It’s Friday, July 15th, 2022…but before we begin, the more we learn of the Uvalde shootings…
WATCH: An officer wearing a ballistic vest found ample time during the Uvalde school shooting to squirt hand sanitizer from a dispenser and rub his hands together (12:30 PM timestamp, well before the gunman was killed). pic.twitter.com/hqUnUnUlvD
“As a gunman approached Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, one police officer had an AR-15 trained on the suspect.Had he taken the shot, a report from the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center concluded last week, 2 teachers and 19 children might still be alive. (“Might”?!? There’s NO “might” about it!)
Instead, the officer turned to his supervisor and requested permission to engage. By the time he turned back around, the suspect was already inside the school. Given the circumstances, the report argued, a “reasonable officer” would have pulled the trigger.
But when cops in Texas have pulled the trigger under similar circumstances, they’ve ended up in court. In at least three cases since 2014, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided against police officers who made split-second decisions to shoot armed suspects—one of whom appeared to be headed for a Texas high school. The court, which has jurisdiction over the Lone Star State, denied several officers’ requests for qualified immunity, a legal defense that protects police from civil lawsuits.
…The verdicts from the Fifth Circuit, long considered the most conservative appellate court in the nation, reflect what is an emerging bipartisan consensus against qualified immunity. Qualified immunity creates breathing room for the sort of split-second decision that might have stopped Uvalde—but it does so by making it difficult to sue police officers, including those who use excessive force...”
The legal niceties notwithstanding, here’s the juice: It’s hard to grasp the thought process of an officer responding to multiple reports of shots fired outside a school, scoping this dude approaching the building decked out in black and carrying a weapon and not putting him down.
Meanwhile, the contents of this video speaks for itself:
One thing’s for certain: The old adage “march to the sound of the guns” is no longer taught in certain law enforcement units.
“…The ordeal of the pandemic inflicted serious wounds on the country — not just the more than a million Americans dead and far-reaching economic devastation, but the further tearing of our already-fraying national social fabric. A lot of public-health experts proved themselves insanely risk-averse, content to keep Americans locked up in their homes for months; a lot of elected officials made clear they felt no need to live by their own decrees; plenty of governors and local school officials shrugged off the infliction of near-catastrophic learning loss and psychologically harmful social isolation on kids; and plenty of busybodies relished appointing themselves the mask and social-distancing police in public spaces. To adapt a phrase from Tom Wolfe, we just lived through the Bonfire of the Credibilities…”
“It’s not often that Senator Josh Hawley gets criticized for not “going hard enough” in a Senate hearing. But this column will be one of those rare times. Here was the remarkable exchange he had with University of California at Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges over transgenderism:
A law professor from Cal-Berkeley says @HawleyMO is being transphobic for saying only women can get pregnant. Watch this exchange. These men can get pregnant people are crazy: pic.twitter.com/YxOd9kaXFh
There was nothing wrong with how Hawley approached Professor Bridges, and quite a bit right about it. Hawley was widely praised after the exchange by Sohrab Ahmari, Ryan Anderson, and many others for keeping his cool. But ultimately, this exchange demonstrated the seriousness of the challenge gender ideology poses, and the insufficiency of just asking the right questions and waiting for people to laugh this belief system off the stage.
…the bigger challenge is in the rest of the exchange, where the suicidality of people who identify as trans is cast as entirely the fault of a society that has “denialism” in it. This is an astonishing claim given the fact that people who have come to believe that their identity and their body are in some way “mismatched” would, presumably, experience some level of psychic torment no matter how understanding and supportive the rest of society was. When the reality of what is called “gender-affirming care” — the experimental use of hormones or surgeries that create nonfunctional simulations of the opposite gender’s genitalia (often requiring repeated surgeries throughout all of life to maintain) — is added to this turmoil, it sure seems as if it is the gender ideologue who is the denialist, and who is partly responsible for the suicidality of people who suffer from gender dysphoria.
It is on this ground that we must fight back. The rote and ritualistic recitation of trans suicide rates, and the scapegoating of nonbelievers and dissenters for these suicides, amounts to a sinister homily. It is Bridges who is encouraging suicide by casting it as an act of quasi-martyrdom. The suicide becomes the testimony to the wickedness of the deniers; that is the public meaning she allows for it. She’s trying to give a pro-social meaning to an act of personal despair and vindictiveness. The more suicides there are, the more condemned stand the deniers.
Gender ideology was born out of academic wordplay. And academics such as Professor Bridges have become bodyguards for a buccaneering, barely regulated gender-therapy industry, filled with pill-pushers and demented surgeons who leave their patients miserable and more desirous of ending their lives. We can’t just ask clever questions and hope for these people to embarrass themselves. We have to confront them for what they are: a cult that seduces people and leads them to bodily harm, and, in many cases, self-destruction.“
Evil…pure evil; There’s no other plausible explanation for the policies contemporary Progressives promote.
Speaking of pure evil, NRO‘s Brittany Bernstein covers the story of the…
“Police arrested a man, who is believed to be an illegal immigrant, on Tuesday after he allegedly raped and impregnated a ten-year-old girl who reportedly traveled from Ohio to Indiana for an abortion, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
The outlet reported that 27-year-old Gershon Fuentes confessed to raping the ten-year-old child on at least two occasions. He has been charged with rape and is being held on a $2 million bond, according to the report.
The child became the subject of national media attention after the Indianapolis Star reported earlier this month that an Indianapolis-based abortionist named Caitlin Bernard was asked by a child-abuse doctor in Ohio to help the young girl get an abortion in Indiana. The report said Ohio’s abortion law, which went into effect after the overturn of Roe v. Wade and bans most abortion after six weeks, prevented the girl from receiving an abortion in her home state.
Even President Biden recently cited the girl’s story while criticizing the Court’s decision saying, “Imagine being that little girl. I’m serious. Just imagine being that little girl.”
…Fox News had previously reported that an unnamed source confirmed there was a 10-year-old girl from Ohio who went to Indiana seeking an abortion, though it was unclear “whether this girl was forced to cross state lines as [President Biden] alleged, or was she simply referred to an expert in a different state? As Ohio’s attorney general told [Fox News host] Jesse Waters last night, the girl did not need to leave the state, she would have been legally able to get an abortion in Ohio.”
Ohio attorney general Dave Yost said Ohio’s abortion law, which bans the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy, has a “medical-emergency exception broader than just the life of the mother. This young girl . . . she did not have to leave Ohio” to receive an abortion…”
Two thoughts immediately came to mind: (1) There’s no lie The Left won’t tell to enable the unabated slaughter of innocents; and (2) Yes, Joe: Just imagine being that little girl…repeatedly raped by an illegal alienYOU provided access to our country.
Since we’re on the subject of the inevitable results of deliberately destructive Progressive policies, the WSJ‘s Jason Riley explores how…
“It’s difficult to keep track of all the public policies being advocated in the name of “social justice,” but the damage is mounting. And no one is harmed more than the people in whose name the policies are promoted.
Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer reported on its front page that the City Council president wants “to revisit stop-and-frisk,” a police tactic that involves officers’ stopping, questioning and sometimes searching pedestrians engaged in suspicious behavior. For decades, police departments around the country have used stop and frisk to remove illegal guns from the street and reduce crime rates. But social-justice activists—who, ironically, support gun control—have decried the practice because blacks and Hispanics are stopped more often than other groups.
For critics, the racial imbalance in stops is evidence of racial bias, rather than a reflection of higher violent crime rates among blacks and Hispanics versus other racial and ethnic groups.Men are also stopped more often than women. Is that evidence of sexism? In big cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and Baltimore, violent crime is highly concentrated, not only among certain groups but also geographically. “A small sliver of blocks—just 4 percent in Chicago, for example—can account for a majority of shootings in a city or a county,” the New York Times reported recently.
Yet in their efforts to correct racial disparities in policing, social-justice activists play down or ignore the racial disparities in crime victimization. When Michael Nutter was mayor of Philadelphia, from 2008 to 2016, he supported stop and frisk, and “its use—combined with other law-enforcement strategies—coincided with the city’s lowest murder rate in 50 years,” according to the Inquirer. Under pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union and other activists, however, the current mayor curtailed the practice, the number of stops plummeted, and violent crime spiked…”
Again, what other term than evil describes those willing to ignore irrefutable facts and inflict incalculable harm on those they pretend to protect, purely for political power and personal wealth?
(2). Best of the Web details the dirty secrets of supposed “clean” energy, yet another Progressive-promoted problem which will eventually swim up and bite taxpayers on their collective ass.
(3). Writing at The Blade of Perseus, the great VDH details Gavin Newsom’s weird idea of “freedom“. Spoiler alert: It bears no similarity whatsoever to William Wallace’s.
(4). So, they’re slashing tires on SUVs to limit greenhouse gases…after which the owners will need to buy new tires requiring significant amounts of energy from fossil fuels, as well as copious amounts of petroleum, to produce.
(6). Christian Bruckner, adisabled Florida businessman whose family fled communist Romania in the 1970s, is suing the Biden administration for racial and gender discrimination, claiming that he is not allowed to compete for $37 billion in infrastructure contracts because he is a White male.
And here we thought Biden was from Scranton, PA…nor did we know he fished!
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Video of the Day
John Stossel relates the curious dictator envy of so many Progressive politicians. Any question what they REALLY envy is the unbridled power?!? BTW, we don’t know which is worse: Progressives’ power envy or the fact YouTube limits access to this video!
Tales of The Darkside
As this video clip from James Patrick proves, Progressives are, quite literally, crazier than a pack of sh*thouse rats!
On the Lighter Side
The only lesson this demented douche can teach us is never vote for a Dimocrat. Hat tip to Breeze for this gaffe machine’s latest idiocy.
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