Nice takedown of the Atantic… but it doesn’t matter one bit
This guy makes a compelling case that the leftstream media totally botched their latest “Suckers and Losers” scandal. He thinks his facts prove Jeffery Goldberg is the sucker now, and he will undoubtedly feel embarrassment and shame. Dude, you don’t understand the media at all. “Suckers and Losers” was a huge success. Not because it was true, but because it worked. Hardcore leftists will believe pretty much anything the media tells them about Trump. But they don’t matter here. Hardcore Trump supporters can easily see through the bullshit story and call it out. But they don’t matter here, either. It’s election season. The election will likely be decided by apolitical low-information voters… just like always. And those LIVs were the intended target of the “Suckers and Losers” smear. And many of them saw the headlines plastered across all the leftstream media outlets for days on end. And exactly none of them will see your careful debunking on an obscure blog, or care enough to dig for the facts themselves. “TV said Orange Man Bad” is all they will remember on election day. And that’s all most of these media hacks care about anymore. They could care less you debunked their story. They don’t care about integrity or their credibility. They traded those in long ago to become activists in the #Resistance.
To all those people who warned me that normalizing pedophilia would be the left’s next objective, I hereby apologize for my eye rolls. Damn if you weren’t right. What the hell is wrong with our culture?
This is fantastic news! Donald Trump has ordered all Federal Agencies to stop any training programs which promote Critical Race Theory. I’ve long argued Critical Race Theory was pseudo-scientific garbage meant to sow racial division dressed up in the legitimacy of academic rigor. It is toxic nonsense the left uses to divide our population and undermine our Constitutional republic. The core idea of Critical Race Theory is that everything about America as founded, from our Constitution, to our culture, to our values, to our justice system is rooted in anti-Black racism and perpetuates white supremacy. To the Critical Race Theorists, America is inherently evil and totally irredeemable. The only remedy is to completely tear it down and start over from scratch. Only then can a just and egalitarian (i.e. socialist) society exist.
Because racism permeates everything in American life (according to the theory), to support America is to support racism and white supremacy. In short, support for America and it’s values is amoral. And neutrality is not an option. To the left, failure to actively resist a country as evil as America is support for the status quo. To them, there is no such thing as a non-racist person. You must be actively anti-racist (i.e. anti-America as founded), otherwise you are just as bad as openly racist skinheads and neo-Nazis. According to the theory, to claim you are non-racist is to deny the central truth of the theory, and is evidence of a desire to continue benefiting from white privilege and systemic racism at the expense of POC. Silence is Violence!!! Seriously, this is what they believe.
Somehow, claiming to accept this drivel has become quite fashionable over the last few months. The most obvious examples are the Black Lives Matter and Antifa movements. Both have taken the tenets of Critical Race Theory to heart. And both has become increasingly militant and confrontational. Sadly, Critical Race Theory is also being pushed in schools and WOKE corporations across the country.
The counter-productive BLM movement is particularly depressing. The left has managed to convince yet another generation of Black people (or at least a good chunk of them) that the American dream is not for them. That they live in a country that hates them and exists to oppress them. That there is no hope for them outside of revolution. The anger this message breeds is palpable. But it is unfocused anger… just anger at the world. The demands of the group are necessarily vague and contradictory. If some nebulous “system” is keeping you down, you are left lashing out at everything and anything. And the message becomes self-fulfilling prophecy. And then there is the damage done to predominantly Black communities. The Detroit riots happened 53 years ago in 1967. The city still hasn’t fully recovered. How long will it take Minneapolis to heal? How many businesses will close for good, taking the jobs, goods, and services they provide with them?
Critical Race Theory is a cancer eating away at this country. The fact Trump is trying to remove it’s stain from our government is a very good thing. I suspect he will face fierce resistance from the Deep State. And if paste-eating Joe Biden wins in November, the radicals pulling his strings will undoubtedly reverse course and go all in on the left’s favorite anti-American ideology.
If you are ever wondering what the left is up to, just listen to what they are accusing you of doing…
Here we actually do have a case of a person being randomly assassinated for his political beliefs. While minding his own business, he was shot in the back in a despicably cowardly manner, and left to die in the street. Don’t expect the media to spend much time on that aspect of the story though, because the victim was a Trump supporter.
Last Tuesday, 3 people were shot during a protest/riot in Kenosha, WI. Two of them fatally. The left and the media (BIRM) were quick to paint the incident as a violent white supremacist gunning down peaceful protesters in cold blood. Yet another example of dangerous right-wing extremists terrorizing noble activists seeking racial justice. Thanks to the obsessive impulse of the narcissistic turds who attend these riots to record their burning and looting sessions on their cellphones, we have a lot of video evidence of the incident. The video evidence does not support the narrative the left is pushing.
The Facts as We Know Them Today
The alleged shooter was 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse. Here is the criminal complaint filed against him.
Videos show Rittenhouse being interviewed earlier in the evening. He talks about protecting the business he is standing in front of and helping people who have been injured. He claims to be a lifeguard with emergency medical training. He does not come across as angry or wanting a fight at this point.
This next video shows the shooter and all 3 victims at the same location before the violence started. It is clear that one of the eventual victims, Joseph Rosenbaum, is an aggressor at this point. However, his anger doesn’t seem to be directed at Rittenhouse yet.
Rioters are getting into confrontations with armed citizens who are out here to prevent looting and destruction to businesses. pic.twitter.com/f65YkP24kG
The next video shows Rittenhouse fleeing down the street and into a parking lot with Rosenbaum giving chase. The first deadly confrontation ensues. It certainly appears that Rittenhouse is trying to get away from Rosenbaum who is chasing him. A single shot can be heard while the two men can still be seen running. The gunshot appears to come from another person following the chase who fires a handgun into the air. When Rosenbaum catches Rittenhouse at the far end of the parking lot, the 1st shooting occurs. This incident appears to be the source of the Count 1: Reckless Homicide (of Rosenbaum) and Count 2: Reckless Endangerment (of witness Richard McGinnis who was behind Rosenbaum when he was shot.)
WATCH: A video sync of the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting in Kenosha, WI with multiple camera angles and object highlights. pic.twitter.com/61XMCdHcmK
The last video shows the 2nd and 3rd shootings. Rittenhouse is (apparently) fleeing an angry mob looking to exact some street justice after the 1st shooting. Rittenhouse eventually falls and ends up surrounded. An unidentified man runs up to Rittenhouse and delivers a flying kick to his head. Rittenhouse fired twice at the man and missed as he was flying towards him. This appears to be the source of Count 5: Reckless Endangerment (of an unknown individual.) Immediately afterword, Anthony Huber can be seen being shot once in the chest as he tries to smash Rittenhouse over the head with his skateborad. Rittenhouse was on his back at this point after receiving the drop kick. This is the source of Count 3: First Degree Intentional Homicide (against Huber.) Rittenhouse then points his rifle at Gaige Grosskreutz, who was charging at him. Grosskreutz stops short and shows his hands which are empty. Grosskreutz then slowly circles around Rittenhouse who stays focused on him. Grosskreutz reaches back with his right hand and produces a Glock pistol, at which point Rittenhouse fires his rifle once hitting Grosskreutz in the right elbow. This seems to be the basis for Count 4: Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide (of Grosskreutz.)
An additional weapons charge was also filed (Count 6: Possession of a Dangerous Weapon by a Person Under 18.)
My Takeaways
Tons of people have already dissected these videos frame-by-frame, so I won’t bother doing that. I do have some overall thougts…
First, it is obvious to anybody who watches these clips with an open mind that Rittenhouse was not indiscriminately murdering people. He tried to run away from both confrontations but was unable to escape. He didn’t fire his weapon at anybody that wasn’t actively attacking him. He didn’t shoot Rosenbaum until he was virtually on top of him. I would even go so far as to say he displayed remarkable restraint in the confrontation with Grosskreutz. I believe most people being attacked from multiple directions would have instinctively fired at the guy charging at them at such close distance. Grosskreutz could have easily retreated after he stopped short, but chose to circle around and draw a pistol instead.
I personally think the criminal charges related to the 2nd confrontation are ridiculous. A clearer case of self defense would be hard to imagine. My bet would be they were filed just to placate the mob. The attempted murder charge related to Grosskreutz is especially bizarre, since Rittenhouse could have easily killed him if that was his intention and it would have been justifiable.
My gut instinct is the 1st confrontation was also a justifiable case of self defense. It’s a little more murky because you can’t really see exactly what happened in the video, and Rosenbaum wasn’t armed. Hopefully, more evidence will come out which will provide context about how and why Rosenbaum was giving chase, and whether Rittenhouse could reasonably have feared death or great bodily harm.
It is worth noting that all 3 victims had criminal records. Rosenbaum appears to have spent a good chunk of his adult life in prison for sexually assaulting a minor. The other 2 victims also had criminal records and a past history of violence. To be perfectly clear, this does not mean they deserved to be shot down in the street. But it does indicate the kind of people who show up to these riots. I’m betting they were much more interested in violence and destruction than affirming the “value, dignity, and worth of Black lives.”
Given what we know today, I don’t believe Rittenhouse did anything wrong as far as the shootings go. His huge mistake was inserting himself into that situation in the first place. I honestly think he went in with noble intentions, but naively got in way over his head. I don’t believe he wanted to shoot anybody, and it is grossly unfair to make him out as some kind of white supremacist domestic terrorist.
Rittenhouse is only 17 years old. As the father of a teenage boy, I can’t imagine allowing my child to go into a riot zone. This seems like an epic parenting fail.
There are some hard core criminals at these riots. Just showing up with a weapon won’t deter them from attacking you. Don’t even think about confronting these people with a weapon if you aren’t prepared to actually use it. And face the legal consequences if things go wrong.
This was a tragedy all around. There are no winners. Rittenhouse could be facing life in prison. Even if he is eventually found to have acted in self-defense, his whole life will be forever altered. I confess to not having too much sympathy for the rioters. I do, however, have great sympathy for their families and loved ones that have suffered a loss.
To me, the real villains in this story are the Mayor of Kenosha and the Governor of Wisconsin. Their fecklessness led to ordinary citizens having to protect their community from out-of-town criminal mobs. It was almost inevitable something like this was going to happen. If trained, equipped, and organized law enforcement and National Guardsmen had been allowed to do their jobs, none of this would have ever happened.
Attendees of the Republican National Convention were harassed and threatened by deranged BLM “activists” as they were leaving the White House on Thursday night. Democratic mayors and governors across the country have shown zero interest in reining in the violence that is taking over their streets. The thugs and criminals behind it all, along with their useful idiots, are becoming more emboldened by the day. These animals unleash this seething hatred with a clear conscience. The Democrats and their enablers in the media have convinced them they are actually the good guys in this story. My advice: buy guns and ammo. This could get really ugly.
Man and his wife leaving White House get mobbed on their way back to their hotel by livid protesters. pic.twitter.com/qnpPTfReS3
Elderly man assaulted by protesters near St. John’s in DC. He appeared to be walking with another elderly female wearing pro-Trump gear. pic.twitter.com/LoharqhA60
I haven’t endured an anti-gay attack like this in probably 10 years. #BlackLivesMatter activists physically assault me & Mike Harlow on our way into our hotel, calling us faggots & threatening us. The one girl comes back & knocks my friend’s phone out of her hand.#BLM= violence pic.twitter.com/Cmhc4g57tU
Apparently the BLM shock troops have revived an oldie but a goodie: Chairman Mao’s Struggle Sessions. There really is nothing new under the sun with these cretins.
Bravo for letting Maximo Alvarez speak at the Republican Convention. His personal story is compelling, and the emotion he showed while telling it was clearly genuine. Hearing from a guy like this is way more valuable than another polished and poll-tested speech by some tool-bag politician. We need to highlight more voices like his speaking out against the evils of socialism.
Ever wonder how a guy like MN Democrat John Thompson can barge into a peaceful residential neighbor hood, cuss out and threaten the homeowners just because they have a lighter skin tone and different political leanings from him, yet still think of himself as some kind of hero? Or how BLM protesters can harass people for the neighborhood they live in based solely on the color of their skin, and still think of themselves as the good guys? Welcome to the brave new world of Critical Race Theory!
Critical Race Theory is all the rage right now with the American left. While the theory is nothing new, recent best-selling books like White Fragility and How to Be an Anitracist have revitalized it and brought it to the mainstream. Two pillars of Critical Race Theory are:
Systemic racism is ubiquitous at a fundamental level in the United States.
You must be actively Anti-Racist, otherwise you are supporting injustice.
From these 2 propositions, an number of conclusions naturally flow. If American culture and systems are racist at their very core, then reforming them would be futile. If everything about America is based on perpetuating White Supremacy, then the culture and systems must be irredeemable. The only just course of action is to completely tear them down and start over from scratch. Also, anyone not committed to tearing down America is guilty of a moral failing. To be Anti-Racist, surely one must oppose a country explicitly built on racism. Support of America as founded is a racist act which can only be taken as a sign of malevolence on the part of the individual or, at best, unforgivable ignorance. And complacency is not an option. Failure to actively oppose racism (i.e. America) makes one complicit in the oppression. Silence is violence.
It’s no wonder the radical left absolutely loves this theory. They have wanted to disrupt, dismantle, and displace American culture and government for generations. And smearing their opponents as racists has long been one of the favorite tactics of the left. Now, with Critical Race Theory, they have a pseudo-intellectual basis to justify their name-calling. And they have a manifesto to wield against all of American culture and it’s founding principles.
On a practical level, you can see how Critical Race Theory can be used to justify all sorts of obnoxious behavior. Those white people in the video just trying to enjoy a barbecue in their yard aren’t innocent victims. Their indifference to the BLM movement is violence against POC. Their complacency is support for a racist system. They deserve to have their cozy lives upended. By not being actively Anti-Racist, they are committing racism whether they realize it or not. And racists don’t deserve peace.
Likewise for the white guy who had the audacity to sleep comfortably in his apartment in a predominantly black neighborhood. He is guilty of the sin of being white in America, and receiving the unfair privilege that a racist system bestows upon him. A system he is perpetuating by snoozing away instead of marching with the protesters. He is guilty as charged. And no evidence other than his skin color is required to condemn him.
These are the kinds of actions Critical Race Theory encourages. Demands, actually, if taken to it’s logical conclusion. We can expect a lot more of this in the near future. It’s also likely that the encounters will become more confrontational, and ultimately, violent. Critical Race Theory is toxic nonsense that must be resisted. It will tear this country apart if allowed to fester.
BLM protestors practiced “Active Anit-Racism” by waking up residents and telling them they didn’t belong in their neighborhood because of their skin color. Which is of course racist AF. Yet they get praise from the media and corporate world because nobody wants to come out against the platitude “Black Lives Matter.” It’s time to separate the bromide from the Marxist political movement and call this ugliness out.
“I have a dream that one day little black boys and black girls will occupy separate residential areas from little white boys and white girls, strictly delineated and enforced along racial lines.” – Martin Luther King pic.twitter.com/kQDHfKwonR
The western world was aghast that Sweden didn’t shut down it’s economy and lock down it’s population in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Sweden was subjected to withering criticism from it’s EU neighbors. Many experts predicted a complete disaster and all but accused the Swedes of committing genocide against their own citizens. But were the critics right?
First of all, it is worth noting that Sweden appears to be pretty much done with the coronavirus. While much of the western world is still struggling with lock downs and economies on life support, Sweden has by and large returned to normal. New cases and deaths in Sweden have slowed to a trickle. And since there was no lock down in the first place, there is little worry about a “second wave” in Sweden due to reopening.
A Stockholm doctor’s perspective on COVID
The critics point to the higher death rate in Sweden compared to Norway and Finland as vindication they were right all along. And it is true that Sweden’s death rate is significantly higher than it’s Nordic neighbors. However, Sweden has a lower death rate than several other European countries such as the UK, Belgium, Spain, and Italy. Countries which enacted strict lock downs and experienced severe economic contractions. Sweden also has a lower death rate than many US States.
My home State of Michigan makes for an interesting comparison. Governor Gretchen Whitmer has used her emergency executive powers to enact very strict, broad, and aggressive lock down measures. While the economy of Michigan is in shambles and some lock down measures will likely continue on for months, many people credit her heavy-handed actions for saving lives. The populations of Michigan and Sweden are very close in size at right around 10 million people. However, the number of COVID deaths in Michigan to date is 6,592, while the number of fatalities in Sweden is only 5,787. So despite the lock down efforts, the death rate in Michigan is actually 15% higher than in Sweden.
Is this conclusive proof that the lock downs didn’t work? No, not any more than comparing Sweden to Finland proves they did. There are many other variables that affect the death rate besides lock down status. Population density, age demographics, comorbidity rates, and many other factors all come into play. But the comparison certainly raises some interesting questions. Questions the proponents of giving sweeping power to healthcare technocrats probably aren’t going to be too eager to entertain.
Almost all of the EU countries decided a very strong and intrusive government intervention was the best way to deal with the pandemic. And many of the US States followed suit. They claimed the economic devastation, millions of lives put on hold, loss of civil liberties, and general misery of the lock downs was worth the lives that could be saved. In hindsight, the data suggest that it might have been one of the worst public policy decisions of all time.
