Seattle’s CHOP

From Powerline blog

A millennial snowflake from CHOP

Decided to farm a cash crop.

He settled on weed,

So broadcast some seed.

His efforts became an agrarian flop.

Afterward: Seems CHOP snowflakes play for keeps ... see: Seattle Times Story.

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Headlines

Workers file 1.5m unemployment claims, as infections spike

Supreme Court rules against Trump’s bid to end program to shield ‘Dreamer’ immigrants

President Trump responds to ‘dope’ John Bolton’s allegations

Corporate America floods social justice causes with cash amid protests

New U.S. broadcasting chief fires agency heads

Apple CEO Tim Cook praises Supreme Court’s decision on dreamers

Georgia’s Bureau of Investigation says they were not consulted before DA filed murder charges against officer

... Atlanta cops walk out in protest ...

Poland’s Duda gets White House invitation

Coronavirus updates: Staggering jobless claims persist, global deaths near 450,000

30% of households missed their June housing payments

Farage: BLM wants to destroy the West

Puddin’heads

Need I explain what ties all these puddin’heads together? (Hint: Tapioca thinking.)

Former VP Joe Biden

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney

NY Rep. Jerry Nadler

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Ex-FBI Chief Robert Mueller

MSNBC’s Brian Williams

California Rep. Maxine Waters

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan

Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee

And too many more ...

Afterward: I think I’ll add NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace ...

Global Warming

From daily timewaster blog

Al Gore’s cabin covered with global warming ...

New News

We often learn more about current events by what is not reported than by what is.

Rayshard Brooks, the man shot and killed by a policeman in an Atlanta Wendy’s parking lot had been sentenced to 1 year in prison and 6 years probation in 2014 for beating his kids. He was sill on parole during the current incident. If arrested and convicted of DUI, he probably would have been sent back to prison. Apparently that is why he violently resisted arrest ... punching the arresting officer in the face, taking his Taser and firing it at him.

The arresting officer, Garrett Rolfe has been charged with first-degree murder.

Compare and contrast news accounts: CBS News versus Josh Who (both selectively biased ... you decide)

Stilton’s Place

No, no, “Goodnight Loon” ...

Headlines

Trump has a point about the polls

New Jersey could soon be the home of a major offshore wind port

U.K.’s Boris Johnson involved in car accident outside of Parliament

Report: Google financially blacklists ZeroHedge, threatens The Federalists over comment sections

DOJ to crack down on tech industry’s legal shield

Homebuyer mortgage demand spikes to 11-year high, as rates hit another record low

Minneapolis releases map showing extent of damage from riots — 700 buildings damaged or destroyed

Outrage after Democrats wear Kente cloth during moment of silence

California to remove Columbus statue from state Capitol after 137 years

Coronavirus updates: Target makes $15 minimum wage permanent, Google offers nonprofits aid grants

Battleground state voters back pause in immigration 2:1

Boston mayor backs removal of Lincoln; opposes renaming Faneuil Hall

The Crucible

There is no question we are in the middle of unhinged times ... another mania like the Salem witch trials ... the analogy that playwright Arthur Miller used for the McCarthy HUAC hearings ... which became a run-away tracking down of Communists inside our government. His analog play was called “The Crucible” (a white-hot container in which to melt metals) ... an attempt to show America how “cures” often go to excess and threaten to destroy the patient.

Another parallel to our current woke mania is the post-French Revolution when much of its nobles were beheaded in a popular blood-list. Here is a better recital of those crazy times than I could write ... see: Splendid Isolation post.

So now we have four instances of societies spinning out of control ... McCarthy’s HUAC, Salem witch trials, the French guillotine blood lust and our current “cancel culture” ... led by an amorphous band of millennials and West-coast techies ... and threatening to defund the police and turn over our cities to the anarchists.

Must be a periodic societal trope ... kinda like lemmings leaping into the sea. I’m doing my best to sit this one out ... if  the Committee of Public Safety will let me.

 Afterward: Another analog ... the Chinese Cultural Revolution ... see: Mao Lives Here

Even later: The Spanish Inquisition.

Far-Left Motto

Fortissimo

Verily, nothing in moderation!

Headlines

Members of Congress took small business loans — and the full extent is unknown

Scientists hail dexamethasone as ‘major breakthrough’ in treating coronavirus

North Korea reportedly blows up inter-Korea border office after threatening to sever all communications with South Korea

NYC coronavirus tracers won’t ask about protest attendance

EU opens antitrust probes into Apple

IMF to cut forecasts and warns of a crisis ‘unlike anything the world has ever seen’

New outbreak at China market ... Beijing expands lockdowns ...

CHAZ demands retrials for all non-white violent convicts

Trump predicts a court battle over John Bolton’s book

Home building sentiment posts biggest monthly surge ever

Dollar crash ‘virtually inevitable’ over massive debt ...

Hypocrisy: NBC highlights dangers of Trump’s rallies

Voter IDs

Found on Mostly Cajun blog

Since liberals want America to follow like sheep the rest of the world, why are they moving further away from requiring voter IDs?

Erasing History

It seems evolving social norms periodically spawn good-for-nothing nihilists who feel compelled to show their contempt for past wrongs, real or imagined, by destroying any of their vestiges. These history-denying firebrands think that past monuments embody all the evil that current mores condemn ... therefore erasing them becomes a justifiable catharsis ... even though empty-headed ... like what we are currently seeing.

Knowing this trope, monument builders try to thwart future iconoclasts by building their tributes huge (Giza pyramids), high (Washington Monument) or beautiful (Mount Rushmore). Doesn’t always help ... view the above.

reddit Pic

Lincoln at Antietam in October, 1862

Obvious Truth

Recent events show that civilization in a free and open society is but a veneer just millimeters thick. — Anon.

Fractured Definition

Zebra — a very, very large brassiere.

Headlines

Democrats demand details from banks, Treasury on small business bailout

Supreme Court rules that workers can’t be fired for being gay or transgender

FDA revokes emergency use of hydroxychlorquine

Chris Wallace: Trump is missing ‘cultural shift’ — ‘he runs the risk of being left behind‘

Security researchers uncover Trump campaign app vulnerability

Coronavirus updates: U.S. restaurants took a $120 billion hit, former FDA chief warns of hot spots

Shock poll: Biden +14 ...

Navarro: Trump ‘very interested’ in ‘at least 2 trillion for Phase 4’

Amazon’s Bezos willing to testify in House antitrust probe

Texas reports record-breaking coronavirus hospitalizations, the sixth new high in a week

De Blasio sick ...

Poll: 79% of truckers won’t deliver to cities with defunded police

Enfeebled

At War? (Part 3)

I hate to be a Gloomy George ... seeing a Chinese conspiracy around every corner. But I was right when I was worried back in April about what China was doing to close the deal on world domination ... see: At War? (Part 1).

Later that month I got even more specific about what China had done to use its coronavirus to punish and humble the world ... and what Xi might further have up his sleeve ... see: At War? (Part 2). One possibility, a clampdown on Hong Kong has already happened and now my spider senses tell me he might be preparing the cover story for unleashing another, more virulent version of coronavirus ... see: New China Coronavirus Outbreak. Imagine what a COVID-20 salvo from China would do to the crippled world economies ... no matter what it does to China?

Boy, do I hope I’m wrong!

Obvious Truth

Elite Americans really don’t care what our president does to project U.S. power overseas or to improve our country. They primarily want our president to look good, speak well and make lots of cool friends around the world.