Our supposed Commander in Chief celebrated the 77th anniversary of D-Day on Sunday by ignoring it while hyping a race riot that happened 100 years ago because it supports the critical race theory narrative that America is bad because white people are bad. The self-styled “conservative” leftists at the Lincoln Project, who did all they could to help Biden to power when they weren’t too busy indulging in gay sexual harassment and financial shenanigans, actually managed to top his antipatriotism by comparing D-Day troops to Antifa Brownshirts, who absurdly portray themselves as “antifascist”:

Antifa militants are like D-Day troops in the same sense that the Lincoln Project is conservative. As The Blaze notes, they are not heroes but cowards:

They habitually attack victims from behind — and then run away. They do their fighting in groups and typically target one individual, or at best a much smaller group to ensure their tiny victories.

But when face to face with a larger group of opponents, they are rather easily defeated.

In short, Antifa militants are bullies — and when it comes down to it, sissies.

To the extent you can say that these vermin fight, they fight to tear down America, not defend it. They are the diametric opposite of the Greatest Generation.

On a tip from Bluto.

Arson, theft, and assault aren’t crimes; in the Woke Zone, noticing them is the only crime — except of course for “racism”:

Yesterday’s Twilight Zone episodes were less surreal and frightening than the reality we can now see unfold outside the window. It is so disturbing that some draw their blinds and watch the mainstream media instead of looking.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

The liberal establishment has done nothing but encourage political violence by radical groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa. As no doubt intended, this violence has continued to escalate. Politicians who don’t toe the leftist line may be subjected to intimidation at their homes. For now, we are still mainly at the graffiti stage:

Charleston Police are investigating vandalism at the South Carolina home of Rep. Nancy Mace over the Memorial Day weekend where her property was spray-painted with profanity and anarchist symbols.

Mace, R-S.C., discovered Monday morning that her house, front steps, sidewalk and street were defaced with black spray paint. The vandal or vandals wrote several statements, including “F–k you Nancy,” “all politicians are bastards,” “no god, no masters,” “pass the pro act” and three Antifa symbols.

Mace is raising two kids in this house as a single mother. Even if the threat of violence is not as explicit as the white powder recently sent to Rand Paul, the intent to terrorize couldn’t be clearer.

As usual with Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and their independent emulators, the thuggery calls for broader thuggery to be imposed by Big Government. The vandal demanded Mace support the tyrannical PRO Act, which would throw tens of millions of Americans out of work on behalf of Big Unions:

After California passed Assembly Bill 5, Lisa Rothstein lost a big piece of her income. She works as a freelancer in various roles, including a cartoonist, copywriter, and advisor. AB 5 requires many independent contractors to be reclassified as employees, preventing clients from hiring her. She is not alone. In fact, AB 5 has robbed thousands of contractors across California of their incomes.

What’s more, AB 5 may no longer be confined to the Golden State. Congress is considering the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO) Act—legislation that would create a similar law at the federal level. If passed, it would have severe implications for the 57 million Americans who call themselves freelancers, as well as millions of other traditional workers who would lose their right-to-work protections.

Biden unsurprisingly supports it. He made it clear in advance that he wanted to abolish freelance employment on behalf of his corrupt union financers, destroying any number of lives. People voted for him anyway.

On a tip from TCS III. Hat tip: Hot Air.

Even after a year of rioting, many are unclear on what exactly Antifa wants, other than to show its support for Black Lives Matter. This helps to clarify:

An Antifa protester at a demonstration near Seattle was filmed proudly proclaiming, “I can’t wait until black people lynch white people.”

She was asked to repeat her proclamation; she did so proudly. Then her sentiment was seconded.

According to journalist Andy Ngo, the leftists also chanted “death to America!” while burning U.S. flags.

They hate white people, they hate America, they hate the police, they hate capitalism, they hate they hate they hate. That’s what they stand for. They have been conditioned to believe that their deranged hatred makes them good people.

The Democratic Party finds them useful, or they would get the same treatment as those suspected of being at the Capitol Riot, instead of being allowed and even encouraged to run wild.

The city of Portland has succumbed to leftism. Here is what happens if you try to drive on streets ruled by Antifa/Black Lives Matter while they are staging their daily “mostly peaceful protests”:

[A] vehicle apparently leading the group came upon a pickup truck driver who was traveling toward the marchers, and the lead vehicle blocked the driver’s path — and in seconds, numerous militants descended upon the pickup truck driver and began threatening him.

The driver, who was armed himself, demonstrated remarkable nerve in facing down the mob of heavily armed thugs.

As the driver got back into this truck and began to move past the militants, one leftist called him a “f***ing Nazi” as others demanded he “get outta here!” Then just before he reached the intersection — apparently after one of the leftists hit or threw something at his truck — the driver stopped, got out, and confronted the group.

He was hopelessly outnumbered.

Soon the driver was requesting an ambulance, asking for his gun back, and telling the leftists that he’s a disabled Marine.

This is what liberals are turning our country into:

The same mob of thugs attacked another vehicle the same day for trying to move past their blockade rather than obeying their orders. Looks like they punctured at least two tires, smashed the back window, and injured the driver:

Marginalize the police as Democrats have been doing and you get Antifa/BLM instead.

It’s hard to believe that even Biden voters want to live in a country like the USA is rapidly becoming. Yet they must. It has been clear since well before the election that Antifa/BLM are allowed to run riot because they are doing the work of Democrat authorities, serving as cat’s paws to terrorize regular Americans.

If members of a right-wing militia ever behaved like this, they would be dead or in long-term lock-up within a few hours. In contrast, Antifa/BLM are confident that for them there will be no consequences. For all intents and purposes, they are in charge.

On a tip from Varla.

A leftist mob inspired by Black Lives Matter seized effective control of Portland nearly a full year ago. Since then, it has rioted incessantly. At last Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler says he is going to take back what’s left of the city on behalf of civilization:

“They want to burn, they want bash, they want to intimidate, they want to assault,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said Friday, while announcing the city would extend its state of emergency through Monday. …

“Together we can make a stand … and take our city back.”

Lacking the spine to confront Black Lives Matter, Wheeler squeaked, “If BLM leaders can show the courage to stand up to this mob, then we all should.”

For all intents and purposes, BLM is the mob, even in Portland, where few blacks live. Antifa riots on Black Lives Matter’s behalf.

Portland’s black community responds to Wheeler’s shifty doubletalk:

If Wheeler was trying to drive a wedge between Black Lives Matter and Antifa, he has characteristically failed.

On a tip from Steve T.

It is no longer safe to publicly support what this country stood for. Watch what happens when a patriot is badgered and menaced into threatening to defend himself at the state capitol in Salem, Oregon yesterday:

The patriot has not yet been arrested pending investigation, according to the liberal Oregonian:

Right-wing demonstrators initially gathered in Sandy for a “Freedom Rally” with plans to travel to the Capitol. A flyer for the event said they planned a “flag wave to honor those who fought for our freedoms.”

Those who fought for our freedoms have been cheated by the enemy within. Salem police turned back the caravan.

The plans attracted more than 150 left-wing counter-protesters, who arrived at the Capitol hours earlier, some carrying banners with symbols tied to the antifa movement. They billed their gathering as a “direct action in opposition to a fascist event.”

“Fascist” in this context means “pro-American.”

The crowd pelted passing trucks — some flying a combination of American, Thin Blue Line and Trump flags — with paint-filled balloons and other objects. In one case, police said someone threw a tree limb through the front window of a passing vehicle.

They attacked the truck of the patriot we see face down in the street in the video above, throwing objects that apparently included a paint balloon.

What kind of country do we live in, now that you cannot drive down a street with American flags on your truck without being assailed by a leftist mob that knows the federal government has its back?

On a tip from Wiggins.

It isn’t topped with razor wire or defended by thousands of soldiers like the fence around Fort Pelosi (a.k.a. the Capitol), but it is far more necessary. They tried removing the fencing around the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in Portland, but Antifa terrorists kept attacking. Another wave of mostly peaceful riots crashed against it last weekend.

Via Fox News:

Police said … they recognized the fence had become a “symbol of divide” between the department and the community, and that they would remove the fence to show “our willingness to have dialog and peaceful communication toward starting to heal our community.”

They backed up this duckspeak by removing the fence. Then came the dialog and peaceful communication by which Antifa heals the community. Back up went the fence.

[J]ust one day after the fencing was removed, rioters marched down the streets of Portland, setting fires and smashing windows.

Characteristic of Antifa sociopaths, they tried to set fire to the courthouse with people inside.

Officers discovered numerous items left behind by people inside the perimeter, including a crowbar, hammers, bear spray, slugging weapon with rocks, high impact slingshot, and knives. …

Thirteen people are facing charges from the protest, including disorderly conduct, unlawful possession of a firearm, resisting arrest and interfering with police, among other offenses.

Imagine what the ongoing military occupation of the District of Corruption would look like if the Capitol rioters had been as violent. As it is, the worst they have to worry about is that Buffalo Guy will break out of prison and try to sit at Nancy Pelosi’s desk.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media continues to regurgitate the lie told by Joe Biden and fellow powerful Democrat Jerrold Nadler that the Antifa thugs who have been terrorizing the country for the past year do not exist:

Joy Behar, co-host of ABC’s “The View,” claimed during Monday’s show that Antifa — a recognized violent left-wing organization responsible for much of the rioting damage to American cities over the last year — is “fictitious” and “doesn’t even exist.” …

In attempting prove her point, Behar repeated the erroneous reporting that fallen Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was bludgeoned to death.

The chasm between the liberal establishment media and objective reality is untraversable.

That even the Department of Homeland Security acknowledges the need for a fence to defend the federal courthouse in Portland is encouraging, but don’t expect the crisis at the border to inspire Biden’s handlers to stop blocking completion of a wall to defend the country from foreign invasion.

On tips from TCS III, ABC of the ANC, and Mr. Freemarket. Hat tip: Hot Air.

A society becomes free due to courage. It stays free by the same means. Courage is a manifestation of character, which has been eroded in the West by moonbattery. Britain will degenerate into Airstrip One if it becomes a nation of cringing cowards like Winston Marshall, banjo player for the folk rock band Mumford & Sons.

Breitbart reports:

On Saturday, Marshall had fallen under fire by leftists on social media after tweeting, “Congratulations @MrAndyNgo. Finally had the time to read your important book. You’re a brave man,” alongside an image of Ngo’s new book, Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.

At least Marshall recognizes bravery when he sees it. Ngo has done the crucial work the “mainstream” media refuses to do by getting up close to Antifa and reporting back. Antifa has responded as you would expect of fascist thugs (sorry, I mean antifascist thugs), sending him to the emergency room with a brain hemorrhage and threatening to kill him. After his book came out, he was forced to seek refuge abroad (ironically, in Marshall’s UK), but don’t expect him to quit.

Marshall’s endorsement produced the predictable response from tolerant liberals on Twitter. He was denounced as a “Nazi sh**bag” et cetera. Not being of Ngo’s caliber, he quickly caved to the mob, deleting the tweet.

That wasn’t enough. In hopes of appeasing unappeasable cancel culture, Marshall dropped to his knees and begged moonbats to forgive him.

This may be the most disgusting thing you ever see. Marshall tweeted the following:

“Over the past few days I have come to better understand the pain caused by the book I endorsed. I have offended not only a lot of people I don’t know, but also those closest to me, including my bandmates and for that I am truly sorry. As a result of my actions I am taking time away from the band to examine my blindspots.

“For now, please know that I realise how my endorsements have the potential to be viewed as approvals of hateful, divisive behaviour. I apologise, as this was not at all my intention.”

Paul Joseph Watson comments:

Quite how anyone thinks it’s controversial to be critical of Antifa, a disgusting, violent, extremist group that routinely attacks innocent people, including the disabled, is anyone’s guess.

Antifa is perhaps the most “hateful” and “divisive” organization in existence, although they’d face stiff competition from Black Lives Matter.

Antifa violence has been inflicted in support of Black Lives Matter so often that when it comes to mayhem, there is little point distinguishing between them.

Despite Antifa enjoying the overt support of the media and the tacit support of the Democratic Party, a recent Harvard/Harris poll found that 71% understand it to be a terrorist group. People just can’t say so publicly, because bullies are scary.

Tipping your hat to Andy Ngo is clearly extreme thoughtcrime. This gives the lie to woke ideology. Ngo is gay and nonwhite. Given the treatment he has received from Antifa thugs, he is far more of a victim than pampered campus crybullies who whimper about microaggressions. Progressives demand that we submit to them in the name of gays and nonwhites, who are sacred in the liberal religion due to their alleged victimhood. Yet Ngo is anathema, because he exposes the tactics of leftist brownshirts. On the Left, the issue is never the issue; the issue is always seizing power as an end in itself.

They make it hard sometimes, but we should loathe the moonbattery, not the moonbat, if only because those who have thrown in their lot with leftists can come to their senses and redeem themselves — like former Antifa nihilist Gabriel Nadales. Here he reveals what self-styled “antifascists” think the term fascism means, and explains how people who might otherwise be healthy and normal succumb to leftism:

Leftism has become the default position because leftists bully their opponents into silence. The more hegemony they achieve, the more intolerantly they marginalize opposition — that’s why we have cancel culture. But unless you want to live in a world run by Antifa types, not pushing back is not an option.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

At least now that Biden is in office, the leftist mob violence genie that was coaxed out to dislodge Trump will go peacefully back into the bottle — or maybe not:

On Saturday night, members of BLM and Antifa protested in D.C., where they regularly chanted, “If we don’t get it, burn it down!”

What is the “it” they demand?

Black Lives Matter is led by black supremacist Marxists. Imagine a communist country under the totalitarian control of racist maniacs cut from the same cloth as Stokely Carmichael and Louis Farrakhan. Nothing less than that will satisfy them.

Antifa consists of militant nihilists. Nothing short of total destruction will satisfy them.

Liberal establishmentarians are hereby notified that the crocodile will not necessarily eat them last.

The disturbance was called an “FTP March.” FTP stands for “f*** the police.” The marchers are similarly unfriendly toward regular people just minding their own business:

The demonstrators stopped near a row of restaurants, where protest leaders delivered lectures about “race, Black and Indigenous lives” to nearby diners.

What about the big show of force intended to make sure we all know that no more lunatics in buffalo costumes will be allowed to break into the Capitol?

“There are currently about 7,000 National Guard members in the city providing security,” ABC News reported. “That number is expected to slowly go down to 5,000, and they are set to stay until about mid-March. The total cost for the deployment is expected to be close to $500 million.”

However, military occupation does not apply to mostly peaceful leftist protesters. At least, not until things really start to get out of hand.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

A story from Boise epitomizes today’s Left and its relation to American heritage:

A bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln, known as “Seated Lincoln,” was vandalized with paint, feces, and protest signs on Monday in Julia Davis Park. Three protest groups claimed responsibility for the act.

Among the groups claiming responsibility was “Peaceful Roots of Change.”

Members of the group described the act as a temporary political display meant to raise awareness on the first day of Black History Month.

As part of his reward for freeing the slaves, Honest Abe got a Black Lives Matter flag wrapped around his neck.

The other groups involved were Black Lives Matter Boise and Antifa Boise.

Once again, Lincoln was targeted on the pretext that he saved from the noose the vast majority but not all of the Indians involved in the Santee Sioux uprising. According to woke ideology, it is an unforgiveable sin to have punished savages for murdering whites in the 19th century.

Also, Peaceful Roots of Change spokesmoonbat Samantha Hager falsely claims that Lincoln owned slaves. Now that objective truth has been subordinated to liberal ideology, history is whatever leftists imagine would justify their behavior.

Hager barks that the Constitution of the country she is trying to destroy guarantees the right to vandalize statues. She says the group consulted with the ACLU and National Lawyers Guild prior to the vandalism, and smugly crows,

“We have wonderful lawyers on our side that are at our beck and call.”

How wonderful these lawyers are is a matter of opinion.

People still move to Idaho in hopes of escaping liberalism and its predictable consequences. But it is no longer far enough. Nowhere on earth is far enough. If we don’t fight leftists where we stand, they win. America will continue to be defiled, then erased.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

Gregory McKelvey is an avowed communist who served as campaign manager to Sarah Iannarone, the Antifa candidate for Mayor of Portland. In explaining the sociopathic behavior of Antifa mobs, he offers some insight into the nihilism that is surpassing even superciliousness as the primary distinguishing characteristic of liberals.

McKelvey, via Willamette Week:

For generations like mine and the one after, we have been told our entire lives that the world is about to end if nothing is done immediately, and that all of the evils of our world—climate chaos, racism, the ills of capitalism, and more—are all inexplicably linked. In my mind, and the minds of protesters, these things are objectively true.

If we are going understand the endless pointless rioting,

we must put ourselves in the minds of someone who probably rightfully believes the world is ending or, at a minimum, is on the brink of being unrecognizable with incredible amounts of death, pain and climate chaos. …

It’s amazing to me that liberal Democrats really do believe that we are on the brink of something like Armageddon and then are shocked that some people behave like it.

The Democrat Party’s ideology is not meant to be taken literally. It is a tool to maintain the hegemony of the liberal establishment. How else do you explain American corporations donating $billions to the explicitly Marxist Black Lives Matter movement?

Our rulers are playing with dynamite, because some people will take their phony ideology at face value. The gullible and the hopelessly brainwashed who have never ventured outside the bubble of liberal propaganda will literally believe that freedom is racist and therefore evil, that capitalism makes people poor rather than wealthy, and that the entire planet will die if we don’t let the government radically reduce our standard of living.

This ideology is a virus vastly more dangerous than COVID-19.

The primary symptom is nihilism, which destroys respect for everything we need to believe in to prevent civilization from sliding into decline. This nihilism explains the appalling decay of American culture showcased by the entertainment industry, and the willingness of millions to support the corruption and autocracy personified by Joe Biden.

On a tip from TCS III. Hat tip: Hot Air.

No wonder there are hardly any real journalists in this country anymore, only servile Democrat apparatchiks who have switched from hecklers of Donald Trump to dewy-eyed idolaters of Joe Biden. This is no longer a safe country for real journalists — not once they have a reputation for exposing the viciousness of the Left’s street-level shock troops. That’s why Andy Ngo has had to flee the erstwhile Land of the Free in fear for his life:

In an interview with Sky News about his upcoming new book, “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy,” Ngo explained to his hosts that “for [any] number of months now there’s just been increasing threats of violence against me, promises by Antifa extremists to kill me.”

Ngo — who’s now in London — noted that “all those threats were reported to authorities, and even when I provided names of some of the suspects, nothing was done. So, it’s pained me a lot to temporarily [have] to leave the country and home that settled my parents, who came there as political refugees.”

It used to be that political refugees fled to America, rather than from it. At least we still receive plenty of economic “refugees,” thanks to the extravagant generosity of the welfare state.

For years, Ngo has served as the primary information source on Antifa from his base in Portland. He kept at it even after Antifa goons brutally beat him in 2019.

Serving as an island of honest journalism in a sea of partisan activism, Ngo resisted any temptation to blame the Capitol Riot on Antifa.

Ngo is fair to Antifa wokesters. He tells the truth about them. That’s why they want to kill him.

Ngo also has the honor of having made enemies among our liberal elite overlords:

A little over a week ago, New York Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong — who was hired by the “paper of record” despite her history of relentless social media attacks against “dumbass f***ing white people.” — set her sights on Ngo, calling him “dangerous” and a “very real threat.”

As soft tyranny gives way to hard, we are reaching the point where being called “dangerous” and a “threat” by powerful liberals is itself a threat, indicating that you are in genuine danger.

Antifa has also managed to intimidate Portland’s well-known Powell’s Books into not stocking or promoting Ngo’s upcoming book.

Huey Long had it right if he really said, “Sure, we’ll have Fascism in this country and we’ll call it anti-Fascism.”

On a tip from Varla.