Updated: Any excuse to virtue - signal is a good excuse for Lady Antebellum, but.....

I hasten to mention this is from Legal Insurrection:

Lady Antebellum Changing Name to Lady A: ‘Deeply Sorry’ for Pain the Name Caused Others
"Antebellum means pre-war, but most commonly associated with the time before the Civil War."

"Lady Antebellum changed their name to Lady A since people use “antebellum” to describe the era in the South before the Civil War.

"Antebellum also refers to the Southern house style during that period.

"The trio – Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood, and Hillary Scott – chose the name Lady Antebellum because they took their first band pictures at that kind of house.

"But after the death of George Floyd, the band did some soul-searching.

We’ve watched and listened more than ever these last few weeks, and our hearts have been stirred with conviction, our eyes opened wide to the injustices, inequality and biases black women and men have always faced and continue to face everyday [sic]. Now, blindspots we didn’t even know existed have been revealed.

After much personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest conversations with some of our closes black friends and colleagues, we have decided to drop the word “Antebellum” from our name and move on as Lady A, the nickname our fans gave us almost from the start.

. . .
Lady Antebellum Is Now ‘Lady A.’ But So Is a Blues Singer Who’s Used the Name for 20 Years
“ 'This is my life. They’re using the name because of a Black Lives Matter incident that, for them, is just a moment in time,” says the original Lady A, a 61-year-old black singer who’s released multiple records under the name"

They failed to see that due diligence was done and that was a dumb mistake, but, good grief, here comes the old "white privilege" thing again.

President Trump Announces Four Step Program to Empower Good Police and Embolden Communities

Tony Branco

Townhall  "Speaking from Dallas Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump announced a new four step plan to embolden communities and empower good policing. 

"Americans are good and virtuous people. We have to work together to confront bigotry and prejudice wherever they appear but we will make no progress and heal no wounds by falsely labeling tens-of-millions of decent Americans as racists or bigots. We have to get everybody together. We have to be on the same path," Trump said. 
"We have do many different elements of strength in this country. We have such potential in this country...we are the greatest country in the world," he continued. "I'll be announcing four steps to build safety and opportunity and dignity."
"The steps: 

1) Pursuing economic development in minority communities beyond established opportunity zones and increasing access to capital 2) Confronting healthcare disparities, chronic conditions and reforming medical institutions  that aren't up to standard 3) Finalizing an executive order that encourages police departments nationwide to meet professional standards on use of force and de-escelation -- the order also encourages social workers and police to work together on difficult problems 4) Calling on Congress to enact school choice. . . Full article...

The ‘Autonomous Zone’ In Seattle Is A Harbinger Of America’s Future If Politicians Don’t Start Working Together

So our nation bows before a generation whose leaders want to govern where we eat, what we enjoy in entertainment, the history we remember, and the political opinions we are allowed to hold? We fought our Revolution over less oppression than this. TD

Rich Terrell

CNN Reporter Tells Anderson Cooper How Peaceful the Autonomous Zone Is, Just As An Angry Person Tries To Stop The Report   "Absolutely hilarious. You can see them struggling to say it’s peaceful as the report is interrupted and the report is afraid he’s in danger."

"Incredible CNN segment. Reporter says how peaceful it is in CHAZ. One of the protesters crashes the shot and tries to organize people to interrupt the report. Reporter then says “no doubt some of these protesters are armed” (contradicting CNN's report):

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/11/media/seattle-antifa-protest-trump/index.html …"

Unless our leaders put aside their differences and egos, we’ll continue to have unrest, increasing unemployment and the destruction of small businesses. They need to talk and take action before it's too late. Unfortunately, the middle class and poor will be impacted the most by the lack of leadership from our elected officials.

The ‘Autonomous Zone’ In Seattle Is A Harbinger Of America’s Future If Politicians Don’t Start Working Together   . . . "Protesters took over a part of the city, calling it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). It was created to serve as a community, commune, self-sustaining, police-free zone. The protesters demanded that the police be abolished and the mayor fired. The governor of Washington state, Jay Inslee, said in a press conference that he’s unaware of what's happening. 

"Assistant Police Chief of the Criminal Investigations Bureau Deanna Nollette said, “We have heard anecdotally reports of citizens and businesses being asked to pay a fee to operate within this area.” Nolette added, “There is no legal right for those arms to be used to intimidate community members. This is the crime of extortion."

"The New York Times had a differing perspective reporting, “What has emerged is an experiment in life without the police—part street festival, part commune. Hundreds have gathered to hear speeches, poetry and music. On Tuesday night, dozens of people sat in the middle of an intersection to watch 13th, the Ava DuVernay film about the criminal justice system’s impact on African-Americans. On Wednesday, children made chalk drawings in the middle of the street.' ” . . .

Surely we have better minds in government than AOC, Pelosi, Inslee, Hirono and "The Squad". TD

Has America ever had a more crazed mayor than Seattle’s Jenny Durkan?

ELECTIONS  MATTER!

Andrea Widburg  "It’s no longer big news that Black Lives Matter, Antifa, anarchists, sex offenders, and criminal opportunists seized a six-block area in Seattle’s chi-chi Capitol Hill district. The same people who protested against Trump’s walls built walls around their Utopian paradise, the gun haters armed themselves, and the ones decrying identification at elections demand identification for anyone seeking to enter the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (or CHAZ). Most mayors would be horrified, but not Jenny Durkan. She likes it.  (Emphasis gleefully added by TD)

"According to Wikipedia, the Capitol Hill district is a densely populated area known for its counterculture and LGBTQ communities. It’s in sync with the 87% of Seattle’s population that supported Hillary in 2016. It’s in this neighborhood that BLM has brought forth a new nation, conceived in hysteria and violence, and dedicated to the proposition that all black people are created better than everyone else (because only their lives matter).

"Tucker Carlson does a fine job describing what life is like in the new nation of CHAZ::

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan Covers For Anarchists, Calls Their Seizure Of Streets A ‘Block Party’

Last night, Antifa-affiliated activists created a six-block barricade in Capitol Hill and declared themselves "autonomous" from the City of Seattle.

This is what happens when you "defund the police": armed paramilitaries seize control and impose their anti-democratic agenda. pic.twitter.com/uDplyDgY9q

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) June 9, 2020

Remember Personal identification required to get into this walled nation.

Seattle Mayor's Infuriating Characterization of Autonomous Zone

This ‘patriotic’ act has resulted in anarchists reportedly hurling objects at police, who are forbidden from the area, food shortages, sexual assault, allegations of extortion, and the rise of a warlord of sorts. 

California Public School Teacher Admits to Teaching Her Students That Trump is Fascist.

Politics  "Let me explain something about social engineering. You are a smart person right? There is this thing it is called projecting what you are doing. This is what she is doing.

A Public school teacher from California is bragging on social media that she is teaching her students by teaching them that President Trump is a “fascist”. often comparing the Trump administration to the death cult leader Jim Jones in lesson plans, and trashes her Republican Students on social m...

"The Gateway Pundit has identified the teacher to be Lora Yorch, a government and economics teacher at California High School, which is part of the Whittier Union High Schools. Lora Yorch Multiple twitter accounts reveal a deep obsession with hating the President, admitting that she has told her students not to enlist in the military until President Trump is out of office because they will “die to line his pockets.” Yorch said." . . .

Indications of how the left would rule America

You may dislike President Trump, but he is all that stands between us and these people. TD

Gov. Inslee Calls Anarchists Who Seized Part of Seattle And Chased Cops Out ‘Largely Peaceful,’ He And Mayor Attack Trump Instead   Remember Inslee? He wanted the purple-haired, America-hating, flag-dragging soccer player for his secretary of state...to represent the United States before the world.

. . . "The police abandoned the precinct after they said there was a credible threat of it being burnt down by the “protesters.” What the heck? So you abandon it and leave the area?

"The area has been vandalized with all kinds of graffiti, reports are that businesses are allegedly being shaken down for money and there also reports of a “police force” of a man some have called a “warlord” who has allegedly attacked people for doing things of which he doesn’t approve." . . .  Defund the police and this is what you get.

Tucker Takes Apart Demands of the Seattle Autonomous Zone and the Fecklessness of the Dem Response

. . . "As we have previously reported, one of the anarchists reported the homeless had taken all their food and tweeted asking that if people could contribute, asking for vegan and soy products. There were also reports of a “warlord” acting as “police” who allegedly beat up at least one person for spraying graffiti.  Sounds totally peaceful, right?" . . .

Lara Logan tries to have a serious conversation with these millennials with their faces covered  "Lara Logan is harassed by Antifa protesters as she tries to take a deeper look at their inner workings and why the far-left militant group has received relatively favorable coverage from the media."
These spoiled children may have no clue they are in the presence of a courageous journalist who was raped by scores of Egyptian young men while covering the 2011 "Arab Spring" in Tahrir Square, Cairo. I cannot imagine what respect she can possibly have for them apart from fear of violence, which those who cover their faces are capable of, their juvenile behavior notwithstanding.
These would soon be our leaders in Congress and throughout a Democrat administration, such as the FBI and DOJ, if that must be said. The Tunnel Dweller

Much more daily at the Tunnel Wall

Trump Held a Panel on Race Relations and One Voice in Particular Stole the Show

RedState

. . . " 'It was a room full of powerful and influential men but it was the lone female voice in the room that really stood out.

"Sonnie Johnson hosts Sirius XM’s Sonnie’s Corner and has been a popular conservative voice for nearly a decade. She is known for her laser focus on how “conservatism equally applied” can empower the black community toward prosperity. Johnson has a flare for hip hop culture and how it is so closely connected to pure capitalism. She often uses the prose of rap artists across the genre to make the point that black Americans are innately attuned to capitalism and freedom and thus, that is the language Republicans should be using to make their case for votes.

. . . "In a bold address aimed directly at President Trump, Johnson laid out the current issue with decades of Democrat policy in traditionally black neighborhoods.

Think about the black community that has been under Democratic rule, progressive rule for 60 years. How many rules, how many regulations, how many different forms of taxation are on the books in those areas that are preventing our communities from actually being able to see sustainable growth that we can keep and get ourselves out of this …generational poverty?

"She moved on to explain that a detriment to improving education for black youth is that many black parents aren’t able to participate in the local legislative process and don’t have positions on local school boards. They can’t effect change for themselves because many have been locked out of the process of governing.

"Johnson said that criminal justice reform was only one of many important parts of the puzzle, and that harmful Democrat policies have gone unchallenged in black communities for decades.

And they are not going to change until you — we have a Republican Party that is willing to go into these communities and actually offer a choice to these people about how we can do things differently. Because the way it is structured now, the only choice that we get is “left” or either “further left,” and we’re not getting the opportunity to actually vote on what we look at as “conservatism,” equally applied.

The very basic economic principles that we, on the right, say are significant in our success and seeing the success in our country — those are not being offered at the local level in black communities.

So, basically, we’re asking to grow out of concrete because we don’t have the fertile soil in these areas to make everything flourish and bloom the way my generation would like to see it.

"She went on to say that many people don’t recognize that the demographics of the black community are changing in regards to marriage and family and people in her generation don’t get enough credit for that. True to form, Johnson brought up Trump’s friendships with popular hip hop artists over the years, saying that she believed they connected on a very capitalistic level and that’s why Trump has such an affinity for them. The radio host and writer ended with an inspiring challenge for the President to focus on the common language of capitalism while thinking about how to empower the black community." . . .Full article

Tucker Carlson under fire. We must support him!

Tucker Carlson's Fox News show loses Disney and other advertisers over George Floyd killing and Black Lives Matter POV  . . . "Both Disney and T-Mobile have cut ties with the primetime Tucker Carlson Tonight over the host’s polarizing point of view on the Black Lives Matter movement and the desire for justice and equality in America many of its members advocate. Along with Papa Johns and SmileDirectClub, the media giant and the telecommunications brand faced a backlash in recent days for their association with Carlson and his belief that the well-attended protests were “Black Lives Matter riots.' ” . . .

Tucker Carlson Gave the Most Important, Riveting Monologue of His Career and It’s a Must Watch  "Tucker Carlson went live last night after a weekend of violent rioting and looting across many of America’s major cities. He took no prisoners in what was easily the most important monologue of his career. It’s a moment in media history that will still be talked about a decade from now. That’s how powerful it was, whether you agree with every conclusion or not.
"Over the course of 30 minutes, Carlson laid out the case that our leaders have failed to protect us in this time of chaos. He played the clips of men and women being beaten, the videos of buildings burning, and the recordings of mobs stealing. He showed the complete lack of respect for human life and property. He named names of those enabling it and let no one off the hook. He laid out the core issues tearing the country apart and the nonsensical responses to them.
"While I rarely expect people to watch clips I post all the way through, this is one you should really make time for." . . .

You can find the full transcript via The Federalist.

Sharpton and Kaepernick; America turned upside down

Rich Terrell

From USA Today: It's already too late for the NFL to make up for blackballing Colin Kaepernick

From CNN, of course: Colin Kaepernick starts legal defense fund for protesters arrested in Minneapolis

‘Hang Up The Kente’: Black Writers, Performers Slam Congressional Democrats For Wearing Traditional Textile

Forbes  "Congressional Democrats on Monday unveiled a sweeping police reform bill created in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing⁠—but, before doing so, took a knee in memory of Floyd and other black people who died during police interactions while wearing kente cloth, a traditional patterned textile from Ghana—eliciting backlash from black writers and performers." . . .
. . . Other related links in this post from Forbes:

FURTHER READING

• Democrats Take A Knee For Floyd, Unveil Police Overhaul Legislation (Forbes)
• America’s ‘Two Deadly Viruses’–Racism And Covid-19—Go Viral Among Outraged Twitter Users (Forbes)
• Recognizing And Dismantling Your Anti-Blackness (Forbes)
• Smiling Online, Fuming Offline: The Plight Of Black Professionals In Corporate America (Forbes)

'Toons by Tony Branco, Stilton's Place,

Trump stands fast, will not rename Army posts named for Confederate generals; The president is not a fan of rewriting history.

The left's drive to dominate American society and culture.

Lifezette  "Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy may not be in office too much longer. Why? Because, contrary to the subsequently expressed wishes of his boss-President Trump, in a Stalinist move designed to appeal to a PC audience, McCarthy expressed interest in changing the name of Army posts (other services have “bases”, the Army has “posts”) from their present names (these specific posts are named after Confederate generals) to other less martial labels.
"But the president is adamant in his stance for history and U.S. military tradition. In tweets on Wednesday afternoon, Trump called the posts “Hallowed Grounds” that helped train troops to win two world wars. His administration “will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations…These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom. Therefore, my Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations. Our history as the Greatest Nation in the World will not be tampered with. Respect our Military!' ” . . .

Remember our military contains thousands of millennial-aged people who feel thus:

At certain ranks the rarified air is filled less with military respect for unit cohesion and more with an eye to the latest press release or rioter demand. As such, they continued, “We feel the frustration and anger. We need to work harder to earn the trust of mothers and fathers who hesitate to hand their sons and daughters into our care.” “Care”? Funny, they called it something else when I was in the Army.

82nd Airborne at Sainte-Mere-Eglise, June 5-6, 1944
I'd say about this time Fort Bragg would have been a cherished memory to these paratroopers. TD

RefuseFa uses ANTIFA-like tactics, Organizer Claims they Secured Money from Soros, Met with Steyer

Expext violence from them on President Trump's June 14th birthday  This fascist regime poses a catastrophic danger to the whole world, and the whole world will take heart if we rise to another level of determined resistance. We have begun, but should we fail to see it through, this and every struggle for justice will be set back. If we succeed – and we can succeed – we can begin to force the boots of violent oppressors off the necks of our brothers and sisters. Let us change the course of history, not for ourselves alone but for all humanity.

I expect well-known people to be there from Hollywood, CNN, MSNBC ("They are peaceful, throwing objects but not in a hostile way"!), Nancy Pelosi and her morbidly obese yokefellow, Michael Moore along with pandering Democrat politicians glowering at the cameras in the finest Schumerglower style. Maybe even a beloved purple-haired soccer player will bring an American flag to stand on. The implication of it all to be that this was caused by Trump and his supporters and oppression of us all is the way to end it.
Have you seen it on TV shows, dramas, and comedies? Have you seen signs of courage from any late-night "comedy" hosts, even something so bold as a "we do not condone..."?
Then the reeducation of coming generations in true fashion with the erasure of American history and silencing of dissenting speech by destroying careers. You see it all happening now; what will it be like with government support and their access to information from federal investigative agencies? 
We now see a fear to resist from the right in Congress and we all must be their inspiration. At eighty years of age, I have seen how far we have descended from the honorable fight for civil rights to all this. 
One hundred years ago, millennials in Russia revolted and gave that nation seven decades of oppression, gulags, and poverty which has even manifested itself in U.S. politicians/
Please tell me when, as a "sixties millennial", would we have followed the likes of Al Sharpton, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and a host of leftists demagogues? Perhaps; it is what millennials do, isn't it? The Tunnel Dweller


Project Veritas  "Today we released undercover footage of a RefuseFascism national organizer detailing who is funding their militant operation and shares their objectives."

"Here are some of the highlights from today’s video:
• Head of the Atlanta Chapter of RefuseFascism, Tee Stern: “We actually did get a grant from them (Soros) around - we started a thing called a national day of appreciation for abortion providers.”
• National Organizer for RefuseFascism, Andy Zee: “…I believe he (Steyer) has political ambitions, and he might not want to be directly connected.”
• National Organizer for RefuseFascism, Andy Zee: “…Steyer might not want to be connected” “…Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, this at a certain point dominates the national news…it’s a very disruptive force.”
• National Organizer for RefuseFascism, Andy Zee: “…you’ll see, there’s people even in the Hillary campaign worked with RefuseFascism because they see the danger.”

By TV celebrity "entertainment". we mean this.

Hey Celebrities, Americans Aren't Happy With You Bailing Out the Rioters Burning Black Businesses