What the Democratic Party has been achieving at the national level with looting sprees like the Inflation Aggravation Act, mobs consisting of the Democrat base apply at the local level. From a Los Angeles Police Department press release:

On August 15, 2022, around 12:40 a.m., a street takeover initiated at the intersection of Figueroa Street and El Segundo Boulevard. Motorists flooded the intersection and blocked traffic with their vehicles from all directions to create a “pit” in the middle of the intersection. During the incident, spectators exited their vehicles and watched as motorists recklessly drove in a maneuver known as ‘doing donuts.’ …

The spectators then formed a ‘flash mob’ of looters and rushed a nearby 7-Eleven located at the northwest corner of Figueroa Street and El Segundo Boulevard. Video surveillance from the store showed the looters fanning out across the store and grabbing all the snacks, drinks, cigarettes, lotto tickets, and other merchandise. Looters also vandalized the store and threw merchandise at employees. The looters then exited the store to the surrounding parking lots and streets, and quickly dispersed before police arrived.

This open contempt for law and order is a predictable result of the liberal establishment’s embrace of Black Lives Matter ideology and war on local law enforcement. Lawlessness has been greatly facilitated in cities like Los Angeles, where George Soros has installed an openly pro-criminal district attorney who will see to it that, in the unlikely event any looters are arrested, they will not be prosecuted.

George Gascon recently survived a recall effort because the authorities rejected over 195,000 petition signatures. Soros-appointed maniacs have subverted DA offices throughout the country (e.g., Alvin Bragg [Manhattan], Kim Foxx [Chicago], Larry Krasner [Philadelphia], Kim Gardner [St Louis], Marilyn Mosby [Baltimore]).

If police do attempt arrests, they are likely to be accused of racism. If any culprits succumb to a fentanyl overdose while resisting, officers will receive the Derek Chauvin treatment.

The leading figure in the political opposition has his home raided by FBI goons on a fishing expedition for anything that can be construed as evidence of a crime, while large mobs loot stores secure in the knowledge that they will not face consequences. The technical term for Democrat rule is “anarchotyranny.”

This is what the collapse of civilization looks like:

On tips from Jack Bauer and Wiggins.

Moonbat rule means anarchotyranny. That means that while professional shoplifters ply their trade without consequence, the police investigate 11-year-olds for calling each other names:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Liberal rule means anarchotyranny. This entails the paradox of a police state where the police have been marginalized and crime is rampant.

Mouth off at a school board meeting and you will draw the attention of federal authorities. But if you commit an actual crime, all you have to do to is run away:

Chicago police officers will no longer be allowed to chase people on foot simply because they run away or they’ve committed minor offenses, the department said Tuesday…

Cops know that when in doubt, they should let the criminal go:

The policy also makes a point of reminding officers that they or their supervisors will not be criticized or disciplined for deciding against a foot pursuit or calling one off…

Even if officers feel bureauweenies won’t punish them too severely for giving chase,

The policy includes a number of circumstances in which an officer must call off a chase, including a requirement that the pursuit must end if a third party is injured and needs immediate medical attention that can’t be provided by anyone else.

All the criminal needs to do is injure an innocent bystander. Perverse incentives are a specialty of the Democrats in charge.

In Britain, burglary is virtually legal now, because police are too busy repressing thoughtcrime to do anything about it:

You can’t expect the police to hunt down criminals when they have other priorities — like promoting sexual depravity on behalf of our degenerate ruling class:

The effects of marginalizing the police and subordinating law enforcement to moonbattery are becoming evident. Just visit a McDonald’s…

…or a grocery store:

Either civilization literally perishes of bleeding heart liberalism, or there will be a backlash against it so massive as to be audible from outer space.

On tips from Wiggins, KirklesWorth, and Lyle.

Life could get scary under a regime of leftist maniacs like Reverend Wright knockoff Raphael Warnock, who is now a Senator (D-GA). He opposes our constitutional right to bear arms, and also opposes local police. This recipe for anarchotyranny will leave us in a country where the cops are marginalized into irrelevance and only criminals have guns. The rest of us are expected to cower behind locked doors.

Not even a kook like Warnock would want to live under such conditions. He won’t have to. Our liberal ruling class can afford private security.

Via Law Enforcement Today:

[Warnock] won his nail-biter senate contest by campaigning in part on a message of gun control and “defund the police.” He called law enforcement “gangsters, thugs, bullies and a threat to children.” He demeaned law-abiding gun owners from his own pulpit.

But it turns out Rev. Warnock doesn’t practice what he preaches. He’s a true believer in the power of armed security. New records show he paid nearly $137,000 for private security for protection.

The French Revolution — which entailed not just regime change but the overthrow of an entire degenerate ruling class — makes more sense with each passing day.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

A formal name for the political ideology marketed as “progressivism” is “anarchotyranny.” California progressives will force children to take a vaccine even if they don’t need it, their parents oppose it, and the long-term consequences are unknown. But they won’t prevent mobs of scumbags from looting stores. Progressives use the “anarcho” aspect of anarchotyranny to destroy cities that fall under their control.

Liberal Mecca San Francisco is a case in point. Libertarian John Stossel and (former) liberal Michael Shellenberger are appalled at what anarchy has reduced it to, as excessive regulation makes the city unaffordable to productive citizens:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Illegal aliens tend not to have valid ID, but that doesn’t clip their wings. To board a flight, they can just present their arrest warrants as identification:

Responding to Republican Texas Rep. Lance Gooden’s Dec. 15 inquiry about illegal migrants flying across the country, TSA Administrator David Pekoske explained that certain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents may be considered acceptable forms of alternate identification for non-citizens, including a “Warrant for Arrest of Alien” and a “Warrant of Removal/Deportation.”

This form of ID has the advantage of preventing them from turning up on terrorist watch lists, since they don’t have to use their real names.

Gooden earlier told the [Daily Caller News Foundation] that he was told by a border patrol officer that “they often have to take migrants at their word that they are who they say they are” when issuing DHS documents accepted by TSA as alternate forms of identification.

Meanwhile, law-abiding citizens are stripped naked by the TSA and dragged off flights if their toddlers won’t keep their pointless Covid muzzles on properly. As Daniel Greenfield observes,

That’s the paradox of our modern lawless society which is beset with laws, but in which the lawless population of homeless, criminals, and illegals who are part of the Dem client base, can steal, attack, and do whatever they want without having to follow any of the laws.

This state of affairs is known as anarchotyranny.

On tips from R F and Chris Neilson.

Leftism has corroded the framework of civilization for decades. In California, the entire edifice has begun to collapse.

This incident is emblematic of what could be expected to follow after the establishment-endorsed mostly peaceful Black Lives Matter rioting and looting:

Shocking video captured a woman strolling casually into a Rite Aid in Los Angeles wielding a pickaxe and stealing merchandise while spewing a stream of obscenities.

Every day is Christmas in California — until all the shelves are bare.

The woman, dressed all in black, was seen walking in the Venice Beach store on Lincoln Boulevard about 3 p.m. on Wednesday with the garden tool slung over her right shoulder and pulling a shopping cart behind her.

Unless they prosecute her for armed robbery — which is doubtful in George Gascon’s Los Angeles — this was just a misdemeanor, meaning it would not be worth the police’s trouble to arrest her even if she were to turn herself in.

At this point, society exists so that people like that can loot it. The welfare state has succeeded so well, it is hardly needed anymore. The class it produced can do the looting personally.

Also from Los Angeles:

Maybe police, incarceration, and civilization in general are necessary after all, even if liberals believe them to be inherently racist.

On a tip from 100Bravo.

The Democrat system of government is anarchotyranny. Even as Big Government steadily tightens its grip like a python, squeezing the life out of us, the lawless underclass that it uses open borders and the welfare state to cultivate has ever more license to do as it pleases.

Traveling by air offers a preview of what life will be like as authoritarianism worsens. For example,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is shortening the testing window all international air travelers have to take a pre-departure coronavirus test from three days to one.

This applies even to the vaccinated.

U.S. airlines have been asked to collect contact-tracing information for inbound international travelers and send it to the CDC “upon request” since Nov. 8, when the country adopted a new set of international travel restrictions.

The information collected includes names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and dates of birth.

Welcome to East Germany. Bad as it is, Democrats want to make it worse:

[T]hree dozen lawmakers are pushing the federal government to require proof of full vaccination or a negative coronavirus test to board domestic flights.

Lawmakers said the additional travel restrictions would “ensure Americans can travel safely to see their loved ones during the holidays while also limiting household introduction and spread of COVID-19 from visiting family and friends,” according to a letter sent to President Joe Biden.

The signees include authoritarian moonbats like Dianne Feinstein, Eric Swalwell, Steve Cohen, and Jerrold Nadler.

As restrictions on the law-abiding tighten, the illegal aliens imported to displace us don’t even have to present ID.

Instead of being ejected from the country, illegal aliens usually receive a Notice to Appear in immigration court at some point in the distant future. These are routinely ignored. At last, a use has been found for Notices to Appear. The TSA allows illegal aliens to use them in lieu of identification.

Never mind Covid and other serious diseases; consider what this means for the risk of terrorism. Plenty of the Other Than Mexicans pouring over the Mexican border are from Islamic countries.

Rep Lance Gooden (R-TX) is aghast:

“When I asked a border patrol officer about TSA allowing migrants to fly with no identification, they told me a Notice to Appear is not sufficient identification and they often have to take migrants at their word that they are who they say they are,” Gooden said. “TSA and non-profit groups are putting millions of Americans travelling for Christmas at risk by allowing these unknown and unvetted migrants to board planes and fly across the country.”

Democrats say it is oppression if you have to show ID to vote. Why wouldn’t it be oppression to be asked for ID to be dispersed throughout the country for demographic engineering purposes? Naturally, oppression applies only to the “oppressed” — i.e., groups favored by our liberal rulers.

On a tip from R F.

The current epidemic of smash & grab looting is just a stage in the USA’s fundamental transformation into a lawless Third World country. The next stage may look like this:

On a tip from Wiggins.

You probably already guessed what would become of Craig Tamanaha, the derelict with a lengthy rap sheet who captured the progressive spirit by setting fire to the patriotically themed 50-foot Christmas tree in front of Fox News headquarters in New York early Wednesday morning. That’s right; released without bail:

[Tamanaha] was freed after his arraignment Wednesday night because his charges were not eligible for bail under new liberal reform laws.

Moonbats whooped with delight to see the tree go up in dense black smoke in front of the building that houses not only Fox News but also the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.

Arson, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, and criminal trespass are among the charges faced by Tamanaha, assuming he ever shows up in court to face them. None of these crimes are considered serious enough in New York to warrant keeping him off the street.

Arson only counts as a big deal if the intent is to harm someone physically or if it is a “hate crime” — i.e., if the victim is a member of an identity group favored by the ruling class. Hatred of Christmas, Christians, and Fox News does not count as hate, because our liberal overlords hate them too.

Two open warrants for desk appearance tickets were also vacated by the judge.

Looks like Tamanaha will have to go full Darrell Brooks before authorities will put him in a cage where he belongs.

Last week, Tamanaha also allegedly exposed himself to a group of reporters outside the Ghislaine Maxwell trial in Manhattan, a photographer told The Post.

He was captured on camera moments after pulling down his pants to show his privates on the first day of the high-profile trial of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, said Jeenah Moon, a freelance journalist.

Ms Moon reports on a guy pulling his pants down. Welcome to clown world.

Anarchotyranny (a.k.a. liberalism) is a lousy system for decent, law-abiding citizens forced to subsist under the thumb of Big Government. New York is so repressive that a vaccine mandate has been announced for all private workers as of December 27; 5-year-olds will have to be vaxxed to go in a restaurant. But anarchotyranny works great for sociopaths, who can do as they please without hindrance or consequence.

On a tip from Varla.

At elite universities, the master class tests new extremes of moonbattery that before long will be inflicted on the rest of us. Stanford has taken anarchotyranny so far into the realm of sheer lunacy that wearing a Covid muzzle is mandatory but wearing anything else is not.

Campus Reform reports on the Naked Run, a Stanford tradition, hosted by the Ram’s Head Theatrical Society:

The Stanford Review reports that ahead of this year’s event, students received an email from one of the show’s producers informing them that masks are mandatory, and that they could wear as little clothes as they want, keeping in mind that is a “naked run.” …

Although Stanford has a 95% vaccination rate, the university is still enforcing strict COVID-19 regulations.

The school requires students to wear masks indoors, even if vaxxed. If they are smart enough to get into Stanford, they must be wondering why they bothered to get the vaccine, especially considering that Covid is not as serious for young people. No matter; proof of full vaccination will be required of all students by the end of the year.

On a tip from R F.

Kyle Rittenhouse was forced to defend himself from maniacal criminals who were trying to kill him because the liberal establishment had exploited a clearly justified police shooting to stage riots in Kenosha. They are at it again.

Most of the heavy lifting when it comes to staging riots is done right in front of our faces by the liberal establishment media. But some of the work is more furtive:

Jury deliberations began Tuesday. The next day, Demi Pietchell wrote this:

Between 12 and 1 PM EST earlier today, a Kenosha officer checked a local alley way and verified there are “bricks everywhere.” The audio begins here at the 1:11 mark.

Hmm… preparing for the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict already, are we?

This should all sound familiar because it’s how we got into this mess to begin with….

In 2020, during the Kenosha riots when Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested, mysterious bricks were delivered. In fact, every single city where a riot broke out had stacks and stacks of bricks delivered, seemingly out of nowhere. In most places, security had been disabled so that no one could access security camera videos and see who delivered the bricks in stacks off of trucks on huge pallets.

Click through to see many pallets of bricks. I’m surprised the Democrat Powers That Be didn’t arrange pallets of Molotov cocktails. Anyone surprised to hear that Twitter has been censoring these pictures?

Every bit of this has been contrived to prop up the liberal narrative, since before a criminal lowlife’s death by fentanyl overdose was exploited as a pretext for rioting.

The Rittenhouse case is crucial to the leftists engineering what we see on television exactly because their victim is so obviously innocent. If they can use jury intimidation to railroad a decent kid who was doing the good deed of protecting people’s property when he was forced to defend his own life, it will be clear that there is no law in this country but the law of the left-wing mob.

On tips from 100Bravo and Chris Neilson.

If you live in New York and are wondering why you received an incomprehensible letter from the power company asking about your pronouns, the answer is that moonbattery is a totalitarian ideology, so where it prevails, all human activity must be subordinated to it. Consequently, utility companies have been coercively enlisted in the campaign to impose obeisance to LGBT militants on every facet of private life.

You thought no one could be worse than Andrew Cuomo? The latest lunacy from his replacement:

Kathy Hochul signed a bill Monday that will require utility corporations, municipalities, water-works corporations, and telephone service providers to utilize each customer’s desired name and pronouns in communications.

Here’s how Hochul spends her time instead of dealing with the Empire State’s growing economic and societal problems:

By “correct” she means “politically correct.” She most definitely does not mean “biologically correct.”

This may seem like a frivolous waste of time, but it actually serves a purpose. Hochul and her fellow Democrats are establishing that the government has the power to compel speech, regardless of the First Amendment. It has the power to force people to overtly reject objective reality in favor of official ideology, just like in Orwell’s 1984.

In case legislation requires anyone to ask for my preferred pronouns, I’ll put them on the record in advance. They are “Let’s go Brandon/Let’s go Brandon.”

Speaking of New York, if your kids are “Been there, done that” about Disneyland, you might consider bringing them to the Big Apple. Democrat rule has transformed it into a theme park that offers a preview of our dystopian future if liberalism prevails. Be sure to take a ride on the subway; it is much more of a thrill than any of the rides in a traditional amusement park:

Maniacs run wild while bureaucrats micromanage pronouns. The term for this is “anarchotyranny.”

On tips from Wiggins.

Joe Biden doesn’t think much of law enforcement officers, or he would not tolerate a VP who actively raised funds to bail antipolice rioters out of prison so that they could resume their unlawful activities. He likes the Capitol Police though, because they can be exploited in the extended aftermath of the absurdly overhyped January 6 riot. True, some of them posed for selfies with the alleged insurrectionists. But others publicly wept during theatrical political proceedings, so traumatized were they by people trespassing in the People’s House. So Biden tips his hat to them:

Joe Biden participated in the 40th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service [Saturday] in Washington. Hundreds of law enforcement officers gathered to honor the fallen. … President Unity took the opportunity during his speech to turn it into a political one, a one-sided political speech.

As usual, Biden’s speech was largely incoherent. But he did manage to milk January 6 yet again. Via UPI:

During the 22-minute speech, he thanked local police for thwarting the Jan. 6 insurrection where rioters attempted to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election.

Biden said he had “no hesitation” awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the Capitol police and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. He acknowledged that 150 officers were injured in the attack and five died in its aftermath.

“Because of you, democracy survived,” he said.

This outlandish hyperbole is meant to cover for the fact that despite lies to the contrary, no Capitol Police officers were killed by the rioters. In contrast, unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt was executed in cold blood by unpunished Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd.

Whereas Biden went to rhetorical extremes to exploit the Capitol Riot, he had nothing to say about a similar incident that occurred just last Thursday, when a mob of moonbats broke into and occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs:

Environmental and indigenous activists protested in front of the White House and in the Bureau of Indian Affairs on Thursday. More than 185 people were arrested between both locations, bringing the total arrested this week to over 530.

The group has been demonstrating in a week-long action known as People vs. Fossil Fuels that began on Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday. They’re demanding an end to the use of fossil fuels and for President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency.

Their lunatic demands would plunge the economy into total collapse, resulting in the death by starvation of a large percentage of the population. But because the liberal establishment is on the same side, Biden and the media let this lawlessness slide, rather than inflating it into an “insurrection” and throwing protesters into solitary confinement.

According to Interior Department spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz,

“Multiple injuries were sustained by security personnel, and one officer has been transported to a nearby hospital.”

Instead of denouncing the violent protesters as “insurrectionists,” Schwartz squawked that Interior Secretary Deb Haaland “believes strongly in respecting and upholding the right to free speech and peaceful protest.”

Like the protesters, what Haaland really does believe strongly in is moonbattery, as she demonstrated by hoisting the intersectional Progress Pride flag instead of Old Glory on Flag Day.

Sure looks like a moonbat version of January 6:

Lucky for the wokester in the window that she didn’t end up like Ashli Babbitt.

None of this merits a mention by Biden. Maybe honorary Democrat Liz Cheney and her colleagues will announce an investigation. But don’t hold your breath. As noted by Tristan Justice,

Democrats outright rejected Republicans’ demands to probe rampant political violence throughout last year’s summer of rage, estimated to cause 66 times more damage than the single-day riot at the Capitol.

The Summer of Rage was inflicted by Black Lives Matter and Antifa, who are also on the same page as the Democrat Party.

According to the current rules, leftists are allowed to protest violently. Nonleftists are not even allowed to speak up at school board meetings, or Merrick Garland will sic the FBI on them.

On tips from TCS III.