The Fragility of the Woke; History’s ingredients of riot and revolution

The televised stereotype of the Antifa activist is a physically unimpressive but violent-talking revolutionary. He seems to strut in laid-back, blue-city Minneapolis but wisely avoids the suburbs and small towns of the nation’s red states. He spits at police when standing beside fellow agitators but would never do that when alone confronting an autoworker or welder. VDH

Victor Davis Hanson

"A TikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said “all lives matter.” In her melodrama, she tried to sound intimidating with her histrionics.

"She won a huge audience, as she intended. But her video also came to the attention of the company that was going to give her an internship later this summer, Deloitte, which decided it didn’t want to add an intern who threatened to kill strangers who said something she didn’t like." . . .

Video embedded by TD

"This wouldn’t have been much of a story. But then the narcissistic Harvard alum posted a very different video — one that showed her weeping in a near-fetal position.

"She fought back tears while complaining about how unfair the world had been to her. Her initial TikTok post had earned cruel pushback from the social-media jungle she had courted. Deloitte, she sobbed, was mean and hurtful. And she wanted the world to share her pain.

"The Harvard grad instantly became an unwitting poster girl for the current protest movement and the violence that has accompanied it. What turns off millions of Americans about the statue toppling, the looting, the threats, and the screaming in the face of police is the schizophrenic behavior of so many of the would-be revolutionaries.

"When police march against the Antifa crowd and their appendages in order to clear the streets, they often scream like preteens, objecting to mean officers who dare to cross them.

"When arrested, the trash talkers are usually terrified of being jailed or of having an arrest on their records.

"Federal authorities are currently searching thousands of videos to ferret out looters, arsonists, and assailants. Perpetrators who are caught are shocked that the evidence that they once posted online in triumphant braggadocio is now being used to charge them with felonies.

"What is going on?" . . .   Read more...

The woke but godless, the arrogant but ignorant, the violent but physically unimpressive, the degreed but poorly educated, the broke but acquisitive, the ambitious but stalled — these are history’s ingredients of riot and revolution.

A Nightmare Campaign of Outright Idiocy

No society can tolerate this for long. The arsonists will not burn down society; the society will awaken and banish the arsonists.

Conrad Black  "As we get into high summer, there must be a very large number of Americans now actively considering whether the country is going mad.
"The leading newspaper in the nation’s capital has accused the president of plumbing “new depths of depravity” in a perfectly unexceptionable and soaringly eloquent speech at Mount Rushmore last Friday. Praising the American revolutionary ideal that “all men are created equal” and its reaffirmation by Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War that brought about the abolition of slavery somehow made Donald Trump “dark” and “divisive.” The president deplored academic and national media self-hate and espoused the highest objectives identified and pursued by every admired American leader from Washington and Franklin to Martin Luther King and Ronald Reagan.
"As the violent crime rate skyrocketed in New York City 10 days ago, the City Council voted to reduce the police budget by $1 billion. Meanwhile, Chicago celebrated the July 4 weekend with 87 people injured and 17 killed by gunfire, including two children, but the city’s mayor rebuked the police chief when he suggested there is room for improvement in city governance.
"NeverTrumpers like Mitt Romney, who walked in the Black Lives Matter parade last month, express solidarity with the group even when it affirms that it does not accept that all lives matter and its New York leader, Hawk Newsome, announced on national television, “if this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right?”
"The Democratic presidential nominee is a waxwork dummy hiding in his basement. Joe Biden can scarcely utter a correct English sentence and has the haggard countenance of a fatigued nonagenarian. In his few television and internet appearances, the former vice president is ambiguous about defunding the police and continues to regard BLM as a valuable political ally fighting racial inequality, even though in the last month it has revealed itself proudly as a white-hating Marxist urban terrorist organization." . . .

Kicking out the Witch Doctors!

Ben Garrison
"Tanzania President John Magufuli, who holds a doctorate in chemistry, kicks the World Health Organization out of his country."

Faulty test kits?  

"In just a month, Tanzania went from having only 20 coronavirus cases recorded to 480 cases, an alarming increase which puts the country with the highest number of cases in East Africa. However, the country’s president John Magufuli is convinced the number may be exaggerated due to technical hiccups with the imported testing kits.
"Magufuli, who holds a doctorate in chemistry, said the testers had randomly obtained several non-human samples on animals and fruits which included a sheep, a goat and a pawpaw and the results came out positive. The samples were given human names and ages and were submitted to the country’s National Referral Laboratory to test for coronavirus without the lab technicians knowing the true identity of the samples." . . .

The 'Racist' Redskins Logo That Leftists Got Removed Actually Was Created by a Native American

The Washington football team shed its identity to please a loud few, and a tribe in Montana has lost a  contribution to modern culture.

The Federalist Papers  "The NFL team in Washington, D.C., previously known as the Redskins, will change its mascot to a more appropriate one, in step with the politically correct movement to banish apparent racism.
"The team also is banishing Native Americans, and their achievements, from public consciousness.
"So says Lance Wetzel, the son of the man who designed the team’s iconic Indian head logo. Lance recently said he is saddened to see the team retire his father’s accomplishment.

Walter “Blackie” Wetzel, a member of the Blackfeet tribe of Montana, designed the logo in 1971.
"Lance told WUSA-TV that the logo has always given his family and his people a sense of pride.
“ 'Everyone was pretty upset [about the change],” Lance told the outlet.
“ 'Everyone understood the name change; we were all on board with that,” he said. “Once they weren’t going to use the logo, it was hard. It takes away from the Native Americans. When I see that logo, I take pride in it. You look at the depiction of the Redskins’ logo and it’s of a true Native American.”
“ 'I always felt it was representing my people. That’s not gone.”
"Lance, like most Native Americans, said he was never offended by the logo, which is a depiction of former Blackfeet Chief John “Two Guns” White Calf, the same man whose likeness appears on the Buffalo Nickel.
"Now that White Calf has been canceled, Lance told WUSA it will make Native Americans less visible." . . .

'It takes away from the Native Americans': Son of Redskins logo designer denounces rebranding

Blackie Wetzel, a member of the National Congress of American Indians, was raised on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, according to WUSA9. The Redskins logo is a depiction of John "Two Guns" White Calf, a Blackfeet chief.

The media fails the American people again and again

The media are openly rooting for a surge in coronavirus cases, cheering for violence and racial division in our streets, praying for a slow economic recovery, and demanding that children stay home from school, because they are hoping it will hurt Trump at the polls. The veils have come off for the mainstream media. On November 3, the veils will also come off for the American voters. David Keltz

Recognize anybody in this 'toon?

The Veil Has Dropped from the Mainstream Media  "The last few months have represented a microcosm of just how destructive the mainstream media and their accomplices in the Democratic Party are. Their masks may cover their faces when they are seen in public, but their veils have been fully ripped off.  Make no mistake, the media are just as conniving, cynical, and nefarious as ever, but now they do not even pretend to care about journalistic standards of objectivity, integrity, professionalism, or the well-being of this country.  They have been playing the American people for suckers and underestimating our intelligence for years.  Now they truly believe we are blithering idiots, and just as naive as they always thought we were." . . .

Media bias and bullying go well beyond [Bari] Weiss  . . . "A supposed reporter asked Trump why white police were still killing blacks. Why didn’t she ever ask Obama that question?

"Trump should ask all the reporters why most journalists and other Democrats continually support Planned Parenthood, which was founded by a racist, which slaughters hundreds of thousands of black and brown babies each year at a much higher percentage than their percent of the population.
"Basically, almost all supposed journalists are essentially campaign workers for whichever Democrat is running. The facts haven't mattered to most supposed fact checkers for a long time. They are above all, campaign workers."

Kayleigh McEnany is so effective that the MSM is now lying by deceptively editing her comments  Watch the video It was not Kayleigh who called the rioters "a merry caravan".

Woke WOLVES and the COWARDLY Leaders of Liberal America    . . ."As [Bari] Weiss detailed in a widely read public resignation letter on Tuesday, she left her job after constant bullying by more left-wing colleagues (the vast majority) that included underhanded gossip, anti-Semitic innuendo and public attacks against her that would never have been tolerated had she been the one meting them out.
"She also described an atmosphere of pervasive ideological intimidation and conformity that finally made commissioning diverse viewpoints and writing and thinking freely — essential to opinion journalism — all but impossible.
"So Weiss left. But again, it wasn’t ultimately about her. The mob’s real targets are twofold.

First, the mob yearns to scare into submission everyone in a position of authority at the Times and any other liberal institution in America who might think it wise to hire someone like Bari Weiss — someone who draws outside the ideological lines and brings a fresh perspective.
"You can see how this works in the cowardice manifested by Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger. As Weiss noted in her letter, Sulzberger praised her in private, even as he simultaneously failed to defend her in public from the threats and slanders of her own colleagues, both in internal communications and on Twitter. Such conduct marks the journalistic scion forevermore as less a man than a mouse." .  .  . Full article here.

Police vs. morons

Black Portland Cop Slams Protesters In Oregon, There’s Fewer Minorities In The Protests Than The Police Line…  "Officer Jackson talks about being a black police officer working at the demonstrations in Portland, Oregon. "  Video

VIDEO: Chicago Officer To Protester Who Calls Him A Nazi “I’m A Latino You F**king Moron”

"This happened seconds later. Didn’t see the whole thing unfold, but looked like police were pushing people back onto the sidewalk and singled one person out. Another officer gets in a shouting match and gets aggressive, physical with others." Video Language advisory

Suspects Arrested in Shooting Death of Bronx Father Walking with Daughter

Image by Richard Terrell of Aftermath

Sickening. What emotional scars will this child carry for life. They deserve to live in a better area, but Democrats will put the shooters there as well.

Breitbart “ 'Davon Delks, 21, of the Bronx; Laquan Heyward, 25, of Staten Island; and Devon Vines of the Bronx face murder charges for the death of Anthony Robinson, 28, said police. All three suspects were reportedly gang members,” according to Fox 5.
"Police were investigating if the shooting was in retaliation of another shooting the night before, the report noted.
"Surveillance footage of the incident showed Robinson walking with his six-year-old daughter, according to Breitbart News." . . .

Sickening video

 . . ."Thirty-five people were shot last weekend in New York City, Breitbart News reported Tuesday.
“ 'The single fatality among the 35 victims was a one-year-old boy, shot while in a stroller Sunday night,” the article read, adding that the child was at a barbecue near Raymond Bush Playground when the incident occurred.
“ 'Three others were shot as well, and were transported to a hospital for treatment,” the report concluded." . . .

Joe Biden Campaign Hires Video Producer Who Recently Denigrated Cops, Called for Defunding the Police

Breitbart Politics

"Sara Pearl, a recently-hired video producer for Joe Biden’s White House campaign, called law enforcement officers worse than “pigs” and expressed support for the “defund the police” movement before she joined the campaign."  . . .

. . . "Pearl, who joined the Biden campaign on July 1, deleted her anti-police tweets after Fox News reached out to her for comment. Neither she nor the Biden campaign have responded to the news outlet. She previously worked on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) failed White House campaign.
"Pearl has also taken aim at President Donald Trump on Twitter, saying that comparing the president to a pig was an “insult to pigs!!!!”
"The Trump campaign continues to insist that Biden is weak on crime and unsupportive of police at a time when Democrat-controlled cities are experiencing violent unrest triggered by the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd.
"On Wednesday, the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) endorsed President Trump for president; the organization supported the Obama-Biden presidential ticket in 2008 and 2012." . . .

Nice bank you got here. Too bad if something happened to it...

Could it be for Al Sharpton's birthday? 

. . . "CEO Brian Moynihan said the initiative is a four-year effort and will focus on minority communities that have experienced great impact from the coronavirus pandemic and unrest over the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.
. . . "Bank of America said its initiative will address minority healthcare, jobs and training, support for small businesses and housing and will be coordinated by the institution's 90 market presidents." . . .

Bank of America pledges $1B to address racial, economic inequality

 


I keep reading that Bank of America is giving $1 billion to BLM, but can find no evidence of that. CEO says BOA is giving $1 billion to "address minority healthcare, jobs and training, support for small businesses and housing [etc]." https://t.co/styqQGXyEZ

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) July 17, 2020

 I visualize Obama delivering cash on a wooden pallet. TD

Who is ‘Titania McGrath’ and why do woke liberals hate *her* so much?

Doyle, whose book “Woke” will be released September in the United States, claimed to have created Titania as a way to troll feminist activists because of what he called their inability to take a joke.

The woke movement has created its own parody; too bad they are so destructive.

Legal Insurrection
"Tucker Carlson Interviews the Man Behind the Parody Twitter Celebrity"

"If you spend any time on Twitter, you have probably seen tweets by Titania McGrath, a young woman who is so ‘woke’ that she often comes across as a parody of progressives. It turns out that’s exactly what she is, and the person behind her is a man.

Titania is the brainchild of a comedian named Andrew Doyle." . . .

. . . 

“Part of the point of the character she is po-faced, very sort of privileged woman who still think she’s this oppressed, modern day feminist who believes in a nebulous thing called the patriarchy,” Doyle explained about his online persona.

“She never laughs and never has a sense of humor, one of the reasons I wanted to poke fun at the whole ‘woke’ movement is it can’t have a joke. Can’t handle a joke constantly looking to be offended by absolutely anything even when there is nothing to be offended about. Of course, the ‘woke police’ aren’t going to like this book. The fact that they don’t suggest I’m doing something right.”

Tatiana McGrath: The only way we can stop fascism is if the police are allowed to arrest people for what they say and think.

Mac45 leaves this cautionary comment: 

In order for parody to be effective, it has to be identifiable as a PARODY. In the Case of Titania, this is impossible, unless one already knows that the character is a parody. Unfortunately, it is impossible to parody today’s liberal/Progressives, because, no matter how outrageous the statement, it still sounds like it came from an actual liberal/Progressive. And that is really, really sad.

Should People in the NYT Glass House Throw Stones?

Should we celebrate Weiss for accepting what until recently stood as universals as she supports the power-obsessed ideologies that inevitably lead to the anti-freedom, cancel-culture bullying that she decries?

Will O'Toole of Otoons

The American Spectator  "Bari Weiss, a liberal hired by the New York Times strangely to bring balance to its left-wing opinion page in the wake of the paper’s misreading of the 2016 electorate, publicized her resignation this week.
"Thirty-something editor Weiss wrote 30-something publisher Arthur G. Sulzberger that “the lessons that ought to have followed the election — lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society — have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”
“ 'Everyone I knew was voting for Hillary Clinton,” she told podcaster Joe Rogan last year. She exudes identity politics but rationalizes this by claiming a distinction between “good identity politics” and “bad identity politics” (she goes for the former). She uses words like “cisgender” and “transphobic” (because everyone with their ear to the MAGA ground knows the “cisgender” and “transphobic” lingo on the lips of every red-hat wearer). She divulges, “I definitely consider myself a feminist.” Most telling of all, she suffers from the pseudointellectual tic of affixing the one-word question “Right?” to every declarative sentence as though it negates the authoritarianism of declarative sentences by Jedi Mind Tricking the listener into hearing democratic consensus when confronted with an individual opinion.Yet, hiring Weiss, an unabashed anti when it comes to Donald Trump, to offset the paper’s biases against that chunk of the population who voted for the president seems like a greater indictment against the Old Gray Lady’s slant than Weiss’s departure. A bisexual living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side who supports abortion, the repeal of the Second Amendment, a porous border, and so many other left-wing articles of faith strikes as a strange counterweight in that she sits in the scale’s cup that gravity already had pulled to the bottom." . . .

What About the Stalin Statue? The National D-Day Memorial Foundation still has some explaining to do.

If we insist - as I do - on keeping statues of American historical figures found objectional by some in this country, we must deal with the issue of displaying major participants in significant world events. Even those who were at least as evil as Adolph Hitler himself.

. . . "But who gets protested? Leftist mobs target Columbus, Washington, Saint Junipero Serra, even Ulysses S. Grant, the Union general who (ironically) defeated the Confederacy during the Civil War before going to battle against the KKK and fighting for the right of black Americans to vote. And yet the ideological mobsters haven’t had a murderous communist tyrant like Joe Stalin on their target list? Why is that?

The American Spectator  "As leftists target monuments to everyone from Christopher Columbus to George Washington, Francis Scott Key, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and even all of Mt. Rushmore, I was reminded of a memorial not on their radar. No, I’m not talking about the 16-foot bronzed statue of Lenin in Seattle, nor the memorials to their revered racial-eugenicist Margaret Sanger. I’m thinking of the bust of Joseph Stalin that emerged in Bedford, Virginia, in 2010.
"Do you remember that one? It remains on my mind, albeit not on the minds of progressives. First a history lesson, and then an update on the status of the statue:
"Stalin’s chiseled mug sat at no less than the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, where he was acknowledged as “General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.” Stalin there joined FDR, Harry Truman, and Winston Churchill, who, ironically, finds himself in the ideological crosshairs of today’s Left, the subject of vandalization.
"That acknowledgment to Stalin at the D-Day Memorial was no secret. I wrote about it 10 years ago, as did others. The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation had a website at one point (www.stalinstatue.com, now defunct), which featured a petition to remove the statue, with thousands of signatures from every state and dozens of countries, including some really upset folks from the former Soviet empire. Addressed to the National D-Day Memorial Foundation and President Barack Obama’s secretary of the interior, the petition demanded that the “true history of World War II must be protected from distortion and misinformation.”
"Among that misinformation: “neither Joseph Stalin nor Soviet forces played any part in the D-Day landing at Normandy.”
"Indeed, they did not. Even then, the Stalin bust represented a far graver distortion of historical reality. Consider:  . . .More...