The Morning Report 7/18/22

Good morning, kids. Start of a new week and I’m still in NYC. A SNAFU resulted in having to ditch our original moving company and scramble for a new one. So, if all goes to plan, we’ll be on the road just one week late. Please G-d. Huge thanks to cobs Weird Dave, Buck Throckmorton, Mis Hum and CBD for filling in in my absence. Now, on to the meshugas, of which there is an abundance (as always) given the current state of the world.

Let’s lead off with a deadly shooting at an Indiana mall yesterday that left two dead and three wounded. It could have been much, much worse except for the one thing that prevented that.

Even with the best will, training, and resources in the world, unless police are already on the scene when a shooting starts, there will be a lag time between the shooter’s control over the scene and the police’s arrival. The only thing that can change the dynamic during that interval before the police arrive is a legal gun owner willing to act. That’s what happened in Indianapolis, when a man started shooting in a shopping mall, killing three people and injuring two others, only to be stopped dead by an armed citizen.

As of this writing, a local Fox News affiliate has the most comprehensive report I’ve seen. According to that report, the shooting occurred in Greenwood, at the Greenwood Park Mall. A lone shooter entered the food court with a rifle and several filled magazines. He began to shoot into the mall, killing three people and injuring two others. Fortunately for all the other people in that mall, a 22-year-old man with a legal gun and a good eye killed the shooter. There is no news about the shooter’s identity or motive.

As this shooting demonstrates (again), the notion of making guns illegal is ludicrous. Guns, having emerged from Pandora’s Box, will never return. The only thing one can know with certainty is that, once law-abiding people are disarmed, only two kinds of people will still have guns: Individual bad guys…and the government. And speaking as a Jew, I know exactly what happens when only the government has guns, and it decides that certain people in the country are disfavored and need to be removed.

Bingo times infinity. Which is exactly the reason the latest degradation of our absolute Gd-given right of self defense passed in Congress, aided and abetted by the Leftist confederate stooges in the GOPe in the wake of the mass shooting massacre in Uvalde a few weeks back. Speaking of which, the official report has been released and it’s not pretty.

The report, compiled by a Texas House Committee, detailed a series of missteps on a number of fronts — from the shooter’s family failing to identify warning signs to the school’s apparent habit of leaving doors unlocked or propped open — but the strongest condemnation was reserved for law enforcement officers who arrived on the scene and then waited to act for over an hour.

“They failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety,” the report read, openly criticizing law enforcement for failing to act in the face of a clear emergency — and making it clear that the biggest failure had not been in a lack of manpower or equipment but a lack of leadership and communication at a critical moment. . . 

. . . While much of the heat in the wake of the shooting has been directed at local authorities — Uvalde school district officers and local sheriff’s deputies — the report indicated that the overwhelming majority of responders on the scene had been state police officers (91) and U.S. Border Patrol agents (149). The remainder were U.S. Marshals, federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officers, and local authorities from neighboring counties.

So our betters in government — the enlightened elite who proclaim their intellectual and moral superiority gives them the right to lord over us “for our own good” — who insist only law enforcement should have firearms have created an environment that has degraded law enforcement to such an extent that literally hundreds of cops show up on scene and do nothing as children are massacred barely a few yards away from them. And this in perhaps the deepest of deep red states where the 2A is for the most part sacrosanct. 

Either ACAB or they aren’t. Which is it, Lefties? Even when firearms aren’t even involved, it’s in your face just who those in power deem are threats. Not to the citizenry but to their attainment and hold on absolute power.

Just recently, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged a bodega worker with murder for defending himself with a knife against an unprovoked attack by an ex-con that resulted in the assailant’s death. Meanwhile, the assailant’s girlfriend has escaped all charges whatsoever for stabbing the bodega worker because, prosecutors said, she was only trying to help her boyfriend fight back against the bodega worker. . . 

. . . More dangerous criminals on the loose who are in possession of illegal guns make us less safe, not legal guns in the hands of law-abiding people. District Attorney Bragg would rather let dangerous criminals back on the streets where they can obtain illegal guns on the black market and continue jeopardizing public safety. But he does not hesitate to go after a crime victim for defending himself. . . 

. . . Here is another example of progressive madness in New York’s criminal justice system that has turned New York City upside down. Two suspected Mexican drug-cartel smugglers were apprehended with their horde of $1.2 million worth of crystal meth while trying to make two drug deliveries. They were then promptly released with no cash bail requirement. That is because crystal meth is considered a controlled substance in New York, not a narcotic, and the charge of second-degree possession of a controlled substance carries no bail requirement under New York State’s progressive criminal-friendly bail “reform” law. . . 

. . . Nevertheless, for some unexplained reason, New York City’s emergency management agency decided to put out a public service announcement on July 12th giving advice to New Yorkers about how to survive a nuclear attack. The agency advised New Yorkers to get inside a building, secure the doors and windows, and stay inside. Although hardly likely to protect New Yorkers against the devastation of a nuclear attack, staying off the streets is certainly one way to avoid dangerous encounters with violent criminals. Even staying inside, however, won’t protect New Yorkers against home invasions.

Most New Yorkers are not very worried about a nuclear attack these days. They are worried about surviving in the madhouse created by reckless progressive government policies that have caused violent crime to become the new normal.

Psaki-psircling back to the Indiana mall shooting, you see why this story is going to be buried if it can’t be spun. When every second counts police are minutes away. In the case of Uvalde, they’re actually right there waiting for the taxpayer funded ESU roach coach to deliver coffee, donuts and a CNN crew to do a Leni Riefenstahl shuffle on evil white boys with AR-15s. But when a responsible, armed citizen is doing the job today’s American law enforcement can’t or won’t (which by the way has been the natural order of things since time immemorial), and doing it absolutely effectively, that cannot be allowed to stand. Even when firearms aren’t even involved, as is the case with the bodega owner who had the gall to selfishly put his individual life above that of collective. He refused to be the broken egg from which the rotten omelet is allegedly made. And it never is.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG “RIOT” & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION 

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DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS

  • “The concerns about price are tied to a timeline for sanctions on Russia that could further exacerbate energy supply problems and may force Russian President Vladimir Putin to take drastic retaliatory action.” Gas Prices Could Be Spiking Again by Election Day

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  • “Times are going to be rough, because our government has done a massive damage, an unbelievable amount of stealing and borrowing that we, ultimately, will have to pay for.”Wealth Through Theft
  • “California truckers are protesting against AB 5, a new regulation that would reclassify them as employees rather than independent contractors. Truckers say this is ‘messing with a working model,’ and that they’ll “have to take less work and charge more. AB 5 takes effect at a time when supply chain issues are of major concern, and the White House is watching the issue.” California’s New Pro-Union Law Could Grind the Supply Chain to a Halt
  • “We live in the age of man-made disasters. And the men making these disasters are the oligarchs and the governments they control are tyrannies.” Blame it on the Rain
  • “The public would do well to ignore anything Biden says about inflation, given his horrible track record when it comes to this topic. Since prices started their upward climb in March 2021, Biden has by turns claimed that it was the result of a booming economy, that it was temporary, that it was the result of supply chain bottlenecks, and most recently that Vladimir Putin is to blame.” Cataloguing Biden’s Ineptitude On Inflation

ABORTION

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

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FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

  • “[Fareed] Zakaria wrote in his Washington Post opinion piece that Democrats are out of touch with Americans on social and cultural issues and that the party needs to focus on improving its performance on infrastructure, especially in blue states. Liberals reacted quickly, alternatively accusing the author of transphobia and denying that Democrats are really focused on issues like pronouns and transgenderism.” Libs Melt Down After CNN Host Suggests They Stop Fretting About Gender Pronouns
  • “The shift from ad revenue to the pursuit of digital subscriptions has turned journalism into post-journalism.” How the Media Polarized Us
  • “The media asks, ‘Are we out of touch?’ And the media answers: ‘No, it’s the audience that is wrong.’” Our Incredible Media

LOCKDOWN 2: MONKEY POX MONKEY BUSINESS BOOGALOO???

AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY 

POLITICS

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THE UKRAINIAN “FRONT”

  • “Greek authorities said the pilot reported engine trouble and requested an emergency landing, but ultimately the plane crashed 25 miles west of the nearest airport, where it was going to attempt a landing. Bystander video shows the plane already burning before it ultimately crashes and a fireball erupts. Locals reported hearing explosions for two hours after the crash occurred.” Ukrainian Plane Carrying Serbian Munitions Crashes in Northern Greece, 8 Killed

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

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DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

  • “Two of the nation’s largest railroad labor unions announced near-unanimous strike authorization votes in the days before the [so-called quote-unquote “president”] issued the order for a PEB.” Joe Biden Acted to Avert a Railroad Crisis, for Now
  • “. . . the common denominator among the poorest-managed metropolises is obvious: They’re controlled by Democrats who endlessly expand what city government pretends to do, at the expense of average citizens. . . Maybe a larger urban voter rebellion against dysfunctional government will follow the revolt on crime: All the polls indicate that America’s working class of all races is fed up with Democratic leadership that just doesn’t care about average folks’ needs.” Progressives Are Failing America’s Cities, and Urban Voters Are Finally Waking Up

HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

HITHER & YON 

  • Thad McCotter: “Has this latest democratization of music once again melded the myth and the reality of the music industry? Not quite.” A New Democratization of Music?

NOTE: The opinions expressed in the links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.