It’s Friday, June 19th, 2020…but before we begin, Tucker takes you inside America’s newest state…of utter anarchy:

Congratulations, Neil Gorsuch: this is the chaotic future towards which your gay/transgendered “rights” decision has advanced America!

Since we’re on the subject of the most recent defection to the Dark Side by a supposedly-Conservative Supreme Court jurist, the WSJ relates how this latest turning was particularly hypocritical given the precedents overturned in…

Gorsuch vs. Gorsuch

An alien legal being seems to have captured the Justice.

 

An alien appears to have occupied the body of Justice Neil Gorsuch as he wrote Monday’s opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County, which sometimes happens when Justices breathe the rarified air of the Supreme Court building. But perhaps he’ll snap out of his living Constitution trance if he’s shown his own previous work.

In Bostock, Justice Gorsuch updated the meaning of “sex” in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sexual orientation and gender identity. But in 2018 in Wisconsin Central Ltd. v. U.S., the Justice decried this approach to judging:

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, courtesy of Ed Hickey and The Federalist, John Davidson offers compelling reasons why…

Americans Should Never Again Comply With Pandemic Lockdown Orders

By treating Black Lives Matters protests differently than other large gatherings, public officials and health experts have exposed themselves as hypocrites.

 

“We’re told a second wave of coronavirus infections is coming. As businesses open back up and states relax lockdown orders, the number of new cases is ticking up in a handful of states. We’ve heard warnings in recent days from the Centers for Disease Control and various public health experts and elected officials that a new series of lockdowns might be necessary.

What these experts and officials don’t seem to realize is that Americans will never comply with their lockdown orders again. They have burned their credibility to the ground, and they no longer have the moral authority to tell us what to do.

Simply put, the people in charge have shown themselves to be rank hypocrites who care more about politics than science. For months, we were told that large gatherings were deadly because of the coronavirus, but when protests broke out in late May, large gatherings were suddenly okay.

The exact day the experts lost their credibility was June 4, when more than 1,000 public health workers signed a letter claiming the protests were “vital to the national public health and to the threatened health specifically of black people in the United States.” The woke corporate press scrambled to assure us this wasn’t hypocritical at all, and that “health is about more than simply remaining free of coronavirus infection,” as a pair of epidemiologists put it in The Atlantic.

That’s a curious argument to make after forced business closures and lockdown orders destroyed tens of millions of American jobs, ruined countless businesses and livelihoods, and caused a sharp uptick in suicides, drug overdoses, and domestic abuse. Never mind the compelling research showing that lockdowns are overall much worse for public health than the coronavirus.

…Public officials in Tulsa have also adopted this double standard. The mayor and a cadre of other officials have publicly implored Trump not to go ahead with the rally, citing concerns about COVID-19. But these same officials dared not say a word against recent BLM rallies held in the city and suburbs, including a large one that got out of control and spilled onto a busy highway, where several protesters were injured.

The double standard is everywhere and undeniable, and the message is clear: the experts and the people in charge only care about the pandemic when it’s politically convenient. They’re guided by the science, they tell us, but only if the science doesn’t get in the way of their virtue-signaling about Black Lives Matter.

They care about public health, but only up to a point. They care much more about being woke. And if you want to go to a big rally, it’s only safe if it’s the right kind of rally.

Enough of this. Americans should never listen to these people again.“

Case in point, courtesy of Fredo Cuomo’s older brother Sonny:

As has been said many times before, if it weren’t for double standards,…!!!

Next, Walt Meisen forwarded this item from RedState.com which details…

Part Two on the Ridiculous Press Conference by Atlanta DA on Murder Charges Filed Against Atlanta PD Officers

 

“…As I sat down to write what was going to be Part 2, I continued to watch the press conference where DA Howard said things I would not be surprised to hear coming out of the mouth of a first-year law student — but only if that law student was in the process of flunking his/her Crim Law or Evidence classes — or both.  I then had a chance to catch the interview of the attorneys of the second officer, Devin Brosnan, by Fredo Cuomo on CNN, and later the interview of Off. Rolfe’s attorney on the Laura Ingraham show.  What they added to the factual puzzle here made the commentary of DA Howard during his press conference even more farcical.  Rolfe’s attorney is going to chew up any Assistant District Attorney who tries to bring this case to court…”

Exhibit “A”: Howard’s assessment of the threat Brooks’ possession of Brosnan’s taser posed this past Wednesday…

“We’ve concluded, at the time Mr. Brooks was shot, that he did not pose an immediate threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or officers.“

…compared with his statement less than a month ago in response to the tasing of two college students:

Hell’s bells: even Stanley Rothenstein’s public defender…

…could successfully defend this case.

If you haven’t caught Tucker’s segment on the subject, it’s well wroth watching, summarizing as it does not only the reality behind Rayshard Brooks’ unfortunate demise…

…but the skyrocketing crime already resulting from the Socialist surrender to The Mob.

Meanwhile, ABC attempts to paint Mr. Brooks with a soft brush…

…he’d likely have used to beat his wife and children.

Speaking of thugs who prey on the innocent, ICYMI, the arrest of Duane Brimmage, the 31-year-old Black male who assaulted a 92-year-old White woman, marked the 103rd time the frequent offender has been busted since 2005 for petty crimes and sex offenses.

All of which is why, as NRO‘s David Harsanyi notes…

The Riots and Protests Will Make Gun Ownership More Popular

In their lack of trust and security, people will turn to the Second Amendment

 

“Not in a million years, not if all the nation’s prestigious public-relations firms were mobilized for the cause, could gun manufacturers have conceived of a more effective advertising campaign for their product than the “defund the police” movement.

…Gun-control advocates have long argued that trained police and military, but not civilians, have cause to be armed. We’ve been told that owning a gun is a dangerous fetish — not to mention useless in the face of a state armed with tanks and thermonuclear weapons. A civilized society relies on law-enforcement officers to safeguard the peace, not a bunch of unregulated slack-jawed yahoos. Even the notion of a constitutional right to individual self-defense is, they claim, a fraud perpetrated by the gun lobby and its collaborators. 

The same people now inform us that cops are shock troops deployed by a systemically racist state to suppress African Americans. So much so that the public should contemplate abolishing, defunding, or “reimagining” law enforcement altogether. We frequently hear progressives hyperbolically assert that black Americans are being “hunted down” in the streets by nefarious cops. When the New York Times published an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton in which he proposed that the president “employ the military,” if necessary, to protect city neighborhoods from rioters and looters, dozens of the paper’s staffers acted as if the words themselves were violence, tweeting, “This puts Black @nytimes staff in danger.” 

So the question is: Why have liberals spent years demanding that we arm racist killer cops and disarm innocent black civilians? Why do they believe white supremacists should have guns but not shopkeepers?

Granted, most liberals won’t admit to any inconsistency in their position, because the liberal position has devolved into a perpetual game of Calvinball. But in the long run, this kind of argument is unsustainable…”

And as the Journal‘s Jason Riley recounts, it’s not only the silent majority of Whites on whom such illogic is lost.

In a related item, courtesy of Medium.com via James Nichols, Gavrilo David offers a number of details regarding George Floyd’s death which have frankly caused us to reconsider our thoughts on the incident:

Why Derek Chauvin May Get Off His Murder Charge

A deeper look at the policies behind the death of George Floyd

 

“…The video is unquestionably horrific. (Though, if the evidence Mr. David offers is accurate, not nearly as horrific as we first believed.)

But in our rush to condemn an aggressive use of force and pursue justice for George Floyd, we have ignored crucial information which is necessary in judging the conduct of the officers. While nothing can absolve George Floyd’s death, these facts do cast doubt on the appropriateness of a murder charge for Chauvin, and paint a more nuanced picture of the events leading up to the tragic encounter.

There are six crucial pieces of information — six facts — that have been largely omitted from discussion on the Chauvin’s conduct. Taken together, they likely exonerate the officer of a murder charge. Rather than indicating illegal and excessive force, they instead show an officer who rigidly followed the procedures deemed appropriate by the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). The evidence points to the MPD and the local political establishment, rather than the individual officer, as ultimately responsible for George Floyd’s death.

These six facts are as follows:

1. George Floyd was experiencing cardiopulmonary and psychological distress minutes before he was placed on the ground, let alone had a knee to his neck.

2. The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) allows the use of neck restraint on suspects who actively resist arrest, and George Floyd actively resisted arrest on two occasions, including immediately prior to neck restraint being used.

3. The officers were recorded on their body cams assessing George Floyd as suffering from “excited delirium syndrome” (ExDS), a condition which the MPD considers an extreme threat to both the officers and the suspect. A white paper used by the MPD acknowledges that ExDS suspects may die irrespective of force involved. The officers’ response to this situation was in line with MPD guidelines for ExDS.

4. Restraining the suspect on his or her abdomen (prone restraint) is a common tactic in ExDS situations, and the white paper used by the MPD instructs the officers to control the suspect until paramedics arrive.

5. Floyd’s autopsy revealed a potentially lethal concoction of drugs — not just a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl, but also methamphetamine. Together with his history of drug abuse and two serious heart conditions, Floyd’s condition was exceptionally and unusually fragile.

6. Chauvin’s neck restraint is unlikely to have exerted a dangerous amount of force to Floyd’s neck. Floyd is shown on video able to lift his head and neck, and a robust study on double-knee restraints showed a median force exertion of approximately approximately 105lbs.

Let’s be clear: the actions of Chauvin and the other officers were absolutely wrong. (An assertion you’ll find curiously incongruous with the evidence Mr. David goes on to present.) But they were also in line with MPD rules and procedures for the condition which they determined was George Floyd was suffering from. An act that would normally be considered a clear and heinous abuse of force, such as a knee-to-neck restraint on a suspect suffering from pulmonary distress, can be legitimatized if there are overriding concerns not known to bystanders but known to the officers. In the case of George Floyd, the overriding concern was that he was suffering from ExDS, given a number of relevant facts known to the officers. This was not known to the bystanders, who only saw a man with pulmonary distress pinned down with a knee on his neck. While the officers may still be found guilty of manslaughter, the probability of a guilty verdict for the murder charge is low, and the public should be aware of this well in advance of the verdict.

While we should pursue justice for George Floyd, we should be absolutely sure that we are pursuing justice against his real killers. A careful examination of the evidence points to the procedures and rules of the MPD, rather than the police officers following these procedures and rules, as the real killers of George Floyd. If anyone murdered George Floyd, it was the MPD and the local political establishment…”

A damning indictment indeed!  Mr. David goes on to offer a mountain of evidence in support of his conclusion, leading us to deduce state and local authorities in general, and Keith Ellison in particular, KNOW they can’t support a charge of murder against Derek Chauvin, thus his inevitable acquittal is intended to provide the spark for yet another national conflagration…er,…dialogue on racism.

Turning now to other news from the Nine Wise (or at least, wiser than you!) Men and Women On High, history records another victory in the Bush family’s ongoing effort to aid in The Left in bringing the Founders’ Republic to its knees, as…

SCOTUS Blocks Trump’s Attempt to End DACA

 

Here’s the juice: had we the opportunity to confront John Roberts in person, we’d echo the words of Fletcher to Senator Lane:

Then again, we might well find ourselves more of the mind expressed by the old Army vet confronting anti-Trump protesters:

For more on the subject of anti-American SOBs, writing at The Hill, Kristin Tate suggests…

How the end of lockdown will hurt Joe Biden amid the campaign trail

 

“Joe Biden might be the luckiest person in politics. Despite endless gaffes and awkward encounters, he became the Democratic nominee following several candidates dropping out and the implosion of the Bernie Sanders campaign. Biden had another major boost with the coronavirus lockdown. Stuck at home, some of his worst qualities, including degraded language skills, a tendency to pick fights with his supporters, and his dubious track record, became hidden from the public. However, with restrictions being lifted across many states, his weakness will be laid bare.

Before the lockdowns, his campaign was flailing. Biden seemed to make it a point to stick his foot in his mouth at every available opportunity. Do you remember when he called a voter a “damn liar” in Iowa? Or when he oddly asserted that 150 million people have died from gun violence over the last 13 years?…

With the lockdowns ending, Biden will lose his advantage of staying out of the spotlight. He will have to transition from interviews with friendly hosts, conducted from his home in Delaware where aides could carefully control optics, to the unpredictable style of town halls. Without any handlers able to manage every moment, his loose tongue or instigative attitude toward voters threaten to define the remainder of his campaign.

…While the lockdowns allowed Biden to hide his all greatest flaws, they also prevented Donald Trump from using his greatest strengths. The president is at his best in front of energized crowds at his massive rallies. Due to the coronavirus, he has not utilized his most potent tool just yet. However, the reinvigoration of the Trump campaign through its heavily attended events will serve as a reminder of the reasons why he won four years ago. His first rally since the start of the pandemic will be next (which is now this) weekend. 

…Trump is not out of the woods. His approval fell below 40 percent in some polls, and there is plenty of time to make his own errors. But we have seen a race between Trump and another Democratic candidate who struggled before. Biden could hide behind the effects of the coronavirus. While the country moves on, his campaign may act too slowly to fight the fact that Biden has been the only American to benefit from the crisis.“

Which is why Dixon Diaz recently observed:

And as the WSJ‘s Kim Strassel submits, The Donald’s about to hit his stride.

As for Groper Joe, recently reviewed videos of his earlier opinions on contemporary hot-button issues should provide The Donald’s re-election managers ample material for campaign ads:

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s this timely meme from our sister-in-law Jackie…

…another from Speed Mach…

…along with this walk down Memory Lane courtesy of Balls Cotton…

So much for Republicans bearing responsibility for any “systemic” American racism.

Finally, we’ll call it a week with this headline courtesy of George Lawlor, as FOX News reports…

Aunt Jemima changing name, removing image ‘based on a racial stereotype’ from packaging

 

Reports possible replacement names include “Yo Mama” and “Mutha F*#@a” remain unconfirmed.  In any event, we’re certain this change will have an impact second only to renaming of the Washington Bullets on the death spiral of the Black family, Black on Black violence and other legacies of slavery…which, let’s not forget was created…

…by the United States!

Magoo