-Year-Old Massachusetts Veteran Assaulted for Holding Trump Sign

IT BEGINS: Rioters Burned Down Minneapolis Manufacturer. Now They’re Relocating, Taking Jobs With Them

. . . The owner of a manufacturing company in Minneapolis that was burned to the ground during last week’s violent riots has announced that he is relocating his company, taking dozens of jobs out of the city, due to the failure of the city’s Democrat leaders to protect businesses.  . . .

. . . “The city’s first survey of property damage shows that nearly 1,000 commercial properties in Minneapolis were damaged during the riots, including 52 businesses that were completely destroyed and 30 other locations that sustained severe damage,” The Star Tribune reported.  . . .

 Voting with their feet: Burned-out Minneapolis manufacturer pulls up stakes and vows to rebuild elsewhere

New York mayor calls for end of private property

A city gets the government it deserves

NY Post  "Dear fellow Democrats:
"To judge from the polls and personal experience, many of you are somewhere between lukewarm and ice cold toward Mayor Bill de Blasio. You love that crime keeps falling and that murders are headed for a record low, but worry that the growing disorder on the streets smells like trouble is coming.
"You have never seen so many vagrants, and so many of them looking deranged and dangerous. Why didn’t he tackle the problem in the beginning, instead of denying the obvious — that the numbers were exploding?
"You also don’t like it that the subways are a mess, traffic is pretty much congested everywhere all the time and bicycle riders are treated as privileged characters even as they routinely flaunt safety laws.
"You pay the nation’s highest taxes, but it’s never enough. The cost of living here is out of control, despite what looks and feels like diminished public services.
"Streets are filthy, roads are rutted, yet every time you turn around, City Hall is focused on race, gender and identity politics, as if that’s what working people care about most. Is the mayor really going to take down the Christopher Columbus statue in — of all places — Columbus Circle?
"What would they call it — de Blasio Circle? Al Sharpton Circle?" . . .

The Campus Riot Reaches The Newsroom

The Times bent over backwards to disavow the Cotton op-ed, attaching a shameful disclaimer to the online version, and cowardly blaming its appearance on a young editor who just happens to have worked once for the Weekly Standard (so you can expect he’s toast). Steven Hayward

Power Line  "A while back New York magazine columnist Andrew Sullivan wrote “We All Live on Campus Now,” noting that progressive campus craziness has burst out and now heavily infects big business and the media:

When elite universities shift their entire worldview away from liberal education as we have long known it toward the imperatives of an identity-based “social justice” movement, the broader culture is in danger of drifting away from liberal democracy as well. If elites believe that the core truth of our society is a system of interlocking and oppressive power structures based around immutable characteristics like race or sex or sexual orientation, then sooner rather than later, this will be reflected in our culture at large. What matters most of all in these colleges — your membership in a group that is embedded in a hierarchy of oppression — will soon enough be what matters in the society as a whole.

"Sullivan’s piece has apparently re-emerged and has angered the younger staff at New York. His column this week was canceled.

"But that’s nothing compared to the Philadelphia Inquirer, which has cashiered its editor Stan Wischnowski for the sin of approving a headline reading “Buildings Matter, Too.” "Groveling didn’t work:" . . .