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Watching new myths created in real time: George Floyd the hero

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It’s the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, and he is being treated like a hero.

Minnesota’s governor Walz has issued a letter to all state employees declaring a moment of silence (actually, 9 minutes, corresponding to the time Floyd was on the ground being restrained by Chauvin’s knee), and urging people to reflect on Floyd’s legacy and on Minnesota’s history of systemic racism.

As John Hinderaker writes:

Walz refers to “generations of systemic racism that have plagued our state.” Can he possibly be serious? What on Earth is he talking about? As recently as 1980, Minnesota’s population was barely 1 percent African-American. Since then the black population has grown somewhat, mostly as a result of lavish welfare benefits and the state’s welcoming attitude toward tens or hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees. What, exactly, did the generations of systemic racism consist of?

Presumably systemic racism has been manifested in the state’s public institutions. Tim Walz has been governor since 2019. Is he presiding over a systemically racist state government? If so, he should resign. Democrat Mark Dayton was governor for eight years preceding Walz. Is he a racist? Was his administration systemically racist? Come on, Tim, let’s name names.

And then there was a meeting of Floyd’s family with Biden and Harris, to mark the occasion:

Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, told reporters the family had a “great” meeting with the President and vice president and said: “He’s a genuine guy. They always speak from the heart.”

“We’re just thankful for what’s going on and we just want the George Floyd Policing Act to be passed,” Philonese Floyd told reporters at the White House.

He added: “If you can make federal laws to protect the bird, which is the bald eagle, you can make federal laws to protect people of color.”

The meeting comes as the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act — legislation that would set up a national registry of police misconduct, ban racial and religious profiling by law enforcement and overhaul qualified immunity for police officers — remains stalled in the Senate. Biden had set an initial goal of having the legislation passed by Tuesday, but the White House backed off that deadline to allow negotiations to continue in Congress.

If that bill were to be passed, expect the crime rate to soar everywhere, as the feds clamp down harder and harder on policing, and take more and more control (which is the aim). It’s especially ironic considering that not even the prosecutors in the Chauvin trial contended that racism had anything to do with Floyd’s death.

It certainly has a lot to do with Floyd’s post-death elevation to the status of icon, though, doesn’t it?

I’ve also noticed that at this point Floyd’s death is regularly referred to as a murder, even by the press on the right. Of course, the verdict has helped that process along. But anyone who has studied the case in any depth should be well aware of how unsupported that charge is. But truth – what’s that, when there’s propaganda to be made?

[ADDENDUM: Heather Mac Donald points out:

Nineteen children in Minneapolis have been shot this year, an increase of 171% over the same period in 2020. Their relatives wonder where the protesters are. “Why ain’t nobody mad about a 10-year-old, my grandson, fighting for his life?” asked Sharrie Jennings, Ladavionne’s grandmother, at a May 17 mayoral event. “Because a cop didn’t shoot him, is that why?”

A heartbreaking but excellent question. And a rhetorical one; we know the answers is “yes.” Also, because it is most likely that the person who did shoot him was black.

This innocent child and his family are suffering in part because of the pullback in policing subsequent to Floyd’s death. It’s not that no such murders wouldn’t have otherwise occurred, but certainly some of them would not have occurred.

Biden and Harris aren’t hosting Sharrie Jennings, either. There’s no political hay to be made there.]

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Watching new myths created in real time: George Floyd the hero — 62 Comments

  1. Leftism is never about the truth, it’s always a build up of lies on top of each other towards the narrative. It’s going to happen again sooner or later, if fact a few others are in the pipeline and now they know the playback how to ruin a policeman life totally.

  3. It is not easy to understand how even the most delusional “progressives”, gullible and easily manipulated by leftist propaganda, can accept the sacralization of a man who was, by any rational standards, hardly a decent person, whose fame derives solely from his demise (almost entirely of his own making) and who contributed nothing of value during his ill-spent life, but the entire martyrology of BLM is a true rogues’ gallery of miscreants and scoundrels. What is perhaps even more astonishing is that Floyd has globally become, without question, one of the most famous Americans ever, with murals and memorials “celebrating his life” not only here but around the world. In our nation’s most important city, the ghastly and incompetent mayor “took a knee” today in Floyd’s honor, while embassies and consulates render homage to a man who once held a loaded gun to the stomach of a terrified pregnant woman. All the world has indeed gone mad, nor does there seem to be a cure for this mass psychosis.

  5. Every revolution needs a martyr and Floyd fills the bill perfectly. The left/progs/commies/Democrats will immortalize and revere him to advance “the cause”.

  6. The George Floyd stuff is another example of how disconnected from reality our elites have become. Pretending George Floyd is Emmett Till may make them self-righteously orgasmic but not only does it do nothing about the actual problems/issues they claim to care about, it results in magical thinking that mostly makes those problems worse.

    Mike

  7. Remember Mumia Abu-Jamal! Old and tired sloganeering eventually gets rejuvenated.

  8. I call it a celebration of deviancy. St. George was a very flawed person whose actions led to his own death. Life is hard. It’s harder if you’re stupid.

    Why has he been “canonized?” Floyd would likely have died no matter what the cops on the scene did because they did not have Naloxone as part of their kit.

    It was a wrongful conviction based on emotion. And with the irregularities surrounding the trial the conviction will likely be overturned.

  9. Academia has jumped on the George Floyd bandwagon too. Here’s the way the University of Oregon (examples can readily be multiplied) has chosen to honor GF with a “Day of Enlightenment”: https://around.uoregon.edu/listen-learn-act

    Scroll down for access to the George Floyd Memorial Center (not part of the University of Oregon) at https://georgefloydmc.org/

    Where is the advocatus diaboli when we need one? The so-called devil’s advocate was a position established in 1587 in the Roman Catholic Church’s official canonization process. The advocatus diaboli was a specialist in canon law who argued against a candidate’s sainthood in order to reveal any character flaws or misrepresentation of the evidence favoring the person’s canonization. As Neo’s other commenters have pointed out, Floyd is a better candidate for hellfire than hero status.

  10. @Yawrate: “ . . . with the irregularities surrounding the trial the conviction will likely be overturned.“

    About as likely as the irregularities of the 2020 presidential election serving as the basis for overturning that illegitimate outcome.

  11. Molly:

    There’s no way the 2020 presidential election will be reversed. The courts have spoken. It’s over.

    Sure there was fraud. Where there’s smoke there’s fire. But was it enough to change the result of the election?

    The best outcome from these election fraud investigations will be laws and regulations that prevent the obvious fraud from happening again.

  12. Every revolution needs a martyr and Floyd fills the bill perfectly.

    A felon / scapgrace who died from an overdose of fentanyl does not fill the martyr bill perfectly.

    It does suggest that there’s no limit to the degree of humbug in the utterances of Democratic pols and publicists.

  13. Academia has jumped on the George Floyd bandwagon too. Here’s the way the University of Oregon (examples can readily be multiplied) has chosen to honor GF with a “Day of Enlightenment”

    Academia is busily telling us that (1) collectively, we’re overspending on higher education and (2) methods of recruitment and retention in higher education leave institutions overstocked with people who are not fit to take care of a chia pet. The simple answer is to radically modify corporate governance and use statutory law to close down institutions and programs. Of course, Republican state legislators will do nothing. They’re working on that tax cut which will be repealed in three years because they couldn’t assemble a program of spending cuts that a critical mass in the Republican caucus wouldn’t scuttle.

  15. Pretending George Floyd is Emmett Till may make them self-righteously orgasmic but not only does it do nothing about the actual problems/issues they claim to care about, it results in magical thinking that mostly makes those problems worse.

    Till was a crime victim. It was a crime with certain rare properties (that’s why there was a national magazine article about it). However, outside of the section of Mississippi in which it occurred, it really didn’t merit more attention than it had received by the spring of 1956 (bar in the trade book market for true crime stories). Crime victims qua crime victims are not properly honored; they are properly pitied. They may be honored for other things they have done with their life, but as Till was a young adolescent, the best he’d done was give some joy to the people in his immediate circle. Floyd, of course, was not a victim.

    And, no, they don’t care about the actual problems of black people. Black people who care never seem to have the megaphone or they default to measures which accomplish nothing but which are emotionally acceptable.

  16. Silver spoon used to mean someone born into a rich family enjoy a life of privilege since birth. Now it also means having a deadbeat scumbag minority dad who lead a life of criminality and is very to die in the hand of police one day. They used to say “I wish bill gates was my dad” now it is “I wish George floyd was my dad”

  17. And with the irregularities surrounding the trial the conviction will likely be overturned.

    You’re assuming Minnesota’s appellate judges have more integrity than their trial judges or their prosecutors or their jurors. Fat chance.

  18. What is perhaps even more astonishing is that Floyd has globally become, without question, one of the most famous Americans ever,

    The buts-to-nuts demonstrations in European cities are a reminder that Eurotrash are not our friends. They’re just not mortal enemies like China.

  19. Silver spoon used to mean someone born into a rich family enjoy a life of privilege since birth. Now it also means having a deadbeat scumbag minority dad who lead a life of criminality and is very to die in the hand of police one day. They used to say “I wish bill gates was my dad” now it is “I wish George floyd was my dad”

    I’ve never heard anyone say ‘I wish Bill Gates was my dad’. When I was a kid, I never heard anyone say ‘I wish J Paul Getty was my dad’, either.

    Pet peeve: ‘privilege’ means ‘private law’. Wealthy people are wealthy. They’re seldom so well-connected that they’re excused from paying their parking tickets.

  21. I eagerly await the inspirational George Floyd coloring book soon to be issued to all first graders containing all the highlights of a life well lived: George’s first drug deal; his first overdose; and his first armed robbery. What a source of inspiration!

  22. Bishop Garrison sure sounds like a one dimensional racist Commissar; we are going to learn just how much ruin is in this nation.

  23. Note ‘extremist’ means half the public. Per Jonathan Turley, a common prejudice in academe. Again, no person the least bit interested in either the give-and-take of civic life or in the military fulfilling common functions would think this way. Such people are absent at the apex and center of the Democratic Party.

    The fellow in charge of this is a veteran who served in Iraq, a West Point graduate (class of 2002). He was evidently in combat zones in Iraq, but not an infantryman. After his discharge from the military, he cadged a law degree from William and Mary, but was never admitted to the Virginia, Maryland, or DC bar. (He currently lives in NoVa). He held a series of patronage jobs in the Obama administration, then worked for the Clinton campaign. He’s worked at a pair of sketchy NGOs in recent years. He enrolled at William and Mary in 2007, so he must have resigned his commission unless he was mustered out for some embarrassing reason.

  24. @Yawrate: “There’s no way the 2020 presidential election will be reversed.”

    Yes, this was my point. There is no chance of that.

    “The courts have spoken.”

    Actually, no. The courts essentially refused to say a word about the legal and constitutional violations that took place.

    “Sure there was fraud. . . . But was it enough to change the result of the election?”

    Highly likely, in my opinion. All it took was orchestrated, targeted efforts in a few precincts in half a dozen states. They didn’t even really try to hide it. Indeed, to some extent the object was to rub the Deplorables’ faces in it.

    In this situation, I do not believe that “change the result of the election” is accurate wording, because we will never know what the “result” was, though now that the fraudulent election has been certified, I agree that it’s over. But no way is it forgotten.

  25. I watched this long and very raw footage from two of the police cams on the scene the day Floyd was arrested and they are revealing. Floyd resisted arrest from the beginning and was crying and begging the whole way. When they tried to put him in the cop car, he resisted and was saying he couldn’t breathe. The cops knew he was on something, but he denied it — of course. The man is pathetic and I feel sorry for him, but he was not murdered and likely caused his own demise through drug use and frankly, a hysterical reaction to the arrest. Early on he states that he doesn’t want to go back to jail. He had passed a fake twenty dollar bill. Floyd was a petty criminal who caused his own demise. I think he had a heart attack and the cops were doing what they could to restrain him. He asked to lie down outside the squad car. I am not expert in police techniques of restraint but it looked to me that the knee was not right on his neck from the angle of the camera in the video, but on his back near his neck. This is most evident in the second cop’s cam. There are two cams featured in the video. Floyd is yelling the whole time and saying he couldn’t breathe. Finally he is silent at the end. You can see that the crowd gathered is not helpful at all and keeps saying to put him in the car, not knowing that they had already tried and failed. Not knowing that Floyd requested to lie on the ground.

    No way this is Murder Two or three. I doubt it’s even manslaughter! The cops are businesslike and you can sense their frustration dealing with a huge man who won’t cooperate and is out of control. It’s a tragic story but in no way is George Floyd a hero. The insanity that is coming out of this sad tale is unbelieavable – -I mean the meetings with the president, the commemorations. My university here in Boulder where I’m a student, CU, had a moment of silence as well. Totally nuts.

    Here is the video for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjKjaCvXdf4

  26. Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Eric Garner were all used by the left to provoke racial animosity. However, none of their stories were quite as dramatic as George Floyd’s was. The nine minute video of him dying while being restrained was a gut wrenching thing to watch. But the video did not show the whole story. When all the body cam videos came out and the autopsy report was released, it was apparent that Floyd was a victim of his own bad drug using and small time criminal habits. The cops followed normal procedures. (Chauvin was thrown under the bus by his own department.) Floyd would almost certainly have died even if the police had let him sit up.

    Had the mayor and governor taken a strong law and order stance, the police and National Guard could have prevented most of the property damage and looting. They could have created a proper respect for the investigation and trial of Chauvin. Instead they allowed the mob to call the shots. Which, unfortunately, they’re still doing. The Marxists have finally created a race (substituted for class) war and George Floyd is their martyr.

    When the Marxists say the country is systemically racist, they are saying that our society values free markets, competition, merit, private property backed by courts, and law and order maintained by our police forces. It actually has little to do with race. It’s all about their Marxist revolution. They envision a society where private property is no longer protected, where all people share in the domestic production of this nation, where the central government makes all the decisions, and no one suffers because they are slackers, addicts, or criminals. Welcome to the Brave New World of Marxism – the 2021 version. Same as all the old Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cuban, Venezuelan, etc. versions. They just want to believe it will be new and better this time around.

  28. As I commented before, Floyd drowned. His lungs were full of liquid. He was frothing at the mouth. He was already complaining he couldn’t breathe when the police arrived. An overdose of Fentanyl will do that to you. Otherwise you have to believe that chauvin’s magical knee on his back strangled him.

  29. Of course I knew that George Floyd was a violent felon and drug addict, who killed himself with a fentanyl overdose. But, until recently, I hadn’t realized that the man was a porn star. That changes everything. I’m now totally on board with the hero worship. I take back everything I said about black culture being broken, and woketarians being degenerates for worshiping it. Bring on the gold coffins. Pay them all 27 million. Erect(!) a pornographic statue at George Floyd Square. Our new woke culture in a nutshell.

  31. It’s not about the nature of Floyd’s character and his actions. It’s about his usefulness in advancing the narrative. Even had Floyd lived, Chauvin’s knee on his neck* would have sufficed because it could be portrayed as whites still grinding black’s faces into the ground. His death was simply fortuitous in advancing the narrative.

    * Chauvin placed his knee at the junction of Floyd’s neck and back and did so lightly enough that the medical examiner reported no damage to his trachea..

    “Every revolution needs a martyr… physicsguy

    Bingo. Floyd has joined that pantheon of martyrs; Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, etc. etc. No doubt there will be more, that is until the police are nationalized.

    “The best outcome from these election fraud investigations will be laws and regulations that prevent the obvious fraud from happening again.” Yawrate

    Upon what basis do you imagine that enough democrats will vote for corrective laws and regulations?

    “A felon / scapgrace who died from an overdose of fentanyl does not fill the martyr bill perfectly.” Art+Deco

    Let not perfect be the enemy of good enough.

  32. One of the things that struck me in watching the video of the struggle in the police car is Floyd’s voice. It sounded really raspy, as if he was half choking on lower respiratory congestion – perhaps because he was.

  33. Leftoxenomorphism is a religion and it needs its saints and it’s gonna get them anyway it can.

    Sacralization is all about faith and mysticism and has nothing to do with reality.

    Floyd was a low-life criminal that died of an overdose and his death was suicide.

    Leftoxenomorphs are not interested in reality and so Floyd gets sanctified by the Holy Mother Church of Maarx Moloch.

    99.99% of their operations are PSYOPS.

    Cultural marxism is mostly PSYOPS.

    BLM is not all that different at its core from environmentalism and climate change.

    They are all gargoyles.

    Gargoyles are an old religious device to materialize the magical threats so people have something tangible to fear.

    The medieval Dark Ages gargoyles peering menacingly from the heights of churches are transformed by leftoxenomorphism into their modern version.

    Granted BLM apparently adds a somewhat kinetic element but more show than substance.

    Floyd is just a dead Greta Thunberg, worthless and meaningless from any rational standpoint either alive or dead.

    But leftoxenomorphs don’t deal in rationality but in religion, faith and mysticism. By other name: magic.

    It works fine for them.

    They already defeated and murdered the late Constitutional Republic the United States of America (July 4th, 1776 – November 3rd, 2020)

    They already own 95% or organized Venezuerica and are in the process of conquering the remaining 5% and then it’s mop up the remainder and convert or genocide the survivors, according to their inclination.

    In typical pisslim fashion or nazi selection, if you will, they’ll have two lines: one for those willing to kneel, bow and worship leftoxenomorphism and serve as ant / peasant / slaves in the leftoxenomorph ant-hill with a one-hive-mind or, in other words, be willing to own nothing and be happy and obey the leftoxenomorph neo-feudal lords after “The Great Reset” and another line for those not willing to submit that, in the as old as time modus operandi of collectivist tyrants, will be marked for genocide.

    Collectivism has an evil logic of its own and it always follows the same pattern: at the end there are always a mass graves.

    Floyd is a leftoxenomorph saint and his memory, a gargoyle. Who said he was useless? Only in life.

    It is said that a Spanish medieval military leader against the pisslim invaders of the time, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, “El Cid Campeador”, after his death, was made to ride his horse into battle, held on the saddle by some wood and rope, and at the sight of the dead foe riding against them the pisslims fled the battlefield giving him and his Spaniards an easy triumph.

    Leftoxenomorphs are attempting something of the kind with a dead Floyd.

    Every leftoxenomorph triumph against the remains and survivors of America is proof of our weakness.

    Because leftoxenomorphism is just bullsh!tsectionality and they have nothing to offer but smoke and mirrors, faith and mysticism, magical incantations.

    If they win is because we are weak.

  34. Many of you have been Carefully Taught (the wrong approach). To bring them all back into line will take Force, coupled with scorn and contempt for misbehavior and ignoring of social norms.

    Blacks have been permitted to run free-range for too long out of a misplaced sense of White Guilt. It’s time for them to earn respect by conforming to a basic set of social norms – just like anybody else. Step outside the yellow lines and they need to feel and hear about it.

    This goes for plenty of other folks, too. But Blacks, are at the top of Professor Pareto’s list for causing disproportionate amounts of trouble for everyone else. Virtue signalers can tag on a bit about protecting the Good Blacks from the Bad Blacks. That’s nice. But let’s stick to naked self-interest here. Pious moralising hasn’t worked so far anyway.

    To get from Here to There is going to be one hell of a sociopolitical tectonic shift.

  35. @George Banner AKA the Ashkenazi Assurbanipal:

    “Floyd is just a dead Greta Thunberg, worthless and meaningless from any rational standpoint either alive or dead.”

    Not that there’s anything wrong with a Dead Greta Thunberg. You’re an inspiration to the rest of us and I need to work more on my vehemence. Being left in the dust here!

  36. Mr Floyd was a drug addict and is now currently a year clean and sober. Admirable.

  38. Floyd killing himself with overdose leaving behind millions of someone else money for his family was the only good thing he had done for his family his entire life.

  39. Yawrate and Molly. The presidential election will not be overturned but down ballot races like Senate, House of Representatives, State and Local races can be ordered re-run. Think the two senators from Georgia would pass with standard non-COVID rules? Kelly in Arizona? The McCain machine was bound and determined not to have Trump win Arizona. According to Baris of “The Peoples Pundit” the other counties like Pima and Apache were worse than Maricopa. All audit firms and people have stated that fraud lights are blinking bright red.

    Second not under this administration but at the state level there can be prosecutions for election fraud. I don’t know the statute of limitations but I am sure they don’t run out quickly. All it takes is prosecutors with a backbone. When Arizona decertifies, Georgia will be next and then Wisconsin. You can see the pieces falling into place. When that happens there will be some backbone discovered.

    The Deep State thought they could intimidate us or subsume us like the Tea Party. That isn’t going to happen. Citizens outside of the Republican Party are mobilized and active. They are letting the elected official AND the Republican Party there is no going back. New Hampshire will also be interesting.

    Finally the DNC can be forced into a consent decree like the Republican Party was in 1972 to not perform or get involved with local races or election tactics. That hamstrung the RNC for decades until it was lifted in 2019.

    I think one and two are likely. Citizens are angry and now that Trump is gone the Techno overloads are not as passionate. They too are engaged in a civil war with the Totalitarians that is just under the surface. Plus they are starting to realize what a catastrophe they have unleashed. Even in their little bubble unpleasant facts are coming up. Legacy media is preparing them to be let down as easy as they can be. Like Carter in 1981, I gainsay that in 2023 you will not find many people volunteering that they voted for Biden/Harris. You know who those people are. Never let them forget it.

    Also executive orders from an illegal president would have some interesting judicial questions.

    So let the audits run. The narrative is cracking, COVID is done except for the hysterical. The legacy media has run its course. Social Media has begotten serious competition that will eat into their margins. Wars and rumors of war are sweeping the land. Gunshots are ringing out in George Floyd square. And the reapportionment fight is starting the blue states. More shoes to drop on that question soon too.

  40. “Finally the DNC can be forced into a consent decree like the Republican Party was in 1972 to not perform or get involved with local races or election tactics.”

    It can?

    Stoppit. You’re killing me!

  42. In the end, he was a good provider for his family; You can pick your favorite George Floyd photographic portrait here, for your home shrine and/or scrapbook:

    https://www.phillymadecreative.com/the-digital-lynching-of-george-p-floyd/george-floyd-mug-shots/

    A wide selection to choose from.

    Am I the only person noticing that notoriety, celebrity, and recognition and/or celebration with high-level politicians has made the Democratic Party appear to be something like another form of the Lottery for African Americans? Vote Democrat, sacrifice a family member, and meet Joe (and Kamala)!

  44. It, for any and every it, is never about what the Left says it’s about. It is only and always about power and the money that power brings. Period.

  45. “Every revolution needs a martyr and Floyd fills the bill perfectly. The left/progs/commies/Democrats will immortalize and revere him to advance “the cause”.” – physicsguy

    After the last decade or so of watching the sausage-making that is history, I begin to doubt just about everything we “know” about everyone and everything, other than bare-bones “this happened on that date” — and I’m inclined to be skeptical of some of those.

  46. George Floyd–the Horst Wessel of the 21st Century! All he lacks is a catchy song.

  47. Commented to my wife that we are getting a taste of what the average German experienced in the ’30s. Surprised her. People forget that there were ordinary Germans who just wanted to put the horrors of World War I, and its devastating aftermath behind them, and to live their lives in peace. They had their Constitutional Republic (Weimar Republic) and probably thought a new era was dawning. According to one source, about 5% were Nazis in 1933. The majority may have shrugged them off as no more than street thugs. Then shock. Still, according to the source, Nazi party membership peaked in 1943 (at the height of German power) at around 10%. Sadly, we now are observing first hand how a relatively small number of rabid ideologues and power hungry opportunists can use a mix of false narrative and violence to drive a radical agenda.

    I reflect that if there was ever a good time to be 86, this is it. A short horizon can be a blessing On some days I manage to detach myself from the horror. I feel for you younger folk who may have to live for an extended period in the cess pool that committed activists are creating of our society. Well, they have already succeeded in many venues and across large swaths of urban America. There is a pandemic of madness sweeping the country, and it is far more dangerous than Covid. The fundamental question now is whether enough Patriots will awaken (as opposed to ”woke”) and stand resolutely against the tide that is sweeping all before it at the moment. Either way it is going to be ugly; or uglier. Is there the will? Is it too late?

  49. Sorry Philonese…, but I’ll take the Bald Eagle over your brother George any day.

  50. MBunge. Like the term “self-righteously orgasmic”. But I’d have reversed the two.
    “orgasmically self-righteous” seems good, too.

    Checked in with some of the purveyors of the above for mentions of Justine Damond. You can guess.

  51. The systemic racism is the attitude and behavior of progressives that infantilizes blacks, that assumes they are incapable of taking responsibility for themselves, that excuses and ignores any illegal and violent actions by blacks, that says all blacks are nothing more than victims in need of protection by progressive whites.

    There are a few prominent blacks that speak up and push back. I’m willing to bet there are a sizable number of regular folks in the black community that are disgusted and feel just like Sharrie Jennings quoted above.

  52. The systemic racism is the attitude and behavior of progressives that infantilizes blacks, that assumes they are incapable of taking responsibility for themselves, that excuses and ignores any illegal and violent actions by blacks, that says all blacks are nothing more than victims in need of protection by progressive whites.

    That’s half of them. The other half fancy deplorables being low status people should not have any authority over the pets of the haut bourgeois persons such as themselves.

  53. Checked in with some of the purveyors of the above for mentions of Justine Damond.

    How much you wanna bet Minnesota’s appellate judiciary manufactures an excuse to spring her killer?

  54. I gainsay that in 2023 you will not find many people volunteering that they voted for Biden/Harris. You know who those people are.

    You’re assuming a capacity for shame in re their opinions on public affairs. Not to be found among Democratic voters. Note, the median vintage of those casting a ballot in 1976 would have been the 1937 birth cohort, or thereabouts. That in 2020 would have been the 1978 cohort. Considerable regression, intellectually and morally.

  55. “I reflect that if there was ever a good time to be 86, this is it. A short horizon can be a blessing On some days I manage to detach myself from the horror.”

    You have me by three years but I can lose myself in reading about WWI. We are the lucky ones. I feel so sorry for my kids and grand kids. I just avoid talking about it.

  56. What I read here is dread of the future yet doing nothing about it, like a bunch of “good” Germans looking away as their Jewish friends and neighbors were rounded up..

    I am convinced there was substantial vote fraud, that Biden is illegitimate, that he and the Schumer/Pelosi/Schiff Democrats intend to both ruin the country and preside over the ruins forever. There can be no other explanation for cancelling the Keystone pipeline with its 10,000 union workers as a first act.

    And Cyrus Vance Jr. (D) has convened a NYC grand jury to indict Trump on unspecified criminal charges. If tried, Trump will be treated as fairly as Chauvin.

    Why do we accept that? Why?

    The good thing about being old and near the end of our rope is that it would cost us not much to gun down an enemy at the cost of our lives. Our do-nothing destiny is so obviously clear and dreadful.

    As to black Americans, I don’t think much of the majority. And I am not willing to subsidize their grotesque, self-ruining culture. Or to honor their criminal dead. Floyd was a rotten, vicious man whose soul is spending eternity in Hades, but is a black saintly ikon painted on numerous urban buildings? BLM is a vicious self-declared Marxist organization; BLM logo has been painted on major streets in NYC and DC with taxpayer dollars, has received hundreds of millions in donations? Most of that money did not come from blacks, I assure you.

    America has been on a downward path for a century now. Great countries and empires historically have died from within, as we are dying. Atheistic secular progressivism has won because its opponents did not sufficiently oppose, not because it was the better path. McCarthy was right, was opposed and unheeded, laughed at, shamed. Yeah, he drank; so did Winston.

    Think for a moment about SCOTUS: 5 Justices (sic) tell us, We the People and the Executive and Legislative Branches, what we may and may not do. That is a tyrannical oligarchy. Aristotle (ca. 340 BC) considered that the worst form of government. That was two millennia ago, and where are we now?

    So, what’s it gonna take?

  57. A picture of his 6-year-old daughter entering the White House. One of 5 children with multiple women, not married to the mother, not living with the daughter, in a relationship with another woman also addicted to opiates. Multiple articles in NYT about the 1 year anniversary but only one of a focus group by pollster Frank Luntz interviewing conservatives. Thank goodness Andrew McCarthy of National Review posted a factual article refuting the MSM narrative that Floyd was “murdered” and that the incident was about race.

  58. @Cicero:

    “I am convinced there was substantial vote fraud . . . ”

    Yes.

    ” . . . that Biden is illegitimate . . . ”

    Yes.

    “. . . that he and the Schumer/Pelosi/Schiff Democrats intend to both ruin the country and preside over the ruins forever . . . ”

    If the country’s ruination is not their intention, it will be the likely consequence of their actions, though any hope on their part of presiding “forever” will prove to be out of step with emergent reality, which always casts the deciding vote.

    “There can be no other explanation for cancelling the Keystone pipeline with its 10,000 union workers as a first act.”

    Here we disagree. Hanlon’s razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” The “Biden” “administration” since its inception has displayed patent stupidity in reflexively overturning what President Trump managed to accomplish in the teeth of objectively treasonous opposition.

  59. that he and the Schumer/Pelosi/Schiff Democrats intend to both ruin the country and preside over the ruins forever .

    I think the actuarial tables suggest Pelosi has a life expectancy of about 9 years and has about one chance in three of being recognizably demented before she shuffles off. Her father, her mother, and her oldest brother had long lifespans. They also died quite abruptly.

  60. A comment to Hinderaker’s article on PowerLine had this satirical version of Walz’s letter — evidently Walz’s first draft before his staff sanitized it:

    “Dear Subjects,

    Almost one year ago, George Floyd, an armed robber, drug addict & petty criminal was murdered with a massive dose of fentanyl by his drug dealer who was trying to avoid arrest after Floyd passed some counterfeit money for him.

    I recognized this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to use BLM & Antifa to inflame racial tensions, causing massive riots & perpetual hatred between Minnesota’s citizens who had been living together in peace. I immediately directed our communist Attorney General, Keith Ellison, to pin Saint Floyd’s murder on the police, & that’s just what he did.

    “Don’t let a crisis go to waste,” I say! Well, I haven’t & pretty much have destroyed community policing & public safety as we’ve always known it….”

    This seems more likely to me than the version that BLM & our mainstream culture is promoting. An innocent cop is in jail for something that was fabricated by Walz & the Democrats; then they used the courts & a jury to lynch him..

  61. Judgment passed on plausible (i.e. post-normal science, etc.) rather than probable grounds. A witch hunt and warlock trial, with disclosure of the underlying liberal (i.e. divergent) bent.

  62. Meanwhile, over half a million Americans denied early treatments, no longer viable (e.g. Planned Parent/hood). Nearly 80% of cases are “fat is beautiful”, “healthy at any weight” is a comorbidity past, present, and progressive.

    Baby Lives Matter

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