I’m seeing reports this morning that Jesse Smollett is planning on appealing his conviction for the hoax he perpetrated.
While I find that his efforts to appeal are annoying to say the least I must admit a certain grudging admiration for his ability to stick to the script. Stick to your hoax despite all evidence to the contrary, just like every other Democrat did with the Trump Russia hoax.
From The Blaze…
A jury in Chicago, Illinois pronounced Jussie Smollett guilty on five of six counts of felony disorderly conduct on Thursday, concluding that the ex-“Empire” actor orchestrated a fake hate crime against himself and subsequently lied to police about it.
As I’ve observed here previously, what he actually did was to try and start a race war.
I will only add that he deserves far more in the way of jail time than he will get.
Got into a conversation yesterday over dinner with another driver who had just come from the Portland Oregon area. The conversation rambled back and forth from topic to topic is all good conversations do.
At one point he wondered aloud if the people who were pushing to defund the police in Portland now regretted that demand in light of the chaos that’s been occurring there and for that matter all over the country.
I told him I suppose that the majority do regret it, (though they would nwver admit it publicly) …but that I had no sympathy whatsoever for them on the principle that stupidity should be painful. Particularly, self-imposed stupidity. It’s not like they weren’t warned what would happen under the conditions that they demanded.
The problem of course is a bunch of well-meaning people who hadn’t really thought the thing through, decided that the police were the problem, forgetting that once you remove the police, the protection for Joe and Jane Average is gone.
As if to remins such people of reality, crime including robbery murder carjackings rapes etc., Are all skyrocketing in number. All of this is happening in Democrat-controlled cities.
The real trick is this: if you’re in the business of virtue signaling, you’d best make sure that what you’re pushing for, is actually virtuous.
It’s painful to see that the lesson has to be relearned so frequently.
But indeed let’s hope the lesson has been learned and those exiting those democrat-controlled areas don’t bring Democrat party policy with them. That kind of contagion in the end is more deadly than anything ever released from the bio weapons research being conducted by the NIH and the Chinese communists.
But that’s another discussion.
I’m watching the saga in Michigan playing out with the kid who brought his father’s brand new gun to school and shot the place up.
Particularly,I’m watching the law enforcement types and the news media and how they handle the bit with the parents. Supposedly they were taken into custody during the overnight hours of Friday night Saturday morning. They’ve been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
(I hold no particular truck with the parents, except in so far as The usual suspects making all kinds of noise about gun control. I agree event is tragic, and while I agree the parents do bear some responsibility here, I don’t believe that their responsibility rises to that level. This is the da trying to make more out of the case then it was, pretty much like the prosecutor in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse. I suspect we will see a plea deal here.)
The report breathlessly stated that they were hiding in a commercial building less than a mile from the Canadian border, as if we are supposed to take some kind of value from that location.
As anybody who’s been to Detroit more than once will tell you, there’s a goodly chunk of Detroit that meets that description. I’m sure somebody was trying to paint the picture that they were trying to escape the country, but reality sticks its nose in, where in the world were they going to go? Does anybody really suppose they’d have managed to get over the border?
As a matter of fact, the defense attorneys had been trying to get ahold of the district attorney’s office to make arrangements for the pair to turn themselves in. Fox is reporting:
Lehman and Smith, who previously represented convicted child molester Larry Nassar, argued that they were going to “make arrangements” to have their clients turn themselves in on Friday and tried to contact the prosecutor’s office multiple times on Friday “but never got a call back.”
Oh, good. Running the parents up as the equivalent of a child sex offender. Brilliant… Whoever wrote that line should be fired. In any event,
“The prosecutor’s office, instead of getting back to us in any way, decided to have a press conference, and as Miss McDonald admitted, try to find a way to act to surprise our clients and catch them off guard when it was so unnecessary,” Lehman said. “And last night and throughout the day, we were in contact with our clients. They were scared. They were terrified. They were not at home. They were figuring out what to do. Getting finances in order.”
I’m a little annoyed with Fox on the way this story was handled, but I’m more than a little annoyed with CNN for example, and MSNBC, who, as usual, are gleefully telling us what we should think about these events…. Even more blatantly than Fox made the attempt here. They’ve already started talking about how this is all about “justice”.
Well, forgive me, but it seems to me that if the left was really concerned about “justice” and concerned about the truth as they seem to be making out with this case in Detroit they wouldn’t be having their little temper tantrums over the verdict in the Rittenhouse case.
The actions of the DA (who it should be said, owes his job to George Soros) and in turn of the law enforcement people in Michigan and the breathless “reporting” on these matters from the leftist press and even to a certain degree from Fox, strikes me as an attempt to extract as much propaganda value as possible from these events.
To drive that point home I will suggest that there are a large number of people reading this who will call me the bad guy for even having raised these questions at all.
Why, for example, does this case deserve more attention than the number of dead and wounded in Chicago every week?
Why does this case in Detroit deserve more attention than the case of Jesse Smollett’s fraud?
Why does this case deserve more attention than the disaster that is the Biden presidency?
Why does this Detroit case deserve more attention than the ongoing investigation into the Trump Russia hoax?
Why does this case deserve more coverage than the case of the black nationalist and BLM supporter Daryl Brooks mowing down participants in a Christmas parade?
Why does this case deserve more coverage than the Maxwell trial?
The only answer to these questions that makes any sense at all is that while the case in Detroit advances the left and its agenda particularly in the manner it’s being handled by the prosecutor’s office and by the mainstream media.
(In this case, promoting their anti-gun agenda. One can easily understand the level of desperation on the left when they got their backsides handed them in the Rittenhouse case. This case must have seen miraculous to them.)
Meanwhile, these other cases I mentioned and more, cause serious damage to the advancement of that agenda. Focusing on the Detroit matter will have the effect of limiting access to information about these other events. It’s a win-win for the left.
It’s not Justice that the left is after in the Detroit case. What they’re after is propaganda value, and distraction.
Remember, with the left it’s always about pushing the agenda, not necessarily about the truth. That’s always front and center and that’s the one factor in their actions that never, never, never changes.
Like most of the country, I have been shocked and angered by the actions of one Daryl Brooks. I’ve written about some of that anger. I have to admit that the more I go over this particular story the angrier I become.
I’ve gone over the case of our black nationalist friend Mr Brooks from every angle. Every piece of information that I could find was analyzed and considered.
Based on the evidence in front of me and on all the research that I have done I am forced to conclude that’s a story of Darrell Brooks is the story of woke politics. Not just from the standpoint of Brooks and his attitude himself, but the attitude and actions of those responsible for responding to his various criminal acts up to and including driving his Ford escape through a crowd.
There is no other conclusion to draw.
Given the lack of law enforcement that we have seen in Wisconsin and some of the other blue states around the country I am forced to conclude that a lot of it comes down to the DA’s office in each particular county… they are the ones that set the pace for the actions that the police end up taking, or in this case not taking.
Do the politicians in those areas owe their jobs to campaign contributions and whispering campaigns organized by George Soros and company? I don’t know the answer to that question yet, but it must be said that it would answer a lot of questions. Questions like, how do people with this kind of History end up enforcing the laws… Or perhaps more correctly selectively enforcing the laws?
The thing is, the pattern here has been long established. There’s a parallel that came across my desk yesterday.
I don’t know how many remember the San Bernardino shooting, where a disgruntled employee who happened to be a follower of Islam went in to a company Christmas party and shot the place up. I must confess I didn’t remember until it came up in my rotational calendar yesterday.
About a year after the event, the local constabularie’s investigation was closed and the news articles about that closure started flowing, I responded with this at the time…
Was it the sugar cookies?
So ABC News reports that it was a Christmas party what brought on the San Bernardino attack last year.
2 points to notice here. First, it wasn’t Islam, it was Christianity caused the problem. At least so says the news report.
Notice also the time of year… mere weeks from Christmas…when this report is released. The implication is clear. The suggestion is being made here that we should stop being ourselves so as to accommodate those who will otherwise kill us.
It was the last line that caught my attention.
I immediately flashed on a quote from LeBron James.
If we assume, as seems logical, Brooks was motivated as LeBron James was, about the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, believing that if protesters are trying to kill you, you are obligated to let them, the link between these two situations is absolutely clear.
Do you see the problem yet?
It’s as I said the other day, the elephant in the room is the belief among the left and in this I would include the supposed mainstream media then violence from the left is somehow justified, that we shouldn’t be able to be ourselves, and God forbid that we should actually defend ourselves against those who would kill us, and those who are making every effort to destroy our country and its unique culture.
And by the way that’s precisely what people like George Soros have been attempting to do for decades now.
A nice get from Sundance:
Lara Logan hit Dr. Anthony Fauci and the cabal of science manipulators with the atomic sledgehammer during her remarks today about the latest COVID variant omicron and the political crew who manipulate the public through fear. {Direct Rumble Link}
In this segment, Ms. Logan is subtle as a brick through a window as she compares Dr. Fauci and his beagle killing narcissism to the ideological efforts of Dr. Josef Mengele. She’s not the first person to make that comparison.
The democrat publicity has gone berserk because Logan mentioned some compare Fauci to Mengele. That is an unfortunate distraction. Mengele actually saw patients.
The CCP is not using their flu to kill use. Rather the CCP is using their useful idiots to do the deed.
The Empire State dumped the groping, murdering Governor Fredo(Andy Cuomo) and install the state’s Lt. Governor, Kathy Just in time for Christmas! New York’s governor Freda, nee Kathy Hochul who
declared a state of emergency for the Empire State after the news that the Omicron variant appeared in South Africa, even though there are no cases of it reported in New York State.
Fredo may have been a retard and sexual predator. For Freda’s part, she may not be a sexual predator, but her policies just as stupid. Governor Freda has partially just down hospitals in response to yet another Chinese Flu variant, yet to make aappearance and by sober reports very mild
With governors like Fredo and now Freda, who needs the Winnie the Poo Flu?
Hey, Democrats…
The strategic oil reserve is intended to keep the military in business when all else fails. It’s not supposed to be used to bolster your disastrous pool numbers, because you’re trying to save the polar bears.
When you snuck into the White house, you had in your hands and energy independent nation, a nation which was actually exporting oil. Your policies changed all that.
Don’t be telling us that your policies are intended to be green unless you’re willing to idiotically suggest that Arab oil pollutes less than American oil.
Capiche?
Brad Thompson has an interesting article up over at Substack that you should probably read.
On September 28, Terry McAuliffe shocked voters in Virginia and around the country when he said in a gubernatorial debate with his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
Virginia voters understood immediately the meaning of McAuliffe’s statement. The aspiring repeat Governor seemed to be saying that parents do not and should not have a “right” to determine what their children are taught in school, which means that America’s Education Establishment (i.e., the state and federal departments of education, teachers’ unions, teacher-training institutions, school board associations, textbook and curriculum companies) has the “right” to determine the content of your child’s mind.
The moment was clarifying. In an instant, all of the particular education issues that Americans have been debating for the last few years (e.g., mask mandates, online learning, Common Core, CRT, transgenderism, pronouns, bathroom policies, and pedophilic pornography, etc.) became secondary to a more fundamental question: Who should determine the cognitive content of America’s children, parents or government officials? More to the point, the question is: Do parents have an unalienable right to determine how, in what, and by whom their children will be educated, or should the government have that right?
It’s no secret what happened in Virginia as a result of that question being put forward, as such. It’s also no secret Terry McAuliffe has always been in the pocket of the Clintons. You may remember Hillary Clinton telling us about the education of children belongs to the village?
The result of all of this at least in the short term was that Terry McAuliffe got sent packing. I wouldn’t worry about him. He’ll be on CNN before the end of the year.
But here’s the thing; When government gets its hands on something, everything about that thing becomes political. Example, when government runs healthcare, every healthcare decision becomes political. So it is with education. As soon as we turned the education of our young over to the government, the exclusion of parents from that process was inevitable. And since the educational system is lorded over these days by the radical left, it’s not hard to determine which way the curricula would increasingly lean.
Already it’s to the point where we have high school graduates who can’t read their own diplomas but they know all about global warming and they know all about how racist this country is. In fact it’s been that way for decades now, more prevalently in the big cities where the leftists hold increased sway. Such has been the effect of the government running our educational system.
The American Left (aided and abetted by some conservatives) believes that the government, not parents, should determine the content of a child’s mind—their ideas, their principles, and their values. A few weeks after McAuliffe’s tone-deaf faux pas, two authors writing in The Washington Post summed up the Left’s position in the title of their op-ed: “Parents claim they have the right to shape their kids’ school curriculum. They don’t.” Parents should have neither the right nor the authority, according to the Post’s writers, to determine the ideas taught to their children. This task should be left to the “experts”—to the experts of the Education Establishment. The authors go on to claim that “education should prepare young people to think for themselves, even if that runs counter to the wishes of their parents.” The question never addressed by the authors, however, is what happens when young people want to think for themselves and learn about ideas different from those taught by the government?!?! This option is, of course, strictly verboten.
I take exception to Thompson calling some of these people conservative. They are not. They might be Republican but that’s another matter.
And remember I mentioned government-run health care? Watch this:
Writing at Politico, three professors of medicine denounced what they called “The Dangerous Legal Illusion of ‘Parental rights’.” The authors announced that “When it comes to society’s interest in protecting children, the legal precedent is unambiguous: The rights of parents come second.” But the question is, if parents’ rights come second when it comes to protecting or educating their children, then whose rights come first? And the authors’ answer is obvious: society’s rights, the government’s rights, the rights of the public-policy experts trump those of parents.
I have been saying it for years now, the worst mistake we ever made as a country, a culture, a people, was to turn the education of our young over to the government. That statement has never been more obviously true than it is right now.
I’ve been asking for the last couple of weeks what the Hot tar and feather torch and Pitchfork moment is going to be for the American people. One can hope that Terry McAuliffe being handed his backside in a sling over his comments is an indicator on all of this. But that’s still an open question.
It’s interesting. I’m old enough to remember events 30 years ago when we had a group of people coming up through the educational system who told us that we should question authority without hesitation. Now that these same people are in authority, particularly in the educational system and I point directly to places like Harvard UC Berkeley, the NEA, for example, we are told that anyone who questions that authority needs to be silenced, and they certainly should have no right to determine what their children are taught. In short the inmates are running the asylum these days. The results are eminently predictable.
We had best hope that the vote in Virginia is more, far more than just an eddy current in the prevailing wind from the left. If it isn’t, we can kiss America goodbye.
Arrested for shooting at his nephew, released on $500 Bail.
Accused of hitting the mother of his child, and then running her over with that red SUV of his, released on $1,000 Bail
Arrested for murdering 6, injuring 50 after driving that SUV into a Waukesha Christmas parade: held $5000000 bail.
Uh huh.
Boy, it took quite a while for that “systemic racism” to kick in, didn’t it?
Interesting though, how the authorities up there in Wisconsin decided that it wasn’t a terrorist event. I suspect and suppose that they were trying to say that it wasn’t Islam related, and that may or may not be true. But he was a BLM supporter a Biden voter and a never Trumper, so there’s that. And I’m willing to bet that if you honestly looked at the band of criminals known as BLM, you would find that most of the boxes are checked, in the column “terrorist group”.
There’s only one answer to this situation and it does not involve making excuses for this animal, saying that he was oppressed.
But there’s something else I also want to see. I want to see prosecution against office. Jail time, at least. Let’s disabuse ourselves of the notion that our legal system needs to make excuses for animals like this.
As I have said previously, if the government was actually doing the job it was charged with, Kenosha wouldn’t have happened, and neither would that event at the Christmas parade… Based on his previous crimes he would have been in a cage where he belonged.
The so-called Facebook fact checkers have been showing their leftist bias for some time now. Since the beginning, in fact. So it was no surprise when are you supposedly explosive allegations showed up on Capitol Hill, essentially demanding that government oversight of Facebook be run by unelected bureaucrats who share this woman’s view of what constitutes a security issue for as she calls it our democracy.
Well, first of all of course, we don’t have a democracy we have a representative republic. Her use of that phrase in that manner exposes her true goals essentially she wants the left to be able to control Facebook and what gets posted there.
They already do that of course, but she wants those overseers to have governmental powers. It’s called criminalizing opposition to the radical left.
Her bleating about Iran and the Taliban and so on was designed specifically to gain support among centrists. But the fact is that beyond that headline maker she has never understood nor cared about it previously.
Remember also that as I keep saying anything that government puts its hand to is certain to become a political football.
There is a common theme running through the election results, everywhere you look. No more pronounced is it however then in the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, and notably it’s a theme that’s being ignored by the usual pundits.
I don’t have the party affiliation figures to hand but I’m going to assume for the sake of this piece that Virginia is running about 60% Democrat and New Jersey closer to 90%. New jersey, particularly is a state where Democrats are absolute slam dunk regardless of what office they’re running for it, so heavily is the lean to the left.
So then, how is it that Terry McAuliffe is packing his bags, and how is it that the New Jersey race got supposedly unpredictably close?
In Virginia, Republicans and independents may well have been totally turned off by Terry McAuliffe telling them they have no right to direct their children’s education but given the sheer numbers of the thing, there’s no way that they would be able to mount a successful effort to remove him from office over it. Similarly, Republicans and Independents in New Jersey may have been turned off by Phil Murphy’s unconstitutional and dictatorial mandates but there’s no way that they’d be able to mount a successful effort to remove office over it. They just don’t have the numbers.
Were these vote numbers caused by racism has so many on the left have charged? That charge would seem problematic on its face, given that the same vote that turned Terry McAuliffe out of office installed Virginia’s first black woman in a statewide office and installed a Hispanic as attorney general the controversial CRT May well have been a motivation but racism in its raw form this boat most certainly was not.
With the kind of majorities that the Democrats have in the rank and file of those respective States there’s only one way for the kind of thing we saw in that election to happen. That being a goodly number of Democrats reaching the international enough line with the leadership of their own party. That’s the only way those kind of vote totals are going to happen.
But do the leftist pundits learn anything from this? No, they doubled down I sat and watched as mega moron Joy Reid tell us that the whole thing was because of racist parents who don’t want to turn their children over to the government
Van Jones played the same line.
The fact is they drag these arguments out because they don’t have anything else. Again if racism is the problem how do you explain the lieutenant governor and attorney general elect in Virginia?
It’s clear that the leading voices of the left absolutely refuse to learn the lesson taught by the election results the evidence is right in front of them, and the leading left is voices refused to see it, despite the fact that so many of the Democrat rank and file have, at least for now, learned the lesson of how hollow and meritless the Democrat party has become
I’ll say this is clearly and concisely as I can, the election results show clearly that rank and file members of the Democrat party have become disgusted by the actions of their own party and voted accordingly.
I will tell you this also, the situation for the Democrats is going to get even worse. The events of the last year have set the stage for an electoral bloodbath for the Democrats like this country has never seen before.
Now that someone has had the honesty of the courage to point out that the emperor doesn’t have any clothes on oh, there’s only one way that this is going to go.
I note a bill going through the New Jersey legislature that offers a $250 tax credit for taking out a subscription to the newspapers in the state
Stated reason for the bill is to keep the newspapers afloat, all apparently forgetting the idea that the reason that the newspapers are going under is nobody believes them anymore, the people have long since begun to recognize that the mainstream media is nothing but a wholey owned subsidiary of the Democrat party.
I observe that the New Jersey legislature is overloaded with Democrats. Now why would these Democrats be interested in keeping the mainstream media afloat and coming into American homes I wonder?
There’s something in all of this that isn’t being talked about much. That’s the idea that the left seems to be operating under the notion that the people who burned Kenosha, along with many other places of course, are somehow justified in their violence.
That’s certainly the message being sent by the government of the city of Kenosha and the state government as well. They basically sacrificed Kenosha. The question, of course, is why?
The only answer to the question if there’s any honesty involved, is that the people with the power of government in their hands used that power in the way they did… Sacrificing a goodly portion of their cities because they thought that was political advantage to it. Specifically, they’re unspoken goal was to put a Democrat in the White House. Accomplishing that goal was of greater worth to them them maintaining law and order, protecting private property, and the truth.
Those in denial of this point, ignore one salient truth that I’ve spoken before….Again, I point to the fact that the rioting ceased the moment that goal was accomplished…. Not not just in Kenosha but across the entire country. Almost like it was orchestrated.
It was orchestrated, of course.
All through last summer I watched these riots occur and I watched the arrest records of the people who were being arrested, or who are otherwise identified as being rioters in the various cities. And I was struck with a parallel.
Perhaps you remember Blazing Saddles, where a corrupt government official (portrayed admirably by Harvey Korman)…. Well, perhaps it’s best if you see it yourself
Think about it. Does it strike anyone as being beyond coincidence that the people who attacked Kyle Rittenhouse as an example, all of them were known for being multiple felons?
And to push it even further beyond coincidence, the animal who drove through that Christmas parade is also a multiple felon, and it’s becoming clear that he did that because he was annoyed at the not guilty verdict in the Rittenhouse case.
None of this would have happened was the government actually doing its job instead of aiding and abetting a band of thugs…
Hey, antifa?
You sure you want to defund the police?
You just keep pushing for that. Let me know how it works out.
