Roundup
(1) I wrote briefly last night about the successful recall of San Francisco’s DA Chesa Boudin, and I’ve written about him previously as well. I just want to add that I first realized there was a good chance that the recall effort would work when, back in the fall, I was talking to some ultra-liberal friends who live in a San Francisco suburb and they spontaneously started to talk about their upset at the high crime rate. They were quite emotional about how awful it was, and although they didn’t say anything about Boudin and the recall, it made me realize that if people like this were so upset about it then an awful lot of people were going to be giving Boudin the boot. And so it’s happened.
Will his replacement be any better? Maybe a little bit.
(2) The drip drip drip of revelations about Hunter Biden’s dissipation isn’t something I’ve been covering heavily or even much at all lately. Who wants to wade through such a fetid cesspool? And yet it needs to be done. And today Ace has done yeoman’s work in a post entitled “Hunter Biden Made a Porno With a Druggy Hooker While Brandishing His Illegally-Purchased Gun.” It’s not just about Hunter’s sexual escapades and general dissipation; it’s also about how all his gun violations are being ignored by the oh-so-concerned left and our so-very-determined president, otherwise known as Hunter Biden’s dad.
(3) A guy who wanted to kill Justice Kavanaugh has been arrested:
An armed California man incensed about the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion expected to overturn Roe v. Wade was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home Wednesday after he hatched a plan to kill the jurist to “give his life purpose,” prosecutors said.
Nicholas John Roske, 26, was arrested by the Montgomery County Police Department at about 1:50 a.m. near Kavanaugh’s home in Chevy Chase and was charged later Wednesday in Maryland federal court with attempting to kill or kidnap a US judge, court records show.
Roske, who was dressed in black clothing and carrying a backpack and a suitcase, was spotted getting out of a cab in front of Kavanaugh’s home around 1:05 a.m. by two deputy US Marshals, who were stationed outside the residence, court papers state.
When he saw the marshals, who were standing next to their parked vehicle in the tony Washington, DC, suburb, he walked down the block and called 911 and told an operator he was having “suicidal thoughts,” had a firearm on him and wanted to kill Kavanaugh.
Doesn’t seem as though entrapment was involved here at all, unlike in the Michigan Whitmer kidnapping case. In the current incident, it seems as though the fact that Kavanaugh’s house had protection was the only reason this guy didn’t succeed or at least come a lot closer to succeeding in killing or wounding Kavanaugh and/or his family. The left is probably disappointed that he didn’t succeed, because if one or more of the SCOTUS justices on the right were to be assassinated, then Joe Biden would get to appoint a successor. This could change the course of history, and so the motivation is almost certainly quite strong. And since Kavanaugh in particular has been demonized from the start by the left and the Democrats, he’s a natural target for someone like Roske, who says he found Kavanaugh’s home address online.
See also a post entitled “The Schumer fatwa,” by Scott Johnson at Powerline.
(4) By the way, when is SCOTUS going to rule on Dobbs and thereby revisit Roe? Supposedly in late June or early July.
(5) The Washington Post is a hot mess. See also this as well as this. From the latter:
The state of the media industry is such that journalists are now incentivized to be as effusive as possible in professing how emotionally unstable they are. Why? Because it’s a surefire way to bolster their pleas for a redress of various workplace or personal grievances. No longer are these psychological issues thought to be best dealt with in the privacy of a therapist’s office, or among trusted confidants. Instead, these journalists create a public spectacle, beckoning colleagues to flood their tweet threads and affirm unstinting support. When Taylor Lorenz of the New York Times recounted her own emotional turmoil stemming from allegedly “violent” online criticism, the International Women’s Media Foundation, an NGO devoted to “[recognizing] badass female journalists and photographers whose courage sets them apart,” issued a rousing statement in her defense.
Subsequently, these journalists’ union representation will rush to amplify their grievances by echoing the therapeutic trauma jargon…
Most of these so-called jounralists are youngish women (well, they’re all young to me). They have probably been rewarded for this sort of behavior many times, and it seems to be continuing. The day of the hard-boiled reporter is long long gone.
These people are seriously messed up. This group tweeted this towards Kavanaugh’s wife and daughters.
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1534657509503516672
“They have probably been rewarded for this sort of behavior many times, and it seems to be continuing.”
As I recall from my younger days, one of the defining characteristics of college feminism was the reflex to always escalate any argument as quickly as possible. Their first impulse was to always start, physically or metaphysically, yelling because they’d been raised in a world where no one was ever allowed to yell back.
Fast forward more decades than I’d like to admit and we’ve now got legions of women who literally do not know how to function like mature adults.
Mike
So a guy dressed in black carrying a backpack gets out of a cab in front of Justice Kavanaugh’s house at 1:00 in the morning, and when he sees the US Marshals guarding Kavanaugh’s house, he starts walking away. And they don’t even stop him to question him? Am I missing something?
Apparently the only reason he was caught at all was because he called the cops on himself a block away.
maybe this explains last falls events,
https://twitter.com/JoshuaSteinman/status/1534653610960642049?cxt=HHwWgoCj6YDVl8wqAAAA
Glancing around at appearances of a general incompetence in American institutions of authority today, one ought only hope each Justice takes seriously the looming threats against their persons and families, and therefore arms their homes and bodies to the teeth. Their living and breathing may depend on a quick and practiced resort to self defense: they ought not count on others to provide for their safety.
There is a precedent.
that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable
Yesteryear’s [classical] liberal, is today’s conservative.
neo relates, “I was talking to some ultra-liberal friends who live in a San Francisco suburb and they spontaneously started to talk about their upset at the high crime rate. They were quite emotional about how awful it was…”
The refusal to give common sense its due has consequence.
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” Samuel Johnson
Many liberal minds are beginning to concentrate, dimly sensing that the prospect of mortal threats could appear at any moment.
Hunter Biden’s obsession with drugs, sex and the cavelier handling of guns is in keeping with the finest of Hollywood traditions.
The would be murderer was enabled by “Jane’s Revenge” the Molotov-cocktail, arson attackers who published the S.C. Justice’s home addresses.
The WAPO crew’s dysfunction is emblematic of an industry entirely composed of the delusional.
Chris B & sdferr,
On the assumption that the picture I saw of the two policemen outside the Kavenaugh home is accurate, it did not inspire confidence in the security the justices are getting. I suspect that lack is intentional. As neo observes, the assassination of just one S.C. justice would swing the Court.
4) There is also the “New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen” case pending at the Supreme Court. It seeks or could result in overturning the 1911 NY State Sullivan gun control law.
Some commentor here recommended a recent Naomi Wolf substack article about gun control and I ended up reading its reposting on Frontpagemag. She was OK with NY state regs. on purchasing firearms which she had actually done. Boy, they were something of a mess, compared to California which is substantially less onerous, but not easy either.
Geoffrey:
Is it possible to conceive that other assets are present but not advertizing their presence? Inconcievable or willful blindness? 🙂
Attack of the CA ninjas (or Killer Tomatoes). That’s not funny.
They have been setting the night on fire lately, that is if you are a random pregnancy crisis center.
Droll jesting.
Correction: it was Ruth Sent us rather than Jane’s Revenge that doxxed the SC Justices.
om,
“Is it possible to conceive that other assets are present but not advertizing their presence?”
Forgive my obtuseness but could you be a bit more specific?
You commented, it seemed, about the US Marshals or other LEOs protecting Judge Kavanaugh’s home.
All these youngish women journalists…have been rewarded…?
I’m sorry: Taylor Lorenz is some NYT flack? Ok. But who is she and why should I care? Asks this non-NYTs reader who gave it up in Winter, 1999 [and only briefly resumed for a few years after 9/11, a habit that was temporarily aided and abetted by a neighbouring Times reader and friend]).
Sorry. I am just THAT out of touch. (My already entrenched apostasy was only reconfirmed by an elder Right-leaning neighbour — my hair cutter, in fact — who ritually read the local Denver paper, USAToday, WSJ daily, and often the NYTimes, during the 2016 campaign. [I chided him a lot. He did stop buying on slow news days. His habit seems quaint now. But retirement aged though he was, he was not “online” at all. Trad media devotee was he — and he was my pro-trump debate adversary and guide from the future president’s announcement, in June 2015, forward. So humour him I did until his premature death, after Comey’s firing — May 2017.]).
om:
The would-be killer of Kavanaugh was apprehended by the police, however. Hard to say what the role of the US marshals actually was in his arrest, except that when he saw them guarding the house, their presence there caused him to walk away. Would he have carried out an attack if they hadn’t been there?
neo:
I am very glad that this leftist was deterred and arrested without anyone being harmed.
If the guy is actually suicidal I hope he gets effective help.
Unfortunately, the left probably won’t stop. Ends and means.
Most of these so-called jounralists are youngish women (well, they’re all young to me).
Taylor Lorenz is 37 years old. She’s been appended to a man named Christopher Mims in the past, perhaps still. Mr. Mims is 42. I don’t think youth is her problem.
om,
The picture I saw of the two men, presumably guarding Kavenaugh’s home, were armed only with pistols and only wearing tactical vests. They were bare headed. If they were suddenly confronted by assailants with rifles or shotguns and wearing full armor, they’d be toast.
Re those “youngish women”: I know I’ve said before, but perhaps not here, that young(ish) (mostly) affluent (mostly) white leftwing women are a major driver of the division in this country. Not only are they not, as a class, oppressed, but they are, as a class, somewhat crazy and very malicious. Not for nothing was the acronym AWFL (affluent white female liberal) coined.
There are equally destructive young men, of course, but they operate in very different ways. And they don’t get the indulgent treatment from the establishment that the AWFLs do.
https://stream.org/who-caused-world-war-iii-it-turns-out-michael-sussman/
Geoffrey:
So you want the National Guard and Seal Team Six, with the US Army Rangers as back up? Nancy’s fences too?
Were the LEOs too thin or too fat or too whatever? If the would be California Ninja had an army you think it would be noticed?
Do tell me about the security that Judge Kavanaugh has at his house, I’m sure you “know.”
I’m afraid to report that it’s official.
What many of us have suspected and my have even known deep in their souls…is now impossible to deny.
America has gone full bore Through the Looking Glass…
And it ain’t pretty. (In fact, it’s 100% deranged.)
Compare and contrast:
“Biden takes shot at Trump and Republicans on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!”—
https://nypost.com/2022/06/08/biden-takes-shot-at-trump-and-republicans-on-jimmy-kimmel-live/
“Insiders — and Hunter himself — say scandal-clad first son is Joe Biden’s ‘closest adviser’”—
https://nypost.com/2022/06/08/insiders-and-hunter-himself-say-first-son-is-joe-bidens-closest-adviser/
This is what Unity (and Sanity; and Leadership) looks like…in Wonderland.
“…Nancy’s fences…”
Gosh, what’s she fencing today…?
And hey, what’s up with Mr. Pelosi? Haven’t heard a word about him in over a week—total news blackout (gosh wonder why? Although there have been some reports that the case was closed and he was—SURPRISE!—let go, heh). Yep, the guy was thoroughly pickled, ran a stop sign and totaled his spanking new not-even-electric Porsche by colliding with a Jeep, driven by a guy named “Jesus”, wrecking that vehicle as well. But not to worry…he was—“somehow”—let go. Didn’t even have to invoke the handy “Hillary” defense—i.e., there was no intentionality!… Well, at least we found out what Jesus drives….
Hold on!
Did you mention Nancy??
Thought so.
Well here’s something else to compare and contrast…
“Key congressman who investigated Jan. 6 evidence: Trump ‘not to blame’ for violence;
“Rep. Rodney Davis also slams Nancy Pelosi, warns Capitol not ‘in a better security posture’ since the riots”—
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/key-congressman-who-investigated-jan-6-evidence-trump-not-blame-violence
‘Trump Pentagon first offered National Guard to Capitol four days before Jan. 6 riots, memo shows;
‘Official Capitol Police timeline validates Trump administration’s account, shows Democrats’ fateful rejections of offers. “Seems absolutely illogical,” one official wrote about security posture hours before riot began.’—
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/trump-pentagon-first-offered-national-guard-capitol-four-days-jan-6-riots-memo
It turns out hunters flack is mcconagheys agent what are the odds.
Its a cookbook
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-bipartisan-group-eyes-deal-week-bill-prevent-future-coups-rcna32667
The insinuation Trump overused executive orders both like “passing out candy” and in abuse of the Constitution is fantastic nonsense. Trump did issue an EO that was abusive of his proper powers, and wouldn’t you know? It was the “bump-stock” ban, a “gun control” measure utterly outside the frame.
I think that Joe “No Malarkey” Biden should probably change his name to Joe “Unity” Biden. OTOH, one could, as they say, embrace the power of “and”…
And in other news…there’s no way in Hell you’re gonna believe this. (Actually…there is, and therein lies the awful problem….)
‘FBI Chief Comey Misled Congress’s ‘Gang of 8’ Over Russiagate, Lisa Page Memo Reveals;
‘…Lisa Page…an FBI lawyer in 2017, wrote “talking points” for director James Comey ahead of a briefing to Congress — a memo now exposed for its deceptions….’—
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/06/09/fbi_chief_comey_misled_congresss_gang_of_8_over_russiagate_lisa_page_memo_reveals_836434.html
(So let’s get this straight: who was the Sussmann trial judge’s wife defending again…?)
How could Comey mislead Congress if the Dems in Congress were walking hand in hand with Comey?
Comey, Congressional Democrats, and the Media mislead the US public? Closer to what happened?
Except for nunez and a few others they were all in on the real coup.
I think there may have been something esoteric—called a “timeline”—involved here….
General flynn never lied to pence, that was one of the earliest lies
https://m.theepochtimes.com/activists-plan-to-blockade-supreme-court-before-abortion-decision_4516181.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge
General flynn never lied to pence, that was one of the earliest lies
Indeed. And showed quickly Trump’s out of touch vulnerabilities, repeated later time and again.
Ah yes, and who wouldn’t recollect “the trolley problem” now?
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1534752578394898432?cxt=HHwWgIC-1dXVxMwqAAAA
}}} The day of the hard-boiled reporter is long long gone.
Ah, but they now come out of J-School cracked like an egg, so….
“jounralists”, neo wrote, and I assume most probably an unintentional typo — though I could be way off in that facile assumption — provoked an urge in me to make a neologism (no pun) for the new form of mass media writers indicated here:
jejounralists, let’s call them.
sdferr:
Ends and means, but only applied by the Left. Until someone takes them on a helicopter ride …. and then they are surprised.
Another deleted tweet, shocked!
}}} As neo observes, the assassination of just one S.C. justice would swing the Court.
Technically, no — the court is, right now, 6-3, so a replacement would be 5-4, but the Chief is pretty much a squishy.
They’ve also shown a lack of spine all around, given what happened with the 2020 election — it’s almost amazing they’ve gone this way on RvW… If one of them was assassinated, I could believe their timorousness would overpower their will to do Right.
So, yes, it’s not impossible that a 5-4 would all too often result the same as a 4-5. But technically, that’s not the way it is supposed to work.
Let us hope we don’t get a chance to find out. :-/
OBloody:
I am assuming Roberts is not a reliable conservative vote.
“But what I don’t want to do — and I’m not being facetious — I don’t want to emulate Trump’s abuse of the Constitution and constitutional authority,” the commander-in-chief said.
He wasn’t being facetious. He was being asinine.
Wesson:
“Asinine” is far too kind.
He was being vicious and mendacious.
You get more of what you incentivize…
They crave attention. They aren’t journalists, they’re self-promoters. They got nothing on P.T. Barnum.
“But what I don’t want to do — and I’m not being facetious — I don’t want to emulate Trump’s abuse of the Constitution and constitutional authority,” the commander-in-chief said.
The unspoken part, surprised he didn’t whisper it quietly in the mic, I much prefer Obama’s style of abusing the Constitution… chuckle, chuckle. chuckle, chuckle.