That this even had to be explained was ... something.

It was suspected there was a reason the former backers of the protest violence began a new narrative. //

The cheerleaders suddenly are waving for the crowds to disperse, and now they are pleading for Kamala Harris and her running mate to adopt the very opposition language that has been labeled as ”racist’’ all summer long.

This is such a revealing moment. For tortuous months anyone calling to curtail violence, destruction, attacks on police, and the threats to communities were deemed intolerant. Only now, when it looks bad for the prospects of Democrats, do the sophisticates in the press consider rioting to be condemnable. When it was politically expedient the burning of cities and violence visited on citizens was an acceptable result.

But black lives matter? //

there’s a real reason to this kind of destruction and it was clear the street lights were purposely targeted with the effort to take them out. They want to bankrupt the cities they do this to, so they have to cut back on police and services, thus contributing to even more chaos, thus helping their cause.

So how does any of this help black lives?

George Floyd's death was the best day Black Lives Matter ever had. //

Floyd’s death served a singular purpose that I think is important, and that’s the conversations around police tactics and methods. That’s a conversation that is definitely needed because perfecting policing is always a good thing and knowing what not to do in certain situations will prevent a lot of grief, fired officers, and news cycles in the future.

But if we’re being realistic, Floyd’s death didn’t highlight a major problem that many think it did.

According to the Washington Post “Fatal Force” database, 2019 saw police shoot and kill 999 people. Out of that number, 55 suspects shot and killed by police that were unarmed, 14 of which were black. Keep in mind that “unarmed” doesn’t necessarily mean “innocent.” Some of these police shootings were still considered justified due to the suspect’s actions such as the physical assault of an officer or attempts at seizing an officer’s weapons.

But let’s say all of the unarmed killings were justified. In a country of about 40 million black people, 14 of them dying by the hands of officers while unarmed is hardly an epidemic. I’m not excusing unjustified shootings by police officers at all, but let’s not pretend that we have a major problem of innocent black people being gunned down by officers in the streets like Black Lives Matter is suggesting. It’s just not happening. //

The point of George Floyd wasn’t to raise awareness, it was to start a war, and it succeeded.

Black Lives Matter is not a movement that focuses on the equality and protection of black lives, and this isn’t me speculating or accusing. These are the words of many of its cheerleaders and administrators. //

CNN host Don Lemon told Terry Crews exactly what BLM was about. //

Don Lemon says black lives don’t matter unless they’re being taken by cops and that you should start your own movement if you want to make black-on-black violence an issue.

"Our viewers don't really consider us the news." //

Perkary said a ‘high profile TV veteran” once told her, “We are a cancer and there is no cure. But if you could find a cure, it would change the world.” She added: “As it is, this cancer stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis.”

And of course it’s always about the ratings.

“The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events, at the expense of others… all because it pumps up the ratings.”

On Thursday, the first protest held since the federal agencies agreed to pull back their officers was a markedly more peaceful affair than in recent weeks.

We have the advantage of truth... //

As Carlson points out in his remarks, they hate Trump because he can’t be controlled, because he says truths that fly in the face of their efforts to control, that he refuses to go along with the narrative the left wants to push about America, that he trumpets

He speaks about Trump’s speech and highlights some of the most important parts, defending against the ripping down of both our statues and history, and the basic concepts of the goodness of America. That contrary to what the folks on the left tend to push, America has been great largely because America has been transformatively good, that America has defeated both fascism and Communism, because of our formation, our principles of liberty were copied around the world, more people threw off the yoke of monarchy and other tyrannical governments. It’s why we became a beacon for the world. It’s why people came here in droves from other countries. It’s why Hong Kong in declaring its desire for liberty flies our flag as a symbol.

From White House:

We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed. Every child, of every color — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of God. (Applause.)

We want free and open debate, not speech codes and cancel culture.

We embrace tolerance, not prejudice.

We support the courageous men and women of law enforcement. (Applause.) We will never abolish our police or our great Second Amendment, which gives us the right to keep and bear arms. (Applause.)

We believe that our children should be taught to love their country, honor our history, and respect our great American flag. (Applause.)

We stand tall, we stand proud, and we only kneel to Almighty God. //

As Carlson points out, media like The Washington Post out and out lied about Trump defending Confederate statues and “white domination” when he never said any such thing and nothing he said could even come close to supporting their lie. But they don’t care because they know many will never hear the speech, so they can lie about it as they did.

The Lincoln Project
@ProjectLincoln
Civilians don’t salute.

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1279240624080859136

Phineas Fahrquar
@irishspy
Replying to @ProjectLincoln
But commanders in chief do:

https://twitter.com/irishspy/status/1279450564078694401

“Who even is this guy?” one Wisconsin protester asked, staring down at the toppled statue of Hans Christian Heg, an abolitionist leader who fought and died for the Union in the Civil War.

It’s a baffling but instructive image. Why would antiracism protesters target Abraham Lincoln, let alone daring 19th-century abolitionists? In being toppled by supposedly antiracist protesters, Heg is accompanied at least by John Greenleaf Whittier and Matthias Baldwin, among the other memorials to worthy causes swept up in this fervor.

The reason is that our iconoclasts of 2020 do not care. This is about leveling each and every institution and rebuilding America from scratch, not making repairs. That’s why the counterproductive destruction of abolitionist monuments is actually useful to observers—it reflects the broader incoherence of the ideology driving this potent wave of iconoclasm.

Critics of academia have for years carefully dismantled the faulty logic underpinning abstract poststructuralist Ivory Tower doctrines like intersectionality and critical race theory. Plainly, they do not make sense, and regularly dissolve when applied to reality. But because they insist on a progressive-or-bigot binary, slowly these ideas intimidated and persuaded people of good faith into submission.

How, for instance, does intersectionality explain video The Federalist captured last week of a white woman in luxury athleisure harassing a working-class black female cop for being a racist? It does not. This is an ideology that classifies all dissent as bigotry and violence, whether the dissenter is black or female or working class.

At one point, Fr. Stephen Schumacher of the St. Louis Archdiocese stood between them and the statue and tried to talk sense to them, explaining the history, that St. Louis when King of France had done good works for his people which is one of the reasons he’s a saint and the city is named for him. But the mob even tried to shout down a priest and showed they failed to understand history. They didn’t care what he had to say or the facts, they’ve been told to hate it so they must rip it down.

Nothing more heroic than standing, literally, in the face of the angry mob, with the calmness of truth. Notice how they also threatened the St. Louis Cathedral when he told them to go there and learn the history, one says, “Eventually, we’re taking that too, though.”

The Archdiocese issued a formal statement, defending the statue and St. Louis.

The Archdiocese said in their statement that the public “should not seek to erase history, but recognize and learn from it.”

They defended the statue of the saint and recounted his road to sainthood. When ruling Louis IX “focused on impartial justice, protecting the rights of his subjects, steep penalties for royal officials abusing power, and a series of initiatives to help the poor.” The Archdiocese also noted that Louis IX performed numerous charitable acts such as feeding the poor and creating hospitals.

“For Catholics, St. Louis is an example of an imperfect man who strived to live a life modeled after the life of Jesus Christ.” //

Claire Lehmann
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Gro
ups of students at schools and universities appointed themselves as Red Guards. Many of them were as young as 13 years old. You can read about what they did here https://quillette.com/2018/12/18/the-children-of-the-revolution/ …
Claire Lehmann
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A 1971 report from the NYT describes how sweeping the destruction of the “four olds” had been (Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, Old Ideas). E.g. It was common for Chinese homes to have altars to ancestors.
Red Guards entered homes & destroyed them https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/19/archives/china-transformed-by-elimination-of-four-olds.html …

I'm sure she's a good source for American history though, right?

"All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, should also come down. They are a gross form of white supremacy," King said.

Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones is now peddling ridiculous conspiracy theories. //

Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer prize-winning author, lead writer of the 1619 Project, and it often seems the owner and operator of The New York Times, appears to have deleted her Twitter account after promoting an insane conspiracy theory on Sunday. “Read this,” Jones insisted as she quote tweeted an account alleging that the government is providing fireworks to black and brown teenagers in an effort to sow chaos.

According to the tweet thread endorsed by today’s leading intellectual journalist the “government,” not sure if that is state, local, or federal but somehow I’m sure it’s Trump’s fault, is handing out fireworks not just to make New York City appear more violent, but to deprive people of color of sleep to disorient them. The totality of the evidence provided for this bizarre claim is that the author of the tweet and his neighbors think it might be what’s happening. In fairness that is a better factual basis than much of what Hannah-Jones wrote in the 1619 Project. //

But there is a deeper question here that must be grappled with. If a conservative, say a staff writer here at The Federalist, took to Twitter to claim with absolutely no evidence that Black Lives Matters was giving out fireworks in a false flag operation to make the NYPD look bad, that person would almost certainly be fired. Not only that, The Federalist itself would come under harsh attack with calls to deplatform the website.

The sad fact is that Nikole Hannah-Jones has been applauded by her employer, by the Pulitzer committee and by a bunch of women pretending to read “White Fragility” for their book club, for telling half-truths at best about the history of our nation. Now she has moved on to vile conspiracy theories about our present. Will there be any repercussions for this? Color me skeptical.

What is becoming increasingly clear is that the progressive left has no use for facts. In fact, facts are irrelevant to them. Truth is not measured by Hannah-Jones or The New York Times by what actually happens, but rather by whether it will lead to their goals of supposed social justice. Hannah-Jones knows that Mayor Bill de Blasio, or whoever, isn’t giving kids illegal fireworks, but it doesn’t matter. Her lie is for the cause and thus justified.

The cold, harsh fact, the one that almost got The Federalist defunded by Google after NBC News went to the manager, is that the news media is lying to us. They are doing it everyday, they know they are doing it, but they assume since they went to fancy schools we are too dumb to notice.

A flurry of newsroom revolts has transformed the American press

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So what we've learned is that if you want to protest during a pandemic, do it safely by burning down buildings and beating the hell out of random bystanders. That way you'll escape criticism from the media.

"Now, I'm going to pay my respects to a very, very special place." //

My first and highest duty as President is to defend our great country and the American people. I swore an oath to uphold the laws of our nation, and that is exactly what I will do.

He then continued:

But we cannot allow the righteous cries of peaceful protestors to be drowned out by an angry mob. //

Then he strongly urged state leaders to use their National Guard troops to end the violence “now.” He added that any state or local government that chooses not to bring the mob to heel will see U.S. Army forces sent to handle things.

Trump ended his statement with, “Now, I’m going to pay my respects to a very, very special place.”

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I almost can’t believe what I’m seeing. POTUS just walked out the front door of the White House and into Lafayette Square - the epicenter of the DC protests - to visit historic St. John’s Church, which was set on fire last night.

…in the process, stunning into silence the media – and anyone else – who’s been calling for him to address the nation about the protests and mayhem… //

By walking across Lafayette Square to St. John’s Episcopal Church, the historic church attended by every sitting, U.S. president since James Madison, which was burned by rioters Sunday night.

Some Democrats and folks in the media have been trying to falsely blame white nationalists for the violence at the riots. //

Why are there pallets of bricks showing up ahead of and nearby to planned protests? And stashed of bottles filled with accelerant?

Nevertheless, she persisted. //

McEnany explained in a two-tweet statement noting there was a difference between absentee voting where the voter requests a ballot vs. mail-in voting, where the state just mass mails ballots to the names and addresses on their voter rolls, the latter of which is what President Trump and other Republicans object to.

In an appearance she made on Fox and Friends this morning, McEnany put an exclamation point on the distinction after being asked about the Tampa Bay Times “report”, and specifically referenced a Real Clear News write-up on how 112% of Los Angeles County is registered to vote.