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‘Capitol Insurrection’ v. Burn, Loot, and Murder Riots If not for double standards, Democrats would have NO standards.
 By: MARK ALEXANDER

The Patriot Post 

April 28, 2021

Hat tip: Rip McIntosh

“There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. … In fact it is only reestablishing under another name and a more specious form, force as the measure of right.” James Monroe (1786)

A rhetorical question: Why have Democrats and their Leftmedia publicists portrayed the January 6 Capitol riot in a harsh and incriminating light while shining a soft and sympathetic light on the now hundreds of riots by their constituents — those “peaceful protesters” nationwide?
The disparity in this portrayal is evident at many levels, and one must conclude that Democrats have two standards of justice for riots and insurrections — one for their burn, loot, and murderconstituents and a much more punitive standard for the Capitol protesters.
If the Capitol riot had been in any other venue, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their legislative tag team, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, would have proclaimed it a “peaceful protest.”
Democrat Party principals and Republicans universally condemned the Capitol riot (or “insurrection,” as Demos labeled it) — Demos because it was associated with Donald Trump and Republicans because they don’t have double standards for riots.
Thus, the first riotous double standard: Demos have remained virtually silent about, when not outright supporting, the leftist insurrections across the nation, because those riots serve as constituent-building rallies. Riots fomented by the Marxist Black Lives Matter radicals and the “antifa movement” of self-styled “anti-fascist” fascists are required in order to advance the Demos’ “systemic racism” lie — a masterfully crafted BIG Lie.
Recall that Biden and Harris condemned the “racist” Capitol Police. Biden said of how they handled the riot: “Not only did we see the failure to protect one of the three branches of our government, we also saw a clear failure to carry out equal justice. No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that’s true. And it is unacceptable.”
One could argue that Biden’s statement was true in the sense that no unarmed protester in a BLM mob has been shot dead by police.
Likewise, Harris piled on: “We witnessed two systems of justice when we saw one that let extremists storm the United States Capitol and another that released tear gas on peaceful protesters last summer.”
The double standard: Democrats condemned the Capitol Police until an officer’s death could be used as a political prop, as was the case with Officer Brian Sicknick, at which time their standard shifted in support of the Capitol Police.
The DC Medical Examiner released his finding that Officer Sicknick died of natural cause a full three months after his death, making clear he was not killed by Capitol rioters.
The DCME’s finding came after the Demos had relentlessly propagated the myth that Officer Sicknick was murdered by the Capitol mob, based on a BIG Lie by The New York Times that he was bludgeoned to death.
Biden, Harris, Pelosi, and Schumer exploited Brian Sicknick’s death and thereby desecrated his memory, using it as political fodder.
Thus, the only Capitol death was that of an unarmed protester, Ashli Babbitt, and the Demos have politicized her death by concealing any and all details of who shot her and why.
Double standard: Unlike every other police-involved shooting outside the Beltway, the circumstances of Babbitt’s shooting by a Capitol Police Officer have been sealed from any public scrutiny by DC Democrats.
Since the Capitol riot, there have already been more than 400 people charged with crimes, from trespassing to assault, all of whom are facing significant jail time and penalties. There’s no “get out of jail free” bail fund supported by Kamala Harris for these protesters. Nor is there an even marginally comparable arrest of violent rioters in any location across the nation.
Double standard!
And regarding our military Patriots, recall that Pelosi and Schumer arranged special DC military service ribbons — yet another way to use the National Guard units in DC as political props. At the same time, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was preparing his military-wide “stand-down” order to investigate extremism (Read: “Trump supporters”) in the ranks. According to The Hill, “The Defense Department is still scant on details on Austin’s decision, which came after he met with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and the service secretaries and chiefs on Wednesday morning. Leaders are expected to hold ‘needed discussions’ with subordinates about extremism in the next 60 days, top department spokesperson John Kirby told reporters at the Pentagon.”
Double standard: Given all the National Guard deployments nationwide, remind me which one of those operations led to concern about “extremism in the ranks”?
Another Capitol example… Recall that last June, after Pelosi and Schumer kneeled for George Floyd in the Capitol Rotunda, using his death as a prop in order to ignite their constituents’ “summer of rage,” we started posting End of Watch tributes honoring police officers killed in the line of duty and asking Pelosi and Schumer why they refuse to take a knee for those officers. Another rhetorical question…
Double standard!
I recently referenced historian Victor Davis Hanson’s summary of the leftist violence in the name of Floyd: “torching federal courthouses and police precincts, 700 policemen injured, 40 people dead, $4-$5 billion in damages.”
Not a word from Biden, Harris, Pelosi, or Schumer, who were too busy condemning cops.
Notably, there were dozens of black men murdered by other black men in the days before and after Floyd’s death. Researcher Heather Mac Donald has thoroughly researched the disparity between black and white assailants and victims.
Not a word from Biden, Harris, Pelosi, or Schumer.
One of those murdered was a retired black police captain, David Dorn, who was killed by a black assailant who was looting a pawn shop during one of the St. Louis riots.
Not a word from Biden, Harris, Pelosi, or Schumer.
There has been a significant increase in the murders of Hispanic and Black people in the wake of the Demos’ “defund the police” initiatives.
Not a word from Biden, Harris, Pelosi, or Schumer.
Another notable case study of Demo double standards comes to us compliments of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). The chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee took her congressional entourage to Minneapolis to soak up a considerable share of the mainstream media’s Chauvin trial attention ahead of his conviction last week.
Waters, who insisted, “We’re looking for a guilty verdict,” took it upon herself to tee-up mob violence to keep pressure on the un-sequestered jurors, letting them know that anything short of a guilty verdict would result in severe consequences.
Waters delivered her screed at an anti-police protest: “I’m going to fight with all of the people who stand for justice. … We’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business. … I hope we’re going to get a verdict that will say guilty, guilty, guilty. And if we don’t, we cannot go away.”
Ironically, she requested police escort and protection while in Minneapolis — no double standard there.
Waters has a long and sordid history as a Demo hate-hustler, a black supremacist promoting violence against white people. Long before she was encouraging mobs to harass Trump administration officials back in 2018, she was promoting the Burn, Loot, and Murder mobs in the bloody 1992 Los Angeles riots. Back then, Waters declared, “The fact of the matter is, whether we like it or not, riot is the voice of the unheard.”
The fact of the matter is, more than 60 people were murdered during those riots and many more were seriously injured.
Not a word from Biden, Harris, Pelosi, or Schumer.
As you recall, so strident and offensive were Waters’s remarks that the district judge hearing the Chauvin case, Peter Cahill, strongly rebuked her: “I’m aware that Congresswoman Waters was talking specifically about this trial and about the unacceptability of anything less than a murder conviction and talk about being confrontational. … I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch and our function.”
Cahill, a Democrat who worked for Senator Amy Klobuchar, conceded to Chauvin’s attorney, “I’ll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned.”
Oh, and as you may recall, Waters is suing Trump “for inciting violence on January 6th.” According to George Washington University legal expert Jonathan Turley, given that Waters is busy inciting violence, she has “now guaranteed that she could be called as a witness by Trump in his own defense against her own lawsuit.” Of her accusation against Trump for inciting violence when her own words are far more incendiary, Turley concluded, “That standard cannot be selectively applied to some but not all riots or protests.”
You know, you can’t have double standards!
Meanwhile, back in the Beltway, amidst calls for Waters’s resignation, Pelosi was asked if Waters should apologize. She responded, “No, I don’t think she should apologize. Maxine talked about confrontation in the manner of the civil rights movement.” (See Prof. Turley’s conclusion above.)
Apparently, Pelosi and Waters can’t comprehend Martin Luther King’s central message of peace regarding “the manner of the civil rights movement.” Of course, that message does not build Demo constituencies.
For his part, Joe Biden, a man of deep faith when it fits the narrative, said, “I’m praying the verdict is the right verdict, which is — I think it’s overwhelming, in my view.”

Words of Christ

April 27, 2021

“Will I forget that for which I have paid so great a price?

Will I change my mind and count that which I have valued as naught?

Through all your struggles and your times of desolation,

And your wounds and a broken heart,

Do you think I am unable to console and heal

That which I counted worth my life?

Have you not seen in the darkness the light that never goes out?

Have you not understood the love I have for that which I have redeemed?

You are distressed and filled with worry over what now comes,

But would I have gone resolutely to the Cross,

Had I not known I would not be held captive by death,

And would I have shed my blood if it was not adequate to cover

Those whom I died to redeem?

Oh, foolish man who worries about the future

As though he were tossed upon the sea in a boat,

Never seeing that the One who has numbered all his days

Is there in the boat with him. 

I saw the end when I saw the beginning,

And I planned the calm before the storm even began.

Why then should you be afraid?

For the One who considered you as too great a prize to be thrown away

Planned your salvation before it was even offered, 

And I am here with you.

So be not afraid.”

-S

Biden Launching A BroadAttack On Our Prosperity

By LAWRENCE KUDLOW 

April 28, 2021

Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh

So let me get this right. President Biden has proposed the highest capital gains tax in, probably, history. I’m not quite sure. I know, though, that it’s the highest in the past 50 years.
At 43.4% — added with the corporate tax — that gets you to more than 50%. And then, of course, state capital gains will get you close to 60%. Nobody in Europe is even close to that.
Not even Bernie Sanders’ beloved Sweden, which is at 30%. By the way, China is at 20%. And, by the way, China’s 25% corporate tax would be lower than our 28%.
So it’s the combination of jacking up taxes on companies, and their profits, and their gains, or any time you sell a small business —or a farm or a ranch — you pay capital gains.
And, by the way, Team Biden might eliminate the step-up basis for capital gains around the death tax. Meaning: Heirs would have to sell assets immediately — a plan that the Penn-Wharton school claims would raise $113 billion.
So it’s pouring taxes on taxes and attacking investment, which is the key to blue-collar middle-class living standards. They’re being attacked.
And it’s an attack on our competitiveness in the global race for capital. These are policies that will surely throw a wet blanket on our booming economy.
Now, today comes word that this isn’t enough. Mr. Biden wants a cool $80 billion dollars to beef up IRS audits of high earners. I’ll quote from this morning’s New York Times, my friends Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappaport:
The administration will portray these efforts — coupled with new taxes it is proposing on corporations and the rich — as a way to level the tax playing field between typical American workers and high earners …..
The $80 billion in proposed funding would be an increase of two-thirds over the agency’s entire funding levels for the past decade.Good luck with that, Mr. President. From time immemorial, presidents searching high and low for revenues to fund their overspending love to get more IRS agents to run around the country and harass taxpayers.
This time $80 billion is a really big number. One former IRS commissioner said $25 billion would be sufficient. But here’s the last laugh.
Team Biden expects to raise $780 billion dollars in new tax revenues. Believe me, folks, they won’t get half of that. They might not even get a third.
It’s been tried before and failed utterly. Do you know what this is? Just another tax. Just another one. Do you know to what this leads us? Big-time politically motivated audits.
It weaponizes the IRS. Remember a few years back, a lady called Lois Lerner, who was, during the Obama years, always going after conservatives. Individuals, groups, political parties, anything.
And, independent investigators proved hammer and tongs that she was politically motivated. And she wasn’t alone. And she wound up in disgrace, forced to flee the agency, one step ahead of the courts.
There is, though, more from Team Biden today. The administration will use an executive order to impose a $15 minimum wage for federal contractors.
This is a large group of both large and small companies, with knock-on effects running through the whole country — particularly affecting small businesses.
It is a backdoor minimum wage hike that Team Biden was forced to give up on in the infrastructure legislation. The biggest victim here is going to be military companies and the defense department.
So let me get this right — Team Biden is cutting the military budget in real terms. At the same time, it is jacking up the costs of its hundreds of thousands of contractors.
This is another anti-defense action, and it’s a prosperity-killing action. And it applies not only to giant outfits like Lockheed or Raytheon or Boeing. It also applies to a lot of smaller outfits.
They run our military bases, provide food services and sanitation services, etc. There’s no end to it, and $15 an hour is a lot more than $10.95 an hour.
Then the President has organized a pro-union task force headed by Vice President Kamala Harris. I sure hope she does better than she did running the immigration task force.
I bet she’ll go to a union site, even though she wouldn’t go to the southern border. The Bidens are pushing the ‘Pro Act’ — a pro-union political giveaway.
It would, among other things, end the secret ballot in union elections, end the right-to-work laws in about half the states, and force workers to pay high union does, for a far-left union political agenda.
Let’s hope workers will continue to revolt, as they did in the Amazon warehouse election at Bessemer, Alabama. Workers want the freedom to choose, and they deserve that freedom.
On Tuesday, I had a discussion with Stu Varney on his Fox Business show, Varney and Company. “The real president of the United States today is Bernie Sanders,” Stu told me, “and the vice president is AOC. I don’t think I’m too far out of line. I really don’t. I really know it.”“It works for me,” I told him. For Stu Varney’s political characterization of Biden World looks just about right to me right now.
It’s one thing after another — taxes, spending, greening, laboring, regulating — you name it. It’s the far, far-left progressive agenda. I dare say voters thought they elected an unassuming, unity-seeking, moderate Democrat.
Oooops!

Great Soul

By: Judd Garrett

Objectivity is the Objective

April 28, 2021

Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh

On September 16, 1932, in a jail cell in India, Mahatma, meaning “Great Soul”, Gandhi, began a “fast unto death”, protesting the British government’s imposition of an electoral caste system on India which would unfairly divide India’s social classes. His hunger strike helped emancipate the lower caste, whom he referred to as “Children of God.” He said, “This is a God-given opportunity… to offer my life as a final sacrifice to the downtrodden.”
Throughout his life, Gandhi used peaceful protests, and hunger strikes to bring freedom and justice to the people of his country. His final hunger strike in January 1948, brought an end to a civil war between the Hindus and the Muslims in newly liberated India. Less than two weeks later, he was assassinated on his way to a prayer meeting. Gandhi lived a life of poverty and self-sacrifice, as fidelity to the cause of peace, justice, and national unity. He made his own clothes and chose to dress like a peasant, even when he met with British Royalty and the Pope, believing it would be disrespectful to those he was fighting for to dress differently.
In 2021, our crusaders of peace and justice take a different approach than Gandhi. The causes they fight for have become avenues of wealth, fame, and self-indulgence. One of the founders of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, recently purchased a $1.4 million home in an exclusive predominantly white neighborhood in Los Angelesand has purchased a total of four homes worth in excess of $3.2 million since founding BLM. In October, she signed a multi-platform deal with Warner Bros. In 2020, Black Lives Matter took in more than $90 million, but the 10 BLM chapters around the country, “have received little to no financial support from BLMGN since the launch in 2013,” and less than 5% of the money has gone to initiatives to help black lives.
BLM has led many of the “peaceful protests” over the last 12 months which consisted of burning buildings, destruction of property, and looting stores. They believe that the best path to justice and peace is stealing thousands of dollars of merchandise from stores and business owners, many of whom are people of color that had nothing to do with the injustice they’re supposedly fighting. 
Gandhi chose truly peaceful protests and was willing to lie down his life for the cause. But protesting for justice in America has become a regular cottage industry for the leaders and the protesters alike. Who needs a job, when there are “peaceful protests” to get that new flatscreen TV, stereo, or pair of Nikes?
We can’t really blame them when “middle class” Joe Biden became a multi-millionaire, owning several mansions, as a result of his public service, and Barack Obama parlayed his Presidency into a net worth of over $70 million, and a $12 million home on Martha’s Vineyard. Why should Patrisse Khan-Cullors be any different? I doubt Gandhi would’ve had the same impact if he were caught on video looting a store or fire-bombing a car, and then moved into a mansion. Like Gandhi, maybe it’s necessary to live like those you claim to represent to gain the credibility to represent them. It is hard to claim moral authority against inequality shouting down from the balcony of your million-dollar home, especially when your millions have been gained off your “fight for equality”.
Gandhi laid down his life for the cause of justice and equality. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated as a result of his fight to emancipate the slaves. Martin Luther King Jr was beaten, jailed, and also gave his life for the cause of civil rights. Over 9,000 eighteen, nineteen, and twenty-year-old Americans were killed storming Normandy and Omaha Beach on D-Day, liberating Europe from totalitarianism. And the ones who survived didn’t get to purchase million-dollar homes.
But virtue comes really cheap these days, a well-worded tweet, a clever Facebook post is all you need to gain moral authority. Who needs hunger strikes, or prison terms when you have a smartphone? The woke mob hides behind their screens fighting the battle for “justice” with computer keys, assuming as much at bodily risk as they do when they play “Call of Duty”. It is difficult to accurately gauge what is justice when assuming no risk.
Our celebrity class risks nothing in their fight for their vision of justice. LeBron James storms the Twittersphere with temerity and then retreats to his $40 million mansion with his only risk of injury being dislocating his shoulder from aggressively patting himself on the back, hoping that his “activism” will help make him the GOAT. Meagan Markel fought injustice from a $14 million mansion by speaking to a billionaire. Colin Kaepernick’s martyrdom took the form of a $40 million Nike contract.
This fight for virtue has bled over into the entertainment industry. On Sunday night, billionaire actor, and producer Tyler Perry signaled his virtue by saying, “My mother taught me to refuse hate. She taught me to refuse blanket judgment… I refuse to hate someone because they are Mexican or because they are Black or white or LGBTQ. I refuse to hate someone because they are a police officer. I refuse to hate someone because they are Asian… Stand in the middle ’cause that’s where healing happens. That’s where conversation happens. That’s where change happens.”
It all sounds very good and is well-intended, but there is a lot to unpack. He says, “refuse blanket judgment” which is right, but his speech is filled with blanket judgments. His need to lecture the American people about refusing hate is a false assumption and an unsupported judgment that the majority of American people chose to hate each other based on race or ethnicity. Most Americans are loving, caring, compassionate people who reject racism and bigotry in all its forms. Who out there is teaching that we should hate each other based on race, ethnicity, religion? Is there an example, other than maybe purveyors of Critical Race Theory? That’s why they talk about “micro-aggressions” and “implicit bias”, and there have been numerous hate-crime hoaxes recently because the incidents of racism are so small, and caused primarily by the extreme fringe who he wouldn’t use that platform to talk to anyway.
The hate that he sees permeating society originates from the political and cultural elite of which he is a part. His speech should not have been directed at the average citizen but at the influential class, his class. Where was his “refuse hate speech” during the BLM and Antifa riots of 2020? Where was he the previous 4 years when the Academy Awards was used as a platform to dole out hate to our then-sitting President? It is only now when Tyler Perry’s party is in power, that he preaches “refuse hate”, and wants everyone to hold hands, and sing Kumbaya.
He says, “Stand in the middle ’cause that’s where healing happens. That’s where conversation happens.” He is suggesting that we can only get along and not hate each other if we are in the middle. If we all think alike. It is an assumption that if we have different opinions, opposite points of view, we will automatically hate each other. So much for embracing diversity. And where is this middle to which he refers? Who gets to define the middle where there is no hate? Does Tyler Perry get to set out the parameters of the middle? How much of our beliefs are we going to have to sacrifice to fit into that middle? 
This is where our country has gone completely off the rails. We used to be able to have political discussions where we took opposing points of view, and afterward remained friends. Tyler Perry has completely missed the point. The hate in our society is not interracial nor is it due to our different religions or lifestyles. The hate comes from our different politics. Talk to Candace Owens, Tim Scott, Ben Carson about the origin of the hate they receive. It is not racial. It’s solely political. Caitlyn Jenner said, “I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.” If you are conservative, you will be hated, regardless of your skin color, gender, religion, or lifestyle. Every conservative opinion is recast as racist, sexist, or homophobic by the political elite on the left which creates a false narrative that America is a racist, sexist and homophobic country. Even Martin Luther King Jr’s dream of people not being “judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” is now portrayed as racist because it works against their narrative, and their desire to use race as a currency for equity.
So, when Tyler Perry says we need to move to the middle, he is not asking AOC or George Clooney to modify their positions and move to the right, he’s telling Ted Cruz and Clint Eastwood to abandon conservatism, and move left of center. Why can’t AOC, George Clooney, Ted Cruz and Clint Eastwood all believe what they believe, and no one hate each other? That is the better way of engaging in political discourse as opposed to shoehorning everyone into a box that Tyler Perry wants to label as “the middle” forcing everyone to think alike, so no one hates each other. Why is diversity of thought less valuable to maintain and celebrate than diversity of race or ethnicity?
When the different religious factions pushed back against Gandhi’s fight for a unified India, he said, “I am a Muslim, and a Hindu, and a Christian, and a Jew, and so are all of you… When you wave those flags and shout, you send fear into the hearts of your brothers.” Of course, he was not all of those religions, he simply was making the point that our shared humanity transcends our differences, even religious differences. The Bible puts it this way, “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Gal 3:26
There are powerful political factions in our country that only see white, black, brown, yellow, red, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Atheist. They slice and dice us by race, ethnicity, and creed, and we are diminished for it. 
The full expanse of our humanity cannot be obtained within those narrow boxes. We, as individuals, and we, as a human race, will never be able to reach our full potential if we are forced to sacrifice who we are, and at the same time be defined solely by the things that are meant to divide us.

The New Antiracism Is the Old Racism The benchmarks of the Black Lives Matter and affiliated woke movements are overt racism, systemic untruth, and the hypocritical privilege of their elite architects.

By: Victor Davis Hanson

April 25, 2021

(emphasis added)

HAT TIP: Rip McIntosh

What will be the future of the mass hysteria spawned last summer? No one knows. 
But its destination, if unchecked, will be ethnic tensions and sectarian strife at best akin to those in Brazil and India—or at worst Lebanon, Syria, and Rwanda. 
Until just a few years ago, racial differences, according to polls, were more or less receding. Intermarriage between racial groups is at historic highs. 
But by 2014-2015, with the birth of Black Lives Matter, it’s courting by the Obama Administration, and the emergence of the electronic social media mob and cancel culture, such progress seems to have ended. 
We have ceased seeing race as increasingly incidental, rather than essential to who we are.
The benchmarks of the Black Lives Matter and affiliated woke movements are overt racism, systemic untruth, and the hypocritical privilege of their elite architects.  We are now well beyond the race-based set-asides of the last 50 years, predicated on the evolving concepts of proportional representation and disparate impact. These multitrillion-dollar endowed Great Society principles eventually mandated that admissions and hiring reflect the proportional ethnic and racial makeup of the population. 
All that is now ossified and considered not enough. In its place is damnation of all things “white” with a new definition of diversity as simply all those, without any other affinities, who claim to be bound proudly together by being nonwhite.
Antiracist RacismIndeed, it is startling how abruptly our frenzied elites have renounced assimilation (a word now banned by the Biden Administration in matters related to immigration). Integration is also passé‚ at least for those not rich.
Ironies abound. Recently, in the state of Washington, something called the African American Reach and Teach Health Ministry (AARTH) adjudicated vaccination appointments on the basis of race only. I suppose if a 75-year-old indigent white widow showed up, she would be turned away on the basis of her “unearned privilege”—or the organizers say could be put on a “standby list”?
Black intellectuals now use the stereotypical language of the old Jim Crow segregationists. Some vie in an apparent contest to see which woke trailblazer can be crowned the most overt racist antiracist. 
So Elie Mystal writing in the Nation lectures the country that “White people haven’t improved; I’ve just been able to limit my exposure to them.” Would Mystal like to explain the consequences for the country at large, if everyone followed his own example and “limited their exposure” to racial groups that they felt “haven’t improved”? To “improve” whites, would Mystal advise genetic reengineering or more mundane mandatory reeducation camps? 
Damon Young, a senior editor of The Root and an occasional New York Times contributor, adds, “Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expediencies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people”  Note the telltale verb “infests.” 
Substitute “Jewishness” for “whiteness,” and it would not be inflammatory to say that Young’s piece would have been normal fare for Der Stürmer circa 1935. Obviously, if whiteness is destroying all aspects of natural and human life, then what should be done about such an infestation—other than destroying the existential toxin’s source?
Almost daily we read that requiring an ID to vote, in the manner of cashing a check, getting a vaccination, or boarding a flight, is white-perpetuated Jim Crow racism. The new farm bill will not allow strapped white farmers to apply for help. The city of Oakland will not extend aid to poor whites in a new pilot program. Note in the latter case there is no pretense of “white privilege” other than in minority-majority Oakland the absurd assumption that impoverished whites there are more privileged than poor nonwhites.
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), in late Robert Byrd racialist style, recently vowed to block confirmation of white nominees. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) urged street violence if the Derek Chauvin trial verdict did not fit her preconceived ideas of the proper convictions. 
Millions of Americans now listen to their children and grandchildren come home, as if they were released from Manchurian Candidate camps, as they recite their teachers’ Medieval puppet-show versions of evil white people creating a toxic America—that millions of non-white people in the world strangely seek to immigrate to.
UntruthNo movement can exist for long when it is based on utter untruth. 
The New York Times’ crackpot “1619 Project” could not convince any sane person to redefine the founding of the United States—not politically, not structurally, not militarily, not socially. And it didn’t even try.
Lincoln was not an evil racist, but willing to wage a civil war to destroy slavery even at the slaughter of nearly 700,000 Americans. The framers included the three-fifths clause in the Constitution not to perpetuate slavery, but as a desperate compromise to avoid civil war with slave states or utter disunion of the colonies at their founding—while still not fully rewarding the dehumanization of slavery by letting it be used to enhance the South’s political power. 
Any unarmed suspect shot by the police warrants a thorough investigation and, where proper, legal consequences for any convicted police offender. But Black Lives Matter has told the country that unarmed blacks are being murdered systematically by police, in an environment of racial hatred perpetuated by whites. 
In 2019 the leftwing Washington Post suggested that 13 unarmed African Americans had been fatally shot in confrontations with police.That figure is proportionally double the black percentage of the population, but less than the percentage of blacks arrested each year. 
Data is often warped for political reasons. But in a country where 6,000-7,000 African Americans are fatally shot each year by other African Americans, in cities where often the mayors, the district attorneys, and the chiefs of police are African American, it is not a sustainable proposition to swear black America’s existential threats come from police harvesting of innocent young African Americans—not when families are disintegrating, drug use is normative, fathers are absent, crime is spiking, schools are corrupt, and no one is offering any help other than the failed policies of the last 60 years.
If one peruses the FBI data on those arrested for “hate crimes,” one does not find evidence of a toxic and deadly white majority preying on “the Other.” Whites are proportionally underrepresented as a group in committing such racially motivated violent crimes. Blacks, in contrast, are overrepresented. They commit them at about double their rate of their percentages in the population. 
The media systematically has warped the news cycle to inflame racial tensions and to fuel progressive agendas that suffocate without the oxygen of hysteria. From NBC’s editing of George Zimmerman’s 911 call and the Ferguson lie of “Hands up, don’t shoot!,” to editing out the knife in the hands of Ma’Khia Bryant, who was poised to stab her target, we live in a woke wonderland. 
The woke hyped the first few hours (and sometimes days and weeks) of the Duke Lacrosse hoax, the Covington kids hoax, and the Jussie Smollett hoax. Whether wokeism cares whether an unarmed suspect is lethally shot by the police tragically depends on the race of the shooter and victim.  
So we knew within minutes the name and saw the photo of the officer who presumably accidentally lethally shot Daunte Wright. Fine. She is now charged with a serious crime. But we still don’t know who intentionally shot unarmed Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol on January 6. We were told for weeks that officer Brian Sicknick was murdered by alt-Right Trump supporters until he wasn’t, and the media could no longer hide that he had died of natural causes a day after the Capitol assault. 
A recent BLM protest in Minnesota over the lethal police shooting of an armed carjacker dissipated when it was suddenly announced the deceased was white. Is it All Lives Don’t Matter? Or support the police when they must use lethal force to protect the community? And on and on. Wealth and Privilege There are two class problems with the wokeists. Elite leftist minorities know little of the poor and middle-class rural whites whom they demonize—but in reality, do not patronize minorities and are more likely to ignore race entirely. And wealthy woke whites know little and care less about poor and lower-middle-class minorities whom they seem assiduously to avoid—and then virtue-signal their recompensatory guilt. 
Instead, the woke movement is largely fueled by the upper- and self-segregating classes—elites who have done well and are using race either to do even better by seeking mandatory concessions, or whites who sympathize with such agendas, or believe they will win exemption from career impairment by their virtue-signaling fides. They recall calculating czarist Russian aristocrats who felt Lenin was inevitable but still easily leveraged.
Is there some rule that says the most vocal “antiracists” of the last two months must live in homes worth over $10 million in value? When the Obamas venture out of their seaside Martha’s Vineyard spread, it is to lecture the country on racial unfairness and “Jim Crow” voting laws. 
When Oprah Winfrey compares slights with Meghan Markle, it is one $90 million estate holder chatting with another $14 million estate holder. When LeBron James with impunity threatens an officer on Twitter (“You’re next”), he does so from his own well-guarded $40 million Beverly Hills enclave.
None of these loud multimillionaire wokeists would defund their security details or would prefer not to live in their epicenters of “whiteness” and “white privilege.” They would no more prefer to live in an inner-city than they would in rural Kansas. 
We need a Petronius to capture the irony of self-labeled “Marxist”  Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter. 
She is now a proud owner of a $1.4 million Topanga Canyon home, in a nearly all-white neighborhood—and busy using her Marxist market insights to create a mini-real-estate family empire. It’s funny how $100 million in corporate donations can turn Karl Marx into Milton Friedman.
Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey believes his $18 million salary makes him as much an authority on the unfairness and inequity of Georgia’s voting laws as Delta CEO Ed Bastian (a mere $17 million a year) or Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred at a mere pre-COVID $11 million a year. So Americans are to buy Coke, fly Delta, and watch baseball while being lectured on the need for equity by these privileged multimillionaires? That, too, is an unsustainable proposition. 
Those whites smeared for having privilege, usually do not have it; those who smear them, white and non-white, usually do. But the common denominator of wokeism is rank ignorance: ignorance that a multiracial democracy is a combustible, fragile structure, easy for the arsonist to destroy but hard for first responders to save; ignorance that the wealth fueling the thousands in the street, equity commissars, the human resources sleuths, and the professionally aggrieved is predicated on a meritocracy that ensures in a ruthless world Americans and their political and economic system can outperform the competition that has no illusions about the evils of tribalism; and ignorance that the vision of wokeness is not just racialist payback but the nihilism of the Balkans sort.  And the odd thing is that these deluded appeasers of all this madness won’t even get to be eaten last.

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—April 26

By ED WHELAN

April 26, 2021 8:00 AM

1987—In an unspeakably brutal crime, Donald Middlebrooks (a 24-year-old white male) and two accomplices kidnap Kerrick Majors, a 14-year-old black youth, decide to “have some fun” with him, tie his hands, and take him into the woods. There, according to Middlebrooks’s videotaped confession, one accomplice, Roger Brewington, beats Majors with brass knuckles, hits him with a stick, and urinates into his mouth; Middlebrooks slaps Majors and hits him with a switch; and the other accomplice burns his nose with a cigarette lighter. Brewington then abuses Majors’s private parts, beats and gags him, and slashes his wrist. Middlebrooks asks Brewington to stop and initially refuses Brewington’s direction to stab Majors. But after Brewington stabs Majors, Middlebrooks does so as well. Majors dies at the end of the 3-1/2 hour ordeal.

Middlebrooks is convicted of first-degree felony-murder and aggravated kidnapping and is sentenced to death. On appeal, the Tennessee supreme court, by a 3 to 2 vote, vacates the death sentence. In a separate opinion, Chief Justice Lyle Reid, joined by Justice Martha Craig Daughtrey, goes even further, opining that the imposition of the death penalty for a conviction of felony-murder is cruel and unusual punishment under the state constitution. (The U.S. Supreme Court had rejected that conclusion under the Eighth Amendment.) Perceiving themselves as part of the enlightened elite charged with overriding the riff-raff’s benighted views, Reid and Daughtrey condemn the death penalty generally: “Implicit in death penalty jurisprudence is the recognition that the standards of decency are not static but evolving, that society is not stale but maturing, and that the level of community morality will continue to rise until the reasoned moral response of the people of Tennessee will be, if it is not already, that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment.” Ah, yes, in the eyes of the liberal judicial activist, no one exercising mature moral reasoning could possibly believe that the brutality inflicted on Kerrick Majors would call for the death penalty as a response.

In 1993, Daughtrey’s credentials as a liberal judicial activist earn her President Clinton’s appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Meanwhile, on remand, Middlebrooks is again sentenced to death. In 1999—twelve years after Majors’s brutal death—the Tennessee supreme court, with Reid and Daughtrey no longer serving on it, unanimously upholds the death sentence.

Eeyore’s Cabinet: Where Does it All End?

By: Victor Davis Hanson

April 27, 2021

 Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers

Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh

Eeyore could continue, but what we are witnessing is unapologetic nihilism. We are engaged in a suicidal impulse to delight in primeval tribalism, to destroy the entire concept of merit—and to erect in its place a Sovietized system largely overseen by middle-aged,  privileged white people and minority elites, who as bureaucrats, lawyers, politicians, media functionaries, and academics dream up these apartheid systems, apply them to less well-off others, and then traverse around the very consequences of their own ideologies.
I am not cynical, but I do expect that homeless camps will not pop up next to Silicon Valley prep schools (as they do near Seattle public schools), that the walls of Montecito and Malibu were better erected than the pre-Trump rickety border fence, and that the pilots of John Kerry’s or Mark Zuckerberg’s private jets were and will be selected only on the basis of meritorious records of flying, period.
Where does it lead? A vast Lord of the Flies nation, worshiping a Boar’s Head, with victory going to the strongest tribe? 
Fortified hamlets and pockets similar to the world of Augustine in the 4th Century AD, outside Hippo Regius? 
Our major downtowns now the weedy streets and rubble-filled agoras of the abandoned heartland city-states of Roman-era Greece, as described by Pausanias and Plutarch? 
The medieval keep and the peasantry hugging its outside walls?
A return to 1970s and early 1980s, popularized by Dirty Harry, Death Wish, and Escape From New York? 
Or the Time Machine’s Morlocks and Eloi?
Or just our same old, same old juxtaposition of the pre- and post-modern slow decline, in which the rule of law has been replaced by the rule of the tribe. But then again, as the great economist, Adam Smith warned us, there is a lot of ‘ruin’ in a successful state to bank on, as we consume the inherited gifts from the hard work, investment, and sacrifice of our betters now long dead—and maligned for their generous inheritance to us.

Watermelon and Harvard Balderdash 

By Theodore Wilson

April 27, 2021

Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh

            “What the hell are you doing?” My father’s words echoed like the sound of whitewater rapids of a river in flood stage. I could only imagine what my leg looked like dangling through the kitchen ceiling. There was nothing that I could say that would make sense. I hung on fearlessly griping the rafters, trying to not lose my grip and fall through the hole onto the kitchen floor below. I didn’t want to face my dad, but I couldn’t seem to pull myself out of my predicament because I didn’t know what to do next. I was only ten years old.
           Those six words are the most potent statement stored in my memory. They resurface automatically, like tears or laughter, when stupid defines the moment. Now, decades later, I am re-experiencing the fear of that moment after watching an election being hijacked, a pandemic gone haywire, and a war on our constitution. 
           Words, they can make you happy, bring out anger, or make your feel pathetic. White supremacy, systemic prejudice, cancel culture, …, typical Harvard jargon. They are hurtful and damaging statements.
“Every now and then I get a little bit angry and I know I’ve got to get out and cry.”  Six decades later, I am screaming. “What the hell are we doing?” It’s all coming back to me now, a total eclipse of the mind.
           Yes, I have hostile feelings, but I discovered recently that I am not the only white person feeling this way. Although I avoid public discussions on politics and religion, the subject surfaced at a Saturday night party. 
“What the hell are they doing?” I heard the statement from across the room. My son got 4 A’s and a C.  Do you know what the class was that he got a low grade? Racial Inclusion Class. He went on to say, it was a discussion course. The boy claimed he didn’t talk much because he feared he might say the wrong thing. The only test was an essay. When he questioned the teacher about the grade and was told nothing was wrong with his answer, but he just didn’t seem to agree with the rest of the class.
           The student was a senior at Arkansas State University, a business major, in a class he was forced to take against his will, and required to pay for the credit. It happens across the country.
Missouri University, St. Louis, has pushed the abolition of the electoral college. Ohio University indoctrinates students to accept responsibility for evil white power.            The father of the boy clearly had the sympathy of everyone in the room. Yes, they were all white, but they asked a fair question.  Should a student have his grade cut because he did not bend to the pressure of the teacher who required him to participate, and then denied him the right to free expression?
           Herein lies the problem. Discrimination, prejudice, and inequality have a long history of social injustice. It took too long before we addressed them in the United States, and the process has been slow. Humanity cannot change overnight, but we have traveled far.
           When blacks play the racial card, they are holding a gun on an unarmed person. The only acceptable answer, agreement. Denial portrays racism. Blacks always win, whites always lose.
           Diana Schaub, Ph.D. provides this example. When Schaub was teaching at Harvard, it was discovered that she had published a theory that the reason the number of blacks playing professional baseball has decreased was likely caused by the absence of fathers in the black families. That supposition resulted in the charge of prejudice and she was labeled a racist and subjected to harmful public harassment.
           The racial issue seems to be a one-dimensional problem.  American Indians, Asians, and Latinos have been eliminated, and it has become a black and white issue. It focuses on a one-sided black history and their problems in education, economics, discrimination, and criminal justice. The success of millions of blacks whose successes have reached the top and who live in diverse neighborhoods in every city seems to be eliminated from the equation.
           The issues are a conglomeration of multi-theories published by college professors seeking to make their way into the hierarchy of elite academic distinction. Racism serves as a stacked deck of cards in their favor, a hot issue, and an easy route to achieving status.
           The critical race theory, structural racism, systemic equality, white privilege, individual racism, inclusion, institutional racism, interpersonal racism, cancel culture, and white fertility are the content of pressurized indoctrination that college students are being subjected to across the country.
           The average adult hasn’t been exposed to these topics. Few members of the American working class truly understand how this compulsory education will affect the future of the country.
           Dr. Joe R. Feagin, Ph.D. from Harvard and former president of the American Sociological Association has led the charge. Feagin’s book, Systemic Racism – A Theory Oppression, published in 2006, won him the distinction of a guru on racial and gender issues. This publication became a textbook widely used throughout the country in racial diversity classes. 
           This book was marketed as an extensive research project clearly substantiated by clinical studies. In reality, his theories were not objective. The theory was totally reliant on his subjective evidence coming from commentaries to draw his conclusions. Feagin confined his work within a single dimension to prove his theory. In 1970, that thesis would not have been approved by Graduate Committee at the University of Wisconsin as an accurate study for a master’s degree, and most likely, at no other school with a good reputation.
            In contrast, Feagin describes white prejudice as the harmful prejudgment that results from stereotypes, but his theories all stereotype the white race. For example, he labels all whites as prejudice, and if they do not admit it, they are part of the problem.
           The inaccuracies of his American history and the lack of objectivity kills his theories.
He claims America was founded on slavery and this country was built on the backs of African Americans. Whites bear the guilt of the consequences of the actions of their forefathers.
 Slavery was not an American institution, it was founded by Africans before Christ and still exists in Africa today. Colonial Americans were English, French, and Spanish colonist. 
 White Americans started the Civil War to free the slaves. That conflict was our country’s largest war, one-third larger than WWII.  There were 642,427 Union causalities, people who gave their lives for the black population. Feagin’s deleted history, an act not valued as a contribution to the future Americans.
           Since 1800, 74 million legal immigrants entered the United States. Most Americans today owe their heritage to that group, rather than colonial immigrants to whom Feagin correlates white supremacy.
           Feagin never tested his theories scientifically. He should have compared blacks by dividing them into groups: inner-city vs. suburbs, rural vs. urban, and by states; and, he should have compared those results to the statistics of all their neighbors, Europeans, Asians, and Latinos. It would also be interesting to compare responses between the upper, middle, and lower income groups, and compare the numbers of black and white athletes in college and professional sports.  Those results provide the validity and reliability for his theories on racism, mathematically based on the correlation of the coefficient. 
           In his book, Feagin points out with historical documentation that the cost and burdens of racism are disproportionately borne by people of color and by black people especially. In that statement, he leads readers to believe that most of the taxes used to support Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, monthly income checks for unwed mothers, Pell grants for college education, abortions, etc., come from the pockets of black taxpayers. 
           While white college students are being re-programmed, the Critical Race Theory Ideology – K-12 has been adopted by school districts. Based on Marxist theory, children are being told, “all whites are prejudice, if you don’t believe it, you are part of the problem.”  The system only gives advantages to white people.
           During the counter culture of the 1960s, Harvard professor Timothy Leary launched the Harvard Psilocybin Project to experiment with hallucination. He became known as the High Priest of LSD and was labeled as the most dangerous man in America. Indeed, the great Harvard experiment helped introduce the drug revolution into the United States. 
Feagin, the newest version of Harvard balderdash, has helped educate an army of well-educated sociologists striving to overtake our education and political systems, to destroy the freedoms on which this country was founded. Now we have a new struggle, Black Lives Matter and communism, possibly leading to civil war.
           In the 1950s, prejudice was characterized by stereotyping. For example, rude racial jokes sometimes portrayed blacks eating watermelons. In reality, whites like watermelons just as much.  Stereotypes tend to lead us into irrational thinking and prejudice because oversimplifying the reality distorts the optic truth, both positive and negative. That can be a weapon of hurt and destruction and it was a ploy that helped turn Germans into fascists, and Russians into communists. 
What we are observing in the United States has become a clear message of hurt, hatred, and destruction of whites, religion, and the U.S. constitution.  The one-dimensional view allows racists to pick and choose statistics to prove their point, and it omits critical thinking as a solution to all the answers. The Civil Rights Bill of 1964 clearly defines discrimination of race, color, creed, or sex as unconstitutional. Whites are now the target, and they are defenseless because the Civil Rights Bill may not apply to them.
White tenacity should not be confused with white supremacy.  During the depression, the homeless rode the rails, piled everything they owned into an old truck, and drove, or walked, looking for work. Today, they live under bridges and stand on street corners.
In comparison, is the American dream only a white dream? The truth is, millions of Blacks have climbed the ladder of success, they have become doctors dentists, authors, scientists, teachers, coaches, and so much more. Now we are witnessing the birth of a new phenomenon, the emergence of highly sophisticated Black conservative politicians like Burges Owens, Corey Booker, and Tim Scott, just to name a few.  The emotions at the Saturday night party had the sensation of helplessness, a hanging through the ceiling experience, “What the hell can we do?” 
There are three choices. There are always people without knowledge of what’s going on around them, and if they are ignorant, they often have problems without realizing it. They will be blindsided.
People who are well informed often choose to be passive. They stand by and observe as the passengers did on the Titanic and went down with the ship. 
Lastly, you have the movers and shakers, they pull themselves out of the rafters and salvage the best of the situation. These were present at the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Bunker Hill.
A disturbing reality exists. The vast majority of the white population in the United States does not know that the White Replacement Theory has been eating away at America like termites consuming the structure inside the walls of their house.
An army began forming after the November presidential election. Not just white religious conservatives, American citizens who value the right to choose their own destiny. People of every race possess that desire, white-collar and laborers, Christians and Jews, mothers and fathers, a growing resistance against communism and Feaginism. They speak out, write letters, and stay informed.
There are actions of stronger impact. Boycotts of Chinese products and any company that supports the destruction of traditional family values, including state institutions that embody compulsory anti-white philosophy as a graduation requirement. 
We cannot do this silently. When I attempt to purchase an unmarked product, I ask the clerk where it was produced. When I cancel a service, I tell them why.
Parents with children in state-supported schools need to write their governors and legislators requesting that courses of racially oriented content need to be elective, ungraded, and without tuition.
Careers can interfere with one’s responsibility to good character, family, and community. The repercussions of accepting this are inexcusable. If your child gets run over by a car because you were not paying attention when he was playing in the street, it’s your fault. The fully functioning individual keeps God, country, and family in perspective.
We are in a state of crisis, edging toward revolutionary dictatorship. Those who value freedom and ignore hostility to their beliefs, risk the health of the country. The solution requires united action, and the equation depends on total citizen participation.

Eeyore’s Cabinet: The Racial Golden Calf

By: Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers

April 26, 2021

HAT TIP: RIP MACINTOSH

A multiracial democracy of the 21st century has abruptly begun worshiping superficial appearances, as it announces that everything from the order of vaccinations and farm aid to cash vouchers for the poor and dorm selections will be determined by race, in utter violation of the U.S. Constitution that is increasingly despised, especially its Bill of Rights. (Have you noticed that the Left now feels about the First Amendment the same way it always despised the Second?)
The ultimate premise of disparate impact is not proof of ongoing systemic racism and discrimination, but rather the fumes of racism from the pre-Civil Rights era: a white generation, which grew up during affirmative action, supposedly exercises unearned privilege, as a non-white generation claims the prejudices shown its parents, but more likely its grandparents, justify reparatory action for themselves—as class vanishes entirely in the matrix. 
The result is predictable: multi-millionaires like Oprah and Megan Markel nurse their hurts on-air, presumably and indirectly, inflicted by the culture of those devious deplorable mechanics in Elko and car salesmen of York. 
I suggest we end the term “white people.” Better is: “certain” white people—given those of the middle and lower classes have little in common with white elites. 
In a reductionist sense, so much of the hatred of the Left is a thinly disguised attack not on “white people”, but on supposedly less hip, not cool and hardly “successful” white people whom the left brands as deplorables, irredeemables, chumps, clingers, Neanderthals, and dregs, to quote our three illustrious and tolerant wise men and women, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden. 

Optimism, Inc. Part 5: The Most Privileged of the Privileged?

By: Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers

April 26, 2021 

Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh

Our final irony this week? Who is the White Privileg-ist of all? Hunter Biden, of course. What inner-city denizen, what white Deplorable from Butte would be given a pass if he left his crack pipe and substance in his rental car? Or was given age and drug conviction waivers to enter the Navy—only to be quietly asked to leave for drug use? 
Or, who from his twenties onward, was gifted by the swamp administrations of both parties with serial billets in make-work job on boards and bureaucracies? And what clinger or “chump” would become a multimillionaire, by peddling his family’s name to the highest bidding foreign government or domestic corporation? 
And, who among us has violated gun registration laws, as well as prostitution, drug, and pornography statutes with complete exemption? 
Who has lied repeatedly in public about his transgressions, and had his now president-father lie to the country that his son was a victim of “Russian disinformation”, the sort of fables that a murderous Putin now remembers as his troops muster on the Ukrainian border?
We do not know the precise percentages of attribution within Hunter Biden’s world of privilege: Was his last name 80 percent of the con? Did being pampered, male and white account for the other 20 percent?  
Yet, how can any woke movement still exist when the President’s son, about whose transgressions the President serially lies, is the epitome of all the supposed pathological perks which the president has pledged to end?