The mainstream media did this to America

[Beetlegeuse]

Published in 2016:

5 Statistics You Need To Know About Cops Killing Blacks

1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015.

2. More whites and Hispanics die from police homicides than blacks.

3. The Post‘s data does show that unarmed black men are more likely to die by the gun of a cop than an unarmed white man…but this does not tell the whole story. In August 2015, the ratio was seven-to-one of unarmed black men dying from police gunshots compared to unarmed white men; the ratio was six-to-one by the end of 2015. But Mac Donald points out in The Marshall Project that looking at the details of the actual incidents that occurred paints a different picture:

The “unarmed” label is literally accurate, but it frequently fails to convey highly-charged policing situations. In a number of cases, if the victim ended up being unarmed, it was certainly not for lack of trying. At least five black victims had reportedly tried to grab the officer’s gun, or had been beating the cop with his own equipment. Some were shot from an accidental discharge triggered by their own assault on the officer. And two individuals included in the Post’s “unarmed black victims” category were struck by stray bullets aimed at someone else in justified cop shootings. If the victims were not the intended targets, then racism could have played no role in their deaths.

In one of those unintended cases, an undercover cop from the New York Police Department was conducting a gun sting in Mount Vernon, just north of New York City. One of the gun traffickers jumped into the cop’s car, stuck a pistol to his head, grabbed $2,400 and fled. The officer gave chase and opened fire after the thief again pointed his gun at him. Two of the officer’s bullets accidentally hit a 61-year-old bystander, killing him. That older man happened to be black, but his race had nothing to do with his tragic death. In the other collateral damage case, Virginia Beach, Virginia, officers approached a car parked at a convenience store that had a homicide suspect in the passenger seat. The suspect opened fire, sending a bullet through an officer’s shirt. The cops returned fire, killing their assailant as well as a woman in the driver’s seat. That woman entered the Post’s database without qualification as an “unarmed black victim” of police fire.

4. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers....

...Black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene....*

5. Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops.


*The only logical explanation for such a substantial disparity this is that black police officers are shooting based on their cop-sense, but white officers are seconding their cop-sense to fears their actions will be viewed as racially-motivated. IOW, absent fears of materially unfounded, politically motivated persecution, white cops would be shooting more suspects.

[Beetlegeuse]

From 2019:

Study Concludes White Police Officers Are Not More Likely To Shoot Black Citizens

(dailycaller.com/2019/07/23/study-white-police-officers-not-likely-shoot-black-citizens/)

White police officers are not more likely to shoot minorities than their non-white counterparts, according to a new study.

“If anything, black officers are more likely to shoot black citizens,” Dr. Joseph Cesario, co-author and professor of psychology at Michigan State University, wrote in the report. “But this is because black officers are drawn from the same population that they police. So, the more black citizens there are in a community, the more black police officers there are.”...


...“There are so many examples of people saying that when black citizens are shot by police, it’s white officers shooting them. In fact, our findings show no support for the idea that white officers are biased in shooting black citizens,” Dr. Cesario wrote....

...“We found that the race of the officer doesn’t matter when it comes to predicting whether black or white citizens are shot,” Dr. Cesario said.

The study also found that diversifying police forces with members of certain minority communities has no effect on decreasing minority shootings....

[Beetlegeuse]

More reporting on the same study as above:

Study destroys argument that white cops are shooting black men

(lawenforcementtoday.com/study-destroys-argument-that-white-cops-are-shooting-black-men/)

...Turns out, according to the study, that white officers are no more likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot black civilians.

And as we’ve long known, it reinforces the fact that it is a racial group’s rate of violent crime that determines police shootings, not the race of the officer.

Here’s what it comes down to – the more frequently officers encounter violent suspects – no matter what that racial group is – the greater the chances that members of that racial group will be shot by a police officer.

It gets even more interesting. The study found if there is a bias in police shootings after crime rates are taken into account, it is against white civilians.

The authors are faculty at Michigan State University and the University of Maryland at College Park. They completed the study by creating a database of 917 officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015 from more than 650 police departments.

When examining those shootings, 55 percent of the victims were white, 27 percent were black, and 19 percent were Hispanic.

Between 90 and 95 percent of the civilians shot by officers in 2015 were attacking police or other citizens and 90 percent were armed with a weapon.

There were very rare cases of what’s called threat-misperception shootings, in which an officer shoots an unarmed civilian after mistaking something for a gun.

It’s not the first study to shoot down the idea that white officers are biased in shooting black citizens....


...Just look at the 2015 Justice Department study of the Philadelphia Police Department.

It found black officers were 67 percent more likely than white officers to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect.

It also found that Hispanic officers were 145 percent more likely than white officers to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect.

The study didn’t address whether lowered hiring standards are responsible for those disparities.

So what’s causing the belief that we’re living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings?

Simple – selective reporting.

Look at the year the PNAS study focused on – 2015.

That was the same year the white victims of fatal police shootings included a 50-year-old suspect in a domestic assault in Tuscaloosa, Ala., who ran at the officer with a spoon; a 28-year-old driver in Des Moines, Iowa, who exited his car and walked quickly toward an officer after a car chase; and a 21-year-old suspect in a grocery-store robbery in Akron, Ohio, who had escaped on a bike and who did not remove his hand from his waistband when ordered to do so.

Because they were white, their stories never hit the mainstream media – which tends to focus only on stories that they can spin to be race-centric.

This whole idea that “police are racists” is simply increasing anti-cop tensions in minority communities. It also makes cops unwilling to engage in the proactive policing that can save lives.

Just look at the viral videos last month in Harlem, the Bronx, and Brooklyn as people assaulted passive New York Police Department officers. The videos demonstrate that hostility toward the police in inner-city neighborhoods remains at dangerous levels.

It also pulls away from discussing real solutions to criminal justice problems, which includes high rates of black-on-black victimization.

Black men are murdered at eight times the rate of non-Hispanic white men.

But they aren’t being killed by cops – they are being killed by other black men.

If we’re going to really have a conversation about racial justice, we need to start there.

[Beetlegeuse]

From 2019:

There Is No Epidemic of Racist Police Shootings

...A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demolishes the Democratic narrative regarding race and police shootings, which holds that white officers are engaged in an epidemic of racially biased shootings of black men. It turns out that white officers are no more likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot black civilians. It is a racial group’s rate of violent crime that determines police shootings, not the race of the officer. The more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that members of that racial group will be shot by a police officer. In fact, if there is a bias in police shootings after crime rates are taken into account, it is against white civilians, the study found.

The authors, faculty at Michigan State University and the University of Maryland at College Park, created a database of 917 officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015 from more than 650 police departments. Fifty-five percent of the victims were white, 27 percent were black, and 19 percent were Hispanic. Between 90 and 95 percent of the civilians shot by officers in 2015 were attacking police or other citizens; 90 percent were armed with a weapon. So-called threat-misperception shootings, in which an officer shoots an unarmed civilian after mistaking a cellphone, say, for a gun, were rare.

Earlier studies have also disproven the idea that white officers are biased in shooting black citizens. The Black Lives Matter narrative has been impervious to the truth, however. Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that doing so will decrease police shootings of minorities. Buttigieg came under fire from his presidential rivals for not having more black officers on the South Bend force after a white officer killed a black suspect this June. (The officer had responded to a 911 call about a possible car-theft suspect, saw a man leaning into a car, and shot off two rounds after the man threatened him with a knife.) The Obama administration recommended in 2016 that police departments lower their entry standards in order to be able to qualify more minorities for recruitment. Departments had already been deemphasizing written exams or eliminating requirements that recruits have a clean criminal record, but the trend intensified thereafter. The Baltimore Police Department changed its qualifying exam to such an extent that the director of legal instruction in the Baltimore Police Academy complained in 2018 that rookie officers were being let out onto the street with little understanding of the law. Mr. Biden’s criminal-justice plan would require police hiring to “mirror the racial diversity” of the local community as a precondition of federal funding....

...The persistent belief that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is a creation of selective reporting. In 2015, the year the PNAS study addressed, the white victims of fatal police shootings included a 50-year-old suspect in a domestic assault in Tuscaloosa, Ala., who ran at the officer with a spoon; a 28-year-old driver in Des Moines, Iowa, who exited his car and walked quickly toward an officer after a car chase; and a 21-year-old suspect in a grocery-store robbery in Akron, Ohio, who had escaped on a bike and who did not remove his hand from his waistband when ordered to do so. Had any of these victims been black, the media and activists would probably have jumped on their stories and added their names to the roster of victims of police racism. Instead, because they are white, they are unknown.

[Beetlegeuse]

The same Heather McDonald as wrote the article above wrote this (presciently) in 2015:

Tragedy, Not Pattern

Unjustified police shootings, like that of Walter Scott, remain rare.

...After Michael Brown was shot by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer, protesters concocted a narrative in which Brown had been trying to surrender to the officer but was shot in the back for his trouble. The “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative proved to be made up by bystanders, some of whom did not even see the shooting. In North Charleston, however, someone was shot in the back. And the same players—activists and media like—who illegitimately turned the Brown shooting into a symbol of ubiquitous police brutality against black men are now back at it, using the Slager shooting as definitive proof of their longstanding claims about racially predatory police forces. Their main lines of argument are the following: First, innocent minority men are routinely mowed down by the police; second, the police routinely lie about their encounters with minority men; and third, assertive policing in minority neighborhoods is the ultimate culprit behind the alleged epidemic of police homicides. None of these claims is borne out by the evidence.

We don’t know how many people police kill each year. According to the FBI, there are about 400 justified police homicides annually. But reporting to the federal government is voluntary on the part of local police agencies, whether regarding police shootings or crime data. It’s not even known how many agencies report their police homicides to the FBI; one calculation puts that number at around 750, out of approximately 18,000 police departments. Other estimates are higher. The vast majority of departments that report no police homicides to the FBI undoubtedly have no homicides to report. The Bureau of Justice Statistics, using complex statistical sampling rather than actual reports of homicide, has estimated about 1,000 police killings a year from 2003 to 2009—a number that seems high in light of verified reports from actual agencies such as the New York Police Department.

Saying anything definitive about police shootings is therefore difficult. Historically, somewhat less than half of the 400 police homicides reported to the FBI each year have black subjects. This is consistent with the black crime rate. Blacks make up over half of all homicide perpetrators in the country; in 2013, they were 42 percent of all cop-killers, despite being merely 12 percent of the population. From 1980 to 1998, young black males murdered police officers at almost six times the rate of young white males. According to Gary Kleck, a criminologist at Florida State University, police officers are less likely to kill a black suspect who threatens or attacks them than they are to kill a white suspect who threatens or attacks them. Admittedly, Kleck is working with incomplete data, but his findings comport with other research on officer behavior. A 2007 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that police officers were no more likely to shoot unarmed black men than unarmed white men in video simulations of encounters with armed and unarmed suspects. A 2014 simulation study from Washington State University found that officers waited longer to assess the situation when confronted with black suspects than they did with white suspects.

Data from New York City, where the police maintain highly detailed records on officer use of force, match Kleck’s findings. In 2011, New York officers fired at 41 suspects and killed nine of them—an astonishingly low number in light of New York’s population (over 8 million) and the size of its police force (35,000 uniformed officers). Blacks were 22 percent of those fatalities; whites were 44 percent of police fatalities. Yet blacks were 67 percent of all suspects who fired at the police; no white suspect fired at the police. Moreover, blacks made up 73 percent of all shooting perpetrators in the city in 2011, according to the victims of, and witnesses to, those shootings, though blacks are only 23 percent of the population. Whites committed less than 3 percent of all shootings, though they are close to 35 percent of the city’s population.

It is possible, but unlikely, that a complete data set on police shootings would radically change the picture regarding police shootings. But for now, there is no evidence to show that black men are killed disproportionately to their rate of crime and their rate of threatening officers.

The anti-police activists are also claiming that without the bystander video, the Scott shooting would have been deemed justified—emblematic, they say, of countless other unrecorded officer shootings of blacks that are wrongly deemed justified because the officers lied about them and got away with it. These claims are groundless. It’s not clear from press accounts what exactly Officer Slager said about the Scott shooting in his official report. But the facts would have come out about the Scott shooting with or without the video. The same forensic process that discredited the Michael Brown hoax would have revealed what happened in North Charleston. The autopsy would have shown that Scott was shot in the back; shell casings from Slager’s gun and the location where Scott fell would have shown the distance at which he was shot—crucially, not at close range.

There is no reason to think that officers lie more about their encounters with civilians than vice versa. In fact, the opposite is likely the case. The more cameras taping police-civilian interactions, the better—and to the extent that those videos provide a complete record of police encounters, they will vindicate officer accounts far more often than civilian ones. The Michael Brown saga was a particularly public display of the routine civilian lying about police stops in the inner city. Actress Taraji Henson recently apologized to the Glendale, California, police for falsely claiming that the department racially profiled and mistreated her son during a traffic stop. Evidence discredited New York Times columnist Charles Blow’s claim that his son was abused by Yale University police. In New York City, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which hears complaints about the New York Police Department, substantiated only 7 percent of the complaints it received in 2014; the vast majority of complaints are ungrounded. ...


...Every year more than 6,000 blacks are homicide victims, more than the number of white and Hispanic homicide victims combined, even though blacks make up only 13 percent of the national population. They are killed not by cops, but by other blacks. For that reason, the press ignores these killings. ...

[Beetlegeuse]

Number of people shot to death by the police in the United States from 2017 to 2020, by race






Ruh-roh.

[tarmyg]

Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Done. That was easy.

[The Deadlifting Dog]

Number of people shot to death by the police in the United States from 2017 to 2020, by race






Ruh-roh.

Ruh-roh is right!!!

Looks like the white folk commit more crimes.
Good thing we have police shooting them.

(FYI: what you’re doing by posting this chart is a clear example of using statistics to lie.)

[Beetlegeuse]

The Left Fears Law-Abiding Gun Owners More Than Rioters

Leftists fear an empowered citizenry that can do things without the pre-approval of liberal bureaucrats.

Aemerica is under siege by left-wing extremists and racial agitators. The lawless crowds have brutally beaten dozens of innocent people and destroyed the stores and homes of thousands. Police are doing their best to quell the crowds, but feckless leaders have kept them from doing their job and providing sufficient support.

Many ordinary citizens are on their own, lacking any protection from the state. The riots are an ugly reminder of the necessity of gun rights. Americans can’t always depend on the state to protect their property and safety. Sometimes you can only rely on yourself, your family, and your friends—the police won’t save you if all units are fighting a violent mob.

One politician understood this sad fact weeks before the rioting started—and liberals lost their collective mind about it. Georgia congressional candidate Paul Broun said in early April his constituents need AR-15s to defend themselves against looters.

“Whether it’s looting hordes from Atlanta, or a tyrannical government from Washington, there are few better liberty machines than an AR-15,” the former congressman said in his ad announcing an AR-15 giveaway.

Broun was derided as a racist gun nut for mentioning looting hordes. Now he stands vindicated as American cities descend into chaos. Despite the ever-present marauding hordes, liberals are still more terrified by law-abiding citizens exercising their constitutional rights.

Blue checks were apoplectic when President Trump said he would protect Americans’ Second Amendment rights during his Rose Garden speech Monday. Apparently Trump’s simple message affirming a basic liberty was a secret call for a race war.

...According to anti-gun critics, you don’t need a gun to protect your business or home. Besides, insurance will cover the damage! They say the latest social fad is more important than your life’s work and livelihood.

These jumpy pundits should’ve watched more of the riot footage from over the weekend. They would’ve seen the horrifying footage of an elderly couple in Rochester, New York brutally beaten for defending their business from looters. Maybe if they were armed, they wouldn’t have suffered such a travesty.

Another Rochester store owner was able to defend his business with the power of his shotgun. The difference in the two situations is as clear as day....

...Many of these same anti-gun critics delude themselves into believing the rioters are just “peaceful protesters.” Millions in bail money have been raised for rioters in Minneapolis. Journalists go into hysterics any time police use force against the rioters or even when someone dares call them terrorists. Needless to say, all oppose the National Guard and federal troops being deployed against the black-clad hordes.

It wasn’t too long ago when liberals wanted a brutal crackdown on peaceful anti-lockdown protesters. Apparently, people protesting in favor of their right to open their business is more of a threat than anarchists looting and torching said business. The black-masked agitators advance the liberal agenda; the peaceful gun owners stand up to it. That’s why the former is given a free pass to rampage while the latter is painted as a threat.

Gun rights ensure a citizen has the power to defend him or herself instead of being entirely dependent upon the state. They truly are, as Broun said, “liberty machines.” The Founders understood that the right to self-defense was a cornerstone of citizenship. They knew a defenseless citizen is more a subject than a citizen.

Leftists don’t like the idea that people can take care of themselves. They want everyone dependent on the state. They fear an empowered citizenry that can do things without the pre-approval of liberal bureaucrats.

It’s obvious: leftists fear law-abiding gun owners more than rioters who burn down cities.

[Beetlegeuse]

One of the fundamental steps in any insurgency is to destroy the public's confidence in the government's ability to provide basic services. Like public safety. Like what you're seeing right now in all these major BLUE cities.

Long-ish article not reproduced in full. Follow the hotlink in the headline if you'd like to read the rest.

The Systemic Collapse of the US Society Has Begun

The Saker • June 4, 2020 • 3,200 Words

I have lived in the United States for a total of 24 years and I have witnessed many crises over this long period, but what is taking place today is truly unique and much more serious than any previous crisis I can recall. And to explain my point, I would like to begin by saying what I believe the riots we are seeing taking place in hundreds of US cities are not about. They are not about:

1. Racism or “White privilege”
2. Police violence
3. Social alienation and despair
4. Poverty
5. Trump
6. The liberals pouring fuel on social fires
7. The infighting of the US elites/deep state

They are not about any of these because they encompass all of these issues, and more.

It is important to always keep in mind the distinction between the concepts of “cause” and “pretext”. And while it is true that all the factors listed above are real (at least to some degree, and without looking at the distinction between cause and effect), none of them are the true cause of what we are witnessing. At most, the above are pretexts, triggers if you want, but the real cause of what is taking place today is the systemic collapse of the US society.

The next thing which we must also keep in mind is that evidence of correlation is not evidence of causality. Take, for example, this article from CNN entitled which completely conflates the two concepts and which includes the following sentence (stress added) []“Those disparities exist[/] because of a long history of policies that excluded and exploited black Americans, said Valerie Wilson, director of the program on race, ethnicity and the economy at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning group.” The word “because” clearly point to a causality, yet absolutely nothing in the article or data support this. The US media is chock-full of such conflations of correlation and causality, yet it is rarely denounced.

For a society, any society, to function a number of factors that make up the social contract need to be present. The exact list that make up these factors will depend on each individual country, but they would typically include some kind of social consensus, the acceptance by most people of the legitimacy of the government and its institutions, often a unifying ideology or, at least, common values, the presence of a stable middle-class, the reasonable hope for a functioning “social life”, educational institutions etc. Finally, and cynically, it always helps the ruling elites if they can provide enough circuses (TV) and bread (food) to most citizens. This is even true of so-called authoritarian/totalitarian societies which, contrary to the liberal myth, typically do enjoy the support of a large segment of the population (if only because these regimes are often more capable of providing for the basic needs of society).

Right now, I would argue that the US government has almost completely lost its ability to deliver any of those factors, or act to repair the broken social contract. In fact, what we can observe is the exact opposite: the US society is highly divided, as is the US ruling class (which is even more important). Not only that, but ever since the election of Trump, all the vociferous Trump-haters have been undermining the legitimacy not only of Trump himself, but of the political system which made his election possible. I have been saying that for years: by saying “not my President” the Trump-haters have de-legitimized not only Trump personally, but also de-legitimized the Executive branch as such.

Sidebar:
This is an absolutely amazing phenomenon: while for almost four years Trump has been destroying the US Empire externally, Trump-haters spent the same four years destroying the US from the inside! If we look past the (largely fictional) differences between the Republicrats and the Demolicans we can see that they operate like a demolition tag-team of sorts and while they hate each other with a passion, they both contribute to bringing down both the Empire and the United States. For anybody who has studied dialectics this would be very predictable but, alas, dialectics are not taught anymore, hence the stunned “deer in the headlights” look on the faces of most people today.

Finally, it is pretty clear that for all its disclaimers about supporting only the “peaceful protestors” and its condemnation of the “out of town looters”, most of the US media (as well as the alt media) is completely unable to give a moral/ethical evaluation of what is taking place. What I mean by this is the following:...

[Beetlegeuse]

Sometimes the twitwits are more humorous than others. This is a good one, following a formal official in the administration of Sheikh Obama (piss be upon him), Brian Fallon, proclaiming his abject stupidity to the whole wide world:

[Beetlegeuse]

Joe BiteMe says 10-15% of American are "Not very good people."


And according to a Yahoo News/YouGov poll, 16% of Americans want to defund the police.



Wow. For someone displaying such an advanced state of senile dementia, I'm impressed Plugs got that close!

[Beetlegeuse]

The Manufactured Crisis of Police Racism

Long and fiddly article, lots of statistics and pie charts. Statistically dispels the myth of rising police violence against blacks.

...We know the number thanks to a detailed Washington Post database of every killing by the police. What is your guess as to the number of unarmed blacks killed by the police every year? One hundred? Three hundred? Last year, the figure was nine.

That number is going down, not up....

...In conclusion, let me be clear about one thing: I am not trying to justify what happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis. He was a big guy, and he was resisting arrest to the point that even with cuffs on, a team of three officers couldn’t get him into a squad car. Police had a problem to deal with, but keeping a knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly 9 minutes may have been homicide.

But the solution is to investigate the officer, charge him if there are grounds to do so, and punish him if he is guilty. The solution is not to demonstrate and riot against police racism, when there is hardly any evidence of any kind of system-wide bias. There may be some bad apples, but the system is working as it should: In the overwhelming majority of cases, police deal with criminals properly, without regard to race.

There is a tremendous head of steam built up behind the idea of police bias. But it’s not the police who need reform. It’s the media. This crisis will not end until the press stops presenting a false and dangerously inflamed picture of the American justice system. Rioting and looting are wrong no matter what the reason. Rioting and looting over an illusion — because of something that isn’t even true — is an American tragedy.

The truth is this is not a grass roots uprising, it's a plan they've had for years and just were waiting for the right crisis when the public mood was volatile to enact it. ANTIFA and BLM are now merely the militant arms of the demoncrat party, recruited from college campuses the same way the CIA recruited ideologues back in the 50's and 60's.

[Beetlegeuse]

KGB defector and former Soviet agent Yuri Bezmonov details the four steps in indoctrinated and brainwashing a populace, leading to leading to subversion and revolution.

Demoralization
Destabilization'
Crisis
"Normalization"

I saw these plans in action (and coming to fruition) in Angola and Nicaragua with my own eyes.



His key points, most indoctrination now is done by Americans to Americans, thanks to a lack of moral standards. The fully indoctrinated/demoralized no longer can recognize "true" information, substituting instead the false reality they have been programmed to believe.

And most poignantly, America is the last place of freedom and possibility. If it falls, there is nowhere else to defect to.


Bezmonov's full-blown lecture on the topic is here.

[Beetlegeuse]

In what Bizarro universe could the solution to intolerance be more intolerance?

Scorched earth politics: The age of intolerance

...A country that no longer believes in its founding values and has no sense of self-worth will cave into virtually any passing political fad. If the nation is attacked politically or militarily, you then have a public that will stand aside and allow it.

This is the oldest trick in the book. The Soviets knew it, the modern left knows it too. The communists played on the imperialism schtick then and now, while the modern left has long sought to associate nationalism of any kind with fascism and racism.

Anti-racism, then, is a veneer for leftists who oppose the very idea of the nation state. This is why they oppose any immigration control and seek to extend the franchise to foreign citizens who are not stakeholders. The purpose of this is to weaken the power of national democracy. So too is the drive to reduce the voting age to include those still in the grip of the educational institutions the left has power over.

The problem here is the modern left don’t actually believe in democracy. They protest general election results and referendum results. They agitate for outbreaks of violence to provoke the authorities then use the media to play the victim. They don’t play by the rules of democracy. There is no loser’s consent. If they can’t win by legitimate means then they’ll use all other means. They’ve become more aggressive in recent years because they can’t sell their ideas at the ballot box. Why should we vote for metropolitan leftists who think communism is cool and when they actively despise the people they seek to rule over?

The traditional left can take credit for a great many societal enhancements, with a proud history behind them of organising and mobilising for change, but they did it through the ballot box. We’re not dealing with the old left here. Here we’re up against a new evil. The same old communist agenda but warped by their depraved notion of “social justice” where even basic biological facts are a thought crime.

The modern left doesn’t care about black people or racism or equality. The Black Lives Matter movement is just a Trojan horse for a more authoritarian agenda designed to subordinate the majority, not liberate it. Puffed up with their own self-righteousness, with all the moral certitude that the ends justify the means, they’ve persuaded themselves that violence against the person is legitimate and that every issue bar none is a binary loyalty test. If you don’t conform you become the enemy.

This has been evolving to the point of critical mass for some time through a toxic culture war raging on the internet. Trump is just the inevitable backlash against it – and to a point, so is Brexit...


...Everything in the progressive agenda is aimed at dismantling nationhood, hence the creation of strains of victimhood according to gender and ethnicity. Those victims groups then get to make their own rules and exept themselves from standards everyone else is expected to follow. A society simply cannot function that way.

But then that’s the actual intent. They’re destructive nihilists who naively believe that destroying the democratic West automatically brings about something better. They’re absolutely convinced they can’t possibly be wrong because they now believe the nation state is the greatest evil on earth and anything that follows couldn’t possibly be worse. You cannot, therefore, be surprised if there is a conservative nationalist backlash. It’s been a long time coming.

This is fundamentally a culture war between those who believe in the nation state and its founding ideas and those who don’t. This culture war is an existential matter for America and the UK. This is why the “progressives” have a fondness for regional and global bodies that undermine and usurp national sovereignty. It’s a way of circumventing national democracy. Brexit is a partial corrective.

What we are seeing now, though, is a new front, where the murder of a criminal in the United States has been seized upon to promote the idea of “systemic racism” as a pretext for demolishing it. The useful idiot white liberal youth who see themselves as righteous crusaders for the downtrodden minorities are doing the dirty work of communist agitators in what has become the largest global brainwashing operation of the 21st century.

These protests are being stoked by leftists who would love nothing more than to see genuine racial strife kick off, and destroy civil society in the process. They want division, they want to force you to pick a side. They seek to provoke, they want retaliation, and they don’t care who gets hurt or used in the process. They couldn’t care less about black people or racism. This is their war on all of us. Scorched earth politics to make us submit to their intolerant dogma where they get to decide who you read and watch, what you’re allowed to say and think and who is allowed to speak...

[Beetlegeuse]

This author opines that the terrorists-for-hire that are at the heart of antifa are the result of too much higher education leaving too many educated idiots who can't find employment they feel suits their stature. So they remain unemployed, unmarried, living in Mom's basement, and poisonously unhappy with their existence.

...I argued recently that the massive expansion of higher education is creating a new ‘Everywhere precariat’. This group comprises graduates who’ve absorbed a worldview that trains them for ‘metropolitan elite’ job types that turn out to be far scarcer than the graduates competing for them.

The result is a frustrated would-be middle class, treading water in what the writer Venkatesh Rao has called ‘premium mediocre’ lifestyles, a rented simulacrum of a genuinely prosperous existence designed to signal preparedness for the day when, by luck or application, they make it into the dwindling numbers of the real bourgeoisie.

These graduate left-behinds are then stuck in a holding pattern, in precarious housing and employment, as opportunities to take the big steps into adult life — traditionally home ownership, coupledom and kids – recede ever further into the distance. A recent Pew report showed 30% of millennials living with a spouse and child, a fall of 10% on Generation X and a whopping 40% drop on the 1968 generation. That’s America, but ONS datashows the age of first child climbing relentlessly in Britain too — while the birth rate is falling in all cohorts save the over-40s....

It's as simply as supply and demand. The market for educated idiots is always limited, so the more of them there are about, the cheaper they are to hire.

[Beetlegeuse]

Woodson to Levin: 'Institutional Racism' is a 'Ruse,' a 'Lie' to 'Deflect' Attention



During an interview with conservative Mark Levin, Robert L. Woodson Sr., president and founder of the Woodson Center, said that what is happening today is a "perversion of the civil rights movement," and that claims of "institutional racism" are a "ruse," a "lie" to deflect attention from certain black leaders who have failed to help their communities because they pushed policies that do not work.

Woodson, whose organization works directly with people and groups in neighborhoods nationwide, also denounced the idea that the "legacy of slavery and discrimination" is responsible for problems in some black communities, such as unemployment, crime, and out-of-wedlock births. "That's another lie," he said.

During the June 7 edition of Life, Liberty & Levin on FNC, host Mark Levin said to Woodson, "You see what's happening to our country. You see what's happening in these cities and states. I want to put it to you this way. This is a civil rights movement. What kind of civil rights movement is this when you're burning down your own cities and you don't even have a precise message?

"I don't see any leaders," added Levin. "I see anarchy and mayhem. I see a media that's very excited about it. I see a Democratic Party that's run these cities for decades and one party rule and I see a National Democratic Party that won't condemn the violence in a full-throated and aggressive way. What do you make of this?"

Robert Woodson said, "Well, certainly what they're doing is a perversion of the civil rights movement, but as a continuation, Mark, a march that started 50 years ago, with the passage of the Civil Rights Bill."

"The great expectation at that time," he said, "was that the problem of the inner cities and poor blacks was that there were whites running those systems. And so the great promise was, if you just elect blacks to those offices, then the inequities would improve."

"And what we've done over the last 50 years, we've spent about $22 trillion in government money where 70 percent goes not to the poor, but to those who serve the poor," said Woodson. "Blacks have been in office and conditions for low-income blacks have deteriorated every year after year."

He continued, "And so one of the ways that they can avoid, those leaders can avoid explaining to the public, the cause of this decline, they use race as a ruse to deflect attention away from their failures." (Emphasis added.) ...

[Honkey_Kong]

The media is part of the CIA and CFR. They are doing this exactly as per design.

[Capebuffalo]

The media is part of the CIA and CFR. They are doing this exactly as per design.

Yup. Basically state run propaganda.

[Honkey_Kong]

Yup. Basically state run propaganda.

Add to that the repeal of the Smith-Mundt act in 2012. It's perfectly legal for the government to tell its citizens lies that it knows are propaganda.

[Beetlegeuse]

antifa: Liberation begins where America dies

[Honkey_Kong]

antifa: Liberation begins where America dies

The media just makes this shit up to get people mad. And there will be a few soy-boys who cheer for it (and also beat up Trump fans outside Minneapolis rallies). But this is all propaganda designed to get people worried and willing to let government take more of their rights.

[C27H40O3]

Russia probably has a hundred people in a room with computers instigating all this shit. They read about a protest, bring up google maps, see a police station nearby, and tell everyone to head there to take it over.

These young assholes run right over there and storm the building. Most of America feels we are losing the country to anarchy, Then their puppet trump gets reelected.

and Russia celebrates another successful operation.


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[GearHeaded]

Russia probably has a hundred people in a room with computers instigating all this shit. They read about a protest, bring up google maps, see a police station nearby, and tell everyone to head there to take it over.

These young assholes run right over there and storm the building. Most of America feels we are losing the country to anarchy, Then their puppet trump gets reelected.

and Russia celebrates another successful operation.

why would you think Russia would want Trump to get re-elected ?

I think you have it ass backwards . they want chaos so some weak minded schmuck like Biden would get elected , and Putin knows he could kick Bidens ass any day.
Chaos, race wars, economic stress is all an attempt to hurt trumps re-election, not to help it

[Proximal]

why would you think Russia would want Trump to get re-elected ?

I think you have it ass backwards . they want chaos so some weak minded schmuck like Biden would get elected , and Putin knows he could kick Bidens ass any day.
Chaos, race wars, economic stress is all an attempt to hurt trumps re-election, not to help it

You ever watch “Homeland” on Showtime? Damn do they stay current; the seasons dealing with Russia interfering were incredible.

I’m still against the conspiracy stuff regarding these riots. Granted, there was some pre-planning and organization happening, but they ended up appearing pretty lame to me.

[GearHeaded]

You ever watch “Homeland” on Showtime? Damn do they stay current; the seasons dealing with Russia interfering were incredible.

I’m still against the conspiracy stuff regarding these riots. Granted, there was some pre-planning and organization happening, but they ended up appearing pretty lame to me.

I have not watched it .. actually in the last 5 years I have not watched much TV at all. I think the last show I watched was Sons of Anarchy, and what was that like 5 years ago I think . I mainly like to read and write. but I may start watching more shows and TV , so I'll check it out.

[Proximal]

SOA was a good one.

[Honkey_Kong]

Russia probably has a hundred people in a room with computers instigating all this shit. They read about a protest, bring up google maps, see a police station nearby, and tell everyone to head there to take it over.

These young assholes run right over there and storm the building. Most of America feels we are losing the country to anarchy, Then their puppet trump gets reelected.

and Russia celebrates another successful operation.


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At this point, I think Trump is "one-and-done," but Biden is one of those dickheads in the Canseco-led steroid hearings. He's just as bad if not worse.

[C27H40O3]

Add to that the repeal of the Smith-Mundt act in 2012. It's perfectly legal for the government to tell its citizens lies that it knows are propaganda.

Trump has taken full advantage of that repeal since day 1.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidma.../#214be5181e17

Trump Is Lying More Than Ever: Just Look At The Data

As of early April, Trump has told 23.3 lies per day in 2020, a 0.5-lie increase since 2019. What’s more, Trump has averaged 23.8 lies per day since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the US — another 0.5-lie increase. Even during a pandemic, when the public needs to trust and rely on him the most, deception remains a core part of the president’s playbook.

[C27H40O3]

why would you think Russia would want Trump to get re-elected ?

I think you have it ass backwards . they want chaos so some weak minded schmuck like Biden would get elected , and Putin knows he could kick Bidens ass any day.
Chaos, race wars, economic stress is all an attempt to hurt trumps re-election, not to help it

Come on, man, be serious. The Mueller report found that russia helped him. The republican senate even agreed. Putin likes him because Trump is the ultimate malleable sucker. All you have to do to get him eating out of your hand is compliment him. Its a common trait with insecure folks. He is an extreme narcissist, so worried about what folks say about him. like the woefully insecure black youth in the city who shoots another kid for staring at him on the street, trump must answer every perceived slight, no matter how insignificant. He hates being called names, like an insecure kid. Bloomberg, being a New Yorker, knew him and observed him throughout decades, as we all did here. He was a joke in the newspaper in the 80's and 90's, when the rest of the country never heard of him. He knows what a fraudulent scamming grifter he is.






He has no self confidence, and is worried that he will look soft.

Look what happened when they bashed him for running down to the bunker when protesters were in the streets. The next day he said he was just down there for a routine inspection. Nothing special. But he took his whole family and was sealed in for awhile.

What a moron to try to cover weakness with a shitty lie, it only add to the look of weakness.

He's so stupid, the Whitehouse pool reporters posted the story in real time, they were in the whitehouse, they knew what was happening. The secret service put a code red into effect. everyone knew about it.

Yet, when he saw the news coverage the next day, he tried to lie about it.

[C27H40O3]

[C27H40O3]

I have not watched it .. actually in the last 5 years I have not watched much TV at all. I think the last show I watched was Sons of Anarchy, and what was that like 5 years ago I think . I mainly like to read and write. but I may start watching more shows and TV , so I'll check it out.

You missed it. Homeland is the best show on TV. I started to watch it all over again starting at season 1 because my lady never saw it. Then she lost interest in it in the first season, but i am watching it again anyway. I like that kind of show.

[Beetlegeuse]

The media just makes this shit up to get people mad. And there will be a few soy-boys who cheer for it (and also beat up Trump fans outside Minneapolis rallies). But this is all propaganda designed to get people worried and willing to let government take more of their rights.

I beg to differ, the media didn't make this up. I copied the list of the 10 points from the Revolutionary Abolitionists Movement website my own self

[Proximal]

You missed it. Homeland is the best show on TV. I started to watch it all over again starting at season 1 because my lady never saw it. Then she lost interest in it in the first season, but i am watching it again anyway. I like that kind of show.

Got to admit, this last season I’m thinking WTF, how the hell did they get a jump on the peace negotiations with the taliban?

[Beetlegeuse]

I keep telling you this "social justice" nonsense is batshit-crazy. The majority doesn't buy into it but the majority is robbed of its voice by the MSM.

The Media Suppresses Anyone Who Thinks Like You

... The left is seeking to define the scope of acceptable thought, and they do it by marginalizing the mainstream and mainstreaming the marginal.

They do it by lying both directly and by omission of normal views the leftists disapprove of. I talk about it in detail (and brutally) in my new non-fiction book The 21 Biggest Lies About Donald Trump (and You!). Even as my tome prepares to drop on 7/7, new examples of this crap keep popping up.

Look at the “defund the police” idiocy. This sinister power grab – it’s not crazy, but rather a calculated effort to centralize force within left-wing power structures and leave you disarmed and defenseless – gets the support of only a rounding error of American citizens, but it’s the only view you hear on the commie cable shows. Some try to gaslight it so not to freak out the whiny white wine women of suburbia who know their Ken-doll feminized and gunless husbands won’t be able to protect them. The sugar coaters assert that only a stupid conservative dummy would think “defund the police” actually means “defund the police,” just like “believe all women” could never be reasonably interpreted as meaning that people should "believe all women.” ...

[Honkey_Kong]

I beg to differ, the media didn't make this up. I copied the list of the 10 points from the Revolutionary Abolitionists Movement website my own self

The media is more than just CNN and Fox. And the people controlling the media also are the ones who create these "movements" it's all part of a greater plan against the American people.

[Beetlegeuse]

[GearHeaded]

The media is more than just CNN and Fox. And the people controlling the media also are the ones who create these "movements" it's all part of a greater plan against the American people.

Nepotism ..

look it up . most the media and politicians and Hollywood are all related. they are elitist trying to govern us all through propaganda and bullshit

[C27H40O3]

Got to admit, this last season I’m thinking WTF, how the hell did they get a jump on the peace negotiations with the taliban?

How are their writers so hip to what is going on? They must have written scripts at least a year before we watch the final product. They must have good contacts and tech advisors. I love that show. But you cant watch it half-ass and be doing something at the same time, like reading threads here. You will miss important shit.


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[C27H40O3]

Preach brother


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