Sheriff Joe
DA
Not very tenacious today.
BTW, who game you that screen name?
Ponderable
- Thread starter Bruddah IZ
- Start date
BTW, who game you that screen name?
He said they pushed the fat kid in front of them. I don't disagree with you about the kids getting so much play, but this guy doesn't have a long leash. I think he's toast.
I'd agree with you more if the audience listening to him on that audio recording wasn't laughing their asses off through all the jokes. From Lenny Bruce to Richard Pryor, past experience says the public tends to give comedians lots of leeway.
But then again, in the #metoo era a lot has changed (much of it for the better), so I will admit you could very well be right.
I agree with both of your paragraphs.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Congratulations.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Get a room.
Bruddah IZ
DA
I wonder how many like her were aborted.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Not near enough. She needs a late late term abortion.
My real take is that the #metoo / diversity push in the entertainment / media fields is getting closed to having crested. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing is a question I'll leave up to the readers to decide, but I base that opinion on the follow three thoughts:
1. Outrage is a tough emotion to use to sell newspapers and movie tickets. For example, a year from now I doubt Keira Knightley would still be able to get top billing in the New York Times with the headlines about how much easier life would be if she had a penis. Nor will you find CNN leading with stories about a black wrestler being made to cut his dreads, over stories about Trump pulling troops out of Syria. My take on it is outrage demands a lot from the viewers, and for better or worse, people will get exhausted.
If anything we'll start seeing more stories about school teachers seducing students, or unmentioned topics more along the lines of a (hypothetical) Rosy O'Donnell type character taking advantage of young actresses, or a (hypothetical) Barbra Bush type forcing herself on a pool boy, or exposes on how some of these viral videos are basically setups. And of course once #metoo / diversity starts cutting both ways a lot of folks are going to want to drop it.
2. The accused are no longer going to run off in shame ala' Al Franken or Garrison Keillor. Just take Louis CK for an example. I think even he'd admit he's a pervert... but he's also very smart, very talented, quite capable of pointing out the hypocrisy in the people coming after him and I would also imagine very pissed off. At the end of the day entertainment and selling newspapers is a business. And if folks will pay to watch and hear what Louis CK types have to say- it's going to become increasingly hard to shout these people down if they stop slinking off.
3. Lastly I would make the point that after a year of seeing diversity in action... we all have agree black and female entertainers and news professionalists have proven they can do the job as well as white men. However objectively I would also admit that so far I don't see an wildly new perspectives to the craft film making coming from this push for diversity, that are in anyway comparable to say what black Jazz and the Blues artists did for music. Or that is say uniquely feminine in the way burlesque dancing is. If anything... it sure feels like in this past years push for diversity we saw what was a uniquely Latin genera of Fantastic Realism (Birdman, The Shape of Water) get left behind. As I said before, rightly or wrongly, if diversity doesn't bring a unique perspective that we can all point to and say it wouldn't have been possible otherwise... my guess is people are going to quickly get bored with it.
Sheriff Joe
DA
We have had enough with the experiment.
I've got an idea, lets hire the best man for the job.
Sports Media Outraged As Nearly All of NFL’s Black Head Coaches Fired
I've got an idea, lets hire the best man for the job.
Sports Media Outraged As Nearly All of NFL’s Black Head Coaches Fired
Sheriff Joe
DA
What a douche.
LeBron James declares himself 'the greatest player of all time' because of championship with Cavaliers
James says his 2016 NBA title with the Cavs made him the best ever
Basketball's GOAT debate may still rage on in think pieces, debate shows and bar conversations on a near daily basis, but it's settled in LeBron James' head ... and it has been for a few years now.
LeBron is the greatest of all time, according to LeBron.
James apparently came to that conclusion after the 2016 NBA Finals, which were won by his Cleveland Cavaliers. After falling into a three-games-to-one series hole against the mighty Golden State Warriors, LeBron led the Cavs to three straight wins (two of them coming on the road) and recorded a triple-double in the decisive Game 7.
He was the unanimous Finals MVP and, more importantly, he delivered on his promise of bringing a championship to his hometown Cavaliers -- their first in franchise history.
At that point, LeBron was ready to call himself the best ever.
"That one right there made me the greatest player of all time ... that's what I felt," LeBron told business partners Maverick Carter, Randy Mims and Rich Paul during an episode of ESPN's "More Than An Athlete" series that aired Sunday night. "I was super, super ecstatic to win one for Cleveland because of the 52-year drought. ... The first wave of emotion was when everyone saw me crying, like, that was all for 52 years of everything in sports that's gone on in Cleveland. And then after I stopped, I was like -- that one right there made you the greatest player of all time.
LeBron James declares himself 'the greatest player of all time' because of championship with Cavaliers
James says his 2016 NBA title with the Cavs made him the best ever
- by Pete Blackburn
- @PeteBlackburn
- 17h ago • 2 min read
Basketball's GOAT debate may still rage on in think pieces, debate shows and bar conversations on a near daily basis, but it's settled in LeBron James' head ... and it has been for a few years now.
LeBron is the greatest of all time, according to LeBron.
James apparently came to that conclusion after the 2016 NBA Finals, which were won by his Cleveland Cavaliers. After falling into a three-games-to-one series hole against the mighty Golden State Warriors, LeBron led the Cavs to three straight wins (two of them coming on the road) and recorded a triple-double in the decisive Game 7.
He was the unanimous Finals MVP and, more importantly, he delivered on his promise of bringing a championship to his hometown Cavaliers -- their first in franchise history.
At that point, LeBron was ready to call himself the best ever.
"That one right there made me the greatest player of all time ... that's what I felt," LeBron told business partners Maverick Carter, Randy Mims and Rich Paul during an episode of ESPN's "More Than An Athlete" series that aired Sunday night. "I was super, super ecstatic to win one for Cleveland because of the 52-year drought. ... The first wave of emotion was when everyone saw me crying, like, that was all for 52 years of everything in sports that's gone on in Cleveland. And then after I stopped, I was like -- that one right there made you the greatest player of all time.
Sheriff Joe
DA
What the hell is wrong with you people?
Abortion
Opinion
'Pro-Life’ Abortion Activist Tells Kids: Abortion Is ‘God’s Plan’
Katie Yoder
|
Posted: Dec 31, 2018 5:00 PM
Thanks to media efforts, children are learning all about abortion just in time for the new year – from a staunch abortion supporter only too happy to regurgitate talking points to youngsters.
On Dec. 28, Kids Meet, a HiHo show run by Cut.com, released its latest episode on Facebook: “Kids Meet Someone Who's Had an Abortion.” In this case, that someone was Amelia Bonow – the cofounder of #ShoutYourAbortion, a network that encourages women share their positive abortion stories. While Bonow accused the pro-life movement of “propaganda,” she spread some of her own to kids – from calling abortion “God’s plan” to identifying as “pro-life.”
The Kids Meet show claims to foster “empathy through play” by introducing “curious kids” to “people with particular points of view.” But Bonow didn’t just give a point of view; she twisted religion and the pro-life movement to kids.
“I had an abortion,” Bonow began telling various kids, because “I got pregnant and I really didn’t want to have a baby.” She argued that her abortion wasn’t “reckless” because “mistakes happen.” And this was a mistake easily fixed.
“You go to the doctor, and they put this little straw inside of your cervix and then inside of your uterus and then they just suck the pregnancy out,” Bonow described. “And it was like a crappy dentist appointment or something. It was just like, ‘ahhhh, this is like a body thing that’s kind of uncomfortable.’”
And just like that, a life ended. Although, according to Bonow, life “begins when a person has a baby.” It doesn’t begin at conception, where an unborn baby’s unique DNA is set, or even at six weeks, when a baby’s heartbeat is detectable.
In her discussion normalizing abortion, Bonow, like many in the media, didn’t acknowledge stories from those who survived their mothers’ attempt to abort them, like Gianna Jessen and Melissa Ohden, or the stories of regret that other women share. Organizations like the Silent No More Awareness Campaign lists thousands of their testimonies.
One, from Jenna in Indiana, urged: “Please understand the horror of getting an abortion. It’s not a procedure to fix an illness; it’s to end a life. It’s not all going to go away, you will think about it for the rest of your life. It will haunt you.”
Another mother, from Alabama, wrote, “If I could do it over, I would have kept her … I will never forget what a horrible decision I made at the time, and I will never forget that I killed my little girl, my only girl."
Bonow not only bypassed stories like these but also overlooked alternatives to abortion.
“Do we want people to just have all those babies? So what do we do with them?” she asked one boy who suggested certain abortion limits. When the young kid suggested adoption, she again disagreed. “I feel like if I am forced to create life, I have lost the right to my own life.”
She continued, “I should be the one to decide if my body creates a life.” Plus, if a woman chooses the adoption route, “you still like have a kid, out there, somewhere.”
She’s right: no one should be forced to create a life. The difference is that, in the pro-life movement, that choice happens before getting pregnant – not after.
The pro-life movement is centered on abortion and religion, Bonow implied. (She forgot groups like Secular Pro-Life.) She wanted to know the children’s faith while, at the same time, she didn’t reveal her own. Although, on Twitter, she once typed, “I wish I believed in God,” suggesting that she’s atheist.
“Are you religious at all? What do you think that God thinks about abortion?” she asked one kid, before inquiring of a Catholic girl, “Have you ever heard of what like the Catholic Church thinks about abortion?” For her part, Bonow – who may not even believe in God – told them abortion is “all part of God’s plan.”
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She showed no qualms about using God to argue for abortion in a video with kids whose faith teaches them that abortion ends a human person’s life. She also had no problem trying to hijack the pro-life movement. That’s because pro-lifers are really “anti-choice,” and pro-choicers, like herself, are really “pro-life.”
“To me, the phrase ‘pro-life’ is propaganda because often the people that say that don’t want to take care of people who have babies they can’t afford and then are totally poor,” she said. “I’m just like ‘that’s not – you guys aren’t pro-life, I’m pro-life.’”
She failed to mention that it’s the pro-life movement that sponsors pregnancy centers, which provide pregnant women and new moms with free housing, medical supplies, clothing, and educational classes, among other support. Instead, Bonow blamed her abortion woes on “old white dudes in the government.” Nevermind that the pro-life movement is largely led by women, from Susan B. Anthony List’s President Marjorie Dannenfelser to March for Life’s President Jeanne Mancini.
The problem with Bonow wasn’t that she was teaching empathy like the video claimed, but that she was teaching antipathy of the pro-life movement – to kids.
But Bonow was dedicated, if nothing else. At one point, she asked a teenager if she wanted to see a tattoo. She pulled down her lower lip to reveal one inside her mouth reading, “abortion
Abortion
Opinion
'Pro-Life’ Abortion Activist Tells Kids: Abortion Is ‘God’s Plan’
Katie Yoder
|
Posted: Dec 31, 2018 5:00 PM
Thanks to media efforts, children are learning all about abortion just in time for the new year – from a staunch abortion supporter only too happy to regurgitate talking points to youngsters.
On Dec. 28, Kids Meet, a HiHo show run by Cut.com, released its latest episode on Facebook: “Kids Meet Someone Who's Had an Abortion.” In this case, that someone was Amelia Bonow – the cofounder of #ShoutYourAbortion, a network that encourages women share their positive abortion stories. While Bonow accused the pro-life movement of “propaganda,” she spread some of her own to kids – from calling abortion “God’s plan” to identifying as “pro-life.”
The Kids Meet show claims to foster “empathy through play” by introducing “curious kids” to “people with particular points of view.” But Bonow didn’t just give a point of view; she twisted religion and the pro-life movement to kids.
“I had an abortion,” Bonow began telling various kids, because “I got pregnant and I really didn’t want to have a baby.” She argued that her abortion wasn’t “reckless” because “mistakes happen.” And this was a mistake easily fixed.
“You go to the doctor, and they put this little straw inside of your cervix and then inside of your uterus and then they just suck the pregnancy out,” Bonow described. “And it was like a crappy dentist appointment or something. It was just like, ‘ahhhh, this is like a body thing that’s kind of uncomfortable.’”
And just like that, a life ended. Although, according to Bonow, life “begins when a person has a baby.” It doesn’t begin at conception, where an unborn baby’s unique DNA is set, or even at six weeks, when a baby’s heartbeat is detectable.
In her discussion normalizing abortion, Bonow, like many in the media, didn’t acknowledge stories from those who survived their mothers’ attempt to abort them, like Gianna Jessen and Melissa Ohden, or the stories of regret that other women share. Organizations like the Silent No More Awareness Campaign lists thousands of their testimonies.
One, from Jenna in Indiana, urged: “Please understand the horror of getting an abortion. It’s not a procedure to fix an illness; it’s to end a life. It’s not all going to go away, you will think about it for the rest of your life. It will haunt you.”
Another mother, from Alabama, wrote, “If I could do it over, I would have kept her … I will never forget what a horrible decision I made at the time, and I will never forget that I killed my little girl, my only girl."
Bonow not only bypassed stories like these but also overlooked alternatives to abortion.
“Do we want people to just have all those babies? So what do we do with them?” she asked one boy who suggested certain abortion limits. When the young kid suggested adoption, she again disagreed. “I feel like if I am forced to create life, I have lost the right to my own life.”
She continued, “I should be the one to decide if my body creates a life.” Plus, if a woman chooses the adoption route, “you still like have a kid, out there, somewhere.”
She’s right: no one should be forced to create a life. The difference is that, in the pro-life movement, that choice happens before getting pregnant – not after.
The pro-life movement is centered on abortion and religion, Bonow implied. (She forgot groups like Secular Pro-Life.) She wanted to know the children’s faith while, at the same time, she didn’t reveal her own. Although, on Twitter, she once typed, “I wish I believed in God,” suggesting that she’s atheist.
“Are you religious at all? What do you think that God thinks about abortion?” she asked one kid, before inquiring of a Catholic girl, “Have you ever heard of what like the Catholic Church thinks about abortion?” For her part, Bonow – who may not even believe in God – told them abortion is “all part of God’s plan.”
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She showed no qualms about using God to argue for abortion in a video with kids whose faith teaches them that abortion ends a human person’s life. She also had no problem trying to hijack the pro-life movement. That’s because pro-lifers are really “anti-choice,” and pro-choicers, like herself, are really “pro-life.”
“To me, the phrase ‘pro-life’ is propaganda because often the people that say that don’t want to take care of people who have babies they can’t afford and then are totally poor,” she said. “I’m just like ‘that’s not – you guys aren’t pro-life, I’m pro-life.’”
She failed to mention that it’s the pro-life movement that sponsors pregnancy centers, which provide pregnant women and new moms with free housing, medical supplies, clothing, and educational classes, among other support. Instead, Bonow blamed her abortion woes on “old white dudes in the government.” Nevermind that the pro-life movement is largely led by women, from Susan B. Anthony List’s President Marjorie Dannenfelser to March for Life’s President Jeanne Mancini.
The problem with Bonow wasn’t that she was teaching empathy like the video claimed, but that she was teaching antipathy of the pro-life movement – to kids.
But Bonow was dedicated, if nothing else. At one point, she asked a teenager if she wanted to see a tattoo. She pulled down her lower lip to reveal one inside her mouth reading, “abortion
Multi Sport
DA
Disgusting .What the hell is wrong with you people?
Abortion
Opinion
'Pro-Life’ Abortion Activist Tells Kids: Abortion Is ‘God’s Plan’
Katie Yoder
|
Posted: Dec 31, 2018 5:00 PM
Thanks to media efforts, children are learning all about abortion just in time for the new year – from a staunch abortion supporter only too happy to regurgitate talking points to youngsters.
On Dec. 28, Kids Meet, a HiHo show run by Cut.com, released its latest episode on Facebook: “Kids Meet Someone Who's Had an Abortion.” In this case, that someone was Amelia Bonow – the cofounder of #ShoutYourAbortion, a network that encourages women share their positive abortion stories. While Bonow accused the pro-life movement of “propaganda,” she spread some of her own to kids – from calling abortion “God’s plan” to identifying as “pro-life.”
The Kids Meet show claims to foster “empathy through play” by introducing “curious kids” to “people with particular points of view.” But Bonow didn’t just give a point of view; she twisted religion and the pro-life movement to kids.
“I had an abortion,” Bonow began telling various kids, because “I got pregnant and I really didn’t want to have a baby.” She argued that her abortion wasn’t “reckless” because “mistakes happen.” And this was a mistake easily fixed.
“You go to the doctor, and they put this little straw inside of your cervix and then inside of your uterus and then they just suck the pregnancy out,” Bonow described. “And it was like a crappy dentist appointment or something. It was just like, ‘ahhhh, this is like a body thing that’s kind of uncomfortable.’”
And just like that, a life ended. Although, according to Bonow, life “begins when a person has a baby.” It doesn’t begin at conception, where an unborn baby’s unique DNA is set, or even at six weeks, when a baby’s heartbeat is detectable.
In her discussion normalizing abortion, Bonow, like many in the media, didn’t acknowledge stories from those who survived their mothers’ attempt to abort them, like Gianna Jessen and Melissa Ohden, or the stories of regret that other women share. Organizations like the Silent No More Awareness Campaign lists thousands of their testimonies.
One, from Jenna in Indiana, urged: “Please understand the horror of getting an abortion. It’s not a procedure to fix an illness; it’s to end a life. It’s not all going to go away, you will think about it for the rest of your life. It will haunt you.”
Another mother, from Alabama, wrote, “If I could do it over, I would have kept her … I will never forget what a horrible decision I made at the time, and I will never forget that I killed my little girl, my only girl."
Bonow not only bypassed stories like these but also overlooked alternatives to abortion.
“Do we want people to just have all those babies? So what do we do with them?” she asked one boy who suggested certain abortion limits. When the young kid suggested adoption, she again disagreed. “I feel like if I am forced to create life, I have lost the right to my own life.”
She continued, “I should be the one to decide if my body creates a life.” Plus, if a woman chooses the adoption route, “you still like have a kid, out there, somewhere.”
She’s right: no one should be forced to create a life. The difference is that, in the pro-life movement, that choice happens before getting pregnant – not after.
The pro-life movement is centered on abortion and religion, Bonow implied. (She forgot groups like Secular Pro-Life.) She wanted to know the children’s faith while, at the same time, she didn’t reveal her own. Although, on Twitter, she once typed, “I wish I believed in God,” suggesting that she’s atheist.
“Are you religious at all? What do you think that God thinks about abortion?” she asked one kid, before inquiring of a Catholic girl, “Have you ever heard of what like the Catholic Church thinks about abortion?” For her part, Bonow – who may not even believe in God – told them abortion is “all part of God’s plan.”
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She showed no qualms about using God to argue for abortion in a video with kids whose faith teaches them that abortion ends a human person’s life. She also had no problem trying to hijack the pro-life movement. That’s because pro-lifers are really “anti-choice,” and pro-choicers, like herself, are really “pro-life.”
“To me, the phrase ‘pro-life’ is propaganda because often the people that say that don’t want to take care of people who have babies they can’t afford and then are totally poor,” she said. “I’m just like ‘that’s not – you guys aren’t pro-life, I’m pro-life.’”
She failed to mention that it’s the pro-life movement that sponsors pregnancy centers, which provide pregnant women and new moms with free housing, medical supplies, clothing, and educational classes, among other support. Instead, Bonow blamed her abortion woes on “old white dudes in the government.” Nevermind that the pro-life movement is largely led by women, from Susan B. Anthony List’s President Marjorie Dannenfelser to March for Life’s President Jeanne Mancini.
The problem with Bonow wasn’t that she was teaching empathy like the video claimed, but that she was teaching antipathy of the pro-life movement – to kids.
But Bonow was dedicated, if nothing else. At one point, she asked a teenager if she wanted to see a tattoo. She pulled down her lower lip to reveal one inside her mouth reading, “abortion
Hüsker Dü
DA
t and Co. are fighting hard against womens's and human rights, so, YTD.
Sheriff Joe
DA
ANUARY 1, 2019
The Only Privilege in America is Liberal Privilege
By Christopher Chantrill
As lefty online dictionaries showcasing their lefty words of the year to review 2018 -- such as the “toxic” in toxic masculinity, toxic culture, and toxic environment -- I redeclare the following from 2015, without fear of contradiction:
The only privilege in America is Liberal Privilege.
Item: Michelle Alexander of the New York Times. Reported by Christopher DeGroot, she writes that none of us deserve to be Americans by the privilege of “birthright” citizenship. Okay, Ms. Privileged Times Writer, then prove your bona fides by giving up your privileged job to an educated migrant.
Item: AntiFa protesters in Portland and San Francisco, reported by Kevin Williamson. There is no greater privilege than for police to stand by and fail to enforce the law while the little darlings of the ruling class destroy the property of innocent citizens that are not licensed and bonded little darlings or the ruling class. Hey, AntiFa, why not try your mostly peaceful protesting where the police actually enforce the law -- even, Gaia forbid, on mostly peaceful lefty protesters.
Item: An anti-Semitic lefty group tweeting to kick a Jewish cafe owner out of San Francisco for supporting Israel. Anyone an inch right of center-left would be kicked off Twitter for that. Hey Jack, how about cracking down on those lefty haters?
Item: Catherine Blasey Ford's cock-and-bull story about being assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh nearly half a century ago when they were both teenagers. Do not try this tactic if you are a conservative woman attacking a liberal Supreme Court nominee.
And so on.
I'm in India right now, and back in the day, the Mughal emperors had audience halls, divans, at which they heard the petitions of the people. I don't expect that these demi-gods believed too much in the notion of justice for the people, but they knew enough to keep the natives from getting restless. They at least pretended to care.
But here we are in America 2018, and if there is one thing we know these days is that the left doesn't believe in justice for people like you and me. That's what all the rubbish about toxic masculinity and white privilege is all about. Justice is only a thing for the ruling class and its little darlings. That is the point of left-wing politics ever since Marx. There are the good guys, the activists and intellectuals, dedicated to the holy work of bending the arc of history towards justice; there are the necessary victims for whom the activists selflessly advocate and mostly peacefully protest. And then there are the bad guys, starting with the bourgeoisie, followed by the racists, then the sexists, the homophobes, and now the transphobes, the white supremacists, and the toxic fill-in-the-blanks. But don't entertain for one moment that you deplorables have the right to appear in the audience hall of your liberal lord and expect anything approaching a redress of grievances. You will notice that the rulers’ governing philosophy precludes this possibility, because they have already convicted you of toxic masculinity, white supremacy, or whatever the current activists have decided upon as the social crime du jour.
So here we have the kings and lords of old, who apparently felt that part of the art of ruling was to give their subjects the idea that their liege lord cared about hearing their grievances and even delivering equal justice under the law.
And we have our modern progressives, who do not believe that the people they have branded as toxic or as supremacist have a right to a hearing or to justice. That is because their politics has already determined who has a right to be heard and who has already been heard from too often. Simply put, activists and victims have a right to be heard, and a right to the redress if grievances; everything else is negotiable.
My line is that this attitude misunderstands the nature of justice and the nature of government. You can see it playing out in the yellow vest riots in France. The French ruling class had decided to fight climate change and was monstrously offended when the French people objected. Now, much too late, President Macron realizes he has a problem. Maybe if the president had held regular audiences -- as kings did in olden times -- at which ordinary people could air their grievances, he would not have been blindsided.
When you think about it, it is obvious that left-wing politics is fake politics. Instead of allowing the grievances of the people to develop organically, our modern elite creates an artificial politics with its activists -- who do not represent the people but are instead the bribed apologists of the ruling class pretending to be the voice of the people. That’s why I say:
The only privilege in America is Liberal Privilege.
The Only Privilege in America is Liberal Privilege
By Christopher Chantrill
As lefty online dictionaries showcasing their lefty words of the year to review 2018 -- such as the “toxic” in toxic masculinity, toxic culture, and toxic environment -- I redeclare the following from 2015, without fear of contradiction:
The only privilege in America is Liberal Privilege.
Item: Michelle Alexander of the New York Times. Reported by Christopher DeGroot, she writes that none of us deserve to be Americans by the privilege of “birthright” citizenship. Okay, Ms. Privileged Times Writer, then prove your bona fides by giving up your privileged job to an educated migrant.
Item: AntiFa protesters in Portland and San Francisco, reported by Kevin Williamson. There is no greater privilege than for police to stand by and fail to enforce the law while the little darlings of the ruling class destroy the property of innocent citizens that are not licensed and bonded little darlings or the ruling class. Hey, AntiFa, why not try your mostly peaceful protesting where the police actually enforce the law -- even, Gaia forbid, on mostly peaceful lefty protesters.
Item: An anti-Semitic lefty group tweeting to kick a Jewish cafe owner out of San Francisco for supporting Israel. Anyone an inch right of center-left would be kicked off Twitter for that. Hey Jack, how about cracking down on those lefty haters?
Item: Catherine Blasey Ford's cock-and-bull story about being assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh nearly half a century ago when they were both teenagers. Do not try this tactic if you are a conservative woman attacking a liberal Supreme Court nominee.
And so on.
But here we are in America 2018, and if there is one thing we know these days is that the left doesn't believe in justice for people like you and me. That's what all the rubbish about toxic masculinity and white privilege is all about. Justice is only a thing for the ruling class and its little darlings. That is the point of left-wing politics ever since Marx. There are the good guys, the activists and intellectuals, dedicated to the holy work of bending the arc of history towards justice; there are the necessary victims for whom the activists selflessly advocate and mostly peacefully protest. And then there are the bad guys, starting with the bourgeoisie, followed by the racists, then the sexists, the homophobes, and now the transphobes, the white supremacists, and the toxic fill-in-the-blanks. But don't entertain for one moment that you deplorables have the right to appear in the audience hall of your liberal lord and expect anything approaching a redress of grievances. You will notice that the rulers’ governing philosophy precludes this possibility, because they have already convicted you of toxic masculinity, white supremacy, or whatever the current activists have decided upon as the social crime du jour.
So here we have the kings and lords of old, who apparently felt that part of the art of ruling was to give their subjects the idea that their liege lord cared about hearing their grievances and even delivering equal justice under the law.
And we have our modern progressives, who do not believe that the people they have branded as toxic or as supremacist have a right to a hearing or to justice. That is because their politics has already determined who has a right to be heard and who has already been heard from too often. Simply put, activists and victims have a right to be heard, and a right to the redress if grievances; everything else is negotiable.
My line is that this attitude misunderstands the nature of justice and the nature of government. You can see it playing out in the yellow vest riots in France. The French ruling class had decided to fight climate change and was monstrously offended when the French people objected. Now, much too late, President Macron realizes he has a problem. Maybe if the president had held regular audiences -- as kings did in olden times -- at which ordinary people could air their grievances, he would not have been blindsided.
When you think about it, it is obvious that left-wing politics is fake politics. Instead of allowing the grievances of the people to develop organically, our modern elite creates an artificial politics with its activists -- who do not represent the people but are instead the bribed apologists of the ruling class pretending to be the voice of the people. That’s why I say:
The only privilege in America is Liberal Privilege.
Hüsker Dü
DA
t has taught us that deny, deny, deny and lie, lie, lie works with a certain part of the electorate (GP).
. . . and you need to watch more shorts.
Sheriff Joe
DA
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Roaming mob of 'urban youth' terrorized Chicago's 'Magnificent Mile' in below-freezing weather, sent Asian bystander to the hospital
By Thomas Lifson
Cold weather no longer is acting as a deterrent to the marauding mobs of teenagers (of no particular demographic characteristic, according to Chicago mainstream media) roaming through Chicago's showcase shopping district along Upper Michigan Avenue around the Water Tower. News of the attack could not be ignored, because the famous Water Tower Place Mall had to be closed and because the mob sent an innocent bystander waiting on a subway platform to the hospital.
CWB Chicago, the feisty neighborhood blog that does not shy away from facing Chicago's descent toward anarchy, reports:
At least four people were injured and CTA Red Line traffic was snarled as large groups of teens and young adults brought havoc to the Magnificent Mile on Saturday evening. One arrest was made.
Alderman Brian Hopkins (2nd) tweeted at 7:47 p.m. that "Water Tower Place will be closing at 8 p.m. tonight due to mob action by large crowds of juveniles."
The latest Mag Mile mob scene began around 5 p.m. when a victim reported being battered near the Red Line station at State and Chicago. A man was arrested in connection with that attack.
At the same time, employees of a nearby McDonald's reported 50 teenagers fighting inside the restaurant at 10 East Chicago. After being pushed from the restaurant, the group headed to Water Tower Place, where a disturbance was reported on the second floor at 5:45 p.m. Police estimated the crowd to be 50- to 60-strong.
Police moved the teens out of the mall and followed the group as it headed east toward the lake and then back to Water Tower, sparking widespread reports of assaults and fighting.
By 6:30 p.m. the mob began making its way back to the Red Line station at Chicago and State. The H&M store reported being struck by a large number of shoplifters and the McDonald's again reported being overrun by the mob.
Once on the Red Line platform, members of the group began beating up people at random. Three people filed police reports for battery and an ambulance was summoned to treat the victims.
The subway station where the attack took place.
Photo credit: Chicago Transit Authority.
Thanks to a report in the Sun-Times that was later scrubbed but preserved by CWB, we know that:
Yue Lei, 28, Chicago, was beaten by a group of teenagers about 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 29 while waiting for a train at the Chicago and State Red Line station. His glasses were broken and his hand, lip and eye were injured.
As a later version of the report noted, Mr. Lei asked not to be identified:
About 7:30 p.m., the victims were waiting for a train at the Chicago station, 800 N. State St., when the teens stepped onto the platform, according to Chicago police. One of the people in the group then asked a 26-year-old man if he was recording them, which he denied.
The horde of teens then approached the man, a 29-year-old woman and her 28-year-old boyfriend and started punching them, according to police and the victims, who asked not to be named.
All three were treated at the scene for bruising and lacerations, according to Chicago Fire Media Affairs.
The 28-year-old, who has lived in Chicago for three years, said he later went to University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, where he learned that his eye socket was fractured.
Mr. Lei evidently fears reprisals. His girlfriend, who traveled half the continent to be with him, told the Sun Times that he prudently is moving:
The woman who was struck had traveled to Chicago to visit him from San Jose, California. Disillusioned by the violence, he now plans to move to a "safer area" and avoid public transportation.
Second City Cop, the Chicago cop blog also unshackled from political correctness, asks the obvious question:
[W]ait a second, was this a hate crime? Fifty against three? Damn – once again, the media fails to describe even a single offender except as a "teen."
The transit police promise close examination of CCTV footage. We'll see who, if anyone, is brought to justice.
Meanwhile, Chicagoans can look forward to (or dread) the return of warmer weather. CWB remembers what warmer weather brings to Chicago's showcase shipping district.
Other cases were reported in early May, on Memorial Day weekend, and on Thanksgiving weekend.
Roaming mob of 'urban youth' terrorized Chicago's 'Magnificent Mile' in below-freezing weather, sent Asian bystander to the hospital
By Thomas Lifson
Cold weather no longer is acting as a deterrent to the marauding mobs of teenagers (of no particular demographic characteristic, according to Chicago mainstream media) roaming through Chicago's showcase shopping district along Upper Michigan Avenue around the Water Tower. News of the attack could not be ignored, because the famous Water Tower Place Mall had to be closed and because the mob sent an innocent bystander waiting on a subway platform to the hospital.
CWB Chicago, the feisty neighborhood blog that does not shy away from facing Chicago's descent toward anarchy, reports:
At least four people were injured and CTA Red Line traffic was snarled as large groups of teens and young adults brought havoc to the Magnificent Mile on Saturday evening. One arrest was made.
Alderman Brian Hopkins (2nd) tweeted at 7:47 p.m. that "Water Tower Place will be closing at 8 p.m. tonight due to mob action by large crowds of juveniles."
The latest Mag Mile mob scene began around 5 p.m. when a victim reported being battered near the Red Line station at State and Chicago. A man was arrested in connection with that attack.
At the same time, employees of a nearby McDonald's reported 50 teenagers fighting inside the restaurant at 10 East Chicago. After being pushed from the restaurant, the group headed to Water Tower Place, where a disturbance was reported on the second floor at 5:45 p.m. Police estimated the crowd to be 50- to 60-strong.
Police moved the teens out of the mall and followed the group as it headed east toward the lake and then back to Water Tower, sparking widespread reports of assaults and fighting.
By 6:30 p.m. the mob began making its way back to the Red Line station at Chicago and State. The H&M store reported being struck by a large number of shoplifters and the McDonald's again reported being overrun by the mob.
Once on the Red Line platform, members of the group began beating up people at random. Three people filed police reports for battery and an ambulance was summoned to treat the victims.
The subway station where the attack took place.
Photo credit: Chicago Transit Authority.
Thanks to a report in the Sun-Times that was later scrubbed but preserved by CWB, we know that:
Yue Lei, 28, Chicago, was beaten by a group of teenagers about 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 29 while waiting for a train at the Chicago and State Red Line station. His glasses were broken and his hand, lip and eye were injured.
As a later version of the report noted, Mr. Lei asked not to be identified:
About 7:30 p.m., the victims were waiting for a train at the Chicago station, 800 N. State St., when the teens stepped onto the platform, according to Chicago police. One of the people in the group then asked a 26-year-old man if he was recording them, which he denied.
The horde of teens then approached the man, a 29-year-old woman and her 28-year-old boyfriend and started punching them, according to police and the victims, who asked not to be named.
All three were treated at the scene for bruising and lacerations, according to Chicago Fire Media Affairs.
The 28-year-old, who has lived in Chicago for three years, said he later went to University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, where he learned that his eye socket was fractured.
Mr. Lei evidently fears reprisals. His girlfriend, who traveled half the continent to be with him, told the Sun Times that he prudently is moving:
The woman who was struck had traveled to Chicago to visit him from San Jose, California. Disillusioned by the violence, he now plans to move to a "safer area" and avoid public transportation.
Second City Cop, the Chicago cop blog also unshackled from political correctness, asks the obvious question:
[W]ait a second, was this a hate crime? Fifty against three? Damn – once again, the media fails to describe even a single offender except as a "teen."
The transit police promise close examination of CCTV footage. We'll see who, if anyone, is brought to justice.
Meanwhile, Chicagoans can look forward to (or dread) the return of warmer weather. CWB remembers what warmer weather brings to Chicago's showcase shipping district.
Other cases were reported in early May, on Memorial Day weekend, and on Thanksgiving weekend.