Forget trusting the "intelligence of the American voter"

Rich Terrell, a sign of intelligent life in California

Tucker Carlson: Never Been A Dumber Group Gathered In One Place Than Anti-Statue Protesters  (Video). . "A lot the stupidest people, by the way, are quote “well educated.” They have all the worthless credentials we’re told we should want for our children. They went to Duke. They work at some nonprofit, or hold a good-paying job in digital marketing at Nike. They’re supposedly impressive. But they’re not. They’re incredibly dumb. They fall for any lie. Like small children, they’re afraid of everything. In California, an Hispanic utilities worker made the mistake of cracking his knuckles at a red light. The geniuses thought he was flashing a white supremacist gang sign, so they fired him. In Oakland, Mayor Libby Schaaf, who says she went to college and law school, mistook exercise equipment in a park for Ku Klux Klan nooses. Schaaf then held a press conference to hyperventilate about “hate crimes.” It was textbook hysteria. But also hysterically funny." . . .

This is not the French Revolution, it is the acting out of spoiled, ignorant and ungrateful thugs

It is tragically clear that the childish “leaders” of CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle, of the anti-police movement, the monument-destroying thugs and the rest of the idle young who lack an ounce of gratitude for being born in the greatest nation ever founded are characterized by one thing above all:  ignorance.  This includes the idiot mayors and governors who support and defend these dissidents who take their cities hostage as they prostrate themselves before them.   

Mob Torches Home, Throws Bricks At Officers During Search For Missing Teens: ‘Y’all Are Terrorists’  . . . "The report noted that a man named Pat Bills said his grandmother lived in the home that was torched. Bills excoriated the protesters for suggesting they were “empowered,” stating they are “terrorizing,” not “empowering.' ” . . .

Beware: The Woke Mob Is Targeting You Next, Small-Town America  . . . "The woke mob has targeted local elected officials for the sin of not being sufficiently woke. Its goal appears to be to intimidate conservatives from getting involved at any level of government. It also appears that the mob efforts are expanding faster than anyone realizes." . . .

Defeating Satan is racist?  . . . "The imagery on the award’s badge portrays St Michael trampling on Satan, but campaigners say the image is reminiscent of the killing of George Floyd by white police officers in the U.S. that led to worldwide protests." . . .

Oglala Sioux president calls for Mount Rushmore to be 'removed but not blown up'

BET founder denounces tearing down statues: 'Black people laugh at white people who do this'  . . . "Johnson, America’s first black billionaire, continued: “Look, the people who are basically tearing down statues, trying to make a statement are basically borderline anarchists, the way I look at it. They really have no agenda other than the idea we're going to topple a statue. It's not going to give a kid whose parents can't afford college money to go to college. It's not going to close the labor gap between what white workers are paid and what black workers are paid. And it's not going to take people off welfare or food stamps.”

"Johnson also mocked Hollywood celebrities who have collaborated in social media videos to apologize for racism on behalf of white people." . . . 

Remember these deeply emotional award-winning performances by Hollywood people that I'm sure came from deep in their innermost depths, deeply? 

. . ."White Americans seem to think that if they just do sort of emotionally or drastic things that black people are going to say, ‘Oh my God, white people love us because they took down a statue of Stonewall Jackson.’ Frankly, black people don’t give a damn.” . . .

The purge continues

'Days of Our Lives' star Melissa Reeves receives backlash for liking anti-Black Lives Matter posts online  She's toast. Hostage video pending,

Garage Door Pulls and Food Label Mascots - The End of Institutional Racism 
 . . . When a “noose” was discovered in the NASCAR garage of the sport’s lone black driver Bubba Wallace, the country was treated to a 72-hour dialogue on the racism within NASCAR, its fans, etc. A twelve-person team from the FBI investigated and concluded the noose was merely a rope pull from a garage door identical to rope pulls seen on multiple other garage doors in the complex. It had been in the garage for over a year, at least. " . . .

"Here's a new rule: whenever there's a story about a noose, it's probably a hoax."

Wallace should have started with this, rather than going on Don Lemon.

Lin-Manuel Miranda apologizes for 'Hamilton's delay in 'denouncing systemic racism' amid protests

Ben Garrison

Senate Democrats Block Debate on Police Reform Legislation, Pelosi Doubles Down on Appalling Smear

Guy Benson  "We know what Democrats profess.  Earlier this month, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi draped themselves in African Kente cloths -- apparently unaware that they were associated with the slave trade -- and knelt before the cameras for nine minutes.  Their goal, aside from the obvious political pandering, was to signal the urgency of passing police reform legislation in the wake of George Floyd's killing.  By that point, Schumer had been demanding for days that the Senate Republican majority put a bill on the floor as soon as possible, before July 4th.  Senate Republicans are now attempting to do precisely that, but are being blocked by...Chuck Schumer.  There is no bottom to Washington's bad faith, cynicism and dysfunction:" . . .
. . . "Sen. Tim Scott, a black Republican, took the GOP lead on the proposal, which was preemptively assailed as failing to 'meet the moment' by a leading Democratic vice presidential contender before it had even been produced for her review.  Within minutes of its unveiling, the second-ranked Senate Democrat called it a "token" effort, drawing an impassioned response from Scott.  And shortly after signaling that she thought each Congressional chamber should pass their own bill then hammer out a compromise in a conference committee, Pelosi turned to despicable slander:" . . . Video

Nancy Pelosi says with their police reform proposals, Senate Republicans are "trying to get away with murder, actually -- the murder of George Floyd."Hear it in this @CBSNewsRadio interview with my colleague @sfutterman

Dem Rep. Jayapal Echoes Pelosi, Says Republicans’ Police Reform Efforts Are Complicit in Murder   CNN video.

7 Statues the Left Really Should Want to Tear Down if They Don’t Want to Be Hypocrites

PJ Media  "The protests and riots we’ve witnessed the past few weeks have resulted in a number of historical statues being torn down. There doesn’t seem to be much of a standard for what statues are offensive. Statues of Christopher Columbus and Confederate generals have been defaced, destroyed and torn down, as have statues of abolitionists. A statue of Abraham Lincoln is actually being considered for removal in Boston, Massachusetts.
"The apparent lack of consistency with which these statues and memorials have been targeted has many asking “What’s next?” 
"But perhaps the better question is “Why not this?”
"These protestors think their efforts to tear down historical statues in the name of social justice is noble, but in reality, they reek of hypocrisy because of the statues that have so far avoided their path of destruction.
"Here are seven statues that the left ought to tear down if they don’t want to be hypocrites." . . .

1. Che Guevara’s statue in Central Park

"Sure, you’ve seen his likeness on t-shirts on the privileged youth of America, but did you know that there’s a statue of Che Guevara in Central Park? " . . .

2. Margaret Sanger’s bronze bust at the Smithsonian

"Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, might be the fairy godmother of the modern abortion movement, but her affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan, her support for the Nazis’ forced sterilization programs, and the racist motivations behind her abortion agenda should disqualify her from being revered by anybody. " . . .

3. Harvey Milk’s bust at San Francisco City Hall

Harvey Milk is a gay rights icon and one of the first openly gay elected officials in this country, but what the radical left doesn’t want you to know is that he was a sexual predator who liked to have sex with underage boys. " . . . And Barack Obama's Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus named a US navy ship after Milk  

4. The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in D.C.

Another man whose mythical status has concealed the grim details of his presidency is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His legacy somehow manages to remain unblemished in the eyes of the Democratic Party, despite his signing of Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the unconstitutional incarceration of Japanese, German, and Italian Americans into internment camps. The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial was dedicated by President Clinton in 1997, and features a bronze statue of FDR. It seems way past time to take down the statue and repurpose this memorial.

5. Barack Obama’s statue in Puerto Rico

"As celebrated as Barack Obama is by the left, Obama was a notorious race-baiting demagogue who relied on racial and class-based rhetoric to justify most of his actions, and whose presidency was horrible for minorities. 
"By the time his presidency was over, an overwhelming majority of Americans believed that race relations got worse after his election. Black Americans were hit hard by the recession that defined the early months of his first term, but were mostly left behind in the economic recovery that followed. In 2012, there were more young black Americans living in poverty than before his election. Yet, that same year, a statue was erected in Puerto Rico in his honor.

. . ."In fact, polls show voters believe Trump has done more good for black Americans than Obama did.
"Then of course there’s the fact that Obama’s presidency was plagued by over thirty scandals—many of which would have seen another president impeached. "

Tony Branco toon added by TD

6. J. William Fulbright’s statue at the University of Arkansas

"William Fulbright was a longtime U.S. senator whose name and likeness are practically synonymous with the University of Arkansas. A 7-foot tall statue on a huge granite base stands like a small tower at the university’s Old Main courtyard. Fulbright was a segregationist who signed the Southern Manifesto in opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. He participated in the southern Democrats’ filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.  What’s his statue still doing there? " 

7. Robert Byrd’s statue in the U.S. Capitol

"The late Democratic Senator from West Virginia was an “exalted cyclops” in the Ku Klux Klan, yet remains a celebrated figure in the Democratic Party. Even after he allegedly renounced the Klan, he, like Fulbright, filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and voted against the confirmations of African American Supreme Court justices Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas.
"Nancy Pelosi made a big thing out of removing the paintings of three Democrat Confederate House Speakers, but a bronze statue of Robert Byrd still stands at the U.S. Capitol for some reason. In addition to the statue, there are many buildings, roads, and bridges named after the former Klansman.

Project Veritas; Another Facebook Insider Details Political Censorship

Project Veritas  "More than 10 years ago, Project Veritas started as a dream to investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct in both public and private institutions to achieve a more ethical and transparent society." . . .

James O'Keefe  . . . "James O’Keefe founded Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action after he had pulled off some of the most consequential undercover journalism coups in a generation, so he could have an organization dedicated to reviving the craft of undercover journalism. These two organizations are non-profits dedicated to investigating corruption, dishonesty, waste and fraud in public institutions and the private sector." . . .

Insults to Black History

...Self-destructive behavior that has become acceptable, particularly that in predominantly black schools, is nothing less than a gross betrayal of a struggle, paid with blood, sweat and tears by previous generations, to make possible today's educational opportunities that are being routinely squandered. I guarantee that blacks who lived through that struggle and are no longer with us would not have believed such a betrayal possible.  ... WEW

Walter E. Williams  "Many whites are ashamed, saddened and feel guilty about our history of slavery, Jim Crow and gross racial discrimination. Many black people remain angry over the injustices of the past and what they see as injustices of the present. Both blacks and whites can benefit from a better appreciation of black history.
"Often overlooked or ignored is the fact that, as a group, black Americans have made the greatest gains, over some of the highest hurdles, and in a shorter span of time than any other racial group in history.
"For example, if one totaled up the earnings and spending of black Americans and considered us as a separate nation with our own gross domestic product, we would rank well within the top 20 richest nations. A black American, Gen. Colin Powell, once headed the world's mightiest military. Black Americans are among the world's most famous personalities, and a few black Americans are among the world's richest people such as investor Robert F. Smith, IT service provider David Steward, Oprah Winfrey, and basketball star Michael Jordan. Plus, there was a black U.S. president.*
"The significance of these achievements cannot be overstated. When the Civil War ended, neither a slave nor a slave owner would have believed such progress would be possible in less than a century and a half -- if ever. As such, it speaks to the intestinal fortitude of a people. Just as important, it speaks to the greatness of a nation in which such gains were possible. Nowhere else on earth could such progress been achieved except in the United States of America." . . .

*Whose bitter First Lady preached her message of resentment and anger on each campus she visited for a commencement address. Comments on this topic at the right sidebar of the Tunnel Wall. TD

Great Moments in Racism: The Dash Cam Tapes

Imani Perry

Ann Coulter  "If you were watching MSNBC last Sunday, you may have seen Imani Perry, professor of African-American studies at Princeton University, and wondered, as I did, Why do I know that name?
"Professor Perry’s delightfully original point was that we need to “think in serious contemplative ways about the depth of American inequality.”
"So perhaps we know her from her incisive commentary! I certainly haven’t heard anyone talk about American inequality. It really made me think.
"But then I suddenly realized it’s that Imani Perry! The one who nearly destroyed a policeman’s life by falsely accusing him of racism!
"Back in February 2016, Perry launched a series of tweets, alleging the following:
— She was “arrested in Princeton Township for a single parking ticket three years ago.”
— She was cuffed — FOR A PARKING TICKET — and not allowed to make a phone call so that someone would know where I was.”
— “I was afraid,” she wrote. “Many women who look like me have a much more frightening end to such arrests.”
"Oh my gosh, she could have been killed!
— She was “working to move from being shaken to renewing my commitment to the struggle against racism & carcerality.”
"Naturally, her story became instant international news. The president of Princeton leapt to her defense, firing off a letter to the chief of police, demanding an investigation. (I know Perry is a professor, but you’d think that, by now, more people would say, Let’s wait for the facts.)
"Perry attributed the universal acceptance of her story to her “small build” and her association with “elite universities” such as Princeton.
"Just a thought, but it might also be because she’s black." . . .

Dash cam audio released after professor charged with falsely claiming racial profiling during traffic stop

. . . "The Internal Affairs investigation reviewed that audio, and concluded the officer never asked Roychoudhuri if she spoke English and that he clearly explained to Roychoudhuri why she was pulled over, to the point that she offers an explanation as to why she made the improper turn." . . .

Helping this latest generation become what they now have become. TD

The left's war on police

The leftist war on America's police is intended to oust Trump  "One of the byproducts of anarchy is totalitarianism.  People cannot sustain living in a wholly destabilized society, and they will invariably seek a strong man to create order.  Order, after all, was Hitler's promise following the utter chaos of the 1920s.

"Democrats, with their simultaneous attacks against both Trump and civil order, are hoping they can herd people into voting for Biden, with the promise that a Biden presidency will bring peace.  And it will — a Roman peace, along the lines of Tacitus's famous statement that the Romans "ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire.  And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace."  To that end, the Democrats are busy ravaging, slaughtering, and seizing by false pretenses." . . .

Classic: Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton Suddenly Wants Law Enforcement to Protect Her From 'Peaceful Protestors'

This notion of doing away with law enforcement in its entirety is nonsense. We live in a society that is based on law and order. There are criminals who – shockingly – break the law because that is the very definition of a criminal. Police officers exist to make sure laws are maintained and those who are the victim of a crime have someone on their side. 

This could be your civil authority from now on:

Racism: the refuge of the unaware

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Blatant official racial discrimination: County orders white people to wear masks in public, exempts 'persons of color'

. . . The Constitution and basic concepts of justice are out the window, and we face a grim new normal in which "getting whitey" becomes acceptable behavior from governments.  . . .

Was Bubba Wallace just looking for corporate sponsors?   . . . "To appreciate what happened here, a short timeline is useful:" . . .

Proved to a Certainty – Is Bubba Wallace “Rope Noose” a Hoax or Misunderstanding? All Talladega Garage Doors Have Nooses – NASCAR Video Evidence…

Bubba Wallace Goes Full Kaepernick – Despite Evidence Doubles Down on False “Noose” Claim…  "Before NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace appeared on CNN with Don Lémon to discuss his now disproven racial “noose” targeting, he had a decision to make.  Wallace could accept the FBI/NASCAR finding and admit an honest mistake was made by an overly sensitive Richard Petty racing team; or he could make racism his new identity in NASCAR as Colin Kaepernick did with football in the NFL.  Bubba Wallace chose the latter." . . .

CNN's propaganda machine will help Wallace.

Antifa and BLM burn a mosque in Seattle  "Events took an unexpected turn yesterday evening when a large crowd of Antifa and BLM activists descended on the "Al Qabal" mosque in downtown Seattle and burnt it to the ground.
"The peaceful protesters were apparently provoked by certain passages in Islamic scripture that endorse slavery.
"A press release from the Grand Inquisitioner of the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" explains: . . ."

Self-righteous vandals; Mara Liasson's attempt to prettify history is ugly

Spectator USA

"Violent left-wing activists have taken to styling themselves as antifa, short for ‘anti-fascists’, though their street-fighting tactics resemble nothing so much as the Brownshirt thuggery practiced by fascists themselves. This did not stop NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson from likening these hooligans to the heroes of World War Two. On the anniversary of D-Day, June 6, while America’s cities still smoldered after days of riots and looting, Liasson took to Twitter to call the Normandy invasion the ‘biggest antifa rally in history’.

Liasson

"Dumb jokes are nothing new on Twitter. For many liberals today, however, it’s no laughing matter. They really do think that America is fascist, at least whenever a Republican is in the White House, and so petty vandalism is actually a heroic act of resistance. Knock the head off a statue of Columbus, smash the glass of every storefront on the street, and you’re defeating Adolf Hitler all over again. Such is the state of historical literacy and what passes for the moral imagination among many with comfortable perches in the national media. You would think that if they had a problem with the establishment, they should throw the first rock at a mirror. Spare the innocent shopkeepers who pay the price for antifa antics. Plenty of them are black or immigrants themselves, if that’s what matters to the worthies of NPR." . . .

Facebook moderators brag about deleting pro-Trump posts in Project Veritas sting

Washington Times  . . . "The Project Veritas video featured an interview with former content moderator Zach McElroy of Cognizant, a third-party firm used by Facebook to police the platform, who said that about three-quarters of the posts flagged for “civic harassment” tilted to the right.
“ 'I saw a stark contrast between Republican versus Democrats in that queue,” said Mr. McElroy. “I saw upwards of 75% to 80% of the posts in that queue were from Republican pages, politicians, journalists, and pages that supported the president or supported conservatives.”
"He said the content moderators, who lean heavily to the left, “are essentially in charge of what gets said and what gets stifled.”
“ 'And in speaking with a lot of them, I found that they are not at all shy to exercise their political will in deleting or leaving up content, whether or not they’re allowed to or whether or not they’ll get penalized for it, especially when they’ve got nothing to lose, that is to say, they’re getting laid off,” Mr. McElroy said." . . .

Also here, and here.

Appeals Court Orders Judge Emmet Sullivan to Dismiss Michael Flynn Criminal Prosecution

It took some searching to find a political cartoon sympathetic to General Flynn; cartoonists and the general press were almost universally on the side of Democrats.  See for yourself.  TD

Legal Insurrection   "The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ordered Judge Emmet Sullivan to grand the government’s motion to dismiss the criminal charges against Michael Flynn.
"The appeals court ruled after Sullivan appointed an “amicus” counsel to argue against the motion."

Background is available in these prior posts.

• Michael Flynn Asks Appeals Court to Order District Court to Grant DOJ Motion to Dismiss
• Judge considering holding Michael Flynn in criminal contempt for perjury in connection with guilty plea
• Judge in Michael Flynn case may allow ‘amicus’ briefs on whether to drop case – is there reason for freak out?
• DOJ Drops Case Against Michael Flynn After Considering ‘Newly Discovered and Undisclosed Information’
• Judge Emmet Sullivan to Appeals Ct in Flynn Case: It’s Premature To Order Me To Dismiss The Case

"You can read the Order here. Here are excerpts from the majority (2-1) decision:

The justifications the district court offers in support of further inquiry—for instance, that only the U.S. Attorney signed the motion, without any line prosecutors, and that the motion is longer than most Rule 48(a) motions—are insufficient to rebut the presumption of regularity to which the government is entitled….

A hearing may sometimes be appropriate before granting leave of court under Rule 48; however, a hearing cannot be used as an occasion to superintend the prosecution’s charging decisions, because “authority over criminal charging decisions resides fundamentally with the Executive, without the involvement of—and without oversight power in—the Judiciary.” Fokker Servs., 818 F.3d at 741. The district court’s orders appointing an amicus, see infra 8–10, and scheduling the proposed hearing therefore constitute clear legal error….

Full article here.

So, It Was Joe Biden Who Suggested Using Shoddy Logan Act Angle to Attack Michael Flynn?  . . . "Mr. Flynn was President Trump’s national security adviser who spoke with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in run-of-the-mill conversations that occurs whenever there’s a new administration about to take over. There was nothing irregular about the calls. The media obsessed about it. It was a nothingburger. The Obama administration knew about the calls. In January of 2017, days prior to the inauguration of Donald Trump, Obama and his top security officials met to discuss the game plan for protecting the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into Russian collusion. On Inauguration Day, Flynn’s predecessor, Susan Rice, sent an email to herself which appears to show that the January 5 meeting was one where top Obama officials planned to target and destroy Flynn. Obama’s goal was to protect this probe, with the rosiest of scenarios being that the incoming Trump administration nit find out about it. And it’s been revealed that notes from January 4, 2017, from Peter Strzok, the other disgraced FBI agent who reportedly signed off on this entire collusion fiasco, noted that Joe Biden was the one who brought up the Logan Act angle of this atrocity to American justice. Yeah, Joe Biden, Mr. ‘I didn’t know anything about Flynn,’ except for that part of mentioning how to weaponize simple phone calls against a man to fulfill a deranged liberal fantasy about the results of the 2016 election: . . .