Links Between George Soros and 'Defund the Police' Movement Emerge

Neon Nettle

"Since the death of George Floyd last month, a far-left push to "defund the police" has been sweeping across America in the form of protests and violent riots.
"Floyd was killed in the custody of Minneapolis Police on May 25, with all four officers involved in his death arrested and charged with his murder.
"The image of white cop Derek Chauvin kneeling on black man Floyd's neck during the arrest has spurred nationwide racial tensions and triggered widespread protests, riots, looting, and anti-police rhetoric.
"Now it has emerged that leftist billionaire George Soros is linked to the "defund the police" movement that has dominated the debate.
"An anti-deportation group affiliated with Soros’ Open Society Foundations is one of the groups behind the movement calling defund or abolish the police, law courts, and even close prisons.
"In fact, the Soros-affiliated group has been involved in the “defund the police” movement as far back as early 2016 — way before the death of Mr. Floyd brought it to national attention." . . .

Democrats Are Burning Down Our House

Royal Diadem

"The cauldron of Democratic rule is boiling, and it was inevitable that the wastelands and cesspools of inner city Democratic-led cities would boil over into the race riots we are witnessing following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
"Hastening the complete fall of what has become pockets of third-world populations in corrupt cities is the nongovernmental agencies funding and organizing the violent anti-American groups that have been allowed to metastasize like cancer while hiding behind their nonprofit status.
"In Obama Is Still Commander and Chief, I detailed how, with the assistance of long-time aides Valerie Jarrett and Eric Schultz, Obama remains Commander and Chief of the disturbing Antifa groups we see that are behind the burning and looting of American cities. The same groups that three years ago were violently disrupting town halls and burning and rioting at conservative events.
"And it was also Obama who was instrumental in authorizing his own Department of Justice to funnel billions of dollars into a slush fund to form and back these same liberal activist groups that are now playing out before our very eyes. The very same slush fund that former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to shut down.
"Long before Trump ever set foot in the White House, Obama had laid the groundwork for the deep state, adding layers of organizations that would be staffed with former congressional staffers and bankrolled through the Justice Department and George Soros groups." . . .

What happened to the attendance at Saturday's Trump rally?

Was Trump Tulsa turnout punked by alliance of AOC and Trump-hating RINOs?
"A major story to emerge from President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla, on Saturday evening was the unexpectedly low turnout at the event. The rally was an extremely high-profile kickoff of the POTUS’s 2020 re-election effort after 3½ months of being kept off the campaign trail due to the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. Rather than happenstance, it appears that the disappointing attendance was the result of a conspiracy of Trump haters – both radical left and RINO right – to suppress the turnout." . . .

. . . "According to AOC, however:

Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign w/ fake ticket reservations & tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID Shout out to Zoomers. Y’all make me so proud.

. . . "With both AOC, representing the radical left (her tweet complimenting “teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign w/ fake ticket reservations”) and Schmidt, a Deep State RINO “conservative,” claiming credit for these goings-on, this may be a rare case of hard left and RINO “right” coming together to try to sabotage a campaign event by President Trump."

Giddy AOC and Never Trumpers brag Tulsa rally was sabotaged by teens, many using China-owned social media . . . "Dubbed “Zoomers” (a nickname for kids born in the late 1990s and early 2000s), these children allegedly gobbled up free Trump rally tickets so as to trick the president’s campaign into believing more people would attend than actually would.
"The dishonest trick seemingly worked." Steve Schmidt Tweeted:   . . .

. . . "The irony is that neither these “Zoomers” nor their adult enablers had said or done a thing when looters, rioters and murderers had ravaged cities across America earlier this month. Talk about some Democrat-styled values in a nutshell …

500,000+ People Watch Trump’s Tulsa Rally on YouTube

According to the Daily Caller, turnout was lower than expected. Trump rallies typically feature large overflow crowds that congregate outside the arena.

. . . "However, this rally always looked to me like a high risk, low reward proposition. The reward is turning out to be lower than expected.
"Let’s hope the downside — infections and deaths — doesn’t materialize. It would be tragic if people were to die because of this rally, and Trump’s reelection campaign can ill afford that.
"JOHN adds: Apparently the empty seats were the result of an organized campaign by Democrats to reserve tickets without any intention of showing up. Trump undoubtedly could have filled the arena with actual fans, and the campaign will need to guard against similar fraud in connection with future events." . . .

Parscale blamed the media’s negative reporting before the rally for the small crowds, criticizing them for stoking coronavirus fears and reports of possible protests and riots.

FNC’s Wallace: Trump Team Looks ‘Silly’ to Deny the Reality of Tulsa Rally Crowd Size  . . . "Wallace said, “We’re showing pictures here, and it shows big empty areas. Frankly, it makes you guys look silly when you deny the reality of what happened.' ” . . .

Persecution is now cool!

Behind The Black  "We are in a time of oppression. Make no mistake. If you publicly express an opinion that the left does not like, it is now considered perfectly reasonable among our smart set to destroy your business, dox your family, threaten your children, and have your very existence cancelled.
"It is happening repeatedly now every moment of every day in communities across America. Dare to speak out against the accepted leftist mantras of the moment and you will be crushed.
"Consider for example the orthodox Jewish community in New York. That city’s leftist Democratic mayor, Bill De Blasio, has forbidden them to gather at funerals, has shut down their schools, and has now locked nearby playgrounds so that Jewish children cannot play safely, all in the name of supposedly saving them from the Wuhan flu.
"At the exact same moment however that same leftist Democratic mayor had no objection to a gathering of tens of thousands in packed street demonstrations in favor of “Black Trans Lives Matters,” a gay racist group that wants to impose its sexual and racist agenda on everyone. For some reason, De Blasio has decided that the Wuhan flu is no threat to that political movement.
"Only Jews can get COVID-19, and must be protected from it, even if that protection is against their will.
"The Orthodox Jews in New York have been fighting back. They have repeatedly cut the locks that De Blasio’s police thugs have put on the parks, only to have De Blasio order the park gates welded shut.
"Now they have gone to court to force this clear double standard to cease." . . .  Full article
Hat tip to Clarice Feldman

A Hispanic vendor in Tulsa uses Alinsky tactics against a BLM supporter

Andrea Widburg  "One of the things conservatives notice whenever leftists flare up is that, subject to a few notable exceptions (Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Dan Crenshaw), our conservative politicians are cowardly. They never call out the leftists; instead, they simply try to soothe leftists' destructiveness while accepting their premises.

"Thankfully, politicians are a minority amongst conservatives. Most conservatives are regular folks who live and breathe their principles – as is the case with a Hispanic vendor at the Tulsa rally who got harassed by a couple of white Black Lives Matter protesters. Instead of backing down, the vendor went full, and beautiful, Alinsky on the whole BLM premise." . . . . . .

That’s a foolish question because the vendor has already told him how real reparations should work. Chin-mask guy is white and he’s admitted his white guilt, so he, personally, should dig into his pocket.
"With that foolish question, chin-mask guy just gave the game away. If he genuinely believed that he, merely by virtue of being white, was personally responsible for oppression, he wouldn’t just hand over his cash, he’d pull a Mother Theresa and give all of his worldly goods to minorities.
"But chin-mask guy doesn’t feel that at all. He feels that you, the taxpayer; you, the recent immigrant; you, the person whose ancestors fought and died to end slavery; you, the black conservative, should pool your wealth and give it to his virtue-signaling cause.
"A smart friend of mine said, rightly, that we need to start calling leftists on their shtick and ridiculing them. We need to go full Alinsky on them, and Mr. Vendor played Rules 4 through 6 perfectly. I know that I enjoyed watching Mr. Vendor force chin-mask guy to answer for his own book of rules and then ridiculed him for his inability to do so."

Occupiers in Seattle’s autonomous zone prevent police from responding to fatal shooting

Whatfinger News  . . . "Seattle police have released body cam footage of officers trying to respond to a fatal shooting inside the CHAZ/CHOP autonomous zone early Saturday morning. In addition to officers’ body worn camera footage, other open-source videos have been compiled by Seattle police as the homicide investigation continues. “Officers attempted to locate a shooting victim but were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers safe access to the victims,” a police statement read. The video confirms the statement as police tell the crowd that they are “only trying to get to the victim” but are met with violence and profanity. A 19-year-old male has died from his injuries. The other shooting victim—also a male—is still in the hospital, suffering from life-threatening injuries. The victims were rushed to hospital before the police could make it to the scene. Seattle police say, “Officers responded to Harborview and were informed that one of the victims, a 19-year-old male, had died from injuries. The other victim, also a male, unknown age, remains in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.” Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan likened the armed occupation to a “block party,” and when asked how long she thought the area could look the way it does she responded by saying, “We could have a summer of love.” There have been numerous thefts, assaults and other crimes since Durkan’s “summer of love” comment."

Craigslist Ad Sought People Infected with COVID To Attend Trump Rally?

If this is a Trump supporter looking to make the other side look bad, that’s even worse. One would hope no one would be so stupid as to do something like that, but someone was either dull or evil enough to post this ad in the first place, so that can’t be excluded.

WJ  "Strange (and sometimes fake) Craigslist ads regarding President Donald Trump’s rallies are nothing particularly new.

When they encourage people with COVID-19 to show up at a rally and spread the disease, however, that’s when things have turned very toxic.
. . . 
“Please assemble outside the BOK convention center on Saturday night wearing all black or if arriving in a group of 4, please dress in the following manner:

One dressed in all whiteOne dressed in all blackOne dressed in coverallsOne barefoot or wearing flip flops.This will make it easy to identify you.

“Singers, or people with a bad cough preferred.”

Mike Yoder
@Yoder_Esqq
BREAKING: Craigslist ad seeking people infected with #COVID19 to attend Trump rally in Tulsa, OK.

RT—this is biological warfare.

. . . "Trump’s rally has been controversial in the mainstream media due to the possibility of COVID-19 transmission, something that’s interesting coming from a media that has collectively covered one of the largest clusters of mass protests since the 1960s with barely a mention of contagion." . . .

Trump and Barr Fooled Them All

It seems the play among some Democrat governors and mayors was to refuse to call in the National Guard while also making their police departments stand down and give the rioters “space to destroy,” which would cause the situation to become so bad that Trump would be forced to act.

Epoch Times

"President Donald Trump faced a seemingly insurmountable problem. Again.
"After having gone through a fake impeachment, the CCP virus pandemic—which was coupled with a never-before-attempted economic shutdown—the Trump administration was suddenly faced with an escalating series of simultaneous riots in cities across the nation.
"Peaceful protests across the country following the death in police custody of a black man named George Floyd in Minneapolis quickly turned into a series of violent nationwide riots.
"It turned out much of this rioting seen across America was orchestrated by anarchist groups that are loosely referred to by the name “Antifa.”
"Trump and Attorney General William Barr on May 31 announced that the U.S. government would be designating Antifa as a terrorist group and that all federal law enforcement agencies were now coordinating their efforts through the 56 FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces to “identify criminal organizers and instigators.”
"While the Democrats and the media anticipated getting the optics they so desperately craved—of Trump sending in soldiers with bayonets fixed, charging at the “peaceful protesters”—what they got instead was the sudden appearance of a bunch of federal tactical units from the FBI, the Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Prisons, and other agencies, in full gear, many with no rifles, and certainly no bayonets. 
"As the entire nation is about to belatedly discover, federal agents don’t need the permission of governors or mayors before they can enter a state or a city to enforce federal laws and arrest those who are breaking them. 
"And it happens to be a federal crime to conduct terror attacks against American communities." . . .
. . . "But Trump is simply too smart for these people. He sent in the feds, who spent the past week quietly taking down Antifa behind the scenes. And now it’s mostly over."

Federalist Co-Founder Torches NYC Council Speaker's Push to Remove Thomas Jefferson Statue with a History Lesson

Matt Vespa

 So, when do we get to firebomb NYC? These are the Left’s rules—arbitrary, historically illiterate, and peddled by morons. 

"Well, you knew this was coming. No, it already has given that some clowns in Portland destroyed a statue to Thomas Jefferson, one of our Founding Fathers. He also happens to be one of our greatest presidents, but that’s beside the point, I guess. He’s the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Founding Father, and former president, and we’re not going to have statues of this man. These left-wingers are funny. Truly—they’re funny except we can no longer afford to laugh at their games. This cancerous horde, the most insane being the ‘woke’ acolytes who have now graduated college, are extending the reach of this unruly mob. They want to destroy our history, re-writing it through some paradigm of political correctness. It’s an Americanized version of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. It’s scary. And the George Floyd riots have led to yet another wave of this statue nonsense, which doesn’t stop with Confederate monuments. You all know this". 
. . .  
"Is this done to placate the left-wing mob or the incessant and insufferable whining of the American liberal that is never happy with America, always looking for ways to trash it, and amped to change anything, no matter how insignificant, and make it seem like it’s the issue of our day? It’s a statue. Quit sniffing glue. And again, with no grasp of history, the city’s left-wing loons have taken this position not knowing that New York City was named after a slave trader, one of the biggest of all-time actually, James, the Duke of York. Long story short, he was king for a bit but was deposed in the Glorious Revolution as his Catholic roots freaked out Protestant England. His religion really didn’t cause much of an issue until his son, James Francis Edward, was born. Sorry, the point is that he and his brother, Charles II, were the key persons in the Royal African Company which shipped over 200,000 slaved to the Americas. Charles II captured New Amsterdam in 1664 and renamed it, New York, after James. So, the Big Apple is named after a horrible slave trader. Maybe it’s time to tear it all down. The Federalist’s Sean Davis dropped this history lesson. So, when do we get to firebomb NYC? These are the Left’s rules—arbitrary, historically illiterate, and peddled by morons." 

America's treasured history on the hands of this millennial generatiom

Only after it is too late will they cry, "What have we done?"

Statue of Francis Scott Key Toppled in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
"Protesters toppled the statue of Francis Scott Key in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on Friday, June 19, as the trend to remove historical figures who engaged in racist practices in their lifetimes continues across the country. Statues for Key and Junipero Serra, a Catholic missionary, were dismantled by protesters in the park on Friday evening, according to reports. This video captures the monument to Key, best known for writing the lyrics for the American national anthem The Star Spangled Banner and reported to have owned slaves, being pulled down by protesters. Calls have been made for other statues of Serra in California to be removed, on the grounds that he “committed atrocities against Native Americans in the 18th century,” according to local media. Credit: Cam Urban via Storyful".
Listen to the sounds of youthful cheering. I recall hearing those sounds at Beto O'Rourke rallies. TD

CNN 'should be ashamed' for putting Greta Thunberg on a COVID panel

No problem; it won't affect CNN's credibility one bit. Not even in Australia.

Sky News.com/ Australia   "CNN's credibility has been shaken by its decision to include climate change activist Greta Thunberg on coronavirus Town Hall special, according to Sky News contributor Gemma Tognini. CNN has received considerable backlash for its decision to include the 17-year-old activist in its panel, which will air on Thursday, US time. Ms Tognini told Sky News it's "shameful" to include the teenager on the panel. Shame on CNN, shame on the producer of that program, for thinking it's appropriate to have a 17-year-old climate activist on a panel about this global pandemic," she said."

Leaving Richmond Because of Racism

Charlemagne Institute

Who in this crowd is there of their own convictions and not someone else's?

"For most of his life, my friend John, 60, has lived near Richmond, Virginia. Much of that time his home was about 75 yards from the city limits, but for the last few years he has rented an apartment in Henrico County, still less than two miles from the city. He attended a private school in Richmond, used its doctors and hospitals, frequented its restaurants and bars, and attended various public events there.

"And now he’s done.
“ 'I’ve given money to Richmond all my life,” he said to me over the phone. “And I’m finished.' ” . . .
. . . 
"For years, John has watched his beloved city fall apart under its local and state government. “Richmond is broke,” he says. “The streets and public schools are a disgrace. There are entire neighborhoods where I can’t walk safely in broad daylight.”
"What capped off John’s disgust with the place of his birth were the recent riots and the ongoing destruction of statues on Monument Avenue.
“ 'I’m not paying money to anyone who abuses what I think America should be.”
"John is also carrying his one-man rebellion beyond Virginia’s capitol city. He vows to see no more movies starring actors who have bad-mouthed the country, he’s canceling his T-Mobile account because of its campaign against Fox’s Tucker Carlson, and he gave up watching the basketball games played by the University of Virginia, his alma mater, when its 2019 championship team refused an invitation to the White House.
“ 'I don’t encourage people to visit Richmond anymore,” John says. “Some people come for the beer and breweries, but you can get beer anywhere. Some come to tour the Civil War museums and Monument Avenue, but setting foot in those places now qualifies you as a racist.' ” . . .