Crid brought this case to our attention yesterday. I see Paul "Enron Adviser" Krugman has joined the fray.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/paul-krugman-professors-demand-top-economist-lose-his-job-for-criticizing-black-lives-matter

Lord of the Flies on the streets of Seattle.

I see that they've progressed thru the entire commie shit storm in about 3 days. They are short on food, and now ruled by a warlord who beat the crap out of a tagger who didn't get permission first.

I disagree with Trump's take: don't force them out. This is the paradise they desired, and the warlord needs time to give it to them good and hard.

Is the Seattle Warlord paying the $15/hour minimum wage they all decided they deserved for doing menial things they are told to do?

I'd hate to think that the Utopians couldn't make a living.

The far-left took control of six blocks of Seattle, declared it separate from the United States, and the first thing they do is create strict borders to keep specific people out.

https://twitter.com/chhardman/status/1270572247661654016

I'd hate to think that the Utopians couldn't make a living.

Allegedly they had all their food stolen by homeless people. Here are a couple of their farming collectives:

https://twitter.com/TweetBrettMac/status/1270983562226012161

Seems like Kamala Harris also used the LAPD as personal security from time to time.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/kamala_harris_who_used_lapd_cops_as_personal_security_detail_now_wants_lapd_budget_cut.html

Considering her past as pro police state it would have gotten interesting right now if Kamala instead of Biden was the chosen one to go up against Trump.

Extraordinarily self-righteous and ignorant 14-year-old girl places herself and her family in danger. She got into an argument with her parents about Black Lives Matter, and she sanctimoniously spouted typical lines of unsupported nonsense, recorded the conversation, without her parents knowledge or consent, and posted it to the internet without their permission.

She needs to be grounded and cut off from internet access outside of schoolwork for about a month.

Don't be so pessimistic, Six. She's still in the running for the VeepStakes!

If they want to be a separate country, let them. Establish a border and guard it. Require passports to enter the US from CHAZ. If they want food, let them trade for it. Force them to be self-sufficient and make them actually be autonomous. They'll be begging for readmission to the union without a fortnight.

Let them to make laws and establish a society. They won't be able to. It's all singing, chanting, speechifying right now. But when it's time to eat, it's donated food. Force those donations to comply with export laws and see how long that keeps up.

This is a child's temper tantrum; a handwritten sign on the bedroom door that says "Chaz's Room - Keep Out" writ large.

If you've seen the pictures from inside, it looks like a bombed out ghetto.

These are not worldly people.

She needs to be grounded and cut off from internet access outside of schoolwork for about a month. ~ Patrick at June 11, 2020 8:52 AM

The comments on that one are a special kind of stupid.

And since the family got doxxed on the comments, I'm betting the house gets picketed and firebombed within the week.

The girl's "they haven't had the same privileges you have" assumes all African-Americans are poor and underprivileged. Are you telling me the children of Quincy Jones, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, et al are underprivileged and devoid of economic opportunity? That somehow, the color of my skin makes me better off than they are?

Hush hush:

https://twitter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1271027177446875136

Contact tracing in one image.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-10-at-20.05.06-600x555.png

Deer lord. I knew the zoomies were a special bunch, but this one must have suffered severe turbulence one time too many. Let's start with xer house and go from there.

A leading Democratic candidate in a closely watched House race brushed off looting and arson that occurred during nationwide unrest during protests about racism and police brutality sparked by the death of George Floyd.

“What the hell you got snipers on the roof for in a peaceful march? Even if people loot, so what? Burn it to the ground, you know, if that’s what it’s going to take to fix our nation,” retired Air Force Col. Kim Olson said during a live digital event on Tuesday, shown in a clip obtained by the Washington Examiner.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democratic-house-candidate-kim-olson-if-people-loot-so-what-burn-it-to-the-ground

Conan:

The girl's "they haven't had the same privileges you have" assumes all African-Americans are poor and underprivileged.

And that all whites are privileged. So, the illegitimate crack baby born to a single mother who does "sex work" to pay for her addiction is privileged over a two-parent black child raised in a loving, supportive home?

It's one of the things that annoys me about the girl's argumentation. She sees no need to prove her points, only make them.

Without even seeing the mother's statistics, she says, "Statistics can be warped!" And she seems to feel she's defeated the argument before she's even heard it.

Black Lives Matter also employs statistics on their website. Do we also dismiss those out of hand or is it only one side with statistics that "can be warped."

Statistics is the fine art of torturing the data until it gives you the answers you are looking for.

Papers, please.

Raz Simone, a Seattle local, stated he belongs to the “People’s Force,” a replacement for Seattle PD in #FreeCapitolHill. On June 8th in a live video he advised that unfamiliar faces should be stopped, questioned, and checked to see if they’re armed, similar to “Stop and Frisk.”

https://twitter.com/TheWholeStory6/status/1270523675800793088

It's one of the things that annoys me about the girl's argumentation. She sees no need to prove her points, only make them. ~ Patrick at June 11, 2020 10:19 AM

It's an adolescent's argument style. She feels her argument more than she knows it. And, by virtue of that emotional urgency, she feels that her argument is valid; more valid, in fact, than any that could be presented against it.

Like a toddler screaming "it's not fair!" when told he has to go to bed but his older brother does not.

> torturing the data until it
> gives you the answers you are
> looking for.

Funny you should look at it: This list is a hackneyed illusion">https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/paperback-nonfiction/.">illusion… But get a look at it asap, because one way or the other it's not going to last.

Does anyone want to compare the list to Amazon's or some other industry source? I don't know enough about publishing to investigate.

But the NYT BS list has always been a work of fiction: Time and again in my lifetime, Christian titles have been the fastest movers in the United States, but the Times disregards them 'categorically.' And more recently, Jordan Peterson's phenomenally popular work was excluded because he is, after all, Canadian.

God Damn Formatting:

https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/paperback-nonfiction/

• Someone please explain, because the coverage of Seattle is too tawdry to decode—

Why don't they (mayor, gov, feds) send in more cops?

Why don't they turn off the water & power?

Why haven't local business owners appeared in court demanding protection of their selves and assets?

• I love not caring about country music—

New York Times
Lady Antebellum changes name in wake of Black Lives Matter movement: The country-pop trio — who won Record and Song of the Year Grammys for their ...
New York Post 1 hour ago

Country band Lady Antebellum changes name to Lady A because of slavery reference
Band members, Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood, said in a statement they are regretful and embarrassed for not taking into consideration the ...
Fox News 1 hour ago

'We Are Regretful And Embarrassed': Lady Antebellum Changes Its Name To Lady A
CBS Pittsburgh 46 minutes ago

To say they'd not taken the implication of their name "into consideration" is laughable.

Why don't they (mayor, gov, feds) send in more cops?

Well, the mayor and governor are at least sympathetic to the cause, as are more than a few on the city council. Oh, and they withdrew the cops and national guard.

As for the Feds, there's that pesky 10th amendment.

Why don't they turn off the water & power?

See above. Contrast that against Garcetti threatening to cut off those services to businesses reopening without his permission. Yes, Garcetti is LA's mayor, but isn't that likely to be the same answer in Seattle?

Why haven't local business owners appeared in court demanding protection of their selves and assets?

Because they don't want what's left of their property being "liberated" and then "torched". And they don't want to risk their and their family's lives. What court in that lucky city would rule against the thu...hooli...citizens of the CHAZ?

CHAZ's warlord might reply with you have made your ruling, now enforce it.

I think it hilarious that these pretend revolutionaries set up a border checkpoint first thing and then complain they are being robbed --in Seattle autonomous zone they invited the homeless in for a meal and the homeless stole all the food as they left. The police came and took back the city barricades. What happened to that open borders talk?

Back in the late 70s I visited several communes. In one case some of the people had an insurance settlement that kept the place going. One was supported by a rock band. One supported by drugs. It is always pretend. These auton zones are even more pretend and it will not be long before people are killed.

Commune farm update! They seem to have taken Mike Bloomberg's advice.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1271152898009976832

Someone send them a guillotine. Is the bat wrapped with barbed wire and named "Lucille"?

My latest report from the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone“: Things are getting dangerous for people who are accused of wrongdoing. In one instance, an accused thief was surrounded by a crowd and interrogated, with one person brandishing a bat in his face.

https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1271166157412634624

Butter burgers.

https://youtu.be/ZIErqYP8KNU

Patrick: "She needs to be grounded and cut off from internet access outside of schoolwork for about a month."

Whoa, you are way more lenient there Patrick than I would be. I would do way more than ground her. It is one thing to be a little sanctimonious shit. But, to endanger the lives of her family is way beyond a simple grounding for punishment.

I'd look into military school or some other "away from home, locked down at night" schooling for this brat. A place where she will not be able to endanger her family is where she belongs now.

Joe Biden nailed it in Philly, didn't he?

Brilliant, brilliant man.

"Country band Lady Antebellum changes name to Lady A because of slavery reference"

You know, if Ted Kascynski just changes his name to Teddy K, parole's a sure thing.

This band hasn't noticed three things:
1) What happened to Dixie Chicks
2) The rioters never heard of them and aren't their audience
3) Their virtue signaling is to an audience who thinks "antebellum" is a sitting room.

The name means, literally, "Lady Pre-war".

What a horrible thing. I bet they OWNED SLAVES!

Strong opening graf:

Insanity at the Poetry Foundation
By Kyle Smith June 11, 2020 4:10 PM

You may not pay much attention to the Poetry Foundation, possibly because you are under the impression that, as the modesty of its name and goals imply, it is a struggling little outfit. Perhaps you picture a staff of a few miserable editors working in some backroom in threadbare cardigans, warming their hands over the only heat they can afford, which is generated by setting fire to their own rejected manuscripts. The Poetry Foundation is, however, more like the Palace of Versailles of cultural nonprofits. Its endowment is fat with a quarter of a billion dollars of assets, according to the New York Times, thanks to the generosity of the late pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly, who gave the Chicago foundation $100 million in 2002 before her death in 2009. Those who would like to transfer this fortune from the Poetry Foundation to their own bank accounts are using the favored tool of the day, which is to issue a thundering race-based denunciation. As usual, this tactic is working well.

Sumbuddy sent pie.

Sumbuddy else sent fire.

> The name means, literally,
> "Lady Pre-war".

Exactly. Very good.

They've always known who was their demographic, and it's pathetic for them to pretend today that they didn't

Hey Raddy, did you want to watch some TV?

I mean, DID YOU WANT TO WATCH SOME TV?

This is dystopian af. The #CHAZ has its own website now that even has a multi-camera livestream. They have posted their demands. https://caphillauto.zone/demands.html

Patrick: "She needs to be grounded and cut off from internet access outside of schoolwork for about a month."

She is 14, school and schoolwork are most likely what indoctrinated her in the first place.

"Hey Raddy, did you want to watch some TV?"

Thank you! Since we're a nation of shut-ins -- and a significant fraction of the online appear to never have dealt with a belligerent person -- that's what we can all do.

Though it will be skipped by the My Little Pony crowd insisting on their own pronouns.