If You Tell People

That a beautiful women in an ad campaign to sell blue jeans is a sign of fascism, or Nazism or the latest bogeyman word "whiteness", you're not just cheapening the actual meaning of those first two words (the third is a nonsensical leftist construct of no import). 

You're also going to get a lot of people deciding that, you know, maybe fascism or Nazism or the latest boogeyman -- whiteness -- has something going for it when a superb advertising campaign for jeans is considered to be a sign of such.

New York Post:  Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad slammed as ‘Nazi propaganda’ by crazed woke mob over jeans/genes pun

 Daily Caller: CLARK BARRON: Liberals Can’t Handle Sydney Sweeney In Jeans — Now Everyone Wants To Buy Them

Not exactly the conclusion the progressive left should be hoping people will draw for their latest bout of manufactured outrage, but there we are.

On the upside, American Eagle jeans sales are booming as a result of this ad campaign, especially as they refused to give in to the outrage mob and its insane claims that the ad promotes whiteness or uses Nazi imagery (quick note - it don't). 

After all, when everyone you don't like is a fascist, then well, everyone is. 

 

I'll Take Frivolous Un-American Lawsuits For $200, Alex

Progressives nut-bars never stop hating America.

The Western Journal:  Woman Sues Blue Angels on Behalf of Her Cat - Cites Torture, First Amendment Violation

 One Seattle, Washington, woman is suing the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels on behalf of her now deceased cat.Lauren Ann Lombardi filed suit on Monday, claiming the famous squadron violated her First Amendment rights after they blocked her from commenting on their Instagram page, where she had previously complained about their annual August air shows, Fox News reported.

....Fox News reported that these maneuvers result in noises that reach “extreme decibel levels,” and it was these noise that Lombardi claimed terrorized her elderly cat, Layla, before her death in August 2024. Lombardi claimed that the terror caused by the “state-sanctioned acoustic torture” coupled with Layla’s congestive heart disease was the reason for her death. 

Beginning in August 2023, Lombardi began complaining about the airshow, taking to the group’s Instagram page and leaving numerous comments. Fox News reported a few of the angry messages Lombardi left on the social media page before she was blocked: “Stop with your F***ing bulls*** you are terrorizing my cat and all the other animals and wildlife,” “F*** off,” and “Nobody gives a f*** about your stupid little planes.”

In addition, there's a whole group of lefties protesting the Blue Angles participating at SeaFair because of course they are, for typical leftist reasons:

FoxNews: Billboard goes up protesting Blue Angels in Seattle's Seafair Air Show:

But, a group calling themselves the Air Show Climate Action Coalition says not everyone is charmed by the display in the skies above Seattle.

"We don’t oppose Seafair, we do oppose the continued Boeing-sponsored airshow with the Blue Angels," said Mary Paterson, Volunteer with 350 Seattle and member of the Airshow Climate Action Coalition.

Paterson says the coalition is fighting against the use of the Blue Angels in Seattle due to what they say is the militarization of Seafair along with air, climate and noise pollution.

 Of course they are. Lovely pictures of a hijab because seeing the Blue Angels allegedly causes "war trauma" among our enemies - which I daresay it should.

Now, I'm certainly not suggesting that the Blue Angels at Seafair should all maneuver in such a manner for the entire team to have sonic booms as part of the show- all completely accidentally, of course. 

But, they certainly should gives these lefties the sound of freedom. 

Loud and Proud.

More "Mostly Peaceful" Acts By The Left, Now In Michigan

Mostly peaceful as in mostly peacefully trying to burn down a building with a Republican Party office in northern Michigan with a Molotov cocktail.

MILive: 19-year-old accused of throwing Molotov cocktail at Upper Peninsula GOP office

Thankfully, he didn't actually know how to make a Molotov cocktail properly, and it failed to ignite after he lit and threw it at the building. 

He was also caught on camera doing so, with other Molotovs in his possession, and arrested shortly thereafter.  He is charged with felonies of manufacturing and possessing an explosive and attempted arson.

The inept thrower is identified as 19-year-old Zayn Arcand:

 

The Left Continues To Be Mostly Peaceful

That is, if you read "Mostly Peaceful" as in "Engaging in Violence". 

The Detroit News:  10 held in Texas immigration detention center shooting that was 'planned ambush,' US attorney says

KRGV.com: Gunman dead after opening fire at McAllen Border Patrol facility

Note that the was a very organized attack on law enforcement officers with a planned attempted ambush by art least ten black-clad attackers. 

The second attack was likely a solo leftist who traveled all the way from Michigan to Texas, but may potentially have been supported in doing so.

The far-left is continuing to engage in organized violence, and they have the infrastructure in place to do so. 

With Leftist prosecuting attorneys to help ensure charges are dropped or reduced after arrest,  NLG lawyers on call, Mayors supporting their efforts, and lots of funding from leftist billionaires, as well as practice from their riot actions, the Left has both an experienced cadre and adherents that are both well organized and well funded with an array of professionals on hand.

While those on the right tend to state they have all the guns, those on the right tend to not engage in organized violence.  They are often are instead busy with work and family life, and unlike the Left there is no extant right wing infrastructure to support acts of organized violence like Antifa and the NLG. 

The Left is really good at turning the rheostat to increase and decrease violence at a whim and they get away with it quite a lot - and these latest terrorist actions on their part is the result of the tolerance and support they've received for lower-level violence they;ve engaged in and got a pass for.

It Would Take A Heart Of Stone Not To Laugh

So some western proggy-types decided that they would go to Egypt and then march on the Gaza border to support Hamas and show solidarity with Gaza.

This did not work out how they planned it. 

Even as, as plans go, it had all the hallmarks and forethought of a gnome-stealing-underpants scheme.

Instead of these great leftist, noble, oh-so-caring, white, saviors being welcomed as the heroes they claimed to be, they got their asses beat.

By the Egyptians.

The Spectator:  The delusion of western Palestine activists in Egypt

 National Post: Danielle Kubes: Naive western activists get a harsh dose of reality in Egypt

A lovely example of the self-righteous naïveté of these left wingers is the exchange one had with an Egyptian policeman:

In one video on X, you can see an Egyptian policeman say, “Please respect our country.… Your message has been already received and you can go back and turn back to Cairo.”

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“We can do it in America. Why can’t we do it here?” a protester in the crowd asks.

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“It’s our law,” the officer responds.

Yep, different countries are different.  And while Leftists are all about diversity, as long as it's leftists on top of the diversity pyramid, they were clearly unprepared for the diversity they faced in Egypt, the land of the pyramids.

So the leftists in the March on Gaza got arrested, their asses beat, their stuff stolen, and many of them deported from the country.  Now the head of the March on Gaza is calling it off as a bad idea and telling the naive participants  to go home. Apparently it is much safer to harass Jews, commit vandalism, and block traffic in their home countries.

Great Success, That

So The No Kings "protest" really got results.

No Kings in America before the protest, and none after.

Very well done, really. 

Well, At Least They're Only Commiting Vandalism So Far Around Here.

The Red-Green Axis are essentially vandals and indeed can be rightly called terrorists.

The Detroit Free Press: Hundreds of peonies cut, pro-Palestinian signs left at popular Ann Arbor garden

The Detorit News: Pro-Palestinian messages left at scene of flower vandalization, UM police say

Apparently it was  not hundreds - but thousands vandalized. 

Yes, some leftist progressive idiot destroyed hundreds of flowers in an arboretum at the University of Michigan.  

For Hamas, of course. 

Because nothing says you support Hamas terrorism like destroying property. 

This follows quite a string of acts of vandalism by Pro-Hamas scum around the University and at private residences to boot. 

It could be worse, the Red-Green axis has set fire to the Pennsylvania Governor's mansion,  Killed two Jews in DC, and most recently an illegal alien Egyptian pro-Hamasnik attacked Jews with a flamethrower in Colorado.

Getting rather sporty out there with Leftist violence on quite the uptick.

Happy Compost Your Girlfriend Day

It should not need to be said, but to be clear, this blog does not condone nor advocate composting your romantic interest. 

If it's reached the point where it is clearly absolutely not working out, don't try to bury your problems, just say goodbye, get on with your life, and handle it like a rational adult.

The co-founder of Earth Day didn't quite figure that part out. 

NBC News: Earth Day co-founder killed, composted girlfriend - NBC News

Ira Einhorn was on stage hosting the first Earth Day event at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia on April 22, 1970. Seven years later, police raided his closet and found the "composted" body of his ex-girlfriend inside a trunk.

That's taking recycling way too far, and one would think in this day and age having that on your record would have you disowned by the Left rather than being celebrated.

However, his tactic of extorting corporations to pay his organization and in return be free from harassment has been copied and adopted as a model shakedown tactic by multiple leftist groups over time.

Ira Einhorn died in a US prison in April 2020, after having fled the country after the murder to Sweden and then France before being extradited back to the USA in 2001.  

There's no word on whether his remains were composted after his demise, but it would have been appropriate.

Who Knew That Lefty Progressives On Bluesky

Who knew that Progressive Lefties flocking to Bluesky are, [Checks Notes] so heavily into being purveyors and consumers of CSAM?

 

 

Yep, as proggys flock to Bluesky to recreate and double-down on the comfy ideological echo-chamber they used to have on Twitter, the posting of material depicting, promoting, and advocating for improper activities in regards to children has skyrocketed. 

So much so that the moderators there cannot keep up.

Funny, that.

That's Quite The Rationalization There

Remember folks there's a socialist in National Socialist. And just as in the opast the Progressives are again finding common ground with national socialist ideas, acts, and symbols.

Frontpage: Swastikas Are Progressive Now: Vandalizing synagogues with swastikas is good, leftists argue.

Malcolm Harris, a former Occupy Wall Street activist and author of ‘Palo Alto’ and other books published through Hachette, explained that swastikas were progressive now.

Harris claims that he viewed vandalizing a synagogue with a swastika as “an anti-zionist condemnation of Israeli genocide.” And if vandalizing synagogues with swastikas, the ultimate symbol of Nazi behavior is only “anti-Zionist”, not antisemitic, then there really is no difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism, and between leftist anti-Zionists and Nazi antisemites.

 Verily, the article shows many of the ideas of the progressive left and the Nazis aren't all that distinguishable, especially when it comes to Jews:

The Democratic Socialists of America, which has led the campaign for Hamas, had invited a representative of Melenchon’s Communist allied party from France, who claimed that when a “man of the left” is “called an anti-Semite, it means he’s not far from power.” That same party became the only one to refuse  to condemn Oct 7 and political figures from the party accused Israel of killing its own children.

 It past time Harris and the other "progressive" pro-Hamasniks looked in the mirror and asked themselves :"Are we the baddies?"

Compare And Contrast

Pro-Israel Rally in DC with over 290,000 participants.  Note that there was no unruly behavior, no property damage, no arrests and apparently no litter left behind.

JTA:  290,000 people show up for historic pro-Israel rally in DC, organizers say

Meanwhile: 

The Detroit news: 2 Michigan lawmakers trapped as police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters in D.C.

Fox News: White House silent, Secret Service makes no arrests after pro-Palestinian protesters vandalize gate

Funny how the progressive, leftist, pro-Hamas side somehow always manage to go for threats, violence, and destruction, isn't it? 

When Intersectionality Leads to Ridiculous Outcomes

The left has this weird concept of intersectionality that all oppressed (as defined buy the left) share a commonality against their oppressors (again as defined by the left). Sort of a big tent of the aggrieved and oppressed groups that the Left hopes will rise up and well, they really haven't really thought it through all the way,

A major problem  with intersectionality is often one leftist group of the "oppressed" is busily oppressing another leftist oppressed party.

This leads to ridiculous outcomes.

For example - Queers for Palestine  - Gay people backing Islamic believers that just happen to impose the death penalty on gays, t because they're gay. Typically this done by throwing them off rooftops or hanging them from cranes. Because, per the Left,  Palestinians and Gays are both "oppressed" and thus should mutually support each other even as Palestinians tend to support Gays for but a short moment as they lift them up to drop them off rooftops.

The hilarious part is Queers for Palestine busily protests against the only country in the Middle East where killing someone who is  gay just because they are gay is illegal - Israel.

The latest ridiculous example from Andy Ngo on twitter:

Abortion is, you guessed it,  highly restricted in Gaza and the West Bank - by the Arabs. Women can be beaten, jailed or killed for having an abortion.

The protestors, of course, aren't protesting that.  Heaven forbid.

Instead they're trying to find some weird intersection between the US Abortion issue and support for the terror attacks carried out by Hamas - the same Hamas that would jail, beat, or kill a woman for daring to have an abortion on demand.  Oppressed peoples and all that.

Of course they are not protesting these conditions but are instead protesting Israel, where abortion laws are a lot more permissive than under Hamas, so much so that Arab women often cross into Israel for abortions and medical treatment that they need without fear of being beaten, jailed or killed.

To a leftist apparently this insanity makes sense.

I daresay they're very much protesting in the wrong intersection.

How A Journo Can Tell Me She Doesn't Know WTF She's Talking About, Without Telling Me She Doesn't Know WTF She Is Talking About

The trouble with Leftist Journalists is not so much their ignorance as the tremendous number of things they know that ain't so.  But their ignorance doesn't help, either. 

Let's take this intrepid Washington Post (as rebroadcast in the Detroit News) correspondent, who in the very first sentence of her article shows she has no idea what she is talking about:

Q: Why are Republicans not reading the sentiment of the country and cobbling together a bill to make automatic weapons of war illegal for civilians?

Yep, read that over again.  So much ignorance and smugness to unpack in one short sentence.  

The combination of the smug assumption as to "the sentiment of the country" combined with the pure ignorance of urging Republicans to support "a bill to make automatic weapons of war illegal for civilians" is rather indicative. Not sure she could have fit in another narrative-approved buzz-word about semi-automatic firearms that are lawfully possessed by millions of Americans for legal purposes if she tried.

It's a great way for the journo to let us know she has no clue what she is talking about, and to count her opinion accordingly. The problem is that she influences people who who have infinitely more things they know when it comes to crime, firearms, and firearms law in this country that ain't so.

The Left Has Issues Telling The Truth About Guns

First of course we have journalists like NPR claiming a bullet from an AR15 will blow your head clear off (newsflash - it won't), and do you feel lucky punk? 

Who can forget our current President claiming a 9mm bullet will blow a lung clear out of your body (newsflash - it really, really won't)?

And of course, our current President repeatedly keeps falsely claiming that at the time the Second Amendment was passed ordinary people couldn't buy cannons.   In point of fact, they certainly could and did, and they could even put them on ships and sail the seas with them to boot.

So Being Liberal had to come up with and post a meme that's false on many levels.  The Left really has trouble making memes.

Notice how they falsely and misleadingly conflate selling a taco with buying a rifle to try and sell their propaganda that more regulation and laws on selling firearms must be passed, even as they have no idea or don't care what the current ones even are right now.

In fact for a merchant to sell an AR15 they need to have all sorts of County/City permits. But they also need a Federal Firearms License, perform background checks on every buyer, keep records of all their sales including the identity of every buyer and every firearm sold - al of things Taco sellers do not have to do.

It would be more honest if they compared buyers to buyers, but they won't do that, and after I pointed out the false equivalency, another fellow posted this up to kindly fix it for them:

It's at least more accurate but as such it sure doesn't work out in the Left's favor anymore and in fact makes the opposite point, as the truth concerning firearms and firearms law in this country often does.

ADL Issues A Biased Report, Leftists And New York Times Eat It Up

The ADL has unfortunately strayed far from their task of fighting anti-antisemitism.  

They've fallen to O'Sullivans First Law:“All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.”

Indeed the ADL has departed drastically form their core purpose and  The Anti-Defamation League Is Now a Tool of the Anti-Semitic Left.

The ADL just released a report claiming the majority of political violence is from the Right Wing.

 Of course the NY Times uncritically ate it up: The Right's Violence Problem.

In reading the ADL report, it sadly has a rather driven agenda and has at least one  rather glaring and blatant error on their executive summary page and throughout their report that makes their stats rather suspect.

"Most of the murders (26 of 29) were committed by right-wing extremists, which is usually the case. However, two killings were committed by Black nationalists and one by an Islamist extremist—the latter being the first such killing since 2018."

Considering 6 people were murdered by the Black Nationalist Extremist at Waukeesha in 2021, and yet they apparently decide to not even count that attack in their totals at all. 

How many more murders did they exclude to get to their desired result?

Then, you gotta wonder how they played with the numbers they had left, to shift them right so to speak, in order to decide what was and was not an "extremist murder". So how did they massage the numbers to get where they wanted to go?  We don't know.

Not to mention how they decide to classify a particular murdered as right or left wing can also be suspect.

Further if you take the time to read the report, it appears that some of what they decided were "extremist murders seem to be rather hinky and without any linkage to an ideological basis.  In one case they listed, they decide that a white nutcase who killed a white husband and white wife with no known ideological reason for the murders, is counted as an extremist murder.  Imagine counting every murder by a Black BLM supporter of a Black person as an extremist murder, the count would likely shift - a lot.

In short, it is not a useful nor an unbiased study at all.

Violence from the extremist Right is a problem, as is violence from the extremist Left - which has been growing by leaps and bounds and did about a Billion in damage to our cities recently. 

Here the ADL is deliberately downplaying and ignoring, if not outright covering up Leftist violence for political points.

It also gets interesting in terms of classification as the recent Buffalo shooter self-identified in his nutso manifesto as Left-Wing but is being classified as Right-Wing by the left.   So did a Left-Wing extremist just kill 10 people in Buffalo?  How will it be treated in their next report?

It's too bad we can't get an honest and unbiased study on the problem, as this surely isn't one.

It Would Take A Heart Of Stone Not To Laugh At East Lansing Residents

In the news, and it must be a slow news day over in EL,  East Lansing residents are complaining about noise from traffic along the main drag in the city.

East Lansing info: “Unbearably Ridiculous” Noise from Cars and Motorcycles Is Riling East Lansing Residents

But, the woke residents there also don't want police in the area, nor having police enforce minor infractions - like, you know, noise complaints.

Wing said that officers from the East Lansing Police Department are not helping so far as she can see.

. . .

Responding to complaints from people like Worth and Wing, at the June 8 meeting, East Lansing Police Chief Kim Johnson said that his officers had tried showing up in the West Grand River Ave. area to help, only to be asked by one resident to leave because that resident didn’t want armed police hanging out in the neighborhood.

Johnson said police were doing their best, but it is clear that with this issue, as with many others, ELPD now finds itself caught between people who want enforcement against disturbances of the peace by things like loud parties, fireworks, and noisy motorcycles, and people who want the police to back off of enforcement of non-violent offenses.

There have definitely been mixed messages on policing issues like this, with Council taking actions such as revising the disorderly conduct code to reduce the likelihood of a person being prosecuted for a “minor” offense while also wanting the police to stop motorcyclists for making loud noises – something that might be seen as a minor offense.

So get woke, push to defund the police, complain about their presence, insist they don't enforce the law on minor infractions, and revise city code to not enforce prosecution for minor offenses, and then complain when they don't enforce the law on minor infractions that are affecting your quality of life.

Next step:  Act all surprised when your woke policy of having the police not enforce minor infractions leads to higher crime in both minor and major categories, as minor crimes go unpunished and major offenders are not interdicted by being caught for a minor crime prior to their committing a major crime. 

Funny how that happens, eh?

How To Be A Bunch of Ungrateful Snits - University of Michigan Edition

The University of Michigan is now offering free tuition to any high school student admitted to the University whose parents earn under $65,000.

The Detroit Free Press: U-M extends Go Blue Guarantee free tuition program to Flint, Dearborn campuses.

But there's a catch - you have to have a high school GPA of 3.5 to qualify.

For leftist activists, that's apparently a problem.

Apparently such generosity is not welcome, because expecting students to study for their grades in high school is now an expectation that is both racist and classist - yes really.

Students spent all morning celebrating this victory, only to find out there's a *3.5* GPA requirement — which is not present in Ann Arbor. This is a classist, racist requirement that implies only 'hard working' students deserve an education. I'm devastated," Amytess Girgis, an activist for more funding for Dearborn and Flint who graduated from the Ann Arbor campus in May,  tweeted as the expansion was announced. Girgis will be a 2021 Rhodes Scholar in November.

Could Rhodes perhaps revoke granting their scholarship for this twit?  

How the heck is insisting on a 3.5 GPA a "classist, racist requirement".  If this twit is devastated from the idea that hard working students should get a free ride and those with sub-par GPAs should not, she maybe isn't ready for the realities of life,  nor to be a Rhodes scholar.

After all, The University is offering Free Tuition to these students.  

At UofM, tuition for in-state students is between 16-18k per year, so that 's $68,000 or so for an undergraduate degree that these students (including illegals living in Michigan) are being given gratis. Is it too much to expect that they can't study sufficiently to earn a 3.5 GPA in high school in return for such largesse?  

I'll note that if your family earns 66k or more and you have a 4.0 you get bupkis under this program.  As UofM is notorious for not giving out merit scholarships, it is unlikely you'll see money for your effort as a student, which is a pity - as will be your student loans of 68k while a student with a family earning $1,000 a year less will get a free ride.

California Continuing To Slouch Towards Anarcho-Tyranny

The Detroit News: 76K California violent, career felons get earlier releases

With little notice, California on Saturday is increasing early release credits for 76,000 inmates, including violent and repeat felons, as it further trims the population of what once was the nation’s largest state correctional system.

More than 63,000 inmates convicted of violent crimes will be eligible for good behavior credits that shorten their sentences by one-third instead of the one-fifth that had been in place since 2017.

Criminal justice reform tends to be done to both reduce the state's costs and appease woke criminal supporting activists, resulting in the release of unreformed criminals to prey upon the (in California very much disarmed) population, increasing the costs to the population in terms of losses from crime.

 Note that this was done by Governor Newsom's executive order and going into immediate effect, bypassing administrative review or the law-making process. It also most conveniently gets 76,000 likely supporters out of jail and eligible to vote for Newsom in the upcoming recall referendum.

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this release.  Well, at the very least the politicians making these edicts won't face the consequences directly.

Quite A Deliberate Ignoring of Reality Going On In BLM World

If you disregard facts, evidence, and bodycam footage, you can create some really impressive false narratives about white supremacy everywhere.

 Two op-eds in the Detroit Free Press highlight this rather ridiculous narrative.  Both are very selective in dealing uncomfortable or contrary facts to their worldview and typically gloss over them in the most dishonest manner.

The first of course see white supremacy everywhere and blacks are apparently victimized by police on a regular basis:

Does Chauvin verdict signal real change or is it a mirage? 

The most recent episodes of excessive and fatal police force against Black bodies continue to air on our TV, phone and computer screens.

First, this whole "black bodies" thing the Lefty academics do is rather curious.  After all it's rather dehumanizing isn't it? - I mean I consider black people to not just be  some undefined anonymizing "black bodies" but, you know, actual individual people and not just some mass of bodies.   But then again, that would imply that the Black bodies have agency and actually are responsible for the choices they make - like committing crimes and resisting arrest and the consequences of same.

And why shouldn't we be afraid, when you consider the minimally illegal alleged offenses for which police and civilians — some of them people of color — have killed Black men and women over the last 30 years? Lt. Nazario (license plate) and Daunte Wright (car air freshener) are now added to the exhaustive list of Blacks — including Eric Garner (cigarettes), Alton Sterling (bootleg CDs), George Floyd (counterfeit money), to name a few — who receive maximum and lethal force for minimal crimes.

First, let's note Lt. Nazario wasn't killed after he was resisting arrest, but nice try.

Second, quit lying about Daunte Wright - he was pulled over for an expired registration and had a felony warrant out for an aggravated armed robbery.

Third let's see here - to begin with, it's not the minimal crimes that they committed - minimal crimes I might add passed by Democrats in their cities and states - that caused them to get in a situation where they might die, but the fact that every single one of them decided that resisting arrest, in many cases violently, was the way to go.   I;m impressed he failed to add Freddie Grey to the list who was killed while trying to beat a police officer to death - not good for the narrative I suppose now that the whole hands up thing has been dis proven as a lie.

 Though I am afraid I, too, will one day join the decades-long list of legalized racially motivated killings, most of all, I'm afraid that most of white society doesn't care that I'm afraid.

Here's some good advice Mr. Alemu, as a PhD candidate and thus an academic with a lack of knowledge of the world outside your ideological bubble, the secret to not getting killed by police is twofold: One - try not committing crimes in the first place. Two, Do not resist arrest if you do commit a crime and it will work out ok.  

He also swings for the fences with a fun false comparison: 

Must we accept that protests for the killing of Black bodies trigger the deployment of a state's National Guard almost immediately, while hundreds of whites — some armed — are able to stage a coup of our nation's Capitol with little to no police resistance, despite weeks of warnings?

Let's see, $2 billion dollars in damages by BLM so far and over 22 deaths, and the promise of more riots, arson, and confrontation if Chauvin wasn't railroaded, compared to a demonstration - not a "coup" - where nothing was set on fire and the only casualty was an unarmed woman killed by a police officer?  

Pull the other one dude, it's got bells on and you can only lie so many times in one op-ed.

The next op-ed gets even cuter: Chauvin verdict is the exception, not the norm, in 'justice' system

While news of the verdict was still sinking in, we learned that police in Columbus, Ohio killed a 16-year-old girl, Ma’Khia Bryant.It was at least the second time in weeks that police killed a child; Chicago police shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo on March 29.  . . . It was not any safer to wake up today as a Black child, a Black elder, a brown child, or anyone vulnerable to the murderous gaze of white supremacy in the U.S.

Oh come on now, she must think the readers of the op-ed are amazingly ignorant. 

Let's remind everyone, as the opinion piece quickly and neatly glosses over it, and totally ignores the fact that dear sweet Ma'Khia Bryant was in the process of trying to stab to death two other black girls when she was shot. It also ignores that little gang-banger Adam Toledo was turning with a gun in his hand after running away from police after he and a fellow felon had shot up a passing car.

Totes innocent victims of police brutality, neh?

The op-ed goes on extolling the virtues of defunding police and incarceration of criminals which will be just great for Detroit - if you're a criminal.  For everyine else, not so much.

Sadly these rather trite fact-optional views seem to be taking sway among the left, which will have bad consequences for all of us.  Facts are clearly merely things that get in the way of their rather false narrative.

0 For 5 So Far in 2021

The progressive woke left must be sorely disappointed.

Out of 5 of the most recent mass-shooting/vehicle/knifing incidents, none have been by the dreaded "white supremacist" / "white insurrectionist" type.  Heck, none were even committed by known Trump fans.

Instead we've got:

Atlanta massage parlor shootings - nutcase with sex addiction

Colorado Mass Shooting - Islamist Syrian

California Orange County mass shooting- Hispanic

Capitol Attack - Black and member of the Nation of Islam

Fort Detrick attack - Black

Hardly an array of right-wing extremists there. Each time, of course, the leftists jump on Twitter and elsewhere and proclaim it must have been the work of white supremacist males, or Trump supporters, or something similar, until the facts came out, and then it fades rapidly from the news, except for a call for more gun bans.

That must be disheartening.  

Now, I'm sure at some point some loser white-supremacist type will crawl out of his mother's basement and do something stupid. At which point the left will dance in the blood and proclaim "right-wing extremism" to be the most pressing issue of our times, ignoring all the left-wing violence and Islamist violence.

But until then, the lefties would be better off waiting for the facts to come out before beating their white male extremist drum.