“In today’s news we frame a military veteran and actively participate in a coup against a legally elected government. Then, we’ll whip up some racial frenzy and make money from pharmaceutical ads while we film you burning each others’ shit.
In other news, protesters are attacking our headquarters and we don’t know what we did to deserve it.”
If The Rioting Seems Coordinated
That’s because it is.
So who is actually behind the violence and devastation? Laura Logan has been investigating. pic.twitter.com/JlU1L1vNVZ
— The Dirty Truth (Josh) (@AKA_RealDirty) May 30, 2020
@theangiestanton — The Black community in MN is calling out white Antifa members for starting the riots and destroying their communities. I keep telling y’all these white liberals are not our friends.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
It’s why they were hiding them.
DNI John Ratcliffe has released the transcripts and FBI generated summaries known as “CR cuts” from the telephone calls between incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. [pdf version here].
A fast review of the transcripts shows there was nothing inappropriate or improper about the conversations at all. Quite the opposite: Lt. General Flynn was direct, diplomatic, polite and represented the interests of U.S. policy from both the outgoing Obama administration and incoming Trump administration.
More from Tom Fitton: “He was able to persuade the Russians not to escalate…”
May 30, 2020: Reader Tips
“He’s a god damned menace with an air nail gun.” — Corb Lund
And so another weekend begins…
Ready, Fire, Aim
“The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation. Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease. The combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by the police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.”
From the charging documents.
Update.
Every reporter we have in 4 protest areas in Minneapolis right now all saying there are no police nor National Guard anywhere. Buildings on fire, businesses actively being looted, 4-lane I-35 South blocked with people and fire. Govorner? Mayor? Chief?
— Chris Hrapsky (@ChrisHrapsky) May 30, 2020
The big quiet bail out – Euro/Japan central banks propping up stock markets, is the US next?
We’re starting to see the lengths governments will go to in order to maintain financial stability. You’d think the mountains of debt will lead to a day of reckoning, but, emboldened by the global government response to the 2008 financial crisis, the high priests of finance are becoming more emboldened. Look out below. Read on…
This Is CNN
Wait! I thought we were friends? Giant CNN logo in front of building “is being painted with graffiti in Atlanta. The crowd is cheering.”
WHOhan Flu
No more money for you.
We are terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization, which acts at the behest of China. pic.twitter.com/QmTKmsLSbP
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 29, 2020
The apoplectic press remains apoplectic.
One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest
5/n whose RdRp fragment is 88.4% close to SARS, but they consider 4991 “uninteresting” and never return to it until 2020, as per Peter Daszak? Even though there were 6 cases of potential human zoonotic jumps in that mine – the proverbial Holy Grail of virological surveillance?
— Yuri Deigin (@ydeigin) May 28, 2020
The complete thread is here.
Update: China says Wuhan wet market was site of ‘superspreader’ event, not ground zero
Every “fact” that comes out of China has an expiry date.
Wuhan Flu
It’s probably nothing: Monkeys ‘escape with COVID-19 samples’ after attacking lab assistant
Without fossil fuels, we’d be drowning in lung juice.
China keeps giving the West new reasons to decouple.
One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest: So they kept returning to the Tongguan mine, the source of RaTG13, collecting more and more samples. Here’s a 2018 paper in Chinese. “Uninteresting”, riiiight.
Related items are invited in the comments.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
MSNBC reporter just now: "I want to be clear on how I characterize this. This is mostly a protest. It is not generally speaking unruly."
The guy is literally standing in front of a burning building in the middle of a riot. pic.twitter.com/IzCV6On4sF
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 29, 2020
More media dishonesty, but that’s the norm.
No, I haven’t been blogging on the riots, primarily because I’ve been busy and away from the computer, but also because Minneapolis is one of the cities I know best, and it sickens me to witness the twin cancers of the left – identity politics and entitlement culture – metastasize yet again.
Keep the comments civil.
Social Disease: Antitrust
There is a merging about to become visible…
Interesting addendum:https://t.co/kPapttLl3r
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) May 28, 2020
May 29, 2020: Reader Tips
Two Birds, One Stone
The Trump administration plans to revoke thousands of visas held by Chinese graduate students and researchers in the United States, escalating its crackdown on the Chinese government’s theft of intellectual property.
Those with direct ties to universities affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army will have their visas canceled, American officials with knowledge of the discussions told the New York Times. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the matter with President Trump on Tuesday at the White House.
The expulsions could affect at least 3,000 students, according to some estimates. Though it’s a small percentage of the approximately 360,000 Chinese students in the U.S., it is likely to spark pushback from universities that rely on full tuition payments from international students and critics who say the administration’s crackdown is contributing to anti-Asian racism.
Emphasis mine.
May 28, 2020: Reader Tips
4 minutes and 46 seconds of toxic masculinity.
Thread’s open for tips. Don’t lose a finger.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Showing Up To Riot
The whole point of Jacksonianism is “You leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone. You play fair with me and I’ll play fair with you. But if you f*** with me, I’ll kill you.”
Meng Wanzhou Decision
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled that a critical test in the extradition case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has been met, and the extradition process will continue.
Update: China responds
Chinese embassy on court decision today:
"The purpose of the United States is to bring down Huawei and other Chinese high-tech companies, and Canada has been acting in the process as an accomplice of the United States. The whole case is entirely a grave political incident."— Vassy Kapelos (@VassyKapelos) May 27, 2020
Live coverage: NASA, SpaceX Countdown To Launch
Update: Standing down from launch today due to unfavorable weather in the flight path. Our next launch opportunity is Saturday, May 30 at 3:22 p.m. EDT, or 19:22 UTC
Social Disease
Meet Yoel Roth, head of Twitter’s Site Integrity.
#LOL update: “Somebody in San Francisco will wake him up and tell him he’s about to get a lot more followers.”
Yoel Roth uses “fag” & “tranny” a lot pic.twitter.com/oh5icxuy4o
— SocialDistancingExpert JosephM1115 (@JMartin1115) May 27, 2020