All ideologies spawn psychopaths who kill innocents in its name. Yet only some are blamed for their violent adherents: by opportunists cravenly exploiting corpses while they still lie on the ground.
Glenn, living in what seems to be a ground zero for this, southeast Wisconsin, I know all too well the hypocrisy. You had the Rittenhouse 'episode' and the outright lying about it less than an hour drive from where I live, the Waukesha Parade massacre less than half an hour away, in the same county no less, and the Madison firebombing which you mentioned that is under two hours away.
Although not shootings, the BLM nut who drove into the Waukesha Christmas Parade had the same intent as a mass shooter, kill as many as possible. And the legacy press just said that a SUV hit a parade. Nothing about who or why. The same is true about the firebombing, they just said the building caught fire. Both imply that there was a natural cause. However as you know with Rittenhouse, the legacy press lied through it's teeth making up stories to sell a narrative. It's sick.
As a fellow southeastern WI resident, I concur. Our son attends Carthage so his freshman year was pushed back because of riots resulting from Jacob Blake. All of us in the area knew Blake had a knife when it happened but the media literally lied. (And by the way, what happened to caring about his initial victim, the mother of his children?) Same with the Waukesha parade. It's truly a mind warp knowing what you know and seeing the facts and living through a lying media report. We are bystanders to the shit show.
If MSM is able and willing to so blatantly misrepresent events that are happening under the eyes of domestic, even local audience, one can only imagine that the picture they represent about the world has absolutely no relation to any truth - end to end propaganda.
glenn, generally a great article as usual. but, now that you are truly independent, might not some things warrant a second look? specifically "Brenton Tarrant, the 29-year-old Australian who in 2019 murdered 51 people, mostly Muslims, at two mosques in New Zealand." now it is certainly possible that that sentence is true. but if it is, why is the video that he produced, and which has never been called a hoax by the five eyes msm, so completely unconvincing? have you watched it? it is unbelievable on so many levels. here is a link to some of them and a place the video may be seen. that it is so clearly phony is why, i think, australia and new zealand made it a major crime to watch or share it and the establishment in the rest of the five eyes made it so hard to find.
Yeah, Blake had a warrant out for sticking his finger through his girlfriend's underwear until ripping a hole, then up inside her, pulling it out, smelling it and saying it "smelled like sex." He also stole her vehicle from her a couple times. She's the one who called the police on him...yet BLM makes him, a rapist, the victim. He was twice tazed by the police, yet he wouldn't submit or give up his knife. He dropped it, ran to get it, then ran for his vehicle. It was only then the police shot him and rightly so, as there were children in the back and with someone so crazed in the driver's seat, there would have all but certainly been a high-speed chase and with it, who knows how many innocent people would have been injured or killed.
As I said earlier on here, "According to the legacy press, all black lives are equal but some are more equal than others." Blake's GF apparently doesn't matter. As for Brooks in Waukesha, he'd driven over his girlfriend before posting bail in Milwaukee to then go to Waukesha and running down the parade. These two guys were/are mad dogs. For other Wisconsinites, they are like Steven Avery whose main difference is that he's white, not black.
I am well aware, it'd be an insult to pig shit to compare them to pig shit.
I used that term because of a Forensic Files like show I once saw around a decade ago. From what I remember, a guy killed several people and plead insanity to avoid the death penalty. The jury believed he was insane, but sentenced him to death nonetheless. After his execution, a juror was asked about that and replied:
"When you have a mad dog, you put 'em down."
In this case Avery and Brooks are mad dogs. Sadly, as Dahmer showed the world, there is no death penalty in Wi.
Two friends of mine from Wisconsin live part time on the outskirts of Madison. I sent the wife an article about the Kenosha Park District meeting where someone wanted to put up a statue HONORING one of Rittenhouse's "victims". The board didn't agree.... I think they tabled the idea. They are way more liberal than I am, but they're not fond of those who preach or practice armed revolution, including Rittenhouse's "victims".
Madison, and Dane County in which it lies, is among the most fervent DNC strongholds in the upper Midwest. That people living there view Rittenhouse is a villain is not surprising to me in the least. Madison is in many ways a smaller Chicago in Wisconsin, far more 'woke' than Milwaukee.
Edit: In the Milwaukee suburbs, which are strongly Republican (think 2/3), Madison is at times called "The People's Republic of Madison."
My cousin, an otherwise bright woman, is from Madison but she loses all reason when it comes to Republicans. Last Fall I visited her from LA and noticed that at the restaurant where we ate dinner we were the only two wearing masks. When I mentioned my surprise at this she responded, "They're probably all Trumpers." There probably weren't enough Trump supporters in all of Dane County to fill that restaurant but since she disapproved to her mind the unmasked must have been all Republicans.
Yeah I don’t get this. I have family in Vermont near Burlington. Super white and wealthy and they’re convinced 3/4 of the country is the literal KKK. Probably never met a black person in their life but are self proclaimed experts in what black people want, as if they all want the same thing. We live in the South and black people are our friends, neighbors, kids teachers, coworkers, and bosses. Yet we’re the racists. I don’t get it.
Good point. A lot of polling shows that some of the most extreme Leftist policies, like defund the police, are driven by wealthy White Liberals who are unaffected by the consequences of their wacky ideas and opposed by the people they're purportedly supposed to "help." Here in LA Black people in poorer neighborhoods want more police, not less, because they're the most victimized by crime whereas White elitists in Beverly Hills can afford private security. Another example is the term "Latinx" which is used heavily amongst White, Liberal academics, I guess to show how "enlightened" they are, but almost never by Latinos themselves who love their gender-based language and consider the use of that term by White people who don't speak Spanish as patronizing.
The Chinese have a term for such people, "Baizuo" translating as "White Left". They use the term to describe ignorant, arrogant 'progressives' who only care about identity politics. When people half brainwashed by the CCP mock you and your platform, referring to the CPC, well, something is fundamentally wrong with how you think.
I don't think that "Latino" is much preferable to "Latinx". "Hispanic" also has issues regarding scope and accuracy, but in my opinion, is better than the two above terms. I don't regard any of those terms as perjorative, I just like as much accuracy as practical in language.
They denied vaccines to poor white people while waiting for those nonexistent black people to get them first. I wonder how many poor people the white liberals killed then? Seems to qualify as a mass killing to me.
Yeah, I mean in Madison proper, in 2020, Trump got 14.3% of the vote. Even in Dane County, he only got 22.9%. Yeah, Trumpers are everywhere there...just like with the Smollett hate hoax for downtown Chicago.
Edit: In 2020, Chicago voted 15.8% for Trump, so Chicago is actually 1.5 percentage points more 'Trump Country' than Madison is. Sources:
Don't all "People's Republic" types consider themselves "progressive"?
Imo, the word "progressive" was ALWAYS (and continues to be) meant to hide the Leftism (defined as increasing public power at the expense of private freedom).
Who could possibly be against progress? (The Left would have us all believe that the Right wants to REGRESS.)
Well, when it comes to abortion/women’s right to choose, I would indeed argue the Republican Party’s pro-life stance is regressive, but that’s for a different debate.
I would agree (and would so amend my remark) with one important caveat:
If "pro-life" is defined as no abortion, even for rape/incest, life/health of mother, so-called morning after pill, or within, say, 6-8 weeks, then there are VERY few pro-life Republicans anymore.
Compare to the other extreme as exemplified by the Democrat reactionary(!) house bill that would force ALL 50 states to allow/provide abortion for ANY reason, and at ANY time short of birth (and paid for by me and my fellow taxpayers, if I am not mistaken). When R vs. W is vacated, does anyone think that all the red states, or even a few, are going to codify the extreme pro-life definition (not even Alabama, imo)? But how many blue states will codify the extreme pro-choice position?
Times have changed, and so has public opinion, even that of "reactionary/regressive" "pro-life" Republicans.
She claims there is no problem. Even parks her car in the Street. She was born and raised in Manhattan, as I was. I have an extra BR/BA here. She seems satisfied. Maybe she has a Sumo Wrestler as a significant other. Who knows??
In 2020, as part of the BLM riots, the statue of Hans Christian Heg was torn down...
Hans Christian Heg (1829-1863) was a Norwegian American abolitionist, journalist, anti-slavery activist, politician and soldier.
Yeah, let's tear down a statue of an abolitionist & anti slavery activist.....F'ing morons.
2020 vandalism
On Tuesday, June 23, 2020, the statue was vandalized by protesters, incensed by the arrest of a member of Black Lives Matter, as demonstrations in Madison turned violent.[15][16] Vandals used a towing vehicle to pull the statue down. It was then vandalized, decapitated, and thrown into Lake Monona. The words "black is beautiful" were spray-painted on the plinth, just above Heg's name.
I studied at UW Madison in the 90's. The only time I return is to go to the office in Fitchburg.
I'm not as sure as Glenn that there is no responsibility here for the media even if not advocating violence. One thing I think everyone misses is that the biggest disparity is in the REPORTING on police shootings. Yes, some races are a bigger portion of shootings by police than they are of the national population. But 40%-50% of police shootings are of white people and ~0% of those are widely reported on, which is an even bigger disparity. And it has a perverse effect to show to minority citizens people that look like them being shot and hiding the fact that the majority race gets shot regularly - it has the effect of making them feel particularly at risk, which terrorizes them. And I empathize with their reaction to that, I can see how it would be freaky and scary, and make you walk around on edge. Makes some people violently crazy, and it's all a purposefully deceptive picture. We owe it to those people to show the correct proportions of skin colors relative to how often they get shot - that balance of data - so they can be outraged and scared in a fair measure, and not one that causes them psychological distress.
I agree with what you say about disparity in reporting. No doubt that has a significant effect on how people respond to the issues. I was a Phoenix cop during the Rodney King riots. Even back then the reporting was biased against cops and for that, cops suffered the consequences. Believe me, I know from experience how disparity or bias in reporting can really mess with peoples' heads. The other part of that disparity is the refusal of these MSM folks to admit when they reported incorrectly. For example, many of the blacks killed by white cops that they reported about, saying the cops were at fault, the cops ended up exonerated. You can look at the reports of many of those cases where the cops were involved in righteous shootings but the MSM NEVER reported those facts. That's incredibly dangerous and causes so much hatred. Even after an officer is exonerated, and MSM refuses to admit that? That's complete dereliction of their duties to report the facts to the American people.
Crazy people hold responsibility for what they have done. There is no single political ideology to associate with the Buffalo shooter other than monster. The lunatic claimed he was a white supremacist, had moved from communism to the right, and that he was very supportive of “moderate left wing authoritarianism.” No political party in the US embraces white supremacy. There is nothing moderate about authoritarianism. It sounds more like the crazy guy rotated between idolizing Stalin and Hitler.......... he’s a nut. It’s that simple. No person with any value or humanity sets out to innocent humans because they’re mad.
This. How Many Times has it turned out that the mass murderer had contact with our supposed mental health system? Or, there were red flags to that system and/or people who knew and had contact with them? MHS now = CYA. And by the way --- family members seeking help for their son/whomever --- they get little help.
That our government allows/encourages people with mental health/drug problems to subsist in tent cities is an abomination, and just tells you what that government is all about. Don't Ask, Don't Care.
Biden and his handlers want to stick their noses into every word we utter or post, but they don't give a crap about people living on the street. Or people dying from their mental health and/or addiction problems. Shameful.
And as for the hate being promoted everywhere you turn around. When a circus barker tells me certain members of the Supreme Court are no good and reactionary, that is one thing. When the Speaker of the House and my U.S. Senators say that, what the hell do THEY think is coming next.
As someone who does take anti-depressants due to the stresses of having Asperger's, I find the whole 'official' attitude towards people with mental 'issues' to be highly insulting. Just like with the DNC and minorities, it's a case of they, the ones in charge, know what's better for the individuals than the individuals in question do. That demented way of thinking created this problem and is exasperating it.
I sincerely did not mean for my post to insult anyone, and I hope I did not.
My experience includes being a prosecutor and PD in a rural community, and I had occasion to deal with families who had to petition for family members to be committed for examination. It was heartbreaking for these families to to ask the court to do this to a family member.
What's the right answer? I don't know. Just wished there was enough curiosity/empathy to try and figure it out. Letting people live on the street doesn't strike me as either.
You didn't insult me at all. I was just adding my two cents to the mix in that well, I do take pills and my mind is wired differently than others. I just hate how the elites think everyone below them, regardless of which 'identity group' they want to put them in, is too stupid to know what is in their best interest. In this case, the ACLU petitioning against keeping dangerous people off the streets.
Darrel Brooks. According to Wikipedia, his trial is scheduled for October 3, 2022. Three weeks prior to plowing through the Waukesha Christmas parade, he had been arrested for hitting his girlfriend with his vehicle, but he was released on $1,000 bail.
As far as I know, no trial date has yet been set for the SUV.
There is no question in my mind that he intentionally plowed through that crowd and aimed his car like a bullet to kill as many people as possible. He had a previous record aside from the assault on his girlfriend as well. The media ignored and didn't acknowledge it was a hate crime, a crime against white people, and it barely got any recognition in the news. Is the media, our elected officials, really helping black people when they ignore this blatant prejudice and hate, or are they creating more of a divide? Thanks, I totally forgot about him.
If he made an on line speech of hate I don't remember that either. It came across as he didn't purposely plow through white people and try to kill them, which was quite obvious that he did, and then it just disappeared. By doing that one might think the media and our politicians want to create a divide in this country instead of bringing it together. As a teacher who taught in a very integrated school, Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, and implemented this mentality I would have nothing but chaos. As they say. maybe they are playing the game of divide and conquer.
It breaks my heart to hear on the news that Mr. Brooks is being picked on in jail. /s. My friends son was the first one struck in that parade - he suffered some broken bones but is OK.
Sorry to here that. It was an absolute abomination that the media basically ignored this story, ignored it was a black on white crime and didn't pursue it. It serves no ones interest, black or white to do this.
I share your view on what has happened in Wisconsin, a place I remember so fondly from when I was a child who spent many summers at White Fish Lake near Hayward.
Uncle John and his family were my saviors during summer, if only because I hated the heat and humidity in Cicero, IL.
No I have not...though all of this madness is why at times I've mentioned trying to run for Congress based on what I've written here about. Nobody holding federal public office has said anything condemning the press here, aside from perhaps senator Johnson. Nobody goes out calling the legacy press lying imbiciles whose false narratives excuse such behavior. Nobody has done anything.
That was my perspective after reading this article. The polarizing media in general has created a great divide in this country and encouraged a kind of thinking that sees every issue as either black or white. If you grew up in a house hold like that you would wind up in therapy, or totally off the rails. The Trump era, not his fault, was used to further that perspective, which makes it easier to manipulate people.
It also takes a healthy mind to question if one is right about everything and allowing someone to question if they may either be wrong or have misinterpreted something.
It's not just the press. Virtually everyone politically is silent politically. Steil from Wisconsin's 1st district for Kenosha, Fitzgerald for Wisconsin's 5th district for Waukesha and of course the DNC hack Pocan from Wisconsin's 2nd district with Madison (he co-chaired the CPC with Jayapal from 2017-2021, in short during the entire Trump presidency). All three districts border each other, and none of the three representatives have condemned anything. I'm not surprised about Pocan given he called groups No Labels and Problem Solvers Caucus as hotbeds for special interests, in short demonizing any attempts at compromise on anything. All three representatives also voted for Biden's $40 billion Ukraine 'aid' package. Pocan aside, the Fitzgerald and Steil should have condemned the madness, then and now, local, national and international, yet did not, either from a lack of will or fear of bad publicity in the legacy press. It shows they are unfit for office.
I also sent the following to Fitzgerald after Romney called Gabbard a traitor...and never heard back (I wrote of her as an independent as the DNC would never allow her to run):
"I say this as a life-long Republican voter. Since I cast my first ballot in 2004 at the age of 19, I have voted in all presidential, gubernatorial, senate, state supreme court and congressional elections, including having voted for you in 2020. If there is ever a time to show that the Republicans stand by their ideals and oppose the Democrats, now is the time. Vote against the No-Fly Zone and condemn senator Romney in the harshest terms allowed. Should no rebuke of Romney come forth, should there be a yes vote on a no-fly zone and should someone like Romney, Graham or Kasich win the Republican nomination, I'd vote for Gabbard if she ran as an independent."
The local papers in all of the larger cities - Green Bay Press Gazette, Appleton Post Crescent, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel all read the same. I won't buy or digitally read any of them. It's time someone competes with them....I think they'd do quite well. For me, for now, it's Substack.
I've tried reaching out to channels 4, 6, 12 and 58. The Waukesha Freeman given Waukesha is one of the few cities of 75,000 or so that is still RNC leaning and the Journal Sentinel were also on my list, figured I'd try my luck at being mildly autistic to gain attention and use the woke crowd as useful idiots but...no luck there either.
The problem is nobody is interested in anyone who is non-woke having actual thought out ideas on how to fix things. Now I feel dirty saying this, but I feel I have nothing to loose as my part of this country is being driven to madness and that my tax proposal received praise by both Art Laffer and Joe Lieberman, though needless to say, neither answered me on what to do. I also know that a lot of RNC candidates and AOC likes for the DNC have destroyed the credibility of anyone who seeks to try and fix things.
I'd love to hear about your tax proposal. I am a tax attorney and spent most of my career in government. Tax policy is messed up. The point of Taxation is to raise revenue...not social engineering. And, too many tax incentives end up having the wrong effect.
Thanks for drawing attention to that June 2017 Steve Scalise shooting, Glenn. It's a moment that has regrettably fallen down the memory hole, but needs to be brought up more often.
I felt at the time that a lot of progressive twitter didn't care about this shooting very much. (I'm a part of progressive twitter and at the time was shocked.)
My progressive wife was totally unaware of the Scalise shooting when I mentioned in response to her complaints about right-wing violence. That shooting was not mentioned very much on NPR.
Blimey. I guess that figures; not to pass too much judgment on your wife. But I bet there are a ton of leftists/progressives who've never even heard of the incident.
The bias in the media is pure hubris. Only the night before the shooting in Buffalo, 17 people were shot in a what can objectively be labeled a firefight, where at least 3 shooters sprayed bullets at each other and into anyone who happened to be caught in the middle. Because this Milwaukee shooting does not fit the narrative, and perhaps because it is sadly not uncommon, it has been almost completely ignored. Even the local headlines read, "Game 7 watch party cancelled," referring to the Milwaukee Bucks "Deer District" gathering that has become so popular.
The ~10000 black Americans shot every year in our cities continues to be a non-story. To put that into perspective, Ukraine claims it's civilian death toll from the war as of May 12 is 3573, and that's being called a *genocide.*
When one Black American dies in a police encounter (regardless of circumstances) it's an outrage. When 10,000 Black Americans are murdered at the hand of another Black American it's a statistic.
Edit: To call the civilian killings in Ukraine a genocide so cheapens the term as to make it like modern 'racist' and 'fascist' as in devoid of meaning.
If unarmed civilians who surrender to armed uniformed troops are killed, that is a major violation of the Geneva Convention. It is definitely a war crime. Similarly, an armed civilian that attacks uniformed troops is considered a franc-tireur (hard to translate "free firer") and may be summarily executed (as SS Einsatzgruppen members quite often were upon discovery... not even other Germans wanted to defend them after what they had done).
There is a difference between a war crime and a genocide. Genocides leave at least tens of thousands, or more commonly hundreds of thousands or millions dead.
Ignored is right. Milwaukee recently elected a new Mayor. There could have been change, but it's been since 1908 that the same party has been elected. The DA for Milwaukee ran unopposed and claimed 'human error' in sentencing Darryl Brooks in a prior for $1000 signatory bond.
Okay Glenn how the fxxx do you manage to write such a long essay on so little sleep? Honestly the ideas and facts written here is something I would have assumed would take weeks to put together. And this is exactly why I gladly pay my subscription monthly!!!!
Lastly, you do realize you drive MSM and the liberals in this country absolutely crazy....And for that I am ROFLMAO
LOL. It was a labor of love/hate. As I mentioned in the article, I flew all night from Brazil to the US, really wanted to sleep when I got to my hotel, but just couldn't stomach the intellectually dishonest and moral bankruptcy of how they were so blatantly exploiting this horrible event for their own cheap partisan ends, so had to expel it before I could rest.
You know we love you, Glenn. Now please go get some quality SLEEP. You have to get ready for the next intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt story! ;-)
I know there are many who depend on your reporting but please let me say that if you were not out there writing intellectually honest content, I personally would feel almost desperate at these times. Thank you, especially, for today's post.
Well if you want to make a point it's nothing more than a labor to source evidence of your claims, but to lump in a group who can consistently find the same stories and evidence of persecution–sabotaging of their mobility, much needed protection from terrorist violence, generation-spanning attacks on psyche and biology, etc.–whether looking in the National Archives or in the media and libraries of the West or Global South, with crazy white people is not productive if you're just trying to make a point about the media and the absurdity of the America zeitgeist. To find this sinister evidence of a timeless conspiracy to undermine and dehumanize based on an identity invented by white people with a white person who goes to antagonize protesters, shoots two, and is found not-guilty on all charges is while it's automatic for black activists to get the attention of intelligence services and their hostile agendas is going to happen just by learning facts and truthful history.
This article makes it seem as if there is a side taken on truth, and if a persecuted person lashes out because it turns out they're not just paranoid but the world really is full of landmines and trap doors, that they can be reduced to the level of crazy white racists. Because COINTELPRO as natural as cops busting down black people's doors and shooting them, family, friends, lovers in their sleep.
On the other hand to be radicalized based upon lies deserves some blame and a label, ideally just terrorist, i.e., Non-hispanic white-American terrorist; American war criminal; Extremist black freedom fighter.
The label should indicate that the outrage is over denial of basic equality, or freedom from harm, and not whatever white extremists are on about.
Also, it's perfectly fine to blame journalists for whatever one wishes. We know every country usually has a media service that is a propagandistic arm of state or ultra-large-cap. Blame isn't about censorship.
I would love to stop hearing the phrase "justified killing" and not just because "police" is usually in the middle. How about we start with creating whitewashed identities for black people as a no-no?
My thoughts exactly, Omaha NYer! At this point, I am beginning to wonder if Glenn EVER sleeps! We love you, Glenn! (So please remember to get plenty of sleep and eat your veggies. ;-) ) Thank you, Glenn, for being a major voice of reason and one of the FEW I know of, right now, who actually takes the time and effort to get all the facts while analyzing the thought processes of people involved, as well as the current situation, before writing something enlightening & thought-provoking before we, your devoted readers, jump to the usual biased and often fanatical conclusions. Thank you for "keeping it real" by getting all the facts and seeing the Big Picture before writing your in-depth description and your wise & balanced interpretation of current events. When I think of Glenn Greenwald, I think of a humanitarian with depth of understanding, insight, & the courage to say it like it is. We love you, Glenn.
When you think about it he'd be the one person you would want to be the prosecutor because he would be fair, honest, and ethical no matter how much your crime upset him.
The Buffalo psychopath used a "Black Sun" symbol identical to a portion of that used by the Neonazi Azov Battalion.
Am I truly the only cat who finds it funny how the same people who proved so adept at spotting Secret Nazi Symbols in the most innocuous gestures have apparently been stricken blind all of a sudden?
Am I the only one who's worried we're gonna see a great many of these mass killings leading into November? Followed by an equally great number of inflamed street protests? Followed by a staggering number of bird-brained commentaries?
Unfortunately, I think you are right. This is not a left/right, liberal/conservative issue. We as a nation (or as a planet actually) have become a hateful, spiteful people thanks in no small part to the 24 news media whose corporate existence is based on keeping us scared and angry and the fact that most people will believe anything and everything they read on social media so long as it supports whatever views they espouse.
I wonder if it ever existed. I was listening to old recordings of the HUAC and they are just as crazy as anything you would hear on Maddow today. But back then there was only legacy media and so what was considered “rational” was much more constrained.
It is very difficult for anyone to say what is a rational position because you don’t know what you don’t know and when 9 out of every 10 news stories are bullshit it is easy to give into confirmation biases.
Even just now reading through the comments I learned new details about some of these shootings that I had no idea about. How could I? Only by random chance can people learn about things.
If the mass killings of blacks in Buffalo is used politically by anyone it will be the democrats. I thought the BLM marches were used politically by them as well, and when they boarded up many stores in Manhattan prior to the presidential election many thought, including myself, it was because a Trump win would generate more violence.
Appears that there was another mass shooting at a California church a few minutes ago.
Habakkuk 1:5 "Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you."
Some of the most vicious and intolerant bigots I have ever come across have been left-wing pundits like Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur. With a straight face, these two prejudiced extremists indiscriminately attack people on the right as intolerant white supremacists.
I went into a new business across the street and they had TYT (featuring those two) streaming on the restaurant TV. That was the last time I'm going there!
Went with my daughter to a local dim sun restaurant yesterday for a little one on one time and they blasted CNN non stop. Such partisan drivel. Tried to insinuate that the overturning of Roe Vs Wade would make abortion illegal in all 50 states. Wherever you stand on the issue, and I’m not extremist either way, it’s just not true.
The facts don't matter to the Media any more. I'm pro-choice but when the anchor on my local news broadcast reported that the pending decision "would make abortion illegal" I emailed the station manager to point out the obvious, glaring error. He didn't bother to respond -- or correct the story.
My congressman said the same thing in a recent newsletter. I wrote back, knowing that he wouldn't see or respond to my reply, pointing out that his claim was blatantly false, and saying that it's a shame that there's so little honest debate nowadays.
Too many liberals are being driven to distraction by this. I wonder how many sensitive people will commit suicide in desperation because of all this breathless reporting?
But are massive numbers of liberals whod would otherwise have stayed home going to turn out and vote on Election Day because of this issue, or is the media just desperately hyping the living crap out of it in hopes of aking that come to pass? Some of my female relatives, who are quite liberal, were recently discussing the prospective SCOTUS decision. While they were not terribly happy about that prospect, they placed most of the fault with legislative politicians, who had campaigned on codifying abortion rights, but never followed up. Generally they seemed to agree with RBG, who regarded Roe v. Wade as an unfortunately decided case, even thought I doubt she would have voted to overturn it.
I saw a clip of Kasparian from TYT while the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was taking place. She was in shock because she had just learned that the 2 people Kyle killed were white and they had violently attacked HIM first.
Nice analysis, but above all, I appreciate that you link to Gendron's actual manifesto. Too much of the mainstream news media thinks that primary sources are too dangerous for the general public to handle, and need to be summarized with a couple adjectives. (So many articles about how Billie Eilish or whoever "used a vulgar racial slur" without any context or quotation to allow the reader to judge for themselves.)
It's a good exercise to read through the words of someone like Gendron and do the intellectual work of thinking through his arguments and rejecting them. It's also useful to see how "right-wing" racism and "left-wing" environmentalism are part of the patchwork of ideology an unhinged maniac centers his worldview around. Almost like it's not one ideology or the other that's the problem, but the incessant doomsaying at the heart of every message you hear from every part of the media that's trying your attention. Whether you watch FOX or MSNBC or read the NYT or WSJ or listen to alternative podcasts and read substack or go on 8chan and watch Alex Jones, you're getting told that the world's about to end and there's some specific enemy to be really really scared of. All these eruptions of violence we're seeing across the spectrum aren't unrelated to each other.
I think most of the people who formulate "flat Earth" dogmas are insane (usually paranoids). Unfortunately, many of the followers are just mentally unstable and they end up falling under the influence of those dogmas. There are a few sane (or least functional) individuals who can build a pyramid on top of a psychotic base.. including Herbert Marcuse, the heavyweight under all the CRT, anti racism, etc. He realized Marxism wasn't selling anymore and Marxists needed to find a new category of rage and a new category of cannon fodder who would buy the rage because it matched their own... so he formulated "institutional racism" and various others jumped on board.
Beautifully put--frankly, I "could" build pyramids on just about any pattern. I was a professional grant writer and "ghost academic" who could spin patterns and theories out of thin air if you gave me an RFP and the chance to pull a range of faculty together. It's a capacity that I guess is very high verbal IQ, but if I don't watch my spiritual health, like, DAILY, I can easily fall into spinning theories about interpersonal things, my past, my future, your future, etc.
Our special human capacity is to symbolize and identify/create extensive patterns, and then shut out parts of the giant infinite world that interfere with that interpretation in order to get something done (hunting, invention, farming), and now persuading people, controlling people, etc. When we're unmoored from connection with others and nature, isolated but with seemingly infinite new material via the internet to trigger and support new theories, we're really at risk for pathologies. I so fear for the kids and young adults growing up in a "virtual" world--it's pattern invention on steroids. Who knows what new maniacs we'll spawn....
I read the account in the Daily Mirror of the background of Gendron and if true, it fits the pattern of the loner, lacking in friendships and normal socialization and finding meaning in bizarre half baked ideology. How he would be classified by a psychiatrist is beyond my pay grade.
I have seen that to my sorrow. Smart goes with stupid far better than I would have ever believed. It doesn’t for me, but most of the people with strings of initials after their names aren’t as bright as they think they are. To them, anyone with a Ph.D. is smarter than everyone without one.
Jack Vance felt that urban elites succumb to anomie and other serious complications of detachment from reality. Some very literally expected rampaging barbarians to act well instead of raping and killing once no one was in a position to stop them.
He wrote the seminal paper for critical race theory. It was almost the size of a book. Others developed it, but he was the one that understood that the traditional Marxist arguments about capitalism and the working class weren't going to work anymore.
The other oddity is that he was living in California as a professor at a campus with a different name than it had had later... UC La Jolla. The original plan for that campus was to replicate Johns Hopkins, but it eventually fell prey to expectations from SoCal residents, added an undergraduate school and renamed itself UCSD (which reflected La Jolla having been annexed by the City of San Diego).
"Nice analysis, but above all, I appreciate that you link to Gendron's actual manifesto. Too much of the mainstream news media thinks that primary sources are too dangerous for the general public to handle, and need to be summarized with a couple adjectives."
I'm thinking that publishing the manifesto in it's entirety would sabotage mainstream media's narrative which is why they did not and instead spun it into soundbites.
One could post dissertation-length analyses of the dynamics of this phenom, but my shorthand for it, if one's familiar with the Enneagram, is a "counterphobic Six with a Five wing." I think the Enneagram's basically a better shorthand for discussing personality ranges and tendencies--pathologies and transcendent strengths--than the DSM anyway. It's a framework, not empirical "truth," but great shorthand.
Or as the brilliant Matt Bruenig wrote in his old Life in Hell cartoons about the types of college professors, they're the "single-thing-to-explain-everything-maniacs."
There really _are_ areas of research, policy, practice, and belief that are either incomplete and/or rigidly suppress challenges to orthodoxy because of career interest, power, money, etc.
So UAP phenom, COVID "science," the obvious potential of global, equator-centered, Roman-level technology that had been in use before the Younger Dryas event, and even climate science--areas where there are and should be legitimate challenges to the dogma on the 5% chance that there's "something there"--are also low-hanging fruit for the (usually male) pattern-fanatics. You always see the same types talking at UAP conferences, or "Ancient History" conferences, and even the Net Zero crowds--it's why the History Channel turned into paranoid new pattern obsession media rather than the wonderful docs you get from the UK. They get all worked up, are usually overweight, and take themselves way too seriously.
Thing is, paradigm challenges in science and culture are vital and often empirically sound, like the continental drift theory, or H. Pylori & ulcers, or not giving pregnant Moms thalidomide. And sometimes you need the obsession of the counter phobic Sixes to get the ball rolling and to have the confidence to fight orthodoxy. But other times, it's just the contrarian new-pattern-salvation that's the motivation, not a commitment to truth and human advancement.
As one of the rare females who falls into this, I've often wondered about this a lot esp in the past five years, as I've left the whole DNC/academic establishment in astonishment that they don't "get it." But then I think, is it just that I'm addicted to being contrarian? As a child and teen, I'd stand up, in the South, to overt racists, in a group, and was always the "anti-racist" in the room speaking up and getting things addressed. Now that it's popular, am I just appalled because I'm a contrarian fuck who wants another theory that pits me against most of my peer group?
Me too. I am a contrarian. Probably engineered that way. (ENTP- can’t remember my Enneagram). Let’ start a “Me too” movement of contrarians, but I think Glenn has already done this and here we all are. We just can’t help looked at all the sides of this cube or maybe enjoy slowly turning the globe. Suzuki- “The expert’s mind is a closed mind. Better to have a beginner’s mind.”
Carlson is one of the few honest and fearless commentators in MSM these days, and I don't think there is a racist bone in his body, despite what the discredited NYT says.
One can only infer from all of this that there is a concerted campaign to sink Tucker because of his immense popularity--even among Democrats!--and this latest event has produced rejoicing among his haters for just this reason.
All the same, the attempt to make Tucker responsible for Glendron will crumble like all the other absurd attempts to make mere speech into "violence."
Why do I think that this will be pushed by the anti-gun psychos to force votes or executive orders to limit firearm and ammunition availability? Even though none of the proposed laws would have stopped the massacre in question? Virtually every mass shooting includes either a legally bought firearm or a stolen one which new laws would do nothing to change. It's all sadly about power, and I honestly think a desire to disarm the population.
Yeah. The news is making a big deal out of the fact that the kid had violent tendencies and could still get a legal firearm without talking about how that happened. It was never reported. Democrats legislated against putting threats in a juvenile record to stop the “school to prison pipeline” without thinking that it might be a good idea to identify dangerous youth. Do you end up with a kid who is known to be dangerous able to legally obtain a a gun because the state forbids actually putting this into his record that can be tracked.
It's all wokeism. Nobody wants to report someone who may have a mental issue for fear of backlash, just as nobody wants to report a minority for the same reason or a Muslim as Fort Hood showed.
The problem with things like 'red flag laws' is that they are far too broad in scope, and can thus easily be abused to take firearms away from people who have done nothing wrong. The ministry of truth highlights that now more than ever before.
Just last week a pro-life education center was bombed with a molotov cocktail. The MSM reported that the building "caught fire". I suppose it just spontaneously combusted. If a pro choice center or an abortion clinic were set on fire, we would have immediately heard that right wing, religious fanatics were trying to take away women's bodily autonomy.
If the Buffalo shooter were liberal, the mainstream press would probably say that his victims died of heart attacks (their hearts were attacked by bullets).
I have a slightly different take. Without getting into the merits or lack thereof of the Maddows and Carlsons of this world - honestly, who cares?, the fact is that public discourse of all types in the United States has coarsened tremendously over the last 50 or so years. Whether on TV shows, Twitter or public address systems, a minority of very self-important Americans say inflammatory things, and they do so incessantly. Violence in movies and television, violent video games in the hands of children, a public education system that eschews the teaching of restraint and reflection - the reader can decide what he/she thinks the causes are. But the result is clear: a prior culture of restraint and kindness in offering opinions has descended into a verbally abusive and factually challenged free for all. Yes, it's hard to blame a newscaster for the actions of an adoring nut, but we have to own up to the fact that we have allowed our public discourse to become a fetid swamp. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, we are reaping the fruits of today's culture of civil discourse, which values shouting and epithets more than fairness and perspective.
Rather than blame newsreaders and talking heads in this case, maybe take a look at the teachers and other influencers that helped form this 18 year old savage. “[C]onservatism is corporatism in disguise…” sounds suspiciously like what my 17 year old niece comes up with after half a year in U.S. public schools.
Critical Race Theory and Trans ideology are taught in the public schools and especially in lib states like mine. In Oregon a bill was passed last year that REMOVED requirements for reading writing and math to graduate high school here. And no , Im not kidding.
We are churning out activists not educated children!
It's worse than common core.
And guess who funded common core and who now funds CRT and trans ideology?
Yup, remember his "education initiative"? That was simply a scam to research the State and local education system to identify the key players and identify the best methods to destroy it. Our "elites" are pulling up the ladders to success, salting the earth behind them. Let the plebes starve.
Yep. Now that would be one heck of an exposé. But again, consistent with Glenn’s point, poisoning minds with foul ideology is separate from pulling the trigger.
When I was a college student in the 1960s, I noticed that some people were attracted to political activity not for the cause or the values but for the opportunity to play out their personal issues, often anger at their fathers. As Greenwald explains, the ideologies do not provoke the behavior. I think we have to look to individuals and their issues.
I have friends with anger issues who admit it. They are also the friends who write angry posts about the villain du jour i.e. Bush, Koch Brothers, Trump. Spewing anger about politics never seems to help them though.
Glenn, living in what seems to be a ground zero for this, southeast Wisconsin, I know all too well the hypocrisy. You had the Rittenhouse 'episode' and the outright lying about it less than an hour drive from where I live, the Waukesha Parade massacre less than half an hour away, in the same county no less, and the Madison firebombing which you mentioned that is under two hours away.
Although not shootings, the BLM nut who drove into the Waukesha Christmas Parade had the same intent as a mass shooter, kill as many as possible. And the legacy press just said that a SUV hit a parade. Nothing about who or why. The same is true about the firebombing, they just said the building caught fire. Both imply that there was a natural cause. However as you know with Rittenhouse, the legacy press lied through it's teeth making up stories to sell a narrative. It's sick.
As a fellow southeastern WI resident, I concur. Our son attends Carthage so his freshman year was pushed back because of riots resulting from Jacob Blake. All of us in the area knew Blake had a knife when it happened but the media literally lied. (And by the way, what happened to caring about his initial victim, the mother of his children?) Same with the Waukesha parade. It's truly a mind warp knowing what you know and seeing the facts and living through a lying media report. We are bystanders to the shit show.
If MSM is able and willing to so blatantly misrepresent events that are happening under the eyes of domestic, even local audience, one can only imagine that the picture they represent about the world has absolutely no relation to any truth - end to end propaganda.
Maybe I'll just follow the police scanners!
glenn, generally a great article as usual. but, now that you are truly independent, might not some things warrant a second look? specifically "Brenton Tarrant, the 29-year-old Australian who in 2019 murdered 51 people, mostly Muslims, at two mosques in New Zealand." now it is certainly possible that that sentence is true. but if it is, why is the video that he produced, and which has never been called a hoax by the five eyes msm, so completely unconvincing? have you watched it? it is unbelievable on so many levels. here is a link to some of them and a place the video may be seen. that it is so clearly phony is why, i think, australia and new zealand made it a major crime to watch or share it and the establishment in the rest of the five eyes made it so hard to find.
https://www.sgtreport.com/2019/03/how-we-know-new-zealand-mosque-shooting-video-is-a-cgi-fake/
https://www.uncensored.tube/2019/03/new-zealand-mosque-shooting-hoax-livestream/
Yeah, Blake had a warrant out for sticking his finger through his girlfriend's underwear until ripping a hole, then up inside her, pulling it out, smelling it and saying it "smelled like sex." He also stole her vehicle from her a couple times. She's the one who called the police on him...yet BLM makes him, a rapist, the victim. He was twice tazed by the police, yet he wouldn't submit or give up his knife. He dropped it, ran to get it, then ran for his vehicle. It was only then the police shot him and rightly so, as there were children in the back and with someone so crazed in the driver's seat, there would have all but certainly been a high-speed chase and with it, who knows how many innocent people would have been injured or killed.
As I said earlier on here, "According to the legacy press, all black lives are equal but some are more equal than others." Blake's GF apparently doesn't matter. As for Brooks in Waukesha, he'd driven over his girlfriend before posting bail in Milwaukee to then go to Waukesha and running down the parade. These two guys were/are mad dogs. For other Wisconsinites, they are like Steven Avery whose main difference is that he's white, not black.
That's an insult to mad dogs.
I am well aware, it'd be an insult to pig shit to compare them to pig shit.
I used that term because of a Forensic Files like show I once saw around a decade ago. From what I remember, a guy killed several people and plead insanity to avoid the death penalty. The jury believed he was insane, but sentenced him to death nonetheless. After his execution, a juror was asked about that and replied:
"When you have a mad dog, you put 'em down."
In this case Avery and Brooks are mad dogs. Sadly, as Dahmer showed the world, there is no death penalty in Wi.
That's exactly right! Despicable!
Two friends of mine from Wisconsin live part time on the outskirts of Madison. I sent the wife an article about the Kenosha Park District meeting where someone wanted to put up a statue HONORING one of Rittenhouse's "victims". The board didn't agree.... I think they tabled the idea. They are way more liberal than I am, but they're not fond of those who preach or practice armed revolution, including Rittenhouse's "victims".
Madison, and Dane County in which it lies, is among the most fervent DNC strongholds in the upper Midwest. That people living there view Rittenhouse is a villain is not surprising to me in the least. Madison is in many ways a smaller Chicago in Wisconsin, far more 'woke' than Milwaukee.
Edit: In the Milwaukee suburbs, which are strongly Republican (think 2/3), Madison is at times called "The People's Republic of Madison."
Edit II: In Waukesha county, not one municipality voted for Biden in 2020: https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/statesub.php?year=2020&fips=55133&f=1&off=0&elect=0
My cousin, an otherwise bright woman, is from Madison but she loses all reason when it comes to Republicans. Last Fall I visited her from LA and noticed that at the restaurant where we ate dinner we were the only two wearing masks. When I mentioned my surprise at this she responded, "They're probably all Trumpers." There probably weren't enough Trump supporters in all of Dane County to fill that restaurant but since she disapproved to her mind the unmasked must have been all Republicans.
Yeah I don’t get this. I have family in Vermont near Burlington. Super white and wealthy and they’re convinced 3/4 of the country is the literal KKK. Probably never met a black person in their life but are self proclaimed experts in what black people want, as if they all want the same thing. We live in the South and black people are our friends, neighbors, kids teachers, coworkers, and bosses. Yet we’re the racists. I don’t get it.
Good point. A lot of polling shows that some of the most extreme Leftist policies, like defund the police, are driven by wealthy White Liberals who are unaffected by the consequences of their wacky ideas and opposed by the people they're purportedly supposed to "help." Here in LA Black people in poorer neighborhoods want more police, not less, because they're the most victimized by crime whereas White elitists in Beverly Hills can afford private security. Another example is the term "Latinx" which is used heavily amongst White, Liberal academics, I guess to show how "enlightened" they are, but almost never by Latinos themselves who love their gender-based language and consider the use of that term by White people who don't speak Spanish as patronizing.
The Chinese have a term for such people, "Baizuo" translating as "White Left". They use the term to describe ignorant, arrogant 'progressives' who only care about identity politics. When people half brainwashed by the CCP mock you and your platform, referring to the CPC, well, something is fundamentally wrong with how you think.
Yes a dear friend of mine from Nicaragua abhors the term Latinx and has explained to me why.
I don't think that "Latino" is much preferable to "Latinx". "Hispanic" also has issues regarding scope and accuracy, but in my opinion, is better than the two above terms. I don't regard any of those terms as perjorative, I just like as much accuracy as practical in language.
They denied vaccines to poor white people while waiting for those nonexistent black people to get them first. I wonder how many poor people the white liberals killed then? Seems to qualify as a mass killing to me.
Really, I think you DO get it, and it pains you that people who are close to you (your family in VT) are so closed-minded and bigoted.
In 2022, it is not possible to be both a Democrat and good.
Yeah, I mean in Madison proper, in 2020, Trump got 14.3% of the vote. Even in Dane County, he only got 22.9%. Yeah, Trumpers are everywhere there...just like with the Smollett hate hoax for downtown Chicago.
Edit: In 2020, Chicago voted 15.8% for Trump, so Chicago is actually 1.5 percentage points more 'Trump Country' than Madison is. Sources:
Wi: https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/statesub.php?year=2020&fips=55025&f=1&off=0&elect=0
Ill: https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/statesub.php?year=2020&fips=17031&f=1&off=0&elect=0
Yeah they were smart
Santa Monica gets similar references in SoCal. Berkeley used to, but the whole Bay Area is pretty much gone "progressive".
Don't all "People's Republic" types consider themselves "progressive"?
Imo, the word "progressive" was ALWAYS (and continues to be) meant to hide the Leftism (defined as increasing public power at the expense of private freedom).
Who could possibly be against progress? (The Left would have us all believe that the Right wants to REGRESS.)
Well, when it comes to abortion/women’s right to choose, I would indeed argue the Republican Party’s pro-life stance is regressive, but that’s for a different debate.
I would agree (and would so amend my remark) with one important caveat:
If "pro-life" is defined as no abortion, even for rape/incest, life/health of mother, so-called morning after pill, or within, say, 6-8 weeks, then there are VERY few pro-life Republicans anymore.
Compare to the other extreme as exemplified by the Democrat reactionary(!) house bill that would force ALL 50 states to allow/provide abortion for ANY reason, and at ANY time short of birth (and paid for by me and my fellow taxpayers, if I am not mistaken). When R vs. W is vacated, does anyone think that all the red states, or even a few, are going to codify the extreme pro-life definition (not even Alabama, imo)? But how many blue states will codify the extreme pro-choice position?
Times have changed, and so has public opinion, even that of "reactionary/regressive" "pro-life" Republicans.
Yes, my daughter lives in Oakland and works for a well funded place called the "Prevention Institute." I guess they are not focused on crime.
I’ve been to Oakland—with my doors locked. One does not live in Oakland. One survives in Oakland.
She claims there is no problem. Even parks her car in the Street. She was born and raised in Manhattan, as I was. I have an extra BR/BA here. She seems satisfied. Maybe she has a Sumo Wrestler as a significant other. Who knows??
In 2020, as part of the BLM riots, the statue of Hans Christian Heg was torn down...
Hans Christian Heg (1829-1863) was a Norwegian American abolitionist, journalist, anti-slavery activist, politician and soldier.
Yeah, let's tear down a statue of an abolitionist & anti slavery activist.....F'ing morons.
2020 vandalism
On Tuesday, June 23, 2020, the statue was vandalized by protesters, incensed by the arrest of a member of Black Lives Matter, as demonstrations in Madison turned violent.[15][16] Vandals used a towing vehicle to pull the statue down. It was then vandalized, decapitated, and thrown into Lake Monona. The words "black is beautiful" were spray-painted on the plinth, just above Heg's name.
I studied at UW Madison in the 90's. The only time I return is to go to the office in Fitchburg.
You end riots with a whiff of grapeshot. Napoleon taught the world that. This is how you know the authorities are not serious.
Trump was right again:
"When the looting starts, the shooting starts."
I'm not as sure as Glenn that there is no responsibility here for the media even if not advocating violence. One thing I think everyone misses is that the biggest disparity is in the REPORTING on police shootings. Yes, some races are a bigger portion of shootings by police than they are of the national population. But 40%-50% of police shootings are of white people and ~0% of those are widely reported on, which is an even bigger disparity. And it has a perverse effect to show to minority citizens people that look like them being shot and hiding the fact that the majority race gets shot regularly - it has the effect of making them feel particularly at risk, which terrorizes them. And I empathize with their reaction to that, I can see how it would be freaky and scary, and make you walk around on edge. Makes some people violently crazy, and it's all a purposefully deceptive picture. We owe it to those people to show the correct proportions of skin colors relative to how often they get shot - that balance of data - so they can be outraged and scared in a fair measure, and not one that causes them psychological distress.
I agree with what you say about disparity in reporting. No doubt that has a significant effect on how people respond to the issues. I was a Phoenix cop during the Rodney King riots. Even back then the reporting was biased against cops and for that, cops suffered the consequences. Believe me, I know from experience how disparity or bias in reporting can really mess with peoples' heads. The other part of that disparity is the refusal of these MSM folks to admit when they reported incorrectly. For example, many of the blacks killed by white cops that they reported about, saying the cops were at fault, the cops ended up exonerated. You can look at the reports of many of those cases where the cops were involved in righteous shootings but the MSM NEVER reported those facts. That's incredibly dangerous and causes so much hatred. Even after an officer is exonerated, and MSM refuses to admit that? That's complete dereliction of their duties to report the facts to the American people.
Crazy people hold responsibility for what they have done. There is no single political ideology to associate with the Buffalo shooter other than monster. The lunatic claimed he was a white supremacist, had moved from communism to the right, and that he was very supportive of “moderate left wing authoritarianism.” No political party in the US embraces white supremacy. There is nothing moderate about authoritarianism. It sounds more like the crazy guy rotated between idolizing Stalin and Hitler.......... he’s a nut. It’s that simple. No person with any value or humanity sets out to innocent humans because they’re mad.
We do need to look at our mental health “system”. Some people clearly need inpatient care to protect themselves and society.
This. How Many Times has it turned out that the mass murderer had contact with our supposed mental health system? Or, there were red flags to that system and/or people who knew and had contact with them? MHS now = CYA. And by the way --- family members seeking help for their son/whomever --- they get little help.
That our government allows/encourages people with mental health/drug problems to subsist in tent cities is an abomination, and just tells you what that government is all about. Don't Ask, Don't Care.
Biden and his handlers want to stick their noses into every word we utter or post, but they don't give a crap about people living on the street. Or people dying from their mental health and/or addiction problems. Shameful.
And as for the hate being promoted everywhere you turn around. When a circus barker tells me certain members of the Supreme Court are no good and reactionary, that is one thing. When the Speaker of the House and my U.S. Senators say that, what the hell do THEY think is coming next.
As someone who does take anti-depressants due to the stresses of having Asperger's, I find the whole 'official' attitude towards people with mental 'issues' to be highly insulting. Just like with the DNC and minorities, it's a case of they, the ones in charge, know what's better for the individuals than the individuals in question do. That demented way of thinking created this problem and is exasperating it.
Well said. The vast majority of people living with mental "issues" do not commit violent crimes.
I sincerely did not mean for my post to insult anyone, and I hope I did not.
My experience includes being a prosecutor and PD in a rural community, and I had occasion to deal with families who had to petition for family members to be committed for examination. It was heartbreaking for these families to to ask the court to do this to a family member.
What's the right answer? I don't know. Just wished there was enough curiosity/empathy to try and figure it out. Letting people live on the street doesn't strike me as either.
You didn't insult me at all. I was just adding my two cents to the mix in that well, I do take pills and my mind is wired differently than others. I just hate how the elites think everyone below them, regardless of which 'identity group' they want to put them in, is too stupid to know what is in their best interest. In this case, the ACLU petitioning against keeping dangerous people off the streets.
Actually, they do care. They want to give them free needles and pipes.
Thanks to the ACLU, a lot of those people are homeless on the streets, or lurking about choosing not to take their pills.
Thank you for your comment NCmom.
I'm old enough to have been raised at a time when folks did not talk about theories.
We called evil people evil. Such a short but accurate concept about human nature, and the idea of personal responsibility.
What ever happened to that "careless" driver?".
Darrel Brooks. According to Wikipedia, his trial is scheduled for October 3, 2022. Three weeks prior to plowing through the Waukesha Christmas parade, he had been arrested for hitting his girlfriend with his vehicle, but he was released on $1,000 bail.
As far as I know, no trial date has yet been set for the SUV.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha_Christmas_parade_attack
There is no question in my mind that he intentionally plowed through that crowd and aimed his car like a bullet to kill as many people as possible. He had a previous record aside from the assault on his girlfriend as well. The media ignored and didn't acknowledge it was a hate crime, a crime against white people, and it barely got any recognition in the news. Is the media, our elected officials, really helping black people when they ignore this blatant prejudice and hate, or are they creating more of a divide? Thanks, I totally forgot about him.
Of course you forgot him. As you forgot his extensive online oeuvre of white hate speech. You were supposed to forget. I’m not blaming you.
If he made an on line speech of hate I don't remember that either. It came across as he didn't purposely plow through white people and try to kill them, which was quite obvious that he did, and then it just disappeared. By doing that one might think the media and our politicians want to create a divide in this country instead of bringing it together. As a teacher who taught in a very integrated school, Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, and implemented this mentality I would have nothing but chaos. As they say. maybe they are playing the game of divide and conquer.
Yeah, he had online rants about how he hated white people.
It breaks my heart to hear on the news that Mr. Brooks is being picked on in jail. /s. My friends son was the first one struck in that parade - he suffered some broken bones but is OK.
Sorry to here that. It was an absolute abomination that the media basically ignored this story, ignored it was a black on white crime and didn't pursue it. It serves no ones interest, black or white to do this.
I'm glad he is alright, or rather recovering. To think, all of this goes back to Soros backed DAs who have no care for the rule of law.
I hope your friend's son and his family recover from what must have been a horribly traumatizing event.
Stephen, Did any government official from Washington DC visit the city to offer comfort?
I understand that Biden and the First Lady will be going to Buffalo on Tuesday....
https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/president-biden-to-visit-buffalo-on-tuesday
I share your view on what has happened in Wisconsin, a place I remember so fondly from when I was a child who spent many summers at White Fish Lake near Hayward.
Uncle John and his family were my saviors during summer, if only because I hated the heat and humidity in Cicero, IL.
Thank you Stephen.
Ever read Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy?
No I have not...though all of this madness is why at times I've mentioned trying to run for Congress based on what I've written here about. Nobody holding federal public office has said anything condemning the press here, aside from perhaps senator Johnson. Nobody goes out calling the legacy press lying imbiciles whose false narratives excuse such behavior. Nobody has done anything.
That was my perspective after reading this article. The polarizing media in general has created a great divide in this country and encouraged a kind of thinking that sees every issue as either black or white. If you grew up in a house hold like that you would wind up in therapy, or totally off the rails. The Trump era, not his fault, was used to further that perspective, which makes it easier to manipulate people.
That black and white thinking is the hallmark of abusive sociopaths
And that is what Americans, heavily involved in politics, are constantly exposed too by their politicians and MSM.
It takes a healthy mind to have discernment and integrity
Too bad too many don't.
It also takes a healthy mind to question if one is right about everything and allowing someone to question if they may either be wrong or have misinterpreted something.
It's not just the press. Virtually everyone politically is silent politically. Steil from Wisconsin's 1st district for Kenosha, Fitzgerald for Wisconsin's 5th district for Waukesha and of course the DNC hack Pocan from Wisconsin's 2nd district with Madison (he co-chaired the CPC with Jayapal from 2017-2021, in short during the entire Trump presidency). All three districts border each other, and none of the three representatives have condemned anything. I'm not surprised about Pocan given he called groups No Labels and Problem Solvers Caucus as hotbeds for special interests, in short demonizing any attempts at compromise on anything. All three representatives also voted for Biden's $40 billion Ukraine 'aid' package. Pocan aside, the Fitzgerald and Steil should have condemned the madness, then and now, local, national and international, yet did not, either from a lack of will or fear of bad publicity in the legacy press. It shows they are unfit for office.
I also sent the following to Fitzgerald after Romney called Gabbard a traitor...and never heard back (I wrote of her as an independent as the DNC would never allow her to run):
"I say this as a life-long Republican voter. Since I cast my first ballot in 2004 at the age of 19, I have voted in all presidential, gubernatorial, senate, state supreme court and congressional elections, including having voted for you in 2020. If there is ever a time to show that the Republicans stand by their ideals and oppose the Democrats, now is the time. Vote against the No-Fly Zone and condemn senator Romney in the harshest terms allowed. Should no rebuke of Romney come forth, should there be a yes vote on a no-fly zone and should someone like Romney, Graham or Kasich win the Republican nomination, I'd vote for Gabbard if she ran as an independent."
The local papers in all of the larger cities - Green Bay Press Gazette, Appleton Post Crescent, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel all read the same. I won't buy or digitally read any of them. It's time someone competes with them....I think they'd do quite well. For me, for now, it's Substack.
I've tried reaching out to channels 4, 6, 12 and 58. The Waukesha Freeman given Waukesha is one of the few cities of 75,000 or so that is still RNC leaning and the Journal Sentinel were also on my list, figured I'd try my luck at being mildly autistic to gain attention and use the woke crowd as useful idiots but...no luck there either.
The problem is nobody is interested in anyone who is non-woke having actual thought out ideas on how to fix things. Now I feel dirty saying this, but I feel I have nothing to loose as my part of this country is being driven to madness and that my tax proposal received praise by both Art Laffer and Joe Lieberman, though needless to say, neither answered me on what to do. I also know that a lot of RNC candidates and AOC likes for the DNC have destroyed the credibility of anyone who seeks to try and fix things.
I'd love to hear about your tax proposal. I am a tax attorney and spent most of my career in government. Tax policy is messed up. The point of Taxation is to raise revenue...not social engineering. And, too many tax incentives end up having the wrong effect.
Here it is:
https://pdf.ac/ZDL2X
I'll also delete this posting in a couple weeks if Glenn desires.
Read the book back in the 70s. Black and white and coffins in the parlor. Thanks for the recollection.
Yes! Well said! And so infuriating too!
Thanks for drawing attention to that June 2017 Steve Scalise shooting, Glenn. It's a moment that has regrettably fallen down the memory hole, but needs to be brought up more often.
I felt at the time that a lot of progressive twitter didn't care about this shooting very much. (I'm a part of progressive twitter and at the time was shocked.)
Don’t you think they were secretly pleased?
My progressive wife was totally unaware of the Scalise shooting when I mentioned in response to her complaints about right-wing violence. That shooting was not mentioned very much on NPR.
Blimey. I guess that figures; not to pass too much judgment on your wife. But I bet there are a ton of leftists/progressives who've never even heard of the incident.
My mistake.
The entire second half of the column is about this.
You're right. I copy and paste the article, for what ever the reason, and I left that part out. Thanks! I'll remove that comment.
The bias in the media is pure hubris. Only the night before the shooting in Buffalo, 17 people were shot in a what can objectively be labeled a firefight, where at least 3 shooters sprayed bullets at each other and into anyone who happened to be caught in the middle. Because this Milwaukee shooting does not fit the narrative, and perhaps because it is sadly not uncommon, it has been almost completely ignored. Even the local headlines read, "Game 7 watch party cancelled," referring to the Milwaukee Bucks "Deer District" gathering that has become so popular.
The ~10000 black Americans shot every year in our cities continues to be a non-story. To put that into perspective, Ukraine claims it's civilian death toll from the war as of May 12 is 3573, and that's being called a *genocide.*
To paraphrase Stalin:
When one Black American dies in a police encounter (regardless of circumstances) it's an outrage. When 10,000 Black Americans are murdered at the hand of another Black American it's a statistic.
They are usually shot because they don't follow instructions. They resist arrest. That's stupid, not an outrage.
A quote from Stalin:
"Death solves all problems; no man, no problem."
It's as if the guns involved shot at the other people themselves... and the people carrying them were just bagatelles without any volition or plan.
Exactly. The guns leapt from the drawers to attack all humans - ridiculous.
It goes to show that according to the legacy press:
"All black lives are equal but some are more equal than others."
I think "matters" works better... "All black lives matter, but some matter more than others."
Point taken.
Edit: To call the civilian killings in Ukraine a genocide so cheapens the term as to make it like modern 'racist' and 'fascist' as in devoid of meaning.
If unarmed civilians who surrender to armed uniformed troops are killed, that is a major violation of the Geneva Convention. It is definitely a war crime. Similarly, an armed civilian that attacks uniformed troops is considered a franc-tireur (hard to translate "free firer") and may be summarily executed (as SS Einsatzgruppen members quite often were upon discovery... not even other Germans wanted to defend them after what they had done).
There is a difference between a war crime and a genocide. Genocides leave at least tens of thousands, or more commonly hundreds of thousands or millions dead.
Armenians were genocided by Turks.
Point taken.
Ignored is right. Milwaukee recently elected a new Mayor. There could have been change, but it's been since 1908 that the same party has been elected. The DA for Milwaukee ran unopposed and claimed 'human error' in sentencing Darryl Brooks in a prior for $1000 signatory bond.
Okay Glenn how the fxxx do you manage to write such a long essay on so little sleep? Honestly the ideas and facts written here is something I would have assumed would take weeks to put together. And this is exactly why I gladly pay my subscription monthly!!!!
Lastly, you do realize you drive MSM and the liberals in this country absolutely crazy....And for that I am ROFLMAO
LOL. It was a labor of love/hate. As I mentioned in the article, I flew all night from Brazil to the US, really wanted to sleep when I got to my hotel, but just couldn't stomach the intellectually dishonest and moral bankruptcy of how they were so blatantly exploiting this horrible event for their own cheap partisan ends, so had to expel it before I could rest.
You need to post more Red-Eye and Jet-lagged. May God bless you and your family and keep y’all safe. 🇺🇸🇵🇷☦️
You know we love you, Glenn. Now please go get some quality SLEEP. You have to get ready for the next intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt story! ;-)
Glenn... magnificent, on top of a flight
Damn, you must write fast. Outstanding work.
I know there are many who depend on your reporting but please let me say that if you were not out there writing intellectually honest content, I personally would feel almost desperate at these times. Thank you, especially, for today's post.
Keep the saw sharp. The battle is long.
Well if you want to make a point it's nothing more than a labor to source evidence of your claims, but to lump in a group who can consistently find the same stories and evidence of persecution–sabotaging of their mobility, much needed protection from terrorist violence, generation-spanning attacks on psyche and biology, etc.–whether looking in the National Archives or in the media and libraries of the West or Global South, with crazy white people is not productive if you're just trying to make a point about the media and the absurdity of the America zeitgeist. To find this sinister evidence of a timeless conspiracy to undermine and dehumanize based on an identity invented by white people with a white person who goes to antagonize protesters, shoots two, and is found not-guilty on all charges is while it's automatic for black activists to get the attention of intelligence services and their hostile agendas is going to happen just by learning facts and truthful history.
This article makes it seem as if there is a side taken on truth, and if a persecuted person lashes out because it turns out they're not just paranoid but the world really is full of landmines and trap doors, that they can be reduced to the level of crazy white racists. Because COINTELPRO as natural as cops busting down black people's doors and shooting them, family, friends, lovers in their sleep.
On the other hand to be radicalized based upon lies deserves some blame and a label, ideally just terrorist, i.e., Non-hispanic white-American terrorist; American war criminal; Extremist black freedom fighter.
The label should indicate that the outrage is over denial of basic equality, or freedom from harm, and not whatever white extremists are on about.
Also, it's perfectly fine to blame journalists for whatever one wishes. We know every country usually has a media service that is a propagandistic arm of state or ultra-large-cap. Blame isn't about censorship.
Maybe we should stop justifying killing each other.
That’d be a hoot.
I would love to stop hearing the phrase "justified killing" and not just because "police" is usually in the middle. How about we start with creating whitewashed identities for black people as a no-no?
Fuck that.
Stop killing people. Then you get to talk to me about labels.
Don't let me know when you have another worthless platitude to share. Which I label your contribution.
Looks like they got me too.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1462060069919539215
Thank you, G. Greenwald
The best pieces are the ones written in a heat. Just gotta get it out.
Thanks for it!
NOW THAT is an excellent example of CONSCIENCE and INTEGRITY!
Loved the pic of you, your hot hubby and the kids on your hubby's Tweet! My voice is silenced on Twitter so I can't comment there.
Btw, Glenn do you still hold a law license? And once you have one, do you still have to maintain it in some way? Are you licensed in Brazil too?
Rest well Glenn!
My thoughts exactly, Omaha NYer! At this point, I am beginning to wonder if Glenn EVER sleeps! We love you, Glenn! (So please remember to get plenty of sleep and eat your veggies. ;-) ) Thank you, Glenn, for being a major voice of reason and one of the FEW I know of, right now, who actually takes the time and effort to get all the facts while analyzing the thought processes of people involved, as well as the current situation, before writing something enlightening & thought-provoking before we, your devoted readers, jump to the usual biased and often fanatical conclusions. Thank you for "keeping it real" by getting all the facts and seeing the Big Picture before writing your in-depth description and your wise & balanced interpretation of current events. When I think of Glenn Greenwald, I think of a humanitarian with depth of understanding, insight, & the courage to say it like it is. We love you, Glenn.
It’s his style that impresses the shit out of me—and yes, so quickly.
I once had a nightmare. I was a criminal defendant, and GG was the prosecutor.
When you think about it he'd be the one person you would want to be the prosecutor because he would be fair, honest, and ethical no matter how much your crime upset him.
Indeed!
It would only be a nightmare if you were guilty. That's how the world should be.
Omg YES! Who wouldn't want Glenn to represent them??.
I thought exactly the same thing while reading this article. I was SMH thinking, how did he get this out so quickly?
The Buffalo psychopath used a "Black Sun" symbol identical to a portion of that used by the Neonazi Azov Battalion.
Am I truly the only cat who finds it funny how the same people who proved so adept at spotting Secret Nazi Symbols in the most innocuous gestures have apparently been stricken blind all of a sudden?
FWIW, seems that Ukraine shills now parrot that the Black Sun isn't specific to Azov but it's just a generic Nazi symbol so nothing to see here.
Teh New Hotness.
Am I the only one who's worried we're gonna see a great many of these mass killings leading into November? Followed by an equally great number of inflamed street protests? Followed by a staggering number of bird-brained commentaries?
Unfortunately, I think you are right. This is not a left/right, liberal/conservative issue. We as a nation (or as a planet actually) have become a hateful, spiteful people thanks in no small part to the 24 news media whose corporate existence is based on keeping us scared and angry and the fact that most people will believe anything and everything they read on social media so long as it supports whatever views they espouse.
Critical thinking and rational debate are dead.
That is by design. What do you think censorship is for? To make the propaganda effective and control the debate, what is even allowed to be debated...
I wonder if it ever existed. I was listening to old recordings of the HUAC and they are just as crazy as anything you would hear on Maddow today. But back then there was only legacy media and so what was considered “rational” was much more constrained.
It is very difficult for anyone to say what is a rational position because you don’t know what you don’t know and when 9 out of every 10 news stories are bullshit it is easy to give into confirmation biases.
Even just now reading through the comments I learned new details about some of these shootings that I had no idea about. How could I? Only by random chance can people learn about things.
"Only by random chance can people learn about things."
It's not only by random chance. One reason we can learn things here is that free and open discussion is permitted.
Free and open discussion is as far from random chance as you can get.
Dawes...defuse the news. thanks
Dawes, you have hit the nail on the head.
If not dead then certainly on life support...
If the mass killings of blacks in Buffalo is used politically by anyone it will be the democrats. I thought the BLM marches were used politically by them as well, and when they boarded up many stores in Manhattan prior to the presidential election many thought, including myself, it was because a Trump win would generate more violence.
By "inflamed street protests" I suppose you mean riots, arson, and racist terrorists mobbing hapless citizens.
Fiery but mostly peaceful protests.
Appears that there was another mass shooting at a California church a few minutes ago.
Habakkuk 1:5 "Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you."
If we're quoting the Bible, this seems like a good time for a reminder:
"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." John 13:34
Be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves
No word about race. Want to take bets?
At what point are these mass shootings not a dots not connected civil war?
Yea but don’t mistake them as organic.
See, we need to combine the street riots with the mass killings. That would be progress.
Let the savages fight it out. Its the only way this ends.
Glenn, Brilliant piece. Wish it would get the exposure it deserves. But right on point in every way. Thanks.
Some of the most vicious and intolerant bigots I have ever come across have been left-wing pundits like Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur. With a straight face, these two prejudiced extremists indiscriminately attack people on the right as intolerant white supremacists.
I went into a new business across the street and they had TYT (featuring those two) streaming on the restaurant TV. That was the last time I'm going there!
Went with my daughter to a local dim sun restaurant yesterday for a little one on one time and they blasted CNN non stop. Such partisan drivel. Tried to insinuate that the overturning of Roe Vs Wade would make abortion illegal in all 50 states. Wherever you stand on the issue, and I’m not extremist either way, it’s just not true.
The facts don't matter to the Media any more. I'm pro-choice but when the anchor on my local news broadcast reported that the pending decision "would make abortion illegal" I emailed the station manager to point out the obvious, glaring error. He didn't bother to respond -- or correct the story.
My congressman said the same thing in a recent newsletter. I wrote back, knowing that he wouldn't see or respond to my reply, pointing out that his claim was blatantly false, and saying that it's a shame that there's so little honest debate nowadays.
Too many liberals are being driven to distraction by this. I wonder how many sensitive people will commit suicide in desperation because of all this breathless reporting?
But are massive numbers of liberals whod would otherwise have stayed home going to turn out and vote on Election Day because of this issue, or is the media just desperately hyping the living crap out of it in hopes of aking that come to pass? Some of my female relatives, who are quite liberal, were recently discussing the prospective SCOTUS decision. While they were not terribly happy about that prospect, they placed most of the fault with legislative politicians, who had campaigned on codifying abortion rights, but never followed up. Generally they seemed to agree with RBG, who regarded Roe v. Wade as an unfortunately decided case, even thought I doubt she would have voted to overturn it.
You could encounter worse. A stream-only network called TYT (the young Turks) is all about revolution.
Nah, go back and ask them to put on the game. ;)
I saw a clip of Kasparian from TYT while the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was taking place. She was in shock because she had just learned that the 2 people Kyle killed were white and they had violently attacked HIM first.
Nice analysis, but above all, I appreciate that you link to Gendron's actual manifesto. Too much of the mainstream news media thinks that primary sources are too dangerous for the general public to handle, and need to be summarized with a couple adjectives. (So many articles about how Billie Eilish or whoever "used a vulgar racial slur" without any context or quotation to allow the reader to judge for themselves.)
It's a good exercise to read through the words of someone like Gendron and do the intellectual work of thinking through his arguments and rejecting them. It's also useful to see how "right-wing" racism and "left-wing" environmentalism are part of the patchwork of ideology an unhinged maniac centers his worldview around. Almost like it's not one ideology or the other that's the problem, but the incessant doomsaying at the heart of every message you hear from every part of the media that's trying your attention. Whether you watch FOX or MSNBC or read the NYT or WSJ or listen to alternative podcasts and read substack or go on 8chan and watch Alex Jones, you're getting told that the world's about to end and there's some specific enemy to be really really scared of. All these eruptions of violence we're seeing across the spectrum aren't unrelated to each other.
I think most of the people who formulate "flat Earth" dogmas are insane (usually paranoids). Unfortunately, many of the followers are just mentally unstable and they end up falling under the influence of those dogmas. There are a few sane (or least functional) individuals who can build a pyramid on top of a psychotic base.. including Herbert Marcuse, the heavyweight under all the CRT, anti racism, etc. He realized Marxism wasn't selling anymore and Marxists needed to find a new category of rage and a new category of cannon fodder who would buy the rage because it matched their own... so he formulated "institutional racism" and various others jumped on board.
Beautifully put--frankly, I "could" build pyramids on just about any pattern. I was a professional grant writer and "ghost academic" who could spin patterns and theories out of thin air if you gave me an RFP and the chance to pull a range of faculty together. It's a capacity that I guess is very high verbal IQ, but if I don't watch my spiritual health, like, DAILY, I can easily fall into spinning theories about interpersonal things, my past, my future, your future, etc.
Our special human capacity is to symbolize and identify/create extensive patterns, and then shut out parts of the giant infinite world that interfere with that interpretation in order to get something done (hunting, invention, farming), and now persuading people, controlling people, etc. When we're unmoored from connection with others and nature, isolated but with seemingly infinite new material via the internet to trigger and support new theories, we're really at risk for pathologies. I so fear for the kids and young adults growing up in a "virtual" world--it's pattern invention on steroids. Who knows what new maniacs we'll spawn....
I read the account in the Daily Mirror of the background of Gendron and if true, it fits the pattern of the loner, lacking in friendships and normal socialization and finding meaning in bizarre half baked ideology. How he would be classified by a psychiatrist is beyond my pay grade.
Much of what passes for education these days is just learning symbol manipulation.
This is why the educated are more prone to cognitive dissonance than the rubes.
I have seen that to my sorrow. Smart goes with stupid far better than I would have ever believed. It doesn’t for me, but most of the people with strings of initials after their names aren’t as bright as they think they are. To them, anyone with a Ph.D. is smarter than everyone without one.
Lol - The ones that realize that doesn’t make them experts on everything are pearls of great price.
I think they've already been spawned. They now run all of the major institutions in this country.
Jack Vance felt that urban elites succumb to anomie and other serious complications of detachment from reality. Some very literally expected rampaging barbarians to act well instead of raping and killing once no one was in a position to stop them.
Marcuse died in the late 70s. Was institutional racism a widespread theory back then?
He wrote the seminal paper for critical race theory. It was almost the size of a book. Others developed it, but he was the one that understood that the traditional Marxist arguments about capitalism and the working class weren't going to work anymore.
The other oddity is that he was living in California as a professor at a campus with a different name than it had had later... UC La Jolla. The original plan for that campus was to replicate Johns Hopkins, but it eventually fell prey to expectations from SoCal residents, added an undergraduate school and renamed itself UCSD (which reflected La Jolla having been annexed by the City of San Diego).
Thanks for the explanation.
"Nice analysis, but above all, I appreciate that you link to Gendron's actual manifesto. Too much of the mainstream news media thinks that primary sources are too dangerous for the general public to handle, and need to be summarized with a couple adjectives."
I'm thinking that publishing the manifesto in it's entirety would sabotage mainstream media's narrative which is why they did not and instead spun it into soundbites.
One could post dissertation-length analyses of the dynamics of this phenom, but my shorthand for it, if one's familiar with the Enneagram, is a "counterphobic Six with a Five wing." I think the Enneagram's basically a better shorthand for discussing personality ranges and tendencies--pathologies and transcendent strengths--than the DSM anyway. It's a framework, not empirical "truth," but great shorthand.
Or as the brilliant Matt Bruenig wrote in his old Life in Hell cartoons about the types of college professors, they're the "single-thing-to-explain-everything-maniacs."
There really _are_ areas of research, policy, practice, and belief that are either incomplete and/or rigidly suppress challenges to orthodoxy because of career interest, power, money, etc.
So UAP phenom, COVID "science," the obvious potential of global, equator-centered, Roman-level technology that had been in use before the Younger Dryas event, and even climate science--areas where there are and should be legitimate challenges to the dogma on the 5% chance that there's "something there"--are also low-hanging fruit for the (usually male) pattern-fanatics. You always see the same types talking at UAP conferences, or "Ancient History" conferences, and even the Net Zero crowds--it's why the History Channel turned into paranoid new pattern obsession media rather than the wonderful docs you get from the UK. They get all worked up, are usually overweight, and take themselves way too seriously.
Thing is, paradigm challenges in science and culture are vital and often empirically sound, like the continental drift theory, or H. Pylori & ulcers, or not giving pregnant Moms thalidomide. And sometimes you need the obsession of the counter phobic Sixes to get the ball rolling and to have the confidence to fight orthodoxy. But other times, it's just the contrarian new-pattern-salvation that's the motivation, not a commitment to truth and human advancement.
As one of the rare females who falls into this, I've often wondered about this a lot esp in the past five years, as I've left the whole DNC/academic establishment in astonishment that they don't "get it." But then I think, is it just that I'm addicted to being contrarian? As a child and teen, I'd stand up, in the South, to overt racists, in a group, and was always the "anti-racist" in the room speaking up and getting things addressed. Now that it's popular, am I just appalled because I'm a contrarian fuck who wants another theory that pits me against most of my peer group?
Such a sad and alarming time....
Me too. I am a contrarian. Probably engineered that way. (ENTP- can’t remember my Enneagram). Let’ start a “Me too” movement of contrarians, but I think Glenn has already done this and here we all are. We just can’t help looked at all the sides of this cube or maybe enjoy slowly turning the globe. Suzuki- “The expert’s mind is a closed mind. Better to have a beginner’s mind.”
Instead of #MeToo can we use #FuckOff?
I like your Enneagram assessment. Makes sense to me.
Highlighting the doom saying between these different beliefs is excellent. Top comment.
Carlson is one of the few honest and fearless commentators in MSM these days, and I don't think there is a racist bone in his body, despite what the discredited NYT says.
One can only infer from all of this that there is a concerted campaign to sink Tucker because of his immense popularity--even among Democrats!--and this latest event has produced rejoicing among his haters for just this reason.
All the same, the attempt to make Tucker responsible for Glendron will crumble like all the other absurd attempts to make mere speech into "violence."
Carlson is not the racist--his critics are.
Why do I think that this will be pushed by the anti-gun psychos to force votes or executive orders to limit firearm and ammunition availability? Even though none of the proposed laws would have stopped the massacre in question? Virtually every mass shooting includes either a legally bought firearm or a stolen one which new laws would do nothing to change. It's all sadly about power, and I honestly think a desire to disarm the population.
Yeah. The news is making a big deal out of the fact that the kid had violent tendencies and could still get a legal firearm without talking about how that happened. It was never reported. Democrats legislated against putting threats in a juvenile record to stop the “school to prison pipeline” without thinking that it might be a good idea to identify dangerous youth. Do you end up with a kid who is known to be dangerous able to legally obtain a a gun because the state forbids actually putting this into his record that can be tracked.
It's all wokeism. Nobody wants to report someone who may have a mental issue for fear of backlash, just as nobody wants to report a minority for the same reason or a Muslim as Fort Hood showed.
The problem with things like 'red flag laws' is that they are far too broad in scope, and can thus easily be abused to take firearms away from people who have done nothing wrong. The ministry of truth highlights that now more than ever before.
I swear, logic never enters the picture.
Or they don’t understand the concept of consequences.
History rhymes.
Just last week a pro-life education center was bombed with a molotov cocktail. The MSM reported that the building "caught fire". I suppose it just spontaneously combusted. If a pro choice center or an abortion clinic were set on fire, we would have immediately heard that right wing, religious fanatics were trying to take away women's bodily autonomy.
If the Buffalo shooter were liberal, the mainstream press would probably say that his victims died of heart attacks (their hearts were attacked by bullets).
I know what you mean, it's like that car that just ran down people in a Christmas parade.
I have a slightly different take. Without getting into the merits or lack thereof of the Maddows and Carlsons of this world - honestly, who cares?, the fact is that public discourse of all types in the United States has coarsened tremendously over the last 50 or so years. Whether on TV shows, Twitter or public address systems, a minority of very self-important Americans say inflammatory things, and they do so incessantly. Violence in movies and television, violent video games in the hands of children, a public education system that eschews the teaching of restraint and reflection - the reader can decide what he/she thinks the causes are. But the result is clear: a prior culture of restraint and kindness in offering opinions has descended into a verbally abusive and factually challenged free for all. Yes, it's hard to blame a newscaster for the actions of an adoring nut, but we have to own up to the fact that we have allowed our public discourse to become a fetid swamp. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, we are reaping the fruits of today's culture of civil discourse, which values shouting and epithets more than fairness and perspective.
INDEED, and something I believe has occurred from constant and relentless exposure to political psychopathy.
It is terrifying to me just how abusive the discourse is, but it also emanates from a politicians and MSM.
Terrifying is the exact word and feeling!
Rather than blame newsreaders and talking heads in this case, maybe take a look at the teachers and other influencers that helped form this 18 year old savage. “[C]onservatism is corporatism in disguise…” sounds suspiciously like what my 17 year old niece comes up with after half a year in U.S. public schools.
Critical Race Theory and Trans ideology are taught in the public schools and especially in lib states like mine. In Oregon a bill was passed last year that REMOVED requirements for reading writing and math to graduate high school here. And no , Im not kidding.
We are churning out activists not educated children!
It's worse than common core.
And guess who funded common core and who now funds CRT and trans ideology?
THE GATES FOUNDATION
Yup, remember his "education initiative"? That was simply a scam to research the State and local education system to identify the key players and identify the best methods to destroy it. Our "elites" are pulling up the ladders to success, salting the earth behind them. Let the plebes starve.
Yep. Now that would be one heck of an exposé. But again, consistent with Glenn’s point, poisoning minds with foul ideology is separate from pulling the trigger.
When I was a college student in the 1960s, I noticed that some people were attracted to political activity not for the cause or the values but for the opportunity to play out their personal issues, often anger at their fathers. As Greenwald explains, the ideologies do not provoke the behavior. I think we have to look to individuals and their issues.
I have friends with anger issues who admit it. They are also the friends who write angry posts about the villain du jour i.e. Bush, Koch Brothers, Trump. Spewing anger about politics never seems to help them though.